BlackBerry is not going down without a fight. There’s no question that the smartphone maker is in trouble. The company has been losing customers and money for some time now. And this third fiscal quarter was no different than previous quarters in that regard. In fact, the losses were a bit steeper than Wall Street …

AT&T has joined Verizon Communications in publishing a report that details how many surveillance requests it gets from law enforcement. The company announced Friday that it will begin publishing a semiannual report offering details of requests it has received from law enforcement. This comes one day after Verizon announced a similar plan. AT&T and Verizon have each come under pressure …

When it comes to competition in the US mobile market, federal regulators see four as the magic number. This fact alone could sink Sprint’s rumored takeover bid for T-Mobile. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Sprint is preparing a $20 billion bid for T-Mobile in an acquisition that would reduce the total number of national wireless operators …

Sending our children out on their own in the world is scary, but it’s nice to know they can always come home. In one reader’s case, his daughter can come home to Mom and Dad’s wireless plan. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help a father figure out how he can help his daughter return to the family’s AT&T …

The Federal Communications Commission took the first step toward removing regulations that ban phone calls while in flight. But FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler emphasized that the Department of Transportation, which oversees the Federal Aviation Administration, will have the final say. At the FCC’s monthly open meeting Thursday, the agency voted 3-2 to approve a measure that will open up for …

Private-equity firm Centerbridge Partners will buy LightSquared out of a bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday afternoon. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal says the tentative deal calls for Centerbridge to pay $3.3 billion for the wireless company, which had planned to build a nationwide wireless broadband network using wireless spectrum that had originally been allocated for …

One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to wearable technology, said James Park, CEO and co-founder of fitness tracking wearable technology FitBit. Speaking at the LeWeb conference in Paris on Wednesday, Park said that there is no single killer device in wearable technology. He implied that there is still plenty of room for devices such as Google Glass, Pebble’s …

What a year T-Mobile has had. Speaking at an investor conference in New York Wednesday, Chief Operating Officer Jim Alling, who has been with the company since 2009, looked back on 2013 year with a sense of pride and maybe even some wonderment in all that the company has accomplished in the past year. “What a difference a year makes,” …

AT&T’s top executive says the era of big subsidies for devices is coming to an end, as wireless operators can no longer afford to fund a constant smartphone upgrade cycle. Speaking at an investor conference in New York City on Tuesday, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that with smartphone penetration at over 75 percent and soon reaching 90 percent, wireless …

NEW YORK — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse believes that 2013 was Sprint’s rebuilding year, but he sees the company making a turn around by mid-2014. Speaking at an investor conference in New York on Tuesday, Hesse told an audience of analysts and investors that it has been personally painful for him to watch the company lose customers as it rips …