The closing down of Google’s ‘Web meets phone’ stores paints a true picture of market realities
Computerworld- The news of Google’s stopping sell of its Nexus One Android smartphone could be disappointing for some buyers who were seeing sellout of Nexus One Android smartphone online as an step to curb down the growing dominance of wireless [...]
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The Failure of Nexus Online Store which is as big as Google, is an yet another testimony of wireless carriers dominance
May 18th, 2010 |
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FCC Wants Wireless Carriers to Warn Consumers on Bill Shock
May 12th, 2010 |
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The FCC May 11 said it wants wireless carriers to notify their customers before they reach roaming or data usage limits under their wireless service plans. The idea is to staunch bill shock where users receive a wireless phone bill that is higher than they expected. One remedy for bill shock is to ask wireless carriers such as Verizon Wireless, AT T, Sprint and T-Mobile to send their customers a short text message warning them that they are approaching their roaming and data usage limits.
– The Federal Communications Commission wants wireless carriers to notify
their customers before they reach roaming or data usage limits under their
wireless service plans, a move to staunch the quot;bill shock quot; syndrome
that is plaguing the nation.
Bill shock is, quite simply, the unfortuna…
Cosco units deliver two 57,000 dwt bulk carriers and delay one 80,000 dwt bulk carrier
April 30th, 2010 |
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Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says units Cosco (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co. and Cosco (Guangdong) Shipyard Co. have each delivered one 57,000 dwt bulk carrier to their European buyers. However, subsidiary Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co. has agreed to let a Asian shipowner reschedule the delivery of one 80,000 dwt bulk carrier.
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10 Ways, ATandT, Verizon, Other Mobile Carriers Gouge Customers
January 25th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Companies such as AT T and Verizon Wireless might lead the mobile market, but they also lead a group of carriers that force customers into draconian contracts. Carriers are troublesome. They have yet to be stopped. And it looks like things are only going to get worse going forward.
– When Verizon Wireless and AT amp;T announced recently that they were dropping the price of their unlimited talk plans from $99.99 to $69.99 for single plans and $119.99 for family users, some were hopeful that things were changing.
Instead of gouging customers with plans and fees that practical…
Commodity shippers: Bulk carriers to shake off oversupply blues and ride BDI recovery
January 25th, 2010 |
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As Asia bounces back from the financial crisis, demand for iron ore and coal used in civil engineering projects, car manufacturing and new apartments in China and India is returning. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), a measure of global freight rates, is up about 6% since Christmas on rising demand for bulk carriers to transport dry cargoes. With the outlook brightening for bulk carrier operators, this could be a good time to pick up stocks in the sector.
Windows 7 Netbook running from US Wireless Carriers Posted By : stephanie.tayla
January 24th, 2010 |
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The user will be able to get a netbook running Windows 7 from US wireless carriers in the US and Europe. The Register has reported that 4 European telecoms will also add Windows 7 netbooks to their lineups in October and November. Wireless carriers tend to be a bit behind the retail market in providing upgraded models, and the companies go through all the work of agreeing on a device to run on their network.
Apple Predictions for 2010: iPhone on Multiple Carriers, iSlate, Beatles
January 2nd, 2010 |
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Apple experienced a strong 2009 despite the recession but may make substantial changes to its product lines and strategy in 2010 in order to counter direct competition from Google, Microsoft and other players. Those strategies could include opening the iPhone to multiple carriers, introducing an iPod Touch with a camera, expanding its retail footprint, releasing the long-rumored tablet PC, imposing increased regulation on the App Store, and even introducing the Beatles catalog to iTunes.
– In contrast to many tech companies dampened down by the recession, Apple
experienced rising revenue and profits throughout 2009, buoyed by strong sales
of its various product lines. But those sorts of shareholder-heartening numbers
rely on a constant base of innovation, and Apple will likely need…
10 Reasons Why, ATandT, Verizon and All Wireless Carriers Disappoint
November 4th, 2009 |
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News Analysis: AT T and Verizon Wireless might be battling out over their real coverage right now, but when it comes time to evaluate these companies and other wireless carriers, disappointment usually follows. Compared with wireless services overseas, the U.S. looks like a third-world country in terms of wireless coverage, 3G access, Internet connectivity and phone quality.
– Verizon
Wireless and AT amp;T are mired in a lawsuit over ads depicting the relatively
poor 3G coverage AT amp;T has compared with Verizon Wireless. AT amp;T says
it’s an unfair depiction of its coverage. But the complaint has nothing to do
with its coverage, per se, or anything Verizon Wireless…
Mobile Broadband Carriers Rail Against Net Neutrality
October 22nd, 2009 |
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Not only is the Federal Communications Commission considering rules that would extend and codify the agency’s network neutrality principles for wireline broadband providers, the FCC is also considering extending those rules to wireless networks. Not surprisingly, the wireless carriers found little to like in the proposal.
– Wireless broadband carriers responded quickly to the FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission) Oct. 22 decision to begin consideration of network neutrality rules that would apply to wireless networks.
Currently, wireless carriers are exempt from the FCC’s four network
neutrality principles and, n…
Genachowski Pitches Open Networks to Wireless Carriers
October 7th, 2009 |
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In a carefully worded address to wireless carriers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praises AT T and Verizon for their recent open network commitments, but says his network neutrality proposal is essential to maintaining Internet openess on both wireline and wireless platforms.
– Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachwoski praised wireless carriers AT amp;T and Verizon Oct. 7 for increasing their efforts to open their networks, but warned mobile carriers gathered in San Diego for a CTIA show that quot;we shouldn’t have uncertainty about whether we’ll have …
Wireless Carriers Lash Back at Network Neutrality Proposal
September 22nd, 2009 |
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal to possibly extend the agency’s network neutrality principles to the mobile Internet prompts wireless carriers to reach for their favorite phrase: Don’t regulate the Internet.
– The last time the term quot;network neutrality quot; caused this much stir
on Capitol Hill, former Sen. Ted Stevens was lecturing his fellow lawmakers on
how the Internet was a series of pipes that were somehow sacrosanct and above
government regulation. Stevens and his fellow Republicans won …
BlackBerry, iPhone and Palm Pre Reduce Mobile Carriers to Dumb Pipes
September 10th, 2009 |
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News Analysis: In today’s mobile phone market, the features and performance of the most popular phones determine customers’ choice of wireless carriers, not the performance or reliablility of the mobile networks. The top carriers have been reduced to little more than dumb communication pipes. But that situation may soon change if the top phones become carrier-agnostic.
– Just a few years ago, the mobile phone market was a different place
than it is today. Back then, the carriers, especially Verizon Wireless,
AT amp;T and Sprint, were controlling the marketplace.
Customers, looking to find the best deals for the best coverage,
were forced to consider the carrier…
Wireless Carriers Ramp Up Competitiveness Rhetoric
September 1st, 2009 |
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Wireless carrier trade group CTIA claims it welcomes the FCC inquiry into the competitiveness and innovation of the industry and even admits it might have brought on the probe itself after years of consumer complaints over everything from jamming to early termination fees. However, as CTIA sees it, no further regulation is needed, particularly regarding network neutrality.
– WASHINGTON Less than a week
after the Federal Communications Commission launched an inquiry
into the state of competition and innovation in the wireless carrier industry,
CTIA the wireless industry’s chief voice is cranking up a publicity campaign to
tell quot;our story. quot; Steve Largent, CT…
Analyst expects iPhone on other carriers with a year
August 31st, 2009 |
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If you are one of the many who wants an iPhone but doesn’t want to be on AT&T, at least one analyst thinks that you may get your wish soon. According to an analyst from, Piper Jaffray the iPhone may be on other networks soon.
Gene Munster expects the iPhone to hit other carriers in the [...]
AT&T U-verse remote DVR app released for iPhone
June 25th, 2009 |
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AT&T have released a free iPhone and iPod touch application that allows U-verse subscribers control their DVR systems remotely. The app, U-verse TV Mobile Remote Access, can display program listings and full descriptions of individual shows, as well as allow users to schedule program or series recordings.
It’s also possible to edit existing schedules, whether they have [...]
$30 iTunes credit for iPhone 3GS activation delays
June 22nd, 2009 |
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Apple is offering an apologetic $30 iTunes credit for the activation delays for iPhone 3GS. The credit itself will be available on Monday, Apple says. Full text after the break!
Dear Apple Customer,
Thank you for your recent Apple Store order. We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the delay in your iPhone [...]