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 [...]
Individual Liable versus Corporate Liable Phones, You Need To Consider These Six Facts.
Not too long ago I was asked about the pro and cons between corporate liable and individual liable wireless phones and what is the best way for a company to go. Mostly, I get this question because it is a way for a company to control costs and reduce the need to deal with their [...]
Don’t Want To Use Your Minutes? There’s an App For That
In a reversal of Apple’s original policy for blocking any applications such as Google Voice from being able to make phone calls using only the data connection charges from the iPhone carrier AT&T, Apple will allow the iPhone to make VoIP phone over their 3G network by releasing the iPhone SDK which will allow developers [...]
5 Free Tips: How To Reduce Your Mobile Phone Bill Today
I get asked frequently how you might be able to reduce your cell phone bills. The technological movement towards wireless is inevitable. In my estimation, within the next 10 years consumers may do away with having wired services at home altogether and in a previous article I wrote, AT&T wants out of the “traditional” telephone [...]
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