Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Alltel, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA It hasn't been officially put up for sale just yet, but a handful of lucky Alltel types have already managed to land branded Touch Diamonds as evidenced by a full-on unboxing that has recently surfaced on HoFo. For all practical purposes, [...]
Engadget Mobile |
September 29th, 2008 |
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Filed under: Alltel, Sprint, Verizon WirelessThe FCC doesn't exactly have a track record of swiftness when it comes to reviewing mergers, but it looks like that little election thing might have lit a couple grey suits on fire -- FCC chairman Kevin Martin says that the agency is aiming to [...]
GigaOM |
September 23rd, 2008 |
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A spinout of Flextronics - Aricent, which is comprised of several communications software assets including Hughes Software and noted design firm Frog Design - has scored $60 million in capital to expand its operations. Proceeds from the funding, which involved Bahrain-based investment fund The Family Office along with Kohlberg Kravis [...]
Engadget Mobile |
September 18th, 2008 |
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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Alltel, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA If history is destined to repeat itself, it stands to reason that Alltel would be getting ready to follow Sprint down HTC's golden road yet again, does it not? This time around, of course, the devices in question would be the [...]
Darla Mack |
August 27th, 2008 |
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T-Mobile USA still reports Family Allowances, cost control feature, still has issues with short codes. Short codes are 4-6 digit numbers for services such as Google (466453), Twitter (40404), and Yahoo (92466) to name a few. Codes can be carrier specific and typically country specific. Short codes can be generic [...]
Filed under: Alltel, Verizon Wireless When (and if) Verizon closes its deal to snap up Alltel, the carrier's Little Rock campus will suddenly lose its status as a corporate headquarters. Instead, it'll see duty as a regional outpost of the Big Red behemoth, according to Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam [...]
Filed under: Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, MiscT-Mobile may have once been able to bank on J.D. Power's customer care survey to bolster its bag of bragging rights, but it looks like that's definitely no longer the case, as Verizon has now edged it out for the second time in [...]
Filed under: Software, Palm, Alltel, Verizon Wireless, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA Funny story -- these guys will be one in the same here in just a few months, but until then, you'll have to pretend there's absolutely no relationship between Palm's 700p (Verizon) and 700wx (Alltel). Jibber-jabber aside, [...]
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Bell Mobility, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA That CDMA version of HTC's Touch Dual that some FCC lab got to fiddle around with a while back is now packaged up all nice and pretty for cash-flush consumers to enjoy. It's not Verizon, Sprint, or Alltel that's celebrating [...]
Filed under: Multimedia, Alltel, ATT, Sprint, Bell Mobility, Telus MobilityMobiTV has been around for quite awhile, and although it has seen its fair share of ups and downs, today's a day for celebration in the offices that remain. After hitting the 3 million mark in February, the company is now [...]
Filed under: Verizon Wireless, MiscAT&T isn't having all the fun when it comes to subscribers' newfound love for data. Verizon has published the nitty gritty details of its second quarter earnings this week, revealing that data ARPU is up some 31.3 percent year over year -- undoubtedly a reflection on [...]
Filed under: Alltel, Verizon Wireless You've got to give a little to get a little, as they say, and giant, multinational joint ventures apparently aren't exempt from the mantra. In buttering up the ladies and gentlemen of the FCC enough to approve the takeover of Alltel, Verizon Wireless has agreed [...]
Filed under: MiscWhat started as a hard 45MHz limit enacted back in 1994 to ensure that there was enough spectrum to go around in every market was first raised, then eliminated, then later changed to a somewhat more toothless guideline used for analyzing proposed mergers, and rural carriers are pretty [...]
Smart phones are all the rage today. Not wanting to fall behind in the technology race, Palm announced today that its new smart phone, the Treo 800w, is now available on the Sprint Nextel network. This is Palm’s first major new model since the Centro was launched last year. The [...]
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA In HTC parlance, the "Neon" codename denotes a device of the Touch Dual form factor -- original Touch styling plus a slider keyboard, a drill we all know by now. This particular form factor seems to be a pretty popular one, too, [...]
Filed under: Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Verizon chief Ivan Seidenberg gave a particularly candid interview with the Financial Times recently, revealing that he'd like to see Verizon take full control of Verizon Wireless -- a joint venture with Vodafone in which Verizon holds 55 percent -- given that Verizon is "doing [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Alltel, CDMA Sure, Alltel's Samsung SCH-R430 MyShot may not be laden with every bell and whistle that cell manufacturers can bestow on a device, but for $30 bones after rebate, who cares? This looks to be the ideal Ma and Pa cellular vehicle with 205 mins [...]
Filed under: Alltel, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA, MiscFrom the moment Verizon Wireless made its intentions to purchase Alltel official, subscribers of the latter began wondering what the fate of My Circle would be. As it stands, there's still no definitive answer on that topic, but VZW is introducing a new [...]
Filed under: Handsets, GSM, CDMA, AppleLast time we checked, the iPhone 3G was GSM through and through -- four bands of GSM / EDGE plus three bands of UMTS / HSDPA, to be exact. So how exactly is it that an exclusively CDMA carrier, Jamaica's MiPhone, could be carrying it? [...]
Filed under: Software, Palm, Alltel, Palm OS Have a Palm Treo 755p on Alltel? Check it: your lil' buddy's just received an official update from the mothership. Little is known about what greatness lies within this new 1.03 version of the binary; all Palm's saying on the matter is that [...]
Just catching-up on stuff .. Verizon's acquisition of Alltel wasn't that unexpected. It will be interesting to watch the big two go at each other - AT&T and Verizon. Verizon has now taken most of the major bragging rights in the US market. It will be hard for others to [...]
