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- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity
- Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
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- Sprint acquires iPCS; Deal ends legal spat
- Sprint Nextel said it will acquire iPCS for $831 million in a move that adds almost 1 million wireless customers and shelves litigation between the two companies. In a statement Tuesday, Sprint said the $831 million price tag ($24 a share) includes the assumption of $405 million...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple
- 'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?
- Should mobile broadband be preserved, much the same way people are interested in conserving energy and saving the environment? During a keynote speech at CTIA, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega spoke about the state of the wireless industry and the trends that we're seeing in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Analyst: non-exclusive iPhone could dominate world
- Apple's iPhone could dominate the world's smartphone market - if the company can dump those exclusivity deals, such as the one it has with AT&T in the U.S. I've more or less said that in the past, too - that exclusivity deal with AT&T in the U.S. is holding the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Apple ends iPhone exclusive distribution deal in the UK ... US next?
- The announcement will have more fanfare than the one in the UKErm...not in the UK it will not.Can't see it's such a big dealIn Australia, iPhone was available on a number of carriers simultaneously at its first launch. That was August last year, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- iPhone users strangling the AT&T network
- Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Analyst: Apple to offer iPhone on U.S. carriers within a year; replace cable with iTunes subscriptions
- THANK GOD!!!!Ditch AT&T PLEASE!!!"Should never have been Allowed"AT&T Definitely needs competition. They are only gouging because they can. Exclusive deals are never good for the consumer. As it is, there are only two major cell phone providers which grab 70% of the market. AT&T and Verizon both overcharge for their...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?
- The wireless industry is about to find out what it's like to be under Washington's microscope. The FCC this week announced efforts to further study competitive landscape of the mobile wireless market and determine whether consumers have the necessary information they need to make informed decisions about mobile phones and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?
- the RDFwas and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be rephrased in layman's terms as:Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.Why should they care?They are making tons of money. Such is the...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?
- FCC's more proactive stance: Should we cheer or worry?Regulation is not micromanagement"At some point, the FCC meddles in free markets. It will micromanage."Clearly you think more about business than you do about government. Or maybe you're just conservative, politically, and ideological to a fault.This is about the public's interest...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Verizon Wireless to developers: 'Our success is tied to you'
- Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam pitched application developers on the company's strategy as it moves toward its 4G long-term evolution LTE network. Verizon Wireless, which put some meat on its developer plans, also said that its app marketplace will complement existing stores from platform partners. The goal:Â "Provide more applications than...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverage
- Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverageAs long as customers are willing to buy ...Jason,AT&T must feel that as long as people are willing to purchase an iPhone knowing full well that they have to also subscribe to AT&T's service, they really don't have to do much to make...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- Verizon trashes AT&T over its lousy event coverage
- It's pretty obvious that AT&T doesn't care about its customers and that it can't scale to meet the growing demands of its iPhone customers. AT&T's U.S. network is completely saturated and over-sold. Complaints about widespread AT&T outages at large events like Macworld Expo, WWDC, SXSW and concerts...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Thoughts to ponder as Apple Tablet rumors spread
- The rumors around the arrival of a tablet computer from Apple have been out there for a while, but the latest one from the AppleInsider blog seems to have some meat to it. [caption id="attachment_21735" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Image Credit: AppleInsider"][/caption] The blog is reporting...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- AT&T aims to allay iPhone exclusivity worries
- AT&T's second quarter was clearly fueled by the launch of the iPhone 3GS. That's the good news. The bad? AT&T's exposure to Apple is increasing and analysts are beginning to look ahead to the day where the iPhone isn't an exclusive. On AT&T's second quarter conference call,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Apple can't seriously be "very happy" with AT&T relationship
- If you're Apple and you sell 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter, then you're probably feeling just fine about that exclusive carrier agreement that you have with AT&T in the U.S. After all, look at the numbers. Apple beats Wall Street again - even in the midst of one...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Which mobile carrier would you switch to?
- As the legal battle over mobile carrier exclusivity heats up in the nation's capital, and carriers themselves fight over certain popular cell phones, it makes me wonder if any of ZDNet's U.S. readers out there plan to switch carriers when your mobile contract expires. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?
- Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?End all exclusive dealsI do not feel I should be forced to shop at WalMart to purchase Bruce Sprinsteen's anthology of songs.If you are going to scutinize or limit one industry, you must apply it to all.RE: Verizon...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
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