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Alphabet, Tesla, and Intel are among the key companies reporting their second-quarter results later this week.
New wireless service options may break up multiline plans and land carriers a bevy of long-term customers.
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Bernstein cut price targets on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon on views Elon Musk's Starlink poses a competitive threat. SpaceX stock fell.
Wall Street just sent a clear signal to income investors who count on AT&T for steady payouts. Morgan Stanley slashed its price target on the telecom giant, and the reason has little to do with AT&T's (T) own performance. The real threat is coming from space. Elon Musk's Starlink satellite ...
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 ...
Building a nationwide wireless network takes billions of dollars and years of patient investment. That reality has meant that the U.S. wireless market has been dominated by three players for more than a decade, no matter how many challengers have tried to break in. Dish Network was the latest ...
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.
AT&T has spent years telling investors the same story. Build more fiber, build a stronger wireless network, and the payoff will come. For a while, Wall Street bought it. The telecom stock held up even as rivals stumbled, and management kept pointing to 2030 as the finish line for its ...
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.
The EchoStar pay-TV subsidiary said it would repay debt once the $20 billion AT&T spectrum deal closes.
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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Comcast plans to separate NBCUniversal and Sky into a new publicly traded company within a year.
The EchoStar unit is preparing for chapter 11 as soon as Tuesday, as it faces regulatory scrutiny over its network build-out.
U.S. telecom and media giants are moving in opposite directions in midday trading. Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) stock is up 7% to $24.76, while AT&T (NYSE:T) stock is down 5% to $21.52, and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) stock is down 7% to $43.29. The split reflects three distinct catalysts hitting the sector at once. Comcast is rallying on a ... Telecom Turmoil: Comcast Rises 7% on Media Spinoff, AT&T Falls 5% on CFO Exit and Starlink Threat, Verizon Sinks 7% on Dow Exit
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.