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The many problems facing Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) are nearly enough to sink the company without any more help.  A shrinking subscriber base, an expensive network upgrade, operating losses, and...
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has let go 7,000 people since CEO Stephen Elop joined the company after a career at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). He says Nokia will cut another 3,500 jobs. The firm announced it will...
The number of smartphone owners who use Research In Motions’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry is shrinking as a part of the overall market. But, at least the people who use the devices are rich. That is...
The chairman of China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) has said that the world’s largest mobile carrier, with more than 610 million subscribers, does not have a timetable to begin offering the iPhone from...
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has just delivered on another dividend hike, making this the fifth consecutive year that the telecom giant has boosted its payout.  The boost is by $0.0125 to...
Yesterday’s filing by the US Department of Justice in the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T (NYST: T) and T-Mobile may be, in the words of Winston Churchill, just “the end of the...
It looks like Uncle Sam has taken a stand on the buyout by AT&T (NYSE: T) of T-Mobile, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY). The biggest winner might be Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:...
The rich are getting richer in the mobile handset and mobile platform market. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) now claims 9.5% of the handset market with its iPhone, and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) holds...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has made a clever move to make its buyout of T-Mobile more attractive to government regulators. The huge telecommunications company says it will add 5,000 call-center jobs once the...
comScore has just released its smartphone market share and the data continues to support an exodus away from the Blackberry from Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM).  RIM phones as a percentage...
LG, the third largest handset maker in the world, is about to release its new 4G-enabled Thrill. It will be marketed by AT&T (NYSE: T). The Thrill is another in a flood of 4G handsets available...
Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) introduced three new smartphones in Hong Kong today. The new phones use the latest version of the company’s soon-to-be-defunct Symbian operating system....
If there is one thing that we have been wondering about time after time, it is this: WHEN WILL SPRINT SELL THE IPHONE???  Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is reportedly set to begin selling the...
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS continued to gain market share in the U.S. during the second quarter. But that may not matter. The operating system is free because it is open source....
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be in the midst of the development of a 4G iPhone. It is not clear when the product will be released, but if it is in the next few months, Apple has a chance to dominate the...