Telecom & Wireless

Telecom & Wireless Articles

Sprint (NYSE: S) announced consolidated net operating revenues in the quarter were $9.8 billion, compared to $10.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006. The net loss for the quarter was $29.5...
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has become one of the top 10 handset makers in the world. Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) also joined the list in the fourth quarter of 2007. Nokia (NYSE:NOK) remains the leader...
If there is one ugly telecom company in the major telecom stocks, it is Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S).  The company reports earnings tomorrow morning.  The estimates from First Call are $0.18 EPS...
Nortel (NYSE: NT) is going to fire 2,100 poor souls as its business has gone into a flat spin. Telecom equipment companies have been falling like flies with recent poor reports from Alcatel-Lucent...
Shares of telecom company Qwest (NYSE: Q) are up almost 8% on news that it wants a better deal with Sprint (NYSE: S) for providing wireless service in its region which includes 14 states. "We need a...
Wall St. is expecting Motorola (NYSE: MOT) to sell about 32 million handsets this quarter. Oppenheimer has cut its rating on the company to "perform" from "outperform" and says that unit sales will...
Perhaps the prospect of Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) COO Kevin O’Hara speaking at the Merrill Lynch Communications Services Forum next week drove investors out of the stock. Shares were at $2.50 two days...
LG Electronics, the world’s No.5 handset maker, recently said it could win more share from Motorola (NYSE: MOT)."Yes, we’ll increase our market share sharply," LG’s chief executive Nam Yong...
Research in Motion NASDAQ: RIMM) has raised its subscriber forecasts this morning.  The maker of Blackberry now expects its net subscriber additions for its fourth quarter to be approximately 15% to...
Industry-wide price wars are like the old Western range wars. They don’t happen often but when they do they are violent and have sudden onsets. A new home-phone program from T-Mobile is about to...
Now that its rivals (AT&T NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless have gone to $99.99 a month unlimited calling plans, Sprint (NYSE: S) needs to get it in gear. It has had trouble adding new wireless...
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) posted earnings above plan at $1.31 EPS versus First Call consensus of $1.11, while revenues were $1.22 Billion versus the $1.05 Billion consensus estimate.  Despite the...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been the cock of the walk, but that has changed. Yesterday, the shares hit a 52-week low at $35.19. The large run-up in Verizon’s stock last year was based on two things. The...
"For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost." After a highly successful roll-out of its fiber-to-the-home broadband and TV product, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has run into a snag. It cannot get enough set-top...
Every time Wall St. looks at Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) it sees promise. The company provides broadband pipes all over the US and some abroad. In a world where high-speed data, video, and voice are...