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A panel of wireless carrier reps justify closed systems.

Apple, Google, and now Research In Motion are launching new application stores that will allow users to get third-party applications from them instead of their wireless carrier.

U.S. cell phone operators are starting to embrace Wi-Fi in order to extend the reach of their high-speed wireless networks without breaking the bank, but some are being more cautious than others

T-Mobile USA was the first major U.S. wireless carrier to see the merits of using Wi-Fi.

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Verizon will pay $5.9 billion for Alltel's equity and assume $22 billion in debt in a deal that comes less than a year after the private equity firms closed their purchase of Alltel.

The wireless carrier's high churn rate contributed to its $505 million loss in the first quarter. By Michal Lev-Ram

Sprint Nextel on Thursday announced that is has tapped former Eastman Kodak executive Robert Brust, 64, to be its next chief financial officer.

Robert Brust, CFO, Sprint Nextel

When T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract--at $1,460, no less.

T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the two-year contract was legal.

Now that same kind of European rule would be ...

With a mandate to "improve execution across the board," wireless carrier Sprint Nextel named industry veteran Dan Hesse as its president and CEO.

Hesse is a former AT&T Wireless executive and was head of Embarq, the telephone division Sprint spun off in May last year, so he knows ...