Monthly Archives: September 2011

(PC Mag)

Boost Mobile prepaid brand is adding a $5 charge to its $50 unlimited plan for new CDMA Android smartphone customers that will go into effect the day before Boost launches a new Android phone from Samsung. (Fierce Wireless)

(DALLAS) – Fonality, North America’s fastest growing business communications company, today released the “State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs.” The study, conducted by Webtorials, surveyed small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) with 10 to 250 employees. It revealed the increasing mobility demands of SMBs finding that 50 percent of these employees are estimated to be working outside the office, with a quarter of staff out at any given time. Other prominent findings include the increased utilization of tablet computers, which will become the standard mobile device within 18 months. In addition, due to increasing mobile dependence, 43 percent of SMBs plan to deploy cloud-based or hosted mobile solutions to improve delivery to employees. (Fierce Enterprise Communications)

AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch its first five LTE markets this Sunday Sept. 18, AT&T CFO John Stephens said during an appearance at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Entertainment & Communications conference. (Fierce Wireless)

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) confirmed it will launch its $50 prepaid unlimited “Unleashed” plan nationwide Thursday. (Fierce Wireless)

Michigan lawmakers are considering eliminating the Personal Property Tax. That’s a tax businesses pay on equipment. The money goes directly to local units of government. Businesses say it’s a complicated tax that punishes them for investing in equipment. Cities, townships, counties and schools say if the tax is eliminated, that revenue has to be replaced. (Michigan Radio)

The Senate passed an overhaul of the U.S. patent system that President Barack Obama has called crucial to his administration’s effort to boost job growth. (Bloomberg)

Unlimited data plans are quickly becoming a thing of the past for both fixed and mobile operators.  …Most experts believe that those types of data packages are just too expensive to provide because operators need to balance the economics of their physical infrastructure with the prices they charge their customers. And data usage is just increasing too quickly for them to be able to make the unlimited price plans economically feasible and technically possible. (Fierce Wireless)

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) will offer Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone next month with unlimited data service plans to distinguish itself from rivals AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless, according to people familiar with the matter. (Bloomberg)

HTC Corp. (2498), Asia’s second-biggest smartphone maker, is using nine patents bought from Google Inc. (GOOG)last week to pursue new infringement claims against Apple Inc. (Bloomberg)