Cingular is going to let subscribers on local wireless plans rollover unused minutes for upto one year. This is an interesting example of carriers getting creative with plans and competing on something other than price. I’m sure Cingular’s market test found that rollover minutes were a great selling feature and probably didn’t cost them much for local calling plans.
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The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which operates Toronto’s Pearson Airport, is blackmailing the four national Canadian wireless carriers. The GTAA plans to shut off power to the facilities which support cellular service at the airport on Wednesday due to a break down in negotiations with the carriers. The GTAA wants the carriers to improve cellular service around the airport but so far the carriers haven’t responded well to the GTAA’s proposal. Killing the power should make them really happy to return to the negotiations. Happy Canada Day!
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An obscene crank caller was sentenced to four years in jail. That might sound extreme but this was an extreme case. Allan Snell worked at a Safeway in London and spent 83 percent of his weekly wages on prepaid cellular minutes to make obscene phone calls. In one six week period he is reported to have made 6,000 calls.
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A new report by Strategy Analytics urges operators to take a second look at their voice usages strategies. In many countries where wireless penetration is high, wireless only counts for 50% of all voice traffic. There is still a lot of upside in voice for carriers. For example the US has close to 35% cellular penetration, but only about 11% of voice traffic goes over cellular networks.
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