NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES 11/30/04 Today's focus: Verizon nixes local number portability charges
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Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=89291 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Verizon nixes local number portability charges By Keith Shaw Today, we're catching up on some carrier news items that were announced over the past few weeks: * Verizon nixes LNP charges Verizon Wireless has eliminated the portion of its monthly 45-cents regulatory charge that went toward local number portability (LNP). The company said 40 cents of the regulatory charge it has been collecting from customers since March 2004 (about $15 million per month) was to help defray the costs to administer the LNP program. Customers will now pay 5 cents per month toward other regulatory charges. * Cingular gulps down AT&T Wireless I think I can finally stop typing AT&T Wireless, as the merger between Cingular and the aforementioned company has finally been completed. The company not only announced the merger completion but also made a big deal about being able to convert 1,000 AT&T Wireless company-owned stores into Cingular Wireless stores. (There are still 10,500 "agent locations" to be converted, but hey, that's a momentous task.) This brings the total number of Cingular-owned stores to 2,800. The combined company now lets users call each other for free over Cingular's 46 million-member All Over network (Cingular prefers ALLOVER, which looks a little bit like Al Lover when you read it in all caps). Even more exciting (if you're a 12-year-old girl) is "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest launching a phone, the Cingular-exclusive Motorola RAZR V3. The phone has a metallic finish, camera phone features and works around the world, and can be purchased online at the Cingular Web site ( <http://www.cingular.com/> ). * BlackBerry Enterprise now on Sprint Sprint and Research in Motion announced the launch of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution on Sprint's PCS Network. Business customers can now use a BlackBerry 7750 device on the network to download e-mail wirelessly, the companies announced. The service is being sold through Sprint's business sales channels, and lets users get their e-mail through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which supports Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino (Novell GroupWise is still coming!). The 7750 includes the wireless e-mail features, plus lets users make voice calls over the Sprint PCS network, and access text messages, corporate data, manage appointments and browse the Web. Head to the Sprint Web site ( <http://www.sprintpcs.com/> ) or RIM ( <http://www.rim.com/> ) for more details. CORRECTION: In last week's newsletter we misnamed the HP iPaq with T-Mobile service. The correct name of that product is iPaq 6315. We apologize for the confusion. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Keith Shaw Keith Shaw is Senior Editor, Product Testing, at Network World. In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/cooltools.html> " column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices. 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