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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 $20 billion AT&T spectrum deal closes.
AT&T is set to release its second-quarter results next month, with analysts predicting a single-digit rise in the company's earnings.
June 30 - India's Tata Communications on Tuesday named Rupesh Chokshi as its new chief technology officer, replacing Genius Wong, who resigned due to personal reasons.
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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Monday closed up +1.18%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.59%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +2.25%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +1.20%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
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.
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...
Comcast’s cash returns remain a key support, with July earnings set to test whether cable trends and Peacock losses are moving in the right direction.
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...
Stocks slide as interest rates remain the same and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh starts writing a shorter song for the biggest central bank in the world.
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...
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