AT&T and T-Mobile both claimed they were intent on preserving Cricket and MetroPCS’s services when they made their respective acquisitions. But it looks like T-Mobile was the only one serious about… Read more »
AT&T set records when it came to attracting new and keeping old smartphone subscribers, but its prepaid business witnessed at mass exodus. After AT&T’s acquisition of Leap, Cricket customers are finding… 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 »
Who leads the U.S. in mobile subscribers? According to mobile analyst Chetan Sharma, it’s now a neck-and-neck race between AT&T and Verizon who collectively controls 68 percent of the market… Read more »
The well of big regional carriers has almost dried up, so Verizon is looking to much smaller operators to acquire. It’s now targeting Mobi PCS and Golden State Cellular. Read more »
The ranks of mid-tier regional mobile carriers are shrinking. Cincinnati Bell is exiting the mobile business to focus on its wireline operations. The result: more spectrum for Verizon and fewer carrier… Read more »
AT&T is using a new LTE-Advanced technique called carrier aggregation, which splices two 4G transmissions together to create a fatter mobile broadband pipe. The Galaxy S5 will be one of the… Read more »
AT&T’s planned LTE network in the AWS band looked like a forgotten dream when it was forced to give up its licenses after the AT&T-T-Mobile merger failed. But AT&T is trying… Read more »
Cricket parent Leap Wireless has become the latest carrier to join Devicescape’s curated virtual hotspot network. Rather than build hotspots themselves, Leap and other regional and rural operators are tapping the… Read more »
The mobile landscape in the U.S. is balkanizing. The big regional carrier is disappearing, leaving us with four national operators dominating the cities and only the tiniest of carriers filling the… Read more »