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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.The spring CTIA …

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.Greetings from the …

AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the second national wireless operator to pursue …

WiMAX is only one of the wireless technologies being explored to extend services into rural areas, and in some cases the use of unlicensed spectrum is providing new services to …

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.–CloudShield: Tektronix Inc. participated in …

Sprint Nextel Corp last week snagged one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government’s telecommunications system. In late March, Sprint Nextel-a perennial government contractor-came …

Sprint Nextel Corp. made the cut this time, snagging one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government’s telecommunications system. The General Services Administration today …

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced a new senior vice president of strategy as the company tries to turn around and its recent poor performance.Jack Dziak, who has worked for MCI Communications …

WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone carriers may have gained leverage to have stringent conditions imposed on AT&T Inc.’s $79 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp., with the Government Accounting Office concluding competition in the …

WASHINGTON — Bush administration efforts to help Iraq create a competitive wireless market and an independent regulatory regime to oversee telecom reconstruction in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion …

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Verizon Communications Inc. is selling off a paging and wireless telemetry unit that it acquired when it purchased the former MCI Inc. earlier this year.Bell Industries Inc. agreed …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Inc. offered to conduct a series of wireless broadband trials as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning Federal Communications Commission approval of its proposed $79 billion …

Polar opposite pictures of the second quarter emerged last week from Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. as the industry’s No. 2 and No. 3 operators reported financial results. Verizon …

WASHINGTON—A confluence of legal, technological and political forces could slow or significantly alter mega-merger mania that has raged largely unabated in the wireless and wireline telecom sectors in recent years, …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Inc. Chairman Edward Whitacre last week told the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee he would not oppose conditions on special access lines as part of any regulatory approval of the …

Gas prices and higher mortgage rates have not affected the demand for Sprint Nextel Corp.’s wireless services, the carrier’s chief financial officer told analysts last week. Paul Saleh’s remarks were …

NEW YORK—Verizon Communications Inc. will be looking to make “significant” workforce reductions in the next year and a half, the company’s chief financial officer told analysts during a conference earlier …

WASHINGTON—Verizon Communications Inc. became the second large telephone company to explicitly deny turning over to the National Security Agency phone call records of millions of Americans. “Contrary to the media …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. announced it purchased the remaining 50 percent interests in 10 partnerships with Palmetto MobileNet, L.P. that it did not already own. The partnerships cover about two …

AT&T Inc.’s planned acquisition of BellSouth Corp. could be great for consumers, but the news isn’t so great for telecom equipment vendors, already suffering from declining profits. “In our view, …