Posts Tagged ‘T-Mobile’

The smart move behind throttling your customers

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While the focus on Verizon is clearly centered on its upcoming iPhone 4 launch, its recent decision to throttle the throughput speed of its top five percent data users also succeeded in raising some eyebrows. Commentators almost unanimously ascribed this move to Verizon’s determination to ensure that its network would not suffer [...]

When being disconnected is a good thing

BLOGGER: NAOMI WEISER We’re all getting so comfortable using mobile technologies and devices that it’s easy to forget that there are times (and places) where we just shouldn’t be connected. In an interesting move, some US operators have begun to implement campaigns and services that might, at first glance, appear to be detrimental to their [...]

Carrier billing? It’s a win-win-win situation

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK AT&T’s decision to join T-Mobile and offer carrier billing in the US for Android Market (Google’s app store) should come as no surprise. As Michal Harris noted in a blog here late last year, the service providers’ market has fragmented, with over-the-top players, niche app vendors and expanding retailers muscling in on [...]