Andrew LaVallee

Has it really been two months since I updated this thing?

They’ve been busy ones, with the economic downturn’s impact on telecoms and advertising, Internet-service lawsuits, why your phone rates may go up, the growing prepaid market and the Google phone.
And I started blogging a bit more — who knew this would get way more comments than this?

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Wed, October 29 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

Obama texts, union talks, cheap global calls

On Obama’s text messaging announcement: the fake ones, what it all means, how it actually went.
My post about the fake SMSs got some pickup: see what the L.A. Times, Times of London and National Journal had to say.
On Qwest’s union talks: the lead-up, the late-night update, the results and DNC’s impact.
Last but not least, some [...]

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Mon, August 25 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

Busy couple of weeks in the telecom sector

Earnings (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Qwest, Vonage), merger chatter, new CEOs and computing in the clouds.

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Sun, August 10 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

The telcos take a page from Geek Squad

A recent experience with his own parents — he gave them a digital photo frame, which his mother unplugged, then called to tell him it was broken — was a reminder that what might seem obvious to someone who understands the latest technology might need to be spelled out to a customer.
Read “Computer Glitch? Consider [...]

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Thu, July 31 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

New beat

I started on the telecom beat last month and have been pitching in on phone-company earnings (AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Alltel) and writing about the struggles of city wi-fi projects (EarthLink, MetroFi), other things wireless and along the way, the sharpening decline of newspaper circulation.

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Sun, May 18 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments

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