So with all of the economic malaise out there in the past few weeks, and a new commercial from Virgin Mobile that slams T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) and AT&T Mobility, (T) I thought it would be a great time to comment on the state...
Regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) posted second quarter results that showed continued strain for smaller players in the segment.The carrier said it lost 70,000 customers from its network during the quarter, which was significantly greater than the 3,000 customers lost during the...
Bloomberg | August 5, 2011 | Chiara Remondini
Telecom Italia SpA (TIT), Italy’s biggest phone company, climbed in Milan trading after reporting that second-quarter earnings advanced 4.9 percent as revenue rose in Brazil.
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DigiTimes | August 5, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set a contract-bundled sales goal of 100,000 tablet PCs, including iPad 2, in the Taiwan market in 2011 but sold only nearly 20,000 units in the first half of the year.
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Bloomberg | August 3, 2011 | Ketaki Gokhale
Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BHARTI), India’s largest wireless operator, reported profit fell for the sixth straight quarter on higher costs.
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In a deal that is uniformly being labeled as a patent portfolio purchase, HTC Corp. has acquired Dashwire Inc. for $18.5 million. The Seattle-based company offers cloud services for operators, device makers and retailers with support for BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile.HTC said...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
UPDATED: Editor's Note: With all of the domestic industry's public, facilities-based operators having announced second quarter results we decided to provide a quick snapshot of how the quarter stacked up.Verizon Wireless (106.3 million connections)Quick facts: Posted 2.2 million net additions for the quarter, including...
Bloomberg | August 4, 2011 | Jun Yang
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile-phone operator, reported a 3.7 percent increase in second-quarter profit, helped by a higher number of smartphone users and sales from new businesses.
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Bloomberg | August 4, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), Europe’s largest phone company, reported a 6.5 percent decline in second-quarter profit before some items as it ceded mobile-phone customers in the U.S. and recorded costs for early retirements in Germany.
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Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release
Deutsche Telekom’s financial figures for the second quarter of 2011 are characterized by significantly improved trends in a number of operational areas and a 17-percent increase in adjusted net profit, causing the adjusted EBITDA margin to...
Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release
As in the first quarter, start-up costs for the major deals secured last year had a noticeable effect on T-Systems' figures. As such, the adjusted EBIT margin totaled 2 percent in the second quarter, down from...
Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release
As in the first quarter, start-up costs for the major deals secured last year had a noticeable effect on T-Systems' figures. As such, the adjusted EBIT margin totaled 2 percent in the second quarter, down from...
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s (LEAP) second quarter results were not as bad as some had feared, but were apparently bad enough to scare off investors who fled the carrier's stock this morning to the tune of a more than 30% drop in the carrier's...
Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG) introduced a downloadable application that lets consumers make 15-minute international calls to more than 190 countries, paying for the service through iTunes.Time to Call is being offered for free for a limited time in 100 countries, the company said. "With...
Mobile operators are facing a seven-fold increase in data delivery costs over the next five years, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Global mobile network operator data delivery costs are expected to surpass $370 billion annually by 2016.Carriers can reduce some of...
T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) showed marked improvements in its operations during the second quarter, posting fewer customer losses and stabilizing revenues. The carrier, which is in the midst of a possible acquisition by AT&T Inc. (T), said it lost just 50,000 customers during the...
Vodafone | July 25, 2011 | Press Release
Tate and Vodafone today announced a new partnership to develop online and mobile technologies for Tate’s galleries and website. The partnership launches with Tate Debates, a weekly online discussion on Tate’s blog to encourage people to share...
Juniper Research | August 2, 2011 | Press Release
Analyst house calls for wider use of offload, optimisation technologies to reduce operating costs
Hampshire, UK – 2nd August 2011: Mobile network operators (MNOs) must explore means of addressing data delivery costs and inefficiencies in base station...
Just a week after losing its place on the store shelves of your local RadioShack Corp. outlet, T-Mobile USA Inc. signed a deal to offer its prepaid services through 7-Eleven Inc.'s stores.
The deal, which began on Aug. 1, calls for T-Mobile USA to offer...
Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) saw its stock price punished this morning after the carrier released lower than expected second quarter results that showed higher earnings, but slower growth that was impacted by increased customer churn.
MetroPCS reported that revenues increased 19% year-over-year...
Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) saw its stock price punished this morning after the carrier released lower than expected second quarter results that showed higher earnings, but slower growth that was impacted by increased customer churn.
MetroPCS reported that revenues increased 19% year-over-year...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
It was a morbid week for Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), no doubt about...
Ericsson | August 1, 2011 | Press Release
To further its goal of delivering state-of-the-art telecom services, du announced its Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) deal with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC). The deal will further du’s efforts to enhance the overall customer experience for its subscribers.
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