GLG News by Mobile Phone Handset Experts

Well thank goodness, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint are stepping up efforts to promote the Green movement.

Despite reporting that the iPhone brought high value customers of 160% ARPU, AT&T is still focusing on basic mobile communications with four new messaging handsets priced under $100.

The scenario of South Lake Tahoe, AT&T and Charter is an example of the major US telcos directing their CAPEX for copper upgrades and fiber to the markets of highest ROI and competition.

The FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission’s) recent decision will be hailed by some investor groups as creating new opportunities for the rural markets.  Some telecom professionals will hail this decision as a disaster waiting to happen. Some telecom professionals will hail this decision...

AT&T’s acquisitions of Centennial and Wayport shows the economics of buying and upgrading mobile users compared to competing in the U.S. saturated market for another carrier’s subscribers. 

A few months ago, Yahoo was at war with Microsoft.  Now Yahoo is hiring ex-Microsoft executives.  This is too funny.   You cannot make this stuff up.

It is getting worse and worse.  However, I need to clarify my position from Part 1.

Surviving distress requires cash not Wall Street valuations. There may a new old alternative.

This is not good for Motorola.  A separation of the handset unit would have generated desperately needed cash. However, when life hands you lemons you need to learn to make lemonade.

The Nextel merger was a total failure.  Sprint needed to get rid of Nextel in order to climb out of the hole the entire corporation is in. However, realism is a trait needed to perform a restructuring properly.  In other words, you got to roll with the punches.