Dish in responses to speculation has said it's open to deals that might see a carrier deal. CEO Joe Clayton disclosed to Bloomberg late last week that the company "could be acquired or.. Read more...
AT&T, T-Mobile move to stay trial to ‘evaluate all options’
AT&T and T-Mobile together asked the judge in the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit to stay the process until January 18. The two, supported by the DOJ itself, wanted time to "evaluate all options," the carriers said in a statement. It hinted that no option was off the table, including either major concessions or leaving it unchanged in what would likely be a decision to exit the deal altogether... Read more...
AT&T, T-Mobile move to stay trial to ‘evaluate all options’
AT&T and T-Mobile together asked the judge in the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit to stay the process until January 18. The two, supported by the DOJ itself, wanted time to "evaluate all options," the carriers said in a statement Read more...
AT&T, T-Mobile move to stay trial to ‘evaluate all options’
AT&T and T-Mobile together asked the judge in the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit to stay the process until January 18. Read more...
Carrier IQ, Google shift blame, Senate to carriers
Carrier IQ and Google together tried to push the broader direction of the Carrier IQ investigation towards the carriers themselves. In a new letter, Senator Al Franken said he was now asking AT&T, HTC, Samsung, and Sprint about what information they were collecting with Carrier IQ. While Franken didn't absolve Carrier IQ, he wanted to include the carrier and phone makers as they "subsequently modified and actually installed" its software, the company told him... Read more...
AT&T: iPhone on Sprint, Verizon hasn’t led to defections
Having the iPhone 4S on Sprint and Verizon hasn't led to customers jumping ship from AT&T, the latter's Emerging Devices head Glen Lurie said in a discussion Wednesday. Churn, or the turnover of old customers leaving for new ones coming in, "has not moved at all" since mid-October, he told MarketWatch. Read more...
T-Mobile expects subscriber churn due to iPhone 4S effect
T-Mobile has used its third quarter conference call to admit that it expects to suffer subscriber churn due to the arrival of the iPhone 4S. As the only one of the nationís four carriers not to sell the iPhone 4S, it has lowered its outlook for the critical fourth quarter in line with its launch. The company said that although it had made net gains in subscribers over the third quarter, it expected to lose a number of subscribers switching carriers ìdue to competitor launches of the iPhone 4S.î.. Read more...
C Spire iPhone 4S due Nov. 11 with net neutrality issues U
(Updated with policy notes) C Spire on Tuesday said it would join the third iPhone 4S launch wave by releasing its version on November 11. The device, as well as the 8GB iPhone 4, will go on sale at the same contract prices as on other carriers. Read more...
T-Mobile, Verizon allowed briefs in Apple-Samsung lawsuit
Both the amicus briefs of T-Mobile and Verizon have been approved by the Northern District of California court handling Apple's main lawsuit against Samsung. The agreement doesn't amount to an agreement with their points of view but will take the carriers' input into consideration. Apple has requested that it reply to the two companies by October 6.... Read more...
LVL sues Apple, whole US cellphone industry over patents
Largely unknown patent holder LVL Patent Group late last week quietly sued much of the US cellphone business and beyond for alleged patent violations (below). It claims that the iPhone, many Android devices, Symbian, and basic feature phones as well as their carriers violate one or more of a group of four generic patents, including data transaction servers and devices for entering transactions. Most of the patents were issued in or before 2000, but one of the device patents was only live on September 13, two days before the lawsuit was filed.... Read more...
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