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POPS "Why have SMS rates doubled?" Congress to cell carriers..."I am concerned with whether this consolidation and increased market power by the major carriers has contributed to this doubling of text-messaging rates over the last three years," wroteKohl, who gave the carriers a month to justify their higher SMS rates. U.S. texters sent 2.5 billion SMS messages in June—each day, mind you, or 78 billion messages for the month. That's a staggering 160-percent increase over last year, the CTIA reports—as well as a lot of money for the carriers, who collectively raked in $14.8 billion in wireless data revenue in the first half of 2008.
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POPSStores Closing Dell – closing 140 stores. 84 Lumber – closing 140 stores. Directly impacting by the nation’s housing market. Closed 12 stores in December. Sharper Image – closing 90 stores. Filed for bankruptcy protection. Pep Boys – closed 31 stores in November. Ethan Allen – closing 12 of 300+ stores. Rite Aid – closing 28 stores. Sprint/Nextel Corp – closing 125 stores. Movie Gallery – closing 400 of 3,500 stores. Saks – closing 1 store. CompUSA – 103 stores will be shut down or sold. Kirkland’s – closing 30 to 130 stores. Fashion Bug, Lane Bryant and Catherine’s – closing 150 stores. Also, not in this article: Eddie Bauer - 27 stores Cache - 23 stores Lane Bryant - 150 stores Talbots - 100 stores Gap - 85 stores
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POPSWiMax Revival Intel has a big stake in making WiMax happen. It was one of the great beneficiaries of WiFi -- and CEO Paul Otellini would like to see a replay of those happy days with WiFi. But there's lots more competition these days -- not to mention all the jostling going on over the FCC spectrum auction. Is it worth $2 billion to Intel to try to jump start WiMax? Probably so.
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POPSProtest Fox News Hit them where it counts, let their sponsors know you will not be consumers of their goods while they continue to support such a biased news organization, say buhbye to Fox!
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POPSText a Soldier Thanx - I Dare You. -<Those who send a message during the six days of the Giving Thanks program also will be directed to the America Supports You Web site. There, they’ll find a sampling of messages from the public and a running tally of how many messages have been received. They’ll also be able to read messages from the troops. Troops of Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan also wrote to express their appreciation for the continued support they receive: “To all the great Americans who go out of their way to support all the Soldiers of the Combined Security Transition Command in Afghanistan -- Thank You.”>-
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POPSCable Cos. Rolling Out Wireless Service Major cable companies are finally beginning to offer cell-phone service via Sprint Nextel, a partnership that they first announced in November 2005. The strategy is to offer customers a discounted "quadruple" play of cable TV, broadband, home phone and wireless services, something that phone companies like Verizon have begun selling as well. Given that cable companies and landline phone companies usually operate as local monopolies, any competition between the two should be a good thing for consumers. But pushing quadruple play packages will also put a damper on the willingness or likelihood that a customer will switch their service to another company. Which of course is part of the strategy too. - Louis Hau
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POPS"It's Not Us, It's You" : Cell Phone Carrier Dumps Customers Top 5 Reasons Why Sprint Nextel Would Make a Horrible Boyfriend: 5. Sprint doesn't wanna spend quality time with you or work out any relationship problems. 4. Sprint tries to keep you from "roaming" to something better, instead of upgrading itself to be that something better. 3. Sprint dumps you because you're too high maintenance and expensive to keep around. 2. Sprint doesn't have the balls to break up with you in person. 1. Sprint blames you for the break-up.
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