GLG News by TMT Council Members in Member Programs

Three telecom companies, Idea Cellular, Spice Communications and Telecom Malaysia International with different intents have come together in the acquisition of Spice Communications by Idea Cellular. It will require very deft handling of regulatory affairs and carrying along with important partner...

If Verizon agrees to wage increases and medical benefit changes that AT&T doesn't want to accept, this can have severe complications on the AT&T/CWA negotiations scheduled to begin in April, 2009.  AT&T, however, also have many possible changes to the current CWA contract that may inflame...

Frontier has shown growth in broadband lines while its larger counterparts (T and VZ) are having difficulties  showing positive growth in that segment.  We need to study the reasons why Frontier is doing so well, even though they are seeing heavy wireline losses like all the telco players,...

Sprint's acquisition of Nextel was to get a strong foothold int he small to medium size businesses, the stronghold of Nextel customer base. One of the main services was push-to-talk (PTT) or Walkie Talkie service Verizon and AT&T have both since launched their PTT service and going after the...

Analysts have hated talking about selling off Nextel. Most analysts have seen the sale of the Nextel network as a failure on the part of Sprint; however, I don’t. Saving Sprint needs to be viewed from the perspectives of creditors and bond owners.

1) The Calfornia public K-12 education system has been suffering from budget cuts for decades, is not at the forefront, and is these days among the bottom 10% of the states in terms of standards and results. 2) It used to produce higher-quality student results two decades ago but since...

Equity holders are up in arms. However, the creditors and bond holders were very happy. Raising cash now is paramount.

The GM Volt will be a winner IF it is price competitive and has reasonable performance and economy.  Despite the so called "quality" issue that saddles GM previous well thought out and executed GM vehicles have sold well.

Sprint's recent quarterly report said that the "Silver Lining" in their loss of market share is the rate is decreasing.  Investors will buy into companies loosing money if they show growth.  Funding a stock sale with the latest numbers would have greatly depressed the stock price. None of...

undefined Sprint has addressed AT&T’s false claims against the WiMax wireless network.  This 59-page document is full of proofs against the erroneous claims being brought by AT&T, in essence Sprint has put on their gloves and is fighting back to preserve their right to launch their powerful...