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Article | 21/12/2012 U.S. mobile buyouts may meet their end in 2013
After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger, 2012 ended as a big year for mobile carrier deals in the U.S., and ...
Article | 17/12/2012 Clearwire board agrees to Sprint's $2.2 billion offer
Sprint Nextel will spend US$2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity.
Article | 7/12/2012 US mobile providers commit to emergency texting service
The four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile -- have agreed to accelerate the availability of emergency t...
Article | 6/12/2012 Hottest Android news and rumours for the week ending Dec. 7
Is HTC going to turn its recent run of strong releases into meaningful, long-term pressure on Android market leader Samsung? It's certainly starting t...
Article | 29/11/2012 Sprint to charge users of Nextel network an extra $10 per month
Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge...
Article | 27/11/2012 Experts call for deregulation at the FCC
Lawmakers should downsize the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by taking away its power to review mergers in the telecom industry and most of it...
Article | 21/11/2012 AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction
A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony ...
Article | 14/11/2012 Nokia drops to seventh in smartphone sales in Q3, eyes rebound with Lumia, Gartner says
Nokia dropped to seventh place in the global smartphone market in the third quarter, as Samsung and Apple controlled 46.5 per cent of the market, acco...
Article | 13/11/2012 AT&T takes on Sprint in push-to-talk services
AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday, taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to ...
Article | 13/11/2012 AT&T to offer Asus Windows RT tablet with LTE for $499
AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499, the U.S. wireless carrier said o...
Article | 8/11/2012 AT&T reverses FaceTime blocking decision
AT&T has reversed its decision to allow Apple iPhone and iPad owners to use Apple's FaceTime videoconferencing application only on the carrier's most ...
Article | 7/11/2012 AT&T to pay $700,000, refund overcharged customers
AT&T has agreed to pay US$700,000 and refund certain customers said to have been overcharged on smartphone plans, after the Federal Communications Com...
Article | 7/11/2012 Mobile carriers' Sandy recovery teams brace for another storm
Just as mobile operators start to get their networks back up in most areas affected by Hurricane Sandy last week, another storm is heading for the reg...
Article | 6/11/2012 Mobile networks nearing normal coverage after Sandy
Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remai...
Article | 31/10/2012 Stolen cellphone databases switched on in US
U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that w...