“Customer service call center staffing companies Teleperformance and Ryla are looking for thousands of customer service representatives to field calls for a ‘major wireless cell phone service retailer,’ according to a report by CNET,” Ong reports. “Posts to the Careerbuilder website as well as the companies’ own websites reveal that the positions will be dedicated to ‘either a wireless, cell phone, or communications company,’ with additional positions offering technical support for ‘personal computers and portable devices like MP3 players and smartphones.'”
“One Teleperformance call center in Augusta, Georgia, will double its employees through the hiring campaign,” Ong reports. “‘It is for a major wireless company that we have secured a new line of business, one of our existing clients,’ Marcie Ballard, vice president of recruiting for Teleperformance, told the Augusta Chronicle, although she declined to say which provider. Both companies have prior experience supporting Verizon. Teleperformance also works with Apple.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
We just had Verizon Fios insalled and the customer service rep said that they would be selling the iphone in January.
Could it be massive layoffs? Jobs being outsourced to cheaper subcontractors.
Could it be massive layoffs? Jobs being outsourced to cheaper subcontractors.
There is a Verizon Wireless store a block away from my apartment building. Every few months, I go in there and ask for an iPhone. For the past three years, their sales people kept telling me “this spring”, or “this summer”, or “this fall”. Not once did they say “I’m sorry, we don’t carry, and don’t plan to carry”. Even three years ago, not even six months after the first iPhone came out, a Verizon Wireless salesman told me “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but Verizon is getting an iPhone in April 2008”!!!
This article is another one of those to be filed under wishful thinking. It’s like the story about big snakes on Venus. Centuries ago, astronomers could see what looked like clouds surrounding the planet Venus. They deduced that it constantly rains on surface, so they concluded that Venus must be covered with rainforest, and therefore have a lot of snakes.
Same with Verizon iPhone. Some call centre in Georgia, USA is hiring people, so therefore, Verizon is getting an iPhone…
There is a Verizon Wireless store a block away from my apartment building. Every few months, I go in there and ask for an iPhone. For the past three years, their sales people kept telling me “this spring”, or “this summer”, or “this fall”. Not once did they say “I’m sorry, we don’t carry, and don’t plan to carry”. Even three years ago, not even six months after the first iPhone came out, a Verizon Wireless salesman told me “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but Verizon is getting an iPhone in April 2008”!!!
This article is another one of those to be filed under wishful thinking. It’s like the story about big snakes on Venus. Centuries ago, astronomers could see what looked like clouds surrounding the planet Venus. They deduced that it constantly rains on surface, so they concluded that Venus must be covered with rainforest, and therefore have a lot of snakes.
Same with Verizon iPhone. Some call centre in Georgia, USA is hiring people, so therefore, Verizon is getting an iPhone…
@ predrag
this time it feels different, when steve said theres a verizon antenna on campus he said it all.
@ predrag
this time it feels different, when steve said theres a verizon antenna on campus he said it all.
ummmmm the iphone was released in 2007, so how could it have been waiting for Verizon since 2006?
ummmmm the iphone was released in 2007, so how could it have been waiting for Verizon since 2006?
…”so how could it have been waiting for Verizon since 2006?”
You are just about to get that joke.
When the iPhone was announced in early 2007, that’s when I started hearing from Verizon people that they are just about to get it, too.
At this point, Verizon has been crying ‘wolf!’ for over three years now. Other than MDN and few others desperate for a Verizon iPhone, nobody really believes in these stories, even if they come from WSJ or NYT.
…”so how could it have been waiting for Verizon since 2006?”
You are just about to get that joke.
When the iPhone was announced in early 2007, that’s when I started hearing from Verizon people that they are just about to get it, too.
At this point, Verizon has been crying ‘wolf!’ for over three years now. Other than MDN and few others desperate for a Verizon iPhone, nobody really believes in these stories, even if they come from WSJ or NYT.
Verizon getting the iPhone is a big deal a lot of former AT&T customers and haters have been waiting for.
You see, a lot of people have ran up considerable bills with AT&T/ Cingular Wireless that they can’t afford to pay right now.
A Verizon iPhone will give these people (hundreds of thousands, if not millions) new opportunity.
Sure AT&T has ruined their credit and Verizon would likely demand a hefty security deposit, but these deadbeats won’t have to pay AT&T back just yet, while they do business in what appears to be a legitimate fashion with a iPhone.
So beware fellow consumers!
Verizon getting the iPhone is a big deal a lot of former AT&T customers and haters have been waiting for.
You see, a lot of people have ran up considerable bills with AT&T/ Cingular Wireless that they can’t afford to pay right now.
A Verizon iPhone will give these people (hundreds of thousands, if not millions) new opportunity.
Sure AT&T has ruined their credit and Verizon would likely demand a hefty security deposit, but these deadbeats won’t have to pay AT&T back just yet, while they do business in what appears to be a legitimate fashion with a iPhone.
So beware fellow consumers!
Steve also said the iPod touch is an iPhone without a contract, many believed he said it all then.
Apple has had the major carriers’ towers on their campus for years before the iPhone. They do provide service for their employees, using an iPhone is not requirement at apple, they do allow freedom and choice.
Steve also said the iPod touch is an iPhone without a contract, many believed he said it all then.
Apple has had the major carriers’ towers on their campus for years before the iPhone. They do provide service for their employees, using an iPhone is not requirement at apple, they do allow freedom and choice.
On the radio, Kim Krapmando was blatantly touting the Android platform(s) while saying that Apple is in trouble due to the aforementioned phones’ popularity. She also brought up the so-called parallel between iPhone and Macs vs Windows and PCs with the comment, “Sound familiar?” Before launching into her verbal crap-fest, she prefaced the entire speel, and destroyed her own arguments, by stating, “Let’s forget the rumor that iPhone will be available on Verizon’s network very soon…”
They’ll give any hack a radio job these days, won’t they?
On the radio, Kim Krapmando was blatantly touting the Android platform(s) while saying that Apple is in trouble due to the aforementioned phones’ popularity. She also brought up the so-called parallel between iPhone and Macs vs Windows and PCs with the comment, “Sound familiar?” Before launching into her verbal crap-fest, she prefaced the entire speel, and destroyed her own arguments, by stating, “Let’s forget the rumor that iPhone will be available on Verizon’s network very soon…”
They’ll give any hack a radio job these days, won’t they?
And the Android sales freeze gets deeper.
And the Android sales freeze gets deeper.
Android? What does this have to do with Star Trek?
Android? What does this have to do with Star Trek?
Every carrier on the planet will carry Apple’s mobile devices.
Every one of them, because it’s just good business. For the carrier, the reason is simple; people want what Apple’s selling.
A lengthy contract with a single carrier was the only option available for a computer company who, in their their thirty-year existence, had never made a phone before, and not even his Steveness’s RDF could penetrate that hegemony and Apple would be kept on a short leash.
Now that Apple has proven that, not only can they build a phone, but that they are better at it than the phone manufacturers themselves!
It’s just like Apple, to not only build a better phone, but to build a better phone experience and that, my friends, is how I knew from day-one Verizon would be getting the iPhone.
This isn’t rocket science, Fourth grade petty jealousies, or revenge, its just business economics. For Apple to deny Verizon, Sprint, or China, the iPhone, just because of a carrier language barrier, is to admit they’ll never be ready for Prime time.
But hey, who am I to preach to you guys? I have heard many compelling arguments for, and against the iPhone operating on a CDMA network, but the fact is, no one can deny Apple’s iPhone offers the best phone experience since the invention of the telephone and what carrier would sidestep that whole phenomenon?
Every carrier on the planet will carry Apple’s mobile devices.
Every one of them, because it’s just good business. For the carrier, the reason is simple; people want what Apple’s selling.
A lengthy contract with a single carrier was the only option available for a computer company who, in their their thirty-year existence, had never made a phone before, and not even his Steveness’s RDF could penetrate that hegemony and Apple would be kept on a short leash.
Now that Apple has proven that, not only can they build a phone, but that they are better at it than the phone manufacturers themselves!
It’s just like Apple, to not only build a better phone, but to build a better phone experience and that, my friends, is how I knew from day-one Verizon would be getting the iPhone.
This isn’t rocket science, Fourth grade petty jealousies, or revenge, its just business economics. For Apple to deny Verizon, Sprint, or China, the iPhone, just because of a carrier language barrier, is to admit they’ll never be ready for Prime time.
But hey, who am I to preach to you guys? I have heard many compelling arguments for, and against the iPhone operating on a CDMA network, but the fact is, no one can deny Apple’s iPhone offers the best phone experience since the invention of the telephone and what carrier would sidestep that whole phenomenon?
yet more BS from Verizon to stave off further losses due to the iPhone. They will not be getting it in January or any time soon. Yet more vapor releases designed to stop the Verizon/Vodaphone bleeding.
If you want an iPhone, get it now. You will not be sorry. You can wait and wait and wait and wait or you can just get one now. Its time to give in to temptation. Its time for iPhone.
yet more BS from Verizon to stave off further losses due to the iPhone. They will not be getting it in January or any time soon. Yet more vapor releases designed to stop the Verizon/Vodaphone bleeding.
If you want an iPhone, get it now. You will not be sorry. You can wait and wait and wait and wait or you can just get one now. Its time to give in to temptation. Its time for iPhone.