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MediaTek Breaks into US LTE carrier market with Helio P10 in LG X Power for Sprint’s CDMA NetworkOctober 18, 2016On September 16th, 2016, MediaTek announced their first LTE smartphone win for the Sprint network in the US with the LG X Power model LS755. This design win on a major US carrier is significant in that it represents...Subscribers Only
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Years in the Making, Intel modem chip finally returns to iPhoneSeptember 21, 2016After months, if not years, of whispers about a significant LTE thin modem design win, Intel’s 3rd generation XMM7360 CAT-9 modem was discovered inside certain models of the latest Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. This was the first time since the iPhone 4 in 2010 that Intel (then Infineon) had a design win in the premier smartphone brand; back in a time when the iPhone was still a carrier exclusive device to AT&T.
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Trade sanction ordeal likely to spur ZTE’s internal mobile chipset effortsApril 19, 2016Two weeks after the US Commerce Department placed trade sanctions on ZTE over allegedly skirting US export controls laws (see US trade restrictions could be disastrous for ZTE’s smartphone business), a 3-month temporary lift of the sanction was put in place after “active” and “constructive” talks with the US government.Subscribers Only
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CES 2016: US wireless carriers end device subsidies opening up market opportunities for mid-range and open channel OEM playersJanuary 19, 2016With all four major US carriers announcing an end to 2-year contracts and device subsidies, smartphone financing and sales will likely undergo a transformational change which will invariably move the US smartphone distribution model closer to that of the rest of the world and expose the real cost of devices to the end consumer.
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AT&T makes a calculated bet on the irrelevance of smartphone subsidiesJanuary 07, 2016As of January 2016, subscribers will no longer be able to get smartphones on a two year subsidised contract. New subscribers will be offered AT&T’s Next plan, and will pay instalments on the full price of the smartphone...
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T-Mobile launches zero-rated Binge On video serviceNovember 13, 2015T-Mobile USA has launched its 10th Un-carrier initiative “Binge On”, offering a new zero-rated streaming video service.
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AT&T and DirecTV merge to form the largest pay TV provider in the USAJuly 30, 2015AT&T’s $48.5 billion acquisition of the largest satellite provider in the U.S., DirecTV, was officially completed on July 24. The approval – with conditions – was issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The newly formed company will be comprised of more than 26.3 million domestic video subscribers, surpassing Comcast as the largest pay TV provider in the U.S.Subscribers Only
