Verizon Wireless sold 4 million iPhones in the first quarter. The breakdown of iPhone sales was split evenly between the iPhone 5 and older iPhones, Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said during a conference call Thursday. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? Best Internet …

Verizon Wireless’ decision to extend the wait time for a phone upgrade has some concerned about the potential consumer reaction. Verizon recently said it would do away with early upgrades, forcing consumers to wait the full 24 months before they are eligible to buy a new phone with the lower subsidized price. Customers previously had to wait only 20 months …

Nokia is still struggling in the U.S., but there’s hope that another flagship phone is on its way. CEO Stephen Elop said on a conference call Thursday that this current quarter will mark a season of new product introductions. Most importantly, he hinted at a phone carrying “hero,” or flagship, status with a leading U.S. carrier. The product is likely …

Verizon bounced back from a tough fourth quarter and started the year off strongly. The telecommunications provider today posted a first-quarter profit of $1.95 billion, or 68 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $1.67 billion, or 59 cents a share. Revenue rose 4.2 percent to $29.42 billion from a year ago. Analysts, on average, projected per-share earnings …

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WhatsApp is bigger than Twitter, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum boasted today. Koum, speaking at AllThingsD’s mobile conference today, wouldn’t talk about specific figures when it comes to usage, but he confirmed that the mobile messaging service topped Twitter’s usage. Twitter declared in December that it had exceeded 200 million monthly users. WhatsApp boasts an average of 8 billion inbound messages …

Dish founder Charlie Ergen is clearly a massive “Seinfeld” fan. Ergen wasn’t shy about providing a shout-out to Jerry Seinfeld’s classic situation comedy in discussing Dish’s proposed $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel. In fact, Ergen compared his strategy to an episode of Seinfeld: 28 minutes filled with a lot of scenes that don’t make sense, and a final two …

Consumers may potentially get an even bigger price break if Dish is able to snap up Sprint Nextel. Dish’s $25.5 billion unsolicited bid for Sprint certainly adds a wrinkle to Sprint’s existing merger plans with Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank. But a deal with Dish may be a boon to consumers, particularly ones looking for a mix of video, mobile, and …

T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert boasted that the carrier had “one of its biggest weekends in the history of the company” thanks to the launch of the iPhone on Friday. T-Mobile on Friday launched the iPhone in its stores for the first time, finally catching up to its larger rivals, and even smaller regional carriers. Sievert told CNET that …

T-Mobile and Dish Network may be the next two companies to walk down the aisle. Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen informally talked to T-Mobile’s parent, Deutsche Telekom, about a potential deal, according to a report by Bloomberg. Deutsche Telekom, in turn, is considering a deal with Sprint Nextel, but may look to Dish if that merger falls through, the report said. …