It looks as if 2014 was the year that 4G found its stride in the U.K. Everything Everywhere, the first carrier to…
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Sprint will finance Spark rollout through its network suppliers
Sprint appears ready to invest in its long-delayed Spark network rollout, but it’s getting some help from the companies that will be…
Read MoreAT&T strikes back at T-Mobile with its own data rollover plan
T-Mobile’s Data Stash, which lets you carry over unused megabytes from one month to the next, has only been lived seven days,…
Read MoreT-Mobile grew by 8.3M subscribers in 2014
T-Mobile’s customer growth spurt continued into the normally busy holiday season in 2014 as it added 2.1 million new connections to its…
Read MoreSK Telecom glues together 3 LTE networks, hitting 300 Mbps speeds
SK Telecom is starting the new year with a new kind of 4G network – or at least a network built from…
Read MoreGet ready to bank your MBs: T-Mobile’s Data Stash goes live Jan 1
Starting tomorrow, many T-Mobile customers will start seeing a new item show up on their bills: a bank of unused megabytes or…
Read MoreEE’s UK network tests push LTE speeds to 410 Mbps
U.K. carrier Everything Everywhere has managed to squeeze a 410 Mbps LTE connection out of a 4G trial, generating speeds nearly 50…
Read MoreFCC mobile competition report once again dodges its key question
Another year, another report from the Federal Communications Commission on the state of competition in the U.S. mobile industry, and as has…
Read MoreIliad’s Xavier Niel buys Orange Switzerland, growing his empire
French telecom tycoon Xavier Niel may have seen his offers for T-Mobile US rebuffed, but it looks like he’s going to get…
Read MoreT-Mobile pushes LTE to the outskirts of 4 cities
T-Mobile’s 4G network may not have the geographical reach of Verizon’s, but T-Mobile has started taking the first steps to get there.…
Read MoreT-Mobile intros Data Stash, a rollover plan for unused gigabytes
T-Mobile is flouting one of the biggest taboos of the mobile industry: The monthly data allotment. T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday…
Read MoreWhy T-Mobile subscribers in 21 cities are seeing faster speeds
T-Mobile is starting to clock some impressive download speeds on its newly upgraded LTE networks in different parts of the country: 30.2 Mbps in Columbus, Ohio; 24.1 Mbps in Boston; and 19.3 Mbps in Kansas City.…
Read MoreTelefónica is putting its mobile networks to bed for the night
Telefónica has tapped Israeli networking startup eVolution to help it manage the power consumption of its mobile networks in Latin America.…
Read MoreUnder new CEO, Sprint shows signs of life, but it’s still shedding key customers (and employees)
Sprint started growing again last quarter, but its 484,000 net subscriber additions all came from MVNOs like FreedomPop. Sprint is still bleeding valuable postpaid customers, and it's financial troubles are triggering new layoffs.…
Read MoreAT&T, Verizon boost caps on their cheaper shared data plans
We're seeing another round of plan tweaks from the big mobile carriers, and as with previous offers, they aren't cutting prices so much as they're bundling more data into their existing plan tiers.…
Read MoreSprint expands its iPhone 6 rental program to the Galaxy S5 and S5 Sport
After its successful iPhone 6 launch, Sprint has decided to experiment more with its new leasing plans. It's renting just two Android phones for now, but we'll likely see more to come.…
Read MoreNap time: SK Telecom is putting its cellular networks to sleep
The two companies have developed a technology that idles a portion of the mobile network at night when demand is lowest. This won't just save energy costs. It will create a better performing network.…
Read MoreYou’re either in or you’re out of MCX’s mobile payments club. Here’s why retailers are staying in
MCX can't have members break ranks and support Apple Pay or Google Wallet. Its own forthcoming app CurrentC will challenge both the mobile and finance industries, so it needs solidarity among its retail members. Can it achieve that?…
Read MoreT-Mobile grows by another 2.3M connections as it rakes in more smartphone customers
T-Mobile keeps growing, adding new prepaid and postpaid customers and activating new smartphone and even internet-of-things connections. The only area where its lagging far behind the competition is in tablets.…
Read MoreThe many ways Apple could seize control from the carriers with its new SIM card
Apple's new SIM card will act as a gateway between the iPad and mobile networks. That gives Apple an enormous amount of power over the carriers. It's doubtful, though, that Apple will use it.…
Read MoreiPad Air 2 contains the first Apple SIM, letting you flip flop between carriers
The iPad Air 2 contains Apple's long-awaited SIM card which will work on multiple carriers' networks. The days of picking your carrier before you buy your 4G-tablet may soon be over, and this might even allow Apple to be your carrier some day.…
Read MoreAT&T forks over $105M to settle federal cramming probe
The settlement will go to pay fines and legal costs, but $80 million of it will be used to refund AT&T customers who fell victim to SMS subscription scams in the past.…
Read MoreSprint responds to AT&T’s double data promotion with its own double
Sprint now has a 60 GB shared data plan for $130 a month, compared to the 30 GB AT&T sells at the same rate. They're limited time offers but show how cheap mobile data pricing can fall.…
Read MoreGSM Nation finally launches its MVNO selling budget smartphone plans
Two years is quite the delay, but GSM Nation hasn't merely been dawdling. The new MVNO, US Mobile, is the product of two years of learning from GSM Nation's MVNO partners, according to CEO Ahmed Khattak.…
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