Wireless companies up and down the East Coast have been preparing throughout the weekend to ensure that wireless service remains up and running for communities affected by Hurricane Sandy. But will it be enough? Hurricane force winds, torrential rain, and tidal surges as a result of the storm are expected to wreak havoc along the …

Why do wireless carriers have to make everything so complicated? Wireless subscribers should be able to subscribe to the service they want and need and not be forced to take services they don’t want or need. This seems like a simple enough concept, and yet customers who want a smartphone but only want to pay for voice services can’t get …

Update, October 27: Google has canceled Monday’s Android event because of Hurricane Sandy. We’ll update you with a separate post when we know more. Google is holding a special event Monday in New York City where it’s expected to take the wraps off the latest version of the Android operating system, plus several new Nexus devices. Join CNET’s live blog …

Sprint Nextel’s losses widened in the third quarter as the company prepares to shut down its older Nextel network. It also reported it sold 1.5 million iPhones in the quarter. The company, which is being bought out for $20 billion by Japan’s Softbank, reported today that it lost $767 million, or 26 cents per share, compared with a loss of …

There’s no denying that Sprint Nextel is losing customers, but the company’s CEO says it’s all part of a natural, if painful, transition that he hopes will put Sprint in a much stronger position to take on rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse emphasized on the company’s conference call — and again in an interview with CNET …

Apple has entered the small-tablet market with the iPad Mini. But at $329, some holiday shoppers may still look toward the less expensive Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire. I know people love Apple. And I’m sure there will be millions of people who will buy the iPad Mini this holiday season. But at a price of $329 for …

AT&T executives couldn’t be happier with the company’s progress in signing up customers to its Mobile Share Plan and its new LTE 4G wireless service, AT&T’s head of mobility Ralph de la Vega said on the company’s third quarter conference call with investors and analysts on Wednesday. De la Vega was almost giddy when talking about the growth of the …

There’s been a lot of hype around mobile payments over the past year, but the No. 1 problem that the mobile payments market faces is adoption. Consumers simply don’t see a reason to replace their cash or plastic with a phone. And yet one company after another is clamoring to get into the market. Technology companies, such as Google and …

Adding new smartphones to the family’s wireless plan can be a scary endeavor, especially as most of us have already seen our wireless bills for just one smartphone surge above $100 a month. Are there any tips for getting hot devices like the iPhone 5 at a discount? Is there a trick to avoiding taking out a second mortgage to …

Subscribers may have balked at Verizon’s Share Everything data plans when they were first introduced this summer, but they seem to be buying into the concept of sharing a single data plan now, according to Verizon CFO Fran Shammo. On the company’s third-quarter conference call with investors and analysts today, Shammo said that the Share Everything plans Verizon introduced in …