Industry-wide price wars are like the old Western range wars. They don’t happen often but when they do they are violent and have sudden onsets. A new home-phone program from T-Mobile is about to…
Now that its rivals (AT&T NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless have gone to $99.99 a month unlimited calling plans, Sprint (NYSE: S) needs to get it in gear. It has had trouble adding new…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) posted earnings above plan at $1.31 EPS versus First Call consensus of $1.11, while revenues were $1.22 Billion versus the $1.05 Billion consensus estimate. Despite the concerns that GPS systems…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been the cock of the walk, but that has changed. Yesterday, the shares hit a 52-week low at $35.19. The large run-up in Verizon’s stock last year was based on…
"For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost." After a highly successful roll-out of its fiber-to-the-home broadband and TV product, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has run into a snag. It cannot get enough set-top…
Every time Wall St. looks at Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) it sees promise. The company provides broadband pipes all over the US and some abroad. In a world where high-speed data, video, and voice…
Vonage Holdings (NYSE: VG) has posted earnings at -$0.07 EPS on revenues of $215.9 million, These compare to -$0.76 EPS and $181.5 million on a year over year basis, and compares to First Call…
The management at smartphone also-ran Palm (PALM) probably opened their champagne bottles when they heard about the big service interruption that hit RIM’s (RIMM) service network in North America and shut down access to…
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is reporting a critical outage for its Blackberry users this afternoon. Some outages in the past have affected some users, while others were system-wide. This outage is system-wide for enterprise clients…
The US is Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) handset stronghold. While the company does not do terribly well overseas, it has held a market share lead on it home turf. Nokia NYSE: NOK) has already said…
This coming Wednesday morning, we’ll get to see Q4-2007 earnings out of Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG). Despite this one being one of the worst IPO’s ever, Vonage still has a cult following behind…
The merger of Alcatel and Lucent was lame-brained from the start. It joined two weak companies in a troubled industry which includes also-rans like Nortel (NT). It is an ugly group of firms which…
ET will not have to phone home. He can talk to more than half of the world’s population. According to stats from the US, cellphone penetration will hit 3.3 billion people this year. According…
When Sony (SNE) and Ericsson (ERIC) found that neither had enough market share to go it alone in the global handset business, they merged their operations. During 2007, the joint venture moved its share…
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) has unveiled a new device today and this looks like many consumers will interpret it as a shot right across the bow of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). These are actually…