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Verizon Responds

Last Thursday, I wrote some thoughts about Verizon’s FiOS service and the inundation of flyers from the company that arrive the mail, a tactic I think is odd for a company supposedly in the communications business and that is selling online products.  The title of my posting was “Lack of Plain Language, Clarity, Delivering.”
About clarity, [...]

Lack of Plain Language, Clarity, Delivering

For weeks, we have been receiving mailings at our home several times each week from Verizon, announcing “FiOS.” We believe that FiOS is fiber optic cable service but Verizon has never explained what the four-letter acronym means, relinquishing “FiOS” as just another meanless and made-up word, like “Verizon.”
I find Verizon’s marketing approach for a [...]

iPhone Original Works 3G … Anywhere But America

Here’s a headline for you — the original iPhone works on 3G data networks, and works just as fast as the new iPhone 3G. In fact, the iPhone original is a quad-band cell phone, and capable of operating on 3G networks.

But in America, however, original iPhones are throttled back by Apple’s software and forced [...]