Motorola’s and Verizon Wireless’ $100 million marketing campaign for the Motorola Droid seems to be paying off with strong sales that will likely result in more than 1 million devices being sold by the end of the year. The Droid, the only smartphone currently on the market that uses Google Android’s 2.0 operating system, is …

General Electric and French media company Vivendi have reached a tentative agreement, which will clear the path for cable giant Comcast to buy NBC Universal, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The stories cite unnamed sources who say under the terms of the deal GE will buy Vivendi’s 20 percent stake in NBC …

There’s been a lot of talk in 2009 about the next generation of wireless technology, known as 4G wireless broadband, but the current generation of 3G wireless technology is far from dead. For many wireless operators, especially those that have built their networks using the global standard GSM, the current 3G wireless technology called HSPA still has some legs left. …

Wireless broadband provider Clearwire said late Tuesday that it is has racked up another $920 million in debt to help it finance the deployment of its nationwide 4G wireless network. The company had already nabbed $1.85 billion of senior secured notes due in 2015 to help it pay off an existing $1.4 billion debt payment. In total, Clearwire has raised …

AT&T launched a prepaid wireless broadband service on Monday, following the lead of competitor Verizon Wireless. Pricing for the new AT&T DataConnect Pass plans are the same as what Verizon Wireless is charging. Customers can pay $15 for a daily pass with a data usage cap of 75 megabytes. A weekly plan costs $30 and allows for 250MB of data …

If you are considering buying a new BlackBerry, Android phone, or Netbook from Verizon Wireless, you better make sure you won’t want to break your contract early, as the penalty for ditching your service before the end of the contract has just gotten a lot steeper. But what does Verizon’s move to increase early-termination fees mean for the rest of …

Spanish officials said earlier this week that the government will require service providers to offer broadband with speeds of at least 1 Mbps at regulated rates to residents living anywhere in the country. A frenzy over a new Sony Ericsson smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February. Marguerite Reardon/CNET The Spanish telecommunications minister issued a statement …

AT&T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon’s coverage. A federal judge in Atlanta on Wednesday declined to grant AT&T a temporary restraining order that would force Verizon to stop showing the ads. Verizon Wireless AT&T filed a …

The Federal Communications Commission met Wednesday to discuss obstacles to enacting a national broadband policy that will provide high-speed Internet access to every American. President Obama has made universal broadband access a key goal. Grants and loans for helping make universal broadband access a reality have already started being doled out as part of Congress’ economic stimulus package. In an …

Verizon Wireless said AT&T is suing the wireless operator not because its recent ads are untrue, but because the truth hurts. AT&T earlier this month filed a lawsuit claiming that Verizon is misleading customers by suggesting that AT&T subscribers cannot access wireless Internet services throughout its network. In the opening paragraph of its legal rebuttal to the suit, Verizon very …