Dish: Sure, we’ll build LTE, just give us four years
Dish Network has taken possession of it’s 4G spectrum and it’s ready to deliver its competitive mobile broadband network – in 2016. In a filing with the FCC, Dish basically asked the FCC for the granddaddy of all extensions for turning in its LTE homework assignments.
Verizon: You can keep unlimited — if you buy your own phone
Verizon Wireless apparently isn’t done talking about its controversial plan to phase out "grandfathered" unlimited data plans, issuing a statement Thursday explaining the new policy. What it boils down to is this: You can keep unlimited, but don’t expect Verizon to subsidize your device.
Urban Airship prepares for its Super Bowl moment
Urban Airship is investing big in its infrastructure, scaling its push messaging platform to deliver 100,000 messages a second. As Airship begins to refine push marketing to take into account location, time and context, it's becoming critical it deliver notifications in volume and in real time.
Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?
If Facebook’s future is mobile, then it may not be enough for it to merely secure a piece of the mobile ad market. It will need to have an outsized impact on the industry.
Verizon phasing out unlimited data as customers switch to 4G
Verizon Wireless plans to close down the mobile broadband buffet for good, phasing out unlimited plans as customers upgrade from 3G phones to 4G. According to Verizon, it must turn off the unlimited spigot as a prerequisite for moving to shared family data plans.
Carriers, policy groups join up to (sort of) stop Verizon-cable deal
T-Mobile, Sprint, rural operatorsPublic Knowledge have teamed up to create a mobile version of the Super Friends, their sole mission to battle the Verizon-cable Legion of Doom, but they can’t seem to agree on exactly how they would plan to oppose their new sworn enemies.
Deal or die time for LightSquared; Will Dish swoop in?
LightSquared is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing on Monday as it has made little progress in its negotiations with debtholders. If LightSquared does enter into bankruptcy it might find Dish Network waiting, eager to relieve it of its spectrum. 
CTIA: The good, the bad and the very, very ugly
I have a confession to make: I like CTIA Wireless. I'll be the first to admit that the show is dying, but the problem isn't it's place on the calendar like most people think. The problem is much simpler: It's the carriers.
The silly rumors never stop: Now it’s AT&T and Cricket
The rumormongers are at it again, sticking together mobile operators willy nilly as if this the wireless industry was some giant multi-billion-dollar Mr. Potato Head. The latest report comes from Reuters, which has AT&T in talks Leap Wireless, the owner of prepaid carrier Cricket Communications.
Sprint has big plans for small cells
Sprint plans to make an aggressive use of small cells in its future LTE network, launching tens of thousands of tiny high-capacity base stations in high-traffic indoor and outdoor areas in 2013 and 2014.The end goal of Sprint’s small cell efforts is a heterogeneous network.
Kyocera ceramic transducer makes you hear voices in your head
Kyocera thinks the old audio speaker in your mobile phone is passé. There are too many steps: a diaphragm vibrates to produce sound waves that travel down your ear to your eardrum. Kyocera would rather just skip ahead and funnel sound directly into your inner ear.
Seamless Wi-Fi on your smartphone could quickly become reality
The Wi-Fi Alliance won’t accept its first devices for Passpoint certification until late June, but once the doors to its labs swing wide there may not be much of a lag time before our smartphones start automatically connecting to carriers’ Wi-Fi hotspots.
