Verizon sales rise led by wireless growth
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Verizon Communications Inc  said on Monday its quarterly revenue rose due to strong wireless subscriber growth, although profit fell after merger-related costs and other items.
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Verizon's revenue was up 5.5 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2007, and net income was up slightly.
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Nokia raised its earnings and revenue forecasts for the current quarter because of growing mobile phone sales, the first glimmer of good news in months for the besieged world leader in mobile phones.
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Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cell  phone provider, said on Monday that it was expanding its  wireless service offerings at discount retailer Wal-Mart Stores  Inc.  to boost its distribution.
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Global mobile phone sales grew by 35% in the second quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year, according to market monitors Gartner.
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The Sprint Corporation said that it expected sales and profit to continue growing in 2005 thanks to continued strength in its wireless division.
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InfoWorld - Driven largely by gains in its wireless and data businesses, Verizon Communications' revenue was up 5.5 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2007, and net income was up slightly.
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Shares of Motorola (MOT:NYSE - news - research) rose Tuesday after Geoffrey Frost, senior vice president of Motorola&#39;s mobile phone division, told Reuters that the company feels &quot;very good&quot; about sales growth during the second half of the year.
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An increase in sales of high-end handsets and general growth in the cell-phone market helped give Sony Ericsson a better-than-expected third quarter.
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Verizon Communications Inc  reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday driven by strong wireless subscriber growth, though analysts were unimpressed by its Internet subscription sales.
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Wireless communications service provider Nextel Communications Inc. on Friday posted 69 percent growth in third-quarter earnings based on demand across its business sectors, and raised its outlook for 2004.
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Motorola Inc., the world's No. 2 maker of cell phones, on Tuesday said its quarterly profit more than tripled, as sales rose 26 percent, driven in part by a host of new handset models and cost controls.
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Cingular Wireless, the mobile venture of SBC Communications Inc.  and BellSouth Corp. , said on Monday revenue rose in the fourth quarter on strong subscriber growth.
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Top telecommunications service  provider AT&T Inc.  on Tuesday said its profit and revenue  grew on an adjusted basis, helped by strong growth in its  wireless business.
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Verizon Communications Inc. earned &#36;3.04 billion in the fourth quarter, posting a 6 percent revenue gain as another powerful showing by the cellular business more than compensated for the continuing decline of traditional local phone service.
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Worldwide mobile phone sales exceeded 156.4 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 percent increase over the second quarter of 2003, according to a report released this week by Gartner Inc.
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Verizon Communications  said on  Monday its quarterly profit rose and its wireless customer  additions were ahead of analyst estimates.