Verizon and T-Mobile show most sequential improvements, with all four carriers posting growth across majority of metrics
Compass Intelligence just completed the final assessment of third-quarter subscribers and connections including the comparisons to Q2 2016 in terms of improvements and declines for the U.S. wireless...
Google has declared the smartphone business is too important to leave to others with its move for tighter integration between hardware and software
Google is getting serious about mobile. Of course, it has always been serious about mobile since it acquired Android and, along with...
5 things to know today ...
1. Crown Castle is making another fiber acquisition. The Houston company plans to pay $1.5 billion for FiberNet Holdings as well as certain other assets of NextEra Energy. Crown said FiberNet has access to 11,500 route miles of fiber...
Apparently Sprint's and T-Mobile US' growth are having an impact on Verizon Wireless. Why do I say that? Just take a look at what’s happening in the advertising world. Verizon Wireless has hired Jamie Foxx and two Jamie Foxx doubles to play Sprint and...
5 things to know today ...
1. Verizon Communications achieved the world's first live over-the-air data call using an LTE Category M1 chipset, according to chip vendor Sequans. Category M1 is the technology Verizon says will make its LTE network roughly as affordable as Wi-Fi,...
AT&T is throwing 60% more data for customers selecting its most popular Cricket prepaid rate plan following slide in growth
Coming off of a significant year-over-year drop in prepaid growth, AT&T’s Cricket Wireless brand is throwing 60% more data at consumers selecting one of its...
Cable television giant Cox said it would partner with Sprint on network plans, while $1B class-action lawsuit targets Sprint’s ETF policy … 8 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the...
Aggressive pricing moves against rivals T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T dampened consumer spending at Sprint, though recovery appears on track
Sprint fleshed out its second fiscal quarter results highlighted by the continued shift in consumer spending tied to device payment plans and reiterating its plans to...
Robust customer growth and increased consumer spending bolsters T-Mobile US bottom line, celebrated by investors with new 52-week high
As expected, T-Mobile US posted industry leading third-quarter customer growth and continuing incremental improvements in financial results.
For the quarter, the nation’s No. 3 carrier in terms...
Similar to Q3 results from Verizon, AT&T posted slowing wireless growth and impact from planned 2G decommission, while T-Mobile and Sprint surge
Goosed by its proposed $80 billion acquisition of Time Warner, AT&T bumped up the release of its third-quarter financial and operating results, showing...
Published reports indicate AT&T has terms in place for an acquisition of Time Warner valued at $85 billion, which could be announced as soon as Sunday
Following up on chatter from earlier today, new reports now suggest AT&T has reached terms on a possible acquisition...
A number of recent Verizon IoT moves shows considerable confidence in the market by the telecom operator, with execution next on the agenda
The “internet of things” is set to greatly impact the telecommunications space due to the predicted billions of new devices forecast to...
Verizon shrugged off short-term competitive impact from rivals T-Mobile and Sprint, notes 5G trials remain on track for 2017 and IoT continues to grow
Verizon Communications released third-quarter financial results this week that show a considerable influence from rivals in the mobile space on growth,...
Verizon Wireless sees steep year-over-year drop in connection growth, which analysts attribute to aggressive moves from T-Mobile and Sprint
Verizon Communications’ once metronomic wireless operating performance looks to be skipping some beats with its most recent quarterly results sounding a sour note for the telecom...
Sprint dings iDEN for postpaid losses, while Comcast included wireless in content distribution plans … 10 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up...
FCC set to kick off the forward auction part of its phase two 600 MHz auction proceedings with the offer of 90 megahertz of cleared spectrum for telecom operators
The Federal Communications Commission’s second attempt to match television broadcaster wants with wireless telecommunication operator needs...
Comcast to focus on offering cellular services to cable TV and internet customers, while also leveraging access to 15 million Wi-Fi hot spots
Comcast: Your wide-area, wireless services provider. On one hand, thinking of Comcast as your wireless network services provider seems outrageous. What do...
Sprint posts positive sequential customer growth, improved financials in teasing quarterly results; tickles investors
The recently completed third quarter is shaping up to be dynamically interesting for the domestic wireless carrier space, made more so by the release of preliminary results from the nation’s No....
In connection with the presale of the LG V20 smartphone, the T-Mobile LTE network is getting a capacity infusion from its AWS-3 spectrum licenses
As part of kicking off the presale of the LG V20 smartphone, T-Mobile US is touting itself as the first domestic...
1. Verizon Wireless said its new PopData service is better than public Wi-Fi. PopData lets customers buy unlimited LTE data for half an hour for $2 or for a full hour for $3. Customers can access PopData through the MyVerizon app, but the...
WOTW tackles three different subjects this week – Samsung, Sprint and overages – all to varying degrees of success. You’ve been warned
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry,...
Telecom operators seeking 600 MHz spectrum licenses, like Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, will have to generate north of $54B in total bids for 90 megahertz
The value of wireless spectrum is often a difficult number to nail down but, at least for television broadcasters, 12...
Moving on previous comments, U.S. Cellular said it completed a fixed wireless trial of 5G technology with Nokia, resulting in speeds up to 5 Gbps
Network trials of “5G” technologies continue to permeate throughout the domestic mobile space, with regional carrier U.S. Cellular the latest...
Verizon admits to cutting an undisclosed number of jobs at retail locations connected with combining in-store duties
Verizon Communications has reportedly slashed jobs at retail locations, with a union representative claiming the number could be in the thousands.
According to ABC News, Verizon has confirmed that...
