Sprint is nearing an agreement on the price, capital structure and termination fee of an acquisition for T-Mobile US that could value the wireless carrier at almost $40 a share, people with knowledge of the matter said. Alex Sherman has more on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg 4 June 2014)
T-Mobile’s Legere Said Likely CEO After Sprint Merger - Bloomberg: "... Handed the smallest U.S. wireless carrier in 2012 after a failed sale to AT&T, Legere set out toward one main goal: gaining customers. After rolling out the un-carrier strategy in March of last year, T-Mobile has introduced phone financing that separates the cost of the phone from the service charge and breaks phone payments up over monthly installments. This freed T-Mobile from having to sell phones at steep discounts and let customers get new smartphones without signing two-year commitments. “We laughed at un-carrier when if first came out,” Chaplin said. “Now it looks like consumers love it. I think the brand resonates well with people.” In what was probably the biggest challenge leveled at its larger rivals, T-Mobile offered to reimburse the early termination penalties for customers who break their contracts and switch to T-Mobile...."
Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue | Ars Technica: "In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung. The company also lost one of that year's biggest cases when an East Texas jury ordered it to pay $368 million to a company named VirnetX for infringing patents related to FaceTime and VPN On Demand functions used in iPhones, iPads, and Macs. VirnetX is a company some call a "patent troll" because its only business is now patent enforcement. Then, in March, US District Judge Leonard Davis ordered (PDF) an ongoing royalty to be paid to VirnetX. The number was downright stunning: 0.98 percent of revenue from iPhones and iPads sold in the US...."
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