Michelle Maisto

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 […]

BlackBerry’s turnaround is on track, if not slightly ahead of schedule, CEO John Chen—roughly 26 weeks on the job—told investors March 28, announcing the results of BlackBerry’s fiscal 2014 fourth quarter. “I think the numbers show we are about a quarter ahead at this point,” said Chen. BlackBerry, which has slashed jobs, sold off real […]

From the annals of That’s Not Ideal comes news that BlackBerry sued an executive, Senior Vice President of Software Sebastien Marineau-Mes, to keep him from leaving. Apple offered Marineau-Mes a position as vice president of Core OS in December, iMore reported March 25, and on Dec. 23 the BlackBerry exec turned in a resignation letter […]