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December
MetroPCS and Leap Wireless could be acquisition targets for AT&T and T-Mobile USA, says JPMorgan Chase
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The UK joint venture of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom sees wholesale opportunities in working with its two parents to offer international services, says M2M head Marc Overton
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AT&T has been given regulatory approval to acquire US spectrum in the 700MHz band from Qualcomm
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VimpelCom’s Canadian operator Globalive reported in talks to take over rival Mobilicity
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Deutsche Telekom CEO to rethink strategy after AT&T bows to opposition and gives up bid for T-Mobile USA
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Reuters reports that Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared will need ‘substantial capital’ to continue from second quarter of 2012
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AT&T discussions ‘go cold’ over selling assets to get approval for T-Mobile USA merger
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John Stratton to be president of Verizon’s new global enterprise solutions, including wholesale
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Cisco platform will allow Verizon’s network to accommodate growth where traffic demand is maximum
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No price quoted as US company Adtran buys fixed line broadband access unit in NSN move to wireless
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US operator claims to have enough financial resources to revive plans for T Mobile buy-out
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US cable company Comcast to shift MVNO services from Sprint and Clearwire to Verizon Wireless
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Emerald Networks plans to raise $300m to complete a 60 terabit low-latency transatlantic cable in early 2013
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Verizon Wireless will buy 122 spectrum licences from US cable industry’s SpectrumCo for $3.6bn
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WiMax operator Clearwire pays $237m interest as Sprint CEO Dan Hesse negotiates lower prices and promises equity funding
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Agreement will link IP networks of China Telecom and AT&T for Chinese multinational companies
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November
FCC allows AT&T withdrawal but bites back with report that dismisses grounds for T-Mobile USA deal
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Nokia Siemens Networks to sell former Motorola WiMax business to private equity-backed NewNet
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Canadian government may allow increased foreign investments in telecoms sector to improve competition
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US analyst Jeff Kagan says AT&T will make another attempt to buy T-Mobile USA, but the FCC and the industry aren’t addressing the real problem: the availability of spectrum. It’s time to address the cold, not the sneeze
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Canada’s Cogeco Cable is in talks with operators to sell its Portuguese operations Cabovisão
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FCC chairman to refer AT&T’s acquisition bid for T-Mobile USA to administrative hearing
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African Development Bank and Brazilian investors back project linking Africa, South America, North America and Europe
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Cox Communications, the US cable operator, has stopped selling its MVNO mobile service and will shut it in March
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AT&T will introduce LTE Advanced network technology in the US in 2013, says head of AT&T Labs
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State-owned operator China Telecom plans to start offering mobile services in US by early 2012
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TeliaSonera transmits data at 500 gigabits over 1,000km in test with Infinera equipment
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Allstream provides IP backhaul to Wind Mobile in Canada as it plans network expansion
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Europe’s Carphone Warehouse to sell stake in US mobile phone venture with Best Buy for $1.6bn
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DragonWave takes over microwave transport business from Nokia Siemens Networks in cash and shares deal
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US district judge allows Sprint to go ahead with anti-trust case against AT&T takeover of T-Mobile USA
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October
Stockholders of Paetec Holding have approved of Windstream’s $2.3bn acquisition bid for Paetec
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Sprint in talks with Clearwire to extend existing network-sharing contract after 2012
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Private equity group Permira to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5bn for Genesys
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Skype becomes a business division of Microsoft after $8.5bn purchase is completed
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Infinera and NTT’s Pacific Crossing achieve 100 gigabits over 9,500 kilometres from US to Japan
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Sprint was the first operator to offer nationwide 4G services across the US and is now offering 4G wholesale services. Matt Carter, president of Sprint 4G, tells George Malim about the company’s approach to wholesale
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Acquisition will enable Zayo to connect its metropolitan fibre with 360networks’ intercity network
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Sprint plans to complete its switchover to LTE by the end of 2013, two years ahead of previous programme
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Reliance Globalcom increases undersea cable networks’ capacity to over 500 gigabits a second
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Telecommunications Industry Association urges India to review capital requirements and licence fees
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Primus Telecoms retains investment consultant Jefferies to consider sale, merger or alternative strategy
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Global Crossing has disappeared as an independent company with the completion of Level 3’s $3bn purchase
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September
Cable operator sets up CTI Towers to own, operate and develop mobile telecoms towers throughout US
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Bell Mobility has introduced 4G LTE network in Toronto, Hamilton among other Canadian cities
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Lowell McAdam disappoints Vodafone by saying Verizon Wireless joint venture will not pay annual divided
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Canadian wireless company plans Rogers Bank to gain on Canada’s rising mobile-banking market
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Third operator in US takes legal action against AT&T bid for T-Mobile as AT&T hints at reduced price for deal
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Canadian cable operator cites high investment required as a reason for scrapping the plan
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US operator is planning a solution ease the concerns of US antitrust regulators
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Monitise in strategic partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland for mobile banking and mobile payment services
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August
Sprint wins as US government decides to block AT&T bid to buy Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA plan to invest in Isis mobile payment venture
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Motorola Solutions sells off point-to-point and point-to-multipoint products to private equity company Vector Capital
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US mobile company said to be talking to cable companies about buying their interest in WiMax operator Clearwire
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Carrier offload 3.5 gigahertz fixed wireless spectrum licences in Canada for $15 million
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Private-equity owners of Insight Communications agree to $3bn takeover deal from Time Warner
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Google makes first hardware M&A deal with $12.5bn deal to buy Motorola Mobility handset maker
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch to work on asset sales as AT&T seeks antitrust approval for acquisition of T-Mobile USA
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Viacom programming will now be among Cablevision’s offerings for devices
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US consumer group says the acquisition will result in higher prices for consumers
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Interview with Sanjiv Ahuja, the former Orange head now CEO of LightSquared, which is building a wholesale LTE project in the face of opposition from the GPS industry. At the same time he is chairman of Augere Holdings, with spectrum covering 500m people in Asia and Africa. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Taiwan handset maker HTC spends $18.5m on US cloud services company Dashwire
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July
Wholesale deal means cable operator Cox Communications able to use and resell Level 3 services
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Federal Communications Commission approves CenturyLink’s $3.2bn purchase of data service company Savvis
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Samsung selects Chinese chip vendor over Qualcomm for its Droid Charge LTE handset in US
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Equipment firm plans to achieve $1 billion in savings in 2012 with 10,000 job cuts
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As Nortel’s creditors get a surprising $4.5bn from five vendors for its intellectual property, former executives talk to GTB about what went wrong with this highly innovative company
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4G service starts in Ottawa with Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal to follow later in 2011
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Unit of former Qwest spends extra $3m in expanding broadband in New Mexico
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Sanjiv Ahuja’s terrestrial and satellite project raises half of funding from new investors
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Samsung drops suit to streamline legal proceedings on alleged patent infringement
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Nortel’s creditors will get a surprising $4.5bn as a team of five vendors outbids Google for its intellectual property
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UK-based Synchronica to pay $25m for Nokia’s North American mobile email and messaging business
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June
Legal dispute between Samsung and Apple now running in at least four nations
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CFO Andy Halford offers estimate based on Verizon Wireless annual cash flow of $12bn
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Apple responds to Samsung’s suits by claiming Samsung infringed many patents of Apple
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Charter Communications extends optical ethernet service to long-haul operation
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Alcatel-Lucent will help Canadian provincial operator provider to build fibre to the premises
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Nokia Siemens Networks leads $14m funding round for ClariPhy optical chip company
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Three financial institutions offer $140m extra commitments under American Tower’s supplemental credit facility
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Extra demand for Nortel patents means administrators delay auction until June 27
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US cable operator may sell mobile network or abandon the venture completely
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Survey starts to plan route for Hibernia Atlantic low-latency Project Express cable
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Apple will be paying the Finnish phone maker ongoing royalties as well as an undisclosed one-time fee
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‘I’m going to be staying on,’ says Telcordia CEO as Ericsson pays $1.15bn cash for private-equity owned company
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Microsoft is opposing Google’s offer of $900m for Nortel’s 6,000 patents and patent applications
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The US telecoms firm will use proceeds for pending acquisition of Savvis
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Centro Empresarial and Conecel Holding have been banned from bringing claims against Ecuadorean operator
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Stake reduction to 49.8% offers Sprint more flexibility to refinance current debt or raise new debt
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New financing to fund future acquisitions, repay outstanding indebtedness and fund network build-out
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Convergys sells Cincinnati interests to AT&T for proceeds of $250m
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Existing telecommunications foreign control restrictions are inefficient regulatory tool, says Globalive chairman
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Japanese electronics maker has priced its entry level model cheaper than Apple iPad2 base model
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Windows president Steven Sinofsky previews new operating system that will not be available until 2012
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AT&T considers selling network capacity to Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared project
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May
Nexus S 4G will be the first phone featuring new Google Wallet application
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AT&T announces LTE locations but confirms that HSPA+ may be faster
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Level 3 is to borrow $500m to refinance debts of Global Crossing, which it is taking over
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Chinese equipment maker plans to introduce devices using Microsoft Mango in the US
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Microsoft's Andy Lees previews Mango, the next release of Windows Phone operating system
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Novatel Wireless receives approval for Verizon Wireless LTE network
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Telus declares pricing of its offering of senior unsecured notes worth $600 million
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Ericsson will run day-to-day management of Clearwire’s WiMax network
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CWC’s Lime signs 20-year contract with Dominican Republic’s telecoms regulator
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The TAT-14 transatlantic cable is to be upgraded to 40 gigabits a second in a deal with Mitsubishi
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Clearwire has improved coverage of its WiMax network in the San Francisco area of California
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Cisco’s tablet computer, the Cius, is to be available to AT&T’s business customers this year
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Verizon has introduced systems to allow enterprises to let employees use Apple and Android tablets
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AT&T is budgeting $1bn to launch cloud and mobility systems for enterprises this year
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Alaska’s GCI is to raise $325m through a sale of senior unsecured notes
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Reports say that Microsoft is to buy internet phone company Skype for $8.5bn
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Mobile operator US Cellular plans to launch LTE services across a quarter of its network by the end of 2011
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AT&T is to see the Samsung Infuse smartphone, running on HSPA+ at 21 megabits
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Nokia Siemens Networks has started to give details of the product strategy for the Motorola business it has bought
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Atlantic Tele-Network and KeyTech are to merge their Bermudan mobile operators, CellularOne and M3 Wireless
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The auction of Nortel’s last remaining assets, its patents, can go ahead on June 20, judges have decided
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NSN’s deal to take over Motorola’s equipment business has finally closed, and 6,000 employees are moving over
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April
Four weeks after completing its $24bn Qwest takeover, CenturyLink plans to buy Savvis for $2.5bn
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Rogers plans to launch LTE in four Canadian cities this year and a further 21 by the end of 2012
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Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo have helped AT&T raise $3bn
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US network operators are expected to sell Android-based devices from ZTE this year
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Canadian regional operator Bell Aliant is raising $316m in an issue of medium-term notes
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Cellular South is the latest operator to sign an agreement to use LightSquared’s planned US-wide LTE network
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Motorola’s LTE phone, the Droid Bionic, will be launched later than expected for Verizon Wireless customers
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Sprint has agreed access charges to use Clearwire’s WiMax network over the next two years
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Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared is said to be talking about a network-share deal with Sprint, as is Clearwire
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BlackBerry maker RIM is said to be considering bidding against Google for Nortel’s patents
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Infrastructure owned American Tower has arranged to borrow up to $1bn to finance acquisitions
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A settlement of the patent dispute between Motorola Solutions and Huawei removes barrier to NSN takeover deal
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Global Crossing shareholder ST Telemedia agrees to share-swap deal to merge with Level 3
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The House of Representatives in the US has rejected the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules
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Allow other networks to roam onto your services for mobile broadband, US regulator tells big two operators
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Telus has announced plans to roll out LTE across Canada, starting with main cities later this year
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Interview with Glenn Lurie, the man who brought the iPhone and iPad to AT&T
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Google is offering to buy the last vestige of Nortel, its patent portfolio, for an initial bid of $900m in an auction that starts in June
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Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Huawei are competing for an LTE contract from US Cellular
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Telesat is considering two takeover offers as an alternative to raising $6bn from shareholders
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March
In a continuing dispute, Nokia is alleging that Apple is using seven of its patents in its products
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Best Buy is to set up a mobile network in the US using wholesaled terrestrial and satellite capacity from LightSquared
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Verizon is raising $6.25bn in five tranches to pay existing debt and for unspecified general uses
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Amazon is competing in the Android applications market by launching its own online store, competing with Google
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A US rural telecoms group, NetAmerica, is to provide LTE services to local mobile operators in a deal with Ericsson
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Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared has signed an LTE deal with the owner of the Cricket mobile phone network in the US
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Sprint and LightSquared are spurned as Deutsche Telekom sells T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $11bn less than it paid in 2000
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Google is working on a project to equip VeriFone’s payment card terminals in stores with NFC technology
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US politicians in the house of representatives are blocking the FCC’s planned rules on net neutrality
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The HTC ThunderBolt will go on sale as Verizon Wireless’s first LTE smartphone
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Fixed-line users will have to pay $10 for 50 gigabytes above a monthly limit, with U-Verse customers getting more
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Windstream has increased the sale of its senior notes from $600m to $1.1bn
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Rural operator Open Range is the first to sign a deal to use LightSquared’s terrestrial and satellite LTE services
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Bill Morrow has left Clearwire suddenly and the chairman has stepped in as acting CEO
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Bell Canada has raised $1.03bn in debt, backed by parent company BCE
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NSN’s purchase of Motorola’s network business has been further delayed by China’s regulators
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Canada’s Rogers Communications is raising $1.9bn in debt to redeem notes due in 2012
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AT&T and Verizon Wireless are offering contract-free options for the iPad 2, which launches this week
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The iPad2 will be launched in the US on March 11 and in other countries on March 25
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Windstream is to raise $600m in bonds, using Citigroup, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas and other banks
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WiMax company Clearwire is planning to sell shares to raise $536m to continue network construction
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Juniper is borrowing $1bn in unsecured notes, in three tranches of $300m, $300m and $400m
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CEO Darren Entwistle says Telus is to spend $650m in Alberta, including speeding up its HSPA+ network to 42 megabits
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February
Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared project is said to be talking about using Sprint’s cellsites and equipment
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Private equity owned Atlantic Broadband is to raise $555m to cut borrowing costs on existing debt
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Cable & Wireless Communications is selling its business in Bermuda to Canadian operator Bragg
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Chinese vendor Huawei has won the first stage in a fight to stop Nokia Siemens Networks buying Motorola’s networks business
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US cable operator Midcontinent, part owned by Comcast, has negotiated $675m of refinancing
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Developers have been using Nokia’s own blog to criticize its plan to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone
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Vendor claims costs can be halved in announcement a week ahead of Mobile World Congress
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A vendor has analysed information from Analysys Mason and concluded that many mobile networks will be losing money on their data operations as early as the first quarter of 2013
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January
Verizon COO Lowell McAdam says Terremark purchase takes the company to ‘everything as a service’
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The US is planning to allocate $3bn worth of spectrum to a $15bn project for a nationwide fire and police network
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Think of us as a real estate company, says head of new dark fibre network
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Sanjiv Ahuja’s LightSquared is expected to win its bid to use satellite bands for terrestrial services
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US mobile operator MetroPCS is to take the FCC’s net neutrality rules to court
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Nokia Siemens Networks’ plan to buy Motorola’s network equipment unit for $1.2bn has been hit by a lawsuit from Huawei
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Barclays Capital is advising the private equity owner of Hughes Communications on a sale of the satellite company
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René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, says the company may sell its US celltowers
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Verizon is challenging the FCC’s new rules designed to prevent US operators blocking some web services
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US cable company Charter Communications increased a planned fundraising from $250m to $300m
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AT&T will delay launch of Nokia’s X7 smartphone in the US, though the phone will be sold in other countries
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US mobile operator Sprint is to charge smartphone users an extra $10 a month to pay for data
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Three US government departments have asked the FCC to deny changes to Sanjiv Ahuja’s LTE project
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Reports from the US say the private-equity owners of Telcordia have briefed Credit Suisse to manage a sale of the company
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Private equity-owned Intelsat has negotiated loans of $3.75bn in order to repay existing debt
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US carrier Level 3 is to raise $300m in a sale of senior of unsecured notes
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Verizon will compete with AT&T to sell the iPhone in the US from February, but without an LTE version
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Mosaic Telecom, a Wisconsin rural operator, is moving to LTE with kit from Nokia Siemens Networks
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US operator Windstream has expanded an earlier sale of $500m notes by a further $200m
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Motorola and Dell announced Android-powered tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show
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Sony Ericsson’s latest Android phone includes an HDMI connector to put HD images on a TV set
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Device maker ST-Ericsson has announced an LTE modem at the Consumer Electronics Show
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AT&T Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega has confirmed the launch of the company’s LTE network from the middle of this year
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Huawei’s submarine cable division is lending $250m to a low-latency Atlantic cable project
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US operator Lightower is to licence Nstar’s optical fibre capacity to develop its network in the Boston area
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Wifi chipmaker Atheros will become Qualcomm Networking & Connectivity after a $3.1bn takeover
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Owner of Andrew brand to raise $1.5bn to fund private equity purchase by Carlyle
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WiMax operator Sprint is launching an HTC Android smartphone for $149
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Motorola is two separate companies from January 4. Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions will be separately traded