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AT&T to manage chaos on the horizon – if conditions are right

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson was selling managed chaos theory in Dallas Wednesday in his keynote speech at the TIA’s “Inside the Network” conference. His kind of chaos theory has nothing to do with applied mathematics, unless it’s...

AT&T prepares to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion, awkward marketing moments ensue

It'll be hard for any vendor or carrier at CTIA Wireless this week to trump the bombshell that AT&T and T-Mobile USA dropped on Sunday -- that the No. 1 wireless carrier in the U.S. is acquiring the No. 4 carrier for $39 billion. It seems that few industry pundits saw this coming, as much of...

Cha-ching: AT&T aims for business customers with $1 billion spending spree

Recession? What recession? AT&T scoffs at the suggestion, releasing a $1 billion spending plan to...

Google’s broadband plan: Take that, AT&T

Yup, we all heard -- Google is getting into the broadband business. Are the lobbyists...

T-Mobile USA spin-off from DT could finance remaining 3G build out

The rumors are all over the place. T-Mobile USA may be pushed out of the cozy Deutsche Telekom nest to fund its own build-out with an IPO. Either that or a possible Sprint...

Trouble in paradise: Amazon dumps Sprint for Kindle, falls into the arms of AT&T

Ah, young love. When Amazon launched the Kindle almost two years ago, the company proposed to Sprint Nextel Corporation: Support us! The wireless carrier accepted. They took the solemn vow to be partners in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad. Although the

Apple’s record-setting quarter and what it means for telecom

Telecom is a hard-knock life sometimes, like this week when Apple announced its most profitable quarter EVER. No small part of that smashing success is the 7.4 million iPhones sold in the quarter. Of course, in the U.S., AT&T benefits from those new iPhone users since they use AT&T’s 3G...

Apple’s slice of the app store pie

I've reported that wireless...

Dear gadget hounds: Wireless networks more than their phones

I know, I know, it's just the natural tides of media coverage chasing after the latest buzz, but really: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint are more than their headline-grabbing devices.

As I blogged previously, the

More LTE vendors join the 4G party (but no cake for Nortel!)

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/kWp-Rj5o9uA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Lately, 4G is starting to seem like (relatively) easy money for everyone ... or rather, everyone but poor, beleaguered Nortel, which is starting to remind me of Milton from...