Huawei has launched more T-Mobile handsets with two additional inexpensive Android phones.
The new inclusions in the company’s product portfolio will be the T-Mobile myTouch and the T-Mobile myTouch Q, both costing $50 after a $50 mail-in rebate card and a new two-year contract.
However, a few downsides to these affordable new phones have been noted, as both carry a relatively outdated mobile operating system in Android 2.3, famously known as “Gingerbread”. The handsets will find it very …

It turns out AT&T was negotiating a deal with Leap Wireless but it wasn’t to simply buy T-Mobile assets once its proposed acquisition of the Deutsche Telekom-owned carrier went through. No, it actually wanted the whole company outright.
This is if a story published by Reuters is to be believed. The news organization is reporting that AT&T and Leap Wireless held talks of a possible acquisition. Furthermore, Reuters says that it “could not learn whether those discussions are still …

UK Mobile Provider Urges UK to Speed Up 4G Services Set Up / image via BBC News

Major mobile service provider Everything Everywhere is prodding the UK government to take immediate steps for the setting up of 4G services in the country, albeit making Britain just the 35 th nation to launch 4G.
BBC reported this morning that the Internet service firm is urging businesses to boost the current 4GBritain campaign which has been urging the London government to quicken the pace toward the launching …

Samsung has revealed which devices coming from U.S. mobile carriers will receive the much-awaited upgrade to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) mobile operating system.
In an FAQ on the Samsung site for the U.S., the South Korean consumer electronics juggernaut revealed that most of the devices it released on U.S. carriers will indeed get the ICS update.
However, those who have the original Galaxy S and the original Galaxy Tab (7-inch) will not get the ICS update.
Similarly, those on …

US Authorities Planning Database to Combat Smartphone Theft / image via cio.com

Led by the US Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), government authorities and the wireless phone industry are fast on the heels of a national database that could track down hijacked smartphones and render them useless once reported stolen.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that officials of the communications commission are set to meet today in Washington with police authorities from New York, …

T-mobile Fires 1,900 Employees

US Internet service provider T-Mobile has announced that will be laying off almost 2,000 employees, mostly holding call center positions, in efforts to slash operating costs amid stiff competition from other giants in the industry.
In a report from New York, CNN quoted T-Mobile USA CEO Phillip Humm as saying that the workforce reduction move was necessary for the company to gain the efficiency needed to invest for further growth.
He disclosed that the layoffs …

The T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 is looking more and more likely to be launched this coming Wednesday basing on a new report.
The report comes via WP Central which says that the T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 has been confirmed via a manual of the device available via the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
The publication writes:
“As it turns out, the actual manual for the device that comes with the phone is now online via the FCC. Scrolling through it reveals fairly standard information, but for …

Despite many setbacks with its planned acquisition, AT&T has said that it will pursue its planned merger with T-Mobile against odds.
The comment was made by AT&T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens on Wednesday at the UBS Conference on Global Media held in New York.
According to Stephens who spoke on Wednesday morning, AT&T will “continue to move forward… to complete the T-Mobile transaction.”
He said that his company and T-Mobile are “motivated to complete a transaction …

AT&T is hoping to get its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile approved by regulators through a deal it is reportedly negotiating with smaller mobile carrier Leap Wireless.
According to a report from The New York Time’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, AT&T is “knee-deep in talks with Leap Wireless” for a possible acquisition of T-Mobile assets if the AT&T and T-Mobile deal gets approved.
Citing unnamed “people involved in the negotiations”, the Times reports that AT&T is hoping Leap …

The failure of AT&T’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile may ultimately spell a bleaker future for smaller wireless carriers in the U.S., analyst have reportedly suggested.
According to Reuters, the comments come from analyst of the firms William Blair and Moody’s.
William Blair analyst Jim Breen suggests that T-Mobile will “emerge as a stronger, more formidable competitor once the uncertainty of the merger has elapsed and its network quality is enhanced via the acquisition of the …