Portfolio |
November 7th, 2008 |
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So AT&T wireless chief Ralph de la Vega sat on stage at the Web 2.0 conference and was treated so nicely, you'd think that everyone adores AT&T's wireless service. Hmm. Everyone I know who has an iPhone complains about the ridiculous number of dropped calls. Not to mention spotty coverage [...]
Increasingly, Internet providers across the country are placing limits on the amount of data users can download each month as a way to curb a small number of "bandwidth hogs" who use a lot of the network capacity. For example, 5% of AT&T's subscribers take up 50% of the capacity, [...]
Wireless Week |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Besides voting in a new President, subscribers can make another choice as the new BlackBerry Bold goes on sale via AT&T Wireless today.[...]
Mark Evans |
October 30th, 2008 |
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Alek Krstajic wants to rock Canada's wireless landscape. As the new CEO of BMV Holdings, he's planning on introducing a $40/month flat-rate, no-frills, unlimited talk, unlimited text service next year. And he sees no reason why BMV won't be wildly successful despite the fact the three major incumbents, Rogers, Bell [...]
FierceTelecom |
October 20th, 2008 |
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AT&T reports its third-quarter financial results Wednesday, and financial analysts are making their predictions on what might be revealed. "Relatively steady" results are expected, despite the recent market battering. The iPhone is expected to yield mixed results, having attracted more AT&T wireless customers but also increased costs, due to phone pricing [...]
FierceTelecom |
October 1st, 2008 |
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AT&T made some structural and management changes to re-align the company for a future in which wireless increasingly replaces landline, and fixed-mobile convergence capabilities and multi-screen strategies become key. The company is moving to a structure of four divisions -- consumer, business, infrastructure and diversified businesses. AT&T Wireless chief Ralph de la [...]
Did I mention that I have a lot of crap in my inbox? Lycamobile Pay-as-you-go SIM Cards: If you want to make lots of international calls from your mobile phone, Lycamobile is one such solution to the problem. Of course, it means taking out your SIM card, or more likely [...]
The Street |
September 16th, 2008 |
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A new wireless modem probably does the job for most small businesses, but there are downsides.[...]
FierceTelecom |
September 11th, 2008 |
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Mergers and acquisitions among operational support system vendors have been frequent in the last few years, and, for the most part, these deals have involved very large firms buying somewhat smaller ones. But this week, Synchronoss, a somewhat smaller electronic order management specialist that played a key role in activating [...]
Miami Herald |
September 8th, 2008 |
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Q. In June, I cancelled my account with AT&T Wireless and ported my numbers over to T-Mobile. However, strangely, the next week, I received four new phones from AT&T with four new numbers, all in my name.[...]
textually.org |
September 4th, 2008 |
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AT&T; Inc.'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company. [via The Washington Times] "AT&T; spokesman Michael Coe said the company was looking into the problem, but could not describe its extent. Users on various online forums reported [...]
USA Today |
September 3rd, 2008 |
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AT&T;'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company.[...]
I find the ad campaign by AT&T Wireless regarding more bars in more places to be one of the more interesting ad campaigns because as far as wireless data is concerned, the network's 3G coverage is not nearly as good as Verizon's EVDO.I've also experienced fast and very slow download [...]
Finally, after weeks/months of waiting I got an iPhone 3G. You may recall the mix-up I had at the AT&T Wireless store which seemed like it would keep me from ever getting one. Well, the store manager had been emailing me regularly this past week and when the phone came [...]
FierceTelecom |
August 21st, 2008 |
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by Carl Ford I am a BellHead by nature. But even I can find irony in the poor business decisions made at AT&T regarding its WiFi network and Apple. While four million iPhone users complain in the blogosphere about AT&T not automatically enabling them to use the WiFi roaming agreements, its insanity [...]
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Perhaps I am the idiot and Steve Jobs is right. We just called the Apple store in Stamford, CT (both local AT&T Wireless stores are sold out and you can tell they aren't too happy to be fielding these calls) and they have a few iPhones in stock but there [...]
What is it about the iPhone that makes it so special that people will stand in line for it for hours on end? I think I may know. I have been trying to get one of these things for about a week and I have driven over 30 minutes looking [...]
Alltel's (NYSE: AT) CEO Scott Ford said in an interview with the Arkansas News Bureau that a carrier must be nationwide in order to be relevant in today's industry, and to rectify that, during his tenure as the chief executive at the fifth largest U.S. carrier, he tried to buy [...]
AT&T announced the availability of AT&T U-verse Voice in parts of Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and other northeastern Ohio communities, bringing consumers a next-generation digital voice service delivered over the AT&T U-verse IP network. U-verse Voice brings together your AT&T wireline and wireless voice, broadband and TV services all on one [...]
As indicated in Tuesday's Financial Post, Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) stands to be the big winner when the iPhone finally makes it to Canada on July 11. However, without any monthly pricing plan announcements, what does this mean for Rogers' average revenue per user [ARPU] and capital expenditure? On Tuesday, [...]
