Verizon Wireless has comited to voluntarily divesting in 15 additional markets. The markets were layed out in a letter filed with the FCC dated October 7th.
These additional markets include: Dothan, Butler, and Gila Alabama, Albandy and Spalding Gorgia, Souix City and Monona Iowa, Lake of the Woods Minnesota, Hickory and Yancey North Carolina, Boon Nebraska, Lincoln, Las Cruces New Mexico, Anderson South Carolina, and Beaver Utah. These markets are in addition to the markets previously commited to in their original application.
Verizon Wireless also made mention that where competitive issues may arrise in descreet markets, they will deal with those markets further along with the commission. The approval of the merger now will require Verizon to divest at least 100 total markets not withstanding any markets ordered in addition to by the FCC or the Department of Justice.
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At&t wireless is offering customers a new self serve option to get their Apple account set up before they venture into the store.
At&t hopes this will cut down on the length of time that customers are forced to spend in their stores during the activation process. Customers will be able to set up new accounts, check eligibility to upgrade to an iPhone and even port phone numbers. I am a little sceptical about the porting process via a web interface in the hands of a customer. This is not to say that as customers they are incapable, but reps that do ports on a regular basis can still have things go wrong.
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The Blacberry Storm features dual band CDMA radios, and Quad band GSM radios. The first-of-its-kind touch screen Blackberry has just as much for consumers as it does for enterprise users. This Blackberry sports a 3.2 MP camera with zoom, GPS, 1GB of on board memory that is expandable via MicroSDHC card up to 16Gb, Media player, 3.5mm headset jack, Stereo Bluetooth, accelerometer, amber light sensor, and a very capable battery. Battery life is claimed at 6 hours of talk time, and 15 days of standby time.
{Verizon}In Florida, a new law has been passed making it illegal to have a cell phone in prison. This law will be enforced stricly by an unlikely suspect. A K9 has been trained to sniff out cellular phones! Inmates found in posession of a cell phone up till now just lost privlidges for this, but now they will face an additional 5 years on to their sentance, and up to $5,000 in fines. Florida is not the only state to use a cell phone dog, they have also been used in Virginia. Cell phone dogs so far have turned up 23 cell phones. That is 23 would be escape attempts that have been avoided.
The Sonim XP3 is a quad-band GSM phone that is built tough. The phone will withstand 6 foot falls, is water proof, and is resistant to dust. Not convinced that this phone is durable? How about a 3 year warantee to back that up.
This phone has GPS, Bluetooth, and a 3MP camera. There is no video capture or media player. The phone supports immence battery life boasting 2.5 days of talk time, and 2 months of standby. Price and carriers are still unknown, but we do know you can expect to see the phone from a rural carrier.
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