Hints and tips:
...Defaults in the wider technology, media and telecoms sector have started to creep higher, and market participants are predicting that distress among TV and communications groups will deepen this year....
...SoftBank won a nice surprise over the holidays when it received $7.6bn in T-Mobile stock on a costless basis as part of its windfall from the sale of Sprint to the wireless carrier in 2020....
...One day, Starlink may dominate satellite communications while SpaceX dominates rocket launches....
...The FAA has planned buffer zones around 50 airports that have wireless transmitters in proximity to runways, including in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago....
...Communications agency TB Cardew has named Will Tanner as head of public affairs....
...By 2005, a denuded AT&T was bought for $16bn by SBC Communications, one of the Baby Bells....
...The trend has particularly big implications for two areas of technology — fifth-generation wireless communication technology and artificial intelligence....
...Frontier Communications, the heavily indebted US telecoms group that filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, has poached the head of Vodafone’s UK division to spearhead a turnround in its fortunes...
...Bottlenecks are not coming from production of the most expensive components like the $45 core processor, the A15, or the 5G modem that enables latest-generation wireless communication, or the premium organic...
...It added that central functions — defined as the radio access network, the transmission network, the core network, and the service and maintenance network necessary to provide communication services — could...
...communication....
...Wireless carrier Verizon, beverage group PepsiCo and Bank of America faced similar investor demands....
...The acquisition of Sprint attracted scrutiny after it was announced in April 2018, although the deal was ultimately backed by Trump administration officials at the Department of Justice and Federal Communications...
...If the deal goes through, it will shake up the US wireless market and create a third major company to compete with AT&T and Verizon....
...The chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission has backed the proposed $26bn merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, after the companies made concessions to try to get the deal over the line....
...Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has publicly backed the deal, while Makan Delrahim, the antitrust chief at the justice department, is yet to reveal his decision....
...They have deployed the argument at a time when Washington has worried that China might gain a lead in cutting-edge communications technology....
...They spoke of communication via thought alone and of restoring motor and sensory functions, such as giving sight to the blind....
...There’s a longstanding perception that America needs a minimum of four wireless companies for healthy competition....
...Ten years on, News UK, which is part of Mr Murdoch’s News Corp, has opened a new front in its tussle with the BBC by focusing on one of the corporation’s flagship radio stations....
...The antitrust mantra has been (up until Monday, at least) that America needed a minimum of four wireless companies to guarantee a healthy level of competition/options for consumers to be protected....
...In a letter to the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission, nine US senators said the merger was “likely to raise prices for consumers, harm workers, stifle competition, exacerbate the...
...Mobile chip developer Unisoc Communications has said it will apply for an IPO next year while Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, which delisted in the US in May, is also widely expected to list...
...Integration and communication, the keys to durable deals, are hard, unglamorous work. As for co-CEOs, markets have good reason to be suspicious of such arrangements. “Who’s in charge here?”...
...As for the danger of a western backlash, he said “a lot of people” ask about it but he hoped that “with time and more communication, these frictions will go away”....
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