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TelecomAssociation's "Supporting Agents and Vendors Since 1995" TelecomAgentNews.com In This Issue: Interview of the Week - Are "Telecom Agents" Good "Channel Partners"? Vendor Email Blast Headlines - One more look at this week's deals & opportunities Industry News Headlines & Comments - What we think you ought to know Association News - Upgraded name, web site & newsletter Vendor Directory - Quick access to all TA vendors' contact information & email blasts TelecomAgent News Home - The main password protected web site for TA members wanting to access information about telecom agents and telecom vendors and others who want to learn more about what we do and how we do it
The following TA vendors sent "Vendor Email Blasts" ("VEB") to subscribing TA members. Click on the email blast headline to see the content of the VEB. To see all recent VEBs from any particular TA vendor please visit the vendor directory. To get information about how to become a TA vendor please visit www.TAvendor.com.
Court date set for Google lawsuit Court date set for Google lawsuit Google's attempt to fend off the government's request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 27. CNET 1/27/5 Marketing Politicians call for better phone record privacy In response to disclosures about phone records being sold on the Internet, politicians want federal regulators to verify that the biggest service providers are adequately protecting their customers' information. CNET 1/27/5 Legal Combined Wi-Fi, Cell Services? Not Yet Widespread use of the combined voice services won't happen this year, experts say. The components necessary for combined voice-over-Wi-Fi and cellular services are all just now becoming available, but it will likely take another year or two before either consumer or enterprise customers start widely using such services. 1/27/6 PC World Wi-Fi, Cellular Grading Google Can Google ever go wrong? With a stock price hovering around $435, Google ranks as one of the world's most valuable companies, and competitors quake at its name. But even after its most recent tumble, Google is trading at a very optimistic 96 times earnings--earnings based primarily from one revenue stream. In order to keep shareholders happy, Google will need to figure out how to add new lines to complement its dominant search business. So how's it doing? 1/27/6 Forbes Marketing Will cell phone sex play in Peoria? It may never be quite that easy. But cell phone pornography is a fast-growing business that analysts expect will generate about $2 billion in global revenue by 2009. 1/27/6 Reuters Marketing, Cellular Verizon, AT&T see strong subscriber growth Verizon Communications and AT&T reported strong growth in wireless and broadband subscribers for the fourth quarter. 1/27/6 CNET NTP set to push on with RIM battle Patent holding company NTP will trudge on with a legal battle against Research In Motion, but is open to the BlackBerry maker coming up with a deal to settle a patent dispute that risks shutting down the popular portable e-mail service in the United States. 1/27/6 Reuters T-Mobile customers get temporary protection At least two companies accused of selling the billing records of T-Mobile cell phone customers over the Internet have been ordered by a court in Washington state to stop their practices. 1/27/5 CNET Cellular BellSouth profit up on wireless growth BellSouth, the No. 3 U.S. regional telephone company, on Wednesday reported a 34 percent rise in quarterly profit as growth at its Cingular Wireless joint venture helped offset declines in its wireline business. 1/27/6 Reuters Cellular
Association News - Upgraded name, web site & newsletter For those of you who have been following our publication efforts since 1995 you know that we adapt and change as our members' information needs adapt and change. In 1995 we started out as "One Plus Agent Association" or OPAA. In 1999 we became "TelecomAgent Association" or TAA. Today we are changing to just "Telecom Association" or "TA". We're making this change not because we're getting out of the agent business - we're supporting agent information needs now more than ever. We've become just "TA" because our members are more than just agents. Over the past three years our membership has tripled and includes agents, vendors, end-users and a whole bunch of other people who registered for membership so they could read one of our publications. As just TA we can now serve the information needs of all our members wherever those needs may take us. Our promise to our members though remains the same. We'll publish the best information we can find or produce and all you'll need to do to access 99% of the information is just register for a TA complimentary membership. New Telecom Agent Website & Newsletter All the information telecom agents and vendors have been getting from us is all still available. The main website for our telecom agent and vendor members will be www.TelecomAgentNews.com. TelecomAgent News will be the one place you can go and find what you're looking for. We've recreated our username/password database so you'll need to reregister to access any of the password protected content. Please be patient with us as we shake out the bugs. Our main weekly email newsletter, this one you're reading now, is now titled "TelecomAgent News Week in Review" or "WIR" will still come out every Friday. It will highlight a weeks worth of the best stuff we can find. Anyone who joins TA and subscribes to TelecomAgent News will still automatically be subscribed to all our "Vendor Email Blasts" or "VEBs". As always you can unsubscribe from any or all VEBs by clicking on the "preferences" link found on the bottom of any TA email newsletter you receive. (Click on the preferences link on the bottom of this email newsletter to see what you're subscribed to now.) Still Two Member Databases We've still not achieved the economic ability to combine our two databases - the website username/password database and our "Bronto" email newsletter database - so you'll still have to deal with them both. Just remember that when you're trying to access password protected content and you're promoted for a username & password you're interfacing with the website database. When you're clicking on an email newsletter preferences link to edit which email newsletters you do or don't want you're interfacing with the "Bronto" email newsletter database. Most all TA members first create a TA website database record for themselves when they first hear about TA or TelecomAgent News and try to access one of our password protected content pieces. Once people register in the TA website database we create an appropriate email newsletter database record for them and subscribe them to a default set of email newsletters they can access and edit at any time by clicking on the preference link of any email newsletter they receive from us. Still Supported By Vendor memberships And since we still can't figure out how to charge regular members enough money to want to keep creating our agent focused publications we still rely on paid vendor memberships. Since their money floats this boat please continue to consider their products and services when you're looking for a vendor to represent to your customers and clients. If you're a telecom provider that would like to become a TA vendor so our TA members can learn about your products and services please visit www.TAvendor.com or contact TA publisher Dan Baldwin at 951-251-5155 or Dan@TelecomAssociation.com.
Vendor Directory - Quick access to all TA vendors' contact information & email blasts
TelecomAgent News Home - The main password protected web site for TA members wanting to access information about telecom agents and telecom vendors and others who want to learn more about what we do and how we do it
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