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AT&T is the leading Internet Service Provider among businesses in the United States, handily beating out rival Verizon.

Sprint Nextel is cutting prices on their 3G/4G data plans in order to better compete with its largest rivals, the company announced Monday.

Sprint Nextel cut broadband wireless prices for its fastest data service customers after just two weeks to better compete with rivals AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless in the holiday shopping season.

The report suggests that African people are increasingly shifting to mobile communications because landline service is unreliable and too expensive.

T-Mobile reported Thursday a 2.8 percent net income boost to $332 million in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period.

Cable companies will offer high-speed Internet service to low-income families in the United States at around a fifth of the national average price, the top communications regulator said on Wednesday.

Ericsson, the world's top mobile network gear maker, cautioned that new lower-margin business would hit profitability in the fourth quarter and the global slowdown could mean its customers spend less.

Cable companies will offer high-speed Internet service to low-income families at around a fifth of the national average price, the top U.S. communications regulator will announce on Wednesday.

Verizon Wireless is aiming to sell more of its fastest wireless phones with a holiday promotion that allows twice as many data downloads for the same price, potentially putting pressure on AT&T Inc to follow suit.

Dish Network posted strong earnings Monday, but a loss of subscribers could foreshadow problems in the future.

Sprint Nextel Corp said it could use the proceeds from a private debt offer to fund Clearwire Corp, sending shares in the cash-strapped high-speed wireless firm up 8 percent on Friday.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to offer debt in a private transaction and could use the proceeds to fund Clearwire Corp .

Canadian telecom network equipment maker DragonWave Inc (DWI.TO: Quote)(DRWI.O: Quote) will buy microwave technology business of Nokia Siemens Networks NOKI.UL in a deal potentially worth up to 110 million euros.

India's top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel on Friday reported a bigger-than-expected 38 percent fall in fiscal second-quarter profit, its seventh straight quarterly profit drop, hit by higher interest costs and foreign exchange losses.

The Iraq/Afghanistan Wars have been costly, but the United States' longer trend of spending too much on defense and not enough on public goods over two decades could end up costing the economy and the nation far more.

DirecTV's net income boomed in the third quarter after adding on a significant number of subscribers in both Latin America and the United States.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is the first phone running on Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, is expected to arrive in the United States after Nov. 25, Black Friday. However, some Android smartphone contenders will try their best to spoil the party.

Google recently said it would launch 100 online video channels on YouTube that would feature new original programming from celebrities such as Jay-Z, Madonna, Shaquille O'Neal, and Tony Hawk, a move that would make YouTube a rival to cable and satellite TV channels.

Clearwire Corp needs another big wholesale customer to make investors less nervous about buying stock in the wireless service provider, which is majority owned by its biggest customer Sprint Nextel .

Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable television company, reported Wednesday a 5 percent profit increase in the third quarter, but fell short of Wall Street's earnings estimate by 6 cents per diluted share, its first miss since July 2008.

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