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Sprint’s Clearwire Bid Gets Mixed Reviews

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 10 at 9:55 am PT

Proxy-advisory firms offered differing views of Sprint Nextel Corp.’s contested bid to take over Clearwire Corp., raising the uncertainty around the May 21 shareholder vote on the deal.

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ESPN Eyes Subsidizing Wireless-Data Plans

Amol Sharma, Spencer E. Ante and Anton Troianovski, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 9 at 4:59 pm PT

Smartphone users who binge on video, games and other content must monitor their usage to ensure they don’t run over monthly data caps that wireless carriers have put in place in recent years.

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Verizon Price Gap: $30 Billion

Dana Cimilluca and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 25 at 4:30 pm PT

Verizon Communications Inc. is eager to buy Vodafone Group PLC out of their massive mobile-phone joint venture — but it will have to get over a $30 billion hurdle.

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China Unicom Q1 Net Jumps 89 Percent on 3G, Fixed-Line Broadband Growth

Paul Mozur, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 25 at 6:30 am PT

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. said Thursday net profit surged 89 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier as its third-generation mobile communications network and fixed-line broadband businesses continued their rapid growth.

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AT&T Earnings Rise on Wireless Subscriber Growth

Ben Fox, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on April 23 at 1:23 pm PT

AT&T Inc.’s first-quarter profit grew 3.2 percent as the company’s wireless subscriber rolls continued to grow, though revenue missed expectations.

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Sprint Committee to Evaluate Dish Offer

Sharon Terlep and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 18 at 11:32 am PT

The board of Sprint Nextel Corp. has set up a special committee to evaluate Dish Network Corp.’s $25.5 billion bid to acquire the carrier, people familiar with the matter said.

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Big Sprint Investor Favors Dish Network’s Bid

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 16 at 2:43 pm PT

Dish Network Corp.’s $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. offers more value to shareholders than the wireless company’s original deal with Japan’s Softbank Corp., Sprint investor Paulson & Co. said Tuesday.

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MetroPCS Board Backs Deutsche Telekom’s Improved Offer

Saabira Chaudhuri, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 15 at 12:13 pm PT

MetroPCS Communications Inc. said its board has unanimously approved the amended terms of its proposed merger agreement with Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA Inc.

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The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Phone Giants

Evelyn M. Rusli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 28 at 7:30 am PT

Messaging apps with funny names like WhatsApp, WeChat and KakaoTalk have become an indispensable form of communication for hundreds of millions of people world-wide. They are also rankling technology giants from Silicon Valley to Seoul.

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Vodafone CEO Leaves Options Open on Verizon

Lilly Vitorovich and Paul Sonne, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 21 at 3:33 pm PT

Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone Group, left the door open to the possibility of a near-term deal that would change the ownership of one of the most closely watched partnerships in the telecom industry: Mobile-phone giant Verizon Wireless.