Now if you thought your breakup cost you a lot then prepare to be humbled. AT&T has officially announced that it has drop plans to merge with its competitor T-Mobile USA. As you would have figured, the announcement of AT&T possibly engulfing T-Mobile USA had resulted in customer losses as well as decrease in sales of T-Mobile phones during the period of uncertainty. And now it's time for AT&T to pay up.

Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, Professor Barbara van Schewich, has requested the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate Verizon Wireless for allegedly blocking Google Wallet on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

With Carrier IQ garnering up a lot of bad press lately, it comes as no surprise that Sprint is in damage control mode after bragging, "Carrier IQ can be found on most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones" on their network.

The ITC (International Trade Commission) has ruled today that HTC has infringed on one of Apple's patents to do with formatted data that can be interacted with. As such, HTC products with this feature will face a ban starting April 2012 in the US.

Speaking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference this week, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam hinted that the largest carrier in the US will likely be seeing family shared data plans some time in 2012.