A lot of the pain in your wireless bill is being diminished these days, no matter what carrier you use. Perhaps in response to the threat of cheap, internet-based messaging services like WhatsApp, and definitely in competition with each other, AT&T and T-Mobile have just sweetened their deals.
WhatsApp will add voice calling later this year, putting even more pressure on big telecommunications companies, after Facebook recently acquired the insurgent company for $19 billion.
T-Mobile and CEO John Legere have launched an all-out assault on the mobile wireless industry in the past year, with its industry-shaking "Uncarrier" initiatives and competitive pricing, but for Legere, AT&T has always been a special target. So Legere is probably pleased that T-Mobile has won a court decision prohibiting an AT&T subsidiary from using its color scheme.
California lawmakers are pushing legislation to reduce theft and increase data privacy for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices by mandating that all mobile products sold in the state have a so-called "kill switch."
AT&T has been under pressure from upstart wireless company T-Mobile for the past year and has had to respond on several occasions - not always in the most graceful way. Now AT&T is showing it can not only respond to T-Mobile, but put pressure on the industry with its newly announced Mobile Share restructuring.
Verizon Wireless will be testing out a new wireless technology that will allow for fast, unbuffered delivery of live streaming video on Sunday - Super Bowl Sunday. But unless you're one of the small number of lucky attendees at a Verizon event in New York, you won't be streaming Super Bowl XLVIII that way.
The soap opera that is AT&T vs. T-Mobile continues, as AT&T announced a new deal that offers both new and existing customers $100 in credit if they add a new line.
As the mobile market grows more competitive, wireless networks are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve their situation against behemoths Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the two largest carriers in the United States. Recent rumblings indicate that Sprint is interested in merging with T-Mobile, but the road might not be so easy, according to new details.
T-Mobile has now become notorious for upending the wireless industry with its "Uncarrier" plans (plus other shenanigans from CEO John Legere), and now the company is planning to "un" bank your finances. After surveying the market and finding that banks were charging too many fees and weren't appealing enough to customer needs - including U.S. Latinos - T-Mobile has decided to shake up the banking industry as well with a service called "Mobile Money".
In 2010, powerful wireless internet providers scored big when the Federal Communications Commission exempted wireless telecommunications companies from key "Open Internet" (Net Neutrality-related) regulations. That exemption, which at the time was seen as an obvious, confusing oversight, has come back in the form of what could be a substantial challenge to Net Neutrality from AT&T's new "sponsored data" policy.
