Telecom & Wireless
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Sprint (S) has come up with an unusually clever new business. It has set up deals with 30 retailers to allow customers to compare and buy nearly seven million products over phones that work on its...
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NTP, the same company that filed patent suits against RIMM, has filed claims against Verizon Wireless, AT&T (T) and Sprint (S). NTP won a $612.5 million judgment against the Blackberry maker. NTP...
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In corporate America there are many developments and deployments that never make it public because they are minor events to the company that day. But sometimes even a slight change in technology...
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From Silicon Alley Insider …Jobs has announced plans to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 — a year and a half after launch. But a million iPhones in 74 days works out to a little less...
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Shares in Level 3 (LVLT) won’t stop falling. The stock is down almost 25% in the last six moths with most of that slide coming since early July. LVLT seems to be in a great business. It provide a...
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The Inquirer calls Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone the "Jesus" phone. According to the website, AAPL has signed a deal with 3G hardware provider Interdigital to provide the big consumer electronics company...
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Wall St. would think that providing enterprise solutions and infrastructure to the world’s largest telecom suppliers would be a good business. Nortel (NT) and Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) appear to have...
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NTT Docomo (DCM), which has over half of Japan’s $78 billion wireless market, is cutting its basic fees in half Why? Smaller rivals KDDI and Softbank have brought down their charges. In a...
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AT&T (T) was supposed to get a big benefit from selling the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. But, AAPL may have turned that on its head. With iPhones and iPods that have WiFi access, customers are surfing...
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An interesting thing is going on in PDA-land and Phoneland this week. Palm Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) already disclosed that it is canning its Foleo offering. But another key development that has...
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There are only so many people who can own a cellphone. In Europe and the US, that number is no longer growing quickly. America’s three largest cellular carriers, Sprint (S), AT&T (T), and...
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Tonight I received an email from Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) regarding what was starting to look like the inevitable: that little web gadget, its Foleo, is not just delayed futher; it has been scrubbed. This...
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This morning there was a somewhat surprising merger announcement, although some have speculated this merger was inevitable. MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE:PCS) has sent a letter to Leap...
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Shares of both China Mobile (CHL), the largest Chinese cell company, and No.2 China Unicom (CHU) both sit at 52-week highs. And, no wonder. China Unicom now has almost 151 million subscribers, up...
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As the municipal WiFi business at Earthlink (ELNK) has come under financial pressure, the future of city-wide wireless projects is in trouble. ELNK shares are down over 20% in the last two year, even...
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