What's actually happening
in telecom.

Sharp, honest, and actionable intelligence for the telecom channel.

Latest
Sponsored
Your brand here. Reach telecom channel decision-makers. Learn more →
From the Field · Danny Brunson · Mar 19, 2026
Front Just Went TSD. Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.
Front's new partnerships with Avant, Intelisys, Sandler Partners, and Telarus bring a $100M ARR customer ops platform into the agent channel for the first time. The timing is deliberate.
M&A & Deals · Claire Bennett · Mar 19, 2026
Google Just Handed Its Fiber Network to Private Equity. Here's What It Means for the Channel.
GFiber and Astound are merging under Stonepeak's majority control. Alphabet stays as minority shareholder. The deal creates a 7.1M-location fiber giant — and hands PE another seat at the broadband table.
Tech & Tools · Cole Hartley · Mar 19, 2026
ConnectWise Just Found Another Critical ScreenConnect Flaw. MSPs, Patch Now.
CVE-2026-3564 lets attackers extract machine keys and hijack ScreenConnect sessions. This is the second critical vulnerability in under a year. On-prem deployments are exposed until they upgrade to 26.1.
M&A & Deals · Claire Bennett · Mar 18, 2026
HPE-Juniper's Best Channel People Are Walking. Extreme Networks Is Bragging About It.
Five named executives have left HPE-Juniper since the merger closed, landing at Extreme, Nokia, and Equinix. The headcount is down 5,000. And Extreme's CFO went on record about the 'halo effect.' Channel partners need to know what this means for their networking practice.
Tech & Tools · Cole Hartley · Mar 18, 2026
MSPs Have Three Choices on AI Right Now. Two of Them Are Losing.
Build in-house with open-source tools. Buy from niche AI vendors. Or wait for your PSA to catch up. Channel Dive talked to MSP owners, analysts, and vendors about all three. Here's the actual breakdown.
Strategy · Grace Tanaka · Mar 18, 2026
Salesforce Is Now Paying Partners for Results, Not Hours. Here's What That Actually Means.
Salesforce's March 2026 update to its Consulting Track eliminates traditional implementation rewards and anchors partner incentives to verifiable AI outcomes. The channel conversation about this is missing the vendor's logic — and without it, partners will make the wrong bets.
Why we started ChannelPulse →
View all articles →

Stay ahead of the channel.

One letter a week. Sharp takes on the stories that matter. That's it.