Sentences with phrase «of mobile carrier»

The days of mobile carrier Short Messaging Service is numbered as people have increasingly adopted instant messaging applications like Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, and others.

SoftBank Group Corp. announced an alliance with the game's developer Niantic Inc. that designated about 3,700 of the mobile carrier's stores in Japan as PokeStops and Gyms within the location - based game.

However, data rates may apply depending of your mobile carrier plan.

As this shift occurs, the role of mobile carriers is changing from just providing wireless, to being purveyors of all of a consumer's connectivity and providing access to mobile video.

Mobile carries include NTT DoCoMo and T - Mobile which unlike its domestic rival, Samsung offering the same tablet model for specific carriers, LG does not alter the specs of those they release to these carriers and the only alteration is on the addition of the mobile carriers logo on it.

The company says that the malware is called Skygofree (named after one of the domains on which it was first spotted), and is usually disguised as a downloadable app on fake sites designed to resemble those of mobile carriers, and promises to increase your internet speeds.

In gauging the performance of mobile carriers during the second half of 2016, RootMetrics ranked Verizon first, followed by AT&T, Sprint and T - Mobile.

Not exact matches

Verizon has reportedly been in talks to acquire startup carrier Mobilicity, and there are reports it has made an initial $ 700 - million offer for Wind Mobile, another of Canada's small telecoms.

May 2 (Reuters)- U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Corp on Wednesday posted net annual income for the first time in 11 years and named a new chief executive ahead of its proposed $ 26 billion merger with bigger rival T - Mobile US Inc..

The top five mobile phone carriers — Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and LG — had owned 90 percent of the industry's profits.

He is best known as the founder of wireless carrier Wind Mobile, which was sold last year for $ 1.6 billion.

Without naming names, Legere says T - Mobile is prepared to acquire some of the smaller U.S. carriers that are still independent.

SoftBank Group Corp's Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is not involved in trying to get the proposed merger of U.S. wireless carriers Sprint Corp and T - Mobile US Inc approved, Sprint's outgoing chief executive said on Thursday.

T - Mobile US — T - Mobile reported quarterly profit of 78 cents per share, 7 cents a share above estimates, with the wireless carrier's revenue also above forecasts as it added more subscribers.

Carriers had presumably kept Google Wallet out of the Secure Element in order to give preference to their Softcard mobile wallet.

China's third - largest carrier China Telecom is preparing a possible bid for a contract to build and run a new mobile broadband network in Mexico and is seeking local partners to join it in a consortium, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

The French flag - carrier was an early target of the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ as it was seen as a terrorist mark and it carried out tests in 2007 on allowing the use of mobile phones on its aircraft.

It has been six months since Rocket Internet, Germany's biggest incubator for online companies, and Ooredoo, Qatar's leading carrier, teamed up to shift mobile e-commerce across Asia into high gear — and, with luck, make a ton of money along the way.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

While T - Mobile (tmus) continued to attract hoards of new customers, larger carriers AT&T (t) reported declining wireless revenue, and Verizon (vz) had difficulty holding onto phone customers in a fiercely competitive market environment.

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iBwave's customers include mobile carriers, equipment giants such as Ericsson and systems integrators, all of which have a stake in improved reception.

Buzzfeed's Alex Kantrowitz traces the origins of Free Basics back to Facebook Zero, or o.Facebook, «a stripped - down, quick - loading, text - only version of Facebook» made available starting in 2010 on select mobile carriers.

«Verizon's portfolio of premium digital and mobile media properties, including Yahoo Sports, will stream in - market and national games, including national pre-season, regular season, playoff games, and the Super Bowl nationwide to sports fans — regardless of mobile network,» Verizon, the no. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, said in a statement.

Shortly after that, however, another of the small carriers — Public Mobile — said it was now positioned to be the industry consolidator with financial backing from Thomvest Seed Capital Inc. and New York's Cartesian Capital.

Bharti Airtel separately said it plans to engage with potential investors to evaluate a stake sale in the combined mobile masts entity, which will have an equity value of 965 billion rupees ($ 14.5 billion), sending the carrier's stock up as much as 5.2 percent.

The success of Wind Mobile, which is angling to become the country's fourth national wireless carrier, has always been in question.

On the very day of Virgin Mobile's fashion show, a new carrier, Mobilicity (formerly Dave Wireless), held its own press event across town.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Here's what the structure looks like: T - Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom will own 42 % of the combined carrier, Sprint parent company SoftBank will own 27 %, and public shareholders get the remaining 31 %.

As Fortune reported when mobile carrier group Three announced a similar move a week ago, it is likely that the law will be on the side of the publishers.

But a merger of the nation's third - and fourth - largest mobile phone carriers would raise questions about whether regulators would allow the combination or block it on antitrust grounds.

The company — which serves electronics vendors, mobile carriers, Internet services and consumers — develops, licenses and manages the distribution of digital music services to companies like Sony and SiriuXM.

The new plan comes on the heels of other renewed and aggressive pushes into unlimited data from rival carriers, most notably T - Mobile, which has grown in recent months while Verizon's mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - MobilMobile, which has grown in recent months while Verizon's mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobilmobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobilmobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - MobileMobile One.

The carrier says its unlimited plan allows users to stream video at an «HD» resolution and that it includes up to 10 GB of LTE mobile hotspot data before cutting that to 3G speeds.

Two weeks ago, the agency alleged that Verizon and AT&T (t) might be in violation of the rules by letting wireless customers watch streaming video services owned by the carriers on mobile phones without using up their data allowances.

T - Mobile slashed the price of its unlimited data plans, the latest move in the carrier's three - year long «Uncarrier» marketing campaign.

The big four wireless carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T - Mobile and Sprint, receive tens of thousands of requests a year from law enforcement for what is known as «cell site location information,» or CSLI.

Eeyo, the maker of Adblock Plus, just announced a new ad - free mobile browser for Android users downloadable from the Android Play Store, while another Israeli company called Shine is currently testing mobile ad blocking for several unnamed mobile carriers in Europe.

Right now, the two carriers run on different wireless standards — CDMA for Sprint and GSM for T - Mobile — but about 20 million phones used by Sprint customers can work on both kinds of networks.

Those included a court challenge over how much of Wind Mobile was foreign - owned; struggles to negotiate tower - sharing agreements with Rogers, Bell and Telus (Rogers owns Canadian Business); and doubt about Wind's future when its biggest investor, Dutch carrier VimpelCom, revealed it was exploring «strategic alternatives» for its stake.

The opposite is feeling more likely — that Son has made a rare blunder by buying a slow - growth mobile carrier in a highly saturated market and is finding it tough to operate or financially engineer his way out of the problem.

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Mobilicity is one of three struggling smaller wireless carriers — the others are WIND Mobile and Public Mobile — in Canada currently being eyed for potential consolidation or new ownership.

Battling for customers who want to buy an iPhone X could bring back some of the deeper discounts and sweeter deals of 2016, they predicted, particularly from smaller carriers Sprint (s) and T - Mobile (tmus).

Wall Street was mighty disappointed when the new Apple iPhone launch did not include news of a deal with China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier, but it might be on the way, according to some China Mobile marketing documents leaked this past week.

Indian regulators took the argument to heart and banned the practice of zero rating, meaning mobile carriers can't charge for a data plan but then exempt some services from counting toward the data limit.

The wireless carrier trots out a celebrity endorsement from Justin Bieber, who stars in this T - Mobile Super Bowl ad as a «celebration expert» who narrates a history of celebratory dances that includes appearances by current and former NFL stars Rob Gronkowski and Terrell Owens.

T - Mobile, which is majority owned by German carrier Deutsche Telekom, said in the past when it offered a choice to let customers turn off the lower - resolution video while using more of their data allowances, 99 % opted to stick with the lower quality.

When the merger takes effect the number of major mobile carriers in the US will shrink from 4 to 3.