Telecom & Wireless
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Last September, Vonage (VG) had a share price of about $7.25 and a market cap of $1.1 billion. The company had two million subscribers. That valued each subscriber at $550. When the company had its...
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AT&T (T) may not follow its fellow telecom giant Verizon (VZ) into the fiber to the home business, at least not to the tune of $23 billion. Verizon is counting on picking up cable customers by...
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Vonage was ordered to suspend signing up new customers. The VoIP company had lost a case in which Verizon (VZ) had accused it of violating certain patents. The next step was for Verizon to use the...
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Bernstein Research predicts that Comcast (CMCSA) will pass Vonage (VG) as the No.1 provider of VoIP service in the US when Q1 is reported. The firm’s analysis shows that the largest US cable...
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Perhaps it will never end, and cell phone chip company Qualcomm (QCOM) will battle with its largest customer, Nokia (NOK) until the end of ages. With Nokia’s license of Qualcomm’s products...
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The new Nokia-Siemens (NOK)(SI) joint telecom equipment venture is starting to see more demand for WiMax technology. Management from the JV was quoted by Reuters as saying: "WiMAX will make wireless...
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AT&T (T) and American Movi (AMX)l are offering almost $3.5 billion to take over two-thirds of the holding company that controls Italy’s largest phone company, Telecom Italia (TI). AT&T is...
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Motorola’s (MOT) problems with its huge cell phone unit are well chronicled. The hot RAZR phone is not hot any more and both unit sales and margins are dropping. Carl Icahn has bought a piece of...
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Is June 11, 2007 the REAL release date for the Apple (AAPL-NASDAQ) iPhone via AT&T’s (T-NYSE) Cingular? CNet is reporting that June 11 is the confirmed date for this highly anticipated...
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Vodafone (VOD) mostly operates in the mature European markets. It holds a big stake in Verizon (VZ) Wireless. Today is announced competitive pressures, dropping prices and regulatory issues were...
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Competitors won’t leave Microsoft (MSFT) alone. Time Warner (TWX) sued it over Netscape. RealNetworks (RNWK) sued it over its multimedia player. Even a little company called Burst sued the big...
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The Wall Street Journal speculated that Sprint’s (S) CEO might be under a lot of pressure to turn the phone company around. That pressure may just have gotten worse. According to The Associated...
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LG Electronics Inc. has reached an agreement with Google (GOOG) to bundle in its search products on its mobile phones. LG said it plans to start shipping select handsets with Google Maps, Blogger...
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In a move to differentiate its TV service over fiber, Verizon (VZ) will launch a local TV station in Washington. Part of the programming will come from local news anchors and part will be user...
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The US Department of Commerce is crying about China’s plan to use a local standard for next generation cell service. It argues that the move does not give consumers a choice. According to The...
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