All the stories tagged with carriers
Verizon Considering Dropping Contracts Following T-Mobile’s UnCarrier Plans
04/04/2013, T-Mobile announced its new pricing plans a few weeks ago, and not only have mobile subscribers in the U.S. taken notice of their contract-less plans, but also competing carriers are also keeping an eye on the fourth-largest wireless carrier in [...]
T-Mobile May Become A Contract-less Network This Month
03/01/2013, T-Mobile may have received a lashing from AT&T in regards to their network, but the company may be one upping them as they’re expected to announce their contract-less system some time this month. According to TMoNews, T-Mobile could be planning [...]
SIM based NFC gains support from major carriers around the world
11/17/2011, Countries like Japan have long been using NFC to help them in their daily lives, and not too long ago carriers in South Korea have announced that they will be offering SIM cards with NFC technology embedded into them. Now [...]
China Telecom eyes US wireless business
11/10/2011, China Telecom is China’s largest carrier, boasting over 600 million subscribers and it looks like they have their eye on the US wireless business now. The company recently mentioned in an interview that they intend to offer Chinese Americans and [...]
MetroPCS said to be frontrunner in buying AT&T’s assets
10/21/2011, One of the reasons why the AT&T and T-Mobile deal has not gone through, despite it being announced months ago, is that not just their competitors, but antitrust regulators who feel that through AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, competition will essentially [...]
Apple’s iMessage said to undermine carrier’s profits
10/11/2011, One of the defining features of Blackberry devices was their Blackberry Messenger (BBM) system, which allowed Blackberry users to communicate with other Blackberry users for free over WiFi or mobile internet. Now it looks like Apple has decided to take [...]
Carriers reportedly testing iPhone 5?
08/03/2011, We’ll agree that lately our posts seem to contain quite a bit of iPhone 5 rumors, and to be fair given the number of rather interesting rumors/news regarding Apple’s next-generation iPhone we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve reported on iPhone [...]
Sprint’s Fared Adib looking to remove as much carrier bloatware as possible from future Sprint devices
07/20/2011, It’s hard to find a smartphone user who is not annoyed by the bloatware that carriers tend to install on their devices. Most of the time these carrier apps aren’t used and in general just tends to unnecessarily consume resources [...]
AT&T and Verizon forced to share network with rivals for data
04/07/2011, AT&T and Verizon, the two largest carriers in America, have just been instructed by the FCC to share their networks with smaller carriers for the transfer of data. Right now the carriers have already been making deals with their rivals [...]
Consumer Reports Slams U.S. Carrier AT&T
12/06/2010, U.S. carrier AT&T may be home to some of the most unhappy subscribers in the industry. As rated by Consumer Reports, AT&T has scored the worse possible scores in 8 of 9 possible categories, with slightly better than worse on [...]
AT&T to force new Smartphone customers to get a data plan?
08/21/2009, According to a leaked AT&T memo, the company is preparing to force all new smartphone contract to feature a data plan, which usually almost doubles the monthly price. Here’s how AT&T is presenting it internally: Why we are making this [...]
Samsung R450 with Ink theme, limited edition
08/03/2009, Samsung is going to produce a limited edition of the R450 cellphone with illustrations from tattoo artist Mark Machado (Mister Cartoon). That includes an illustration on the back, but also wallpapers and things like that. Anyhow, only MetroPCS will sell [...]
Who’s Making Money in Mobile? (Panel)
07/29/2009, By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) – At the Always On Summit at Stanford, an impressive panel is underway, discussing mobile monetization, the role of the operator, platform, apps, etc. Being in the Silicon Valley, the iPhone conversation dominates. Purnima Kochikar starts [...]
