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By Christy O'Berry, Esq., LL.M., P.E., on January 10th, 2012% Not only can OnStar (the in-vehicle mobile phone system) unlock your car doors, tell you where to go, help you deliver a baby, and propose to your girlfriend, soon, OnStar will also pull up your favorite movies as well as text your mother, all at the same time.
OnStar is showing off its new navigation . . . → Read More: Text the U.S.A. From (the Backseat of) Your Chevrolet
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 9th, 2012% Please feed the T-Mobile Kitty. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Kramer)
So T-Mobile, recently left at the alter by AT&T, is now looking for $9B to build out a LTE network that can compete with AT&T.
T-Mobile has a great start towards its goal when you consider that AT&T gave it $4B as a parting . . . → Read More: Buddy, can you spare $9B?
By Jonathan Kramer, on April 4th, 2011% The following is from today’s edition of the AGL Bulletin. A subscription link is below the article.
Verizon Wireless has filed a lawsuit against the Town of Irondequoit in the U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, concerning inaction on a proposed cell tower in the upstate New York town. It appears to be . . . → Read More: AGL Bulletin: Lawsuit Tests Mettle of FCC Shot Clock
By Jonathan Kramer, on March 14th, 2011% Verizon Offers Free Calls to Japan From March 11 to April 10
Verizon Wireless Customers Can Text to Japan for Free
NEW YORK – March 14, 2011 – To help its customers contact loved ones in the aftermath of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Verizon is enabling most wireless and residential customers to make free . . . → Read More: VZ, VZW Steps Up For Japan
By Jonathan Kramer, on March 13th, 2011% Findlaw is reporting that AT&T Wireless is offering some of its customers a free in-home microcell (sometimes called a femtocell) … for customer who repeatedly complain about dropped calls.
According to Findlaw, “If you have complained to AT&T about your coverage or have used their application to report dropped calls, you are likely to be . . . → Read More: Free AT&T In-Home Microcell?
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 11th, 2011% Today, as expected, Verizon announced the imminent availability of the super-duper Verizon iPhone.
(Pssssst….Don’t tell anyone, but…) The first generation of VZW iPhones won’t be able to access Verizon’s 4G-ish Long Term Evolution (“LTE”) network.
Essentially, the early adopters of Verizon’s iPhones will have a three-speed transmission.
Fast at three speeds?
Yeah, sort of, but . . . → Read More: Verizon’s iPHONE is here, sort of…
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 9th, 2011% I predict that AT&T’s data network will experience a noticeable increase in throughput speed throughout 2011. That’s great news for AT&T, and they can thank Verizon for helping to achieve that goal.
Of course, while AT&T struggles to deploy its LTE network, it’s goal of speeding its network will be aided in no small part . . . → Read More: 2011 Prediction: AT&T Data Network to Speed Up
By Jonathan Kramer, on August 1st, 2010% Attention creative wireless site planners: A truly twisted cell tower has risen from a mesa in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This uniquely designed multi-carrier cell tower constructed in the Mesa del Sol area in Albuquerque, New Mexico, just south of the airport.
The architect for this site is Dekker/Perich/Sabatini.
This site isn’t quite . . . → Read More: A Truly Twisted Cell Tower
By Jonathan Kramer, on July 18th, 2010% Shortly after we contacted Verizon’s PR guy, Jeffrey Nelson and told him about Verizon’s shocking policy of advocating handsfree driving, the press release was, ah, amended in part.
While Verizon changed the body of its press release to make it clear that they don’t support handsfree driving, they still the same (and now contradictory) headline: . . . → Read More: Verizon Changes Position: Please Hold the Wheel When Driving
By Jonathan Kramer, on July 8th, 2010% In a shocking turn of events, Verizon Wireless is now advocating “hand-free driving.” In fact, according to Verizon Wireless’s Vice President and General Counsel Steven E. Zipperstein, “Since 2000, our record has been clear: we support hands-free driving laws.”
Now, I don’t believe that hand-free driving is a very good idea, and I suspect that . . . → Read More: Verizon Urges You to Take Your Hands off the Wheel While Driving?!
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