Verizon complains to ad industry self-regulator about T-Mobile LTE speed claims

The National Advertising Division, a Better Business Bureau subsidiary, told T-Mobile to cut it with the "fastest LTE network" claim. It flipped a counter.

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Taiwanese Galaxy Note 7 ad teases August 5 for… something

Beyond the Unpacked event in New York on August 2, we haven’t quite sussed out the dates for how sales for the Galaxy Note 7 will be handled. The best guess we have so far is that pre-orders will be open immediately after the launch. Beyond that, no one has a clue.Samsung is preparing Taiwan for a big Note 7-related happening on August 5 with

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ZTE takes out Wall Street Journal ad, Axon 7 US release a possibility

ZTE is back in the US with a full-page advert on today’s Wall Street Journal giving thanks to “The 30 Million Savviest Mobile Users For Choosing Performance Without Price”.Which is all fine and well if the ad were placed in isolation, but this comes at about a year after the original Axon Pro appeared in the US and days before a launch event in Beijing for the Axon 7. In fact,

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Sprint’s ad faux pas: customer characterizing a ‘ghetto’ T-Mobile

If you don’t know why the term “ghetto” is socially unacceptable as a descriptive term (to say the least), perhaps you should look into our Further Reading link. Sprint looked to no one before publishing one of its videos from the Listening Tour that CEO Marcelo Claure is conducting across the nation.The order of any given clip would be for Claure to ask his panel about words that came to mind when mentioning a carrier. The clip in question came down to this one woman who said:Oh my ...

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