T-Mobile News

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile are exploring an unlikely business alliance to develop a mobile payments system in the U.S., as the carriers look to break into the rapidly expanding credit card services industry.

T-Mobile said it has expanded its souped-up HSPA-plus service to 24 additional cities, speeding up the embattled carrier's network to keep pace with faster technology from rivals Verizon and Sprint.

Sprint is considering a move to new fourth-generation, or 4G, technology that could open the road for a merger with T-Mobile, allowing the struggling companies to more effectively compete with rivals Verizon and AT&T.

T-Mobile plans to release the Motorola Charm, a compact Android-based phone with a touch screen display, keyboard and trackpad on the back, in the coming months.

T-Mobile today said it is stopping sales of Microsoft's Sidekick brand of messaging phones, amid increasingly crippling assaults from more sophisticated devices from Apple and Google.

T-Mobile today said it would add three Samsung messaging phones -- the Smiley, Gravity 3 and Gravity T -- to its offering as it looks to return to profitability.

T-Mobile will offer every phone for free to customers who sign up for a family plans at its retail stores this Saturday -- just days before rival AT&T releases Apple's iPhone 4.

T-Mobile may carry the iPhone as early as this fall, as the beleaguered carrier looks to win back subscribers and Apple expands to other carriers to keep pace with the rising tide of Android-based devices.

T-Mobile plans to launch the Nokia E73, a thin Symbian smartphone with a built-in keyboard, on June 16 for $70 with a two-year contract.

T-Mobile plans to sell a trio of phones from LG Electronics, the Sentio and dLite with social-networking capabilities and the GS170, marking a new partnership between the two companies.

T-Mobile said it will sell the Garminfone, a Google Android-based phone with Garmin's proprietary global-positioning navigation software, starting June 9 for $200.

T-Mobile today announced that its chief executive, Robert Dotson, will resign next year, as the beleaguered wireless carrier struggles with falling customer numbers and increasing competition from larger rivals.

T-Mobile today said it is expanding a faster network technology to several Northeast cities, as the struggling carrier tries to answer network upgrades undertaken by rivals.

T-Mobile said it will start offering two unlimited prepaid plans on Wednesday, as the struggling carrier targets the fast-growing segment of cost-conscious consumers that don't want to sign long-term contracts.

T-Mobile posted a weak first-quarter performance, losing 77,000 subscribers, putting pressure on company executives to figure out a solution for the embattled operator.