Wireless Blogger

There is a new free mobile broadband service coming in the 2nd half of 2012. FreedomPop, backed by Skype’s co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, has formed a partnership with Clearwire to provide an innovative and disruptive 4G mobile broadband service in the United States.

Here is more from their press release today:

Clearwire Corporation (Nasdaq:CLWR), a leading provider of 4G mobile broadband services in the U.S., and FreedomPop, the disruptive wireless broadband company backed by Niklas Zennstrom, recently announced the formation of a strategic wholesale relationship that will support FreedomPop’s innovative and disruptive 4G mobile broadband service in the U.S.

There was a time when land line telephone service was standard in every household with telephone access. That era is now effectively gone; the land line has been replaced in many households with cellular service. Cell phones are more convenient because of their portability. Given advancements in satellite internet and portable internet technologies, hardwired Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and land line telephone service may soon share the same fate.

In an effort to keep their current customers and thank them for their patience during the recent unprecedented service interruptions, Research in Motion (RIM) is offering their Blackberry customers free Apps. RIM’s enterprise customers will be offered a free month of technical support.

AT&T has launched the AT&T Voicemail Viewer app, which lets AT&T U-verse® Voice customers easily check and manage their home telephone messages with visual voicemail on their smartphone.

Much like an email inbox, the Voicemail Viewer app lists your home voicemail messages and allows you to choose the order in which you wish to listen to them. The app also provides a notification when a new voicemail arrives in your home phone, plus the ability to delete voicemails remotely. Additional features include:

Verizon Wireless has launched their Verizon Wireless Trade-In Plan, which permits clients from any wi-fi carrier to get worth from no-longer-used wireless gadgets and help the atmosphere at the same time.

Customers who take part within the Trade-In Plan will submit their gadgets for appraisal online at www.trade-in.vzw.com and receive a postage-paid envelope to mail in the devices. In exchange for buying and selling in their gadgets, customers may receive a Verizon Wireless gift card by mail. The amount of the gift card will probably be based on the make, model and situation of the device and can be used toward the buy of telephones and equipment or to pay Verizon Wireless bills. Devices that haven’t any appraised value can still be sent in for recycling.