Cingular to sell BlackBerry Pearl starting Friday
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Cingular Wireless, the largest  U.S. mobile phone service carrier, said on Wednesday it will  start selling Research in Motion's   new  BlackBerry "Pearl" handheld device on Friday as both companies  seek to boost sales during the holiday season.
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Cingular Wireless LLC, the nation's largest cell phone company, will cut about 10 percent of its 68,000 jobs over the next 12 to 18 months as it combines operations with the recently acquired AT&T Wireless, Cingular's chief executive said Tuesday.
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Cingular Wireless LLC on Monday said MetroPCS Inc. will buy some of its wireless spectrum licenses in a $230 million cash deal designed to help meet conditions set by regulators as part of its acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc.
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By BRUCE MEYERSON  NEW YORK - Cingular Wireless plans to sell a new BlackBerry-like device from Nokia Corp. for as low as $150, perhaps the most aggressive entry yet in an increasingly crowded market of devices with typewriter keypads for wireless e-mail and text messaging.
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Atlanta-based Cingular Wireless agreed to sell some if its airwaves in Dallas and Detroit to MetroPCS for $230 million. If regulators approve the deal, it&#39;s expected to close in the first quarter,.
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Federal regulators will formally approve Cingular Wireless&#39;s $41 billion purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless today, company officials briefed on the matter said over the weekend.
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ATLANTA -- Cingular Wireless LLC, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS) , today announced that it has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice
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Sprint Nextel Corp. , the No. 3  U.S. wireless provider, on Tuesday said it would begin selling  three slim phones from Motorola Inc.  in early November,  about two years after its biggest rival, Cingular Wireless,  started selling Motorola's popular Razr phone.
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(InfoWorld) - Rumors that Microsoft may purchase BlackBerry maker Research in Motion are likely just that because of RIM's high price tag, though there would be benefits for both parties if a deal were struck, analysts said Friday. Michelle Warren, a senior analyst for Info-Tech Research Group in Toronto, sent out a note Thursday on industry speculation that Microsoft is in discussions with RIM, observing that the deal would give Microsoft ammunition to compete in the consumer device market against Apple. It also would position them well to fight any wireless strategy from Google, which has been buying up dark cable networks and is expected to make a big move in wireless communications in the next year or two, she said. "I think this makes sense basically because Microsoft has to do something different to order increase market share in the overall IT market," Warren said in an interview Friday. "It has to do something disruptive and eye-catching, and this speaks to its marketing positioning and future expansion plans." Microsoft has achieved a fair amount of success with its latest mobile OS, Windows Mobile 6, and has identified the mobile device space as an important one for the company's growth and revenue diversification going forward. Buying RIM would counter its current weakness in developing hardware for its mobile OS, Warren said. RIM would gain Microsoft's brand power and also engineering expertise for one of BlackBerry's competitive differentiators. Business users find a BlackBerry's ability to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server for mobile e-mail an attractive feature. Microsoft also makes this option available in Windows Mobile. Synching up with Microsoft would allow the company to enhance this capability faster and more efficiently, Warren said. Neither Microsoft nor RIM would comment Friday on the possibility of a deal. Despite the advantages of a Microsoft-RIM merger, the deal just doesn't make economic sense, other analysts said Friday. To them, it's not even a remote possibility Microsoft would pony up more than the $47 billion in market cap RIM currently has to buy the vendor. "I just don't see it," said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft. He acknowledged he was surprised byÂ Microsoft's purchase of digital advertising services firm aQuantiveÂ for $6 billion and so also could be mistaken in the case of RIM. However, it isn't likely that Microsoft, for which the aQuantive deal was its largest to date, would shell out much more than a few billion to purchase a company. "A RIM deal would be larger by an order of magnitude," Rosoff said. "I just don't see Microsoft making that size of acquisition." He added that some kind of strategic alliance between the two, which currently compete head to head in the mobile OS space, would be more likely. "A multiyear partnership agreement, where some money might change hands but we'd never know how much," would make more sense, Rosoff said. Roger Kay, president of market intelligence firm Endpoint Technologies Associates, agreed that Microsoft likely won't make a purchase that large. He also noted that although Microsoft has become increasingly "more comfortable" with developing consumer hardware -- with products like the Xbox 360 gaming console and Zune digital media player on the market -- there could be thorny competitive issues with mobile device makers that license Windows Mobile if Microsoft begin making hardware for this market.
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U.S. regulators are set to give Cingular Wireless final approval for its &#36;41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.  on Monday, on condition that it sells assets including wireless airwaves in more than 16 markets, according to a source close to the deal.
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Cingular Wireless plans to sell a new BlackBerry-like device from Nokia Corp. for as low as $150, perhaps the most aggressive entry yet in an increasingly crowded market of devices with typewriter keypads for wireless e-mail and text messaging.
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Cingular Wireless LLC has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice that will allow the company&#39;s proposed $41 billion acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless to proceed on schedule.
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By Jim Hopkins  SAN FRANCISCO -- Can't wait until the end of the month to buy an iPhone?    Someone in Atlanta is advertising Apple's must-have cellphone for $800 on classifieds site Craigslist. The ad  includes a photo purporting to show the gadget.
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It&#39;s official. Cingular Wireless may continue to use the AT&amp;T Wireless brand in its advertising, at least in the short term, following its planned merger with the carrier.
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By Bloomberg News. Cingular Wireless, which is buying AT&amp;T Wireless, said yesterday that third-quarter sales rose 4.9 percent, to $4.
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U.S. regulators are set on  Monday to  give Cingular Wireless final approval for its $41 billion  purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AWE.N, on the  condition it sell assets, including wireless airwaves in more  than 16 markets, according to a source close to the deal.
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