On this week’s GeekWire radio show, we’re counting down our top 10 picks from our most popular stories of the year. For this show, we analyzed the top posts of 2014 on GeekWire,… Read More
Verizon debuted a fancy, futuristic retail store last month in Seattle. Now, AT&T is trying to one up the competition with its own “store of the future” across Lake Washington. The wireless… Read More
After the call dropped for the third time, I finally set down my T-Mobile phone and asked my brother-in-law to let me make the call on his Verizon phone. This was while… Read More
No big surprise here: AT&T and Verizon are starting to see an impact from promotions, like the one Sprint announced week, that offers to cut your bill in half. This week AT&T… Read More
Sprint today debuted a new limited-time promotion called “Cut Your Bill in Half Event,” and the deal works exactly as it sounds. Starting this Friday, AT&T and Verizon customers can… Read More
Wireless carriers looking for additional capacity to build out high-speed 4G networks have placed bids exceeding $37 billion in a government auction selling precious airwaves. The auction, dubbed “AWS-3,” kicked off on Nov. 13… Read More
Updated below with answer and winners. We’re back with a special edition of our GeekWire Trivia Challenge this week, with a couple of great prizes to give away: A Samsung Galaxy Alpha and second-generation… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show, we catch up with Brooke Martin, the 14-year-old inventor of the iCPooch webcam and treat dispenser for dogs — the overwhelming audience favorite at… Read More
AT&T expanded its position in the global wireless industry on Friday after agreeing to acquire Mexico-based wireless provider Iusacell for $2.5 billion, including debt. As a result of the deal, AT&T will… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere talks a big game, but he has the numbers to back it up. Now that all of the major wireless carriers’ results are in for the third… Read More
The Federal Trade Commission this morning filed suit against AT&T over the company’s practice of reducing data speeds for customers on unlimited data plans after they reach certain thresholds for data… Read More
A fierce battle broke out this summer among the four major wireless providers, each one trying to offer more data for less. Sprint got the ball rolling by offering to double the amount of… Read More
T-Mobile has not been shy about its goal of overtaking Sprint as the third-largest carrier by the end of the year. So, how is the race going? According to the Bellevue-based carrier,… Read More
French Telecom provider Iliad said today it was pulling the plug on its plans to acquire T-Mobile. So, if not Iliad or Sprint, who else might be interested in the… Read More
AT&T Mobility entered into a $105 million agreement, ending a practice known as “cramming” by which third parties of the telecommunications giant placed unauthorized charges on phone bills. In many… Read More
Bundles of services are nothing new in the “triple play” world of telecom providers, but here’s a different twist: AT&T is now offering Amazon Prime subscriptions as part of a bundle that includes broadband access,… Read More
T-Mobile’s hard-charging CEO John Legere says when they finish overtaking Sprint later this year in total number of customers, the Bellevue-based carrier is gunning for AT&T. “We will overtake Sprint this year, and… Read More
After the City of Seattle asked citizens around CenturyLink Field to limit their social media use in the Stadium District last Thursday during the Seahawks opening game festivities, people weren’t too thrilled.… Read More
Are you happy with your current wireless carrier? This week on the GeekWire radio show, we explore the relative strengths and weaknesses of Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint with help… Read More
The wireless industry has seen more executive changes recently than it has in a decade. Today’s big move comes from AT&T, which is promoting Glenn Lurie to the position of president and… Read More
Amazon never releases sales figures for any of the hardware it builds, but that isn’t stopping others from making their best guesses as to how many units Amazon has sold of the new Fire… Read More
The Windows Phone version of the HTC One (M8) smartphone won’t be a Verizon exclusive forever. That’s the word this morning from AT&T, which announced that it will be carrying the new… Read More
With a T-Mobile merger no longer on the table, Sprint has kicked off a pricing war with the introduction of a family plan that offers twice as much data at same price as… Read More
Verizon comes out ahead of rivals AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint in nearly every category of performance — including reliability, data speeds and phone calls — in a new study of the U.S. wireless market by… Read More
If you can’t join them, beat them. That’s the message from T-Mobile after Sprint this week decided not to pursue a merger with the Bellevue-based wireless carrier. After some initial smack talk,… Read More
A T-Mobile sale has appeared inevitable for almost a year, following constant rumors that it’s in talks with Sprint, and more recently, when a little-known French telecom company made an out-of-the-blue bid. But now,… Read More
T-Mobile is offering a new family plan deal for the next two months, one that CEO John Legere thinks will blow AT&T’s own family plan “completely out of the water.” Starting… Read More
Syntonic Wireless, a Bellevue-based startup founded by two former RealNetworks execs, today announced that it will launch its Syntonic Sponsored Content Store for AT&T mobile subscribers later this summer. The store, in… Read More
“When are you going to do your Test Drive, Tricia?” That was the question T-Mobile CEO John Legere laid on me during our interview following a very passionate — some may argue controversial —… Read More