Earlier this week AT&T announced plans to add 3,000 jobs in 2009, investing $17 - $18 billion this year, with two-thirds of those funds dedicated to expanding wireless and broadband networks.
The focus of this expansion comes as no surprise. Between President Obama’s recent $8 billion broadband pledge and the ever increasing demand for 3G services […]
Record numbers of people descended on the nation’s capital yesterday to witness history, but despite preparations by some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers, networks didn’t seem up to the task of handling all of the visitors and the network traffic they brought with them.
AT&T spent $4 million to increase network capacity in Washington, D.C., […]
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off yesterday, but even the biggest and flashiest consumer technology show of the year isn’t immune to the economic meltdown happening around us. Attendance is down this year, for both exhibitors and attendees, and the promise of new products at the show hasn’t bolstered performance predictions for tech […]
Barack Obama is expected to be our country’s most tech-savvy president ever, and his campaign had a strong focus on technology as a means for the U.S. to stay competitive. The tech and the telecom communities at large are both poised to see what will top Obama’s agenda after he takes office next month, and […]
As the years pass, I’m continuing to grow my “I can remember” list, containing marvelous things of the past that I can tell today’s and tomorrow’s generation of children about. Things like 8-track players, the Commodore 64 and televisions with a manual knob to change channels - things that they won’t have ever experienced and, […]
A few weeks ago I read an article that didn’t surprise me very much, given the habits of my teenage kids – it seems text messaging has finally surpassed call volume. The data, released in late September by Nielsen Mobile, found the average mobile user sends 357 text messages per month, while those in the […]
When Apple released the iPhone many in the industry wondered if it would really be a game changer, or just a flashy consumer favorite. Then Google entered with the Android and now BlackBerry has offered its answer: the BlackBerry Storm. While news has been circulating about the device for a week or so, nothing was […]
Last week, Sprint became the first commercial network in the U.S. to use mobile WiMax technology when it launched a 4G network in Baltimore. The network, called Xohm, beat LTE to the punch, and WiMax coverage is expected to roll out in additional cities including Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Washington, D.C. over coming weeks and […]
Google has entered the wireless space with the help of T-Mobile, and there seems to be a lot riding on this deal for both. T-Mobile has to be thinking about how they can capitalize on this opportunity to pull some market share back from giants like AT&T and Verizon, and last week, Google released the […]
The 2008 presidential election has drawn an unparalleled level of interest globally, and the Internet is host to a record number of young voters and people abroad looking for campaign updates. With so much at stake this election year, even the Republicans admit that Democrats have the edge, with Obama leading the pack in social […]
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