6 billion smartphones in use by 2020

By the end of the decade, there will be 9 billion mobile connections across the globe. And while 3 billion will be data terminals, dongles, routers and feature phones, the other two thirds will be smartphone handsets, according to the GSMA.

CTIA CEO eyes new swaths of wireless spectrum

Former FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker recently became the CEO of the CTIA wireless trade group. She takes the reins at a particularly active time in the industry: Wireless technology is being embedded in everything from refrigerators to health monitors, from...