cell providers
Bulgarian mobile phone company suspends allegedly cursed number
It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Everyone who gets a certain cell phone numbers dies an ugly death. Total fiction, right? Not according to Bulgarian cell provider Mobitel. The company’s CEO chose 0888-888-888 as his cell phone number and died not long after of cancer. The next person who got the number more »
FCC probing the four major cell carriers and Google on ETFs
The FCC is really interested in why cellphone networks operate in the way they do. There was the probe into AT&T, Apple and Google for the Google Voice iPhone fiasco, and the recent probe into Verizon for doubling the Early Termination Fees on smartphones. The committee’s attention is still on ETFs, but now it has more »
T-Mobile hacked with the customer data up for sale?
If you are a T-Mobile customer, you may want to start worrying a tad. It seems there are claims from hackers that they have wormed their way into T-Mobile network, and ripped off customer information including confidential and financial documents. The hacker’s post on insecure.org tells their side of the story. Now…obviously if this is more »
AT&T’s revenues and customers increase
AT&T Wireless has announced a small but significant increase in revenue in the third quarter, largely due to the iPhone. The company saw revenues rise 15 percent over revenues from the same time last year, translating into a net income of $12.6 bllion. They also saw 2.4 million activations of the iPhone, nearly half of more »















