Telecommunication Service News

9:03 AM EST
2/10/2012 Dead lizard disrupts phone service in western NepalA dead lizard has disrupted more than 1,000 telephone lines in Nepal's western district for a week, reports Nepal’s national news agency, RSS.

Source:AHN Topics:Human Interest, Animal, Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service

9:55 AM EST
12/30/2011 Verizon Wireless announces $2 fee on some monthly bill paymentsVerizon Wireless has announced plans to charge many customers a $2 convenience fee every time they pay their monthly bill.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Company Information, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Macro Economics, Consumer Issue

2:21 PM EST
12/20/2011 AT&T yields to government opposition; drops plans to buy T-MobileAT&T announced it was dropping plans to purchase wireless carrier T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion because of objections from U.S. regulators.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Company Information, Merger, Acquisition And Takeover, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Politics, Regulatory Policy And Organization

12:37 PM EDT
10/17/2011 RIM appeases BlackBerry users with free apps after outageResearch in Motion started offering BlackBerry users free apps on Monday in a bid to appease and retain customers affected by a three-day service outage last week.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Company Information

2:03 PM EDT
10/13/2011 BlackBerry outage over, RIM exec apologizesResearch in Motion (RIM) has fully restored its BlackBerry services on Thursday ending three days of agonizing downtime for many of its 70 million customers worldwide.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Science And Technology, IT/computer Sciences, Lifestyle And Leisure, Consumer Issue

8:19 AM EDT
10/13/2011 Blackberry service disruption spreads to five continentsThe disruption of BlackBerry’s services has spread to five continents on its third day.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Science And Technology, IT/computer Sciences

2:54 PM EDT
10/10/2011 RIM server crash affects millions of BlackBerry customersTwitter was flooded with tweets on Monday complaining that BlackBerry’s email and Internet are not working. Reports say millions of users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were affected.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Lifestyle And Leisure, Consumer Issue, Science And Technology, Technology

2:05 PM EDT
9/22/2011 Prepaid365 Launches Prepaid Card Provider Business Listings & Prepaid Supplier Directory
Press ReleasePrepaid365, one of the UK’s leading prepaid card comparison sites and the organiser of the annual Prepaid365 prepaid awards, recently launched enhanced business listings channel for prepaid card providers and brand new prepaid supplier directory.

Source:AHN PR Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Company Information, New Service, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service

1:12 PM EDT
9/9/2011 Twitter boasts 100 million active usersTwitter announced it has reached 100 million active users on Thursday.

Source:AHN Topics:Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Science And Technology, IT/computer Sciences, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Internet

7:00 AM EDT
9/7/2011 Sprint files lawsuit to block AT&T, T-Mobile mergerAmerican telecom firm Sprint filed on Tuesday a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington in a bid to prevent the merger of giants AT&T and T-Mobile. It was the second lawsuit filed against the buy-in aimed at making the planned merged company the largest telecom firm in the U.S.

Source:AHN Topics:Crime, Law And Justice, Trials, Litigation, Economy, Business And Finance, Computing And Information Technology, Telecommunication Service, Company Information, Antitrust Issue