Telecom & Wireless

Telecom & Wireless Articles

Comcast (CMCSA), the nation’s largest cable company, hit a 52-week low today at $23.13. AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are within pennies of their annual highs. It was not supposed to work out this...
The awaited IPO of Virgin Mobile is much closer to coming out.  The company has set terms at 27.5 million shares, with 25.55+ million coming from the company itself.  Virgin Mobile has taken the...
It seems that its legal problems with the likes of Broadcom (BRCM) and Nokia (NOK) are not hurting Qualcomm’s (QCOM) short-term business. The company said it anticipates fourth fiscal quarter...
Barron’s is reporting that Cowen says there will be a shortage of mobile handsets in the US “the millions of units.” The research firm indicates that this is good news for Motorola (MOT) and...
According to Forrester Research, the percentage of North American handset owners who watch video sits at a mere 4%. The news comes as Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon (VZ) and Vodafone...
Nokia (NOK) is launching a new phone on which "users can make calls over the Internet when they are in range of an unlicensed wireless network, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi," according to Reuters. That...
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) has issued guidance and said it expects revenue to be in the range of $359 million to $361 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2008.  Earnings per diluted share are...
Apple and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile, the leading network operator in Germany, will be the exclusive German carrier of Apple’s iPhone when it makes its debut in Germany on November 9....
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Germantown, MD-based Cognio, Inc., a company involved in wireless spectrum analysis and management for wireless networks. ...
In the wireless markets in Europe, they give the phones away. Even the super-nice ones like the Nokia (NOK) N 95. And, the really souped up handsets work on 3G networks. Analysts watching for the...
Nokia (NOK) has started its own music store to compete with Apple (AAPL) iTunes, so why not have its own online advertising operation? Early today NOK bought U.S.cellphone screen advertising firm...
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is buying SunCom Wireless (TPC) for $1.6 billion. The German phone giant will pay $27 a share. TPC stock closed at $22 on Friday. SunCom has one million customers "in the...
The FCC decides that in the next auction of wireless spectrum, it would set aside part of the airwaves for open use. Consumers would be able to use whatever devices could connect on those frequencies...
24/7 Wall St. mentioned a few days ago that Level 3 (LVLT) has traded off sharply this year, probably due to its huge level of junk debt. The company has been able to push out the maturity date on...
Shares in telecom equipment supplier Nortel (NT) hit a 52-week low at $16.39 down from their one year high of $31.79. Nortel is one of the largest competitors to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), which warned on...