In its second-quarter earnings call this morning, AT&T highlighted the awesome growth of its wireless business, which surged 14.8 percent to $11 billion and accounted for roughly a third of its $30.9 billion in revenue for the period. The company also said that the 3G iPhone was selling twice as fast as the first one, which given the price cut, isn’t too surprising.

Equally unsurprising was the 10 percent rise in the number of smartphone subscribers over the second quarter of 2007 (AT&T is the sole carrier of the iPhone in the U.S.). And those users are surfing the web, pushing AT&T’s data revenue up 52 percent from the same period a year ago, to $2.5 billion. After adding 1.3 million wireless subscribers during the quarter, AT&T is still the largest cell phone carrier with 72.9 million subscribers.

for the full story visit: http://gigaom.com/2008/07/23/att-wireless-grows-broadband-blows/

We tried for a while to use a VoIP line in our engineering office in Austin & after a few months we had to get rid of it b/c the quality wasn’t there to support a reliable fax service. You & I see eye-to-eye on that one for sure!

I wish I could use my VOIP line to send out faxes, then I would disconnect the landline