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Sprint’s Patience With Lightsquared Running Out, Lucky To Have Clearwire
After postponing for months, Sprint (NYSE:S) may finally call off its deal with Lightsquared. Sprint extended its December 31 deadline to March 15 in order to give Lightsquared more time to secure regulatory approvals for its LTE network plans. H...
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Weekly Telecom Notes: Sprint, Verizon and China Telecom
The past week saw a few developments in the telecom sector. Sprint (NYSE:S) announced that it is tapping the debt market for the second time in four months for $2 billion, a part of which will be used to fund Clearwire’s LTE plans. Verizon ...
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Clearwire Cheers Sprint’s Plans to Tap Debt Market Again
Sprint (NYSE:S) is accessing the bond market for the second time in less than four months as the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier looks to finance expensive network upgrades and subsidizes Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone for its customers....
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Weekly Telecom Notes: Sprint, Verizon and AT&T
The past week saw quite a few developments in the telecom sector. AT&T (NYSE:T) started the week off with a hike in upgrade fee for smartphones from $18 to $36, in a move aimed at taking some sting away from the huge loss incurred last quarte...
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Sprint’s Lucky to Have Clearwire While Lightsquared’s LTE Plans Flounder
Are the lights finally out for troubled wireless provider Lightsquared? It seems so. The company’s efforts to launch a wholesale LTE network seem to be on course for an early demise as regulators at the FCC refused to grant clearance for th...
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Sprint Worth $3.70 Despite Margin Pressure From iPhone
Sprint’s (NYSE:S) stock has come under a lot of pressure lately, falling by close to 7% since the company announced its fourth quarter results last week. The company reported a $1.3 billion net loss in the quarter, its largest quarterly los...
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Sprint Shows iPhone Effect: Higher Postpaid Subscribers But Dip in Margins
Sprint (NYSE:S) announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2011 on Wednesday. The stock took a hit as the company posted a net loss of $1.3 billion, its largest quarterly loss in three years, as the iPhone ate away at its margins. However t...
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Sprint Earnings Preview: What We’re Watching Wednesday
Sprint (NYSE:S) plans to announce its Q4 2011 earnings Wednesday, February 8. During the earnings call, we will be closely watching the company’s net postpaid additions for the quarter as well as the postpaid churn numbers to gauge the impa...
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Weekly Telecom Notes: AT&T, Sprint and China Telecom
AT&T (NYSE:T) stole the limelight this week with the announcement of seven LTE-capable smartphones and one tablet at the CES 2012. Sprint (NYSE:S) announced that it is undertaking a major restructuring of its sales and marketing unit merging ...
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Is the Wireless Industry Ready for Explosive Data Growth?
An industry study by network firm Arieso revealed that customers using Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest iPhone, the iPhone 4S, gob up twice the amount of data on average as those using its predecessor, the iPhone 4. The study used iPhone 3GR...
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Sprint Worth $4.25, Sheds Weight to Get Into Fighting Shape
Sprint (NYSE:S) is undertaking a major restructuring of its sales and marketing unit merging both its consumer and enterprise wings into a single body, CEO Dan Heese said in a note to employees Friday. The carrier is looking to shuffle its manage...
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Weekly Telecom Notes: Verizon, AT&T & China Telecom
The past week saw Verizon (NYSE:VZ) reaffirm expectations by announcing a record number of iPhone sales in Q4 2011 at a Citigroup conference held Wednesday. AT&T (NYSE:T) added 11 more markets to its rapidly increasing LTE coverage and Sprint...
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Sprint Still Worth $4.25 Despite iPhone Deal, Debt Concerns
Sprint’s (NYSE:S) stock has been under a lot of pressure recently after the company announced plans to sell the hugely-subsidized iPhone even as it continues to invest heavily on building out new 4G LTE infrastructure. The substantial costs...
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With AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Dead, Sprint Breathes a Sigh of Relief
AT&T (NYSE:T) finally scuttled its T-Mobile merger plans on Monday, much to the delight of Sprint (NYSE:S) which has been vehemently opposed to the deal right from the start. Sprint welcomed AT&T’s move as “the right decision&...
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With AT&T Deal Dead, What Are T-Mobile’s Options?
After AT&T (NYSE:T) finally pulled its bid for T-Mobile on Monday as a result of regulatory concerns related to the market share it would control along with Verizon (NYSE:VZ), T-Mobile is left looking for other suitors. As part of the agreeme...
