Another piece in Apple’s worldwide expansion looks like it might at long last be coming into view: the leading CDMA operator in China, China Telecom, says that it will start to sell the iPhone 4S by the end of this month or early March.

A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its failed bid to buy T-Mobile USA. The carrier swung to a loss and failed to meet analysts’ estimates on earnings, partly down to a $4…

Sprint (NYSE: S) will no longer require the companies who make phones for its network to install Carrier IQ’s software, which prompted an uproar after the software was thought to be logging keystrokes. Although the software itself appears legit, Sprint’s desire for that much information about its users raised further…

The first day of CES 2012 was a mobile one: dozens of new smartphones and tablets were announced as traditional PC companies and rising smartphone powers showed off some of their best ideas for the first half of 2012. The Windows Phone crowd probably stole the show with Nokia’s Lumia…

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics…

Sprint (NYSE: S) is retrenching a bit following an exhausting year for the company, combining its consumer and business divisions in a move designed to save cash that also recognizes the nature of the modern smartphone buyer.

Sprint’s preparing an ad campaign for its own version of the Galaxy Nexus, which is probably set to launch over the course of the next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ads featuring Samsung’s Android 4.0 phone on Sprint’s brand-new LTE network appeared on CNET Thursday ahead…

One of the most audacious and controversial mergers in mobile history is dead, and give AT&T (NYSE: T) at least a little credit for understanding when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. In the face of two defiant government agencies AT&T had little chance but to call off…

Carrier IQ has released the most detailed assessment of what its controversial software can and can’t do on your mobile phone, weeks after it first entered the mobile consciousness when it appeared to be tracking individual keystrokes. The reality appears less sinister, but it’s still not clear how wireless carriers…

Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed that there was no competitive issue between YouMail and T-Mobile, but actually a glitch for some 15,000 users of the app that resulted in battery drain and network strain—a…

The launch of the iPhone 4S was a little more interesting than other iPhone launches because for the first time three carriers were on board at launch day: AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon, and Sprint (NYSE: S). So who has benefited the most since October?

There is no question that we love our mobile devices. There’s also no question that we are paranoid about how much of ourselves we pour into the most personal computers ever created, which is why that even if some of the initial concerns were overblown, this week’s flap over the…

A big move for Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) today, and something of a seismic shift for the cable industry as it moves away from its fixation on offering its own wireless services to complement their broadband, TV and phone offerings: Verizon has agreed on a deal to pay $3.6 billion…

Sprint (NYSE: S), HTC, and Carrier IQ—the companies at the heart of a growing tempest over privacy rights on smartphones—have broken their silence about Carrier IQ’s software, which is billed as a diagnostic tool for wireless carriers but has been shown to record keystrokes and even encrypted search terms on…

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) will live to fight on thanks to a cash infusion from its good buddy (or frustrated spouse, depending on how you see things) Sprint (NYSE: S), which has agreed to spend as much as $1.6 billion in payments to use Clearwire’s WiMax network over the next several…

Call this one a not-so-sweet release for AT&T (NYSE: T). The Federal Communications Commission has said has let AT&T drop its FCC application for regulatory approval to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. But it didn’t stop the FCC from also publishing a detailed staff analysis explaining why it thought the…

Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing their merger application from the FCC. Additionally, AT&T will post a charge of $4 billion due to the risk of the deal collapsing. The news comes…

When the cable operator Cox launched its “unbelievably fair” wireless service in the U.S. a year ago, we asked right off whether the company had the scale to pick up enough subscribers to make the service profitable, in the face of an already saturated and competitive market. Today we have…

Coincidence or design? Today came not one but two developments on the state of unlocked iPhone 4S devices: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will start to take orders for unlocked iPhone 4S devices just as Sprint (NYSE: S) has confirmed that it will lock all 4S’s that are sold on its network…