Wireless carrier T-Mobile US announced Monday morning that it had acquired additional A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for about $2.4 billion in cash and the transfer to Verizon Wireless of approximately $950…
thinkstockJanuary 3, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday following yesterday’s sell-off. Gains and losses were modest throughout the trading day, with the three major indexes not moving far in either direction from…
Wireless phone giant AT&T is offering current customers of T-Mobile US up to $450 to switch carriers. The offer is meant to steal a bit of thunder from next week's expected T-Mobile…
thinkstockDecember 24, 2013: Markets opened higher on a shortened Tuesday trading day. The Nasdaq bounced lower a few times in the first 90 minutes of trading, but soon enough sorted itself out.…
A new Pew study finds that in rural states as many as 50% of households are "wireless only," having abandoned their home phones, probably permanently.
Does struggling smartphone company BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) make a single product consumers or business people want? Because that, more than financial losses and restructuring, is what ultimately matters if the company…
thinkstockDecember 17, 2013: Markets opened mixed on Tuesday, but the DJIA couldn’t hold onto its early gains though it bounced once more into positive territory before settling on the down side. All…
ThinkstockDish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) did all it could, first to acquire Clearwire, then to prevent SoftBank from acquiring a majority position in Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S). Neither plan worked out, but…
Jon Ogg in NYCThe merger gods have their worshipers yearning for more deals going into year-end. The proposed merger of Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) is not exactly…
courtesy of Sprint Corp.What the U.S. wireless market needs, at least according to Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) is three major wireless carriers, not four, and the Japanese-controlled firm is reported to be…
thinkstockDecember 11, 2013: Markets opened lower again on Wednesday morning on another day of relatively light trading and yet more profit-taking. The DJIA closed down 0.81%, the S&P 500 closed down 1.13%,…
courtesy of VerizonThe short interest data for the end of November is out, and the results are somewhat surprising when it comes to the top high-yield safe dividends out there. Some of the…
ThinkstockThere is a trend at the end of each year followed by many income investors. This is the Dogs of the Dow, which is simply made up of the 10 Dow Jones…
Google Inc.Earlier this month Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched its low-priced Moto G smartphone at an event in Brazil and the phone was scheduled to launch in the U.S. early next year.…
courtesy of Sprint Corp.If Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) hopes to effectively compete with its largest rivals AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), and its new controlling shareholder —…
