Verizon has already launched two distinct LTE networks since it first turned on 4G in 2010, but now it’s started paving the way for the third. Unlike the first two, however,… Read more »
The iPad Air 2 contains Apple’s long-awaited SIM card which will work on multiple carriers’ networks. The days of picking your carrier before you buy your 4G-tablet may soon be over,… 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 »
Sprint suffered another big subscriber loss last quarter as both prepaid and postpaid customers departed. Sprint continues to blame the exodus on its ongoing network upgrade. 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 »
Both TeleGeography and Cisco are pegging 2013 as the year that global 2G connections stopped growing globally, giving way to newer 3G and 4G devices. But it will be a long… Read more »
Thanks to T-Mobile’s network, MetroPCS is now in 45 markets, tripling the size of its footprint in just six months. As it grows its new GSM business its CDMA customer base… Read more »
Tablets prices have gone down, but adding cellular to your slate will still cost you a big premium. Thanks to some savvy radio choices, though, Verizon has kept the Ellipsis’s price… Read more »
Long before Qualcomm made its first phone chip, it was tracking 18-wheeled rigs as they criss-crossed the continent. Omnitracs, Qualcomm’s original business, is being sold to Vista Equity Partners for $800 million. Read more »
On June 30, the Nextel iDEN service goes offline, sticking Sprint with a heck of a lot of network scrap. Sprint, however, isn’t just throwing it all in a dumpster behind… Read more »