TheTechGuide Forum

General Category => News => Topic started by: Josetann on August 01, 2006, 07:55:00 AM

Title: Verizon revenue up on wireless growth
Post by: Josetann on August 01, 2006, 07:55:00 AM

Wireless growth propels revenue, but acquisition of MCI eats into earnings, which fall about 26 percent.

Click here (http://\"http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6100711.html\") to read the full article.

Title: Verizon revenue up on wireless growth
Post by: Pureblood on August 01, 2006, 08:19:42 PM

No senior discount for older Cingular phones

Cingular will soon start charging users of older phones a $5 monthly fee, in an effort to get them to upgrade to newer technology.

The fee, which will start appearing in September, will apply to consumers whose phones do not support GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) technology. Cingular said that per-customer costs to support analog and Time Division Multiple Access, or TDMA, access were rising considerably as the number of those users dwindled.

Cingular is required by the Federal Communications Commission to keep providing analog service until early 2008 so long as it still has customers with those phones. It has said it plans to continue to support TDMA until it makes the analog switchover.


http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6100756.html (http://\"http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6100756.html\")