AT&T is now officially the first North American mobile carrier to run networks on both sides of Rio Grande. On Friday, Ma Bell announced it has finalized its $2.5 billion acquisition… Read more »
Reuters reported on Wednesday that Samsung had “approached” BlackBerry about a potential takeover for as much as $7.5 billion. While a surprise, it wasn’t the most outlandish rumor: Both Samsung and… Read more »
French telecom tycoon Xavier Niel may have seen his offers for T-Mobile US rebuffed, but it looks like he’s going to get his hands on a mobile carrier after all. Niel’s… Read more »
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Orange’s proposed takeover of Spain’s Jazztel. France’s Orange already has a Spanish subsidiary, whose connectivity Jazztel resells as a mobile virtual network operator… Read more »
The one-time U.K. monopoly carrier BT may be sniffing around O2 and EE as it considers how best to get back into the mobile carrier game, but it seems it’s not… Read more »
[Update 2 Dec 2014 — Microsoft’s Rajesh Jha confirmed that they have acquired Acompli, writing that Microsoft did so as a part of its commitment to mobile experience: In a world where… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
One year after it’s IPO, voice-over-LTE networking company Mavenir Systems is looking to expand its expertise into 4G security. This week it announced it is acquiring Stoke, a startup that builds LTE… Read more »
AT&T’s ambitions of becoming a mile-high ISP are no more. The carrier is abandoning its plans to offer in-flight internet services so it can focus on its terrestrial acquisitions. Read more »