Please contact the Web editor, Stuart Richens with any comments or suggestions. This article first appeared in the March 26 edition of Wireless Insider By Ruth Suarez Zane User habits may be changing faster than incumbent carriers thought possible. Competitive local exchange providers have been struggling with incumbents to coordinate billing systems and all kinds of service tariffs.
Wireless services bypass all that and zoom in directly to the customer.
CLECs increasingly are teaming with wireless carriers to bundle customer offerings, and wireless carriers themselves consider their heaviest competition to be incumbents rather than national wireless carriers. At least that's the case for smaller wireless carriers. He estimates 15 percent of his friends work only off of wireless phones. Driving this is the larger bucket of minutes, better price per minute, allowing users to make wireless phones their primary phones. According to Boston-based Yankee Group , an industry research firm, landline minutes of phone calls still triumph over wireless with two billion vs. 401 million for wireless.