Can MetroPCS Give T-Mobile the Boost it Needs to Compete with the Big Boys?
Less than two years after a failed deal to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T, parent company Deutsche Telekom AG has finalized a deal to merge T-Mobile USA with MetroPCS Communications Inc. The deal,...
View ArticleYahoo Joins Long List of Bidders for Hulu
Joining at least seven other companies in the bidding, Silicon Valley giant Yahoo has reportedly submitted a bid for video site Hulu. Other bidders include DirecTV and Time Warner Cable. Hulu, which is...
View ArticleNRTC Announces Acquisition of Cloud Services Provider NeoNova Holdings
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has announced plans to acquire 100% ownership of Raleigh-based cloud services provider NeoNova Holdings. Terms of the transaction were not...
View ArticleHulu Sale Postponed—For Now?
The joint owners of Internet TV service Hulu—21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and The Walt Disney Co.—announced that they would retain their ownership positions in the company and invest an additional...
View ArticleAT&T Buys Wireless Carrier Leap
AT&T announced recently that it has agreed to buy Leap Wireless. Leap is best known for its Cricket brand, a low-priced, prepaid mobile wireless service that has approximately 5 million customers....
View ArticleFrontier Chooses to Invest in Network Rather Than Pay Down Debt
After paying off $402 million in debt that matures through 2015, Frontier Communications Corp. announced that it will use additional cash to improve its fiber-to-the-home network and pay its annual 40...
View ArticleAT&T, Crown Castle Reach $4.85B Tower Deal
Last week, AT&T and Crown Castle International Corp. announced a deal whereby Crown Castle will purchase or lease 9,700 of AT&T’s towers in exchange for $4.85 billion in cash. Crown Castle...
View ArticleWhatsApp Announces Plan to Offer Voice Calls
WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service that last week inked an agreement to be acquired by Facebook for $19 billion, announced yesterday that it will offer voice service later this year. The app will...
View ArticleCincinnati Bell Sells Wireless Arm to Verizon
There is a “thing” going around the Internet these days that is intended to illuminate aspects of reading ability. The “thing” (I am not sure what to call it) is a paragraph of horribly misspelled...
View ArticleTDS Expands Cable/IT Holdings
Telephone & Data Systems (TDS) last week announced plans to acquire BendBroadband – which provides fiber connectivity, cable television and telephone services for commercial and residential...
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