Verizon CEO confirms plans for tiered data pricing
We told you so . The Wall Street Journal has updated its recent article detailing disclosures from Verizon Wireless chief Ivan Seidenberg, and the latest news is as bad as it is predictable: VZW plans to consign unlimited data plans to the annals of history over the next four to six months, to be replaced by tiered, consumption-based pricing
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: confirms-plans, data, Data Plan, data-pricing, disclosures, history-over, ivan, journal, latest, mobile-internet, the-competition, tiered, verizon-wireless
TWC rebadges Sprint Overdrive, offers it as IntelliGo mobile 3G / 4G hotspot
And then, there were three. Three ways to snag an Overdrive , that is. Months after Sprint issued the original 3G / 4G mobile hotspot, Clear came along and introduced a rebadged version of the same thing
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: carolina, intelligo, internet, mobile hotspot, mobile-internet, north, northcarolina, roadrunner, Runner, sprint, texas
How-to: stay connected while traveling internationally
It's a harsh reality that every avid traveler faces, and unless you're fortunate enough to have been born in a generation where you're not expected to check your inbox every half-hour, glance over Twitter updates every 7.23 minutes seconds and tell the world where you're at this very moment via Foursquare, you've probably found yourself wondering how on Earth you're going to remain connected once your swipe that passport and leave the comfy confines of a native network .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: Borders, Carrier, faces, internet, messaging, mobile-internet, rental, result, tell-the-world, traveler, video, voip, young-jetsetter
iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option
See that screen there? That's from the minty fresh beta 4 of iPhone OS 4.0 , which was just released to developers moments ago. Unless our eyes are badly mistaken, that's an option to setup internet tethering on AT&T, something that WWAN warriors have been waiting for since..
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beta, breakingnews, developers, entry, from-the-minty, iphone os, iphone os 4.0 beta 4, iphoneos, mobile-internet, screens, the-tethering
Verizon ‘wrapping up’ Boston and Seattle trials, ‘friendly user’ ones coming this summer
Remember those LTE trials that Verizon Wireless started up in Boston and Seattle back in August of last year? Good news, mobile surfers -- the operator has today confirmed in a roundtable at CTIA that they're both nearing their end, giving us hope that they're gleaned the necessary information from them to start moving onto bigger and better things
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: boston, ctia, ctia2010, engadget, hurdles, mobile-internet, seattle, tony melone, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, wireless
Sprint promises its first WiMAX handset by this summer, could be the Supersonic
The life of a gadget lover tends to involve a lot of waiting , so it's always nice to be surprised by a roadmap getting shorter rather than longer. Sprint has told Forbes that its very first WiMAX phone will be arriving in the first half of this year, which will be somewhat earlier than many had expected. We're likely talking about that A9292 "bar handset" from HTC that was spotted in January , as Forbes goes on to note that it's likely to be a HTC-built Android device .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: adopters, being-discussed, business, cited-as-saying, dan hesse, engadget, forbes, handset, mobile-internet, mobileinternet, sprint
RIM CEO claims we are staring ‘down the barrel of a capacity crunch,’ should all get BlackBerrys to prevent it
Capacity crunch, isn't that a breakfast cereal? RIM's Mike Lazaridis seems to have been a real grouch at MWC this week as apparently he hasn't stopped talking about the doom and gloom awaiting mobile carriers over the next few years
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, down-the-barrel, mobile-internet, mwc, numbers, operating-systems, rim ceo, saturation
AT&T selects LTE equipment suppliers, ‘commercial deployment’ planned for 2011
Aw, snap. We knew good and well that the iPhone's exclusive home in America (cue groans) was planning to hopscotch right around HSPA+ and move straight to LTE , but it's always good to see a little confirmation from the carrier, you know? AT&T has today confessed to selecting its two LTE suppliers (Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson), and better still, that it will begin its LTE rollout in 2011.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: deployment, front-as-well, internet, lte, make-the-nation, mobile-internet, mobileinternet, wirelesstechnology, wwan
Dell Mini 5 earns FCC approval, AT&T 3G coverage assured
Remember those rumors back in the day that Dell's Android-powered Streak MID -- the device that would later be revealed as the Mini 5 -- would be manufactured by Qisda ?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: dell, device-called, entry, exhibits, fcc, hspa-on-wcdma, mini 5, mobile-internet, north, north-america, result
Mobile Internet Solutions » Mobile Phones Become Essential Tool …
Integrating mobile into traditional media is essential: DMA panel … “Voice, SMS and the mobile Internet are the mass-market paths—99 percent of mobile phones are SMS-capable—and each of those paths can ingest interactive advertising ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, Phone Street Tags: advertising, gadgets, games, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile-content, mobile-internet, symbian, voip