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Telecom & Wireless
Verizon’s (VZ) Big Headache
Fiber was supposed to be Verizon’s (VZ) panacea. Spend $23 billion and lay down 80,000 miles of wire to 18 million homes. But, as Fortune points out fiber has one very significant…
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Investing
NYSE Short Interest For July
Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
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Media
Cramer’s Trade Off Verizon: Sprint (S)
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer has a pretty tall call: he thinks instead of hoping for a Verizon (NYSE:VZ) buyout that was reported/misreported this morning, you should be…
8:19am ET
Investing
Vodafone (VOD) Won’t Buy Verizon
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…
1:13pm ET
Investing
Verizon Wireless Revisited (VZ)(VOD)
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has come out in favor of an activist proposal to put Vodafone’s (VOD) share of Verizon (V) Wireless "in a tracking stock or a new holding company",…
10:17am ET
Investing
Nokia (NOK) And Skype’s Cellular Threat
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…
4:27am ET
Investing
AT&T (T) And Verizon (VZ): Worst Nightmare, Spectrum Sale
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…
4:39am ET
Investing
Charter’s (CHTR) Big Year
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…
9:47am ET
Investing
Verizon’s (VZ) Friend: The Cable Box
There was a time when cable operators picked a box, generally from Motorola (MOT) or the Scientific Atlanta division of Cisco (CSCO). They rented the device out to customers and probably made…
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Investing
Did The Apple (AAPL) iPhone Sell Too Many Or Not Enough
Most media and analysts said that Apple (AAPL) sold over 500,000 iPhones and that the figure showed high than expected demand. TheStreet.com writes that Apple’s own goal was one million units and…
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Investing
T-Mobile Tries To Flank Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone
The New York Times writes that T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsch Telekom (DT) which ranks fourth in subscriber in the US cell market, is launching a line of phones that work on…
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Technology
FTC Ready to Kill Net Neutrality? (T, VZ, CMCSA, TWC)
Stock Tickers: T, VZ, CMCSA, TWC Last night it was a little surprising to see the FTC saying that there was no need for regulation of net neutrality. The FTC’s Deborah Platt…
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Technology
Broadband Growth Rates Bad For AT&T (T) And Verizon (VZ)?
Point Topic, a UK research firm, tracks global broadband growth by country. For the quarter ending in March, the world had almost 300 million broadband subscribers. One of the salient points of…
8:41am ET
Investing
DJIA Components Short Interest Mixed (June 2007)
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As…
4:44pm ET
Telecom & Wireless
Vonage, Actually Making Another Presentation (VG)
Vonage Holdings Corporation (VG-NYSE) has disclosed that the company’s CFO, John Rego, will be speaking in New York City at the Bear Stearns 2007 Technology/Communications/Internet Conference on Monday, June 11, 2007 at…