FCC allows AT&T to withdraw application to purchase T-Mobile
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to allow AT&T Inc. to withdraw its application for approval of its proposed $39-billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc. The agency also potentially dealt...
View ArticleVerizon expanding 4G LTE network to cover area with 200 million people
As of Monday, Verizon's 4G LTE network is one year old. It's also the largest 4G LTE network in the U.S. and its getting bigger. On Dec. 15, the 4G LTE network will grow to a coverage area of 200...
View ArticleCarrier IQ, T-Mobile, Sprint, RIM face class-action suits
Joining the growing parade of class-action lawsuits against cellphone software company Carrier IQ Inc., suits have been filed by a group of five California plaintiffs alleging that the Mountain View,...
View ArticleAT&T again ranks lowest in customer satisfaction
AT&T's cellphone service was pegged with the lowest satisfaction rating for the second year in a row in an annual Consumer Reports survey of wireless providers in the U.S. "In the newest...
View ArticleChina’s ZTE to launch high-end Android or Windows phone in U.S.
If you're familiar with ZTE in the U.S., then you're familiar with low-cost, pre-paid and often free-on-contract cellphones from Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, MetroPCS and major carriers such as...
View ArticleT-Mobile may offer Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phone handsets
T-Mobile and Nokia are expected to announce next week that the Lumia 710 Windows Phone, and possibly the Lumia 800 as well, is headed to the U.S. Nokia's Lumia phones are the handset maker's first...
View ArticleSkeptical federal judge calls AT&T ‘presumptuous’ [TRANSCRIPT]
Today a government suit to block AT&T's $39-billion acquisition of T-Mobile was delayed until mid-January, with a federal judge asking the companies to file a brief "describing the status of their...
View ArticleT-Mobile to bring Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone to U.S. in January
T-Mobile is bringing the Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone to the U.S. in January, the companies announced Wednesday.
View ArticleAT&T, T-Mobile deal: Judge to delay California probe indefinitely
AT&T and T-Mobile: Citing uncertainty about the fate of AT&T's deal to take over T-Mobile, a California judge has indefinitely postponed proceedings in a 6-month-old state investigation of the...
View ArticleAT&T pulls out of T-Mobile acquisition deal
AT&T will hang up the phone on its embattled bid to take over T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. The company is calling off the deal, which has hit a series of increasingly serious state and federal...
View ArticleT-Mobile to gain licenses to AT&T wireless spectrum
AT&T, T-Mobile merger break-up fallout: When AT&T gave up its $39-billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA on Monday, a $4-billion pre-tax break-up fee wasn't all the telecommunications giant lost.
View ArticleSprint announces first 4G LTE cities for mid-2012 — no L.A. yet
Later this year, Sprint plans to launch its 4G LTE network in the cities of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio; no plans for Los Angeles have been announced as of yet.
View ArticleLumia 710, Nokia’s first U.S. Windows Phone — review
The Nokia Lumia 710 is a small, low-cot smartphone with some big, high-cost bets riding on its success.
View ArticleNokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone is free at Wal-Mart with contract
The Lumia 710, Nokia's first Windows Phone to hit the U.S., barely went on sale on Jan. 11 and already Wal-Mart is undercutting other retailers by giving the new phone away for free on a 2-year...
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