T-Mobile CEO: iPhone on MetroPCS Possible, but Not Imminent

In the meantime, expect MetroPCS to aggressively expand to new cities this year.
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AT&T on T-Mobile’s New Rate Plans: “Whatever”

Meanwhile, Sprint said its mix of contract and no-contract plans offers customers the best of both worlds.
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Virgin Mobile iPhone Deal May Help Sprint Meet Commitments, Customers Save Money

This could be a win-win if customers are willing to pay more upfront in order to save over the long term.
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Yep, the Wireless Industry Actually Lost Contract Customers Last Quarter

Subscriber gains at AT&T and Verizon weren’t enough to make up for defections at Sprint and T-Mobile. The prepaid industry, meanwhile, gained two million customers in the first quarter.
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Sprint Shares Fall as Company Inks Deal With LightSquared, Loss Widens

Sprint on Thursday announced a long-anticipated pact with aspiring 4G wholesale network provider LightSquared. Shares tumbled more than 10 percent in premarket trading.
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Sprint Now Gaining Subscribers Instead of Losing Them

Good news for long-suffering Sprint Nextel investors: Customer retention has finally improved to the point where the carrier is able to report actual gains in postpaid subscribers, rather than losses.

A Top- and Bottom-Line Beat for Verizon

Verizon reported better-than-expected earnings for its third quarter this morning–56 cents a share on revenue of $26.5 billion to the 54 cents a share on revenue of $26.4 billion analysts had been expecting. But while it beat revenue and earnings targets, its wireless subscriber growth fell short of forecasts.

Analyst: Nine Million iPhones on Verizon in 2011

Amid long-running and persistent rumors of a Verizon iPhone, one analyst has bravely stepped forward to put a date on the device’s market debut. Barclays Capital analyst James Ratcliffe says we’ll see it in early 2011, and he’s sure enough in his prediction that he’s building it into his forecasts for AT&T and Verizon.
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17 Percent of Verizon Customers Would Upgrade to iPhone

AT&T’s iPhone-exclusivity deal hasn’t yet expired; nor has Apple announced plans to sell the device through a second U.S. carrier. But that’s not stopping analysts from speculating about what might happen when it does. Riffing on rumors of a Verizon iPhone, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty theorizes in a research note this morning that given the opportunity, nearly 17 percent of the carrier’s customers would upgrade to an iPhone.
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Sprint Nextel Still Struggling to Keep Subscribers

Sprint hasn’t posted a quarterly net gain in wireless subscribers in longer than anyone would care to remember, and its latest quarter was no different. Reporting fourth-quarter earnings this morning, the carrier said it lost a net of 148,000 subscribers during the quarter.

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