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Why Verizon needs AT&T-Mo to just disappear
Verizon dodged a bullet on Tuesday when the FCC denounced AT&T-Mo. No conditional approval means no new regulations to haunt Verizon's own consolidation plans in the future. Now Verizon needs its archival AT&T to throw in the towel before it can do any more damage.…
Read MoreAT&T-Mo fails FCC test but has one more shot
The FCC condemned AT&T-Mo in every way it could think of short of denying the actual merger. Instead it passed it along to an administrative law judge, where telecom deals go to die. But first AT&T has to face down the DOJ.…
Read MoreConsumers coming to expect free carrier Wi-Fi
Devicescape customers may not be your average mobile data users, but they almost uniformly expect that wireless operators provide some kind of mobile data service and that they provide it for free. Devicescape's study also found many consumers are unaware that operators are capping data.…
Read MoreAnother unlimited mobile data plan bites the dust
The unlimited mobile data plan is going the way of the dodo. Bring-your-own-phone carrier H2O Wireless canceled its unlimited smartphone plan after just two months. How long before Sprint and the rest of the holdouts are forced to do the same?…
Read MoreClearwire’s growing financial problems threaten Sprint’s 4G plans
Clearwire is hinting it may default on loans to save cash, which could be the first step toward bankruptcy. If that happens, Sprint stands to lose the most. Not only is it Clearwire's largest shareholder, but Sprint's 4G strategy is tied up in Clearwire's spectrum hoard.…
Read MoreAT&T’s Digital Life could be its entre into the retail smart grid
AT&T is launching yet another new business division, this one called Digital Life Services. The operator hasn't revealed many details about the new unit, but from the sound of it, this may be AT&T's attempt to tackle the smart grid, targeting consumers and businesses directly.…
Read MoreDoes AT&T need more spectrum? It’s complicated
Sprint is calling foul on AT&T's attempt to sell off mobile broadband licenses while simultaneously arguing the need to acquire T-Mobile's spectrum. Sprint's been plenty right in its criticisms of the AT&T-Mo deal in the past, but this time Sprint's wrong.…
Read MoreCox writes the obit on its mobile service
After an abysmally slow start with numerous hiccups and strategy changes along the way, Cox Communications is giving up on wireless completely. On March 30, Cox is turning off the mobile service it offers through Sprint, making it the latest cable wireless venture to fall flat.…
Read MoreOrange coaxes customers to buy smartphones with Facebook
Half of Orange's customers still haven't found smartphone religion, but the carrier thinks it has found a new way of converting them. By offering low-priced Android phones designed around Facebook's social media functions -- and cheap data plans to boot -- Orange hopes to lure them in.…
Read MoreBelAir’s GigXone: Making metro Wi-Fi communal
Mobile operators are paying hotspot aggregators for mobile offload capacity. Why not the other way around? BelAir Networks thinks operators should think big, building their own monster metro Wi-Fi networks, then turn around and sell that capacity back to aggregators and everyone else.…
Read MoreAT&T reveals final six 2011 LTE launch markets
The addition of Charlotte; Indianapolis; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Oklahoma City and San Juan, Puerto Rico bring AT&T's LTE city count to 15 -- meeting its 2011 target. But feeling pressure from Verizon's ever-growing competing network, AT&T may opt to overshoot its goal.…
Read MoreHow Apple put the hurt on carriers’ subscriber growth
The usual third-quarter subscriber boom failed to happen as operators had no new iPhone to lure in new customers. But UBS predicts that the fourth quarter will more than make up for any slumps, as it combines the traditional holiday surge with a delayed new-iPhone bump.…
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