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Wireless Competiton in Canada Dying

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 17th, 2013

Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to numerous studies. Mobilicity is one of three small [...]

Massive Shift to No Contract Cellular in Q1

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 16th, 2013

New wireless customers are choosing no-contract over contract by 10 to 1, reports Fierce Wireless. The 10 to 1 margin in favor of prepaid in the first quarter is quite significant, says Roger Entner. Tracfone, a no contract operator, became the fastest growing carrier in the United States with 839,000 new customers, in the first [...]

AT&T Launches MVNO Prepaid Service

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 9th, 2013

AT&T is rolling out an MVNO prepaid service, reports Light Reading with the launch of unlimited provider Aio Wireless on its GSM network. The contract-free service is live in Houston, Orlando and Tampa, and Aio plans to expand service across AT&T’s HSPA+ footprint this year. Service plans range from $40 for 250 MB of high-speed [...]

Orbcomm: World’s Largest Container Tracker

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 8th, 2013

Orbcomm, the low earth orbit messaging satellite company, specializing in two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that its ReeferTrak platform has been selected by seven new domestic and international transportation and logistics companies. ReeferTrak enables customers to proactively monitor, manage and remotely control their refrigerated transport assets. By leveraging the power of ReeferTrak’s temperature, fuel [...]

Softbank Okays Sprint to Discuss Dish Deal

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2013

Sprint today announced that it had received from SoftBank a waiver to permit Sprint to enter into discussions with DISH for the purpose of clarifying and obtaining further information from DISH regarding its proposal made on April 15, 2013. The SoftBank waiver does not permit Sprint to provide non-public information to DISH nor does it [...]

Distributed Networks: Trains, Planes and AT&T

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2013

Time Warner Cable says it will expand its Wi-Fi network in Austin, and plans to add hundreds of additional hotspots this year. Time Warner’s app, TWC Wi-Fi Finder, helps customers find its hotspots. It’s free for Time Warner’s customers with Internet, but non-TWC customers must pay, starting at $3 per hour. Meanwhile, the first phase [...]