July 4, 2012 News Release XP NewsWire Today all four major U.S. mobile carriers announced the elimination of voice call charges for customers signing two-year data/texting plans. The change, according to Lisa Sabrina-Cortez, was made when carriers found its two-year plan customers were only using an average of 10 voice minutes per month.
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M2M (machine-to-machine communications) may yet save wireless carriers while offering consumers and businesses innovative new services. While carriers madly search for alternative revenue streams, such as wireless health products, they continue hoping smartphones and data plan revenues will save their core mobile phone business.
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Since cell phones were first introduced in the 1980′s, mobile carriers created cellular plans based on minutes used. As cell phones became more prevalent in the United States, mobile carriers created confusing “buckets of minutes” cell phone plans, expensive over minute charges, activation fees, overpriced text message and data billing and two-year lock-in contracts. Wireless [...]
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Improving cell phone reception for voice and data in buildings and mass transit is essential for consumers, businesses and wireless carriers. As more people use their mobile phones at work, home, inside commuter trains and elsewhere, cell phone signal boosters have become critical. Cellular Specialties (CSI) helps wireless carriers improve mobile phone signal strength, voice [...]
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MobileBeyond names the Sprint HTC Hero as its ideal Android mobile phone over Google’s Nexus One. Google is releasing a GSM phone that will only perform well on one mobile carrier–T-Mobile–in the U.S. Nexus customers who purchase the phone directly from Google and use AT&T will experience slow network speeds when downloading data or accessing the mobile web. Google Nexus customers should wait until it releases a CDMA phone for Verizon Wireless.
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Phone patent infringement lawsuits brought by Apple and Nokia against each other, plus Apple’s recent patent moves against HTC’s Android phones–are a warning to mobile handset makers of growing litigation. In October, 2009, Nokia sued Apple, claiming Apple used 10 of Nokia’s patents related to Wi-Fi, phone calls and other Nokia cell phone features.
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Years ago when you talked with your friends about cell phones, the conversation went something like this: “So, I see you’ve got an LG VX-9200. My Moto V195 has better voice quality.”
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iPhones and smartphones have made it around the world and now they’re in River City. But danger awaits. I live in River City, a mid-size city slightly west of the Mississippi. You probably haven’t visited our town. Doesn’t appear on many maps–including Googles’s–but you really should.
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C.T.I.A., representing wireless carriers, is meeting in San Diego this week. Yesterday, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gave the keynote address, stressing the need for increased electromagnetic spectrum to combat the “looming spectrum crisis.”
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