Ever since the attempt by AT&T to buy out T-Mobile collapsed a couple of years ago, it’s been clear that Deutsche Telekom wants to withdraw its presence from the US market. A route out was planned when MetroPCS and the magenta carrier proposed a “reverse merger” a little while back. We’ve already seen that the move was given the green light by the…
The days of carrier exclusivity are long gone in the iPhone world nowadays, and seemingly any and every network operator is keen to get its hands on the most popular smartphone on the market. The most recent to announce plans to sell the iPhone is Strata Networks, a regional operator which covers Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Although it’s yet to announce…
Verizon has recently announced its statistics for Q4 2012. The carrier activated 9.8M smartphones in the last quarter of last year, with some believing that more than 5.3 million of those could be iPhones, as Verizon announced that there was a ‘higher mix of Apple smartphones’ activated, meaning that the carrier may have sold the most iPhones in its…
With 11 million subscribers, Clearwire is one of the USA’s smaller carriers, and it has recently been approached by Sprint – the third-largest network in America – with an offer of $2.1 billion for the remaining stakes in the company. Sprint is already the majority shareholder in Clearwire, so the hefty offer is for the last 48.3% that Sprint doesn’t own,…
Jim Alling, COO of T-Mobile, has recently stated that his company would want to carry the iPhone, but not if it means making sacrifices, as doing so would be a big gamble for the carrier. Alling made reference to Sprint’s recent deal with Apple to carry the iPhone, and he mentioned that T-Mobile would not want to follow in its rival’s footsteps, because…
Verizon’s chief financial officer, Fran Shammo stated today that his carrier’s LTE network rollout is way ahead of schedule and could cover 300 million U.S. residents by the middle of next year. Almost 6 months quicker than had originally been anticipated. Right now, the network covers 250 million people compared to AT&T’s 150 million. It’s never…
We already have confirmation that Sprint will be officially supporting both the iPad mini and the new 4th gen iPad with Retina display. What we didn’t know was how much the US’ #3 carrier was going to charge for the privilege of using its 4th gen LTE network. Thankfully “old yeller” has announced its plans late last night. $14.99 will get you…
Scott Stein of CNet has tested the iPhone 5′s call quality on the 3 major US carriers, and it appears that Sprint is the clear winner. Sprint: This is the winner, and the more, we listened the more we agreed. Background noise isn’t a factor, and my voice comes through loud, clear, and even a bit richer. I also noticed that Brian’s call came through…
Following the recent news that Japanese carrier, Softbank, has bid in the region of $20 billion to take a 70% controlling stake in Sprint, the US’ #3 carrier has already invested some of that capital in Clearwire. This morning, news broke that the black and yellow carrier has increased its stake in the carrier in order to gain its spectrum. This…
It’s no secret that – in the States – it’s pretty much a two horse race when it comes to cellular network providers. Verizon and AT&T are miles ahead of their nearest two competitors: Sprint and T-mobile. In fact, Deutsche Telekom (Tmo’s head company in Germany) have pretty much stated that they want out of the US altogether, and made moves to…
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