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AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind

What's a major telco to do when it can't make up its mind? Put things on the website one day and then remove them the next? Here ya go? AT&T has flip-flopped again on whether iPhone customers can get...

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Who's the Best in Cell Carrier Land?

Been thinking about changing cell phone companies again and wanted to find out what the faithful readers of this blog have to say about the various companies. Let's see ... I've been on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon over the years,...

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Verizon Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans

Verizon Wireless has announced new Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans that give customers all their calls – anytime to anyone in the U.S., including landline phones – that begin at a flat rate of $99.99 monthly access. Verizon Wireless Chief...

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WMWifiRouter adds Wi-Fi Connection Sharing to Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile users looking to turn their mobile phone into an Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) device need not rely on ICS any more. WMWifiRouter is a piece of amazing freeware software that turns your Windows Mobile phone into a Wi-Fi...

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Verizon sells confidential customer data without consent for targeted ads

According to Network Observations, Verizon Wireless is going to start targeting ads to its customers based upon the calls you place or receive, call duration, date/time, and other information. Federal law prohibits the sharing of your CPNI, but Verizon has...

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Vonage Wins Verizon Appeal

Hey, finally some good news for Vonage! According to Fierce VoIP, "A federal appeals court has vacated the $58 million in damages awarded to Verizon by a lower court that found Vonage guilty of patent infringement." In addition, the $58...

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P2P or ENUM Saves Vonage?

We've been down this road before with claims of a Vonage workaround to get past the Verizon patent issue, only to have our hopes dashed. But now word comes today late yesterday from Bloomberg that Vonage has a patent workaround...

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AT&T U-Verse offering 1 Year FREE of DISH Network

Yesterday, I was in Best Buy (Norwalk, CT store) walking past the TV section when I was approached by a guy standing by a table. He handed me some AT&T U-Verse literature and proceeded to pitch me on signing up...

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Deep Throat Shoots Verizon Patent Out of the Water

An anonymous source, let's call him/her my "Deep Throat" source emailed me with a couple of interesting links that seem to disprove Verizon's patent claims. One of the most important things in fighting patent claims is demonstrating "prior art" that...

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Vonage Patent Update

As I predicted, Vonage was issued a stay in the Federal Court of Appeals and would not be shut down as a result of their litigation with Verizon. Vonage today stated that it views the Court of Appeals' granting of...

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Score one for Vonage - receives temporary stay

Vonage late yesterday secured a temporary stay from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. in their partent litigation battle with Verizon. The stay enables Vonage to continue to sign up new customers until the Appellate...

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Vonage NOT Saved by VoIP, Inc.

I'm still seeing tons of reports that VoIP, Inc. has "saved" Vonage from the current patent litigation lawsuit with Verizon. This is NOT true. The information I received from Ars Technica was not accurate. I immediately updated my post with...

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Vonage inks deal with VoIP Inc bypassing Verizon patent claim

Update 5pm 4/3/2007 - please see the update at the bottom of this post - Vonage has performed an end-around the Verizon patent by inking a deal with VoIP, Inc., a company that claims to hold several VoIP patents. I...

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VoIP Patents run amok

We have all been following the various VoIP patent lawsuits. From the Rates Technology vs. Google Talk lawsuit, to Apple vs Cisco iPhone lawsuit, Verizon vs. Vonage patent infringement and many more. Well, Production Ad Absurdam has a couple of...

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Vonage shut down in 2 weeks?

Federal District Judge Claude Hilton has told Vonage to stop using Verizon patents, and has just two weeks to comply with the judge's order. As far as I can tell, without access to these patent rights, Vonage will be forced...

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Vonage to pay $58 million to Verizon over patent dispute

BREAKING! Vonage has been ordered by a Virginia court to pay $58 million to Verizon Communications for infringing on three of the company's patents.  Vonage has vowed to appeal the decision. In addition to monetary compensation, Verizon is also asking...

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Verizon VoiceWing VoIP FiOS service

Verizon has partnered with OpenPeak to create a new all-in-one voice, data, and video center for the home riding on top of Verizon's FiOS (fiber) service along with Ethernet and WiFi capabilities. Dubbed the Verizon One, this all-in-one communications device...

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AT&T Lightspeed ahead! (NOT!)

AT&T won't be reaching 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" U-Verse IPTV & VDSL broadband network, giving more credence to my AT&T U-Verse Doomed? article. The ironic thing is that AT&T just a few days go stated it...

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AT&T U-verse Doomed?

Many have heard of the difficulties in implementing AT&T's U-verse IPTV service. AT&T's U-verse network is actually a fiber/copper hybrid, which pulls fibers to 3,000 to 5,000 feet from the homes they serve, where it then connects to mini-DSLAMs called...

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Wheeling and Dealing: Why iPhone Won't Be at Verizon

The art of the deal ... Now it's not surprising that Apple's iPhone would wind up with Cingular (er, I mean AT&T), but wouldn't you like to know why -- or at least why it didn't end up with a...

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Cingular Starts To Sing

Now Cingular is getting into the music business? If I'm reading the Wall Street Journal correctly (and I usually do), then Cingular is joining the fray with Verizon and its V Cast music service to give the iPod a run...

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Verizon FIOS will have set-top delivery of ALL Internet videos

Russell Shaw has an interesting post about Verizon planning to offer all video content to their customer's set-top boxes in just 12-18 months using the fiber network. If you recall, I analyzed Verizon's race to build out their fiber network,...

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Verizon races to build fiber to fend off VoIP and cable rivals

In an interesting NY Times article, Verizon says it must quickly build its fiber network to fend off rivals such as Comcast and Vonage, which offer inexpensive voice alternatives. With cable companies and single-play VoIP providers (Vonage, Packet8, Lingo, etc.)...

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Vonage fights patent suit by buying patents

In a tit-for-tat battle, Vonage today announced that it has acquired ownership of three patents from Digital Packet Licensing Inc. that enable voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP). The three acquired patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 4,782,485, 5,018,136 and 5,444,707, are...

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Verizon slaps Vonage with Lawsuit

Vonage said today that it has been served with a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Verizon.  The lawsuit from Verizon Service Corp. and Verizon Laboratories Inc. alleges that Vonage infringed on seven patents related to VoIP technology. The timing of...

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Verizon, Dell Offer Pay-As-You-Go Broadband

According to ABIResearch.com, Verizon, Dell plan to offer Pay-As-You-Go Broadband with Verizon's EV-DO technology embedded into select Dell laptops. Teaming up with Dell is a very smart way for Verizon to shore up their marketshare in the high-speed long-distance wireless...

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TiVo Mobile - what's the point?

TiVo added another remote programming option called TiVo Mobile - a partnership between TiVo and Verizon Wireless that allows subscribers to remotely schedule DVR recordings from their mobile phones. What's the point?Seriously. TiVo already lets you schedule recordings from your...

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AT&T/BellSouth: Will Cingular Get Any Better?

Much hubbub yesterday and of course this morning about the AT&T deal to buy BellSouth.And while these deals are great for the deal brokers and company executives, they have mixed results when it comes to making the winning company any...

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More on Apple's iPod Phone

With Verizon recently announcing its own music store -- V CAST -- that will enable that service's users to download high-quality digital music on its cell phones, it's little wonder that Apple seems to be advancing in its own march...

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Cell Calls from Planes On Their Way

Remember when airplanes had telephones in seat backs rather than LCD TVs? Expensive to use ($6 a minute seems to ring a bell), they were used sparingly (very sparingly) by most travelers. The ones still in existence are operated by...

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Verizon Inflight Wireless Broadband

According to PRNewswire, "Verizon Airfone has made significant progress toward providing wireless broadband services for U.S. air travel. The announcement follows the FCC's establishment of rules for auctioning spectrum in the 800 MHz band dedicated to commercial air-to-ground telecommunication services....

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LG VX9800 available to Verizon customers

The LG VX9800 is now available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers. The VX9800 uses EVDO wireless technology and is packed with features for viewing Verizon's V CAST videos, listening to music, Instant Messaging, e-mail, text messaging and text-to-speech capabilities. The...

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Verizon encrypts your email

Verizon announced today that it selected the Echoworx e-mail encryption solution and has launched the email encryption service. According to their release, "This new service is a complement to Verizon Online's Internet access, e-mail and security product portfolios. According to...

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Xingtone: Ring Tones Were Meant To Be Free

Why should you pay $2.99 for a 20-second clip of music that isn’t your first choice or from a song you already own as the ring tone for your cell phone?  Xingtone’s Ringtone Maker 4.1 enables cell phone users to...

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ITStarcom CDM-180 and Verizon

UTStarcom Personal Communications announced today the availability of the CDM-180 mobile cellular phone through Verizon Wireless. It's reasonably price at $69.99 (with two-year contract) has a unique landscape-formatted 1.8" TFT main display, camera, large keypads, and other features."It's Not Fat...It's...

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It's official, Microsoft and Palm are friends

It's official - after years of heated Palm vs. Microoft (PDA and mobile phone) battles, Microsoft and Palm are now friends. Here's the official news on the new Treo 700, which will use the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system and...

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Verizon Supportsoft Deal

Supportsoft is going to announce a major deal with Verizon aftermarket today in conjunction with the company’s second quarter 2005 earnings. Verizon has nearly 4 million high-speed data subscribers, and they have selected SupportSoft’s SmartAccess software to assist in automating...

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VoIP Rankings

Interesting VoIP report from Keynote Systems I thought I'd share. It states Vonage ranks first in reliability while AT&T CallVantage ranks #1 for best audio quality. Some other interesting insights as well - check it out...Today Keynote issued the results...

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Verizon VoIP over EVDO

In my Vonage over EVDO blog I discussed how someone was able to make a VoIP call using Vonage over a high-speed EVDO connection. I also wondered how happy the cellular companies would be knowing that they are carrying voice...

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Verizon's VoiceWing Bonanza

I just got like 15 alerts in my RSS reader about some press releases from Verizon all with almost the same exact title.They read:"Verizon Brings VoiceWing Internet-based Calling to Connecticut""Verizon Brings VoiceWing Internet-based Calling to Missouri""Verizon Brings VoiceWing Internet-based Calling...

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Verizon Wireless: A Company After My Own Heart

From WiMAX & Other Wireless Technology : Recently, Tom Keating blogged about the Verizon Wireless Smallville sweepstakes where you can receive Lex Luthor's e-mails directly to your Verizon Wireless phone - and better - enter to win a chance for walk-on...

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Verizon & Microsoft

According to Light Reading, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board) has selected Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board) as the software provider that will power its fiber-based television and video service offering, FiOS TV, both companies are...

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Verizon CDM8940 Cellphone

Verizon CDM8940 Closed Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom Personal Communications Division (formerly Audiovox Communications Corp.), yesterday announced the availability of the CDM8940, that will work on Verizon's EVDO network. It features a built in 1.3 Megapixel camera (with flash) and...

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Verizon Lobbies to Kill WiFi Hotspots

Important news story from MacWorld. A proposed Pennsylvania law (supported by Verizon) is now on its way to the governor's desk that could pose a hurdle for the city of Philadelphia's ambitious plan to provide broadband service throughout the city...

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Verizon and Level3 VoIP feature

I just blogged about i2Telecom's "Cellular Bridge" feature that let's you pick up your cell phone, dial the i2Telecom InternetTalker, and the device will recognize your CallerID and give you "2nd dial-tone" to dial another phone number. Well, coincidentally, a...

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Verizon VoiceWing Broadband and VoIP Double Play

Skibare shared this news release with me: VoiceWing Plus DSL Equals New Savings for Verizon Customers Basically, Verizon is offering a "double play" package of broadband ($29.95/month) and VoIP unlimited local and long distance ($29.95) for $59.90/month. This is great...

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Verizon to battle Vonage for VoIP broadband supremacy

Well, first it was AT&T, now another major carrier is jumping on the broadband VoIP bandwagon. Verizon has announced residential VoIP over broadband to compete with Vonage and AT&T's offerings (amongst others, i.e. Packet8, VoicePulse, etc.). Vonage still reigns as...