T-Mobile buys wireless operator SunCom for $2.4 billion
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Expanding its U.S. turf, T-Mobile USA announced Monday that it will buy SunCom Wireless Holdings for $2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON  - Sprint Corp. FON.N said  on Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel  Communications Inc. NXTL.O for about $36 billion, creating a  U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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Aloha Spectrum Holdings sold 12 MHz of its nationwide 700 MHz wireless spectrum to AT&T for $2.5 billion.
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AT&T has agreed to purchase wireless  carrier Dobson Communications Corp.  in a deal valued  between $2.5 billion and $3 billion, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Sprint Corp. FON.N on Wednesday  agreed to buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications  Inc. NXTL.O in a deal worth $35.17 billion to gain more  business customers and more airwaves to transmit calls.
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Deutsche Telekom mobile phone division T-Mobile USA has agreed to buy SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc for about $1.6 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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AT&T Inc.  said on Friday it will buy rural wireless communications services group Dobson Communications Corp.  for $2.8 billion in cash.
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U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc.  said on Friday it will buy rural wireless carrier Dobson Communications Corp.  for $2.8 billion in cash to expand its reach in rural and suburban markets.
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Federal regulators approved the $41 billion purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless by Cingular Wireless, a crucial step in a merger that will create the nation&#39;s largest cellphone company.
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The U.S. sale of airwaves for   advanced wireless services grossed a record $13.9 billion when   it ended on Monday, and spectrum-hungry U.S. wireless carrier   T-Mobile USA topped the bidding by offering almost $4.2 billion   for 120 licenses.
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Cingular Wireless said on Friday it struck a deal to sell some assets to Alltel Corp.  for &#36;170 million in cash, a move that will help it meet the government's divestiture requirements stemming from its purchase of AT&T Wireless.
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T-Mobile won the bid at the last minute from Europe's largest mobile operator, Vodafone.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group.
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Sprint has agreed to buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications in a deal worth $35.17 billion, combining the No. 3 and No. 5 U.S. wireless carriers and creating a new company with about 40 million customers.
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By TOM PARSONS Associated Press  LITTLE ROCK -- A pair of investment firms have agreed to acquire Alltel Corp., the fifth-biggest U.S. wireless company and owner of the nation's largest geographic network, in a deal worth $24.8 billion.
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Cell phone carrier to spend $2.66 billion to upgrade to a next-generation network using newly acquired spectrum.
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Cell-phone tower company Crown Castle International Corp. agreed to buy smaller rival Global Signal Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, the companies said Friday, creating a behemoth with more than 24,000 wireless sites.