---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180118164640.GA18511@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:46:40 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Sprint says Verizon customers aren't very smart Commentary: In a new ad, the carrier claims that staying with Verizon shows a lack of intelligence. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech + + that's taken over our lives. + + + +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ By Chris Matyszczyk Have you ever been in an argument and called your opponent stupid? How did that go? Generally, calling people dumb doesn't exude emotional intelligence. Yet here is Sprint suggesting that Verizon customers might not do too well on the presidential cognitive test. https://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-says-verizon-customers-arent-very-smart/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180118164254.GA18460@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:42:54 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: New tax law means Verizon will report $17 Billion in profits Verizon will be one of the companies whose earnings report will benefit significantly from the GOP's $1.5 trillion tax cut that went into effect last month. While AT&T announced that its workers will see their paychecks padded with a $1000 bonus, Verizon, it turns out, can write down $16.8 billion from its deferred taxes, thanks to the lowering of the corporate rate from 35% to 21%. It's not like Verizon would have paid this kind of money anyway, as these are deferred taxes offset by acquiring airwaves licenses, or making capital investments in network infrastructure, but now Big Red can book these as a one-time profit, and will do so as soon as the next quarterly results report comes on January 23rd. https://www.phonearena.com/news/Verizon-to-report-17-billion-extra-profit-thanks-to-new-tax-law_id101730 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180118163658.GA18341@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:36:58 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Why 2017 Was a Year to Forget for Verizon Communications Inc. By Chris Neiger Verizon Communications remains the nation's largest wireless carrier, but increasingly competitive offers from AT&T and T-Mobile took a slice out of the company's wireless subscribership numbers last year. And that more intense competition has forced the company to look elsewhere for growth. The company is still struggling to recover its momentum and adapt to the latest shifts in telecom landscape, and 2017 showed that Verizon still has a ways to go. Let's take a look at what happened with the telecom giant last year and what the company's looking forward to in 2018. http://host.madison.com/business/investment/markets-and-stocks/why-was-a-year-to-forget-for-verizon-communications-inc/article_9dd230f5-ba56-52fc-b3fb-2f628453f8c7.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 19 Jan 2018