The Department of Justice will have a hard time unearthing damaging evidence that mobile carriers in the U.S., including AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), abused their power in recent years, according to several lawmakers and regulators. An article in BusinessWeek today dives into rumors reported by the…

Neither Sprint (NYSE: S) nor Palm (NSDQ: PALM) are willing to say how many Palm Pres they have been able to sell, but that doesn’t stop people from speculating. A report released today says the Palm Pre is failing to meet expectations and sales are falling, which is in stark…

The recent introduction of a $45 unlimited calling and texting plan by Tracfone Wireless has kicked off another round of price wars in the wireless industry, which may lead to consolidation in the pre-paid market, Dow Jones Newswires reports. In recent months, pre-paid offerings have gotten more popular as they…

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The Department of Justice has started reviewing the practices of mobile carriers in the U.S., including AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), to determine if they have abused their power in recent years, reports the WSJ, which quotes unnamed people familiar with the situation. At this point, it’s…

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The conventional wisdom around Palm’s comeback device is that the Pre has been overshadowed by the launch of the latest iPhone, which has put a damper on sales. But have the number of Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre’s sold so far been seriously underestimated? Charter (NSDQ: CHTR) Equity Research analyst Edward…

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) will start selling very aggressively priced internet bundles—including both wireless and wired networks—tomorrow in Portland, Ore. as part of its investment in Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR). The service, being called High-Speed 2go by Comcast, will be available in other cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and more areas by the…

Sprint (NYSE: S) probably shouldn’t be bragging about how it can’t keep inventory in stock, but nonetheless, it was clear in saying today that it continues to have shortages of the new Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre. To boot, it claims not to have felt any impact from the new iPhone.…

The success of the “Facebook phone,” built by INQ, has not been lost on either carriers or handset-makers, which are starting to introduce copycats into the market. The beauty of the INQ phone is that it commoly drives three to four times more traffic than smartphones that cost three to…

How competitive is the smartphone market becoming? Following last week’s launch of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and the iPhone 3GS comes the roll out of Samsung’s touchscreen Jet, RIM’s 3G Blackberry Tour, and Nokia’s E72 and 5530 XpressMusic. RIM: The 3G-enabled Blackberry Tour 9630 will go on sale in…

Several U.S. senators urged the FCC to examine the widespread use of exclusive arrangements between handset makers and carriers to see if they negatively affect competition and choice in the marketplace. Reuters reports that the Senators voiced their concerns in a letter to Michael Copps, acting chairman of the FCC.…

When Palm (NSDQ: PALM) launched the Pre about a week ago, it generally won high praise. But the new device was criticized on one front: its woeful lack of third-party applications. At a time when apps are a growth engine for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and other handset makers, the Palm…

AT&T (NYSE: T) may want iPhone sales to continue at a fast clip, and it may want to extend its exclusive contract with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but it is not willing to drop data plan rates for the phone in order to do that. AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel told Dow…

I now have three Kindles in the house—K1, K2 and the brand-new DX. The first two are my own, nifty little money-making machines for Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) as I load them with newspapers, magazines, blogs and books, all paid for via the credit card linked to my account. Although larger,…

U.S. lawmakers are considering passing legislation that would impose a five-year moratorium on new state and local taxes for cell phones, just in time to prohibit governments from leveraging increasingly popular wireless services—like data and internet—to be a potential revenue source in this economic downturn. Dow Jones reports that taxes…

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) is rolling out a pre-paid offering for the broadband data market, turning the conventional practice of signing up for a two-year broadband data contract on its head. Virgin said the service, called Broadband2Go, won’t require an annual contract, a monthly subscription or an activation fee.…

It’s an exciting time for the industry with a ton of next-generation smartphones hitting store shelves this summer. But it seems Wall Street is reluctant to place bets on which devices will become hits and is wary on just how companies will make money. As a result, many companies from…

Since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone two years ago, it has been the undisputed leader in wireless in terms of driving consumers to use their phones for more than talking. The big question is whether the company can continue stealing the industry’s spotlight with today’s announcement of the iPhone…