Mrs. Selassie is the senior manager of wireless market development in Warren, N.J., for Lucent Technologies, the telecommunications equipment maker.
"The Treo seems to be in the Goldilocks zone: it's just the right size," said Joe Fabris, director of wireless marketing for PalmOne.
If Rogers can gain even a small slice of wireless market share thanks to hockey, the purchase will pay off in spades.Even if Rogers is unable to extract such leverage from coverage of the NHL, fans still have reason to be concerned about the editorial independence of hockey coverage on Sportsnet.
They throw a lot of things against the wall and see if they stick, says Will Strauss, president of wireless market research firm Forward Concepts.
"One of the drawbacks of the iPhone right now is it can only [run] one application at a time," says Will Strauss, president of wireless market research firm Forward Concepts.
Indeed, the staff notes that the unprecedented increase in market concentration that would result from this merger triggers the Commission's screening tests for possible anti-competitive effects in a large number of local wireless markets.
Neither Sprint nor T-Mobile has the majority of market share today, and combined, they aren't as large as either AT&T or Verizon, who own the wires and have the majority of the wireless markets.
Italy was one of the largest wireless markets in Europe, and, with more than 80 million active mobile phones in 2010, the number of cellular phones in Italy outstripped its population by nearly one-third.
Betty dreams of creating new wireless markets that don't exist: tracking cop cars and fire trucks; reading electricity, parking and gas meters; monitoring inventory and breakdowns in soda- and candy-vending machines.
The merger would create a duopoly, leaving AT&T and Verizon with control of nearly 80percentt of the wireless market.
