Re: Tyco is buying Broadview (Brinks)

[Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russell Brill wrote:
> "mleuck"<m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
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> On Jan 18, 7:50 pm, mleuck<m.le...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> That'll give Robert Campbell AND Jim Rojas something to bitch about :)
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9596292
>
> It looks like the Broadview rebranding wasn't going very well...
> Brinks/Broadview will probably quietly disappear sometime in the near
> future... I may shed a tear, NOT!!!  :-))

Their business plan was sound. But due to certain economic factors, and
their attrition rate which was nearing 20 percent, they were just
another victim of bad timing.

Instead of being like rats abandoning a sinking ship, they decided to
get what they can while they still can get it. Since Tyco has endless
deep pockets, and could really care less about customer retention, it
just made sense to sell to your largest competitor.

Once I heard that Broadview Networks was going after businesses, it was
just a matter of the economy to tip the scales towards collapse.

Jim Rojas