As AT&T promised earlier this year, the latest edition of its residential White Pages won’t be showing up on your doorsteps this year. Unless you ask.
The company says you can get residential listings online at RealPagesLive.com or YellowPages.com for free.
But if you…
I remember the day one of Verizon’s local reps handed me a piece of the company’s new marketing campaign - one that takes deliberate aim at competitors AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.
My first thought was that it reminded me of those…
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why cell phone plans are priced the way they are, you should check out this New York Times story.
It looks at how pricing plans have evolved into this system where you essentially subsidize the…
I was reminded yet again today of the dangers of texting and driving. After lunch, I was pulling away from the curb when a woman zipped past me, eyes glued to the screen of her cell phone, upon which she…
Cell phone users may be wasting several hundred dollars a year, paying for unused minutes and services they’ll never use. At least, that’s the argument being made by the Illinois Citizens Utility Board, a utility watchdog group.
The group released a…
I wonder if this counts as ironic: I sat down a few minutes ago to write about the government’s efforts to stimulate broadband access around the country. My initial attempt lasted less than a minute, halted in its tracks by a…
If you’re thinking about opposing AT&T’s plan to eliminate automatic delivery of the residential White Pages, now is the time to act.
The Missouri Public Service Commission is having an public hearing in St. Louis on July 8 to hear customer comments…
Earlier this week, I mentioned the ongoing squabble over ringtones involving AT&T and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
Essentially, the music producers group believes it should be paid more by wireless carriers for the ringtones so many cell…
It seems that I share an annoyance with someone over ringtones - admittedly for different reasons.
Apparently, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers isn’t a fan of all those ringtones being sold by wireless carriers. I’ve always found ringtones…
Life is full of surprises. Despite all the hype given (by people like me) to Apple and its nifty iPhones, the Blackberry Curve just took over the number one position in smart phone sales in the first quarter of 2009.
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