2G

AT&T Shuffles Resources in New York in Push for Faster Data, Fewer Dropped Calls

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 23 at 9:31 am PT

The company is shifting bandwidth away from its older 2G network and toward its newer networks. Ma Bell is aiming to convince customers on the older network to upgrade their phones.

Verizon Hit With Second Big Data Outage This Month

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 21, 2011 at 4:26 am PT

Users from various parts of the country are reporting the carrier’s main data networks are out.

Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT

Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T offers faster data downloads.

Sprint-Nextel CEO Dan Hesse: "We Couldn't Wait" to Deploy LTE

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 7, 2010 at 4:05 pm PT

Asked in an interview at D: Dive Into Mobile why Sprint is deploying WiMax and not LTE as its 4G technology, Sprint-Nextel CEO Dan Hesse said it was the success of the iPhone that demonstrated that the market was ready for 4G services. “We wanted to be first, and WiMax was available” in 2008, Hesse said.

Voices

China Unicom Launches "WoStore"

Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 12, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

China Unicom has launched a long-expected application store for users to download apps like games and Internet browsers to their mobile devices, making it the latest mobile carrier looking to reproduce the success of Apple’s App Store.

Google Nexus One Hits AT&T, Rogers Wireless

John Paczkowski in News on March 16, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Here’s something that might give a bit of juice to the evidently poor early sales of Google’s Nexus One smartphone: Availability on AT&T in the U.S. and on Rogers Wireless in Canada. Today, Google rolled out a new version of the device that supports both carriers’ 3G networks.

AT&T 3G Improving–If You Can Get a Signal

John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2010 at 7:07 am PT

So AT&T has finished upgrading its 3G footprint to HSPA 7.2, completing the first phase of an effort that will improve connection reliability and at some point later this year or in 2011, raise its maximum 3G data speed to 7.2 Mbps from 3.6 Mbps. Welcome news for long-suffering AT&T subscribers–but only those in cities where additional back-haul connections have been added to support those higher speeds.

Was the iPhone’s Launch in China Really a Bust?

John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Apple’s internationally coveted iPhone finally arrived at market in China last week and by most accounts its debut was uncharacteristically muted. There is “no sign of the sort of sellout reception that greeted the smart phone at its introduction in other countries,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Clearly, the device’s Chinese launch wasn’t the rousing success to which we’ve become accustomed. That said, it probably wasn’t quite the bust it’s been made out to be, either.

Who Rejected Google Voice for iPhone? AT&T: Not Us. Google: REDACTED. Apple: We're "Studying" It, Not Rejecting It.

John Paczkowski in News on August 21, 2009 at 4:26 pm PT

“Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it.” So begins Apple’s response to the FCC’s inquiry into its rejection of the app and of its App Store approval process. Seems Google Voice was withheld from the App Store not because of any ill feeling toward Google or a nefarious request from AT&T, but because it too closely mimics the iPhone OS.