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Chinese phone company ZTE plans to make a big splash at Mobile World Congress with a Windows device and a slew of Android handsets. ZTE isn’t exactly a household name, at least in the U.S. The smartphone maker aims to change that by dropping an as-of-yet unannounced handset running Microsoft’s Windows Phone software along with eight advanced Android devices described …

T-Mobile USA faces a daunting uphill climb as it looks to turn itself around. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless provider, two months removed from a failed attempt to merge with AT&T, today laid out its comeback plan, which includes improving its existing network and deploying 4G LTE by 2013. Parent Deutsche Telekom has committed to investing $4 billion in the business, …