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San Francisco Gets a Few More Bars (Of Signal Strength)
Just in time to inadvertently send drunk New Year’s Eve photos to bosses and relatives, the Bay Area is getting a little more wireless coverage. Sprint on Tuesday is officially announcing that its...
View ArticleFCC Asks AT&T for Pricing, Spectrum Data
Federal telecommunications regulators reviewing AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA on Friday delivered their first request for information on the deal, demanding detailed data on...
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T-Mobile or Not, AT&T Sees Wireless Growth Ahead
AT&T reported a big loss earlier on Thursday, thanks to the charge it had to take for the massive breakup fee owed T-Mobile once that deal fell apart. However, the company predicted lots of good...
View ArticleAT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers' Data Use
AT&T Inc. is preparing a service that would let content providers and developers of mobile applications pay the wireless carrier for the mobile data its customers use, the carrier’s network and...
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How Skype's Co-Founder Hopes to Make Money Giving Away Mobile Broadband
As he has proved with Kazaa, Skype and other projects, Niklas Zennstrom likes shaking things up. His latest venture, FreedomPop, continues in that tradition. Due to launch later this year, the service...
View ArticleT-Mobile Set to Receive AT&T Airwaves
The Federal Communications Commission cleared the way for T-Mobile USA to receive about $1 billion in wireless airwaves it is owed as part of the breakup fee for AT&T Inc.’s failed $39 billion...
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Best Buy Killing Connect, Its Mobile Broadband Service, Leaving 11,000...
Best Buy confirmed on Thursday that it is killing off Connect, the company’s private label mobile broadband service. The service will “suspend operations” on June 1 (Best Buy initially said June 20);...
View ArticleT-Mobile Expands No-Contract Mobile Broadband Plans
Starting on May 20, T-Mobile will offer four additional no-contract data plans for its 4G tablets and mobile broadband devices, including laptop sticks and mobile hotspots. The new Mobile Broadband...
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Lenovo Starts Selling Own Brand of Mobile Broadband Service
Lenovo is announcing details on Monday of a new service that will allow buyers of its computers to get mobile broadband access through the PC maker. The service, dubbed Lenovo Mobile Access, is being...
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Dell Boosts Battery Life in Newest Ultrabook, the XPS 14
Lately there has been so much focus on Windows 8 that it’s easy to forget that PC makers still have a whole summer and back-to-school season to get through with those, you know, Windows 7 computers....
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Crunching the Numbers on Verizon's and AT&T's Shared-Data Plans
Long in the works, AT&T finally introduced its new shared-data plans today, giving customers the option to share a bucket of data among up to 10 devices on one account. The Mobile Share plans will...
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Bill Gates Part of $12 Million Round for Satellite Mobile Broadband Start-Up
Bill Gates is part of a $12 million investment round in Kymeta, a company that aims to offer users satellite broadband access on the go. A prototype of a Kymeta portable hotspot, about the size of a...
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FCC to Measure Mobile Broadband Performance
Well, it’s about time. The Federal Communications Commission, which is already monitoring wired broadband speeds, will soon do the same thing for mobile broadband speeds. The agency said this week that...
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NetZero Offering Mobile Broadband Customers Data to Share With Friends
NetZero, a name best-known for offering free and low-cost dial-up Internet, is hoping to make a new name for itself in mobile broadband. Since March, the company has been serving up mobile data service...
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Sprint Grows LTE Lineup With Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, LG Smartphones
With Sprint’s 4G LTE network rolling out to 100 more cities in the coming months, the carrier is continuing to add to its selection of compatible smartphones and tablets with today’s introduction of...
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FreedomPop Raises a Few More Million to Further Disrupt Mobile Broadband
FreedomPop, the Niklas Zennstrom-backed mobile broadband company, is adding another $4.3 million to its coffers. The funding will come from its existing investors, but at a higher valuation than its...
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Mobile Data Revenue in U.S. and U.K. to Surpass Voice Revenue by 2014
There are about 1.6 billion mobile broadband connections today. Five years from now, there will be more than three times that many — 5.1 billion — and they’ll be generating a ton of revenue for the...
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FreedomPop Begins Shift to Sprint Network With 3G/4G Hotspot
Wireless startup FreedomPop, which offers free and low-cost mobile broadband service, is offering its first device not solely tied to Clearwire’s WiMax network. FreedomPop plans to start offering the...
View ArticleSamsung Claims 5G Mobile Breakthrough
Samsung Electronics said Monday it has made a breakthrough in developing mobile technology for fifth-generation networks, though it expects it will take years until the service is brought online for...
View ArticleDish Bid for Clearwire Complicates Telecom Deal Dance
Dish Network Corp.’s last-minute bid for Clearwire Corp. complicates an already dizzying set of telecom deals and creates a variety of scenarios that are sending stocks in varying directions. After the...
View ArticleSprint Questions Dish-Clearwire Bid
Sprint Nextel Corp. raised objections over Dish Network Corp.’s tender offer to acquire Clearwire Corp., saying the bid is “not actionable,” continuing the complicated drama over control of the mobile...
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FreedomPop Expands Its Free Service to Voice
While there are lots of discount cellphone plans out there, alternative carrier FreedomPop is trying to introduce a new price tier — free. This summer, the company plans to offer a plan with various...
View ArticleClearwire Committee to Back Dish's Offer, Delay Sprint Vote
A special committee of Clearwire Corp.’s board is planning to push back a Thursday shareholder vote and recommend the full board endorse a tender offer from Dish Network Corp., according to a person...
View ArticleSprint Files Lawsuit Against Dish, Clearwire to Block Tender Offer
Sprint Nextel Corp. has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network Corp. and Clearwire Corp. in an effort to block the satellite-TV provider’s tender offer for Clearwire. Sprint, which is Clearwire’s...
View ArticleLeap of Fate for T-Mobile and Dish
Fate may be conspiring to bring Dish Network and T-Mobile US together. AT&T’s $1.2 billion offer to buy Leap Wireless, made late last week, takes a strategic option off the table for both Dish and...
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