T-Mobile USA said it will begin offering unlimited data options without speed throttling to consumers beginning Sept. 5, signaling a new pricing war among the nation’s “non-big-two” carriers that could put pressure on margins for those involved.
T-Mobile USA announced that the new offerings will...
With the second quarter financial reporting finally complete, and the school year set to begin for many across the country, we figured this was a great time to hand out some Q2 grades for the domestic market’s largest players. Analysis would seem to indicate...
Whether it’s ready or not, Voice over LTE is here as a pair of carriers on different sides of the world unveiled commercial services using the standard.
Domestically, the offering was launched by MetroPCS, which said it is offering the service using the LG Connect...
MetroPCS witnessed its stock price surge Thursday morning after the carrier announced second quarter results showing a continued focus on operating metrics, though a dramatic drop in customer growth.
MetroPCS said it lost 186,062 customers during the second quarter of this year, which was a...
Leap Wireless is set to lose its COO at the end of the month, with the no-contract wireless operator stating it has no plans at the moment to replace the position.
The carrier noted in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Raymond Ramon...
Sprint Nextel finally entered the LTE race with the launch this morning of commercial services across portions of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Future launches will have to wait for later this year.
The market plans were initially announced earlier this year,...
Verizon Communications and MetroPCS, fierce rivals in the wireless world, have teamed up to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s open access rules, noting in a lawsuit that the FCC stepped beyond in a recent decision regarding broadband service providers.
In the lawsuit, which was filed...
The increasingly competitive nature of the domestic space is expected to continue squeezing regional operators, according to a new report from Canaccord Genuity, with potential causilities to include MetroPCS and Leap Wireless.
In its report, the investment firm noted that following recent meetings with leadership...
China's Huawei is continuing its push into the consumer device market with the introduction of its first LTE handset in the United States, the Huawei Activa. MetroPCS will sell the Activa for $149 (with a mail-in rebate) and will not require a contract.
The Activa...
A handful of lower 700 MHz spectrum holders released a report showing that concerns regarding interference across the spectrum bands A-Block are unfounded and that current proceedings designed to preclude that spectrum block from 3GPP standards for LTE will limit roaming capabilities.
The report, which...
With AT&T’s aborted attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion still fresh on everyone’s minds, Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann told investors in a prepared statement that the future of its U.S.-based operations will likely not include an outright sale.
“Of course, we continue...
An attempt by Voyager Mobile to disrupt the prepaid apple cart took a step backwards this morning as the company’s planned launch of its mobile virtual network operator service was bedeviled by what its website is calling a “malicious network attack” that has forced...
It seems that if you can find a couple of carriers that perhaps are not doing so well, the rumor mill automatically suggests that you put those two together in some sort of sorry dating game episode. (Is there really any other kind?)
Capitalizing on a recent blog post, T-Mobile USA rode robust prepaid growth to post positive net customer addition growth for the first quarter. That growth however, was not shared on the carrier’s more lucrative direct postpaid operations that continued to bleed customers.
During the first...
While the battle for domestic LTE supremacy dominates advertising, real world testing, or at least that done by RootMetrics, shows there is a definitive tiering of the current mobile data playing field.
Citing tests across 42 markets involving more than 320,000 drive and indoor...
The merger marry-go-round speculation stopped on T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS (PCS) this week as the two operators were reported to be in talks to combine their network operations that would form a more formidable No. 4 operator.
This week’s rumor was reported by Bloomberg and...
What do mobile operators think about VoLTE? Operators like MetroPCS and Verizon Wireless have announced aggressive VoLTE plans, with MetroPCS planning to launch two to three VoLTE handsets before
T-Mobile USA is reportedly losing its chief marketing officer as Cole Brodman is set to leave the carrier May 25, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Brodman was named to his current position in 2010, having previously served as T-Mobile USA’s CTO. That position was...
An increased focus on subsidizing LTE handsets and dramatic drop in gross customer additions torpedoed MetroPCS’ PCS) first quarter results that sent stockholders scurrying.
MetroPCS reported an 82% drop in net customer additions for the first quarter, plummeting from nearly 726,000 new subscribers added...
Wireless trade association CTIA shook up the plans for its annual spring event for 2012, pushing the shows traditional late March, early April timing until early May. In announcing the change last year, CTIA noted the move was due to requests from vendors that...
MetroPCS (PCS) joined a handful of its competitors by instituting throttled data plans for its LTE-based cellular network. The offering includes four rate plans running between $40 and $70 per month with increasing amounts of access to go along with the carrier’s traditional unlimited...
Having seen its previous LTE roaming partner stumble over spectrum concerns, Leap Wireless today announced a five-year wholesale deal with Clearwire. The agreement will provide Leap and its Cricket brand with LTE coverage for customers when they are outside of the company’s native markets.
Financial...
The Rural Cellular Association, which nowadays would like to be known as RCA – The Competitive Carrier Association, continued to grow its base of large operators by welcoming T-Mobile USA to the fold.
RCA, which counts more than 100 carrier members, last year added...
The domestic market for wireless spectrum assets narrowed a bit in the short term late last week as the Federal Communications Commission said it would open up a formal debate in regards to Dish Networks’ attempt to use satellite spectrum for a terrestrial cellular...
