Tracfone Wireless

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.“This time, it’s …

Latin American-based telecommunications provider America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX) said it added six million wireless customers during the first quarter of this year, ending the period with 231 million …

While the mobile market is indeed international in scale, don’t think carriers ignore local issues. A perfect example is a prepaid offering Verizon Wireless (VZ) unveiled last week in the …

Almost half of all prepaid wireless customers in the United States are on recurring monthly service plans, according to a new survey from J.D. Power and Associates. The survey found …

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.Sprint Nextel Corp. …

Zacks Investment Research late last week upgraded its long-term recommendation on Latin American mobile operator America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. (AMX) from “underperform” to “neutral” citing the “growing Brazilian economy …

Verizon Wireless (VZ) made some recent price adjustments to its prepaid offerings that now allow some of those plans to undercut pricing on its postpaid services. The carrier has slashed …

Regional, flat-rate cellular provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) has joined the growing list of providers to offer traditional prepaid wireless service exclusively through mega-hyper-giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., according to …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

UPDATED: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is set to further its wireless ambitions next week with the launch of a branded mobile offering that will run on T-Mobile USA Inc.’s (DTEGY) …

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 Kansas …

Has all the competitive pressure in the prepaid space been coming from MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS)? A glance at second quarter results shows that while other carrier’s that have traditionally …

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) will soon add AT&T Mobility (T) as a network option for its Straight Talk prepaid wireless service, giving the nation’s largest retailer a GSM option alongside …

Verizon Communications Inc. posted surprising fourth quarter results this week showing that the increasing focus on non-traditional wireless customers has hit even the most traditional of carriers.For the fourth quarter, …

The one-time rock of the wireless industry appears set to crumble. And I think that crumbling can’t come soon enough. That rock is postpaid, contract-encumbered rate plans. These were necessary …

While there’s much talk in official Washington about including stimulus funding and incentives for broadband deployment (and more recently about setting aside a portion of the package’s $775 billion total …

Once considered the red-headed stepchild of wireless, prepaid services are finally gaining mainstream appeal helped by the need for carriers to target broader demographics and consumer desires for more ways …

Just like Ronald Reagan claimed with his trickle-down economic plan, wireless customers are beginning to see unlimited offerings filter down to cheaper price points and in some cases to offerings …

Tracfone Wireless Inc. subsidiary Net10 has jumped into the increasingly popular unlimited-service-plan play with its new Net10 Unlimited Plan, which offers unlimited calling and texting for $80 per month. Per …

Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. topped the rankings in the latest customer-satisfaction study of prepaid users from J.D. Power and Associates.The Dallas-based carrier performed particularly well in five out …

A couple years ago, starting your very own mobile virtual network operations company was a sizzling hot idea and everybody was trying to cash in. But now, two years and …

We reported on the seizure of nearly 20,000 mobile phones deemed to be outright counterfeits by federal officials. In the suspected bogus category, there also were 2,000 headsets, 462 boxes …

THE GROUND CONTINUED TO SHIFT in the tumultuous mobile virtual network operator space this month as one player announced plans to call it quits, another explores a potential merger and …

The Federal Communications Commission said the nation’s top prepaid wireless company, TracFone Wireless Inc., is now eligible for universal service subsidies in ten states and the District of Columbia, a …