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Verizon Wireless is Soon Introducing One Talk Call Forwarding Service to Wireless Phones for Prepaid Local Phone Service Subscribers

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In the wake of an effort to seek new ways towards innovation and new growth, Verizon Wireless has shifted its focus to advertising about its new One Talk Plan. The company has decided to put its own brand name to this service with an objective of cementing it in the marketplace with its own name. Most of the industry experts and insiders are recognizing this decision of Verizon Wireless as directed toward prepaid local phone service subscribers.

What is One Talk?

Let’s get familiar with One Talk before digging deep into this latest news and a lot more things relevant to it.

One Talk will be a virtue for all of the businessmen struggling to communicate with their business partners, investors and customers at crucial times. Using One Talk service from Verizon Wireless will let businessmen and other prepaid local phone service subscribers receive important phone calls on their office phone, wireless phone or even on their residential phone service.

The introduction of this new technical innovation in the digital arsenal of Verizon is particularly directed towards ensuring that the users don’t miss their important calls.

Who will be Benefitted with Verizon’s One Talk Service?

Plenty of businessmen, employees and self-employed people tele-commute for work purposes. It helps them attend every important business or family phone call. All of the businesses and self-employed people like artists, plumbers etc., will be able to satisfy their customers immediately using their prepaid local phone service provided to them.

In one way or another, customers will also benefit from One Talk as they will not have to wait for ages for you to get back home/office for a return call. In one way or another, One Talk will be a great help for all of the professionals out there paying for flights to visit customers or prospects for adding to sales and income of their business or the company they work for.

Most importantly, this service will prove to be a kind of lifeline for home phone service for customers of Verizon wireless.

The Cost of Verizon One Talk Lifeline for Home Phone Service:

Verizon’s prepaid local phone service subscribers will love this easily affordable service. It is expected that subscribers will need not pay more than $25 on monthly basis. This service will cost only for call forwarding. One Talk will be compatible with the residential phone service of all of the companies like Verizon Communication, AT&T, Centurylink and any other company providing call forwarding service.

All in all, Verizon’s One Talk service will allow prepaid local phone service subscribers to get their important phone calls because it will ring at your office, mobile or residential phone service at the same time.

The Challenge for Verizon Wireless:

It will not be easy for Verizon Wireless to provide value to all of its dedicated customers and prospects through this lifeline for home phone service business. The main credit should be given to multiple solutions already present in the market. Moreover, some of the technical problems mentioned below are equally responsible:

  • It is a kind of VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Service instead of a traditional wire-line residential home phone
  • It needs a perfect internet connection in place.
  • This service will not work without a battery backup in place if the electricity breaks down.
  • Verizon is transforming itself from a traditional local phone service provider to an IP service provider. As a result, customers will have to get a new desk phone handset for Voice over Internet Protocol calls.

It will be very interesting to see how the company seeks new growth in the market with this technical lifeline for home phone service business in the form of innovation.

Verizon May Beat AT&T in Bidding for Yahoo

Verizon to overtake Yahoo

According to financial analysts at Barclays, AT&T does not seem to be serious about bidding for Yahoo, leaving Verizon to be the front runner buyer of the company.

A research note written by Barclays analysts says “We are hard pressed to see AT&T enter the Yahoo frenzy.” “Recent reports from Bloomberg suggest that AT&T might be interested in Yahoo’s Internet business. While it is premature to assume that AT&T is not interested, we find it hard to envision the carrier earnestly would move forward with a bid given it has its hands full integrating DTV, is participating in the broadcast spectrum auction and seems focused on asset optimization vs. augmentation.”

AT&T’s decision to buy Yahoo would depend on many aspects, such as the content included in the deal, the scalability of the deal in terms of subscribers, the additives available through transaction and the bidding amount.

Last month, AT&T emerged to be in direct competition with Verizon by submitting a bid for Yahoo. The internet company received nearly 10 offers ranging from $4 billion to $8 billion from the interested companies. AT&T was initially disinterested but later entered into the list of bidders by submitting a bid for the company’s core internet business. Other bidders include entities supported by Warren Buffett and Bain Capital.

AT&T is currently working to incorporate its $49 billion purchase of DirecTV. The company has committed to offer a refreshed DirecTV service with availability across AT&T’s networks as well as the networks of its competitors in the later part of this year.

The company seems interested in Yahoo’s advertising business, as it may help in AT&T’s strategy to increase its advertising technologies and offerings. The results of the cross-screen advertising trials for AdWorks business conducted with Opera Mediaworks, was announced by the company last month. Among the companies that participated in the trials, Walmart was also one and reported “a statistically significant lift in both brand and message favorability.” The trials pooled the advertising reach of AT&T’s 13 million TV households with 285 million mobile phones running the advertising technology of Opera.

As per Barclays analysts, the bidding for Yahoo is one of the rare major potential transactions in the telecom sector. “The combination of a presidential election year and the current broadcast spectrum auction process has diminished the prospect for larger scale M&A activity across the U.S. telecom sector, in our view,” commented analysts.