TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:
Full news stories today include, new smartphone activations on 12/25, best T-Mobile smartphones, Samsung Galaxy S III, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates from LG and Samsung.
Here's the news that is too short to report:
- Tariff Consultancy predicts that LTE pricing should drop 60% over the next five years as the technology gets more widely deployed by more carriers.
- Asurion reminds consumers who purchased or received cell phones or smartphones as holiday gifts, that they have just 30 days after phone activation to insure the device if it wasn't insured at the time of purchase.
- AT&T announced today that it has completed its acquisition of a spectrum from Qualcomm. AT&T purchased 700 MHz spectrum licenses covering more than 300 million people for approximately $1.9 billion.
- The TouchPad blow-out sale in Austria was just as crazy as it was in the United States. "It was insane. We actually needed hordes of private security and even the Austrian police to prevent the TouchPad situation from escalating into an FFA (Free for All)", said one report. A huge amount of stock was depleted in less than two hours. The "tablet that wouldn't die" continues to sell on eBay for more than the cheap liquidation prices.