Truphone’s international service zone just got 58 countries bigger. Its business customers can now travel from Europe to China to Mexico while tapping the same bucket of minutes, text messages and gigabytes. Read more »
Comcast is aggressively building out a network of Wi-Fi hotspots in a move that may eventually threaten established cellular carriers. The strategy could spur further consolidation and may have an impact… Read more »
AT&T was the first major U.S. carrier to launch an all-VoIP phone, but Verizon promised to outdo its rival when it finally brings VoLTE online. Verizon said it will launch nationwide… Read more »
Now that it has a name, Verizon has started revealing more details about its new LTE network in the AWS band. It covers half of Verizon’s current 4G footprint and 35… Read more »
If AT&T gets DirecTV, it could tightly package paid TV programming with broadband, making it difficult an more expensive to rely solely on over-the-top services for your video content. 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 »
Gigaom got a tour of AT&T’s disaster recovery drill in Chicago, an exercise in restoring communications in the unlikely event that an entire core network goes down. Read more »
Verizon and AT&T aren’t getting the auction they wanted, but they’re not the only one’s upset with the FCC’s auction framework. The rules, however, were a big win for smaller carriers… Read more »
In this part of our special report on reinventing the internet, a look at how the wireless networks of the future should evolve to handle a world in which mobile computers… Read more »
Instead of using its own spectrum, Project Loon will partner will carriers around the world. They’ll use their own spectrum to transmit from Loon balloons. Read more »