12 posts and columns on mobile broadband

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T-Mobile Expands No-Contract Mobile Broadband Plans

in Product News on May 17 at 12:15 pm PT

Starting on May 20, T-Mobile will offer four additional no-contract data plans for its 4G tablets and mobile broadband devices, including laptop sticks and mobile hotspots. The new Mobile Broadband Service Passes expand on the carrier’s current offerings, starting at $15 per week for 300 megabytes of data, and $50 for five gigabytes per month. To take advantage of the no-contract plans, you will, however, have to pay full price for a mobile broadband device, which run between $175 and $650.

Best Buy Killing Connect, Its Mobile Broadband Service, Leaving 11,000 Customers up for Grabs

in Mobile on April 26 at 11:46 am PT

The retailer is suspending the service as of June 1 and will attempt to transfer customers to other mobile broadband providers, where possible.
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T-Mobile Set to Receive AT&T Airwaves

in Mobile on April 25 at 12:48 pm PT

The Federal Communications Commission cleared the way for T-Mobile USA to receive about $1 billion in wireless airwaves it is owed as part of the breakup fee for AT&T Inc.’s failed $39 billion takeover bid.

How Skype’s Co-Founder Hopes to Make Money Giving Away Mobile Broadband

in Mobile on March 22 at 5:00 am PT

With FreedomPop, Niklas Zennstrom is clearly looking to shake things up.
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AT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers’ Data Use

in Mobile on February 27 at 10:06 am PT

AT&T Inc. is preparing a service that would let content providers and developers of mobile applications pay the wireless carrier for the mobile data its customers use, the carrier’s network and technology head John Donovan said in an interview Monday.

T-Mobile or Not, AT&T Sees Wireless Growth Ahead

in Mobile on January 26 at 7:10 am PT

Despite having to pay a huge breakup fee in the wake of its failed T-Mobile bid, AT&T sounds an optimistic note about 2012. It also takes some shots at the FCC.
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FCC Asks AT&T for Pricing, Spectrum Data

in Mobile on May 27, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT

Federal telecommunications regulators reviewing AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA on Friday delivered their first request for information on the deal, demanding detailed data on AT&T’s pricing, spectrum holdings and any alternatives it considered to solve its capacity constraints.

San Francisco Gets a Few More Bars (Of Signal Strength)

in Mobile on December 28, 2010 at 9:45 am PT

Sprint announces 4G service for San Francisco and San Jose, while AT&T is adding Wi-Fi “hot zones” for some public spaces in San Francisco and New York, two areas where its cellphone service is most often criticized.

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AT&T Races to Tout Speed-Test Results

in News on November 22, 2010 at 4:25 pm PT

AT&T has some new ammunition to fire at anyone who casts aspersions on the speed and reliability of its wireless network. Nationwide testing by Global Wireless Solutions, covering more than 400 markets representing about 88 percent of the U.S. population, found AT&T’s average mobile broadband speeds to be tops–its unnamed “nearest competitor” averaging speeds that were 20 percent slower and its largest competitor (that would be Verizon) running 60 percent slower. The GWS tests also showed that 98.59 percent of voice calls connected over the AT&T network nationwide are completed without interruption–within one-tenth of one percentage point of the top score in that category.

AT&T Activates 3.1 Million iPhones in Q4

in Mobile on January 28, 2010 at 6:28 am PT

Widespread criticism of AT&T’s network performance hasn’t had much impact on the company’s financials. Reporting fourth-quarter earnings this morning, the carrier posted a 26 percent increase in profit, fueled by solid growth from the wireless business for which it is so often lambasted. What’s more, AT&T said it activated 3.1 million additional iPhones, the device believed responsible for many of its network woes.

That 48 Percent Obviously Doesn’t Include iPhone Users

in News, June 26, 2009 at 5:18 pm PT