Telecom & Wireless

Telecom & Wireless Articles

Less than a month ago, Verizon Wireless indicated that it would adopt a data plan that would allow its users to share data among a number of different devices, instead of having to have a separate...
NokiaNokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) has been one of the greatest disasters in telecom and communications out there as far as raw market value lost.  Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is a...
US District Court Judge Richard Posner has decided, for the moment, to dismiss two-year old patent litigation involving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Motorola Mobility, now merged with Google...
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) already has the iPhone for its namesake brand.  Now we have word that its Virgin Mobile USA is following the lead of Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:...
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) best hope to keep from losing substantial market share to Samsung in the United States is to block the distribution of the South Korean firm’s new Galaxy S III. The...
Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from IDC. Total phone...
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched a line of inexpensive touchscreen phones, perhaps to offset its failure in the high end of the smartphone market. Tens of millions of people around the world still do...
Yesterday’s announcement from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) that the company would its own content delivery network (CDN) based on the Open Connect standard. White-box provider Intequus will build...
The Samsung Galaxy S III, which is considered by many observers of the smartphone market to be an iPhone killer, will launch across all four U.S. wireless carriers next week. The handset has been a...
Nintendo has broken the mold of video console design. It needs to do something to get market share back from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) which builds the XBox, and Sony (NYSE: SNE) which makes the PS3....
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the only original equipment manufacturer of cellphones to gain substantial market share in the US based on an average of the three months through April according to a new...
At an investor conference today, the CEO of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) said that data-only subscription plans for wireless networks are “inevitable” as wireless revenues shift more heavily to data...
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) is out with the announcement that many consumers have been hoping for.  The company will now be the first pre-paid cellular carrier in the United...
The board and management of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) apparently would like to sell the company. That will not happen. It is not a good fit with any of the potential buyers. RIM’s...
Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) was halted on NASDAQ trading after the close for ‘news pending’ after rumors had been out of more layoffs heading its way.  The company has now issued a...