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AT&T Brings the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games to Your TV, PC and Mobile Screens via Agreement with NBC Universal
From the first ski jump to the last triple Axel, America will have more ways to enjoy NBC Universal’s world-class coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with all three AT&T screens — the TV, the PC and the mobile phone. Related Topics: AT&T, coverage, Mobile, phone »
Wholesaler 360networks Heads Into Northern California
IP services wholesaler 360networks said Thursday it’s expanded into Northern California.The Seattle-based company now covers area from Eureka through San Francisco, down to Santa Cruz. The growth added coverage for 7.2 million people from 126 rate centers, 360networks said. The company, which sells VoIP, private line and T-1 services, now …(84 words) ... »
Wholesaler 360networks Heads Into Northern California
IP services wholesaler 360networks said Thursday it’s expanded into Northern California.The Seattle-based company now covers area from Eureka through San Francisco, down to Santa Cruz. The growth added coverage for 7.2 million people from 126 rate centers, 360networks said. The company, which sells VoIP, private line and T-1 services, now …(84 words) Related Topics: California,... »
Atlanta AT&T Customers Get Boost in Coverage with Second Layer of Capacity
Surfing the Internet, keeping up with social networking apps, streaming video — these are just a few of the things you can do on an AT&T wireless device today. It’s also the reason AT&T has substantially increased capacity on nearly 90 cell sites across the metro Atlanta area. The project involved the addition of... »
Survey Says: Verizon Wireless Is Top Carrier
The first-ever wireless carriers survey from Zagat puts Verizon at the top of the heap. The company got feedback from more than 2,300 wireless customers who rated Verizon, ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile on key performance aspects: reliability, coverage, products, value and customer service. Verizon Wireless scored a 22 (the average …(225 words) Related Topics: carrier,... »
8 x 8 Has an Outage
I received an email late yesterday afternoon from a reader about 8 x 8 suffering an outage. Unlike Tom Keating, who posted, I didn’t post, and was relieved that their PR folks had been quickly in touch with their customers over night, explaining the situation. In an era where no company (other than maybe the... »
Australia goes wild for wireless internet
Use of wireless broadband services mushroomed during the past year to reach more than two million subscribers, driven by the popularity of wireless modems and mobile devices such as the iPhone. The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s communications report, released yesterday, revealed the use of wireless broadband services jumped 162 per cent in 2008-09, while... »
Will 2010 Finally Be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Verizon and AT&T: World War 3G
Compete submits: Verizon Wireless (VZ) brought out the big guns this holiday season. In October, Verizon Wireless began to run its series of “there’s a map for that” television ads claiming it has 5 times more 3G coverage than AT&T (T). But that wasn’t the end of it. With the Motorola... »
AT&T ‘Morally Wrong’ for Selling iPhone?
Deserved or not, the continued bashing of ATT’s network coverage and quality has entered the new year as sure as the ball drop in Times Square.David Coursey of IDG News Service raises an interesting question. He wonders, if based on ATT’s well-publicized wireless network problems, if the company is “morally …(207 words) Related Topics: AT&T,... »
AT&T ‘Morally Wrong’ for Selling iPhone?
Deserved or not, the continued bashing of ATT’s network coverage and quality has entered the new year as sure as the ball drop in Times Square.David Coursey of IDG News Service raises an interesting question. He wonders, if based on ATT’s well-publicized wireless network problems, if the company is “morally …(207 words) ... »
DataJack Promises Unlimited 3G Data in the USA for Under $40.00-Is It Too Good To Be True?
A Texas company has released a product called DataJAck that is promising an unlimited amount of 3G data in the USA for $39.95. To top off the offer, they are claiming no activation or termination fees and no contract, you can turn the service on and off as you wish. It would appear they... »
Wireless Service Teledensity Increases Upto 1.7% In Nov-09
The teledensity of wireless telephony services has registered a slight increase of 0.1 percent in the country after a period of six months. It reached to 1.7 percent by end of November 2009, latest statistic of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) showed on Friday. The overall Wireless Local Loop (WLL) connections increased to 2.72 million... »
AT&T Wants to Kill The PSTN
TMCnet contributor Gary Kim has an excellent article about AT&T asking the Federal Communications Commission to create a timetable to shutdown the analog PSTN phone system in the United States. AT&T explains that maintaining two networks – IP and PSTN is retarding the deployment of the newer broadband IP network. Ok, I’ll grant you... »
My Top Story for 2009: AT&T Blunders by Defending Its Wireless Coverage
Sam Diaz submits: I covered a lot of topics for the Between the Lines blog in 2009 – the debates over cloud computing, Steve Jobs’ medical condition, Yahoo’s (YHOO) new strategies and the long-awaited release of Windows 7, among others. But the one story that stuck with me most, largely because it continues to... »
PTA Annual Telecom Report 2008-09
Every year Pakistan Telecommunication Authority publish a PTA Annual Report covering all the major sectors of our telecommunication industry. The report is very useful for all those people who are either part of the telecommunication industry or are associated with it. This report also helps analyst in their analysis of Pakistan Telecom sector since... »
Nokia Siemens Networks Claims Market Leadership
Close to eighty of the world’s leading communications service providers are now using the market leading Nokia Siemens Networks NetAct Optimizer, a highly automated tool for improving radio network quality and performance. NetAct Optimizer speeds the optimization process by 50% compared to traditional methods while improving network performance by an average of 15% leading... »
Consumers, Not Businesses, Giving Wi-Fi Hotspots a Boost
Earlier this month, when I visited Paris for the Le Web 2009, the most important thing I “packed” for the trip didn’t weigh an ounce: an account with Wi-Fi hotspot aggregation service, Boingo. It alone allowed me to stay connected, avoid expensive hotel Wi-Fi access fees and most importantly, not feel out of touch... »
New European Telecoms Rules enter into force
New EU telecoms rules will officially become EU law tomorrow following their publication in today’s Official Journal of the European Union. The new rules composed of the Better Regulation Directive and the Citizens’ Rights Directive will need to be transposed into national laws of the 27 EU Member States by June 2011. The new... »
Airvana’s Peculiar Acquisition Announcement
What should we make of Airvana’s (AIRV) announcement that a private equity group is buying the company for $530 million, or $7.65 a share in cash? With $205 million in cash and equivalents as of September, plus almost $40 million collected subsequently from Ericsson, Airvana has more cash than it needs, so this isn’t... »
oDesk, Freelancers & the Future of Work
Earlier this week, Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup oDesk announced a new service called oDesk Staffing, which gives U.S.-based freelancers access to benefits (including health coverage, retirement plans and education savings accounts), along with other services. This move by oDesk, which describes itself as a marketplace for work, is a smart one, as it ... »
4G Mobile Service Debuts: What You Need to Know
A Swedish telecom firm has become the first carrier to offer 4G wireless service, albeit on a very limited basis. TeliaSonera announced Monday that its 4G/LTE network for data services would be available initially in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The carrier plans to expand... »
AT&T Mobile Puts Crowdsourcing To the Test
If you have a campaign that is based upon “more bars in more places” and have made claims about “fewest dropped calls” then you better know where your problems lie. That’s the idea behind a new iPhone app from AT&T, called “Mark the Spot.” Personally, I would have named it “DropZone” as that defines what... »
Me, My MiFi and My Bag Of Tricks To Stay Connected
Call me the rogue agent. The nomad. The wanderer. But do call me connected. I’m holed up in Madrid, for all the right reasons. It’s a great walking town, and I need to walk. It’s not Paris, where I have spent far too many days and nights, so despite the allure of Le Web, and... »
AT&T Drops Verizon Map Lawsuit, But the Bad Publicity Lives On
Sam Diaz submits: Not quite 30 days ago, AT&T (T) did one of the worst things it could do when Verizon Wireless (VZ) launched an advertising campaign that compared the two companies’ 3G coverage: it sued. That suit set off a flurry of blog posts (including a few posted by me) and broadly raised the... »
Sponsored WiFi Access, Sending Party Pays and The Future Of Media
We continue to see more of what I am calling the sponsored model of public WiFi. After all the municipal models failed, with city and county governments in many places buying into a very flawed model that was heavily overplayed by Earthlink and a group of advisors to cities, plus an over dependence on... »
Slap! Sprint Loses “Most Dependable” 3G Claim to Verizon
Like a contestant in a VH1 reality dating show, Verizon Wireless is picking its rivals off, one by one. Fresh from its bloody victory against ATT, wherein it won the right to advertize how crappy the latter’s 3G coverage is, it is now turning its sights to the other big …(289 words) ... »
EU Telecoms Reform: 12 reforms to pave way for stronger consumer rights, an open internet, a single European telecoms market and high-speed internet connections for all citizens
“The EU telecoms reform brings about consumer choice, a new dose of competition, an effective European system of independent telecoms regulators, new investment into competitive infrastructures, more space for new wireless services and a more open Internet for all citizens. The reform also strengthens the single telecoms market by promoting effective competition... »
European Commission welcomes European Parliament approval of sweeping reforms to strengthen competition and consumer rights on Europe’s telecoms markets
With a broad majority across political parties, the European Parliament has today, at its plenary session in Strasbourg, formally approved the EU’s telecoms reform package, proposed by the Commission in November 2007 (IP/07/1677). 500 million EU citizens will soon benefit from more consumer choice through enhanced competition on Europe’s telecoms markets,... »