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News and Trends in the Telecommunications Industry
From the monthly archives:
Alltell Wireless may just be Verizon’s lucky charm. The latter continues to defy market analysts’ gloomy forecast that the telecom industry would be among the hardest hit during the recession.
Verizon Wireless scored a 21 percent increase in terms of its average revenue per user (ARPU) for the first quarter of this year. Industry observers say [...]
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Disgruntled consumers have slapped WiMAX operator Clearwire with a class action lawsuit for allegedly touting that its service is comparable to cable Internet and DSL when it fact it’s crappy.
Documented as “Minnick et al. v. Clearwire U.S. LLC” and filed in King County, Washington, the lawsuit claims Clearwire’s service is slow and often unavailable. It [...]
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The US Congress has passed a legislation to cut the growing volume of discarded cell phones, televisions, computers, fax machines, printers and other electronic devices.
The Electronic Device Recycling Research and Development Act (H.R. 1580) mandates that multi-year grants be allocated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for research on practical solutions to reduce the number [...]
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