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Apple iPhone deal drags down AT&T
AT&T announced a $6.7 billion quarterly loss this month. This is partly because of the failed T-Mobile USA merger but is also because it is having to give huge amounts of money to Apple. -
GSM about to go bang
He praised Germany's T-Mobile and France's SFR for offering their clients the best protection against online criminals wanting to intercept their calls or track their movements. -
Qualcomm sells airwaves to AT&T
The news comes three days after the rejection of its plan to buy T-Mobile USA and so brings the outfit a little bit of Chrimbo cheer after all. -
T-Mobile forced into the arms of Sprint
T-Mobile might be forced to link up with Sprint Nextel after its owner's $39 billion deal with AT&T collapsed. -
AT&T gives up on Deutsche Telekom
The telco does have a shortage of wireless airwaves and buying DT would have solved that problem. Deutsche Telekom would have sorted out its problems with T-Mobile USA which is losing it cash. -
T-Mobile loses plot and sprays QR code on cow's arse
We can thank T-Mobilefor playing its part. The company has combined the mobile revolution with the combine harvester, reinventing age-old farming practices. And the result, we have to say, is certainly interesting. -
Virgin Media in Oxford: down for two weeks
I live in Oxford now - strangely Virgin Media has been down here for two weeks so I am using my T-Mobile dongle to connect to the interweb. -
Steve Jobs wanted his own telco network
Sprint was silly for making a $15.5 billion four-year deal with Apple to sell the iPhone. When Stanton was head of Voicestream, the operator that became T-Mobile, his company invested in Danger, the company that invented the Sidekick and whose developers went on to build Android. -
RIM buys NewBay
The Irish Times reports Newbay has signed deals with some bigwigs like T-Mobile USA, Telefonica, AT&T, Verizon and Deutsche Telekom. -
IT outfits run on dysfunctional boards
Top of the list was Sprint-Nextel which has lost 80 percent of its market value over the last five years. Unable to compete with AT&T and Verizon Wireless, Sprint's board has consistently backed CEO Dan Hesse. It watched as the oufit bought Nextel for $35 billion. -
BT jacks up prices again
Calls to O2, T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone mobiles will stay at 5.3p a minute in the evening, and 11.3p a minute in the daytime. -
German hacker cracks mobile encryption
His modified phone was used to test networks in Germany, Italy and other European countries. In Germany, decrypted and read data transmissions on T-Mobile, O2 Germany, Vodafone and E-Plus. This was pretty easy because the level of encryption was weak. -
Nokia sells messaging business
It's an interesting acquisition. With it, Synchronica gets the contract to look after major US carriers, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. Synchronica will get all of the sourcecode for Nokia's messaging client and server software. -
Telcos deny telling NOTW victims they have been hacked
Vodafone, O2 and Orange/T-Mobile told MPs there had been no such contact with the Yard. Vodafone and Orange/T-Mobile actually wrote to the Met last year asking for a list of punters who had been hacked. The coppers seem never to have written back. -
Dongle broadband speeds fail to satisfy
And of course some mobile providers were speedier than others with O2, Vodafone and 3 offering faster average download speeds than T-Mobile and Orange. -
Samsung ships Gingerbread
We know we are being mean, but soon after Samsung rolled out the Android 2.1-based Galaxy S lineup, the outfit said it would push all of the phones to Android 2.2 "Froyo" in the coming months. However, Samsung didn't say it would take until this year to happen. -
Huawei lands Everything Everywhere deal
The all encompassing Chinese network equipment maker has received the wireless network deal from Everything Everywhere - a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA, inherited from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange. -
T-Mobile USA loses 99,000 contracts in Q1 2011
In T-Mobile USA's Q1 2011 earnings report, filed today in the small hours on the wires, it revealed that it has lost 353,000 more contract customers since the same period last year. Net customer losses sat at 99,000 for Q1 2011 compared to 77,000 in Q1 2010.
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