For those of us old enough to remember, there was a time when you couldn’t buy a corded, rotary phone. Instead, you had to lease your phone from Ma Bell. After divestiture, customers were given the options
The introduction of laptops and proprietary mobile devices into the corporate IT ecosystem 10 years ago allowed organizations to extract more value from their employees by extending the office both physically and
Indicating an increased reliance on prepaid customers, U.S. Cellular posted fourth quarter financial results highlighting a net customer gain for its branded service on the back of its no-contract offering, though increased expenses hit its bottom line.
The regional carrier said it lost 10,000 customers...
Sprint Nextel entered the prepaid LTE space, announcing devices from its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA brands compatible with the carrier’s latest network. Both brands continue to offer devices and services using the carrier’s WiMAX-based service running across Clearwire’s network.
Boost Mobile is set...
While the wireless world begins its annual migration to the Iberian Peninsula for the Mobile World Congress event, I took a bit of a step back in time and found some unexpected comfort.
One, of many, interesting points to come out of today’s financial results from América Móvil was the continued success seen by its U.S.-based Tracfone Wireless operations that continued to make strides in gaining prepaid customers
América Móvil noted that Tracfone managed to add 753,000 net...
The machine-to-machine sector started making waves in 2012, and is set to boom through 2013. The notion of 50 billion connected devices originally sounded optimistic, but anyone who walked
T-Mobile USA’s comeback from its 2011 abyss continues as the carrier’s plan to reinvigorate the industry’s competitive landscape is in full flight. Those efforts have also spilled over to its enterprise offerings, where the carrier is looking to build on the foundation laid in...
BlackBerry’s attempt to re-infuse the market will get some help from T-Mobile USA mobile virtual network operator partner Solavei, which said it will be the first domestic company to offer BlackBerry’s Z10 device. The company is currently offering the smartphone contract-free for $999, with...
Voice control is the future. Just like touch-screen technology revolutionized smartphones, and the ability to use gestures launched new gaming and fitness applications, the possibilities
For a couple of weeks now I have had a Samsung Galaxy Camera device on my desk eyeballing me with its over-sized lens, a gift from Samsung in order to conduct a product review. Now, traditionally I have
It’s evident that bring-your-own-device programs have gained significant traction within enterprise mobility programs. And while everyone continues to talk about BYOD, most companies and IT departments
Sensing a demand from consumers, rural carriers have begun to offer shared data plans pioneered by their larger rivals.
Cellcom and Bluegrass Cellular now offer rate plans that provide customers with unlimited voice and messaging serviced with the ability to pool up to 10...
You know the prepaid space is getting competitive when it draws a change from postpaid stalwart Verizon Wireless, which today tweaked its prepaid smartphone offerings to better appeal to that growing market segment.
Beginning today Verizon Wireless will offer customers unlimited voice calling, messaging and...
Nokia’s quest for continued relevance in the mobile space continued today as the Finish device maker announced it would add $250 million to its Nokia Growth Partners venture firm.
NGP was set up in late 2004 to invest in mobile ecosystem businesses based in...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Greetings from Dallas, home of Texas-style fog. It’s been a crazy weather week in “Big D” –...
It was a record-breaking year for smartphones. Device makers shipped more than 700 million units worldwide in 2012, the largest number to date, according to a recent report from Strategy Analytics.
The top seller, Samsung, led the field with its own record-breaking numbers. Boosted by...
Price pressures ensure the survival of the feature phone: Although the feature-phone category will continue to play second fiddle to the smartphone in 2013, price pressures will secure
Mobile devices will become the biggest users of “big data” and business intelligence/analytics by 2015/16 as users increasingly look for information to help them be more productive.
A new report from Arieso shows that throughout Latin America, network operators are experiencing a "perfect storm." According to the report, there are substantial growth rates for mobile data consumption in Latin America, although most networks have been designed and optimized only for voice.
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Verizon Wireless said it plans to sell Samsung’s LTE-enabled Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 smartphone. The announcements were made during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013 – check out all pieces). Both devices will be available in the...
The fourth quarter looks to have been a case of the big wireless carriers getting bigger as both Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility announced limited Q4 results that hint at large gains by the nation’s two largest operators.
At an investor conference this week, Verizon...
