Over and out for the MVNO model?
Qwest has this morning announced that it will be shutting down its Wireless service on Oct. 31, 2009. Formerly in bed with Sprint, Qwest started offering the wireless service in collaboration with Verizon just over a year ago. Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless phones and services were offered to Qwest’s residential and business customers. → Read More
Qwest and Verizon made it official: as of now, Qwest will be reselling Verizon Wireless phones and service to its residential and business customers. Qwest announced plans earlier this year to dump Sprint Nextel, saying that it was exploring other partnership options. As part of today’s announcement Qwest said its current wireless customers (who use handsets and service from Sprint) will be “notified directly about all Verizon Wireless plans and handset options,” but are “not required to do anything at this time.” → Read More
For the three of you that get your cell phone service through Qwest, it seems that the sun is slowly setting on its relationship with Sprint. Qwest has found a new beau in Verizon Wireless and starting next February, “Customers will have access to the full line of Verizon phones and devices, PC cards and multimedia services, and even be able to choose a ‘wireless only’ option,” according to mocoNews.net. The existing Sprint/Qwest agreement is of the MVNO variety and handset options are pretty limited, whereas the Verizon deal sounds like it’ll basically be Qwest saying, “Hey, you want wireless with your landline service? Use Verizon and we’ll get a kickback.” You’ll apparently be able to choose to get a separate bill from Verizon or get everything on one bill from Qwest. Qwest offers a similar option for TV service in certain areas that’s pretty much like a referral to DirecTV. Same idea here with Verizon. → Read More
Looking to put a nail in its own coffin, Qwest is now offering 20Mbps DSL service in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area for $119.99 per month ($109.99 per month for the first year) in order to compete with Comcast‘s high speed internet service, which offers speeds of up to 12, 16, or 50Mbps for $42.95, $52.95, or $152.95, respectively. → Read More
Qwest users can now get some decent wireless Internet on the go. Using Sprint’s EV-DO Revision A network, Qwest is offering users over-priced wireless mobile broadband plans. For $69.99, you can get a paltry 500MB of data a month. According to the report, Qwest will offer a 600MB plan and an unlimited plan as well, which makes no sense considering that 500MB and 600MB aren’t that far apart in terms of data transferred. If you’re currently using Qwest for home broadband and telephone service, you’re eligible for a $20 discount on the mobile broadband service. Why you’d even bother with Qwest when Verizon and Sprint both offer cheaper, equal services is beyond me, but hey, to each his own. Qwest Adds Mobile Broadband to Its Offering [Phone Scoop] → Read More
a free conference calling service based in Iowa which essentially follows the same free-calling-because-of-loopholes model used by so many other companies. The service was quite popular and undercut the big guy’s business so… yank. → Read More
