Wireless Substitution
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Wireless Only Homes Now at 25%
5/14/10 at 10:59 AM by Andrew Burger
One of every four U.S. homes--24.5%--did not have a landline but did have at least one wireless telephone during the second half of 2009 according to preliminary results of the National Health Interview Survey, July-December, a 1.8% increase over 2009's ...
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Sprint Launches WiMAX Desktop Modem, Puts Pressure on DSL
12/15/09 at 4:31 PM by Telecompetitor
Run Your Home and Office at 4G Speed
Take your home and business connectivity to the next level with the Sprint 4G Desktop Modem CPEi25150 by Motorola®. Simply connect the Sprint 4G Desktop Modem to your computer or router/Wi-Fi device to access blazingly fast speeds for browsing the Web, accessing multimedia-rich information, exploring social networking and lag-free videoconferencing in ...
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Iowa State Pulls Plug on Landlines
10/1/09 at 9:39 PM by Bernie Arnason
Iowa State, the Ames, Iowa based university with 26,000 students, has decided to remove all landlines from student dorms next year. Iowa State will use the funds saved by removing landline service to deploy dorm wide ...
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Sprint Provides Hints of Wireless Broadband Substitution
8/5/09 at 9:50 AM by Bernie Arnason
Sprint announced the launch of two 4G wireless enabled broadband routers today. The Sprint Personal Hotspot PHS300S targets consumers, serving up to four simultaneous Wi-Fi connections. The Cradlepoint MBR-1000 Broadband Router targets business users and allows up to 32 simultaneous Wi-Fi connections. Both routers ...
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AT&T Stresses Need for Wireline Home Phone
7/7/09 at 6:14 PM by Bernie Arnason
Using emergency 911 calling as a backdrop, AT&T is stressing the need for families to maintain at least one corded wireline phone in their home. “At home, a landline phone can serve as their reliable ‘home base’ in an emergency, and it can ...
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Verizon: Cut Your Landline, You Don’t Need it Anymore
7/2/09 at 3:17 PM by Bernie Arnason
Cut down your expenses. Cut the cord on your home phone. Verizon’s words, not ours. Ok, truth be told, its Verizon Wireless, and its copy from a marketing campaign that targets non Verizon wireline territory. For now at least. As BroadbandReports.com points out, while it’s ...
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Sprint to be First With 3G Femtocell?
7/1/09 at 8:34 AM by Telecompetitor
Sprint is looking to follow their own lead with femtocell technology by being the first U.S. carrier to offer a true 3G femtocell later this year. Sprint was the first carrier to offer a 2G femtocell, the Samsung Airave. Light Reading’s Unstrung ...
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Can Cable Sustain Their Telephony Gains?
6/30/09 at 8:29 AM by Telecompetitor
Time Warner Cable now has four million telephone subscribers, making them the sixth largest telephone company in the U.S. by their estimation. Cable companies are no stranger to saber rattling concerning their digital phone prowess. Comcast has issued a press release or three toting their position ...
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FCC Shortens Landline Porting to One Day
5/13/09 at 1:38 PM by Telecompetitor  The FCC has shortened the timeframe of porting a telephone number from a wireline carrier to another carrier to one business day. The regulations allowed four business days prior to the change. Telecompetitors, especially wireless carriers, have complained that the wireline porting process was too slow and maybe even anti-competitive. Wireless porting can often be measured in hours, not days.
Wireline carriers, particularly smaller rural carriers argued ...
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Time to Consider $5/month Local Phone Service?
5/7/09 at 9:38 AM by Telecompetitor  News today reveals that for the first time in history, wireless only households now outnumber wireline only households. This according to new data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, a program of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which has been tracking wireless substitution for some time now. According to their findings, one in five homes (20%) in the U.S. has no ...
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