Sprint Splits With LightSquared
The contract between LightSquared and Sprint will be terminated on Friday much before its official period of 15 years, which was also confirmed in a report on the Wall Street… Read more
FCC Asks Verizon To Share Details of Spectrum Deal
Verizon Wireless has claimed that it will begin to run out of its mobile broadband spectrum capacity as early as 2013 if it fails to acquire the unused spectrum currently… Read more
Verizon Expected To Benefit More From The New iPad Than AT&T
Verizon Wireless looks like it will get a larger boost from Apple’s new iPad than its rival wireless service vendor AT&T Inc, despite both the carriers being the first ones… Read more
Sprint and T-Mobile Ask FCC To Stop Review Of Verizon’s Spectrum Acquisition; Petition For Access To Deal Details
A request has been sent by T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel to the F.C.C (Federal Communications commission) to suspend its review of Verizon’s purchase of wireless spectrum from cable operators…. Read more
Carriers Increasingly Looking To Offer Different Plans For Different Types Of Data Access!
One of the biggest wireless companies in Europe offered a new plan in France: customers will gain access to unlimited web browsing at just less than $14 a month. What’s… Read more
ATT May Begin Charging Developers For Data Access Through Their Apps
AT&T is trying to develop a new mechanism which will ensure that the cost associated with data traffic accessed through smartphone applications will have to be borne by the providers… Read more
Validas Study Shoots Down ATT’s Claim Of Throttling Only Top 5% Data Users On Unlimited Plan
A new independent report from a mobile data analysis firm called Validas claims that AT&T has been unfairly throttling users on its now-defunct unlimited data plans. As has previously been… Read more
T-Mobile Moves To Block Verizon Spectrum Deal
Following the failure of its merger with AT&T, T-Mobile USA is now trying to get the federal government to block Verizon Wireless’s proposed purchase of spectrum from various cable companies…. Read more
T-Mobile Releases Latest Subscriber Data; Loses 700k Subscribers in 4th Quarter of 2011
The 4th largest U.S. carrier T-Mobile has just released its latest subscriber base details, and the numbers aren’t looking good. T-Mobile lost a little over seven hundred thousand subscribers in… Read more
ATT Back In The Hunt For More Spectrum, Considering Regional Carriers
Telecom giant AT&T looks to have leapt right back into the hunt for spectrum, and is now reportedly looking at smaller telecom rivals like Leap Wireless and MetroPCS, as well… Read more