International Business News - Telecom http://www.ibtimes.com/subsection/industries/telecom.htm All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Losses at phone carrier Sprint Nextel grew in the first quarter as the company lost over 1 million contract customers. 115027 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/sprint-nextel.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 15:10:01 EDT Virgin Mobile USA Inc and Helio LLC, companies that resell wireless services from SprintNextel Corp, are in advanced merger talks, people familiar with the situation told the Wall Street Journal. 114412 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080510/virgin-mobile-helio.htm Sat, 10 May 2008 13:50:16 EDT Verizon Wireless bought assets of SureWest Wireless Communications for $69 million, the firm said on Friday. 114348 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/verizon-wireless.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 23:20:37 EDT Northwest Airlines Corp. said Friday it plans to raise round-trip ticket prices $20 to offset fuel prices, bringing the total surcharge on domestic fares to $65 each way. 114281 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/northwest-raises-fuel-surcharge-again.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 18:22:05 EDT Deutsche Telekom AG, the owner of T-Mobile USA, is considering buying mobile-phone firm Sprint Nextel, according German magazine Der Spiegel. 110925 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080503/deutsche-telekom-sprint-nextel.htm Sat, 03 May 2008 19:18:54 EDT Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB on Friday said its first-quarter profit fell 55 percent, which was better than expected, and the company's shares soared more than 25 percent. 106693 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080425/ericsson-earnings-telecom.htm Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:17:26 EDT China Mobile Ltd. said on Monday that in the first quarter the company earned a net profit of 24.1 million Yuan ($3.51 million), 37 percent higher than the same period last year. 104159 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080421/china-mobile-net-profit-increased-percent.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:45:34 EDT China Unicom Ltd. said on Friday that the company's users increased 1.63 million to reach 167 million in March, and increased 1.49 million in February. As for the users number, China Unicom is ... 103592 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080419/china-unicom-march-million-users.htm Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:58:16 EDT AT&T Inc, the largest U.S. telecommunications provider, said it would cut about 1.5 percent, or about 4,650 of its workforce incurring a pre-tax charge of $378 million. The company says it is th... 103300 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080418/cuts-650-jobs-efficiency-move.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:37:08 EDT Sprint Nextel Corp. says it swung to a huge fourth-quarter loss as it wrote down most of the remaining value of its 2005 purchase of Nextel Communications Inc. The nation's third-largest wireless carrier said Thursday it lost $29.5 billion, or $10.36 per share, during the quarter ending Dec. 31. 78478 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080228/sprint-nextel-earnings-report.htm Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:17:07 EST Following the integration of Tata Group's five telecommunication subsidiaries - VSNL, VSNL International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit and Cipris - under the Tata Communications brand name, Tata Communications has announced that it will inject $2 billion over the next three years to fuel its global expansion plans with specific focus on the new world of IP, MPLS, Ethernet, and managed services. 73654 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080217/tata-communications-expansion.htm Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:37:04 EST