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AT&T: The iPhone Was Good, But Not Good Enough To Hold Off A Q4 Loss

A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its failed bid to buy T-Mobile USA. The carrier swung to a loss and failed to meet analysts’ estimates on earnings, partly down to a $4 billion charge it...

AT&T Generates 20 Percent of Apple’s iPhone Sales

AT&T used to be the only carrier in the world that offered iPhones. Five years later, it still accounts for a big chunk of sales.

Update 2: Privacy Alert: O2 Fixes Hole That Shared Users’ Phone Numbers

Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.

What To Expect At CES: Tablets, TVs, And Transition

The biggest spectacle in the tech industry kicks off Sunday evening, when an estimated 150,000 people will flood into Las Vegas not to place a wager on Monday night’s national championship game between LSU and Alabama (I’m taking LSU +1) but to gear up for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. Next week’s show will...

Few Options For a Lagging T-Mobile

The wireless carrier is struggling, with a dwindling subscriber base, weak finances and no obvious way out after the deal with AT&T was scuttled.

Daily Must Reads, Dec. 20, 2011

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs


1. Man sentenced to one year in federal prison for uploading X-Men movie (Deadline)

2. New York Times Co. negotiating to sell regional newspapers (Media Decoder)

3. Should computer science be required in K-12? (MindShift)

4. E-books as a digital news...

Updated: AT&T Kills Bid For T-Mobile, Citing Government Opposition

AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government to the deal and noting that the scrapping of the deal will “not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.”

Nokia’s First Windows Phone For The U.S., The Lumia 710 With T-Mobile

Confirming earlier reports, T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to sell a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows Phone in the U.S.—a key market for the beleaguered handset maker. Rather than splashing into the U.S. with a high-end, expensive product, Nokia is taking the more humble route and launching with the cheaper of its...

Business Briefing | Telecommunications: U.S. Seeks Withdrawal of AT&T Antitrust Case

The Justice Department said it wanted to withdraw its antitrust case against the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T.

AT&T, Deutsche Telekom Ask For More Time To Evaluate T-Mobile Deal

AT&T’s attempt to remake the U.S. wireless landscape with its huge $39 billion deal for T-Mobile may have finally reached the breaking point. AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) have asked the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice to postpone court hearings in...

Q. and A. With Stuart Elliott

A puzzling spot for three chains under the TJX umbrella.

Nokia Ships Its Second, Cheaper Windows Phone Handset, The Lumia 710

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next seven days.