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Apple’s iPhone is the hottest mobile device around — so hot in fact that the major mobile service providers are willing to sacrifice their own profit margins just to carry it. The big three providers, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and now Sprint, all pay hefty up-front prices to Apple for the privilege of stocking the iPhone, which they then turn around and sell at deep discounts to customers willing to sign two-year contracts. And the carriers have little choice: the name of the game in the mobile business is subscriber growth and none of the big providers wants to be cut out of the iPhone action.
It’s a looming square-off of Shakespearean proportions: Smartphone colossus Verizon is buddying up with movie-rental-kiosk outfit Redbox to take the fight to streaming giant Netflix.
As Verizon Wireless tries to push a broad lineup of 4G LTE smartphones on its customers, the company omits an important fact: LTE destroys battery life. This may improve some day, when tech companies figure out how to optimize their hardware for the faster network, but for now the only way to solve the 4G LTE battery problem is through brute force. That’s where Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx comes in.
In a smartphone market where companies breathlessly try to outpace one another in screen size, clock speeds and pixel density, kudos to Motorola for focusing on battery life instead.
It sounds like Verizon’s looking to ring in 2012 with a bill-pay fee for anyone who doesn’t switch to automatic bill payments, electronic checks, or some other form of payment that doesn’t involve single bill paying.
Move over AT&T and T-Mobile, you may have company: Arch-rival Verizon Wireless is said to be under the U.S Justice Department microscope, specifically DOJ’s antitrust division, for recent spectrum deals struck with cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House Networks and Cox Communications.
If you’re a Verizon customer and you’re wondering what’s happened to your data service, you’re not alone. Verizon’s network has been affected by some unknown affliction overnight, leading to 3G and 4G outages across the U.S. The company has confirmed the problem, and is working on a solution.
The long-awaited Galaxy Nexus just went on sale today at Verizon for $300 with a two-year contract. Amazon, however, has already discounted the phone to $150 in its own wireless store.
Ah, there we go. Verizon is finally rolling out the Galaxy Nexus Android smartphone—it’ll be available for $300 with a two-year contract tomorrow. The phone sports a 4G LTE connection, a 4.65-inch high-definition screen, and the latest version of the Android operating system (called Ice Cream Sandwich). MORE: First Look: Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 [...]
Oh rumor mill, please don’t let it be true that Verizon is interested in buying Netflix. The report has sent Netflix’s stock price soaring. That’s great news for Netflix shareholders, but potentially terrible news for Netflix customers.
It’s the rumor to end all streaming service rumors, and the culmination of months of speculation: Not only is the identity of Verizon’s partner for its planned Netflix competitor revealed, but the partner turns out to be a company that people have been expecting to get into the streaming content business for quite some time–yep, none other than vending-machine-rental king Redbox.
