Engadget just got a tip that Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL might be in merger talks. Haven’t been able to confirm this yet, so take it as a rumor for now, but we just got a tip that Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL have been in merger talks for… Read More »
Archive for May, 2005
TeleGeography says that there will be 4.1 million VoIP subscribers by end of 2005 and these subscribers will spend around $1 billion on their VoIP home services. U.S. residential subscriber totals have jumped from 150,000 at the end of 2003 to well over 2 million as… Read More »
Vonage chief executive Jeffrey Citron told Reuters that his closely held firm currently has more than 700,000 subscribers, and was adding about 15,000 a week. The company added 249,000 subscribers in the first quarter, up from 114,000 in the fourth quarter, but Citron said growth… Read More »
First Telmex now Telefonica. Regular reader, Leo emailed me a link to story which basically says that Telefonica Chile has been sued for blocking VoIP to their clients. The most amazing thing is that they’re not blocking it by being the ISP, they are blocking it… Read More »
If you read the news reports you would think that harried consumers sick and tired of malicious spyware and all the other online crud normally blamed on Internet Explorer would be switching allegiances in large numbers. That percentage seems to be around 11%, according to research… Read More »
Business 2.0 Hugh Panero, XM Satellite Radio CEO on rival Sirius Satellite Radio and its chief executive Mel Karmazin. “There’s a difference between press attention, which is what they have, and momentum, which is what we’ve got. He used to tell everyone that satellite radio was… Read More »
Baby Bells plans to offer IPTV in Texas had a bit of setback, when Texas State Senate rejected a proposed legislation that would have allowed Verizon and SBC to fast track their IPTV services by signing a single statewide video franchise agreement, instead of negotiating with… Read More »
