Anton Troianovski

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Optical Delusion? Fiber Booms Again, Despite Bust.

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 3 at 7:30 am PT

After years of licking its wounds, and with much of the fiber-optic cable capacity in the ground still unused, the telecom industry is going on another building spree.

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Video Speed Trap Lurks in New iPad

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on March 20 at 11:29 pm PT

Brandon Wells got the new iPad last Friday, started wirelessly streaming March Madness games the next day and by Saturday night was out of gas.

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Users Rip AT&T Data Curbs

Anton Troianovski and Greg Bensinger, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 2 at 11:30 pm PT

Wireless carriers are getting increasingly forceful in their efforts to pitch mobile bandwidth as a scarce, valuable commodity — setting up a battle with consumer groups that support open-Internet rules and longtime customers who treasure their unlimited data plans.

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AT&T Plan Would Let App Makers Pay for Subscribers’ Data Use

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 27 at 10:06 am PT

AT&T Inc. is preparing a service that would let content providers and developers of mobile applications pay the wireless carrier for the mobile data its customers use, the carrier’s network and technology head John Donovan said in an interview Monday.

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Verizon Rivals Push FCC to Block Spectrum Buy

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 22 at 9:47 am PT

T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications Inc. are pushing the Federal Communications Commission to block Verizon Wireless’ plan to buy wireless airwaves from a group of cable companies for $3.9 billion.

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Verizon’s Tangled Web

Anton Troianovski, Thomas Catan and Shalini Ramachandran, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 30 at 3:03 pm PT

As Verizon Communications Inc. pushes for more cable-television and high-speed Internet subscribers, a new competitor is emerging: Its own subsidiary, Verizon Wireless.

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Clearwire Signs Deals With Sprint, Makes Debt Payment

Greg Bensinger and Anton Troianovski, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on December 1, 2011 at 11:20 am PT

Clearwire Corp. signed a four-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. valued at as much as $1.6 billion, giving the wireless-broadband provider breathing room as it builds out a new fourth-generation network.

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AT&T, T-Mobile Mull Plan B

Anupreeta Das, Anton Troianovski and Gina Chon, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 30, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT

AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG, the parent of T-Mobile USA, have discussed forming a joint venture that would pool network assets from the two U.S. wireless carriers as an alternative transaction if their current acquisition deal falls apart, people familiar with the matter said.

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Phone Deals Dial Up Coverage Problems

Anton Troianovski and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 27, 2011 at 11:10 pm PT

AT&T Inc.’s hopes of salvaging its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA and heading off a long court battle now rest with its ability to come up with a package of divestitures that might convince the Justice Department to drop its objections to the merger.

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Clearwire May Skip Big Debt Payment

Anton Troianovski, Matt Wirz and Joann S. Lublin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 18, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

Clearwire Corp. is considering skipping a big debt payment that comes due in two weeks, a decision that could prove a turning point for a company that had hoped to cover the country with wireless broadband service.