Verizon Communications posted a 15 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, mainly on the strength of its growing wireless business, according to MediaPost. The report said that the carrier saw 44 percent growth in data services—including text messaging, email and Internet access—compared with the same period last year, an indication of their increasing popularity.
In addition, Verizon picked up another 1.2 million customers, bringing its total in the U.S. to 72 million; that number doesn’t count the subscribers gained in the Alltel acquisition.
Following RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie’s rather obnoxious comment the other day about how buggy smartphones should be accepted as a “new reality,” Verizon President and Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl said in the article that the controversial BlackBerry Storm smartphone has now sold over 1 million units. Strigl added that the carrier could have sold another 200,000 if it wasn’t for limited inventory.
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