Here is the scorecard - Three Baby Bells have added 762,000 new customers in past three month.
Verizon added 278,000 new wireline broadband connections bringing the total to 4.1 million broadband connections — a growth rate of 43.7 percent from the second quarter 2004 on a comparable basis.
BellSouth added 124,000 net DSL customers, bringing its total [...]
With mobile blogging technology, sharing your cell-phone pictures is finally easy. And that’s just what carriers have been waiting for.
By Om Malik, July 26, 2005
Put camera phones together with blogs and you get the next big thing in mobile communication: “moblogs.” A moblog is a blog composed of pictures uploaded from your cell phone or [...]
It is plain dumb, and waste of reader’s time. I wish newspapers wouldn’t abuse RSS like this.
Nextel-Sprint is mulling various technologies for their 2.5 GHz spectrum. Unstrung says they are looking at NextNet in addition to IPWireless and Flarion’s technologies. “We expect that we will build a network at some point on 2.5,” said Nextel CEO Tim Donahue on an analyst conference call. “We have no intent of selling it. It’s [...]
Mark Evans and Ronald Gruia have more details on the deal. Mark writes, “At the height of the telecom boom in 2000, BCE Inc. CEO Jean Monty suddenly decided to spend $7.4-billion to acquire the 77% of Teleglobe Inc. that BCE didn’t already own.” Clearly VSNL got a bargain.
Growing up in India, I would often hear about VSNL, the god forsaken government owned phone company that made it almost impossible to call overseas, thanks to their over-the-top charges for long distance calls. It seemed they wanted to penalize people for making long distance calls. But that was almost a whole lifetime ago. Now [...]
This Google map will help take the mystery out of the weak cellular signals and help pinpoint cell phone locations. You can find cellphone reception and dead spots mapped as well. Good work Allen!
First bloggers wanted to be put on the same playing field as mainstream media. Sure, good idea. But now complaining about PR pitches, embargoes and all that stuff - welcome to the level playing field - and get used to it. I get pitched 50 times a day. That’s about 1500 times a month - [...]
