TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Top StorynnCommunications Daily* –- A long-discussed lobbying coalition of Sprint and Google with CLECs is taking shape, will take on AT&T and Verizon (p1). nnnAmong OthersnnCNet –- The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the police don’t need warrants to use GPS tracking.nnWall Street Journal* –- AT&T is buying for $2.35 billion mainly rural operations with 1.5 million subscribers that Verizon Wireless agreed to sell to take over Alltel (Financial Times*).nn -- AT&T is paying a heavy price for the iPhone in bandwidth demands as well as device subsidies.nn –- Verizon Wireless is already preparing to pull The Hub from its stores, to make way for netbooks.nn –- Large handset makers like Samsung and LG are piling into the market’s low end, threatening smaller ones.nnNew York Times –- Landline losses and troubled telcos make maintaining copper networks look like a failing business.nn -- Wireless carriers are studying every scrap of information they have on subscribers to determine how worthwhile they are to keep and what it will take.nn –- Apple told developers that it will now accept only applications compatible with iPhone 3.0, signaling that release of the operating system may be near.nn –- Coming application stores are derivative of Apple’s, but each is distinctive: Microsoft’s will have a published blacklist of banned functions, and Nokia’s will feature 20,000 free programs from the start.nnKansas City Star –- PETA gave Sprint Nextel a Baddy Award for a movie-theater ad featuring a chimp.nnFT –- The shareholder vote to sell PCCW to Chairman Richard Li was clearly manipulated, an appeals court said Monday, explaining its decision to block the deal (Bloomberg).nn –- BT is preparing to cut its dividend for the first time in seven years.nnBy using our e-mail delivery service, you understand and agree that we may use tracking software to ensure accurate electronic delivery and copyright compliance. This software forwards to us certain technical data and newsletter usage information from any computer that opens this email. We do not share this information with anyone outside the company, nor do we use it for any commercial purpose. For more information about our data collection practices, please see our Privacy Policy. nn n_____________________nn*Access by paid subscription only. Free trials of Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily are available.