T-Mobile has gained ground lately thanks largely to innovative initiatives such as doing away with handset subsidies and two-year contracts. Sprint is also well positioned to narrow the gap between itself… Read more »
A flurry of consolidation over the last few years has all but killed off regional carriers and increased the dominance of tier-one operators. But opportunities still exist for innovative service providers… Read more »
The mobile industry saw some important consolidation unfold in the second quarter as the lesser tier-one carriers made some strong alliances: Sprint agreed to be acquired by Japan’s SoftBank and began… Read more »
Dish Network last week gave up on trying to acquire Sprint, and its prospects for buying Clearwire don’t look good. But T-Mobile now has the iPhone, and as it prepares to… Read more »
Sprint finds itself in a no-man’s land between AT&T and Verizon Wireless on one hand and cut-rate prepaid service providers on the other, as its latest quarterly posting illustrates. The sooner… Read more »
The mobile platform wars escalated once again in the first quarter of 2012 as BlackBerry finally took the wraps off its much-anticipated new operating system. Meanwhile Android continued to build on… Read more »
Apple stole the spotlight in the third quarter with a fascinating series of both positive and negative headlines. Its iPhone 5 was met with record sales that were nonetheless stymied by… Read more »
Europe’s GSM Association says U.S. consumers are paying substantially more for LTE access than their overseas counterparts. While there are lots of reasons for that, a lack of competition here is… Read more »
A new SEC filing from T-Mobile USA appears to indicate the carrier plans to kill MetroPCS’s voice-over-LTE service as the companies are merged. But HD voice is soon to be a… Read more »
Dish Network claims it wants to join the wireless game, and Sprint could use some of its valuable spectrum as it builds out its LTE network. As consolidation continues to shrink… Read more »