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Touches on the potential of the iPhone 5 to have NFC and how that will popularize NFC in Europe since there is no carrier exclusivity there. Since AT&T/Verizon have iPhone now, could see something similar take place in the US.

Their findings showed that Verizon's LTE network performed with a 100% data success rate. Its average data speeds were between 4 and 14.5 times faster than competitors, and average upload speeds were between 4.7 and 49.3 times faster.

AT&T said on Sunday it would buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, creating the largest wireless company in the United States from what were the nation's second and fourth providers.

ISIS - American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa -- have agreed to support a mobile commerce platform developed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.

"Mobile phone carriers, credit card companies, and third-party sluggers, like Google and PayPal, all gain--either through selling hardware, or through transaction fees and revenue-sharing."

Prime time in mobile is shaping up to look a lot like TV: Working stiffs turn to their phones after they've logged off their computers for the day and plopped down on the couch at home. Users surf the mobile web and apps on phones most during the early evening, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., and keep usage up through the night, according to a recent study from third-party ad server MediaMind. Looking at billions of mobile ad impressions across devices, carriers and operating systems, mobile ad click-through rates are also highest between 7 p.m. and midnight, with clicks reaching a peak at 8 p.m. MediaMind serves global campaigns for advertisers and agencies in all digital media, including mobile.