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The Telecom Digest for April 17, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 96 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Verizon Wireless to charge for phone upgrades (Bill Horne)
Inside the new iPad's 4G LTE mobile data: AT&T vs Verizon (Monty Solomon)
Verizon accused of avoiding taxes (Bill Horne)

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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:01:49 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Wireless to charge for phone upgrades 
Message-ID: <20120417020149.GA29023@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

This is from the USA Today website:

    Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, says it
    will start charging $30 every time a subscriber wants to upgrade
    to a new phone.

    Other phone companies have introduced similar fees. Competitor
    AT&T raised its fee from $18 to $36 this year.
 
Rest at:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-11/verizon-wireless-upgrade-fee/54173448/1

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to email me directly)




Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:23:00 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Inside the new iPad's 4G LTE mobile data: AT&T vs Verizon
Message-ID: <p06240887cbb205cc04cd@[192.168.181.141]>

Inside the new iPad's 4G LTE mobile data: AT&T vs Verizon

By Daniel Eran Dilger
Friday, April 13, 2012

Apple's newest iPad sports very fast 4G LTE data service, available 
on either AT&T or Verizon Wireless in the US. Here's how the two 
carriers stack up as LTE providers.

Similar to our iPhone 4S testing across the data networks of AT&T, 
Sprint and Verizon this winter, we performed a new series of tests on 
both the AT&T and Verizon models of the new iPad.

We didn't test the strength of radio connectivity between iPad and 
cellular towers, which is reflected in the "bars" of service reported 
by the device. Instead, we measured actual data throughput, providing 
a better indication of how well it will actually work on each carrier 
when you look up maps, browse the web or download or upload email.

...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/13/inside_the_new_ipads_4g_lte_mobile_data_att_vs_verizon.html

-or-

http://goo.gl/jk5Je




Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:31:08 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon accused of avoiding taxes 
Message-ID: <20120417003108.GA26231@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

According to the "US Uncut" website, verizon avoided paying taxes on
Billions of dollars in revenue.

See
http://www.usuncut.org/targets/verizon

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to email me directly)

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