Sprint
A fallen angel took flight as Sprint soared by 20% on Thursday after an interesting June quarter. The overall net subscriber loss number for postpaid subs was not that great at 240,000, but the 1.5 million iPhone customer adds was about 200,000 above expectations. Even more importantly, the key profitability gauge of EBITDA came in Continue Reading →
Lumia 900
On April 8 Nokia will bring its Windows Phone Lumia 900 to AT&T for only $99.99. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange, and the Windows Phone 7 interface is an effortless one. The user experience of this Windows phone is decidedly different from Android and iOS, and if you’re all-Microsoft the way many iPhone users Continue Reading →

AT&T Admits Defeat

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Instead of fueling the flames of customer dissatisfaction, AT&T has chosen to forgo appeals and shell out the $850 awarded to Matt Spaccarelli in small-claims court. Spaccarelli sued AT&T over their throttling of his unlimited data plan. Though they have paid the court ordered amount, they have made no strides to revise the throttling policy. Continue Reading →
Some say the glass is half empty (AT&T has only 28 LTE markets), some say the glass is half full (Verizon has 203 LTE markets) – a physicist would say the glass is 100% full: half liquid, half air (4G is a marketing term, not a technical standard).  Let’s review. Unlike 3G which is a Continue Reading →