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Verizon, Sprint, Level 3 Get Financial Beatdown

Some of the optimism surrounding communications stocks is waning after industry insiders slapped Verizon, Sprint and Level 3 with downgrades. ...More
January 14, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Image Gallery: December's Hottest Selling Smartphones

High drama in December smartphone sales: Could Windows Phone 8 devices like the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC 8X make a run at Apple's iPhone 5? Would Samsung retain dominance over its Android competitors with the likes of the Galaxy S III and the Note II? ...More
January 11, 2013
Posted in Galleries
DISH's Clearwire Bid Puts Sprint 'In a Tough Spot'

Sprint will probably win the fight, forcing DISH to turn to AT&T and T-Mobile as the most likely partners for spectrum and network sharing. ...More
January 10, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Sprint-Clearwire: DISH Tries to Pull the Rug Out

DISH Network Corp. has made an offer to buy Clearwire, in a deal that could pull the rug out from under Sprint Nextel Corp. ...More
January 8, 2013
Posted in News
Sprint's SoftBank, 'Grossly Undervalued' Clearwire Deals Won't Go Unchallenged

Few mega-mergers get approved without a fight from those unhappy with the potential deal, so it doesn't come as a huge surprise that Sprint's pending deals with Clearwire and Japan's SoftBank have some opposition. ...More
January 8, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Is Channel Distribution Merging in the Cloud?

Convergence of IT and telecom technologies as well as the emergence of service delivery models like cloud are making once distinct roles of master agents and distributors less clear. ...More
January 7, 2013 By Khali Henderson
Posted in Articles, Software as a Service/ Cloud Services (SaaS)
DISH Downplays Sprint as Potential Wireless Partner

Less than a month after reports that an agreement between the two companies was "imminent," DISH Network and Sprint might not become wireless partners at all. ...More
January 4, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Slide Show: Channel Partners' Top 10 Stories in December

We tallied our top 10 stories for December by combining online page views with weekly newsletter results. Among the top: how much partners are paid; Windstream's bribery case settlement; and how partners weathered Hurricane Sandy. But what was No. 1? ...More
January 4, 2013
Posted in Galleries, Ethernet/ MPLS, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
Slide Show: Blockbuster M&A — The Channel Impact in Q4

After a relatively quiet Q3, the fourth quarter of 2012 exploded with M&A activity important to both the channel community and the telecom/IT industries as a whole. Sprint-Clearwire; Zayo; T-Mo-MetroPCS; it's all here. Check out the Channel Partners recap. ...More
January 1, 2013
Posted in Galleries
Slide Show: Channel Partners' Top 20 Stories of 2012

What a year in the channel. We tallied our top 20 stories for 2012 by combining online page views with results from our weekly newsletters. Among the top: awards; big merger rumors; job cuts and channel-program changes. But what was No. 1? ...More
December 21, 2012
Posted in Galleries