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May 31st, 2011 
jedwan 
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No Comments »The AT&T / T-Mobile senate hearing: deciphering the war of words
May 19th, 2011 admin Over the course of the next year, AT&T and its opponents will be in the ring, duking it out in a war of words in attempt to convince the government that a $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T should or should not take place. Consumers have the most to win or lose here, yet we are resigned to watching from the sidelines as both sides lob countless facts and stats at each other like volleys in a tennis match. If you look at the merger process as a stairway to climb up, AT&T is still near the very bottom. Every rung will be full of intense scrutiny as it is: if the two companies are allowed to merge, the national GSM market becomes a monopoly, and the wireless industry as a whole would shift to only three national players plus a handful of less-influential regional carriers. The carrier’s going to blow as much as $6 billion if the merger is not approved — almost enough to buy Skype — it can’t just expect to put up some feel-good facts and stats to win the hearts of the decision-makers. AT&T has to be absolutely sure it’ll come out victorious in the war, else it risks losing the trust (and money) of its shareholders. But to accomplish such a feat, it has to be on top of its game. There was no better time to show off what it’s made of than last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing conducted by the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. When the Committee entitles a hearing “Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?,” it’s either exercising a sense of humor or a preconceived notion of the merger due to the implication that Ma Bell is simply reforming. CEO Randall Stephenson appeared as a sacrificial lamb, going before Congress and his opponents to explain his side of the story, answer hardball questions, and endure a hard-hitting round of criticism. Continue reading as we take you topic by topic and examine what he — and his opponents — had to say about the merger. Continue reading The AT&T / T-Mobile senate hearing: deciphering the war of words The AT&T / T-Mobile senate hearing: deciphering the war of words originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 May 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: acquisition, committee, doj, else-it-risks, exercising, implication, Merger, over-the-course, purchase, senate, sprint No Comments »Eldar Murtazin: Microsoft will enter negotiations to buy Nokia’s mobile division next week
May 16th, 2011 jedwan Yes, this is a rumor, and by golly it strains the limits of credulity, but take note of its source. Firstly, the details: according to Eldar Murtazin , Microsoft and Nokia will enter talks next week to discuss the potential for the American software giant to purchase the Finnish company’s mobile arm, meaning the part that makes all those delectable smartphones. Eldar’s not been able to dig up any further intel, but expects a deal could be closed as early as the end of this year. We’re inclined to believe there’s at least some semblance of truth to Eldar’s words because of his track record. Way back in December of last year, when nobody believed Nokia would deviate from its Symbian strategy, Eldar reported the similarly incredible-sounding news that Microsoft and Nokia were in discussions about the latter using Windows Phone as its main smartphone OS. That turned into reality this February, and more recently, the Russian mobile spy managed to also accurately predict Nokia killing off the Ovi brand in favor of an eponymous naming scheme for its services. And that’s all on top of Eldar’s knack for obtaining Nokia prototypes way ahead of release. So, assuming for a moment that Microsoft does indeed have its eyes set on turning Nokia’s handset business into its own mobile hardware division, what would it all mean? Well, we can only see this making sense for Espoo if underwritten by a humongous check from Microsoft, but that might not be a problem. The Redmond camp has recently shown its determination to get what it wants by spending $8.5 billion on Skype , and previously offered north of $44 billion for Yahoo, a good deal more than Nokia’s total market cap of around $32 billion . Let’s not forget, Nokia once used to manufacture galoshes and tires, so it already has a history of transformative change. And hey, having an ex-Microsoft guy at the top means that if this kind of move were to ever happen, now might just be the right time for it. Eldar Murtazin: Microsoft will enter negotiations to buy Nokia’s mobile division next week originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 May 2011 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget, htc Tags: acquisition, att, eldar, eldar murtazin, eldarmurtazin, htc, nokia, purchase, rumor, russian, skype, smartphones, windows-phone, yahoo No Comments »AT&T tells FCC just how important T-Mobile is, in 381-page redacted document
April 22nd, 2011 admin AT&T has many strategies for trying to convince the US government to let it buy T-Mobile , but the one it emphasized was this — it would attempt to make remaining carriers Verizon, Sprint and even a handful of rural entities look like “intense competition .” Well, it seems that tack hasn’t quite had the impact that the board of directors was hoping for, because it just delivered a gigantic new document to the FCC, which portrays itself as the victim of its own success. AT&T says it had to deliver 8,000 times more data in 2010 than it did three years prior — over 10 petabytes a year these days — and foresees that it will deliver that same amount of data “in just the first five to seven weeks of 2015.” Meanwhile, T-Mobile is the knight in shining magenta armor to save AT&T from those “severe capacity constraints,” but since AT&T can’t let regulators think that T-Mobile’s departure from the arena will result in less competition, Ma Bell simultaneously bashes its prospective conquest for having a “diminished market role” in the telecom industry and “no clear path to deploy LTE” — even as it says that acquiring T-Mobile would result in the means to spread speedy Long Term Evolution across 97.3 percent of the general population. In case you’re keeping track, that’s up from the 95 percent the company last prognosticated . The seeming contradictions here are certainly amusing, but we have to admit the promised giant LTE network tempts us quite a bit. But is it worth building a GSM monopoly to do it? Envision the repercussions for yourself — both good and ill — by studying the following links. Continue reading AT&T tells FCC just how important T-Mobile is, in 381-page redacted document AT&T tells FCC just how important T-Mobile is, in 381-page redacted document originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: acquisition, att, from-the-arena, industry, let-regulators, Merger, tmobile, victim No Comments »AT&T Files T-Mobile Merger Proposal with FCC – Android Phone
April 22nd, 2011 admin Despite the continued protest of Sprint and others in the wireless industry, AT&T has submitted its proposal detailing the acquisition of T-Mobile to.
Posted in Wireless Phone Tags: acquisition, continued, despite-the-continued, its-proposal, sprint, the-continued No Comments »Televisa to Purchase Half of Cell Phone Company Iusacell – The …
April 9th, 2011 jedwan If approved by regulatory officials, the acquisition would mark Televisa’s first foray into the wireless telephone business.
Posted in Cell Phone Tags: acquisition, first-foray, regulatory-officials, televisa, the-acquisition, wireless, wireless-telephone No Comments »Samsung Vibrant passes FCC again with AT&T 3G bands: a pre-acquisition tester? (updated)
March 27th, 2011 jedwan This is out of left field, but bear with us — it all makes sense, in a creepy, business-y sort of way. First, the facts: a Samsung SGH-T959P just got FCC approval with 3G support on the 850 and 1900MHz bands (it might also support 2100MHz, but we can’t tell from the documents we’ve skimmed in the filing — and since it’s not a US band, the FCC doesn’t really care anyway). T-Mobile’s original Samsung Vibrant was the SGH-T959, and the Galaxy S 4G was the SGH-T959V — so you can imagine that this is another device in the same vein. Samsung SGH product codes that start with “T” and end with “9″ are T-Mobile devices… but if this is for T-Mobile, where’s the AWS 3G support? So here’s our wild theory: T-Mobile and AT&T may have fast-tracked a T-Mobile-branded device — in this case, an offshoot of the Galaxy S 4G — with HSPA+ for AT&T’s bands. AT&T has mentioned this week that one of the first fruits of its planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA will be a roaming agreement that allows T-Mobile customers to use AT&T’s network, and naturally, that would require devices that support AT&T’s spectrum; interestingly, this roaming agreement is going into effect whether the acquisition completes or not, so these guys have to deal with it. We’d doubt that either of these carriers would be keen on releasing yet another variant of the original Galaxy S as we move toward mid-2011 here, but it’s entirely possible that T-Mobile and AT&T employees could be getting these to test the network integration over the course of the year. Crazy, yes… but just crazy enough to be plausible. Update: Here’s another thought. This could be an HSPA+ device ( a la Galaxy S 4G) for a Canadian network, since several of those guys have also deployed Samsung devices that start with “T” and end with “9″ — the model number exclusivity to T-Mobile is strictly within American borders. We’ll find out soon enough! Samsung Vibrant passes FCC again with AT&T 3G bands: a pre-acquisition tester? (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: acquisition, att, network, over-the-course, rumor, samsung, usa, vibrant No Comments »webOS 2.0 review
October 20th, 2010 admin When it comes to webOS 2.0 (now actually called HP webOS), it almost felt like we’d never see the version number, let alone get to review it. It’s been an intense few months for Palm: after floundering in the early part of the smartphone wars, it was scooped up by HP for a tidy sum of $1.2b. Though it seemed like the dream of webOS could fade away, the company made it clear that it had plans to not only continue the work Palm had done in the mobile world, but extend what the tiny company had created to other platforms as well (tablets, and yes, printers). We’ve heard a lot of talk from both parties since the acquisition, but have seen little in the way of proof that progress was indeed being made — but that’s all changed today. Palm has officially released its second generation OS into the wild, along with a new, beefed up version of the Pre (at least in France — North American handsets are coming soon). The company offered us an early developer phone to test out the new OS and see if the combination of tightened code and a significantly faster device (the Pre 2 clocks in with a 1GHz CPU) could make a difference between last place and a fighting chance. We’ve taken an extensive look at the new OS, so read on for our full take! Continue reading webOS 2.0 review webOS 2.0 review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: acquisition, early-developer, entry, hp webos 2.0, hpwebos, hpwebos2.0, mobile, other-platforms, palm, palm webos 2.0, palmhp, pre 2, review, the-combination, webos 2.0 No Comments »DataViz quietly acquired by RIM for $50M?
September 7th, 2010 admin Along with Quickoffice , DataViz’s Documents To Go is one of the longstanding stalwarts of the mobile document editing game, stretching back into Windows CE’s early days and beyond — but the future of the company’s direction is in question on news that it’s apparently been snapped up by RIM in a deal valued around $50 million. Nothing official’s been said at this point, but the evidence is growing, most notably the fact that a number of DataViz employees on LinkedIn have updated their profiles to indicate that they’re now employed by Waterloo. If you’re the conspiracy theory type, you might appreciate this little morsel: DataViz recently blamed its cancellation of the WebOS version of Documents To Go on shifting business needs after a delay brought on by SDK issues, but a far more likely explanation would be that RIM isn’t really interested in producing versions of Documents To Go for competing platforms going forward. Windows Phone, Android, and iOS users: we sense trouble. DataViz quietly acquired by RIM for $50M? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: acquisition, apparently-been, blackberry, dataviz, documents, documentstogo, engadget, engadget-mobile, mobile, quickoffice, recently-blamed, rim No Comments »Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’
August 30th, 2010 admin Infineon , the company behind the baseband chips inside your super-duper new phone , is about to cash out from the wireless industry courtesy of Intel’s insatiable appetite . The Wireless Solutions Business (WLS), which accounted for nearly a third of Infineon’s €3 billion ($3.83b) revenue last year, is being sold to the American chipmaker for a cool $1.4 billion. For its part, Intel is quick to reassure the world (and its antitrust authorities) that WLS will continue to operate as a standalone business and continue to support ARM-based devices. Chipzilla’s perfectly innocent ploy is to harness Infineon’s knowhow in future smartphone, tablet and laptop products, providing both the processing and wireless capabilities. Specifically mentioned in the news release is Intel’s ambition to “accelerate 4G LTE” through this deal, while also not neglecting its ongoing efforts with WiMAX, with the overarching strategy being described as “a combined path.” We should know more about where this path will take us when the acquisition is completed in the first quarter of next year. Continue reading Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’ Intel gobbles up Infineon’s mobile unit in $1.4 billion deal, looks to ‘accelerate 4G LTE’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: acquisition, basebandchip, engadget, infineon, intel, mobile connectivity, overarching, processing, wimax, wireless, wireless-solutions, wirelesssolutions, wls No Comments »
