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Worst of the Week: I’ve had it with the iPhone!

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Worst of the Week: Palm’s Pre and Sweet nothing

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Worst of the Week: The Ultimate Test

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Worst of the Week: Me and my robot friends

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Look(ing) out for No. 1: Verizon Wireless set to overtake AT&T Mobility

Nov. 4, 2008, will go down as a historic day both for the country as well as for the wireless industry. The impact of the presidential election is probably self-evident and better explained by those with more knowledge on the subject. But the impact...

Full speed ahead

BOSTON - There has been a lot of talk recently - and the subject was broached again at this week's Mobile Internet World 2008 event - that the wireless industry should put the brakes on all the talk about 4G as carriers are just...

Oh Yeah!

I hate to admit it, but during these troubling economic times I have succumbed to the cool, refreshing Kool-Aid the wireless industry is serving. And I gotta tell you, it tastes good.Sure, nearly every company involved in the telecom space has seen its stock...

Worst of the Week: Simpler times for simple minds

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A for effort: The unsubsidized cellphone model will find few takers

You've got to hand it to carriers for at least trying to come clean with consumers, though in some cases those efforts are a day late and a dollar short. Take Verizon Wireless, for instance, which has made waves in the industry by taking...

Worst of the Week: Spectrum smarts

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Worst of the Week: Gunslingers

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Worst of the Week: I signed what?

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Fall gal

I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week at Alcatel-Lucent, where after posting another quarter of underwhelming results, one of the wireless industry's largest infrastructure providers decided a...

Worst of the Week: Cutting in line

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The need for a strong Sprint Nextel

Could the skies be clearing over beleagured Sprint Nextel?According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited comments from Verizon Communications President Denny Strigl, the nation's No. 3 carrier could be turning a corner. Strigl reportedly told an investor conference that Sprint Nextel's performance had...

Stephenson boasts of 1 billion devices connected to AT&T’s networks: IPhone hangs over keynote

LAS VEGAS - The growing importance of wireless in the general telecom space was evident during this morning's keynote session at the NXTcomm08 trade show here, as AT&T Inc. chief Randall Stephenson referred to the recently introduced Apple Inc. 3G iPhone numerous times in...

Sour Apple

Apple's unveiling of its 3G iPhone this week came as little surprise to any industry observer or, for that matter, any person who happened to contact any form of media over the past several months. Countless trees and digital ink were sacrificed in the...

Worst of the Week: Oh Canada!

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Worst of the Week: Odds and ends

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A simple conundrum

One of the hot topics leading into the CTIA Wireless 2008 event earlier this month was the recent move by carriers to offer unlimited, flat-rate calling plans. While I didn't have much time to discuss the move with industry analysts prior to the show,...