RadioShack, the 94-year-old consumer electronic store company, today officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of the filing, RadioShack will sell up to 2,400 stores to a subsidiary of… Read More
Sprint has managed to hold on to its position as the number three wireless carrier in the U.S. through the end of 2014, adding 1 million new connections during the… Read More
Amazon doesn’t have much of a physical retail footprint, but a potential deal with RadioShack could very well change that. Bloomberg Business reported late Monday that Amazon is interested in buying some… Read More
The Blockbuster of electronics stores, RadioShack is reportedly in talks to shutter half its stores and sell the rest to Sprint. As part of a bankruptcy deal, the “locations sold… Read More
One of the best tech ads in Super Bowl 49 came from a non-tech company. Nine tech firms bought actual Super Bowl ad time, defined by Ad Age as, “national ads that ran… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere has joked that he wouldn’t want to get into a fight with Marcelo Claure, the 6-foot-6-inch Sprint CEO. But trading jabs on Twitter is obviously another matter. The… Read More
In its race to stay ahead of T-Mobile, Sprint has decided to offer people switching to its network up to $350 to cover any outstanding installment payments they owe to T-Mobile,… Read More
Google is teaming up with T-Mobile and Sprint to offer its own phone plans, according to a report today from The Information. Code-named Project Nova, it will allow people to… Read More
T-Mobile this morning announced a new slate of budget-oriented prepaid wireless plans, starting at $40/month, for customers willing to give up frills such as tethering, data rollover, free international data… Read More
Sprint announced preliminary results for the company’s fiscal third quarter late today, disclosing it added 967,000 net subscribers in the last three months of the year. Based on these early numbers,… Read More
T-Mobile announced preliminary results for the fourth quarter this morning, disclosing that it added 2.1 million customers during the period, bringing its total customer count to just over 55 million —… Read More
Sprint’s catchy promotion last month that offered to “Cut Your Bill in Half” was very effective in drawing new customers into its stores. A new report released today said visits to Sprint’s stores jumped seven times… Read More
Will T-Mobile overtake Sprint this year? John Legere isn’t so confident anymore. In a letter outlining his predictions for the wireless industry in 2015, T-Mobile’s outspoken CEO made a number… 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
— Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure is now making his mark on the leadership team after cutting 2,000 jobs just weeks ago. As part of the high-level shake-up, Douglas Michelman has been hired as Sprint’s SVP of corporate communications… 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
Sprint reported second-quarter results today that fell way below expectations, and said it will lay off 2,000 employees as it tries to bring costs under control. The third-largest carrier reported an… Read More
Sprint has rolled out faster data speeds in 17 markets, including Seattle, Cleveland, Denver and Sacramento. The service, which it has dubbed “Sprint Spark” offers LTE wireless speeds of 6… 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
Sprint is giving its WiMax customers slightly more than a year to upgrade their phones and wireless modems running on the once promising high-speed network technology. Customers are expected to receive letters in… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere rocked the house at the GeekWire Summit yesterday with his unique brand of brash, profane and outspoken insights into the wireless industry. He held court on all kinds of… Read More
Sprint’s stock has been on the rise this week following the unveiling of the iPhone 6, thanks in part to the wireless carrier’s “iPhone for Life” plan — including unlimited data, talk… 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
T-Mobile, the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S., may find a buyer yet. After nearly a year of ill-fated negotiations with Sprint, it seemed a deal was off of the table… Read More