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If you were anxious to try out the Verizon 4G LTE network but didn’t want to be saddled with a new, two-year contract, you’ll be happy to know that the no-contract prices will be quite reasonable for service. According to PC World’s Sasha Segan, the no-contract prices for the 4G LTE service will be the…
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha spoke yesterday at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference. As part of his presentation, the CEO said Motorola’s Q1 2011 guidance will be negatively impacted by a new “competitive dynamic” developing at Verizon Wireless. This new competitor must be the iPhone as only the iPhone could garner enough demand to hurt…
Clearwire is looking to raise more than $1.1 billion to build out its WiMax infrastructure as the competition in 4G is heating up. Clearwire will be offering debt securities in private placement transactions and the funds will help it build out its mobile data infrastructure. The company provides the service behind Sprint’s 4G network for…
Android has exploded in a big way over the past year, and Verizon says that Google can thank the Big Red network for that. I’m sure Verizon would just love to take all the credit for Android’s success, but just how much of a role did the carrier play in the platform’s popularity and explosive…
Verizon confirmed that it will launch its LTE network on December 5th. The wireless carrier will kick off its 4G campaign by rolling out the high-speed mobile broadband service in 38 cities and 60 airports this Sunday. The service will blanket 110 million people at launch. Southern California will be its largest launch market with coverage…
Verizon must have been in a rush to bring its holiday marketing materials to the masses and skipped the oh-so-important step of proofing each graphic for accuracy. In two recent holiday marketing campaigns, the wireless carrier has made some glaringly obvious and roaring hilarious mistakes with its cell phone mock-ups. In a recent online holiday…
Verizon announced today that it will be holding a press conference on December 1st to discuss its LTE rollout plans. The press conference will begin at 12:00 noon EST and is available via teleconference and on twitter (@VerizonWireless #VZW4G). The carrier is expected to blanket 38 major metropolitan areas and more than 110 million Americans…
Verizon Wireless customers who travel from time to time are obviously looking for ways to keep their phone while travelling abroad. As you may know, roaming is for super rich, hence you want a local number. In other words, most phones offered by the Big Red carrier won’t work, but some will. Motorola Droid 2…
We’ve been expecting the HTC Merge to be announced for some time now, and just when it seemed likely that it would happen, it never did. Now with the appearance of a Merge case popping up, the handset has got to be announced sometime soon, right? When we heard of the Droid Incredible’s relaunching party,…
It’s Cyber Monday and Verizon has quickly jumped on the social networking train and bought #CyberMonday from Twitter. It’s the Monday right after Black Friday where most of us at work are spending the entire day surfing the web for deals and steals. To make sure that all things Cyber Monday point back to Verizon…