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Published 10:26 p. m. ET June 3, 2015 | Updated 4:58 p. ET June 4, 2015 CLOSE Reported talks between Dish and T-Mobile reflects pressure in the telecom industry to consolidate. SAN FRANCISCO — Dish Network is in talks to merge with T-Mobile, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The talks to combine the second-largest satellite TV provider with the fourth-largest wireless carrier are in the "formative" stages, one person familiar with the situation told the newspaper. But the companies have agreed that Dish Chief Executive Charlie Ergen would be the company's chairman and T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere would become the combined company's CEO, other sources said. T-Mobile spokeswoman Janice Kapner declined to comment. Dish spokesman John Hall also declined to comment. Under pressure from the Internet, the telecommunications industry is experiencing a wave of consolidation. AT&T is in a $49 billion deal to buy Dish competitor DirecTV. As far back as two years ago, Ergen cited T-Mobile ( TMUS) as a compatible merger partner.
German mobile phone operator T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH plans to offer a low-cost notebook with three wireless connectivity options in a move to promote its high-speed mobile data services in Europe's largest cellular market. The notebooks, to be manufactured by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV, will be equipped with third-generation ( 3G), High Speed Downlink Packet Access ( HSDPA) and wireless LAN ( WLAN) technologies, T-Mobile said Thursday in a statement. The computers will be available in the second quarter of 2006 to customers in Germany, according to a T-Mobile spokeswoman. "We can't say right now whether or not the offer will be extended to T-Mobile customers outside the country, " she said. T-Mobile Deutschland is a unit of T-Mobile International AG, which has more than 80 million customers in nine markets in Europe and North America. T-Mobile International is a wholly owned subsidiary of German telco Deutsche Telekom AG. The primary targets for the high-speed wireless notebooks are business users, the spokeswoman said.
T-Mobile UK has quietly removed the option for customers on its only unlimited data plan to tether to other devices, which could be a sign that operators are struggling to find a cost-effective way to deal with the impending mobile data crunch. Previously, the Full Monty plans (the cheapest of which is £36 per month) let customers hook up their laptops, tablets or any other Wi-Fi enabled device to their phones. This allowed them to share the phone's data connection with other devices, avoiding the need for a separate contract. However, on the 8 August the option for tethering was silently removed for new subscribers. While the plans still include unlimited data, this is restricted to use only by the handset. This is frustrating for anyone considering The Full Monty plan for its tetherability. But more than that, it's a sign of what we already know to be true: with the explosion of data consumption on mobile devices far outstripping provision of additional capacity, the unlimited data contract as we know it will come to an end.
Fujitsu Siemens is a 50-50 joint venture of Germany's Siemens AG and Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. Blau is a reporter for the IDG News Service. Copyright © 2006 IDG Communications, Inc.
Former T-Mobile spokeswoman Carly Foulkes. Kevin Smith/Business Insider A new report from research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) shows that T-Mobile increased its customer base by a higher percentage than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint in the fourth quarter of 2013. The carrier grew 8% relative to its total share of subscribers in the wireless market, the report says. "In the mobile world, 8% is enormous, " said Michael Levin, one of the authors of CIRP report said in an interview with Business Insider. The results come from interviews with 500 people who activated a new phone during the fourth quarter of 2013. In the report, CIRP says T-Mobile's adoption of the iPhone, contract-free service plans, and smartphone leasing plans all contributed to the carrier's gains that quarter. Out of all the smartphone activations during the period, AT&T accounted for the most with 29%. The CIRP report also says that Sprint was the only carrier that lost customers during the period.
"But in the United case, " Ms. Rosenblat said, "everyone knows what they're earning. "
PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Learn more. T-Mobile is adding presence and large file support to texting, but there are a few mysteries around its approach. T-Mobile today announced that it's improving texting with "advanced messaging, " which adds read receipts, real-time chat, and large file support to SMS through a standard called Rich Communication Services. In other words, it makes texting a lot more like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, or your favorite third-party messaging service. According to a blog post from T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray, Advanced Messaging will work by default, won't require any downloads or third-party apps, and will interoperate with other global carriers using the RCS "joyn" standard. It's starting on the new Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime phone, but will come to the Galaxy S5 and S6 through a software update. " Nearly a dozen more hot devices will come with Advanced Messaging this year alone, and, in the future, we expect it will be a standard feature on new smartphones sold, " the post says.