Topic: Wireless Network Operators

Thanks, Recession! Cell Plans to Get Cheaper

Perhaps the only shot that Mobile carriers will have at growth in 2009 will be to cheapen their plans. It never used to be this way, according to the AP; it was once the carrier with the slickest phones and the most capacious ...READ»

T-Mobile Bringing Back Zeta-Jones for "Mobile Makeover" Campaign

T-Mobile will bring back former-spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones to launch a new marketing push reminding viewers that, chances are, they are paying too much for their wireless plans. And to ensure their claims aren't dismissed as a ...READ»

T-Mobile Enters VOIP With "@Home" Service

Since much of the country isn't ready to part with their dear landlines in favor of a mobile-only life, T-Mobile [FRA:DTE] is convinced they can grab a slice of the action from the incumbent service providers by introducing a new ...READ»

T-Mobile Enters Home Phone Market

T-Mobile's @Home service promises to do what Vonage did before it, offer families choices for their landline service. The mobile phone company also plans to offer this choice at an exceedingly low cost -- only $10 per month. If ...READ»

T-Mobile Expands 3G Service

There's a lot of buzz about "3G" in the mobile phone world -- not least of all with the iPhone 3G from Apple [NADSAQ:AAPL]. But what exactly is 3G, and why do some phones and locales have it, and others don't? 3G is ...READ»

Chinese iPhone Looks Poised to Fail

At Apple's all-night iPhone launch party in Beijing, there were none of the day-long lines seen in New York, London, or Paris. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese iteration of the iPhone, which went on sale on October 30, ...READ»

T-Mobile Joins the Smart-Grid Wireless Network Brigade

Cellphone carriers like Verizon and AT&T have already staked claims in the digital smart-grid industry with their wireless networks. Now T-Mobile is playing catch-up by partnering with smart meter maker Echelon and developing ...READ»

AmazonWireless Offers Phones and Plans, Minus the Cellular Store

Not content with selling absolutely everything else, Amazon today announced the beta launch of AmazonWireless, a new extension of the online retailer that allows users to browse cell phones and various service plans from AT&T and ...READ»

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Vodafone To Sell New Dell Netbook

Dell's [NASDAQ:DELL] new netbook, the Mini Inspiron 9, is reportedly being sold with built-in mobile broadband service by European telecom provider Vodafone [NYSE:VOD]. The computer, which is aimed at entry-level and ...READ»

Mobile Meltdown

How the "can't miss" wireless startup Amp'd Mobile burned through $360 million and found itself in bankruptcy.READ»

Sprint's "Instinct" Phone Selling Out, Buoying Stock

After months of lagging behind AT&T [NYSE:ATT] and Verizon Wireless [NYSE:VZ], Sprint Nextel [NYSE:S] is finally showing signs of life. That according to a Wall Street Journal article, which is reporting that the company's new ...READ»

Cell Sites

Check out the chart below to decide which of the four major cell-phone service providers best suits your needs.READ»

The Storekeeper

Eric Chu, 46 Mobile Platform Program Manager, Google Apple's only competitor in the mobile-excitement market is Google's Android platform. Chu ran the developer challenge to create apps for its store. "We ...READ»

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Furious Sidekick Owners Blame Microsoft

Update: T-Mobile says that much of the data may indeed be recoverable on Microsoft's backend, according to the New York Times. Engineers in Redmond are "optimistic that much of it can be recovered," but individual customers have yet ...READ»

Cell-phone Confidential

What your wireless carrier doesn't want you to know when you go international.READ»

Cell-phone Confidential

What your wireless carrier doesn't want you to know when you go international.READ»

Why Is Dell's Mini3i Smartphone China-Only?

The long-awaited entry of the venerable PC maker into the smartphone business is almost here. But only in China. The specter of the iPhone casts a global shadow.READ»

Staying Connected in the Air

Making Phone Calls from the Plane Most road warriors have memorized the airline cell phone usage announcement: "The Federal Communications Commission bans the in-flight use of cellular phones on aircraft." This ban is based on the ...READ»

Sprint's Golden Hour Cometh

AT&T [ATT] and Verizon [VZ] are today's behemoths in the mobile service provider marketplace. But with its fast network, forward-thinking technology, and value-oriented plans, the next decade of cell users could all belong to the ...READ»

Help Me Understand! II

I, too, feel your pain, Seth. I have two cell phones. One, an older-model Nokia doorstop, I use for voice using AT&T. The other, a sweet little Sidekick Hiptop, I use so I can carry the Internet around with me in my pocket. The ...READ»

Help Me Understand!

I'm supposed to be the marketing guru, but I'm clueless. I lost my cell phone. One year after I bought it. My contract is over. I need a new phone. I call up T-Mobile. I share my tale of woe. I tell them I want the Nokia 3650. They ...READ»

BlackBerry Pearl Proves Consumers Want Smartphones

Amidst all the Apple iPhone hoopla, I've been remiss to mention that Tmobile has made its most popular phone, the BlackBerry Pearl, available in a second color -- white. That most users of the popular handset use it for personal ...READ»

Brand Dilemma: Losing Faith in a Service Provider

Branding is often viewed as window dressing for the sake of making an initial impression and closing a sale. The problem is that if your company changes a slogan, but not its practices or service, the slogan will eventually fall ...READ»

T-Mobile's iPhone Rival myTouch 3G Hits U.S.

T-Mobile's second Android-powered phone is coming to the U.S., in the guise of the T-mobile myTouch 3G. It's the follow-up phone to the original Googlephone G1, and it's just sold its millionth unit in world-wide sales. The ...READ»