Comments on: Data Hungry Droids Grow Verizon Revenues

By: Want Bing Mobile for Android? Get a Verizon Phone.

Want Bing Mobile for Android? Get a Verizon Phone. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:47:04 +0000

[...] national coverage. That type of strategy certainly makes sense, and to some extent, is paying off: Last quarter, Verizon gained 665,000 postpaid subscribers, while postpaid churn was 0.94 percent. Adding exclusive Android apps like Skype Mobile and Bing for Mobile may be helping to small [...]

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Devices - August 5, 2010

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:18:35 +0000

[...] Data Hungry Droids Grow Verizon Revenues [...]

By: Android Saves Motorola Mobile Devices, Helps Boost Sales, Profits

Android Saves Motorola Mobile Devices, Helps Boost Sales, Profits — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:15:41 +0000

[...] Starting with the original Droid in November, and more recently with the Droid X (see our review here), Motorola’s adoption of Google’s smartphone platform is the primary contributor to Motorola’s continued turnaround. Motorola can’t rest on its laurels, however, else it risks repeating its RAZR complacency. For now, though, Droid is a winning play. The initial Droid sold an estimated million units in its first 74 days of availability and the Droid X quickly sold out. Motorola can thank Verizon as well as Google, because the largest U.S. carrier has backed Motorola’s Droid handsets with marketing dollars to help raise consumer awareness. It’s a win-win since data-hungry Droids are growing Verizon’s revenues. [...]

By: mark

mark — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:02:18 +0000

From an ethics standpoint, data caps suck. When I bought my droid in March, I was actually just looking for a regular phone. But, to my surprise, there were only 3 or 4 phones in the store that did NOT require a data plan.

So, with a bit of prodding from the salesman, I took the leap into the world of smartphones.

Forward ahead 3 months...

My once blistering web browsing speed has been brought to a crawl; verizon admitting that my area was suffering from overcrowding on the network.

So, we can point the blame at verizon, and even arrive at the conclusion that this was verizons plan all along.

So, regardless of our situation, the only fair way to decide who gets the data use is to let the market decide. Its fairly simple economics. And I can damn sure bet that once data comes with a price, those of us who need to use it (for work, rather than video games,) there will be no more "overcrowded networks."

Just my 2 cents

By: Lutz Engelhardt

Lutz Engelhardt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:41:11 +0000

Sorry, but "HTC Incredible Droid" is wrong and dangerous. Droid is a brandmark of Motorola. Don't risk to be suited bei Motorola or HTC for this!

By: Like Voice, US Telcos Losing Broadband Subs Too

Like Voice, US Telcos Losing Broadband Subs Too — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:43:01 +0000

[...] quick take: phone companies are too busy chasing the higher margin wireless and wireless broadband revenues that they are leaving their core businesses open to [...]

By: Fandroids Not Customers

Fandroids Not Customers — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:43:25 +0000

Fandroids are data hungry customers. I am glad I got the unlimited data plan on my Droid. I am not sure how long those unlimited data plans are gonna be around as more customers get turned into fandroids.
http://tech.mynucleus.org/story/2010/07/23/data_hungry_droids_grow_verizon_rev

By: Se7en

Se7en — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:01:51 +0000

AT&T activated 3.2 million iPhones...no word from Verizon how many Droids they activated last quarter?

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:36:02 +0000

Just a small correction, when AT&T says they have 90.1M subscribers, they are including all connections, including phones, data cards, tablets, e-readers, etc. Verizon’s number includes phones & data cards, if you include all connections such as tablets and e-readers, Verizon has 99.7M total “connections.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Verizon-Reports-Strong-prnews-3535568806.html?x=0&.v=1

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:48:42 +0000

That's true enough, although the Incredible should be part of that comparison, in which case the same logic would apply. Hard to say without more info over the longer term, but good point.