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Verizon Wireless is partnering with Color to highlight the power of its 4G network. The carrier will offer its customers the chance to use an enhanced version of Color, which will enable live video streaming with audio and double the existing frame rate. Read More »

Several companies and nonprofit organizations filed their opposition to Verizon’s planned $4 billion buy of spectrum owned by the cable companies on Wednesday. But this isn’t an industry fight. This is a fight that should involve everyone from consumers to Internet companies. Read More »

 
 

Verizon Wireless couldn’t have asked for a better outcome to the AT&T-Mo saga. Not only did its archival take a beating but Verizon managed to lock down its spectrum position while AT&T was distracted. But most importantly to Verizon, AT&T backed off before it went over … Read More »

Qualcomm and Verizon are both proposing to trick out healthcare with some wireless connectivity. Qualcomm launched its new 2net cloud and mobile biometric information monitoring and sharing platform, while Verizon is developing mobile video communications technologies that could enable the virtual house call. Read More »

Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest mobile operator and Android device seller, does not install Carrier IQ’s keystroke-sniffing software in any of its phones and doesn’t use the now-controversial company’s data in way, company officials said. Now we wait for the other operators to sound off. Read More »

Verizon dodged a bullet on Tuesday when the FCC denounced AT&T-Mo. No conditional approval means no new regulations to haunt Verizon’s own consolidation plans in the future. Now Verizon needs its archival AT&T to throw in the towel before it can do any more damage. Read More »

Verizon Wireless has rebuilt its VCast App Store with a new interface and better search capabilities thanks to a partnership with app discovery start-up Chomp. It’s part of a larger effort to ensure that Verizon’s store is a well thought out place to safely buy apps. Read More »

American Express’ Serve digital wallet is on a roll lining up carrier partners. Verizon announced Monday that it will support Serve payments on many Verizon smartphones and tablets in the coming months, allowing people to pay for online and offline goods by entering their phone number. Read More »

Verizon Wireless is tapping Payfone, an emerging mobile payment platform, to offer its customers a way to pay for online items via their cell phone bill. The deal illustrates the kind of scale Payfone is putting together with its new payment service. Read More »

Guess Who’s in Love Again?

Through a series of coincidences I ended up using the iPhone as my primary phone after a two-year gap. Thanks to Verizon’s wireless network, there were no dropped calls and the Internet worked fine. It’s time to switch back. Read More »

Verizon added 872,000 wireless contract customers, and 75 percent bought smartphones and the lucrative plans they use. Data ARPU is up nearly 20 percent, and only one-quarter of Verizon customers have smartphones. That fact, combined with a fast 4G network is priming the pump for Verizon. Read More »

Despite the words of Dan Mead, CEO of Verizon Wireless, there’s bound to be some concerns about Verizon handling the added traffic from iPhone users. One nice way to dispel that could have been if Verizon pushed to have FaceTime run on its 3G network. Read More »

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Although LTE networks are appearing around the world, the U.S. will push LTE faster than most others, says HTC CEO Peter Chou. His company plans to bring LTE phones to the U.S. soon because of the perfect storm brewing with smartphones and fast wireless networks. Read More »

Without an iPhone, Verizon has made a good showing in smartphone sales by embracing a wide variety of Google Android smartphones. On the surface, that appears to have paid off, but a closer look at the numbers show that AT&T’s iPhone is outselling them all. Read More »

Google is shipping a surprise with its upcoming Chrome OS notebooks: free cellular data. Google is teaming with Verizon to offer 100 MB of free data every month for two years on the upcoming devices. This should appeal to consumers interested in checking out Chrome OS. Read More »

Now that Verizon Wireless’ 4G data network has a launch date of Dec. 5 and pricing attached, let’s take a look at how it stacks up to the competition. Verizon Wireless joins Sprint and T-Mobile, who are also touting high-performance 4G networks. Read More »

Verizon’s long-awaited LTE network goes live on Sunday, promising 4G speeds at 3G prices. We got a chance to test the network with an LTE USB dongle, and the mobile broadband network feels like a fast, wired network at home in every use case. Read More »

AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile said they are banding together to create a new mobile commerce network called Isis that utilizes near field communications. The new venture raises questions about how well Isis will compete, and whether it will help kick-start the NFC payments market. Read More »

Two noted analysts are predicting good times for Qualcomm, and not just because the chipmaker provides the processing and connectivity for many of the top-rated Android handsets. Qualcomm is ready to add sales of 10 million more chips per quarter by powering the CDMA Apple iPhone. Read More »

Had someone asked me just six months ago about what data plan to buy, my answer would have been very different than it is today. Here’s what you need to know about new and improved networks coming, more prepaid options and tethering plans, before you buy. Read More »

Verizon Wireless will begin selling Samsung’s Galaxy S tablet for $600 next month. Many are bemoaning the no-contract price for this Android 2.2 slate, but it does offer features that Apple’s iPad doesn’t yet. There’s a market for 7-inch tablets, no matter what Steve Jobs says. Read More »

Just in time to compete with Verizon’s LTE rollout, Clearwire has announced WiMAX in three major cities before end of 2010. New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, areas where smartphones are stressing 3G data networks, will all gain access to the operators 4G network. Read More »

T-Mobile is making changes to help redefine itself amidst tough competition above from three larger carriers in the U.S. and below from national prepaid providers and smaller regional carriers. It’s not the Saks of cellular, but not a Sears either. So who, then, is T-Mobile? Read More »

Verizon is today enhancing online management functions to give customers a single portal for checking email, managing account information and remotely programming a FiOS DVR from a web-connected computer or mobile phone. The portal brings advanced account functionality to feature phones that don’t support mobile applications. Read More »

Amazon’s rumored Android Store could add confusion and more work to the lives of developers. But in talking to some developers, they see a lot of potential in the store and improved prospects for apps, which says a lot about the state of Android Market. Read More »

Verizon Wireless is forging ahead with plans to change how it prices mobile broadband data, but isn’t yet sharing the details. Unless there are any surprises, however, there are only a few options or combinations of such options that the carrier will likely offer for LTE. Read More »

Mobile carriers have seen their role as content distributors diminish as app stores from Apple, Google and others gain traction. But the emergence of cloud-based content sales could help carriers like Verizon Wireless and others regain their importance in the world of mobile content distribution. Read More »

We’re in middle of a smartphone boom. Dozens of new devices are coming to the market, and that means customers need help buying these complex handsets. This is why where and how you buy a device is now as important as hardware and software. Read More »

Microsoft released the Bing for Mobile Android Application today, but the software is exclusive to Verizon Wireless handsets. This follows Skype Mobile as another third-party app that’s limited to a carrier, not a platform, which is a disturbing trend and could bring consumer backlash. Read More »

In a bid to grab new customers, Sprint’s Virgin Mobile USA is now offering prepaid unlimited mobile broadband service for $40 per month with no contract. That compares to Verizon’s new prepaid plan at twice the price with a 5 GB limit over 30 days. Read More »

Rumors surfaced last week that T-Mobile USA — not Verizon Wireless — will soon offer the iPhone as AT&T loses its exclusivity. The move makes sense on a number of levels, and it would disrupt the mobile industry in a big way. Read More »

The second quarter of 2010 was an especially eventful one for the fast-moving mobile space, and amid the rise of LTE and WiMAX, speculation about Palm, and the end of unlimited data plans, the biggest story to emerge was the ever-escalating battle between Apple and Google. Read More »

Thanks to several Droid handsets, Verizon is doing just fine without the coveted iPhone. Droid devices are sold out and those in use are helping to drive wireless data revenues up for the largest U.S. carrier, which added 665,000 net postpaid subscribers in the past quarter. Read More »

Microsoft was forced last week pulled the plug on the Kin, a two-phone lineup that debuted not long ago on Verizon Wireless. The flop is just the latest knot in a string of evidence suggesting that, when it comes to selling handsets, carriers still hold the … Read More »

Verizon Wireless today introduces the Droid X, a successor to the popular Droid launched last October. Both Verizon and Motorola need a new Droid, but for different reasons. Verizon has no stock of high-end, new Android handsets and Motorola handset sales are slipping behind its competitors. Read More »

Verizon Wireless is the child of a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone, but one parent wants to change the custody arrangement. The Financial Times says Vodafone, which owns a 45 percent stake in the venture, is pressuring Verizon Communications to pay up. Read More »

AT&T this morning confirmed it will carry Palm’s webOS devices, in addition to Dell’s Android-based Aero. Still, the network operator’s strategy is all about the iPhone. Here’s a quick breakdown of tier-one carriers’ current strategies. Read More »

Deep discounts are helping to push smartphones beyond early adopters and hardcore business users and into the hands of mainstream U.S. consumers, but they’re also stalling revenue growth, and demand for the sophisticated handsets may suffer once network operators do away with all-you-can-eat data plans. Read More »

HTC has begun shipping its Android handset to Verizon Wireless in advance of a launch in the next few weeks. If Google is going to move the needle with its flagship phone, though, it has to start backing the phone with a big marketing budget. Read More »

Verizon Wireless said it will launch its first LTE handsets by the middle of 2011. But the super-fast handsets are likely to come with usage pricing models that will see high-end users pay substantially more for 4G service than they’re currently paying for 3G. Read More »

T-Mobile USA bumped Yahoo in favor of Google as the default search engine on some handsets, and AT&T tapped Yahoo over Google to power search on its first Android handset. The moves underscore the importance that carriers continue to play in mobile search. Read More »

Mobile data consumption continues to surge, as Chetan Sharma notes in his latest update of the U.S. mobile industry, but data revenues aren’t keeping pace. That explains why AT&T and Verizon — which dominate mobile the mobile data market — are moving toward metered billing. Read More »

The prepaid market continued to expand in the fourth quarter of 2009 thanks to a price war that seems to get more brutal by the week. Meanwhile, AT&T and Verizon Wireless built on their dominance with postpaid subscribers. Read More »

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein yesterday told employees that nearly 200 “brand ambassadors” are training Verizon Wireless staffers in an effort to boost sales. But Palm needs a new phone and a big-budget advertising campaign — not trainers — if it’s to get back in the game. Read More »

Shares of Palm tanked after the company said carrier orders for its webOS gadgets have been weaker than expected. Customers don’t want its phones, and no one seems interested in buying its business. So what can be left for Palm? Read More »

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