"The agreement also involves Microsoft making investments in Mimvi in the form of engineering services, software, and cash." Therefore, MSFT is investing.
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I would challenge you to think of Verizon and Spring in different classes of investing. By comparing your capital gains to dividend you are trying to compare different types of returns. While in the end, $1 in your pocket will equal $1, different investors with different goals will invest for their own reasons. Generally speaking, the Verizon and Sprint investor will be looking for different things and happy with the separate gains they achieve.
I'm just concerned about how capital intensive it will be for Goog. I know they're planning on rolling it out (very) slowly, but I will withhold judgment (good or bad) until I know.
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Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure how calendar year vs other metric would be applied with regards to the view from a DGI. Personally, I would be "ok" with them increasing in increments with such a big development like W8 on the horizon, but I can see how most wouldn't.
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I appreciate the article; however, I think that your interpretation is off on a few items.
First, Verizon isn't really equating calls to "bits" as you put it. They're saying that the customer will now be charged a flat fee for unlimited voice and text services. After that, you are then able to purchase the "bits" you can use for data service. This makes sense as voice and text is generally carried over the "1X" network and not the more advanced 3G or 4G data networks. I would think (hopefully someone with more experience can back this up) that Verizon spends much less maintaining that network as they do expanding into 4G.
Second, while the figures are changed from the current system, the basic concept remains the same. Currently, Verizon customers can purchase 2GB of data for $30 and 10GB for $80. Here you get a discount for purchasing in bulk.
Third, this structure should allow family plans to be more efficient in data purchasing and use.
Finally, I don't believe that this would start a pricing war. Carriers currently have different pricing structures and there doesn't seem to be much of a pricing war to me.
Again, as a customer and a shareholder of VZ, I appreciate your article. Hope this helps get the thoughts rolling more on the change.
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Thank you very much for this article. It is getting printed and saved so I can make my own personal notes on it and use it to spur my thinking into the future!
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On selection, often alphabetical seems to be almost as random as anything, but one other possibility would be to use a random number generator and have it pick 40 numbers (1-n where n is the number of companies left after you eliminate the ones without enough data). You would have already assigned numbers to companies. I would think that it's not necessary, but an option.
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"The agreement also involves Microsoft making investments in Mimvi in the form of engineering services, software, and cash." Therefore, MSFT is investing.
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First, Verizon isn't really equating calls to "bits" as you put it. They're saying that the customer will now be charged a flat fee for unlimited voice and text services. After that, you are then able to purchase the "bits" you can use for data service. This makes sense as voice and text is generally carried over the "1X" network and not the more advanced 3G or 4G data networks. I would think (hopefully someone with more experience can back this up) that Verizon spends much less maintaining that network as they do expanding into 4G.
Second, while the figures are changed from the current system, the basic concept remains the same. Currently, Verizon customers can purchase 2GB of data for $30 and 10GB for $80. Here you get a discount for purchasing in bulk.
Third, this structure should allow family plans to be more efficient in data purchasing and use.
Finally, I don't believe that this would start a pricing war. Carriers currently have different pricing structures and there doesn't seem to be much of a pricing war to me.
Again, as a customer and a shareholder of VZ, I appreciate your article. Hope this helps get the thoughts rolling more on the change.
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