Dish is willing to pay $25.5 billion for Sprint because it thinks the wireless high-speed Internet Sprint can offer is the future of streaming TV.
Just a few days after it announced its sale to Softbank, Sprint has acquired Clearwire, reports DealBook's Michael J. De La Merced, which will help it grow its currently not very impressive LTE network.
Most of the $20.1 billion the Softbank paid to buy a 70 percent stake in Sprint will go to shareholders, but a least a little bit of it will get invested in the company's 4G LTE network.
Sprint has confirmed it is in talks with Japanese telecommunications company Softbank for a "potential substantial investment" that could change control of the company, report Reuters' Taro Fuse and Sinead Carew.
iPhone buying has officially begun with online pre-orders this morning and in-store sales starting next week. It's time to start thinking about the right phone plan for your new iPhone 5.
Fantasizing about how Apple could spend its $117 billion cash mound leads to one astounding conclusion: The company has more money than it could ever spend—even if it went on an extravagant tech company shopping spree.
Thanks to a report in today's New York Times, we know cell phone companies are besieged with requests for phone records from the U.S. government. But who's answering all those requests?
Though the straight numbers, at least according to this Cult of Mac breakdown, say that the new prepaid iPhone offerings from Cricket Wireless and Sprint Virgin Mobile are the way to go, it got us wondering what kind of hidden costs come with the too-good-to-be-true cheap option.
The big three cell phone carriers have a paradoxical relationship with the iPhone: each carrier needs the device to survive, but the more iPhones they sell, the more money they seem to lose.
If the failed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile taught us anything, it's how our new smartphone-driven lifestyle is driving mobile carriers to resort to extreme measures in order to slow sinking profits caused by the high cost of pouring data into our pockets.
As federal investigations against Carrier IQ ramp up this week, Sprint said today it will be removing the company's software from its phones.
The two cell phone companies caught with their hands in the cookie jar for taking users' thought-to-be private data sent talking points to their service reps saying how exactly they should explain to customers that it's OK for them to secretly collect data.
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The underdog mobile carrier says the merger would lead to "higher prices and less innovation"
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