Verizon is launching the VZ Navigator (version 4) in Florida today. The service allows customers in 75 cities nationally and all major Florida markets to access information about traffic incidents, obtain traffic updates and find detours. In addition, the new version of VZ Navigator shows gas station locations and their current pricing, and offers a…
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at&t offers free Wi-Fi to customers with high speed broadband
AT&T Inc. announced on July 2, 2007 that millions of its customers with higher speed broadband plans can now receive free access to AT&T’s nationwide Wi-Fi network — nearly 10,000 hot spots at popular locations across the country including leading airports, McDonalds restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops and popular sporting venues. Effective now,…
Stop complaining about your bandwidth
>I work in Telecom and a lot of people ask me about DSL and faster forms of data lines. The most common complaint I get from people is, “why is my upload speed so low?”The simple answer is that when DSL was designed the average Internet user downloaded far more data than they uploaded. DSL…
Ed Whitacre to retire from at&t
The news has just come down from on high, Ed Whitacre, CEO of at&t, is retiring come June 3, 2007. He is being succeeded by Randall Stephenson.Whitacre, 65, is the longest-serving CEO in the telecommunications industry, and one of the longest-serving in the Fortune 500. He has been Chairman and CEO since 1990, when the…
It’s not an asteroid!
A few weeks back I pulled an all night shift at work because of a tree falling on some telco wires. Oh what a profitable night that was!A few days later the hole was still black and warm. So warm that no snow had accumulated around it even though several inches had fallen that week.I…
What a night
I just got home after pulling 16 hours of overtime at my job. This was after putting in a full eight hour day.You might be wondering why I worked 16 hours straight. Around 7:00PM last night I got a call from my boss. He was looking for someone to babysit one of our central offices…
AT&T posts strong fourth-quarter earnings
I’m a big fan of at&t stock and after looking over their 4Q 2006 report I feel even stronger about this stock!AT&T Posts Strong Fourth-Quarter Earnings Growth, Reaffirms Outlook for Double-Digit Growth in Adjusted Earnings Per Share$0.50 Reported Earnings Per Diluted Share, Up 8.7 Percent Versus Year-Earlier Fourth Quarter $0.61 Earnings Per Diluted Share Before…
New AT&T winback promotion offers qualified customers one year free AT&T | DISH Network
Here’s exciting news about one of the biggest access line winback promotions in AT&T’s history.Through the end of January, customers who switch back to an AT&T access line from a competitor and purchase AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and AT&T All Distance get our AT&T | DISH Network America’s Top 60 package, which normally costs…