Every once in a while we’ll see a story of an unlucky parent or oblivious mobile user who ventures into roaming land and racks up a several thousand dollar data overage bill. For all of those people, we say “shut up”. No one has it as bad as one unlucky Tasmanian lady by the name of Kylie Monks. A harmless online chat session with a “man of desire” turned into a donated (stolen) SIM card. The SIM card wasn’t the helpful man’s,...
In a move that shouldn’t surprise most, AT&T and Verizon are voicing their disapproval of a proposed plan by the FCC to mandate interoperability between 700MHz networks and the accompanying hardware. The growing problem is that as carriers build out their networks (specifically LTE networks) across the recently auctioned off 700MHz spectrum, roaming from one network to another will be increasingly difficult and costly because there isn’t yet one...
Since late 2008, Android has been the anti-Apple to the smartphone world. Where Apple restricts, Android creates opportunities. But that may not always be the case if cellular carriers, hardware manufacturers, and now Google have their way… Business is driven by money. That’s just how it goes. But when consumers continuously get the shaft, something needs to change. Currently, Android (and all mobile operating systems as a whole) face three very big...
Despite the slow uptake of the so called 4G technology publicly known as “WiMAX”, the IEEE is hard at work prepping said technology’s successor — 802.16m. This new standard will no doubt carry the name “WiMAX 2″ when the time comes for a mass rollout. For now though, that name is uncertain. What is certain, however, is that 802.16m will be fast. The theoretical maximum as stated by the IEEE is 300Mbps which puts it at twice the rated...
AT&T has gone from giant to plethora of government created competition and back to giant in just two decades. We could post up all kinds of boring news articles, spreadsheets, and legal paperwork perfectly detailing the happenings, or, we could enlighten you all with a handy infograph showing not only AT&T’s last few decades, but the other major carriers’ as well. here’s to hoping someone intervenes to stop the travesty that is unfolding. Hop...
