LightSquared, a company that most cell phone subscribers have never heard of, is building a nationwide wireless broadband network that it hopes will rival the nation’s largest providers AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The company has gotten a lot of buzz lately as the Federal Communications Commission and others see it as the answer for more …
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Verizon Wireless raked in valuable new wireless subscribers in the first quarter of 2011 as the company launched the Apple iPhone and introduced its first 4G LTE phone. The carrier said today that it more than doubled the number of customers it added on service contracts compared to last year with 906,000 new postpaid wireless subscribers. In total the company …
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Lawmakers want answers from Apple after a report was published this week that showed that iPhones and iPads track and store users’ location information. Congressman Ed Markey, who is the co-chair of the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, sent a letter today to Apple CEO Steve Jobs in response to a report published yesterday by Alasdair Allan, senior research fellow in …
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AT&T may not have the exclusive rights on the iPhone anymore, but the company still managed to turn in strong earnings buoyed by revenue growth in wireless as well as strong wireless subscriber growth. “We entered this quarter with some uncertainty, especially regarding the iPhone,” AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner said during the quarterly conference call. “Hopefully, we answered …
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have settled their dispute over wholesale pricing, the companies announced today. Sprint uses the nationwide Clearwire network for its 4G WiMax wireless broadband service. Under the new deal Clearwire will receive at least $1 billion from Sprint in 2011 and 2012. The minimum 4G usage commitment for this year is $300 million and $550 million next …
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AT&T may be putting the kibosh on an application for BlackBerry smartphones that allows users to connect their new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to AT&T’s 3G wireless network for free. AT&T has confirmed that the app that allows BlackBerry users to pair their RIM smartphones with the new PlayBook tablet is not currently available on AT&T BlackBerry phones, a fact that …
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T-Mobile USA wants to offer more than cell phone service. The company is getting into the voice over IP market with a new application that will allow people to make voice calls from Facebook. T-Mobile’s new VoIP app allows people to make phone calls from inside Facebook Chat. T-Mobile USA T-Mobile USA today announced the Bobsled by T-Mobile service, which …
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Verizon is eliminating early termination fees for its DSL service as the company also simplifies its plans for broadband customers. The company on Monday announced that it would now offer just two tiers of DSL service: basic and enhanced. The new basic service will offer between 500 kbps and 1.0 Mbps download speed service for $19.99 per month or $14.99 …
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NEW YORK–Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie defiantly believes his company hasn’t last its mojo. Sure, it’s lost market share over the last year, and its corporate-friendly smartphones are losing the marketing war with Apple’s iPhone and the many different Android phones. But with a list of new handsets and the new PlayBook tablet hitting shelves next week, Balsillie said …
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What do you do when you buy a cool new gadget, and the company that makes it suddenly and without warning announces it’s canceling it, even though that device is the hottest one in its category? That’s what millions of Flip camcorder customers are asking themselves this week. Despite being ranked as the No. 1 mini camcorder on Amazon, Cisco …
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