Tiered pricing for wireless plans could mean mobile apps are going to get squeezed down to size by their developers. As unlimited mobile data plans become a thing of the past for many wireless smartphone subscribers, developers will have to think more carefully about how efficiently their apps use network resources. For the past couple …

Clarification at 3:48 p.m. PDT: AT&T contacted CNET to clarify the answer to one of the questions below. The company said upgrade eligibility is based on several factors and customers whose contracts end next year may or may not be eligible for an upgrade six months before their contracts end. Getting your hands on the latest iPhone 4 may not …

NEW YORK–A senior Sprint Nextel executive is hopeful that the new HTC EVO 4G will entice Sprint customers to stick with the carrier instead of defecting to AT&T for the new iPhone 4 this summer. At an investor conference here Wednesday, Robert Brust, Sprint’s chief financial officer, warned that the summer is usually the time of year that Sprint and …

AT&T is reportedly looking to get a piece of the mobile market in India, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reported late last week that AT&T, the second largest cell phone operator in the U.S., is in preliminary talks with Reliance Communications, India’s second largest wireless phone company. AT&T on Monday denied it is in …

The new Apple iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24 and eager fans are already trying to figure out how they can get their hands on the latest and greatest iPhone. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the iPhone 4.0, which is the fourth generation of iPhone, the “biggest leap since the original iPhone” was launched in 2007. The new device …

AT&T’s smartphone pricing overhaul, announced earlier this week, has ignited a heated debate among consumers, causing many to scratch their heads and wonder just what the shift means for them. In a nutshell, AT&T has done away with its unlimited data plan and will now offer two-tiered data plan pricing. Some people are praising the carrier for offering a plan …

Pennywise consumers will soon be able to join the smartphone craze without digging too deep into their wallets. AT&T, the second largest wireless carrier and the only operator offering the iPhone, has cracked. It may not be long before Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest wireless operator, follows suit. The goal for these carriers, and the slew of smaller players already …

Video is still the killer app of the Internet, but peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent will no longer account for the bulk of traffic on the Net as streaming services grow at a quicker pace over the next few years. For 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic, such as BitTorrent, which includes some video, has been the largest type of traffic on the …

A new survey from the Federal Communications Commission notes that while 91 percent of U.S. broadband consumers are satisfied with their service, 80 percent of them don’t know what speed broadband connection they’re paying for. The survey of more than 3,000 adults conducted this spring asked consumers if they knew what the advertised speed of the broadband service they were …

Pressure is building in Washington for the Federal Communications Commission to abandon its plans to apply old-style regulation to the Internet. Now 282 members of Congress on both sides of the political aisles have asked the FCC to step aside while the lawmakers rewrite the nation’s telecommunications laws. On Friday, 171 House Republicans signed a letter addressed to FCC Chairman …