First, the important news. The iPhone is doing well. "Mobility is a major growth engine for AT&T," Stephenson said. "Our launch with Apple of the breakthrough iPhone has quickly redefined customer expectations…
Dow Jones Industiral Average component and reconstituted "Bells" telecom player AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is set to report earnings Tuesday morning. Shares initially did quite well this year after a a near 50%…
According to The Associated Press: "A decade-old telephone tax intended to help bring affordable service to rural areas has instead turned into something quite different: a bottomless and politically protected well of…
Douglas A. McIntyre In the old days, if you wanted aliens for outer space to have access to you thoughts all you had to do was put on a hat made of tin foil and…
Stock Tickers: AXP, AMZN, BIIB, BNI, CME, DD, HAL, LMT, MRK, PEP, T These may not be the ONLY important earnings, but we wanted to hit most of the major earnings. It…
The head of Qualcomm (QCOM), Paul Jacobs, has worn out his welcome. His father founded the company, so it may be hard to get him out. But, the board has to consider…
The EU has decided to pass over Qualcomm’s (QCOM) new MediaFlo technology in favor of Nokia’s (NOK) mobile-television system as the standard which will be used in Europe. Given that there are…
Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) are both making substantial bets on WiMax networks that will allow handsets and PCs to get over-the-air broadband over an extremely wide geographic area. But, neither company…
Research In Motion (RIMM) is not standing still. It will introduce a new version of its Blackberry that runs on both cellular networks and WiFi. Odd as it may seem, the Apple…
Google (GOOG) is launching a new service that will help mobile handset users search ringtones, games, and other content that consumer can buy from content providers. Google will make money by allowing…
The FT said that Vodafone (VOD) the huge cellular company, was looking at buying Verizon (VZ) for a premium of about 25% or $160 billion. Vodafone issued a denial. Whatever the merits…
Just as there is talk of the FCC opening up spectrum for companies to set up independent voice and data networks, Nokia (NOK) has announced that its adding Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype VoIP…
As the land-line businesses at large telcos like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have been eroded by technology, especially cable-delivered VoIP, earnings have been kept strong by their cellular divisions. Cell subscriber…
Bulls on Charter Communications (CHTR) would argue that the company was almost out of business less than two years ago and that the shares deserve to have had a run. The other…
One of the biggest knocks against the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone is that it works on AT&T (T) 2.5G network and not a newer 3G network. Consumers want that faster connection speed.…
