• T-Mobile USA Offers Data-Only Smartphone Plans

    It's a Form of Cutting the Cord for Cellular Users T-Mobile USA recently introduced a series of data-only plans aimed specifically at smartphone users who have no need for traditional ...

  • Google Adds Voice Services to Fiber

    Fixed-Line Service Gets a 21st Century Upgrade This week, Google announced a fixed-line home phone service that runs on top of the company's high-speed Google Fiber broadband service. By combining ...

  • UK Cord-Cutters Pay for Nothing

    Are Rising Land-Line Rental Charges in the UK Justified? With mobile penetration in the UK close to 100 percent, more and more households have been cutting cords into the house. ...

  • Three Argues Bigger Is Better

    UK Operator Argues Its Case for Buying O2 This week, CK Hutchison is meeting with the European Commission to put forward its case that its Three network should be permitted ...

  • US Carrier Highlights, 4Q15

    We Pick Out Notable Elements from Recent Earnings Reports In the excitement of Mobile World Congress, the everyday business of financial reporting can get overlooked. In the US, the last ...

  • Google Teams Up for RCS

    Operators Gain a New Ally in Bid to Boost Rich Communication Services Last week at Mobile World Congress, Google and a series of mobile operators announced an initiative to accelerate ...

  • Does Three Make a Trend?

    Operator Three Debuts Network-Level Ad-Blocking Last autumn, when Jamaica-based operator Digicel announced it would implement network-level ad-blocking technology, the news caused a disproportionate amount of interest among operators and advertisers ...

  • Daily Insight: Mobile World Congress 2016 (Wednesday)

    News and Analysis This is the fourth of our daily reports from Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. Divided into six research areas, it contains a round-up of the show's ...

  • Daily Insight: Mobile World Congress 2016 (Tuesday)

    News and Analysis This is the third of our daily reports from Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. Divided into six research areas, it contains a round-up of the show's ...

  • Ericsson Heads for the Clouds

    Data Deluge Demands Cooperation On Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ericsson and Amazon announced a partnership to bring Ericsson's customers — telecom network operators and service providers — ...