Telecom & Wireless

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Qualcomm (QCOM) announced that the Administrative Law Judge issued an initial determination terminating an investigation based on a complaint filed by Nokia (NOK) against Qualcomm. Douglas A....
AT&T (T) became the third big telecom company to file a patent suit against Vonage (VG). It follows actions by Sprint (S) and Verizon (VG). Those suits have been settled at a price of over $100...
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:), Richard Branson’s recent pay as you go cellular carrier IPO, managed to pick up its first analyst coverage today.  Stanford Group Company was not in the underwriting...
If you can’t beat them, copy them. Sprint (S) will begin to offer a touch-screen phone that looks great deal like the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. It should be available for the holiday sales season....
A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the...
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) shares are being crushed pre-market after it issued an earnings warning.  It’s been a long time since we saw a reaction in Ericsson shares like this, but shares are trading...
Perhaps the largest single problem in the handset market is that unit prices are falling sharply. Recent earnings releases from Sony Ericsson and Samsung show good growth in the number of handsets...
Samsung sold almost 43 million handsets in the last quarter. During the first three quarters of the year, that number was 115 million, more than the company sold for the entire 2006 calendar year....
“Qualcomm will not be able to take its royalty model further, that’s absolutely clear,” said Dresdner Bank AG analyst Per Lindberg in London, who rates the shares “sell” and expects them to...
Shares of Inphonic (INPC) are off 75% and trading as low as $.44 against a 52-week high of $14.49. The wireless products company announced its board has selected Lazard Middle Market to conduct, in...
Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:VM) has raised $412.5 million after it priced its IPO of 27.5 million shares at $15.00 per share.  25.467 million shares are being sold by the company and the small remainder...
Sony Ericsson, the world’s fourth largest handset maker, came out with results for its third quarter .On the surface, they looked fairly good. Revenue rose 7% to $4.4 billion. But, net revenue fell...
Vonage Holdings (NYSE:VG) announced today that the company has filed a motion for a review by the original three-judge panel or the full panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
AT&T (T) is paying $2.5 billion to buy wireless spectrum from Aloha Partners. According to The Wall Street Journal, Aloha’s footprint covers 196 million people. The spectrum blankets 72 of the...
The FT is reporting that Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) may have lost a big piece of the AT&T (T) wireless business. According to the paper "Ericsson is capitalising on Alcatel-Lucent’s severe...