T-Mobile CEO John Legere is urging consumers to contact the FCC to adopt more favorable rules in its upcoming spectrum auction to ensure future competition. CNET T-Mobile CEO John Legere wants you to “make some noise” about an obscure and highly technical topic that may help the wireless carrier improve its service. Legere, in his …

Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters interrupt a meeting of the FCC commissioners on December 11, 2014. (Wheeler is second from left.) Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet rules will take effect on Friday as planned after a federal court rejected requests by opponents to delay the rules pending lawsuits against the agency. A …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is adding loyalty cards from top retailers to its Apple Pay mobile-payments system and has renamed Passbook to “Wallet.” Apple now includes retail credit cards in Apple Pay. CNET/James Martin In addition to linking debit and credit cards to Apple Pay accounts, …

Wireless customers with “grandfathered” unlimited-data plans will do almost anything to hold on to them. It’s been five years for AT&T and four years for Verizon since either wireless carrier sold an unlimited data plan. But these operators have allowed customers who previously signed up for those plans to keep them. But neither carrier really wants customers to stick with …

Google’s new “family star” for the Google Play app store is meant to help parents choose the best content for their kids. Google; I/O photo by CNET’s James Martin Google wants parents to feel more comfortable about the apps and content their kids are encountering on their Android smartphones and tablets. To that end, the company will curate smartphone and …

Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Russia will account for the next 1.2 billion smartphone users in the next two years, says Google. CNET/James Martin Google’s biggest opportunity for the future is in just a handful of countries. The world’s largest search company on Thursday reiterated its push for more affordable smartphones to better cater to the emerging markets, which …

The US wireless market is on the cusp of big changes and competitive clashes. Those, in turn, could lead to lower prices and better deals for you. At least that’s how I hope things will play out over the next few years. From Google’s Project Fi experiment to build a hybrid Wi-Fi/cellular network, to rumblings about someone finally making use …

Scratch Wireless is offering the CoolPad Arise for $99. CNET Scratch Wireless is introducing a $99 smartphone that can be used with the company’s free wireless service, setting a new bar when it comes to cheap mobile options. On Tuesday, the company introduced the CoolPad Arise, a Chinese-manufactured smartphone that runs Google’s Android mobile operating system and operates on Scratch’s …

Not all AT&T customers looking for a refund on unwanted text messages will get every dollar back. FTC officials say the amount of money set aside may not be enough to cover all refunds. CNET/Marguerite Reardon More than 3 million current and former customers have applied for refunds as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over fraudulent …

Wireless and broadband may be Verizon’s bread and butter, but the company’s future relies on finding new ways to make money from its network. Verizon says its “principal interest” in AOL was the “ad tech platform that Tim Armstrong and his team have done a really terrific job building.” Francois G. Durand,/Getty Images And that’s where the $4.4 billion acquisition …