PILIPINO Telephone Corp. (Piltel) may see its share of
mobile phone sales, under the Talk ’N Text brand, rise to 65–85 percent from 50 percent currently once the company forges a new
revenue-sharing agreement with Smart Communications Inc., said Piltel chairman and Smart president Napoleon Nazareno.
At present, Smart gets half of Piltel’s revenues from Talk ’N Text for allowing the latter access to its network.
«Offhand, I believe it could range somewhere between 65 and 85 percent in favor of Piltel,» Nazareno said when asked on the possible Talk ’N Text revenue-sharing scheme between Piltel and Smart.
The management fees that Smart and parent Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) collect from Piltel may also be reduced, he said.
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BRISBANE systems integrator Data#3 has joined the growing band of
medium-sized companies opting for
voice over IP phone systems, introducing 350 phones at six locations nationally.
Data#3 managing director John Grant said the company expected a 100 per cent return on investment within a year.
«We will easily save as much as we were spending before, so I think our ROI will be 100 per cent,» he said.
Data#3 first examined a move to VoIP when it was moving its Melbourne office two years ago.
Although the business case made sense at the time, the technology did not.
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PalmOne Canada and Bell Mobility announced the availability of the
award-wining Treo™ 600 smartphone to Bell Mobility customers, marking the first time that any wireless device from palmOne will be deployed over a CDMA 1X network in Canada. The Treo 600 smartphone combines a
world-class phone with messaging, email, and
web-browsing capabilities and a Palm OS
5-based handheld computer in a compact device with a
phone-like look and feel.
«Bell Mobility customers can now experience the simplicity, performance and design that Treo 600 enthusiasts have now come to love and rely on,» said Michael Moskowitz, president and general manager, palmOne Canada. «Given the unwavering acceptance of CDMA-driven technology, this new carrier relationship is a significant complement to palmOne’s wireless presence and penetration in Canada.»
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Telephone companies and California counties have made hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the state’s poorest people through high, unregulated
phone rates for calls from local jails, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The average California county jail inmate’s local call home costs more than seven times as much as a 50-cent pay--phone call. It adds up to more than $120 million a year in phone bills for families and friends of county inmates statewide. The inflated rates make service contracts with jails so lucrative that carriers offer counties signing bonuses, nearly $17 million in the case of Los Angeles County.
For many, the cost of contact with loved ones is a hardship. And while counties are supposed to spend their share of the money on inmate welfare, the law gives sheriffs wide discretion and much of the money goes to salaries.
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