Michelle Maisto

T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced an end to employer rate-plan discounts March 28, suggesting they were bad deals that use “employees as bargaining chips.” Many employees, it turns out, were happy to be chips, in exchange for lower phone bills, and they took to Twitter to say so. Legere responded April 2, insisting that listening […]

BlackBerry has announced that it’s parting ways with T-Mobile. When T-Mobile’s license to sell BlackBerry smartphones expires April 25, BlackBerry won’t renew it, the company said in an April 1 statement. “BlackBerry has had a positive relationship with T-Mobile for many years. Regretfully, at this time, our strategies are not complementary and we must act […]

If numerous accounts hold, factories in Asia are beginning to hum, and Apple is readying itself for the fall introduction of two iPhone 6 smartphones, one with a 4.7-inch display and another with a 5.5-inch display. GforGames claims to have gotten its hands on photos sent from someone at Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn. The site […]

As if battling Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Google’s Chrome browser weren’t enough, now Firefox browser producer Mozilla has stirred up controversy with its recent appointment of Brendan Eich as the open-source software organization’s CEO. News that, in 2008, Eich made a $1,000 contribution to the campaign for Proposition 8, an amendment to ban same-sex marriage […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the 139-page “Report and Order,” the result of “years of work across multiple federal agencies,” detailing how it might repurpose federal spectrum in the AWS-3 band for commercial use. The action represents the “largest amount of spectrum suitable for mobile broadband use that the Commission has made available […]

WiFi is about to get faster. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced March 31 that it has modified the rules around how Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices can operate in the 5GHz spectrum band and made 100MHz of spectrum more accessible for use in homes and public areas. The indoor access is notable—previously, it […]

T-Mobile is focused on being transparent and bringing “true fairness and freedom” to the wireless industry, and so it’s doing away with employer rate-plan discounts, CEO John Legere announced in a March 28 blog post. Starting April 1, T-Mobile will instead offer business partner employees a “reward card” worth $25 each time they purchase a […]

Huawei Acting CEO Eric Xu seemed to discount a news report that the National Security Agency (NSA) hacked into servers at the telecom equipment provider’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China. “If The New York Times report is true, I think we will have known about this long ago,” Xu said during a press briefing following the […]

A U.S. District judge in San Francisco has ruled in favor of BlackBerry in a suit against Typo Products. Typo, co-founded by media personality Ryan Seacrest, offers a Bluetooth-enabled case that snaps around an iPhone, essentially giving it a BlackBerry keyboard. Judge William Orrick ruled that Typo’s case likely infringes on BlackBerry patents and told […]

BlackBerry EZ Pass is now available. The service is touted as a simple way for companies running BES 5, or any mobile device management solution that competes with BlackBerry, to transition to BES10—and with it have a single console for managing BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices. There’s no cost to switch, and companies that trade […]

Apple is planning two new iPhones with larger displays that could launch as soon as September, Japanese news organization Nikkei reported March 28. Production of 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) panels will begin in the April-June quarter at Japan Display’s Mobara plant and elsewhere, said the report, backing rumors that Apple will finally […]

High-speed data has been the spotlighted way mobile carriers have been working to compete for new subscribers and keep the ones they have, but voice is about to step more into center stage. HD Voice technology “transmits and receives a wider octave range of the speaker’s voice,” Sprint has explained. Seven octaves, versus four. The […]