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As this post goes live on the web, I am giving a presentation on How to Choose a Smartphone at the West Sound Technology Association meeting. I’ve actually been working on this presentation since November. Nice to finally …

T-Mobile USA’s new rate plans were announced today: Even More and Even More Plus. The Even More plans look like a rather traditional plan with a subsidized handset and 2-year contract with unlimited voice …

I got the opportunity to talk with Chris Guttman-McCabe, Amy Storey, and David Redl of CTIA on Monday. After giving them a bad time on my blog over the years, it was nice to have an actual conversation with the CTIA. I give them credit for engaging me in conversation.

Having had this conversation, I understand where they are coming from. I appreciate that they are trying to bring some facts to an otherwise emotionally charged debate about the state of the mobile telephony industry in the US.

With that in mind, here are the areas we talked about:

Clearly, my current employer feels threatened by the current economic conditions as they’ve announced they are asking up to 1,000 people to leave on their own in order to lessen “the need for involuntary redundancies.” Internally, of course, there were …

I recently signed up for the T-Mobile @Home service through the folks that support voice services at Nokia, where I work. …

Did I mention that I have a lot of crap in my inbox?

Lycamobile Pay-as-you-go SIM Cards: If you want to make lots of international calls from your mobile phone, Lycamobile is one such solution …

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Ok, this has come up again. Deutsche Telecom, the company that owns T-Mobile in the U.S., is supposedly …

Given the announcements earlier this week that Sprint rivals Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile just announced, we haven’t really heard from Sprint on what they plan to do. They’ve announced a $120 all-you-can-eat …

If you haven’t been following the various tech blogs over the past 24 hours or so, you’ve missed out on the announcements about Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all offering “unlimited voice …

I can’t say I saw this coming, but the word is out that Starbucks shreds their hotspot deal with T-Mobile and goes with AT&T. The good news is that T-Mobile customers will still be able to use the Starbucks …