“It was a big day yesterday, but it’s a marathon not a sprint,” Lou Ambio, executive director, consumer pricing, at Verizon told Wireless Week in an interview on Friday. But initial stats are looking pretty good for the carrier’s plan renovations released earlier this week. Verizon revealed to Wireless Week that the most customer migrations…
Plan Renovation: Verizon Ups Prices But Adds More Data
Verizon used a press event on Wednesday to roll out the news it promised last week to address customer pain points like overages and billing anxieties. Customers can reportedly pay an additional $5-10 a month to get more data as well as carryover data that now lets them maintain the previous month’s data. Additionally, a safety mode…
Bendable, Curved, Foldable: New Report Looks at the Future of Wearable and Mobile Displays
Revenue from flexible displays is expected to increase more than 300 percent from $3.7 billion in 2016 to $15.5 billion in 2022, according to the new IHS “Flexible Display Market Tracker” report. The research firm also foresees that flexible displays will make up 13 percent of total display market revenue in 2020. Samsung Electronics and LG…
Qualcomm Sues Meizu for Patent Infringement in China
Qualcomm is suing Chinese smartphone maker Meizu. The company reports it filed a complaint in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court citing alleged violation of intellectual property. The complaint seeks a ruling that the offered patent license terms should form the basis for a license with Meizu for Qualcomm’s technologies patented in China for use in…
T-Mobile Offers Unlimited LTE for Travelers in Europe and Free In-Flight WiFi for Everybody
T-Mobile is targeting the summer travel season with three new marketing moves. This comes on the heels of the company’s Uncarrier 11 promotion, which you can hear more about here. Customers will reportedly get unlimited high-speed data, up to 4G LTE speeds, throughout Europe this summer. T-Mobile also announced that everyone, including Verizon and AT&T…
Research Firm Projection: 5G Service Revenue Could Reach $247 Billion in 2025
ABI Research is projecting that mobile broadband operators will snag 5G revenues of $247 billion in 2025 with North America, Asia-Pacific and Western Europe as the top markets. Network operators, vendors and standards bodies will finalize technical details concerning the millimeter wave by 2020, with rollout ramping up afterward, according to the research firm. “5G will be a fast-growing cellular technology, most probably faster…
AT&T Offers Two-Year Price Lock on Bundles
Indicating a further move to help drive its satellite TV offering into more homes in the age of cord cutting, AT&T announced a two-year guaranteed pricing for new DirecTV, home Internet and digital home phone customers through a bundling deal starting Thursday. Customers are being offered the DirecTV Select package for $50 a month, guaranteed for…