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“iPhone sales are unlikely to hit the same peaks at next year’s upgrade cycle as the level of smartphone saturation tips to replacement over new users”. Sprint shares dropped by 2% Thursday, falling to $4.82. Apple had upgraded its camera over its predecessor....

South Korean Electronic giant Samsung Electronics Co. responded answers to its critics on Wednesday about its new Galaxy Note 5, admitting that the device can crack if its stylus is inserted the wrong way in the storage slot. This precautionary note had not been printed on the...

AT&T customers can upgrade iPhones annually whereas Verizon customers can only upgrade when the total price of the phone has been paid off. T-Mobile is also offering iPhone rental for limited periods which is similarly priced as the new iPhone Forever plan. “As a...

Nikesh Arora, president of SoftBank, has said he will buy a breathtaking Y60 billion ($US483 million) worth of shares in the Japanese telecoms and internet group, in a sign of his commitment to the company as the handpicked successor to billionaire Masayoshi Son.

AT&T has also indicated it will also soon move to a simpler, more direct model of selling or leasing phones to consumers, and said in its recent quarterly earnings statement that there is increasing interest in AT&T Next, a device-upgrade plan similar to Sprint’s...

Sprint says it’s shifting entirely to a model where customers lease their phones instead of buying them at a discount.

Those on other carriers, meanwhile, also have the chance to turn in an old smartphone (not necessarily an iPhone) and get the promotional $15 monthly rate on a new iPhone until December 31, 2015. “We decided: How awesome would it be if anytime customers don’t have the...

In the wake of Verizon’s newly announced decision to finally scrap subsidized phones and two-year contracts, AT&T follows suit with a new set of Mobile Share Value plans that cuts down the price of most plans while offering more data for some.

With Sprint Nextel becoming its direct wholly owned subsidiary in the Merger, Sprint Corporation was merged into Sprint Nextel, New Sprint became the parent company of Sprint Nextel, and its name was switched by Sprint Nextel to Sprint Communications, Inc. The company said it...

( SHEN ) in an all-cash deal valued at about $640 million, including net debt. The deal represents about a 60% premium over the company’s 30-day volume weighted average stock price as on August 7. It conducts its business through NTELOS-branded retail operations, which...

The proposed deal is not expected to have any impact on Ntelos’ previously announced plans to shutter its “eastern” operations, which is still expected to be completed by November.

“We believe our customers will see a seamless transition to the Sprint platform used by Shentel and will greatly benefit from Shentel’s strong track record of providing reliable wireless service through its expanded and extended affiliate relationship with...

“n”>Aug 3 Sprint Corp on Monday said Chief Financial Officer Joseph Euteneuer will be leaving the company, and named Tarek Robbiati to succeed him. Robbiati worked most recently as the managing director and CEO of FlexiGroup Ltd., an Australian consumer finance...

Sprint also neared its goal of turning positive in terms of core smartphone subscribers, losing just 12,000 such customers in the quarter, as compared to the several hundred thousand or millions that it had been ceding in prior quarters.

CEO Marcelo Claure, who joined Sprint about a year ago, has introduced many changes in the organization in the past few months with an aim to turn around the dwindling performance of the company. Analysts predicted $8.33 billion.