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March 17, 2008

Llega el P4P, La Evolucion Del P2P

Does the Verizon announcement portend P4P?

Verizon publicó la semana pasada los resultados unas pruebas llevadas a cabo con su red con p4p, y según parece hasta el 58% del tráfico P2P puede obtenerse desde el interior de su red Internet.

 

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Posted on March 17, 2008 06:39 PM by verizo413.
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February 10, 2008

Happy Anniversary

The Verizon contract keeps this blogger from getting a working phone until his service anniversary.

Margaret sent me to the Verizon store yesterday because the microphone on my cell phone no longer works. I didn’t come away with an audible sell, because the very patient Verizon franchisee explained that I wasn’t eligible for a new phone till April 8 — at which time I could receive a “free” phone if I re-upped for another two-year contract.

 

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December 25, 2006

Mobile Blogging

phones mobile blogging Some mobile blogging, courtesy of Verizon.

I’m writing this from my car. No, I’m not driving, but we are moving at 60mph on the highway. I’m posting via Macbook, connected via bluetooth to my e815, which is in turn connected to Verizon Wireless. It rocks!

 

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December 07, 2006

Entire Trip Blog Restated

The new Internet services from Verizon are great, especially when you're in range.

For the first night of the entire trip, my Verizon internet service and my Verizon phone are totally out of range. I am writing this at 8:30 Monday night but it will not be posted until we are within range of something, tomorrow we hope.

 

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December 02, 2006

Verizon To Offer Live NFL TV

phones nfl Get a Verizon phone, and you'll never miss on NFL game.

The National Football League and Verizon Communications have agreed to deliver live NFL Network sports and entertainment programming via Verizon's consumer broadband services, beginning Dec. 7 with the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. Verizon already offers the NFL Network television channel to subscribers of its FiOS TV Service and is the only Internet service provider to deliver selected NFL Network programming over broadband.

 

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November 13, 2006

Free Cellphones

Google's Eric Schmidt says advertising will pay for cellphones.

I’m sure that the Verizon’s and Cingular’s of the world are loving that comment. No wonder they are choosing their own search platforms and not Google. But not everyone is scared of the big G, at least in Europe.

 

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November 11, 2006

Day 26

Good luck with the Verizon DSL!

We’re still in the land of no Verizon internet service so this will get posted when it does, perhaps not for a couple of days.

 

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October 07, 2006

Qwest Rebates

Click through for the whole story on Qwest rebates.

Qwest: The spirit of service! Just not rebates!: I had had free Internet at the home for about 8 months when it finally got shut down. No problem. I looked at both a cable modem and DSL. I know, I know. DSL stinks in comparison no matter how many Verizon or Qwest commercials tell you otherwise (do people still use dial-up?!). That said, there was an offer for $25 off and only $19.99 per month for the first year for DSL from Qwest. I bit and went for it. Flash forward a few months later.

 

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August 27, 2006

MoveOn And Net Neutrality

A net neutrality call for action against Verizon and other players.

Some senators think the public doesn’t care about this issue. They think we don’t know companies like AT&T and Verizon are spending millions lobbying Congress to eliminate Net Neutrality and give them more over control of the Internet. But petition deliveries in 50 locations across the nation next week will prove them wrong.

 

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Why Does Verizon Have So Many Subscribers?

Click through for answers to Verizon's success.

T-Mobile’s strengths were a good handset lineup and the cheapest prices amongst all the major US carriers (their prepaid “T-Mobile To Go” service is really good in terms of pricing and phones, too). But if prices and phones were all that mattered, everyone in the US with a mobile phone would be using T-Mobile right now. So why does Verizon have so many subscribers?

 

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July 14, 2006

Waiting For Verizon

Waiting for a job offer from Verizon may be more stressful than waiting for a Verizon service tech.

On May 24th I took a test for a Verizon job and, at the time, their machine for doing the grading was not working so they had to mail out the tests to get graded. We were told that we’d hear back within two weeks. So I waited…

 

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July 08, 2006

Verizon Wireless: Chaperone

phones gps map It's 11pm. Do you know where your children are?

Last week Verizon Wireless announced a brand new service, entitled “Chaperone”, which is intended to help parents keep track of their children. The new “chaperone” service works by tracking the child’s phone by using the GPS technologies, which the majority of new phones have. This service goes a step further by plotting their child’s location on a real-time map which is accessible either from Verizon’s website or from the parent’s phone.

Seems a little creepy to me.
 

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July 03, 2006

Net Neutrality Bill Spun And Stalled

Will net neutrality legislation take the path of immigration reform ... nowhere?

Senators and Representatives may have been a little surprised by the amount of heat the net neutrality issue has been generating. Both chambers of Congress have seen extensive lobbying from pro and anti-neutrality groups. The pro neutrality lobby is an odd collection of bedfellows. MoveOn.org, the Christian Coalition, Gun Owners of America, Microsoft, Google and a host of others have all signed on to keep the common carriage rules in place — that is to maintain the open-access-for-all model that we have now. The anti-neutrality lobby is comprised primarily of big telcos –- AT&T, BellSouth, Cingular and Verizon –- that want the FCC to allow packet prioritization, which would introduce a new pay-to-play internet.

 

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June 25, 2006

Airfone Service In For A Rough Landing?

phones verizon airfone Boeing's Connexion satellite ISP service for airlines is also running into economic problems.

Verizon inherited the Airfone service when it bought GTE in 2000. And it hasn’t made any profits since from the phones aboard a thousand United, US Airways, Continental and Delta Airlines aircraft. Airfone’s pricey service just wasn’t worth it - customers with their own wireless handsets were willing to hold off on making calls until landing, rather than pick up that Airfone.

 

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June 24, 2006

Save The Internet

Click through for the Ninja video on net neutrality.

If I've totally confused you, just watch this video from Ask a Ninja. The Ninja should clear things up for you. After watching the video, visit http://www.savetheinternet.com to see how you can help save the internet from the Telco mob.

 

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May 20, 2006

Save The Internet

More on carriers like Verizon and net neutrality.

Companies like AT&T, Verizon, & Bellsouth are lobbying as strong as they can to remove net neutrality. What is net neutrality you ask, it’s what allows you to visit any site you want and have an equally strong internet signal… you can enjoy google just as easily as your favorite little blog site with the same speed internet.

 

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May 15, 2006

Nastier And Nastier

The battle between the service providers and the distributors escalates.

Verizon Communications warned the financial services industry may not get the secure networks it needs if Congress adopts laws governing high-speed Internet broadband networks, according to a company memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.

 

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April 28, 2006

Blogs Taking Internet Fight To Congress

More on Internet neutrality, bloggers, and ISPs like Verizon.

What's remarkable about this result is the shift that occurred on Capitol Hill in the week prior to the vote. An unlikely coalition of political activists from the right and left, consumer groups, bloggers and Internet gurus banded together at SavetheInternet.com and sent more than 250,000 letters to Congress. This sparked an Internet revolt among bloggers who heaped scorn upon any member of the House who dared side with companies like AT&T and Verizon, which are spending millions of dollars in Washington to dismantle the rules that would stop their plans to control Internet content.

 

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April 10, 2006

Digital Disney Trial

phones soap net screen The telcos are pulling out all the stops to provide TV programming ... even if it's not regularly scheduled programming.

In the announced deal, ABC shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” will be offered on abc.com for consumption while SoapNet’s as-yet-to-be-named programming will be available only to Verizon DSL customers. This is only guaranteed for two months - May and June - the “trial” period. However, if everything succeeds as I expect it to - this service will not only continue but will be matched by NBC, CBS, and FOX. Nothing could be better for the viewing public in my opinion.

 

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April 07, 2006

My New Phone

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I got my new phone on Tuesday. It's a Verizon Wireless LG VX5200.

 

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April 03, 2006

Blogging By Phone

phones photo update Not a very exciting picture, but a cool service from Verizon that you can photoblog by phone.

This message was sent using PIX-FLIX Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!

 

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March 28, 2006

Expropriation Is Not Competition

From an article on CLECs, UNEs (unbundled network elements) and competition.

The same situation existed in the USA until the Brand X decision was handed down, and that led to the rapid unraveling of domestic UNE regulations. The result? AT&T and Verizon have now committed billions of dollars to build state of the art infrastructure.

 

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March 08, 2006

Samsung A670

phones samsung a670 This blogger got the Samsung A670 cell phone because it's the cheapest Verizon offering with blue tooth and a speakerphone.

I was tired of not having bluetooth and other fun things like that on my Samsung a670 phone from Verizon, so I went out today at lunch and bought a new one. I got the Motorola E815 (also from Verizon). It’s not the newest phone out there, but of the phones that Verizon offers it’s the cheapest one with bluetooth, a speakerphone, and (even though it doesn’t say so on the Verizon website) EV-DO. It’s also got a much bigger and nicer screen so I won’t have to scroll as much with text messages and pictures will look prettier.

 

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February 23, 2006

Separated At Birth?

phones verizon guy Click through to see if Brad looks like the new Verizon guy.

So my good friend and co-worker Brad Luers(B~rad in the comments here) just found his long lost twin. Tell me him and the new Verizon Wireless guy weren’t seperated at birth:

 

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End Of The Internet?

It's like 1984 in 2006.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.

 

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February 03, 2006

Verizon Network Hog Nonsense

You'd think Vint Cerf would know what he's talking about, but maybe not.

There has been an awe inspiring amount of uninformed chatter with regards to Vinton Cerf (works for Google now, don’t forget) pointing a finger at Verizon for reserving 80% of their network bandwidth for themselves. It all started with this Businessweek Article. I really need to stop writing about Verizon, Net Neutrality, etc but people’s attitudes on some of these subjects have me all jacked up…. and my friends know that when I get jacked up I can’t shut up.

 

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January 13, 2006

Fast Forward: A Google-Microsoft Alliance?

This is a little too fast forward for us.

Apple’s business today is a unique synthesis of fashion and function. That is a powerful combination so long as both parts can be sustained. It is astonishingly easy and enjoyable to use the Mac and Apple’s other hardware and software products, all of which are tightly integrated. And that is exactly what potentially threatens not only Google and Microsoft, but Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, and even Comcast, Verizon Wireless and Tivo — any company that aims to build electronic entertainment or productivity-related services for consumers.

 

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December 04, 2005

Wireless Faster Than Cable Internet

Someday maybe it'll be normal when the wireless is fatster than the cable.

Probably in the meantime I need to look and see if there is some easy way of getting to a Comcast engineer. Worthless script monkey CSRs are not going to be able to help me with this issue, as there is something really “odd” going on with my connection. I’ve got mounds of information at this point and hopefully someone with access to the Comcast network can take it and look at what is going on once it enters their network and figure out WTF is going on. At this point I’ve just been leaving my laptop hooked up to the VPN at my Dad’s house so I have some upload or using the Verizon air card I have. Sad part is, both work better at this point for doing anything (besides straight download) than my straight Comcast connection. Here at home my Verizon card is getting 222K Down and 115K Up. Absolutely pathetic when your wireless card is faster than your cable connection.

 

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November 28, 2005

Router, Not Modem

phones wireless modem When you get DSL, you also can get a wireless router so you can hook up all your computers without installing any wires.

We just got DSL at home and we absolutely love it. It rocks. But we also have two computers…and Verizon steered me a little off track when I ordered the modem instead of the router.

 

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November 23, 2005

Cisco Buys Scientific-Atlanta

Cisco's purchase of Scientific Atlanta mixes up Microsoft's IPTV strategy.

And that’s where Google comes in. More by following the link, but it has more plot twists than a bad mystery novel.

 

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November 05, 2005

Wireless ... In the Car?

phones police car computer Police cars may be a model for the kind of communications you can expect in your car.

Yep, it works like a charm. I got a cellular wireless card the other day and got to use it today. Driving from State College to Philadelphia today my wife pulled out my PowerBook, slid the card in, connected to Verizon and spent the last two hours of trip on the Internet. This is a very good thing. Opens up a whole host of opportunities. The speed of the card isn’t what we are used to in the broadband world we live in, but being able to get online while driving is amazing … pages loaded just fine, we didn’t drop a connection once. It was great being able to keep up on the Nittany Lions while she read the news and browsed blogs. As a matter of fact I am using now that I am sitting in a sports bar watching the second half to write this post. I hate to beat a dead horse with this, but I am amazed.

 

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October 18, 2005

High-speed Broadband

This is high speed.

The recently introduced Verizon FiOS is a step in the right direction in my opinion. Sadly, not many places offer availability. For the same price, I can get 15mbps. Damn! More so, I would LOVE to have the 2mbps upload capability. Seriously, I don’t know why the US just doesn’t create more affordable high-speed connections.

 

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October 13, 2005

Samsung SCH-A950

phones samsung sch-a950 Nice review here of the Samsung SCH-A950 phone.

I’ve finished my review of the Samsung SCH-A950. Released for Verizon Wireless a few days ago, the A950 is among a handful of MP3-capable cell phones in Verizon’s portfolio. No doubt gearing up for the upcoming holiday season, the A950 now joins to the LG VX8100, LG VX9800, and Motorola E815 of VCAST enabled EV-DO, multimedia superphones.

 

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Level 3 And Cogent

The fight between Level 3 and Cogent is making a mess of the Internet.

So, this train wreck of a situation is pissing me off. I do understand where Level 3 is coming from, but I wish they’d have given some warning or at least taken into consideration their customer base. I think Time Warner (RoadRunner), Comcast, and Verizon are some of the bigger names effected by this.

 

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The Call

Congratulations and good luck!

In other news, the venerable Verizon Wireless called last night and invited me to a job expo next week! Can you imagine? 4 million people in this state and they called me! :-D Well, I’m going. The shareholders of my company —which shall remain unnamed— voted to have Verizon purchase us today anyway. May as well see if I can beat my colleagues to the punch! Seriously though, this is the first ‘real’ opportunity I’ve had since August. I’ve interviewed with Verizon twice in my life already, but it’s never worked out on either side. They just keep coming around! Maybe this one will stick.

 

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October 08, 2005

Philadelphia Chooses Earthlink For Wireless Network

phones earthlink logo The telcos hate having cities provide wireless, but it looks like Earthlink is providing wireless to Philadelphia and Google wants to give it away in San Francisco.

Philadelphia has selected EarthLink from among 12 vendors that bid on implementing a citywide wireless network. Key to the city’s choice of EarthLink, said Dianah Neff, CIO of Philadelphia, was the company’s proposal that it fund all of the infrastructure for and management of the network. Critics of the city’s planned municipal network, including Verizon, which offers similar services locally, had argued that taxpayer money should not be used for projects that compete with incumbent businesses. EarthLink’s proposal sidesteps that problem.

 

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September 23, 2005

EVDO Through Verizon

Good review of Verizon's wireless Internet.

Mischa, one of my co-workers, recently signed up for Verizon Wireless Internet BroadbandAccess. She’s been trying it out today in downtown San Francisco, and she’s very impressed with the speed and ease of use.

 

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September 09, 2005

Texas Leads the Way for IPTV

This is a big turnaround in Texas IPTV policy.

Just this week, Texas governor Rick Perry signed legislation to make it easier for telephone companies to provide IPTV to Texas consumers. The legislation was needed because telecommunications firms SBC and Verizon were having trouble entering the video market due to cable franchising regulations.

 

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August 18, 2005

Sprint And Verizon Have MMS Lovefest

Good news for Sprint and Verizon customers who have a multimedia phone.

: The love fest continues…Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless have debuted an inter-carrier MMS agreement between the two companies, allowing more than 70 million wireless customers to exchange picture and video messages with directly from their camera phones.

 

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July 05, 2005

Away From It All

phones torreys peak Hard to find anywhere without a Verizon signal, but this will do.

notwithstanding the holy schmoly kodaks, the hike itself was not that fun. but the camping was bad ass, and when you get to the summit you feel, um, (insert half-baked descriptives). dude, you’re really high. also, it is definitely a place for people who don’t like fences and truck exhaust and verizon wireless and chipotle.

 

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June 16, 2005

Cingular Opposes In-Flight Cell Usage

I wonder if product liability is an issue in case someone happened to be using a cell phone when a plane happened to fall out of the sky.

In a rare corporate display of coming out against something they stand to benefit from, Cingular has sent a missive to the FAA indicating their position against lifting the in-flight cellphone ban. Their official take on the matter is that there is “a time and a place for wireless phone conversations, and seldom does that include the confines of an airplane flight.” They even go so far as to say that, should the ban be lifted, they would be encouraging its customers to refrain from in-flight talking and use data services only (”tap, not talk”). However, oddly, in a joint letter to the FCC with Verizon, they indicated they might support lifting the ban if safeguards were in place to protect consumers on the ground from interference. So… which is it, dudes?

 

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June 13, 2005

State Taxes

Some people pay New York State taxes even after they die.

That's what I did. A year after moving to Los Angeles from New York, I was reading my Verizon Wireless bill and noticed I was still paying New York taxes. New York, as it happens, has the highest state and local taxes in the country: 16.2% (if you add federal charges, it's 22.2%). I estimated I was giving my former city and state about $75 per year they didn't deserve.

 

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June 05, 2005

411 Calls On Cell Phones Ring Up $2.2b In 2004

All that 411 revenue goes away if users can access the Internet:

Cellular companies are reluctant to say how much they make from their directory assistance services, though Verizon Wireless spokesman Paul Lemchak called it a "pretty good business."

 

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June 03, 2005

800-Pound Gorillas Converge

Good example of pro-business politics: the cable companies won in Texas and the consumers lost.

Three former Bell companies are upgrading their networks with optical fiber so they can deliver television to consumers. It's a multibillion-dollar undertaking that will stretch out for years. But it will take even longer if SBC, Verizon and BellSouth also must secure video franchises from every city, village and hamlet where they operate.

 

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Stinky Tech Support

Customer service is universally bad, it seems. It's always faster to find your own solution:

I did have one backup solution. If all attempts failed, I'd use Verizon's DSL software CD to make it reconfigure everything on the PC. And it worked. Makes me wonder why I called Verizon in the first place.

 

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Posted on June 3, 2005 05:28 PM by verizo413.
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Daily Show Shows Up On Verizon

You can watch the Daily Show on your phone:

Video Clips can be accessed from the Get It Now data store on Verizon Wireless for the LGvx8000, Samsung a890 & CDM8940 cell phones.

 

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Posted on June 3, 2005 05:28 PM by verizo413.
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Verizon Opens E9-1-1 to VoIP Providers in New York

I think the telcos would be smart to charge for E911 and skim some money from the VoIP providers. It's like free money.

In what may be the first great news about enhanced 9-1-1 service for VoIP providers, Verizon announced today that it will allow VoIP providers to access its enhanced 9-1-1 infrastructure, linking VoIP callers to public safety answering points in New York City this summer. If this initial connection is successful, Verizon will extend the arrangement to other localities.

 

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May 31, 2005

Cingular Scaling Back 3G Plans

Not clear whether this leaves Verizon a big opening.

The analysts conclude that Cingular is simply over-committed right now and does not have the resources to meet its original 3G schedule. If Cingular is scaling back its 3G plans, it could lose even more ground to rival Verizon Wireless, which launched 3G in the US at the end of 2003. Verizon is aggressively building out its EV-DO network and will likely remain the US 3G market leader, especially if Cingular pulls back on its 3G plans.

Opportunities for cross-promotions abound but are unlikely to take off on a big scale until more sophisticated multimedia messaging supplants today's simple texts. The reason is economics. Say the Boston Red Sox teams up with Verizon Wireless in a promotion to get fans to vote for their favorite player on an ESPN telecast. Today, those three companies would have to divvy up the text revenues, which average only 3 cents to 10 cents apiece in the U.S. But within two years, say analysts, multimedia messages, complete with color video and music, might...

If users switch to EDGE/3G data rapidly, this could hurt Cingular. Otherwise, it's probably a good move.
 

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Posted on May 31, 2005 05:35 PM by verizo413.
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Score One For Cable Companies

The Texas legislators have really turned the screws on the telcos:

And with Verizon spending about $1,000 per home to connect residents to it's new fiber-optic network in Texas, according to a Monday Associated Press article, a slow rollout is the last thing the telecoms want. The AP article says that now the phone companies will turn to Washington for legislative relief as opposed to going to each state. Because if SBC can't win in its home state, it doesn't look good for the rest of the industry.

 

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Posted on May 31, 2005 05:35 PM by verizo413.
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Verizon Wireless Says They're Ready for 2005 Hurricane Season

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SBC Tries Naked DSL

About time:

Via Om Malik, SBC will trial naked DSL, but could go with a partially bundled service to protect voice revenues. Follow this Houston Chronicle link. Qwest and Verizon either already offer the service or plan to.

 

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May 29, 2005

The Telecom Bill Is Dead

Cost and time to get video over phone just went up.

Cable companies and a coalition of Texas cities also fought the proposal, which would have allowed SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to get a single statewide franchise for their planned Internet television service instead of negotiating scores of agreements with individual cities, as cable companies do.

Good for the incumbents, bad for consumers.
 

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Posted on May 29, 2005 05:28 PM by verizo413.
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U.S. Cell Phone Market Share

If you need the U.S. cell phone market share numbers, click through.

Standard & Poor’s claims 4 nationwide wireless operators will serve close to 85% of the US wireless subscriber base. Cingular Wireless has the top spot with 50 mln of the industry’s 180 mln wireless subscribers. Verizon Wireless is #2 with more than 43 mln subscribers, followed by the combined operations of Sprint and Nextel serving approximately 40 mln customers. T-Mobile USA is #4 with more than 17 mln subscribers. AllTel Wireless currently has 10 mln customers and will acquire Western Wireless and US Cellular with their 5 mln...

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May 28, 2005

Cable Versus DSL

I ended up with cable instead of DSL because I ditched the land line in favor of a cell phone and the telco can't offer me video over copper (yet).

I’ve learned that I could probably live with DSL in lieu of cable. I’m at my parents home, and they’ve gone DSL from dialup. It seems to be just as zippy as our cable connection at home, and it’s a good bit less expensive. If we go with the alternative phone carrier in our area, which we’ve been talking about anyway, we can get our phone service and DSL for something like $50 a month, plus long distance (at only 5 cents a minute). And, Verizon is only about $10 more per month than that. Hmmm…

 

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Posted on May 28, 2005 04:25 PM by verizo413.
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May 27, 2005

Cheap Broadband

Put your wallet back in your pocket!

Check out the prices of verizon fiber service! Of course, they probably should get their existing infrastructure up to snuff first. I’m not even CLOSE to being a rural customer and I can’t even get DSL. Not cool. Of course unless they’re planning on just running fiber to my house, in that case my wallet is wide open baby!

 

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Posted on May 27, 2005 04:27 PM by verizo413.
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May 26, 2005

Switching From ISDN To DSL

The frustrations of dealing with broken marketing programs at Verizon:

Last time I tried to get DSL the good people at Verizon told me that to qualify for my free installation I would have to put a new line into the house, which is the kind of huckstering (FREE installation!!! Only $250 in fees!!!) that oughta get a company shut down. Let’s remember that my ISDN is a premium service that I actually pay for, every single month. Pay to get in and pay to get out.

 

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Posted on May 26, 2005 04:33 PM by verizo413.
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May 23, 2005

Verizon Fios: Insanely Cheap Fiber To The Home

Just when you think wireless will take over all the last mile connections, then comes FTTH:

With friends like that, who needs colocation facilities? Seriously though, I pay several hundred dollars for a 5Mbps downstream/768k upstream package from Time Warner. With the $199 Verizon package, you can get 5Mbps of upstream server bandwidth, which would let you serve almost 40 128k MP3 streams, or over a dozen 300Kbps video streams. This kind of upstream bandwidth is also sufficient for you to hook up your TiVo or PVR to the network and watch it in full quality in some other broadband downstream location. (While DVD bitrates are sometimes 6-8Mbps,...

 

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Posted on May 23, 2005 05:02 PM by verizo413.
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More on Verizon's Quest For TV in New Jersey

The Telcos are pushing the FCC to slow down the VoIP companies and, not surprisingly, the cable companies are pushing legislators to slow down the Telcos from introducing video over phone lines.

Read this very informative article on the steps that Verizon is taking to streamline the approval process to offer cable TV to its customers over its Fios FTTP network. Verizon is working the New Jersey legislators but is meeting fierce opposition from the Cable TV companies serving New Jersey: Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, and US Cable.

 

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Posted on May 23, 2005 05:02 PM by verizo413.
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May 19, 2005

E911 Order Raises Big Issues for Small Providers

The government has given VoIP providers 4 months to provide 911 service.

Where does this leave independent providers? Vonage, for its part, issued a obviously timed press release today saying it had worked out a deal with SBC and BellSouth to gain access to those telcos’ E911 facilities, which, when combined with a deal already in hand with Verizon, gives Vonage the ability to offer the mandated emergency calling service in three of the major four RBOCs’ regions.

This is clearly motivated by politics and lobbyists rather than economics.
 

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Posted on May 19, 2005 04:32 PM by verizo413.
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May 18, 2005

Report From The Senate On HB789

Given how quickly the industry is changing, does it make any sense that the Senate has to pass any laws about this?

Under King's changes, SBC and Verizon Communications Inc. could get statewide franchises for their planned television service, bypassing cities, which stand to lose millions of dollars.

 

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Posted on May 18, 2005 04:24 PM by verizo413.
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Verizon Takes on Franchising in New Jersey

The pinch of VoIP must be getting the telcos to take action on video over phone (finally).

As Cynthia’s last post noted, cable/telco battles are brewing over telco-TV franchising in New Jersey and other states. A 5/17 WSJ article also talked about what’s happening in New Jersey and in Texas, SBC’s home state, where it and Verizon are both lobbying hard for a state-level franchising process.

 

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May 17, 2005

Free Cell Phone TV

Is anyone suprised about an ad-based TV network? Just because it's via cell-phone doesn't mean TV can't take advantage of an American tradition.

An estimated 10 million cell phones with Windows' Media Player software inside will be able to receive and display programming from the Digital Music Video Network when it debuts in mid-June with Top 40 music videos, organizers said Tuesday. Rather than paying a monthly fee for the programming, all viewers need do is w