T-Mobile USA is indeed looking for a U.S. partner to help finance a high-speed data network. T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson said Thursday that his company—which has admitted it is losing business because many of its customers cannot even get 3G—is looking “at JV opportunities for additional spectrum” and has…

Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel may unveil the first 4G phone next week at the big CTIA wireless conference in Las Vegas. The device, which is reportedly made by HTC and called ‘the Supersonic,’ will run on the company’s WiMax network, which is being built by Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), reports the…

If you are holding out for a 4G phone for your next purchase, don’t bother. Verizon Wireless will not have its very first 4G handset until mid-2011. While that’s about six months earlier than the company had said before, that’s still far enough away to burn through another contract, especially…

In an appearance this morning at a Seattle breakfast event, former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, now a partner at Patton Boggs, was careful not to offer any jabs at the current administration. Instead, he focused on the current administration’s plans for rolling out a new national broadband plan, scheduled to…

Cable operators are looking for ways to enter the wireless business as consumers disconnect their landline phones in favor of cell phones, and seek ways to connect their laptops while on the go. Cox Communications is building its own cellular network from the ground up; and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time…

WiMax operator Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) says it remains on track in its “aggressive” plan to roll out its 4G network to 120 million people by the end of this year, with Houston the next market to launch in the coming weeks. Other cities due to launch toward the end of…

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While Verizon Wireless and AT&T (NYSE: T) have been duking it out as to which carrier has the largest 3G map, T-Mobile USA has been quietly and quickly building out its high-speed network across the country. To be sure, T-Mobile has been lagging, and still is, but it’s closing the…

AT&T (NYSE: T) has been the least vocal of the largest U.S. carriers on its upgrade plans in the future, but today it confirmed that it will conduct two field trials of high-speed LTE technology this year, and will begin commercial deployments in 2011. Release. Verizon Wireless has been much…

At an event like the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, gadgets are like candy and the creme de la creme are the thinnest TVs, like the ones in the LG (SEO: 066570) booth, or the coolest and most advanced technology, like 3D-video recording and playback. So, when Sprint (NYSE:…

Here are just some of the photos that I collected from the biggest mobile stories at CES in 2010 this past week. The festivities kicked off a little early with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) hosting a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif. offices. There, it unveiled the Nexus One Android…

Sprint (NYSE: S) hosted a surprisingly splashy event tonight at CES complete with comedian Frank Caliendo, food prepared by Chef Mario Batali and guest appearances by Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and Best Buy’s CEO Brian Dunn. With all of the hoopla, everyone expected a big announcement like a new Microsoft…

Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel said today it is appointing Matt Carter to lead the company’s WiMax roll-out. Previously, Carter was VP of Sprint’s prepaid division, which consisted of Boost Mobile. His new role as President of 4G will begin Jan. 11. Release. Sprint owns slightly more than 50 percent of…

You only have to look at the rivalry between AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless to know that mobile broadband will become a choke-point as more users stream video, read email and update their Facebook status on the go. But according to a breakfast panel discussion in Seattle this morning,…

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) said today that its partner Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) has raised enough funding to provide a “reasonable likelihood” that it will be able to build out wireless internet in all 39 states, where the cable company operates. During a conference call this morning, discussing Comcast’s intent to buy…

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) is launching its WiMax service in the greater Seattle area tomorrow, putting it slightly ahead of its goal of reaching 30 million people by the end of the year, according to CEO Bill Morrow, who spoke to mocoNews ahead of the launch. It was exactly three years…

A fresh set of rumors are circulating that Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is looking for a partner in the U.S. to help finance a high-speed data network for its T-Mobile wireless subsidiary. Reuters reports that the German paper Handelsblatt cited unidentified people from the German company as saying they are…

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) was able to raise more debt than originally anticipated, which has bumped up its recent fundraising efforts to a little more than $2 billion, according to a document filed today with the SEC. It gets a bit confusing, but here’s how its fundraising efforts break down: In…

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has been one of the most vocal supporters of the Android operating system. He’s written endlessly about the virtues of the open network, which lets him bypass evil telecom companies, like AT&T (NYSE: T), by using Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Voice. Now, he’s salivating over what’s next,, and…

It’s been a year since Sequoia Capital distributed a memo that later became to be known as “panic notes,” which warned their portfolio companies of a deep impending economic downturn. So, what’s the environment like now? Ask Tom Huseby, a venture capitalist with SeaPoint Ventures, who said today during a…