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The Telecom Digest for October 17, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 241 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
The Future of Mobile News (Monty Solomon)
Verizon begins defense of 9.5 Billion lawsuit (Bill Horne)
Softbank to come to aid of Sprint (Bill Horne)

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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:40:28 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Future of Mobile News
Message-ID: <p0624088fcca3e659b539@[10.0.1.3]>

The Future of Mobile News

The Explosion in Mobile Audiences and a Close Look at What it Means for News

The era of mobile digital technology has crossed a new threshold.

Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web 
through either a smartphone or tablet, significantly more than a year 
ago, and this has major implications for how news will be consumed 
and paid for, according to a detailed new survey of news use on 
mobile devices by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in 
Journalism (PEJ) in collaboration with The Economist Group.

At the center of the recent growth in mobile is the rapid embrace by 
Americans of the tablet computer. Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults, 
22%, now own a tablet device-double the number from a year earlier. 
Another 3% of adults regularly use a tablet owned by someone else in 
their home. And nearly a quarter of those who don't have a tablet, 
23%, plan to get one in the next six months. Even more U.S. adults 
(44%) have smartphones, according to the survey, up from 35% in May 
2011.

News remains an important part of what people do on their mobile 
devices-64% of tablet owners and 62% of smartphone owners say they 
use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically 
with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets 
and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the 
phone). This means fully a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a 
mobile device at least once a week.

...

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/future_mobile_news

http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/Futureofmobilenews%20_final1.pdf




Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:50:00 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon begins defense of 9.5 Billion lawsuit 
Message-ID: <20121017045000.GA15557@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Verizon Begins Defense of $9.5 Billion Idearc Lawsuit

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) began defending a $9.5 billion
lawsuit brought by creditors of its former subsidiary Idearc Inc., the
directory business that filed for bankruptcy after it was spun off by
Verizon.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-15/verizon-begins-defense-of-9-dot-5-billion-idearc-lawsuit

-or

http://goo.gl/msw0V

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly.)




Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:54:54 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Softbank to come to aid of Sprint 
Message-ID: <20121017045454.GA15873@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Softbank to come to aid of Sprint

Japanese telecommunications and Internet Corporation, SoftBank Corp
will be spending $20.1 billion to materialize its plans to help the
biggest wireless market player in the United States, Sprint Nextel
Corporation. In return, a 70 percent stake in the US carrier will be
granted to the Japanese firm.

http://thedroidguy.com/2012/10/softbank-to-aid-sprint-survive-verizon-att-dominance/

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)






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