Independent mobile network tester RootMetrics has completed its latest round of nationwide speed and reliability tests, and while the best overall performance award goes to Verizon, the speed prize that most… Read more »
4G services are finally coming to Chicago’s subways. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are collectively installing a $32.5 million LTE upgrade in the Chicago Transit Authority’s 22 miles of subway tunnels,… Read more »
FreedomPop started selling its own Wi-Fi-only phone last year, so it was only a matter of time before the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) started selling Wi-Fi service. On Wednesday it… Read more »
T-Mobile is starting to clock some impressive download speeds on its newly upgraded LTE networks in different parts of the country: 30.2 Mbps in Columbus, Ohio; 24.1 Mbps in Boston; and… Read more »
Without the distraction of a pending merger, Sprint is now focused on the competition. One of its prepaid arms, Boost Mobile, is cutting its monthly prices by $5 per plan while… Read more »
FreedomPop today started selling the iPad mini and the Samsung Tab 3, offering the same free voice and data plans available to its smartphone users. Read more »
John Legere and his executive team talk to Gigaom about mobile competition in the U.S. and why mobile data is no longer the rare commodity it used to be. Read more »
The new roaming deals will give a dozen smaller carriers access to Sprint’s 4G network and Sprint’s spectrum, which they can use to add LTE capacity to their own networks. Read more »
FreedomPop is offering unlimited voice and text and 1 GB of LTE data for $20 a month. Once that 1 gig is used up, you stay connected, but you’ll be knocked… Read more »
Carriers have lowered prices on cellular-enabled tablets and tablet data plans, cracking open a market that had remained untapped until last year. Read more »