Verizon Overcharging Tactics Will Be Investigated By The FCC
The FCC indicated that they will be investigating Verizon for allegedly wrongly or incorrectly charging customers for data or internet use. “‘We can confirm reports of an FCC investigation into mystery fees that appeared on Verizon Wireless bills costing over 15 million Americans tens of millions of dollars,’ Michele Ellison, FCC enforcement bureau chief, said [...]
Blackberry Encryption Has Been Broken – Stay Paranoid
Infoworld is reporting a Russian passcode-breaker firm has figured out a way to break RIM’s industrial grade security for Blackberry server backups. According to the article, CEO Vladimir Katalov: All data transmitted between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones is encrypted with a highly secure AES or Triple DES algorithm. Unique private encryption keys [...]
More Confusion Come, Verizon Prepared To Introduce New Data Plans
We regularly talk with clients that find their telecom bills to be frustrating to decipher and understand. Our clients simply don’t have the time or feel that it is worth their effort to spend 10 – 20 plus hours reviewing their bills. Understandably, after diligent review and scrutinizing – most businesses throw their hands in [...]
You Love Your Phone – And That’s Going To Cost You Because Of It.
We have a love affair with our phones. Seriously. Think about what your phone used to be and what is today. Yesterday, we thought about our phones simply as being cool because we had a way to communicate while we were away from our offices and homes. The mere thought of being able to talk [...]
Fees and Other Charges on Your Telecom Bill – What’s Legit?
Ask anybody who pays a telecom bill, be it an individual paying for one Plain Ole’ Telephone line or if you manage thousands of phone bills, the bits and pieces of the bill that can drive anybody crazy are those “other” fees. Usage fees (what?), government taxes (don’t like them but okay), Misc fees abound. [...]
Sprint’s WiMAX Moving Forward Before 4G
It looks as though the carrier wars to get their next mobile high-speed offerings out there is heating up. WiMAX, the wireless technology providing up to 10Mbps of transfer speed is starting to pick up steam ala Sprint. The pressure of rival carriers starting to roll out their 4G networks is giving each company the [...]
100 Mbps Internet Access? The FCC Wants It To Happen
It looks as though the FCC is looking for a big change when it comes to the speed to and increasing the number of households that would have that access to higher speed internet access. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently announced an effort that would target of 100 million households to get 100Mbps internet access [...]
Telcom Carriers Want An Even Bigger Slice
With the success of Apple’s iPhone owed much to their App Store that touts over 100,000 apps available to their customers, many hardware and software providers have taken notice. Research In Motion has the RIM Application Center, Google – the Android Market, Qualcomm, Nokia, Handango and Microsoft to name a few have Mobile Application Stores [...]
Microsoft Upgrades Mobile Interface Software
Few people gave much thought to the operating system their mobile phone ran just a few years ago. The cell phone performed simple functions that included a directory of family, friends and business contacts and it made calls. Today, the operating system your phone uses now is an important aspect of all mobile devices. From [...]
1 in 3 Data Breaches From Mobile Devices
According to a recent article in Mobile Enterprise, more than one third of the 45 data breach cases studied by the Ponemon Institute in 2009 had a mobile device or laptop that was either lost or stolen. According to the study, “Data breaches concerning lost, missing or stolen mobile devices are more expensive than other [...]
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