Word: wireless
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...phone companies there has been much not to love, so it's equally understandable that some people are outraged by these cancellations. First, the industry charged us coming and going - remember paying for incoming calls? Then it made promises about coverage that hardly matched reality, a shortfall that Verizon Wireless (Can you hear me now?) cleverly turned into marketing campaign. And let's not forget that there were no options if you were unhappy because you were padlocked into a two-year contract. The good news for Sprint's castoffs - no termination fee. Oh, thank...
Nevertheless, analysts expect that millions of consumers will eventually switch away from their current carrier to buy into Apple's offering - and that says a lot about how frustrated people are with the wireless carriers. Forrester Research has found that the percentage of consumers who are happy with their carrier has fallen steadily year after year, and more than 80% of those surveyed by Measuredup.com, a customer service rating site, aren't satisfied with their carrier's service. Measuredup.com founder Marc Karasu says consumers are tired of carriers burning through hundreds of millions on ads while ignoring major service problems...
...unchallenged dominance over their markets - and their customers. That's allowed them to preserve their potpourri of fees and to go slow on innovation, thus the stale approach to voice-mail and other services. Google recently proposed an auction system that would enable new players to buy into the wireless spectrum, an idea that could open the door to the sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that they have continued to innovate: "Over the last...
...Unable to acquire Facebook last year for a billion dollars, the company may look to a deal with Microsoft as a way of gaining access to a new array of partners, including both cell phone and PC manufacturers and wireless carriers. "Microsoft and Yahoo have a long history of being partners and they're likely to get closer," says Smith. "We wouldn't be surprised to see a joint venture emerge...
...iPhone's wireless carrier, has followed Apple's secrecy lead in keeping mum about the iPhone's features. But AT&T's Glenn Lurie recently alluded to Google applications on the iPhone as particularly appealing features that would make the device worth its $500 sticker...