News by Carrier

Verizon has expanded their sports offerings on the FiOS TV to include the NHL. Now Verizon customers can access the NHL on their Verizon phone. NHL fans are as diehard about their hockey as football players are about their hockey and now they don’t have to feel left out in the cold.

By purchasing the entire season of NHL Center Ice games customers receive a package that includes up to 40 games in the NHL that are out-of-market games and also certain games from the Stanley Cup Playoff’s first 2 rounds.

AT&T announced that its Network Disaster Recovery program has reached fruition. After a year-long effort to bring together all the necessary components to insure that wired and wireless communications remain intact during disaster situations.

With an investment of over $500 million dollars in its NDR program and over 150 portable trailers carrying technological equipment that can be deployed on a moment’s notice, AT&T has moved ahead of the pack in preparing for a national or even worldwide disaster that could affect communications.

AT&T has announced that it will become a part of the movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AT&T released a statement to the press that they would welcome the chance work with the EPA and stakeholders to develop new and innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse emissions.

Sprint launched a ground breaking innovative new service – a cell phone for the hearing impaired. This service, WebCapTel, is a web based service that allows people with hearing impediments to read conversations on cell phones capable of using Windows Mobile 6 web browsers, like the Palm Treo.

Sprint is dedicated to providing the best access and service to all customers and to being able to provide this level of service to everyone. Not just hearing customers.

With winter storms that can take out power lines and leave people stranded for days without phone service, AT&T has made preparations to weather the storm, should it arrive.

Experts are already calling for this to be a much colder than average winter, increasing the likelihood that there will be emergency situations where the mobile phone is the only communication tool.

Students who are members of institutions that are a part of MiCTA will now receive a discount on their cell phone bills. This discount will range from a percentage off their bill to a waiver of set up fees.

MiCTA is a national association whose members are from higher education, healthcare, libraries, K-12 schools, government and other not for profit organizations that are joined together to help with telecommunications issues.

Cell phone users who have ever had a question while on the go and used the ChaCha service will be happy to know that AT&T have formed a relationship. This relationship will allow AT&T users who access the free ChaCha service to be greeted with a co-branded greeting.

Verizon Wireless kicked off an online experience that is unique for football fans. Verizon will now offer the NFL on your Verizon Phone. Verizon will offer this for 8 key games.

Football fans that just can’t live without their football will have access to a customizable virtual broadcast booth. Customers will have access to multiple camera aspects that they select.

The NFL Network Game Extra will allow customers to have online access to many features such as up-to-the minute game stats, drive chart simulations, live chats with other game viewers, live audio and more.

AT&T has jumped ahead of the competition with the introduction of AT&T U-verse Voice, the name they have given to their AT&T Internet Phone Service. Currently the service is being tested in several areas in Wisconsin. AT&T’s Internet Phone service is their brand of VoIP.

PCMag.com and its subscribers have overwhelmingly declared the Verizon FiOs the fastest and most reliable Internet service in the US. This included being faster than all cable providers and covered customer service satisfaction as well.

PCMag.com asked readers who used broadband to participate in real-world testing of Internet speeds. SurfSpeed, and independent Internet speed measurement application was used for the testing. They were also asked to rate their level of satisfaction with their ISP.