Voices
Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 20, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT
About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers agreed to return to work Tuesday, under a previous contract, after striking to protest benefits cuts that the telecommunications giant sought to offset declining sales in its traditional wireline business.
Kara Swisher in News on August 13, 2010 at 5:51 am PT
The opening line of the classic J.M. Barrie book “Peter Pan” reads: “All children, except one, grow up.”
Actually, that one too, and now the whole Internet is angry at Google and taking shots, because of its recent joint public policy proposal with Verizon over net neutrality.
They are claiming the Silicon Valley search giant–in the most cynical of ways–sold out its long-standing commitment to the open Internet to make a corporately-favorable deal.
Thus, Google took to the corporate blog yesterday to explain it all away in a post titled, “Facts About Our Network Neutrality Policy.”
It practically begs for translation, so BoomTown shall not disappoint!
Peter Kafka in Media on August 9, 2010 at 12:09 pm PT
The super-fast version: There’s no business deal, the Web stays open and Google won’t be paying to move its stuff faster than the competition. But! Verizon and/or others want the right to build “new services.” And those could have different rules. Meanwhile, wireless is a whole different story.
John Paczkowski in News on January 26, 2010 at 6:00 am PT
Reporting fourth-quarter earnings this morning, Verizon posted revenue that jumped 9.9 percent to $27.09 billion and said it added 2.2 million mobile subscribers. Yet the company reported a loss of $653 million, or 23 cents a share, for the quarter–mostly because of costs related to layoffs in the period.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
If the bandwidth-guzzling iPhone is truly the “Hummer of cellphones,” as the New York Times dubbed it last year, you might figure that Apple’s coming tablet will swill data like an Airbus. That might be true eventually, but initially, analysts say, the tablet is not likely to put much strain on the mobile broadband infrastructure of whatever carrier it ends up with, whether Verizon or AT&T.
John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2009 at 5:05 am PT
How badly does AT&T want to renew its iPhone exclusivity contract with Apple? Pretty damn badly. Posting third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations this morning, AT&T said it activated a record 3.2 million iPhones during the period. Of those, 40 percent were for customers new to the carrier.
John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2009 at 5:05 am PT
How badly does AT&T want to renew its iPhone exclusivity contract with Apple? Pretty damn badly. Posting third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations this morning, AT&T said it activated a record 3.2 million iPhones during the period. Of those, 40 percent were for customers new to the carrier.
John Paczkowski in News on October 21, 2009 at 5:01 am PT
AT&T reports third-quarter earnings Thursday and by all accounts, they should be strong enough, thanks to the sheer size of the company’s footprint and, of course, its exclusive carrier rights to the iPhone.
John Paczkowski in News on October 21, 2009 at 5:01 am PT
AT&T reports third-quarter earnings Thursday and by all accounts, they should be strong enough, thanks to the sheer size of the company’s footprint and, of course, its exclusive carrier rights to the iPhone.
