Prepaid mobile giant TracFone had a massive quarter, adding 839,000 subscribers and even beating out Verizon Wireless. TracFone didn’t say why, but not coincidentally its Straight Talk brand and partner Walmart… Read more »
Verizon just turned tablets and PCs into fully functioning SMS clients. It’s new Verizon Messaging service virtualizes its texting and MMS capabilities on the iPad, Android tablets and multiple web browsers. Read more »
The mobile carriers are all jumping on board a new personalized dialing code service called StarStar Me, which promises to generate new revenue streams. The service can only scale so far,… Read more »
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote this week that he’s bored with the state of the mobile industry as we head into the new year. But there are plenty of reasons to… Read more »
AT&T is offering an SMS location-based offers service, while Verizon is delving deep into the handset to cull web and app usage information for its deal targeting purposes. Both programs are… Read more »
As the wireless industry in the US matures, new subscriber growth reaches its lowest level in a decade while traditional SMS revenues and traffic begin to decline, according to a new… Read more »
But we also saw some new developments in recent months. Android tablets began to steal market share from Apple’s iOS, thanks largely to the success of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. And the… Read more »
There’s a lot of recent talk of mobile operators launching their own voice-over-IP services, but what may surprise you is which carrier is on the leading edge of that trend: MetroPCS… Read more »
Apple is looking for telephony software engineers to work on iOS. Judging by the list of experience requirements in the postings, Apple is looking to add voice-over-IP capabilities to the iPhone… Read more »
It was only a matter of time before a major operator abandoned its territorial notions about mobile voice and adopted a true ‘softphone’ service, and that operator appears to be Rogers… Read more »