The FCC’s chairman has given his thumbs-up to Dish Network’s desire to enter the wireless market. But Dish is none too happy with the restrictions proposed. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said yesterday he would approve Dish’s request to build its own 4G wireless network, the Washington Post reported. The federal agency, which opposed the proposed …

Samsung has released the LTE edition of its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, but the model is available only in Korea for now. Sold through three different Korean wireless carriers, the new tablet also offers VoLTE (Voice over LTE), which allows standard voice calls to be transmitted over the LTE data network. Hit by lackluster sales for its Tab tablet lineup, …

Striving to play catch-up with Verizon, AT&T has doubled the reach of its LTE network from a year ago. The carrier’s 4G LTE network now covers more than 150 million people across the U.S., double the number at the end of last year. With its rollout ahead of schedule, AT&T aims to reach 250 million people by the end of …

Top carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are losing sales of prepaid smartphones to the likes of Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and MetroPCS, according to an NPD report out today. Third-quarter prepaid smartphone sales for the smaller carriers rose 23 percent over the prior quarter. But sales among the tier-one carriers dropped by 12 percent over the same period. …

Sprint’s Phone Connect device will now find its way to more people anxious to get rid of their landlines. Known as Sprint Phone Connect, the “plug and play” device operates via Sprint’s 3G network. Users can simply plug their home or office phones into the device, and calls are then carried over the network instead of the traditional landline. Sprint …

Those of you interested in a 3G or 4G iPad can score $100 off the full price, but you’ll have to pony up the monthly costs for a two-year contract with AT&T. The carrier is selling both new and refurbished versions of the iPad 2 and the third-gen iPad. For example, a new third-gen Wi-Fi + 4G LTE model with …

Verizon Wireless customers still waiting for 4G LTE to hit their town should get their wish by the middle of next year. Speaking at a Wells Fargo Securities technology conference yesterday, Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo confirmed that the carrier is eyeing mid-2013 as the completion date for its LTE rollout. That timeframe is around six months earlier than the …

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is slowly dripping its way onto more devices. As seen over the last two weeks of October, ICS now flavors 25.8 percent of all Android devices, up from 23.7 percent in the prior month and 20.9 percent in August. Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, ate up 2.7 percent of the market in October, up from …

More help has arrived for mobile device owners in New York without power or Internet access as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Courtesy of Time Warner Cable, multiple vehicles outfitted with Wi-Fi access points and charging stations headed into areas of New York City as of yesterday. Anyone able to find their way to one of the vehicles could charge …

iPhone owners bracing for possible power outages from the “storm of the century” can make sure a flashlight is handy by downloading a virtual one onto their devices. No matter how much I try to prepare for an impending storm and loss of power, I can never seem to find a flashlight when I need one. That’s why I always …