Oct 3, 2006 | blog
Cingular has finally completed the integration of the AT&T Wireless network. Its been two years since Cingular purchased the aging network, and they have had several challenges in merging the two companies together.
This is ultimately good news for Cingular’s customers, as the company can now focus those energies on other opportunities such as expanding their 3G networks!
Link to: Cingular Finally Completes Network Integration (Phone Scoop)
Oct 2, 2006 | blog
Robert Scoble makes a great point, blogs make for a great PR tool for CEO’s and corporations. Why can’t more CEO’s make public statements using a blog?
In my own employer’s industry, we could make use of a corporate or CEO blog on many levels. We could speak to product questions, to company initiatives in the community, and so on.
The instantaneous and free-form nature of a blog is such a great tool to communicate with customers, partners and clients – wish we could make use of them where I work.
Link to Scobleizer: Why can’t CEO’s use Web sites/blogs to disclose things?
Oct 2, 2006 | blog
Looks like my favorite mobile service provider is updating their service offerings and positioning themselves for future service growth. After several years with the same look & feel, they’ve udpated their site, added new calling plans, changed their corporate tagline, and changed their spokesperson.
Link to Phone Scoop: T-Mobile Switches Focus With New Tagline, Plans
Link to T-Mobile myFaves promo
Sep 27, 2006 | blog
Looks like T-Mobile is miving forward on their VoIP offering, adding the feature to their product mix with specialized phones.
It will be interesting to see how people add this service, or use this service in combination to thier mobile phone. No exact news on how they will be using the new spectrum they purchased.
Read more at BetaNews.
Sep 23, 2006 | blog
Brighthand is reporting what I’ve talked about in the past. T-Mobile now has enough spectrum bandwidth nationwide to proceed with their 3G rollout.
What this means to consumers is cheaper 3G options compared to Cingular, Verizon, & Sprint. T-Mobile has always been priced more competitively than the competition, partially because of being the smallest nationwide operator, but also because of the ability to run more efficiently than the other carriers. They have not had to carry the baggage of extremely large and complex corporate mergers of culture and technology.
Another large factor in the pricing of T-Mobile has been its “reluctance” to be on the cutting edge of wireless technology. For example, their EDGE network has only been online for roughly a year, where Cingular’s EDGE service has been available for nearly two. Allowing the other carriers to bled on the cutting edge, learning from their triumphs and failures, in addition to allowing time for the hardware to come down in pricing has kept T-Mobile competitive.
Will that trend continue now that the company has dropped $4.2 Billion on spectrum – though I must point out that T-Mobile has been budgeting for this spectrum auction, and had estimated a similar amount aver a year ago for Auction 66.
Only time will tell, but it’s exciting, as now all four national carriers have the spectrum to roll out 3G nationwide, and plan for next-generation 4G strategies.
Link to Link to T-Mobile USA On Track for 3G Rollout at Brighthand.com
Cingular has finally completed the integration of the AT&T Wireless network. Its been two years since Cingular purchased the aging network, and they have had several challenges in merging the two companies together.
