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Sprint can’t wait to team up with T-Mobile. And yet it’s already been a long, long wait. The smallest nationwide carrier on Thursday posted a fiscal third-quarter loss of $141 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with a year-ago profit of $7.16 billion, or $1.79 a share, which had the advantage of a huge …

There’s a reason Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. The next-generation cellular technology promises a massive speed boost, as well as a network that’s smart and responsive enough to connect thousands of different devices around us — so it’s a sexy topic. What’s not sexy? Verizon’s fourth-quarter results. The mixed bag, with slightly better earnings and slightly disappointing revenue amid …

T-Mobile and Sprint executives are headed back to Washington, DC, next month to defend their planned $26 billion merger, as Democrats in the House of Representatives scrutinize the deal. T-Mobile CEO John Legere and Sprint Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure have agreed to testify on Feb. 13 in a joint hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House …

Don’t count on the upcoming Galaxy S10 to be Samsung’s innovation darling. Leave that to the company’s first foldable phone, which Samsung is widely expected to show off in all its working glory. Rumored to be called the Galaxy X, Galaxy F, Galaxy Fold or even Galaxy Flex, the first foldable phone from the largest global phone brand has the potential to …

Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for a hearing on the proposed $26 billion merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. In a letter to Republican leadership Thursday, Sens. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Tom Udall of New Mexico, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut expressed concern the merger would have negative consequences for …

Verizon has given T-Mobile the boot and now leads all its main rivals in 4G, streaming and uploads, wireless tracking firm OpenSignal said Thursday. “For the last two years T-Mobile has been the dominant operator…across our metrics, winning most of our speed and availability awards in OpenSignal’s last three reports. But we see a newly resurgent Verizon,” the tracking company …

If Qualcomm didn’t have to release standalone modems for Apple, it wouldn’t invest the time and money to update them every year, the company’s chief technology officer said Friday. James Thompson, testifying on behalf of Qualcomm, said it costs Qualcomm about $250 million a year to tweak its modems for Apple.  “Apple requires we come out with a new one …

Every major carrier in the US has now decided to stop selling location data to third parties.  Sprint is the final company to put the nail in the coffin with its announcement Wednesday that it’s ending the practice. “Last year we decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators, but assessed that the negative impacts to customers for services like …

T-Mobile executives have made themselves at home at the Trump International Hotel. Several top executives at the company, including outspoken CEO John Legere, have booked rooms at the hotel at least 38 times since T-Mobile announced its merger with Sprint last April, according to The Washington Post. The Washington, DC-based luxury hotel is owned by President Donald Trump and his …

The US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday presented its last witnesses and evidence in its case against Qualcomm. Now it’s up to Qualcomm to defend itself in the coming days against claims it’s a monopoly in wireless chips.  The FTC, aided by chipmaker Intel and iPhone vendor Apple, filed suit two years ago, accusing Qualcomm of forcing customers like Apple to work with it exclusively …