The Federal Communications Commission has decided to start reporting on mobile broadband speeds across the country, the agency announced today.
The seemingly mythical FreedomPop, which aims to disrupt the mobile broadband landscape by offering a freemium 4G service, is one step closer to reality. The company has raised $7.5 million in a first round of funding, led by ManGrove and …
Lenovo wants to cut out the mobile broadband middleman in the best way it can: By launching its own broadband service.
The service, called Lenovo Mobile Access (LMA), will offer owners of certain ThinkPad Classic and ThinkPad Edge models the …
Wireless carrier T-Mobile will soon offer new contract-free mobile broadband plans, which are designed for the growing number of Americans who prefer prepaid options to long-term contracts, the company said today.
T-Mobile is in a precarious position as the No. …
New details have emerged on mysterious wireless company FreedomPop’s plan to give wireless broadband to consumers at little or no cost, according to a report from AllThingsD.
FreedomPop, which has heavy involvement from Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, aims to shakeup …
Sprint has added two new 3G and 4G mobile broadband data plans to its lineup that will replace more-expensive plans it previously offered, as well as undercut AT&T and Verizon, the company announced today.
As the distant third-place carrier in …
Ericsson, a company providing technology to the world’s mobile operators, predicts mobile data subscriptions will hit five billion in 2016, 10 times larger than the current figure.
When you sign up for a smartphone, you are usually required to sign …
Strong tablet sales this year will help increase the shipment of devices that connect to mobile broadband — basically everything connecting to cellular networks that’s not a smartphone — by 57.8 percent, research firm IHS iSuppli reports.
Other devices in …
Wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared issued a new plan today outlining a solution for the GPS interference problems caused by the company’s 4G LTE wireless network.
LightSquared says the solution will “protect the public’s stake in GPS” and won’t delay …
New government tests conducted by two separate agencies have concluded that LightSquared‘s mobile broadband network interferes with the signal on all GPS devices.
The news doesn’t bode well for the Virginia-based wireless startup company, which needs the Federal Communication Commission’s …
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said today he is hopeful that the government will be able to reallocate spectrum to satisfy the insatiable appetite for mobile broadband capacity.
But rather than seize the spectrum outright, Genachowski wants Congress to …
Stoke, a company that specializes in mobile broadband gateways to help carriers manage massive loads of mobile data, announced today that it has landed an additional $17 million in funding led by new investor Focus Ventures.
Given the explosive growth …
Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, wants the U.S. to catch up with other countries in making sure a high percentage of the population has access to broadband communications. He believes the way to do that is to …
Comcast announced today it has invested an undisclosed sum in seed-round funding to mobile WiMax company Cartiza.
Founded in late 2006, the Boston, Mass. company has previously raised $12.6 million in funding, according to the Boston Business Journal. Cartiza is …
