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Murphy’s Law mandated that two weeks after I stopped using my BlackBerry Pearl, swapping it in for a BlackBerry Storm, Verizon actually unlock GPS on both the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and the BlackBerry Curve 8330.
Of course GPS on the BlackBerry Storm is still wearing shackles as you are forced pay a monthly subscription to use [...]
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Verizon has aired the second half of their BlackBerry Storm commercial.
It’s getting close…
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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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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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The Wall Street Journal published this AM that the BlackBerry Thunder will be released by Vodafone and Verizon exclusively, according to their sources. Anticipated release will be in the third quarter of this year. RIM had no comment on the matter. WSJ also mentions the report from BGR, which all of us [...]
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Just to be clear and to cut down on confusion up front, the Verizon BlackBerry Curve does not have a touch screen. It just appears that the copywriters over in the Verizon marketing department aren’t aware of this fact.
Credit on this find goes to CrackBerry.com reader Will who found this gem right on Verizon’s [...]
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I know for a fact that there are a lot of Verizon BlackBerry users that are ecstatic right now because their long wait is over as the Verizon BlackBerry Curve is now available. At the same time, however, those very Verizon BlackBerry users are ticked off that Verizon still locks down their branded versions [...]
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You know for a wireless company whose network technology largely unused outside of the U.S. with a subscriber base comprised only of sheep, zealots and peons suffering from FUD generated by the anti-consumer machine who have been fooled into believing that their network is superior to everyone else’s (inside joke), Verizon had a pretty [...]
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