1 day ago by LoganDX

Another round of AT&T pushing prices towards the sky. This time the Death Star is doubling the cost of upgrading a device from $18 to $36! Citing increased costs of smartphones, the carrier wants more money from any customer looking to grab a new unit. What does that $36 buy a customer? Nothing much ...

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1 day ago by Velocity: Trefis Team

Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife Sprint [1] announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2011 on Wednesday. The stock took a hit with the company posting a net loss of $1.3 billion, its largest quarterly loss in three years, as the iPhone ate away at its margins. However, the iPho ...

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1 day ago by Narrative Science@Narrative Science

Analysts have become increasingly bullish on Clearwire (CLWR) in the month leading up to the company's second quarter earnings announcement scheduled for Wednesday, February 15, 2012. The consensus earnings per share estimate has moved up from a loss of 36 cents a share to the current expectation of ...

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1 day ago by CFA Institute

[1]By Robert Stammers, CFA Director, Investor Education Once known as the “one-stop shop” for everything electronic, RadioShack has changed its business model, and consumers and investors are questioning its future. RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) used to be the “Home Depot” for electronic parts: a one-stop ...

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2 days ago by chimac

Sprint Lost A Lot Of Money Selling Lots Of iPhones | TechCrunch – StumbleUpon. Interesting situation. I tried Sprint once with a company I worked with and it was a disaster. The phones broke, the service was terrible. Companies really do it to themselves. They don’t innovate, they don’t consider pri ...

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2 days ago by MacDailyNews

BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk sees Apple selling more iPhones as carriers reduce...

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3 days ago

David Christopher with David Christopher, chief marketing officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets Many people predicted AT&T Mobility ( NYSE:T) would suffer greatly when its exclusive arrangement with Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL) for the iPhone ended in early 2011. However, it's one year later and the ...

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3 days ago by MacDailyNews

Steve Jobs made no secret of his disdain for wireless carriers...

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Sprint says it sold 1.8 million iPhones between October and December 2011, of which roughly 720,000 were new customers, but the cost of subsidizing Apple's smartphone raised the company's losses to $1.3 billion (43 cents a share), compared with $929 million (31 cents a share) year-on-year. The losse ...

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3 days ago by Kevin Fitchard

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse For the first time in six years, Sprint’s aging Nextel and wireline businesses didn’t overwhelm all positive gains from its primary CDMA business in its quarterly results. Sprint was helped along by 1.8 million iPhone activations, leading to big gains in revenue per subscriber a ...

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