AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega predicts a record smartphone sales quarter over the holidays, beating even last year’s 9.4 million device sales. The conditions that made last year’s Q4 a success are in place, including the timely fall release of the iPhone. Read more »
AT&T reported flat revenue and income growth for the third quarter of 2012, but behind those numbers is a business changing its strategy in wireless to deal with a saturated market. The goal will be new plans and new services so customers spend more. Read more »
I have a confession to make: I like CTIA Wireless. I’ll be the first to admit that the show is dying, but the problem isn’t it’s place on the calendar like most people think. The problem is much simpler: It’s the carriers. Read more »
What does a mobile network hosting 41.2 million smartphones look like? It’s a network where growth in data traffic far exceeds data revenue growth. AT&T is selling a lot of smartphones, but even millions of new iPhones don’t fully account for its huge spikes in traffic. Read more »
With its executive reshuffling this week AT&T returned to a structure that more accurately reflects where its businesses are heading. The wireless juggernaut that drives most of AT&T’s revenues in now firmly in the hands of former consumer CEO Ralph de la Vega. Read more »
The introduction of the new iPhone 3G is going to jump start the 3G wireless broadband and is going to spawn a new ecosystem, much like how rise of wired broadband gave us Napster, Skype & YouTube. From that perspective, July 11 will go down as a red letter day for 3G wireless. Continue Reading the story. Read more »
The new 3G iPhone is a game-changer, according to Ralph de la Vega, president & CEO of AT&T Mobility. Just hours after the heavily anticipated unveiling of the device, I chatted with de la Vega about the iPhone, its impact on location-based services, enterprise mobility and of course, the wireless web revolution that he believes it will unleash. Continue Reading Read more »
