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AT&T is overlooking its best argument for the T-Mobile merger
The Department of Justice and AT&T have one thing in common: neither side wants to talk about the real rationale for the T-Mobile takeover.
FORTUNE -- When AT&T bet $39 billion that it could acquire T-Mobile -- including $6 billion it won't get back even if regulators kill the deal -- it gambled on a clever strategy that suddenly seems too clever by half.
AT&T (T) advertised the benefits of the merger MORE
Scott Woolley - Sep 1, 2011 9:35 AM ET -
Cox kills its wireless network in a grim omen for the industry
Why Cox is abandoning its much-hyped cellular network, and why it's a bad sign for any new wireless entrant.
FORTUNE -- AT&T executives looking to convince regulators to approve Ma Bell's merger with T-Mobile argue that the cell phone market is plenty competitive. Just look at the growth of new competitors such as Cox Communications, a cable company that built and runs a brand new cellular network, they say.
Cox appears to make MORE
Scott Woolley - Jun 17, 2011 8:00 AM ET -
Google wants to replace your wallet with its Wallet (but you still pay)
Google new NFC-enabled services, Wallet and Offers, are ambitious, but getting all of the pieces to work together will be difficult.
FORTUNE -- At yesterday's Google Wallet/Offers launch event in New York, Google (GOOG) laid out a very compelling case for using NFC-enabled Android phones to make payments at physical merchants. The company trotted out launch partners including the Container Store, Subway, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) and Walgreens (WAG). On the backend, Google MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 27, 2011 4:16 PM ET -
What the iPhone did for Verizon
The No. 1 carrier signed up 3.4 million new subs last quarter, while its competitors lost share
It's probably fair to assume that at least part of the Q1 2011 bump in the blue line at right can be attributed to the Feb. 10 launch of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone for Verizon Wireless (VZ).
As Piper Jaffray's Christopher Larson notes in a report to clients Monday, 38% of the new cellular subscriptions MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 9, 2011 1:10 PM ET -
Today in Tech: iPhone 5 ships September, RockMelt mobile sneak peek
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If you've ever want to call your Facebook friends directly via FB and not uh, you know over your cell phone, now you can. T-Mobile introduced Bobsled, a calling feature integrated into Facebook chat that lets users call one another for free, as well as leave private and MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 20, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Review: T-Mobile's G-Slate 9-inch tablet tweener
The form factor isn't the only factor.
I've been playing with T-Mobile/LG's 8.9 inch Android 3.0 tablet for the better part of a week and I think it is an interesting piece of hardware. This is the first time I've played with Honeycomb, Google's (GOOG) tablet OS, extensively so it took a bit of getting used to.
There are plenty of things wrong with this tablet and I'll get to those below. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 19, 2011 6:27 PM ET -
Sprint cozies up to Android with Market carrier billing
After offering Google Voice, the carrier now will let you make Market purchases against your monthly bill.
Joining AT&T (T) and T-Mobile (ahem), Sprint (S) will now allow Android users to buy Android Market items and have them charged to their monthly Sprint bill. This theoretically simplifies purchasing and removes the barrier to entry for paid Apps for some Android users. Google remarked:
We believe that Direct Carrier Billing is a key MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 13, 2011 4:00 PM ET -
Today in Tech: R.I.P. Flip cam, Flock and Download Squad
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It's official: The Flip digital cam is dead. (Long live, Flip.) Cisco, which bought the startup behind the product line for $590 million back in 2009, will close down the business and lay off all 550 staffers as part of a restructuring of its consumer electronics division. The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 13, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Accel Partners, AOL, Apple, Download Squad, Flip, Flock, MySpace, Stewart Butterfield, Switched, T-Mobile, Tiny Speck, VentureBeat -
Today in Tech: This week's buzziest startup, Twitter creator returning?
A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
This week, the startup everyone's buzzing about is Color, a free mobile app aimed at creating a social experience that maximizes the smart phone's unique technology. Users share and store photos and videos in visual diaries -- besides being able to view their own media, they can also MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 24, 2011 9:48 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Bertrand Serland, comScore, Google, Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn, Mobile, MySpace, Sequoia Capital, Shashi Seth, T-Mobile, TechCrunch, Twitter, Windows Phone 7, Yahoo -
Can I get out of my T-mobile contract?
Now that it's set to become part of AT&T, many T-Mobile customers are wondering, "Will they let me get out of my contract?" It's the question T-Mobile doesn't want to answer yet.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
It seems anyone with a cell phone contract has had the thought, whether due to owning an antiquated phone, moving to an area with no service, or dealing with an umpteenth dropped call: "When is my MORE
Mar 23, 2011 12:53 PM ET
