Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: [http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/quickquote.html?ticker=pcs PCS]), formerly known as General Wireless, Inc., is an American mobile phone service provider.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Mobile USA reported it lost more than a half million of the most lucrative customers in this year's first three months, marking the 15th straight quarter of contract user losses.
The drop puts the carrier further behind AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ) in the race to lock users into two-year commitments and could make T-Mobile's recovery even more difficult after regulators blocked its plan last year to be taken over by AT&T for $39 billion.T-Mobile, the fourth-biggest U.S. carrier, put its strategic plans on hold last year while awaiting government approval of the AT&T deal and watched its subscriber rolls shrink. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company is the largest remaining carrier without the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone, another competitive advantage that has hurt its ability retain users.Chief Executive Philipp Humm vowed to return the company to customer gains. "We've always said that in 2013, 2014 is when we want to be net positive" on contract customer gains, Humm said in an int...MetroPCS Communications Inc. shares rose 97 cents, or more than 9%, to $11.25 Thursday after the discount wireless carrier reported upbeat quarterly results. Prior t...
Tech stocks stumbled in early trading Thursday, led by losses from Hewlett-Packard Co. . H-P shares fell $1.67, or almost 6%, to $27.27 after the PC giant reported a...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. shares rose 65 cents, or almost 8%, to $9 Tuesday following comments by Chief Executive Braxton Carter at a UBS tech conference. Carter ...
Long-awaited U.S. rules addressing the hot-button issue of balancing consumer and content providers' interests against those of Internet service providers will take ...
Terrestar Networks Inc said it has received a $1.375 billion cash bid from billionaire Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp to buy the telecommunications company's asse...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Terrestar Networks Inc <TSTRT.UL> said it has received a $1.375 billion cash bid from billionaire Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp <DISH.O> to ...
Antitrust law was inadequate to preserve the openness of the Internet and to allow innovation to flourish, the top U.S. communications regulator said on Thursday, de...
The Justice Department has decided to pursue an in-depth investigation of AT&T's plan to buy of T-Mobile USA, according to a source familiar with the deal.The decisi...
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to disapprove Internet "neutrality" rules that were adopted last year to keep big Internet providers from blocking ...
By Jasmin MelvinWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel urged regulators to block AT&T Inc's $39 billion bid to buy Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, saying the merge...
TerreStar Networks Inc. wants to extend until mid-June from mid-February the time it has to control exclusively the filing of its bankruptcy-exit plan as it continue...
* Investment would mark U.S. re-entry after Helio withdrawal (Adds backgroud)SEOUL, Sept 20 (Reuters) - South Korea's top mobile carrierSK Telecom Co Ltd said on Mon...
During trading today, the S&P 500 dropped 0.6%, and the Services sector (IYC) showed little change.Cost Plus (NASDAQ:CPWM) rose 21.9% to close at $21.93, crossing it...
Here are nine stocks that fell to 52-week lows:The share price of ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) decreased today, reaching and then falling even farther past its previous...
Complaints about the shortage of wireless frequencies and a need for U.S. mobile carriers to consolidate will dominate the industry's largest annual gathering next w...
Nine stocks hit to 52-week lows:While trading on above-average volume, Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) declined today, hitting and then dropping past its previous 52-week low of ...
Here are stocks that gapped down today with opening prices significantly lower than the previous trading day's close:After closing the previous trading session at $4...
Tech stocks took some steps forward Thursday, with Citrix Systems Inc. and Xilinx Inc. among the gainers following those companies upbeat quarterly results. However,...
More than a year Verizon Wireless debuted its mobile broadband network known as 4G LTE, just 5% of its customers have switched to the faster data network.The company...
