Verizon

I’ve been saying for a long time that Research in Motion puts too many eggs in one basket by (generally) allowing CDMA BlackBerry development to lag so far behind GSM development. You can tell me that GSM is the global standard until you are blue in the face but the reality is that the [...]

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Verizon Wireless still isn’t the nation’s largest Wireless provider. The number one spot still belongs to AT&T. Verizon did, however, make the most money in Q2 posting the industries highest Q2 revenue numbers coming in at $12.1 billion. This is roughly $85 million more than AT&T made.
Verizon also dropped its industry leading [...]

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Even though RIM will soon announce last quarters results, this quarter is turning out to be a pretty good one thanks to strong sales of the Verizon BlackBerry Curve. “RIM should see sales drive RIM’s (RIMM) Q1 net subscriber additions to 2.3 million, ahead of its 2.2 million guidance.
Lehman Brothers analyst Jeff Kvaal says [...]

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BGR does it again. They’ve come up with live pics of the upcoming Verizon BlackBerry Thunder, Research in Motion’s first touchscreen BlackBerry.
I don’t know how I’ll like a touchscreen BlackBerry without a physical keyboard, however, I do know that I like that fact that the BlackBerry Thunder is coming out on Verizon first.
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Well, it looks like the nation is about to be down to 3 major wireless carriers. Verizon and Alltel have made it official that Verizon will acquire Alltel for $28.1 billion. Verizon will pay about $5.9 and inherit about $22.2 billion in debt.
When all is said and done, I just hope that Verizon [...]

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According to CNBC, Verizon is in “deep talks” to acquire Alltel, the nations 5th largest wireless carrier for an estimated $27 billion dollars.
TPG and Goldman Sachs took Alltel private last November in a $27.5 billion deal it is not expected that Verizon will pay any more than this even though Alltel has increased its earnings [...]

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There is a good chance that you’ve heard by now that Garmin is now offering Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry for a one time charge of $99.99 for the entire time you own your BlackBerry instead of the $10 per month fee that they used to charge.
To make a long story short, subscription based GPS service [...]

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As big a fan as I am of Verizon’s network, I’ve never really understood why the do some of the things they do. Some of their practices just plain don’t make sense. At least not to me.
We know that Verizon locks the GPS down in their BlackBerrys. We may not like it, [...]

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