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Verizon’s Profit Rises 16 Percent as Margins Improve

Melodie Warner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 18 at 5:18 am PT

Verizon reported a profit of $1.95 billion, or 68 cents a share, up from $1.69 billion, or 59 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue jumped 4.2 percent to $29.42 billion.

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Sprint to Take Control of Clearwire

Anupreeta Das, Atsuko Fukase and Shalini Ramachandran, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm PT

Sprint Nextel Corp. is set to gain control of partner Clearwire Corp. without an acquisition, people familiar with the matter said, a deal that will clarify a long-dysfunctional relationship that became a central issue in the No. 3 U.S. carrier’s $20 billion acquisition by Japan’s Softbank Corp.

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Softbank Eyes 70 Percent Stake in Sprint; Deal Would Include Cash Injection

Anupreeta Das, Anton Troianovski and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 11, 2012 at 12:49 pm PT

A person with knowledge of the negotiations said the value of the deal could exceed $12.8 billion.

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Softbank in Advanced Talks to Acquire Sprint Nextel

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 11, 2012 at 4:17 am PT

Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. is in advanced talks to buy U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corp. in a deal expected to exceed ¥1 trillion ($12.81 billion) in value, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Thursday.

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Talking Less, Paying More for Voice

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 6, 2012 at 2:30 am PT

The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less — making phone calls.

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Google to Expand Mobile-Device Partnerships

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 15, 2012 at 2:30 pm PT

Google Inc. plans to give multiple mobile-device makers — rather than just one partner — early access to new releases of its Android mobile operating system and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter.

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Carriers Band to Fight Cellphone Theft

Rolfe Winkler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 10, 2012 at 4:40 am PT

The nation’s major wireless providers have agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to build a central database of stolen cellphones — part of a broad effort to tame an explosion of thefts nationwide.

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U.S. Proposes Sharing Airwaves

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 27, 2012 at 5:02 pm PT

Obama administration officials proposed requiring the Defense Department and other federal agencies to share a chunk of the airwaves they currently use with wireless companies after concluding it could be too expensive and time-consuming to move the federal agencies to other airwaves.

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Clearwire, Leap Make Wholesale Pact

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 14, 2012 at 5:15 pm PT

Clearwire Corp. signed a five-year wholesale deal with Leap Wireless International Inc. to supply the pay-as-you-go carrier with high-speed mobile broadband service, an initial milestone in Clearwire’s effort to reposition itself primarily as a wholesaler.

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Retailers Join Payment Chase

Robin Sidel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on March 1, 2012 at 4:20 pm PT

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are among roughly two dozen retailers working together to develop a mobile-payments system to compete with similar products from Google Inc. and big cellphone companies, according to people with direct knowledge of the project.