wireless customers

Sprint: Subscribers continue to bolt

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 11/07/2008 - 7:35am

Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago.

The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid.



 

My three cents: Verizon’s text fee could cripple SMS services

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:58pm

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. (Techmeme) Effective Nov.



 

AT&T to FCC: We Ban P2P Traffic

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 2:37pm

If blocking P2P traffic is bad, isn’t banning it worse? It’s now been reported not just once, but twice, that AT&T is banning P2P traffic by its wireless customers.

That will not make iPhone 3G customers happy.



 

Verizon: Drop your landline, get a discount

CNET Tech blog  Sat, 06/14/2008 - 4:05pm

Wireless operator says it will offer discounts to landline-free wireless customers who combine Internet or TV service from the company.



 

AT&T wireless data outage reported

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 01/31/2008 - 1:41pm

Some AT&T wireless customers in the Midwest and Southeast are having trouble accessing 3G and EDGE data services on certain handsets, the company confirmed Thursday.

Problems were reported as early as 6:30 a.m.

EST, according to Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. Siegel was not able to ...