ROK appears to be building a compelling music service tied to a bargain mobile service plan, but it’s only sharing it with a handful of people on what was supposed to… Read more »
A new Verizon LTE ad has popped up online touting doubled 4G capacity. This is the same network Verizon started rolling out in October. It looks like Verizon is now ready… Read more »
During the first quarter of 2014, changes in technology meant new products on the market, new roles in the enterprise, and structural changes for the IT department. Read more »
At CES, T-Mobile claimed to have the fastest network in the country, but in its analysis it seems to have ignored one network entirely: Verizon’s new LTE monster. Read more »
There are a several similarities between Sprint’s new Framily program and the the multilevel marketing business model of mobile carrier Solavei. But Sprint has adopted the best aspects of Solavei’s model… Read more »
The country’s first multilevel marketer in mobile Solavei is building a merchant rewards network for its members. It’s the MVNO’s first step — but not its last — toward expanding its… Read more »
Telecom veteran Susie Kim Riley lived in the mobile network core for 8 years. She’s putting that experience use with a new startup that is making mobile data a currency consumers… Read more »
The mobile industry is creating a mythology around LTE-Advanced and 5G that won’t match reality. Those terms imply leaps forward in mobile innovation that today’s networks can’t deliver. Read more »
5G is still just the merest twinkle in the mobile industry’s eye, yet the blogosphere is now using the term to describe T-Mobile’s forthcoming network. Just as with 4G, we’re conflating… Read more »
There are no LTE-Advanced networks or chips today, but that hasn’t stopped equipment makers and carriers from claiming the opposite. Here’s how they’re getting away with it. Read more »