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Softbank to Offer Federal Government a Seat on Sprint’s Board of Directors

Posted: May 24, 2013 at 7:35 am

Rather than put up more money in its bid to acquire control of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), Japan’s Softbank Corp. plans to offer the U.S. government the ability to ...
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Dish Network Cites National Security Threat of Sprint Acquisition by Softbank

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 9:15 am

It was perhaps inevitable that the fight between Japan’s Softbank and Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) over Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) would take turn in this direction. In a ...
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Top Ten U.S. Wireless Trends in 2013 for Investors to Bank On

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 7:55 am

The intense battle for the wireless customer and the consumer dollar heated up in the first quarter of 2013. Surprisingly, smartphone activation, which is a key data point for the ...
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Clearwire Shareholders Score Victory with Higher Buyout Offer

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 9:25 am

Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is getting the higher buyout price offer from Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) that has been rumored to be coming. The new increased offer is at ...
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Dish Network Goes After Another Helping of Wireless Spectrum

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 4:33 pm

Earlier this month, wireless network provider LightSquared Inc. received permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use a band of wireless spectrum for a period of three months to ...
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iPhone Market Share Falls in Q1: Gartner

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 10:35 am

In the first quarter of 2013, worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units, up about 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2012. Smartphone sales comprised nearly half ...
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BlackBerry, Nokia Push New Mobile Phones

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 10:45 am

You can be forgiven if you forgot that BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced a new mobile phone dubbed the Q10 in its late January announcement that included the announcement of its ...
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Verizon Wireless Dividend Creates Smoke Screen over Verizon and Vodafone Merger

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 10:15 am

Verizon Communication Inc. (NYSE: VZ) should be a story all about the dividend news today after it said that it would pay out a $7 billion dividend. However, it is ...
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Gartner Says Samsung and Apple Sales Up Despite Smartphone Slowdown Danger

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 6:28 am

First-quarter cellphone sales may have been good for Samsung and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), but the numbers were brutal for their smaller competitors. As a matter of fact, most of ...
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Fifty Billion Apple App Downloads

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 10:55 am

Another day, another countdown. This one touts the success of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store. Last week Apple launched a real-time counter as downloads from the App Store ...
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Windstream Manages Yet Again to Keep Its High-Yield Dividend at 11%

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 12:15 pm

A headline came across the tape today that seems pretty innocuous on the surface. "Windstream Declares 25-Cent Quarterly Dividend" should not rattle anyone much on the surface. The problem is that, ...
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T-Mobile US Earnings Report Sets the Stage

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 8:50 am

T-Mobile US Inc. (NYSE: TMUS) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The wireless provider is the U.S.-listed combination of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit and MetroPCS Communications ...
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Alcatel-Lucent Holders Remain Patient in Annual Meeting, Dilution and Reorg Await

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 11:15 am

Tuesday marked the annual shareholder meeting for troubled telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU). What investors need to know is that the new CEO, Michel Combes, is going to ...
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Dish Network Ready to Go All-In for Sprint

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 10:35 am

When Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) put in its bid of $25.5 billion for Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), there could be little question that the satellite TV provider was ...
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U.S. Cellular May Have Game Changer with iPhone Launch

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 10:15 am

United States Cellular Corp. (NYSE: USM) is the "forgotten about" cellular carrier as it is not all over the country but a small player with 5.7 million customers in 26 ...
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