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That may sound like entrepreneurial bluster, but Citron has set off alarm bells at the big telephone carriers, who proved once already that they weren't swift enough to react when they ignored the challenge of cell phones. Before Vonage, telecom giants like MCI, Verizon and AT&T dismissed the technology for broadband phone service as too buggy and too complicated to bother selling. Vonage has proved them wrong, mostly because broadband phone service has one compelling advantage: price. It's half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Internet Is Calling | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

Local phone service, however, will only be available to students who upgrade their lines for a $20 monthly fee, according to Nancy Kinchla, director of telecommunications services at University Information Systems (UIS). Phone service is provided through a contract with Verizon...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers and Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Cuts Free Local Phone Service | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became the largest supplier of mobile phones last year to service provider Verizon Communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Religion | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became the largest supplier of mobile phones last year to service provider Verizon Communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Religion | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became the largest supplier of mobile phones last year to service provider Verizon Communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outward Bound | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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