T-Mobile had its best quarter ever, growing by 2.4 million subscribers. Most significantly, it captured most of the core phone subscriber growth in the industry. Uncarrier is working, but T-Mobile’s losses… Read more »
Sprint’s Direct Connect walkie talkie service is no longer limited to a few specialized phones. Sprint is bringing push-to-talk to several new smartphones in an effort to recapture some of Nextel’s… Read more »
Three proposed acquisitions led the news in the third quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. released two new iPhones and, just as importantly, gave the iOS 7 a major makeover. Read more »
FreedomPop today started selling its first handsets, packaging the smartphones with a free monthly allotment of voice and data usage. The MVNO is one of several coming to market in the… Read more »
This summer Verizon saw its share of the smartphone market grow to 37 percent, while AT&T and T-Mobile saw their shares shrink year-over-year. A big factor was the iPhone’s increasing popularity… Read more »
The LG G2 bound for Sprint will have some extra hardware that will tap into Sprint’s unique LTE configuration. This could be the phone that lets Sprint use its networks to… Read more »
After numerous leaks, Samsung revealed the specs of its new S 4 mini early, and it’s exactly what we expected: a smaller — though not tiny — version of the full-fledged… Read more »
The practice of locking phones is a symptom of a greater disease in the U.S.: device subsidies. If we can separate the hardware from the service, consumers will ultimately have greater… Read more »
Sprint sold 6.1 million smartphones, including 2.1 million iPhones. The exodus of Nextel and Boost customers continued, though, resulting in overall subscriber losses. Read more »