Verizon shares (NYSE:VZ) closed down yesterday 2.21% after Verizon Wireless missed iPhone sales estimate for the quarter. According to incoming Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, the iPhone 5 is not expected until the fall, "and I think you will see a significant jump there when we get to that point," said McAdam, whose promotion from COO to ...
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam blamed Apple yesterday for his company still lagging behind AT&T in iPhone sales. Lowell explained in a conference call that because Apple has been slow in bringing the iPhone 5, to replace the iPhone 4, that is why AT&T is still leading in iPhone sales. When Verizon started selling the iPhone in February, ...
Wait a minute - wasn't the iPhone 4 released on the Verizon network only 4 months ago? Well, that hasn't stopped the Verizon iPhone 4 from exploding in popularity and also stealing - or I should say eating away - at AT&T's iPhone 4 marketshare. Take a look at the charts below. What you'll see is that ...
Verizon is taking steps to get ahead of the new drama and legal action surrounding location tracking with smartphones like the iPhone and Android smartphones. In a letter to congress, Verizon spelled out details on its tracking methods, why it tracks, how it uses the data, and the purposes behind the use. It all makes ...
Earlier I wrote about how AT&T had the highest rate of dropped calls amongst the four major phone carriers - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. And this statistic continued it's run over into the group of iPhone users. Specifically, Verizon iPhone users where compared to AT&T iPhone users, and Verizon iPhone users only had a dropped ...
Verizon's new iPhone 4 commercial, and their first, has been uploaded to the YouTube channel earlier today. The interesting spin on this commercial is that it is not attacking AT&T, like you'd probably think it would. Instead, Verizon's theme of the commercial is “Two is better than one". The "two is better than one" concept shows that even ...
With Blackberry still holding the number one slot for mobile phone market share in the United States, it's almost hard to imagine that RIM, the maker of Blackberry, is actually starting to see declining growth at major U.S. carriers. I have a friend at a major law firm in Houston who for ever, all of the ...