Mobile phone firms lose tax case
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Mobile phone firms lose their legal fight to reclaim tax they said they paid to acquire expensive licences in the UK.
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As Governor Deval Patrick pushes the Legislature to eliminate what he calls an outdated "tax loophole" for telecommunications companies, a state board is slowly stripping away some companies' ability to take advantage of the exemption.
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Mobile firms feel pain yet again Europe's highest court has ruled that the huge amounts telcos paid for their 3G licences didn't include VAT, so there's no opportunity for the companies to reclaim Â£3.3bn quid from the treasury.â¦
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Seven current and former executives and one accountant of Swedish mobile-phone equipment maker LM Ericsson were acquitted of tax evasion charges Friday.
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UK mobile messaging firm 'ceases trading'
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A federal judge has halted the ban on mobile phones containing chips made by Qualcomm that was imposed after a court earlier determined that the chips violated a patent held by Broadcom.
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AT&amp;T on Thursday reported a $7.1bn third-quarter loss because of an $11.4bn writedown of its assets after its retreat from consumer services and other restructuring charges.
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A federal judge Wednesday halted an import ban on mobile phones by Qualcomm Inc., a rare legal victory in a long-standing patent dispute with rival Broadcom Corp.
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-- The country's largest provider of pay-as-you-go mobile services is suing the federal government over a recent ruling that allows people to disable the software that locks cell phones to a particular carrier.
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Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile escape anti-trust fines Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile will likely breathe a sigh of relief today after European Union anti-trust authorities decided to close their long-running investigation into alleged excessive charges for international calls.â¦
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The phone company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $11.1 million as it scaled back on marketing and cut other costs.
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Research in Motion lost part of the case on appeal, but it&#39;s not over until it&#39;s over. Specifically, the patent infringement finding against the maker of the email device was upheld by the appeals court.
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Telecom wins the overturn of four-year-old merger denial.
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A federal court rules that struggling VoIP provider Vonage Holdings infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.
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EU telecoms ministers back rules that cut the charges for using mobile phones abroad.
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Profit margins from Vodafone continuing businesses fell from 39.6 per cent to 38.7 per cent, the mobile phone operator said on Tuesday as revenue growth outpaced the rise in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
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Taxpayers have already received almost $87 billion in income tax refunds this year, but many are neglecting to ask for a modest refund from a now defunct telephone tax.