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In the phone business, the most dangerous competitor is the one that doesn't need your towers. For decades, the U.S. wireless market has operated like a private club. Three companies own the national networks, and everybody else, from Mint Mobile to your cable company's phone plan, pays rent to get ...
Dish DBS, the satellite TV and wireless subsidiary of EchoStar, filed for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 30 in federal court in Houston. The filing ends months of speculation about the future of the industry's would-be fourth wireless carrier. More than 88% of Dish's bondholders ...
The spinoff has investors taking a fresh look at the sector, now split between old-school telecom and the AI-heavy giants crowding into the space.
Building a nationwide wireless network has long been one of the most expensive challenges in telecommunications. That's why three national carriers have effectively dominated the U.S., despite repeated efforts to create more competition. That's a space Dish had sought to fill. Dish launched Project ...
Every monopoly looks permanent right up until it isn't. Standard Oil looked untouchable. AT&T (T) owned the telephone for most of a century. In markets, dominance is usually a lease rather than a deed, and the rent comes due the moment a competitor with deeper pockets decides the prize is worth ...
SpaceX wants its satellite network to eventually serve cellphones in dense urban areas, but capacity and infrastructure hurdles remain.
Dish DBS filed for bankruptcy Tuesday after a deal to sell spectrum to AT&T was held up. The satellite pay-television provider, owned by Colorado-based EchoStar, entered chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston with a prepackaged plan backed by 88% of its creditors holding Dish DBS bonds, according to a news release.
AT&T is set to release its second-quarter results next month, with analysts predicting a single-digit rise in the company's earnings.
June 30 - India's Tata Communications on Tuesday named Rupesh Chokshi as its new chief technology officer, replacing Genius Wong, who resigned due to personal reasons.
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Verizon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004, when AT&T was removed and the index needed a new telecommunications name. It held that seat for 22 years. S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed on June 23 that the seat now belongs to someone else. Alphabet (GOOGL) will replace Verizon ...
AT&T is once again raising its fees, despite facing elevated customer losses in its wireless business. The carrier’s postpaid phone churn, the percentage of customers who discontinued their wireless service, climbed to 0.89% in the first quarter of 2026, up from the 0.83% churn it ...
Every industry runs on a comfortable order, right up until someone from outside decides the rules do not apply to them. In US wireless, that order has held for a long time. Three companies, Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T) and T-Mobile (TMUS), control almost every phone in your pocket. They build the ...
The Federal Communications Commission’s first spectrum auction after a four-year hiatus. brought in upwards of $3.5 billion in total, the agency said.
Verizon Communications successfully bid nearly $3.2 billion for wireless licenses in a Federal Communications Commission auction for mid-band spectrum, the agency said Friday. AT&T, T-Mobile and Space X also won spectrum licenses in the auction that raised about $3.5 billion. T-Mobile successfully bid $278 million, T-Mobile $121 million and Space X $8.5 million, the FCC said.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has told investors that it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for U.S. consumers, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX was considering launching a Starlink retail product and could build its own terrestrial U.S. mobile network, President Gwynne Shotwell told investors during a recent IPO roadshow, according to the FT report. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors that it plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for US consumers, in a move that would upend the...
A California agency said Thursday it has asked a U.S. court and the Federal Communications Commission to reject the request of AT&T to stop offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers. The California Public Utilities Commission said AT&T's was trying to get out of its obligations as a carrier of last resort.
SpaceX's record-setting IPO has investors rushing into space stocks. From Rocket Lab to AST SpaceMobile, here's how to separate the durable winners from the hype in a fast-growing $1 trillion market.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Wednesday closed down -1.21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed down -0.98%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed down -0.99%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) fell -1.19%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) launched three satellites into orbit on Wednesday, 17th June, and the stock jumped 6% in response. The reaction looks like a simple relief rally after a clean mission. It is actually a direct rebuttal to the specific argument Wall Street’s bears have been making for the past ...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.15%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.30%. June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26 ) are down -0.17%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures...
SpaceX’s $75 billion initial public offering shattered market records, turned founder Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire, and opened fresh debates over corporate valuations and governance. It’s not the first time an IPO has shaken things up. IPOs have been reshaping markets since the Bank of North America’s 1783 debut got it all started for the young republic.
Telecom provider AT&T said on Tuesday Pascal Desroches will retire as CFO at the end of 2026 and that Jennifer Biry would succeed him. Here are more details: • Jennifer Biry, the former CFO of McAfee, is set to become AT&T's CFO at the start of 2027, according to a company filing. Biry was appointed AT&T's deputy CFO on Monday.
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Case in point: AST SpaceMobile Shares were up 1.4% in early trading Tuesday, while the was down 0.3%. An announcement by the company that three of its communications satellites were slated to head to the stars on June 17, aboard a SpaceX rocket, seems to have catalyzed the gains. AST is building a communications satellite constellation that will be used by Verizon Communications AT&T and others to improve wireless service on Earth.
Phone companies can collect some of the most sensitive information about their customers, such as their locations. That happens because cellphones repeatedly connect to nearby cell towers as they operate. The Supreme Court noted that each connection can register a phone’s location, giving ...
What SpaceX’s Starlink is worth is for each investor to decide. How it works is easier to say. It’s remarkable.
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