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AT&T’s Seth Bloom Speaks Out on Verizon’s “Deceptive” Ads

att-3g-graphThe battle between Verizon wireless and AT&T over Verizon’s ads mocking AT&T’s 3G coverage has been a contentious one. AT&T took Verizon to court claiming the ads deceived the customers. While it lost the first round, being denied an injunction, AT&T will have another chance to plead its case at a December 16 hearing.

AT&T’s public relations representative, Seth Bloom (an employee with Fleischman-Hillard), contacted us, looking to give us his company’s views on the debate. We were happy to get some interesting responses to our questions. Our dialog is given below:  Read more...

AT&T Debuts HP Mini 110 Netbook with 3G Connectivity

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The idea of buying a subsidized netbook PC with built-in 3G mobile access might seem like a nifty way to stay in touch with colleagues and friends on the go…and AT&T is hoping consumers will act on that initial feeling when it offers up an HP Mini 110 netbook PC for $199 beginning next week. AT&T is subsidizing a bit of the cost of the netbook to make it more appealing to consumers, but it’s important to bear in mind that the netbook pricing only applies with a new two-year service plan, and those run at least $35 per month.  Read more...

AT&T Gives Verizon a Taste of Their Own Medicine

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After losing a request for injunction, AT&T is fighting fire with fire by launching its own personal jab at rival Verizon “There’s a Map for That” Wireless.  Although the judge for the ad campaign lawsuit admitted Verizon’s commercials were “sneaky,” he basically handed AT&T a box of tissues and told the company to “walk it off.” Well, they did– looks like AT&T walked themselves right into an abandoned warehouse with Luke Wilson and shot this commercial.  

AT&T will have a second chance to argue its case, but as for now, it looks like the ad war is on.


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Verizon Tells AT&T That “The Truth Hurts”

VZ_vs_ATT_3G_coverageAT&T and Verizon, the nation’s second largest and largest telecoms, respectively, are at open war. With Verizon’s new Droid phone looking to challenge the iPhone as the reigning media smartphone, the pair wage battle in the court room over Verizon’s commercials which depict AT&T’s poor 3G coverage.

It has been reported that in some areas, such as New York City, that AT&T’s call drop rates are as high as 30 percent — or that it merely has no 3G service at all. However, AT&T does have broad coverage under its older EDGE network, and it claims that Verizon’s ads are deceptive. AT&T’s argument basically boils down to a claim that the average viewer is fooled to believe that the Verizon commercial’s maps represent total coverage and not 3G coverage — despite several textual and audio clues. Thus it claims the commercials are misleading and damaging.  Read more...

Vizit PhotoFrame Promises Two Interaction and Wireless Connectivity

Isabella Products has been promising its Vizit photoframe for almost a year, and last we heard was due to land at retailers in “fall 2009.” Now Isabella has pushed the date back to “early 2010,” but it wants folks to know its touchscreen-enabled photoframe that’s supposed to offer fully interactive two-way connectivity is on the way…and the wireless connectivity will be provided by AT&T.

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Verizon to Charge Customers $350 for Smartphone Contract Termination

verizon-networkHalloween may be over, but this news is downright scary. For those considering to jump ship from Verizon and grab an AT&T iPhone (assuming Verizon doesn’t get it), you may soon be paying more — much more.

Verizon may be keeping customers happy with its Buy-One-Get-One sale on Blackberries, including the new Blackberry Storm 2, but some new terms are likely to make customers not so happy.  Read more...

iPhone 3G Unlocking is Inevitable with iPhone Jailbreaking Master George Hotz Around

iphone-unlockerApple has a big headache. That headache is iPhone unlockers and jailbreakers. With iPhone jailbreaking, the powerful handsets are no longer constrained to only run the apps that Apple allows. And with unlocking, users can jump onto other networks, leaving Apple’s partner AT&T and its patchy 3G network behind.

Apple has long and unsuccessfully waged war with the unlockers. It has tried to brick their iPhones. It has tried to release new firmware versions to try to lock them out. But ultimately, time and time again, Apple’s best hardware and software engineers are finding themselves outwitted and befuddled by the persistent hackers.  Read more...

An Android Phone That Can Beat the iPhone

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Android phones are being thrusts into the consumer market from all angles these days. In this podcast, the panel goes into detail on Android phones’ strengths and why these new smartphones are more than just an ‘iPhone wannabe.’ With every Android phone that comes out there is always something unique and new about it.  That panel digs deep to predict what Android phone will be the next ‘it’ phone, and what carrier and marketing efforts will be needed for an Android phone to out sell the iPhone.  Read more...

CTIA 2009: Best Of Show

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We give you a look at the new products and technologies that will change the tech-landscape this year. Also today, we’ve got new reports from CTIA 2009 that will shake the wireless and mobile worlds. We talk with Rene Richie about the iPhone blog’s coverage on CTIA 2009 and find out how their entrenched team is doing at the show this year.  Read more...

Lawmakers Urge FCC Probe of Google Voice

While some communications users are gaga for Google Voice—Google’s service that offers one phone number for all a person’s phones as well as free U.S. long distance and cheap international calls—telecommunications operators like AT&T claim that Google isn’t playing fair with the service, and should be subject to the same regulations and requirements as landline service providers. At issue: connecting calls to rural areas. Those calls are expensive for telecommunications companies to connect, but they are required to do so by federal regulations. Google Voice however, not being a landline operator, isn’t bound by those regulations, so it blocks the calls and doesn’t incur any expenses.  Read more...

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