Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20029970 en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:56:01 EDT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:56:01 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051879 Ulmo :
said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
I think that's Cost Accounting 101, or something like that. A Cost Accountant I worked for once explained to me that it is forbidden in good business practice to source from any single point of failure, and also a bunch of other things, like properly distributing the order load over many businesses in such a manner that all of your important suppliers don't get any boom bust cycles caused by your ordering practices, effectively making their production inefficient (out of business, rushed, starved, etc.).

Anyway, any good business would get this stuff right.

There might be some other considerations that caused them to make the bad business decisions, such as politics.

One of the *few* I would actually give them a pass for is made-in-the-USA, if Motorola was the *only* USA based one, since that's one of those things that if you never buy from USA, you kill USA, similar to the problems the Cost Accountant mentioned to me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20051879 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:29:28 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20034831 fiberguy : Get over it... ;) it was a slip.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20034831 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:09:03 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20032727 SilverSurfer :
said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
Game console vendors pull the same stunt. If you contract with only 1 supplier whose output capabilities is almost always known going into a contract, then as a matter of course, you can point to that when your shareholders ask what have you done for me lately. It is artificially manufactured demand, nothing more. They know what they're doing. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20032727 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:55:19 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20031851 ajwees41 :
said by OverModded See Profile :

Haven't you heard? ISPs and Cable TV and telcos are one and the same in the great TV/Data convergence.
Does AOL or MSN provide TV, or Phone I don't think so.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20031851 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:29:27 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20031708 OverModded :
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said by OverModded See Profile :

said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
That is the way to solve the problem. Obviously, Motorola, which lately can't do anything right, has problems building and supplying these sets to all the ISPs. The only solution is to give contracts to other builders. I am sure they can ramp up factories in China pretty quickly if several ISPs give contracts to other companies.
Why you talking about ISP when they don't offer TV?
Haven't you heard? ISPs and Cable TV and telcos are one and the same in the great TV/Data convergence.
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said by OverModded See Profile :

said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
That is the way to solve the problem. Obviously, Motorola, which lately can't do anything right, has problems building and supplying these sets to all the ISPs. The only solution is to give contracts to other builders. I am sure they can ramp up factories in China pretty quickly if several ISPs give contracts to other companies.
Why you talking about ISP when they don't offer TV?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20031692 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:05:13 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030932 ajwees41 : but Cox only uses Motorola and SA no other box maker.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030932 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:23 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030576 OverModded :
said by ajwees41 See Profile :

said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
It's my understanding the areas that use Motorola boxes, can't use any other types because of the encryption.
The Panasonic boxes are fully interchangeable in Motorola areas.
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said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
It's my understanding the areas that use Motorola boxes, can't use any other types because of the encryption.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030496 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:16:47 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030085 tshirt :
said by OverModded See Profile :

That is the way to solve the problem. Obviously, Motorola, which lately can't do anything right, has problems building and supplying these sets to all the ISPs. The only solution is to give contracts to other builders. I am sure they can ramp up factories in China pretty quickly if several ISPs give contracts to other companies.
Don't think this was a Motorola problem, more a Verizon/cox not placing an order far enough ahead.
If you anticipate the need (driven by there own advertisements) for a "Boatload" (this scales far above the the usual forklift or truckload upgrade) you need to place a firm order with the Mfg.
Motorola isn't in the position to build/warehouse millions of units, and sit on them hoping someone will place a big order.
It's a side effect of lower margins/just in time Mfg strategies .. sometimes it's not just in time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20030085 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:14:54 EDT Re: Verizon should choose more than one vendor. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20029970 OverModded :
said by Gilitar See Profile :

By limiting yourself to one vendor you open yourself up to stuff like this. They need more than one box manufacturer to ensure supply is sufficient.
That is the way to solve the problem. Obviously, Motorola, which lately can't do anything right, has problems building and supplying these sets to all the ISPs. The only solution is to give contracts to other builders. I am sure they can ramp up factories in China pretty quickly if several ISPs give contracts to other companies.
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