Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said Wednesday that his is an American company, and the modernization of Sprint Nextel's network will have to be done from the U.S. with operations control in the country, and English speaking staff. ...
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Samsung's newest Galaxy—available soon from a carrier near you—isn't just the company's new marquee smart phone: It's a one-device showcase for today's most advanced mobile technologies. With innovations of its own along with ...
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The BlackBerry Q10 with its physical keyboard is expected to be available from major U.S. carriers in late May at a suggested price of $249 with a contract, a BlackBerry spokeswoman said late Tuesday. Pricing for the BlackBerry Z10, ...
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Sprint warned Wednesday that it will be "slightly delayed" with its full launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 on Saturday as planned. Sprint said in an emailed statement that the problem stems from "unexpected inventory challenges from ...
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The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal. The merger, first proposed last October, had faced opposition from some large shareholders until ...
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Overwhelming global demand may limit initial supplies of the Galaxy S4 smartphone, Samsung said Wednesday, while both Sprint and T-Mobile USA confirmed there would be delays. T-Mobile said the GS4 was scheduled to go on sale online at its ...
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Just as the mobile world seems to be finding peace and harmony around LTE, the age-old feud between GSM and CDMA is flaring up again. Now, the battleground is M2M (machine-to-machine) communications, the emerging use of wireless to link ...
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Mobile users in North America are hanging up and using email, text or social networking at a rapid pace, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Postpaid subscribers, who pay a regular bill for mobile service at the end of each ...
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U.S. mobile operators will warn subscribers when they're heading toward a big bill, after most carriers agreed to send email or text alerts when users are about to exceed their monthly usage limits or start using international roaming. ...
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Smartphones with custom versions of Android offered by large mobile operators in the U.S. are not getting security updates as regularly as phones from Google, or smartphones from other vendors like Microsoft, according to a complaint by the ...
Verizon Wireless reportedly has offered $1 billion to $1.5 billion for some of Clearwire's spectrum leases, possibly complicating Sprint Nextel's attempt to buy out the company in conjunction with its acquisition by Softbank. Clearwire is ...
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Computerworld - BlackBerry's recent launch of the Z10 smartphone and the upcoming Q10 qwerty device were intended to put the company back on solid ground, but BlackBerry seems to be defending itself from a new crisis every week. In the ...
BlackBerry is mad and it’s not going to take it anymore. The smartphone maker came out swinging Friday, one day after several market analyst reports said the company’s first BlackBerry 10 handset, the touch-centric Z10, is not ...
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Verizon will launch a Networkfleet system based on the Verizon Wireless network. Networkfleet is a fleet-management solution that provides a wide variety of monitoring and management capabilities for increased productivity and improved ...
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A sweeter offer for the merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS reportedly has been approved by T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom. The improved bid reduces the amount of debt that the merged company would hold and the interest rate on ...
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