Looking to make the best of Verizon’s upcoming shared data plans and bring your old, grandfathered, unlimited data plan for the ride? Don’t. Verizon Wireless’ Fran Shammo, Executive Vice President and CFO, told a room full of investors this morning that once customers upgrade to a 4G LTE device making use of the new data share plans, they would no longer be able to have their unlimited data plan grandfathered any further. Users wanting access to LTE will...
In case you haven’t heard, T-Mobile made 900 peoples’ lives a little more bleak today. A new memo sent around the company states that in order to properly realign the company and reposition it as a true contender in the cellular sphere alongside AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, more job cuts would have to be made. Beginning this week, roughly 900 more T-Mobile employees will be pink slipped, which is for sure, sad. But let me tell you what’s more sad —...
Verizon will once again prove this Thursday, May 17th, why they are the defacto standard when it comes to next-gen LTE service. The carrier has a huge assortment of expansions and new networks going live in less than 48 hours. In addition to the immediate rollouts, Verizon claims that from today until the end of the year, a total of 140 new markets will join the LTE fun, bringing the overall total number of LTE markets live by the end of 2012 to 400. AT&T, Sprint and...
If you fall within the geographic boundaries of a “major city” (by O2 UK’s standards), you’re going to enjoy the mobile web via 3G a lot better. The carrier has confirmed that they are pushing out a new form of DC-HSPA that will push download speeds up to 42 Mbps. (This HSPA+ push is in addition to the LTE push that is currently sweeping around Europe, too.) All you’ll need to take advantage of the super speedy network is a newer generation...
T-Mobile is in an odd position. On one hand they’re loved for low prices and l generally (still) good customer service. They’re looked down upon for shoddy coverage compared to the bigger 3 (AT&T, Sprint and Verizon), are sorely behind on next-gen/LTE expansion and often get passed up for the best devices. And then there was that whole AT&T-Mobile merger hullabaloo. Well guess what? T-Mobile owner, Deutsch Telekom still wants to offload the seemingly...
Your AT&T coverage within a large city might confuse you; towers are everywhere and yet performance is less than desirable. Well, besides playing havoc on wireless signals thanks to copious amounts of concrete and metal, cities also contains lots of people…data sucking people. Today at CTIA AT&T executive vice president of technology and network operations, John Donovan, announced plans to further bolster their increasingly stressed inner-city networks with...
