French telecom tycoon Xavier Niel may have seen his offers for T-Mobile US rebuffed, but it looks like he’s going to get his hands on a mobile carrier after all. Niel’s… Read more »
Open Garden has built a name for itself with FireChat, an off-grid messaging app taken up by protest movements around the world, and it’s technology hasn’t gone unnoticed by the VC… Read more »
Sprint-T-Mobile may be dead, but there are potentially many more companies that would like to hyphenate their names with T-Mo. France’s Iliad is preparing a new offer, while Dish Network lurks… Read more »
Iliad owns Free Mobile, an upstart carrier overturning France’s mobile industry. Now it wants to do the same in the U.S. with T-Mobile’s help, though it will have to get through… Read more »
TWC has launched the first large-scale implementation of Hotspot 2.0, which will make public Wi-Fi networks behave like cellular networks. You log into the network once and you’ll be instantly connected… Read more »
Iliad’s Free Mobile isn’t just acquiring mobile subscribers in droves. It’s looking to acquire entire mobile carriers. According to a report in Le Parisien, Iliad is in talks to buy Bouygues… Read more »
In an FCC filing, Comcast confirmed that it’s investigating the possibility of creating a mobile service that would lean heavily on its growing Wi-Fi hotspot network for most of its capacity. Read more »
Google is reportedly considering launching mobile services through an MVNO or its own network of Wi-Fi hotspots and fiber — or a combination of the two. But offering a truly disruptive… Read more »
Since T-Mobile launched Un-carrier, the operators have all restructured their pricing, but monthly mobile bills aren’t falling. If we’re in a price war no carrier is suffering yet, but that could… Read more »