"Verizon Wireless" news, interviews, and features

News about Verizon Wireless

• FCC rejects proposal favoring small carriers in spectrum auction

  The commission declines to streamline conditions for triggering a spectrum set-aside locking out AT&T and Verizon

• Huge stakes involved in FCC's spectrum auction rules

  The agency will decide on conditions that could prevent AT&T and Verizon from bidding on some spectrum in a 2016 auction

• Cell service at US airports varies from first class to middle-seat coach

  Tests by RootMetrics found coverage is improving but inconsistent

• T-Mobile looks to unseat Sprint as third-largest U.S. carrier

  T-Mobile CEP John Legere predicted T-Mobile will soon displace Sprint as the nation's third-largest carrier.

• Verizon and Sprint to pay a total of $158M for unauthorized text billing

  The carriers agreed to settlements after federal complaints that they allowed charges to be crammed onto customer bills

• Some new Samsung Edge smartphone displays won't auto-rotate

  Some new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone displays won't auto-rotate properly, according to early customers on user forums.

Features about Verizon Wireless

• You'll pay a lot more for an unlocked Nexus 6 smartphone

  Google's new Nexus 6 smartphone will start at $649, unlocked, when pre-orders begin Oct. 29. The price is nearly double the $349 starting price charged ...

• Sprint's cut in data prices won't help its network woes

  'Sprint is hobbled by its network,' one analyst says

• Sprint-T-Mobile merger questions: Will regulators OK it? And, Legere as CEO?

  Merger would create a larger No. 3 carrier, but number of nationwide carriers would fall from four to three

• LG's new G3 smartphone: Simpler is better

  User simplicity runs from camera updates to new user interface

• Studies show Sprint and T-Mobile need to expand U.S. coverage

  Maybe a merger of the 3rd and 4th largest U.S. carriers makes sense?

• Faster upgrade plans like AT&T Next could be new frontier in wireless

  Main targets of new plans are the young and tech savvy, who want latest phones sooner