Verizon Wireless Here’s some good news for Verizon Fios and Verizon Wireless customers. If you have a smartphone on Verizon Wireless and you subscribe to the Verizon Fios triple play, you can save $20 on your monthly fees. Verizon’s offer starts today and runs until April 19. The so-called unified customer “thank you” offer allows …

The Sprint innovation center in Burlingame, Calif. Lynn La/CNET Once Softbank CEO and Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son gets a bee in his bonnet, he’s apparently a hard man to discourage. Despite the fact that regulators have already expressed their skepticism of a deal between Sprint and T-Mobile to Son and Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO, Son is not giving up. The …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET T-Mobile is offering its customers a free data upgrade. The company announced Friday that it is doubling the amount of data customers can use per month on its standard 4G LTE service plan for no additional cost. So instead of getting 500MB of data per month at the full 4G LTE speed for $50 …

Verizon Wireless is trying to quell its competitors’ claims that they offer better performing wireless networks than it does with results of a new study published by RootMetrics. On Wednesday, Big Red highlighted findings from a recent RootMetrics nationwide wireless test, which shows that Verizon dominated in five out of six categories that were tested by the wireless analytics company …

Good news for the Verizon faithful. Verizon Wireless has simplified its prepaid pricing options and made the offer more flexible. Instead of offering different tiers of service, Verizon now offers prepaid smartphone customers a single $45 a month plan that comes with unlimited voice minutes and text messaging plus 500MB of data. Customers who want more than 500MB of data …

The Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction for the so-called H Block concluded Thursday after bids reached the $1.564 billion reserve price that satellite provider Dish Network had promised to pay for the airwaves prior to the auction. The auction, which began on January 22, closed after 167 rounds of bidding. Proceeds of this auction and the upcoming 600MHz TV spectrum …

IBM wants to bring its Jeopardy-winning cognitive computing system Watson to the mobile industry. During a keynote address at Mobile World Congress 2014, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a global competition to promote the development of mobile consumer and business apps powered by Watson. During the next three months, IBM is calling on software …

T-Mobile’s “Uncarrier” promotions may be winning the fourth largest nationwide wireless operator new customers, but it’s coming at a cost. For the fourth quarter of 2013, the company’s losses grew to $20 million, or 3 cents per share. This was up from a loss of $8 million, or 1 cent per share, during the same quarter in 2012. The losses …

T-Mobile said it has made good progress in shifting customers from the older MetroPCS network to T-Mobile. And the company will start shutting down the older network later this year. T-Mobile made the announcement on a conference call with analysts and press following its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday. The company also provided an update on its 4G LTE network …

If at first you don’t succeed, change the operating system. That’s essentially what Samsung has done after the disappointing launch of its first smartwatch last year. This week in Barcelona, Spain during the Mobile World Congress trade show the company unveiled the updated Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, which will be using Samsung’s homegrown Tizen software rather than the …