Category: "Telecom"

Dell Kills off Streak Android Tablet

As news headlines are filled with reviews for the new Kindle Fire, Dell has announced that it will be taking its 7-inch Streak Android tablet out of commission. Retail sites and stores that still have the tablets in stock will continue to sell it, but the company will no longer produce or sell the tablets [...]

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Enterprise Clients See Upgrade in MPLS Mesh

Existing enterprise level clients are seeing significant savings and flexibility from the new MPLS Mesh technology over their existing traditional VoIP solutions. This is an ideal product for customers who are looking for a more efficient, secure and economical IP-VPN solution over more traditional VPN or packet based solution. By allowing customers to pick and [...]

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Report Shows More Mobile Subscribers than People in the U.S.

On Tuesday, a study by Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) found that the U.S. has more wireless service subscribers than people. According to the organization, at the end of June, there were 327.6 million wireless service subscribers, compared to 3.15.5 million people living in the U.S. This marks the first time that there are more [...]

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Carriers Entering the Free IP Based Calling Services Race

AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone have all recently opened research centers in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas as part of a race among carriers to find a fiscally viable way of making free IP based calling a common place feature. With the addition of Spain’s Telefónica, the race is only getting wider. O2, the [...]

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Troubled Times In Telecom Land

Telecom power house, TNCI, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the weekend.  Telecom agents and customers are scrambling to find out what this means for their service and commissions. TNCI was famous for their “Agent Alliance” which promised an equity partnership which would reward agents with a huge payout if, one day, the company was [...]

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Wyse PocketCloud Hits Mobile Cloud Market

Wyse Technology has launched a new version of its application, PocketCloud. The new app allows free sharing of music and videos between consumers’ mobile devices, rather than having to save and download content. PocketCloud links devices to each other. Analysts estimate that the annual consumer market for remote ore cloud mobile services will grow to [...]

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Cellular South Joins DOJ and Sprint to Block AT&T’s T-Mobile Merger

Joining the multitudes who have signed to block AT&T’s proposed marriage to T-Mobile, Cellular South has filed a suit against the deal, arguing that it should not be approved. The complaint was filed in the US District Court of Columbia. It argues that AT&T’s acquisition of Deutsche Telekom’s carrier violates the Clayton Antitrust Act. Echoing [...]

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AT&T Sues Customers against T-Mobile Deal

Last week, AT&T filed eight lawsuits against the law firms of Bursor & Fisher and Faruqi & Faruqi for pressuring the company’s customers into filing multiple claims against the merger. In July, Bursor & Fisher started a “Fight the Merger” campaign, accusing the deal of violating federal antitrust law. Many agree with the law firm [...]

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Apple Sued by 27K South Koreans

Over the past few years, privacy concerns have been raised over social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. This time, Apple is getting sued over its iPhone location tracking feature by 27,000 iPhone users in South Korea. In a class law suit against Apple, the 27K plaintiffs are asking for $932 a person. In April, [...]

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Clearwire Enters the LTE Race

Last week, Clearwire announced plans to start providing 4G LTE on top of its Wi-Max network. The deployment will begin in dense urban areas, where there is a higher demand for mobile data. Clearwire faces a lot of obstacles on its journey to 4G. Despite its 7.65 million subscribers and $9.1 billion in assets, Clearwire [...]

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