The FCC Prepares To Beat Down AT&T And Verizon, Lift Sprint
The FCC may try to undo what the free markets have done according to its annual report. It argues that the concentration in the wireless market is rising quickly, perhaps too quickly.
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Newest first · Page 99Apple iPad Satisfaction And Future Demand Soar
From 24/7 Wall St. partner Investor Place Back in our February Apple iPad survey report we found “The pre-launch demand for the new iPad is greater than the pre-launch demand for the original iPhone.”…
Handsets: Google Android Crushes Microsoft Windows Mobile
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been in the mobile software business for over a decade. Its Windows Mobile operating system has never done well. That may be because the Nokia Symbian OS has dominated the…
Analysts Rethinking Cisco Upside (CSCO)
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is hard to argue about it being a bad quarter. It was stellar with earnings above estimates at $0.42 EPS and $10.4 billion in revenue vs. Thomson Reuters estimates…
National Employee Morale Day At British Telecom
BT employees are not willing to see 15,000 of their number thown under a bus. They will strike to protect jobs. Running a telecom without people is still very hard no matter how good…
Sprint: Who Wants 4G?
The premise behind the turnaround plans of Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) is that the 4G WiMax ultra-fast wireless network that it is building with Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) with the financial support of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will draw…
Bracing for Cisco Earnings (CSCO, HPQ, ORCL)
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is on deck for earnings after the close of trading, and for technology and enterprise spending this will be one of the most important earnings reports capping this earnings…
T-Mobile Almost No Help to Deutsche Telekom (DT, T, VZ, S, AAPL, GOOG)
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) reported better-than-expected profit today of $967 million on revenues of about $19.91 billion. Analysts were expecting profit of about $900 million on revenues of $19.7 billion.…
The Power Of Brands: Google + Verizon Take On Apple
Apple Inc’.s (NASDAQ: AAPL) products are so successful that when it comes to competing with them, every company that tries gets a swing at the pinata. Very few hit it, at least with any…
Analyst Take: Meru’s Opportunity in Cisco’s Wireless Space (MERU, CSCO, MOT, HPQ, ARUN)
Meru Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERU) saw its quiet period end this week after its recent IPO. Meru was supposed to be one of the hot-IPOs of this year as it is thought to go…
Google Android Crushes Apple In Mobile OS Race
Google Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS is being adopted at an rapid pace by hardware firms from HTC to Motorola (NYSE: MOT). Google also has its own Android handset–the Nexus One. The adoption rate of Android…
Smartphone Sales Surge as Apple Picks Up Share
Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the smartphone market rose 60% in the first quarter of 2010 as sales for the entire industry grew 57%. The total handset market grew only 22% during the same period…
Nokia & Microsoft Go After Apple & RIM
One its face, it would seem to be a mismatch. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), two huge global firms which have been notoriously unsuccessful in the smartphone market up against the two companies that the…
AT&T Customer Satisfaction Dives As Dropped Calls Surge
By Jeff Reeves, Investor Place Wireless telecom provider Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been trouncing AT&T (NYSE: T) for months in surveys of customer satisfaction and loyalty. But a recent survey by ChangeWave Research shows…
The New iPhone And The Dawn Of Video Calls
The first attempts to market video phones are now 30 years or more old. They were run on residential landlines, weak sisters to the video conferencing just emerging at large companies. But, the consumer…