Jun

2011

Big Business Gurus Microsoft, RIM, & Others Support AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

by Mitch Wright
tagged AT&T, avaya, brocade, Facebook, fcc, merger, microsoft, Oracle, qualcomm, rim, T-Mobile, Yahoo

Thus far in the battle war mayhem debate regarding the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, the vocal third-parties who have come forth have opposed the event. Now however, we have a large and rather dominant group made up of some of the key presences in the mobile industry expressing their approval of the merger. In a page [...]

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May

2011

AT&T & T-Mobile, Want To Add Your 2 Cents Worth? FCC Says Ok.

by Joe Sirianni
tagged aquisition, AT&T, fcc, merger, Sprint, T-Mobile

As you’re already aware, not everyone is happy with the AT&T&T-Mobile buy-out. It appears that the FCC wants to know what you think about the whole acquisition, which is looking to be finalized about this time next year. Have you had an opinion or thought on the matter? The FCC has provided a place on [...]

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Apr

2011

Sprint joins the Rural Carrier Association to prepare for fight of AT&T / T-Mobile Merger

by Robert Nazarian
tagged AT&T, Dan Hesse, Hu Meena, merger, RCA, Rural Carrier Assocition, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, verizon wireless, Vonya McCann

The proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile has created a lot of concern in the mobile community. Sprint, who currently is the third larges US operator, has to have most concern. Sprint CEO, Dan Hesse, is announcing that Sprint is joining the Rural Carrier Assocition (RCA). The RCA represents about 100 small operators who have [...]

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Mar

2011

Sprint wants us to know they don’t support AT&T T-Mobile merger – officially

by Jesse Bauer
tagged acquisition, AT&T, merger, opposition, Sprint, T-Mobile, t-mobile USA, T-mobileUsa

Many may see the points that Sprint is raising with the problems that the mobile industry may face if the US has a mobile carrier as large as AT&T and T-Mobile may become after they merge. It’s starting to look like a political campaign where the mud-slinging is just about to get ugly. To start [...]

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Mar

2011

Is Verizon Wireless interested in buying Sprint? – CEO says No

by Robert Nazarian
tagged AT&T, buyout, merger, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, verizon wireless

As soon as the news broke about AT&T buying T-Mobile for $39 billion, the speculation started on the possibility of Verizon Wireless purchasing Sprint to leave us with 2 carriers in the US. Daniel Mead, Verizon Wireless CEO, says there is no interest and he will not oppose the AT&T buyout of T-Mobile. Ahead of [...]

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Mar

2011

Senator asks DOJ and FCC to scrutinize ATT and T-Mobile merger

by Jesse Bauer
tagged acquire, acquisition, antennagate, antitrust, AT&T, business, carrier, competition, deal, Department of Justice, DepartmentOfJustice, DOJ, drummer, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, FederalCommunicationsCommission, ghostbusters, industry, Jobs, lars, merge, merger, metallica, operator, politics, T-Mobile

When a business deal this big goes down, you know that someone with some pull is going to have a problem with it. Reminds me of Ghostbusters when they started getting really big and that goofy loser Walter Peck had a problem with them and made them shut down their containment unit at the main [...]

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Mar

2011

AT&T will use T-Mobile’s 3G Spectrum for LTE rollout

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 3G, 4G, aquisition, AT&T, coverage, LTE, merger, spectrum, T-Mobile, tmobile

The old saying ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ has taken a new meaning this weekend as we all heard about AT&T’s plans to buy out T-Mobile USA. Since T-Mobile has a 3G spectrum of 1700MHz (AWS band) , and AT&T has had difficulties keeping up with the congested network since they launched the [...]

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Mar

2011

T-Mobile Will NOT Get the iPhone, Still Operating As Independent Company

by Michael Murphy
tagged acquisition, AT&T, clarification, iphone, merger, T-Mobile

T-Mobile subscribers, there is no need to fear with the big changes announced with the AT&T acquisition of your cell provider. Regardless of what you think about this big news, rest assured that for the time being, nothing will change for you. Your bill will still go to T-Mobile, your phone is still a T-Mobile [...]

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Oct

2010

Rumors of merger between Adobe and Microsoft begin after CEOs hold secret meeting

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged adobe, merger, microsoft, Shantanu Narayen, Steve Ballmer

Recently, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made the trek out to San Francisco to hold a secret meeting with Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe. Many things were discussed, but the main talking point was Apple, and how Microsoft and Adobe could work together to try and take them down a peg or two. This report, from [...]

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Jul

2010

Sprint Considering Merger With T-Mobile

by Michael Murphy
tagged merger, Sprint, T-Mobile

In a recent statement, Dan Hesse (Sprint CEO) told the media that a merger with T-Mobile is being considered, primarily to put them in a better position for 4G. Sure, Sprint is the only carrier with 4G currently live, but Verizon’s got big plans for later this year, and Sprint would find itself fighting to [...]

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