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T-Mobile USA to merge with Sprint Nextel?

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom is mulling a bid to acquire Sprint Nextel. The acquisition would lead to a combined T-Mobile USA and Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Vodafone bundles data into all plans

Vodafone U.K. has added unlimited data usage to all its new monthly plans, which makes it the first U.K. carrier that does not require a separate plan for mobile Internet or email usage. Read more...

Can Garmin find a home for nuvifone?

Garmin debuted its GPS-centric handset, nuvifone, earlier this year just before the Mobile World Congress show, but now the company claims that "a number of wireless carriers in our primary markets" Read more...

2008's Top Emerging Wireless Companies: The Fierce 15

A medley of smart startups and engaging entrepreneurs Despite wireless carrier consolidation and an 84 Read more...

Verizon Wireless adds 1.5M customers

Verizon Wireless executives said this morning that the operator is weathering the strong economic uncertainty and fails to show any signs of weakness. The company reported that first quarter net Read more...

Timeline - Sprint's Ill-fated Pivot

Sprint's Pivot has had a long history of troubles. Below is a timeline of this ill-fated joint venture between the cable companies and a wireless carrier: Read more...

AT&T adds 1.3 mil subscribers in 1Q

AT&T reported its seventh consecutive quarter of wireless revenue growth. Revenue's from the telco's wireless business were up 18.3 percent year-over-year for a total of $11.8 billion. Here's a Read more...

Alltel My Circle customers get a larger circle

To celebrate the two-year anniversary of its popular My Circle plan, Alltel is giving all customers that have been with the plan since its inception the ability to add another member to their circle Read more...

Cellular South will pay customers to switch carriers

-For more ETF news click here- Tier 3 operator Cellular South isn't going to let a little thing like early termination fees get Read more...

AT&T cutbacks lead to mobility gains

The layoffs that AT&T announced last week, which look to put 1.5 percent of its employees out Read more...

Press Releases

Rogers Wireless Becomes First North American Carrier to Launch Yahoo! oneSearch(TM)

TORONTO, May 13 /CNW/ - Rogers Wireless, Inc. (TSX:RCI)(NYSE:RCI) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced the availability of Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile search service, to Read more...

BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY TO HARNESS THE SPEED OF 802.11

BARCELONA, SPAIN, Mobile World Congress – 11 Feb. 2008 –Wireless transfer of large format entertainment data – music, video, and photos – between devices at short range is imminent. The Read more...

ARUBA NETWORKS TARGETS INDUSTRIAL AND OUTDOOR APPLICATIONS

Sunnyvale, CA, February 4, 2008 - Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, today announced a new series of high-performance, Read more...

WiMAX leader Telsima announces shipment of 10,000 base station sectors; details innovative Mobile WiMAX strategy

Sunnyvale, California, September 17, 2007 - Telsima Corporation, a global leader in WiMAX systems and the overall market segment leader in WiMAX deployments, today announced contracts with Tier-1 Read more...

Cable & Wireless Jamaica to Launch VoIP Business Services Based on BroadSoft Applications

Sept. 12, 2007 09:00 ET Carrer Service to Include Hosted PBX and Business Trunking Offerings GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire - September 12, 2007) - BroadSoft, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP Read more...