Google wants to make Android apps free to use overseas, giving more people access to mobile data services in developing markets, according to a new report in The Information. This kind… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission is putting mobile carriers on notice that if they advertise an unlimited plan they can’t monkey around with speeds — or at least must clearly disclose their… Read more »
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… Read more »
T-Mobile is determined to find the right tablet plan to lure more 4G slates to its network. On September 3 it will start matching its customers’ smartphone data allotments on tablets… Read more »
Syntonic is launching an app store in which no content consumed counts against your data plan. The store is the latest example of new business models coming out of AT&T’s controversial… Read more »
The people behind Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron tequila are launching a mobile carrier. ROK Mobile will be a smartphone-centric virtual operator, but it’s not focusing on data. It’s focusing… Read more »
Of all of the mobile operators that T-Mobile is challenging with its Un-carrier strategy, Verizon is the most traditional of them all. But as Verizon’s Q4 earnings show, it’s a model… Read more »
Aquto’s use of AT&T’s controversial new subsidized internet program is definitely benign: it’s compensating mobile users for data consumed while viewing ads. But is its use case typical or the exception? Read more »
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said at CES that he is watching AT&T’s new controversial Sponsored Data program carefully. Even if he finds fault, though, the FCC may not have the authority… Read more »
AT&T is officially putting its idea of a subsidized internet to the test. A new program allows internet companies to exempt their content from data plans. Instead the content providers would… Read more »