AT&T will be raising its early-termination fees to $325 in June in what could be an effort to keep iPhone users locked in. The company will be raising its ETF (the fee you pay when you break your service contract) from $175 to $325 beginning in June, which is right around the time the iPhone…
AT&T not worried about Verizon iPhone
You would think that all those iPhone-to-Verizon rumors would keep AT&T up late at night but its wireless head doesn’t seem too concerned. AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega reportedly laughed at the notion and didn’t seem too fazed about a mass exodus of subscribers. During a J.P. Morgan conference Wednesday, AT&T’s wireless head…
Sprint mulling switch from WiMax to LTE for 4G
Interestingly enough, when we were speaking to Sprint about the EVO 4G and mentioned “WiMax,” the third-largest carrier was quick to make sure we knew it was referring to it as “4G.” Now, we’re hearing rumblings that the company is evaluating switching from WiMax to Long-Term Evolution technology for its 4G network. According to Light…
AT&T defends network strategy
AT&T’s data network has been a punchline over the last few years because it has been unable to keep up with the demand of iPhone users. As Sprint and Verizon march along with 4G networks, why is AT&T seemingly failing to keep pace? In a well-conducted interview with GigaOm, AT&T’s CEO of Operations, John Stankey,…
LTE vs WiMAX – The 4G Mobile Broadband Shootout
The future of the US mobile broadband market is taking shape right before our very eyes, with both the LTE and WiMAX flavors of 4G wireless data networks promising to deliver the internet to your mobile phone at speeds that might give your home broadband connection a case of “bandwidth envy.” But, with heavyweights behind…
Droid Incredible actually makes an appearance in new TV ad
The HTC Droid Incredible has been selling well on Verizon – which is actually sort of an understatement. What makes it all the more enticing is that there has been minimal advertising on TV for the device. Well, we finally have a new ad that shows off the device, if only for about a second,…
Sprint, Verizon rolling out EV-DO Rev. B?
There’s some interesting statements coming out of Telecom Pragmatics this morning, as the research firm is saying that Sprint and Verizon aren’t putting all its eggs in the 4G basket and plan to roll out 3G based on EV-DO Rev. B technology. Unlike 4G networks, EV-DO Rev. B could use the existing infrastructure to deliver…
Verizon: LTE tablets and phones coming by May 2011, first demos will be in January at CES
During the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said that the operator will have multiple tablets, and 3 to 5 LTE enabled phones hitting the market by May 2011. Motorola, Samsung and LG will be making tablets, and Motorola, HTC, LG and RIM are making phones. Many of the tablets that Verizon…
Verizon Droid Incredible demand high, shipments repeatedly selling out
If you asked us which Android smartphone was the king of the hill at the moment, we’d be hard up to choose between the HTC-made Google Nexus One and the HTC Droid Incredible. Carrier choices aside, both handsets are remarkably well made and bring iPhone 3GS-killing specs to the table. In fact, we’d likely just…
Palm’s App Catalog fails over the weekend
Palm’s App Catalog is up and running again after an unknown glitch caused it to go down for most of the weekend. On its blog, Palm acknowledged there were problems downloading and installing applications from its store. It didn’t spell out what the exact glitch was, but it promised that the issues were now fixed.…