WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Communications regulators released a staff report criticizing AT&T Inc’s $39 billion plan to purchase T-Mobile USA, even though they agreed on Tuesday to let the companies withdraw their request for approval.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Communications regulators were adamant on Tuesday that hedge fund manager Philip Falcone’s satellite broadband start-up would not be allowed to operate if it posed a risk to GPS services.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – MetroPCS Communications Inc lost about a third of its market value on Tuesday after it reported quarterly earnings that missed Wall Street expectations and warned that already-weak second-quarter subscriber numbers would worsen in the current quarter.

AP – Verizon Communications Inc. is seeing a big boost from the iPhone, adding more new subscribers on contracts in the second quarter than it has in two and half years

34 percent of Twitter users don’t fill out the “location” field with accurate information, but a new algorithm can infer it from their tweets It used to be only stalkers and private investigators could track you down through subtle hints in your communications with others, but now an algorithm developed by a pair of computer scientists from Northwestern University an Xerox PARC can automate the process.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Mirs Communications has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to supply the infrastructure for its new mobile phone network in a deal valued at 200 million shekels ($59 million) over three years.

(AP) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has presented a health benefits proposal to the state’s largest public worker union – at the bargaining table. The Communications Workers of America filed a labor grievance against the administration after Christie previously said he wouldn’t bargain over health …

A massive injection of spectrum might be about to revolutionize the digital infrastructure of rural America. For a glimpse of the wireless future, take a look at the Yurok Indian reservation, an out-of-the-way spot just south of the California-Oregon border at the mouth of the Klamath River

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen Jay Carney, the communications chief to Vice President Joe Biden and a former magazine journalist, to be the next White House press secretary.

Cuba announced a Cabinet reshuffle Friday, sacking the construction minister for undisclosed “errors” and removing the communications minister in order to give him broader oversight over various ministries.