07/28/2011
New York Times – Online, The
Phone companies have known for some time now that their industry’s carbon footprint and energy use will continue to grow due to the growth of always-on mobile devices, from cell phones to tablets to electric cars to smart meters. Verizon decided that it could use some help and announced Wednesday [...]
04/22/2011
Light Reading
Verizon Wireless will redouble its Long Term Evolution (LTE) efforts in 2011 as it reveals that its first 4G smartphone — the High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) (Taiwan: 2498) Thunderbolt — was a best seller in the first quarter of 2010. (See Verizon Reports Q1.)
The carrier plans to cover more than 185 million [...]
02/04/2011
Bloomberg News
Verizon Wireless stopped orders for the iPhone after selling through its initial inventory.
Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, sold through its initial inventory of Apple Inc. iPhones in less than a day after starting to offer the device to its current customers.
The preorders were halted at 8:10 p.m. New York time yesterday, [...]
02/02/2011
Reuters
NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Wednesday that it would kick off online sales of the Verizon Wireless iPhone on Feb. 9, a day before the device hits its store shelves.
Apple’s web sales launch of the highly-anticipated phone will follow Verizon’s online sales of a limited number of iPhones [...]
01/28/2011
Wall Street Journal
Verizon Communications Inc. will pay $1.4 billion to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, in a move aimed at selling more computing services to business customers.
The deal, Verizon’s largest since its $6.8 billion purchase of MCI in 2005, comes as telecom operators are moving deeper into selling processing power, [...]
01/19/2011
Giga Om
The HTC ThunderBolt, poised to soon storm Verizon’s new LTE network, may be the first smartphone to allow simultaneous voice and data use on the network. In a Q&A session at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, the operator said that some, but not all, 4G phones launched in the first half of [...]
01/13/2011
PC Magazine
Verizon Wireless has strengthened its 3G network in the New York metro area, perhaps anticipating an influx of new 3G subscribers following its iPhone 4 announcement yesterday.
Today, Verizon flipped the switch on 16 new cell towers around the state, including New York City, Palisades, Yonkers, Medford, and a dozen other sites.
For the [...]
01/12/2011
Bloomberg News
Verizon representative Carlos Fonte cleans the screens of the Apple iPads displayed at a Verizon store in Coral Gables, Florida.
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Daniel Mead, chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless, talks about the company’s plans to start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone early next month, ending rival AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the [...]
01/12/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
After months of speculation, Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it will make Apple’s wildly popular iPhone available on its cellular network.
The announcement, which has been widely anticipated because of problems with AT&T’s network, is also good news for Qualcomm. Analysts believe the San Diego wireless giant will be the supplier of radio [...]
01/10/2011
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. watchers are already doing rough calculations and think Verizon Wireless could generate sales of millions of iPhones this year.
Verizon has invited reporters to a press event where it is expected the wireless carrier will announce it will carry the iPhone. At the Consumer Electronics Show, conference goers weighed in on [...]
