Being a CDMA user is a bittersweet deal. In the U.S., the two big CDMA carriers (Sprint and Verizon) get a good amount of awesome devices that don’t make it to other carriers. On the flip side, once on those two CDMA carriers, venturing to other carriers globally is an incredibly limited experience. Globally speaking, CDMA is the ugly duckling. GSM and SIM cards rule! For a little while a few years ago, “Global” version of Verizon Wireless (and a few...
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...
Well folks. It appears patent bickering over the most mundane, ridiculous “features” has reached another new high. New shipments of HTC’s EVO 4G LTE and One X handsets have been indefinitely delayed as U.S. Customs carry out a completely secretive investigation to make sure the aforementioned devices don’t infringe on an ITC ruling handed down back in December, and set into active status this past April – April 19th to be exact. The patent in...
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...
