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iPhone 4
Jan 10th
Just thought I’d throw out the news. I’m sure there’s plenty of other articles out there but I heard from a friend who manages an AT&T store that the newest iteration of the iPhone is on the books for the end of summer. As we all know, release dates get pushed back all the time. But it seems as though, at this point at least, AT&T is planning to have it at the end of summer. I wonder how it’s going to stack up against all these Android phones that are hitting the market. Only time will tell.
VOIP Coming to iPhone
Oct 7th
For all those AT&T customers, AT&T announced that it will be enabling VOIP abilities such as Skype on the iPhone. Perhaps they’re trying to justify the ridiculous prices on the iPhone data plans.
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Please Leave a Message After the Beep…….Beep
Jul 31st
“David Pogue has distilled into useful form a long-standing complaint I have (and one reason I have long had a voice mail greeting that asked people not to leave me voicemail): cell phone companies set up the greeting, caller instructions, and playback system prompts in large part to maximize their revenue per user; by his calculations, the “mandatory 15-second voicmail instructions” from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and others is earning those companies something near a billion dollars a year in charges. Pogue suggests that users should “take back the beep,” and to that end provides contact information for the largest cell carriers in order to register a complaint — and, more helpful in the short run, suggests ways in which to make better use of paid-for phone minutes by alerting callers how to bypass the annoying instructions.”
I’ve never really thought about it this way. I mean, I’ve always noticed the message and I’ve always wished I could skip it but I’ve never really thought about the reason it was there.
I thought that on all these plans they always said, “When you call voicemail, it doesn’t count towards your minutes.”
If, however, I’ve been under a vast misunderstanding then this definitely brings up a good point that, shockingly, I’ve never heard arise before.
I suppose we will hear more of this at some point.
America’s Most Reliable 3G Network
Jul 30th
“Verizon has asked a court to affirm its claim to be ‘America’s Most Reliable 3G Network.’ From the article, ‘Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC, asked a U.S. court for a judgment that its advertising claims to be “America’s Most Reliable 3G Network” were truthful, which rival AT&T called “misleading” on Monday. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Verizon said assertions on July 1 by AT&T Mobility LLC, a unit of AT&T, that its advertising was false could not be supported. AT&T, which has its principal business in Atlanta, had filed the challenge with the National Advertising Division of the Council for Better Business Bureaus. Verizon Wireless said its claims of having “America’s Most Reliable 3G Network” and “America’s Best 3G Network” and “America’s Most Reliable Wireless Network” are “truthful, accurate and substantiated” and do not violate the trademark law known as the Lanham Act. It said that AT&T’s challenge “relies on the incorrect premise that speed is an essential element of the standard for measuring network reliability.”"
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