wireless carriers

AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, which pay hefty subsidies on the iPhones their customers buy, have seen their earnings and stock prices drop since they began offering the Apple handsets.

AT&T Inc. and the Justice Department agreed Monday to put off their upcoming antitrust trial over the phone company's proposed acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA while the wireless carriers determine the fate of the deal.

With many wireless carriers feeling threatened by the growing prominence of Apple and Google, those companies’ success could provide the foundation of Research in Motion’s recovery.

Thus far, the only official date for a Samsung Galaxy Tab launch given by any of the four major U.S. wireless carriers has been released by Verizon Wireless: Nov.

The Samsung Galaxy S smartphones have hit every major U.S. carrier . We already knew that Verizon was going to get the tablet PC follow-up, the Samsgung Galaxy Tab, but the Wall Street Journal now says sources tell them 3 of the Big 4 U.S. carriers will carry that tablet PC.

While most wireless carriers have fiercely opposed the imposition of network neutrality standards on wireless data networks, WiMAX wholesaler Clearwire is taking a decidedly different approach.

The nation's biggest wireless carriers are telling federal regulators that they give consumers adequate notice about early termination fees that apply when a service contract is broken before it expires.

A new report by the Yankee Group focuses on the subsidies wireless carriers pay to device manufacturers.

In particular, as C|Net found, despite the fact that AT&T's bottom line has been heavily boosted by the iPhone, it takes a long time for the company to make back it's money from the bandwidth-sucking Apple device.

The proposed rules for wireless carriers are expected to provoke a fight with the industry.

Verizon is prepared to limit new exclusive handset arrangements to six months to allow small wireless carriers to also market the devices, the company said in a letter.