| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.05.2024 | T-Mobile acquires Mint Mobile | T-Mobile has officially finalized its acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the umbrella company for popular prepaid wireless brands Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile.
Mike Katz, President of Marketing, Strategy, and Products at T-Mobile, expressed... |
| 19.10.2016 | T-Mobile punished by FCC for hidden limits on unlimited data | Enlarge / Bugs in some carriers’ 4G LTE implementations and flaws in parts of the standard could make anyone nationwide a target for hacks and surveillance.
T-Mobile reader comments 65 with 43 posters participating, including story author
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| 19.07.2016 | ZTE ZMAX PRO is a premium Android smartphone with a shockingly low $99 price | Inexpensive Android smartphones are nothing new. Getting premium quality phones at a low price is fairly new, however. While some folks hail these respectable wallet-friendly devices as a win for consumers, others -- such as yours truly -- ... |
| 17.11.2015 | MetroPCS Now Lets You Stream Unlimited Music Without Eating Up Your Data | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 17 November 2015, 10:11 pm
MetroPCS, a prepaid brand owned by T-Mobile, has announced that it is bringing its parent company's hottest, newest features to its own plans.
In a press release, T-Mobile CEO John Legere s... |
| 17.07.2015 | Upcoming T-Mobile Smartphones: Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, Galaxy Core Prime, And HTC Desire 626s | Anu Passary, Tech Times 17 July 2015, 12:07 am
U.S. carrier T-Mobile is gearing up to add a slew of new Android-powered devices to its smartphone lineup: the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, Galaxy Core Prime and HTC Desire 626s.
By Wednesday, J... |
| 16.07.2015 | HTC Desire 626s Available At Sprint Prepaid On July 19 For $130 | Sumit Passary, Tech Times 16 July 2015, 10:07 am
The newly unveiled HTC Desire 626s smartphone will be up for grabs via Sprint Prepaid for $130 from July 19 onwards.
On Wednesday, July 15, HTC introduced four new handsets from the Desire se... |
| 25.06.2015 | MetroPCS Smartphone Deals: LG G Stylo For $199 And Microsoft Lumia 640 For $39 | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 25 June 2015, 09:06 am
MetroPCS has a neat new promotion in store, offering the Microsoft Lumia 640 for just $39 and the LG G Stylo for $199.
The prices are after a mail-in rebate to bring the Microsoft Lumia 6... |
| 13.06.2015 | Sprint Now Offers LG Stylo For $288 Off Contract | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 13 June 2015, 06:06 am
Sprint is now offering the LG Stylo, a mid-range, 5.7-inch smartphone equipped with a built-in stylus, for a wallet-friendly price.
America's third-biggest wireless carrier is now selling the S... |
| 25.02.2013 | After Raising $8.3M, Jibe Mobile Signs MetroPCS To Its Joyn-Approved Voice, Video And Chat Cloud | When it comes to popular mobile apps for messaging and sharing content like Facebook and Twitter, carriers have been on the edges of the picture as data network providers rather than the developers of those services themselves. But a deal s... |
| 12.12.2012 | Cash: Rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated | This guest post was written by Danny Shader, CEO and founder of PayNearMe.
Lee Ault, CEO of the first check guarantee service, TeleCredit (which subsequently morphed into FiS Global), once described the moment his business exploded in the e... |
| 21.08.2012 | MetroPCS debuts $55 unlimited talk, text, and 4G data plan | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Budget wireless carrier MetroPCS has added an eye-popping “limited time” offer for unlimited talk, texting, and 4G LTE data for just $5... |
| 09.08.2012 | Samsung brings VoLTE to the Galaxy S III, but they’re not the first as they claim | The Galaxy S III is currently Samsung’s flagship smartphone and one of the best Android devices on the market today. To top it off, the Korean manufacturer has announced that the Galaxy S III will get VoLTE (Voice over LTE) starting August ... |
| 08.06.2012 | Huawei Launches $149 Activa 4G For MetroPCS, Cleverly Avoids Competition With Its First U.S.-Bound 4G LTE Device | Huawei has been relatively quiet of late. Aside from Ascend D Quad smartphone we saw announced back at MWC, the company hasn’t been very present on U.S. shores. But with LTE hitting its stride, the company has today announced its very first... |
| 16.02.2012 | U.S. Cellular Reveals Additional LTE Markets, Expected To Go Live In 2H 2012 | While larger carriers like AT&T and Verizon are duking it out to cover the country in LTE signal, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are other contenders in the ring too. Case in point: U.S. Cellular, the nation’s sixth largest wi... |
| 01.02.2012 | MetroPCS Selects TrueCall for LTE Network Visualization and Optimization | Understanding Subscriber Experience Critical For New Deployment
Berkeley, California – February 1, 2012 – Newfield Wireless® announced today that MetroPCS Communications, Inc. has acquired a nationwide license for the use of TrueCall® netwo... |
| 04.01.2012 | MetroPCS Launching Live Mobile TV Service Later This Year | Today, MetroPCS has announced a partnership with the Mobile Content Venture (MCV) on a new service that will bring live digital television to the carrier’s customers. The service, called Dyle Mobile TV, will be available on phones that are ... |
| 16.03.2011 | Communication with disaster-stricken Japan now free across the board | Since Friday's devastating earthquake, coastal Japan has been battered by tsunamis and aftershocks which have caused billions of dollars in damage to the country's infrastructure, and have triggered a series of explosions at the Fukushima D... |
| 25.01.2011 | More Net Neutrality Opposition In the US | On Tuesday, MetroPCS — the fifth-largest wireless carrier in the US — filed a lawsuit, alongside the one filed by Verizon last week. The company hopes to overturn the FCC’s Net Neutrality order passed in December.
The suit comes after publi... |
| 11.01.2011 | First U.S. LTE plans could be bad news, say consumer groups | Advocacy groups Free Press, Media Access Project, and New America Foundation sent a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday regarding the policies of MetroPCS, the nation's fifth-largest wireless operator, and the first o... |
| 04.01.2011 | Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans | MetroPCS, the 5th largest wireless carrier in the United States, has announced a new pricing structure that requires customers to pay extra to access video services other than YouTube, audio including Pandora or any VOIP service, over their... |
| 21.12.2010 | Devicescape helps MetroPCS offload data traffic to Wi-Fi networks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wireless phone provider MetroPCS announced a deal with Devicescape that allows the cell phone service provider to move data traffic fro... |
| 21.12.2010 | Devicescape helps MetroPCS offload data traffic to Wi-Fi networks | Wireless phone provider MetroPCS announced a deal with Devicescape that allows the cell phone service provider to move data traffic from its cellular network to Wi-Fi networks.
In doing so, MetroPCS will be able to offload traffic from its ... |
| 15.12.2010 | MetroPCS takes on mobile's 'big four,' expands 4G LTE presence further | MetroPCS may be the fifth largest wireless network operator in the United States, but it is the first in LTE, the next-generation wireless standard that will eventually be used by market leaders Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Wednesday, the... |
| 22.11.2010 | Metro PCS launches their first Android phone: the LG Optimus M | Joining the Optimus party that T-mobile and Sprint have been getting down at since October, and that US Cellular is still on his way to (Verizon is reportedly partying, but at an entirely different address to the others), Metro PCS have now... |
| 14.10.2010 | TextPlus Partners With Metro PCS To Bring Free Texting To Users | GOGII’s free text group text messaging service textPlus today announces its first direct carrier partnership with Metro PCS Communications Inc.
Currently the textPlus app allows you to send text messages for free to any number using the in-... |
| 21.09.2010 | Samsung Craft first LTE handset, launches on MetroPCS | reader comments 16 with 14 posters participating
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| 29.06.2010 | Mavenir raises $13.6M for mobile operator services | Mavenir Systems, a company that helps mobile operators roll out new voice and messaging services to their subscribers, has secured $13.6 million in a fourth round of funding.
The company enables service continuity across wired and wireless ... |
| 16.02.2010 | Analysts: How Nokia lost the USA | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This post is a follow-up to Monday’s “Why can’t Nokia sell phones to Americans?”
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile gadget maker, sells ... |
| 16.02.2010 | Analysts: How Nokia lost the USA | This post is a follow-up to Monday’s “Why can’t Nokia sell phones to Americans?”
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile gadget maker, sells as many phones as its next four competitors combined. Nearly 2 of every 5 mobile phones bought last year ... |
| 27.04.2009 | How to manage your Internet company in the downturn? Ask Sukhinder Singh Cassidy | If you’re an entrepreneur, there’s a good chance you’re hurting from the economic downturn.
More crucial than ever is the ability for companies to scrape in enough revenue — through aggressive and innovative sales and operations efforts — t... |
| 07.04.2009 | Yet another Googler leaves: Singh Cassidy joins Accel Partners | The exodus from Google continues at a torrid pace.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google’s president for Asia-Pacific (APAC) & Latin American Operations, has left the company to join Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm tha... |
| 29.03.2009 | Follow the Mobile User | This guest post is written by Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products. (Prior to Google, he spent 15 years at Microsoft, most recently as their GM of Platform Evangelism.) Vic credits his now-7... |
| 07.02.2008 | ZTE enters US market with MetroPCS | Today marks ZTE’s (who?) first crack into the US market with a CDMA clamshell for MetroPCS. The C88 features a VGA camera, Bluetooth, e-mail (@metro), 2-inch screen, WAP, 60MB of built-in memory and comes with Sudoku. We’ve got one in house... |
| 20.09.2007 | No Contract Unlimited Calling from Sprint-Nextel? | Sprint’s chief executive Gary Forsee told a Goldman Sachs investor conference yesterday that Sprint is thinking about expanding the test area for an unlimited calling plan that doesn’t require customers to sign a contract. Customers pay a m... |
| 17.09.2007 | Leap Wireless to MetroPCS: No Thanks | Leap Wireless, the wireless company behind the Cricket and Jump Mobile brands, said Sunday that it will reject an unsolicited acquisition offer from competitor MetroPCS.
MetroPCS is a regional carrier which has operations in the metropolita... |
| 19.04.2007 | MetroPCS raises $1.15 billion in IPO, biggest to date in U.S. | Dallas-based cell-phone service provider MetroPCS Communications has raised $1.15 billion in its initial public offering, the largest U.S. IPO of the year.
The offering priced at $23 per share, above the forecast range of $19 to $21 a share... |
| 05.01.2007 | MetroPCS files $1.125 billion IPO, giving Accel Partners big boost | MetroPCS Communications, of Dallas, has filed to raise up to $1.125 billion in an initial public offering.
It is significant because only six IPOs worth $1 billion or more were seen in 2006, out of a total of 200.
The company, which provide... |
