AT&T has historically focused on acquisitions and growth before all else, and is now unsurprisingly extending those ambitions into Europe. According to the Wall Street Journal, the phone giant is now studying potential acquisition targets in Europe, and a deal is expected to be announced before the end of the year. AT&T’s growth is constrained in the States, where the company has no interest in expanding its fixed line broadband services, and the stunning growth [...]

Sprint has confirmed last week’s leaks that the company will be taking complete control of Clearwire in a move many have assumed was inevitable for years. According to a Sprint announcement, Sprint says they’ll acquire the remaining almost 50% share they don’t own for $2.97 per share, or about $2.2 billion in total. The deal comes courtesy of Sprint’s own acquisition by SoftBank, which brings a significant infusion of cash to the previously-unstable third ranked [...]

Reports surfaced earlier this week that Sprint was pushing to acquire the remainder of Clearwire, and now Bloomberg reports the current acquisition offer is around $2.1 billion for the remaining shares. Sprint’s acquisition by Japanese carrier SoftBank is expected to fill the company’s coffers, allowing them to finally acquire Clearwire and the company’s massive spectrum holdings — something most saw as the inevitable outcome. Minority Clearwire shareholders Mount Kellet Capital Management LP and Crest Financial [...]

Cisco has acquired cloud infrastructure startup Meraki in an all-cash deal rumored to be around $1.2 billion. The Cisco press release insists the deal “complements and expands Cisco’s strategy to offer more software-centric solutions to simplify network management, help customers empower mobile workforces, and generate new revenue opportunities for partners.” Meraki, which began as an MIT project back in 2006 dubbed Roofnet, originally popped up on our radar as a low-cost last mile Wi-Fi solution. [...]

Cisco has acquired cloud infrastructure startup Meraki in an all-cash deal rumored to be around $1.2 billion. The Cisco press release insists the deal “complements and expands Cisco’s strategy to offer more software-centric solutions to simplify network management, help customers empower mobile workforces, and generate new revenue opportunities for partners.” Meraki, which began as an MIT project back in 2006 dubbed Roofnet, originally popped up on our radar as a low-cost last mile Wi-Fi solution. [...]

T-Mobile’s latest quarterly earnings (pdf) indicates that T-Mobile continues to struggle. The company added 160,000 net wireless customers overall, but lost 492,000 valuable post-paid wireless subscribers during the third quarter. As a result, T-Mobile posted a 15.2 percent lower profit than this time last year. T-Mobile’s fortunes on the prepaid front continued to be a positive for the company, the carrier adding 365,000 prepaid customers for the third quarter, up 44% from one year earlier. [...]

Insisting that MetroPCS and T-Mobile are “cheating shareholders” through a “drastically undervalued” deal, MetroPCS investors have filed suit to block the deal. The deal would give Deutsche Telekom a 74% stake in the combined company, and involves a 1-for-2 reverse stock split and a $1.5 billion cash payment to shareholders at $4.09 per share. The deal also involves shutting down the MetroPCS network, and migrating users slowly over to the eventual T-Mobile LTE network. However, [...]

The morning’s wireless rumor du jour is that Sprint is looking to sell a majority stake to Japanese carrier SoftBank. An anonymous source tells Reuters (as well as Japan’s Nikkei business daily) that SoftBank, Japan’s third-largest mobile carrier, is in talks to acquire a majority stake in Sprint in a deal valued at $12.8 billion. SoftBank has been on an acquisition spree for several years, acquiring Vodafone Japan in 2006, and most recently PHS operator [...]

CenturyLink is looking to expand their business presence and is pondering an acquisition of Time Warner Telecom. According to a report on the deal in Deal Reporter, the two companies have been in talks for several weeks and a possible acquisition deal could be looming. CenturyLink closed their massive acquisition of Qwest just last year, after acquiring Embarq several years earlier. Insiders say that Level 3 Communications also considered buying TW Telecom, but balked at [...]

Sprint will no longer have to carry the lonely unlimited flag. At a time when most carriers are jacking up data prices to offset reductions in SMS and voice use, T-Mobile has apparently decided to buck the trend and will return to offering truly unlimited data. According to a T-Mobile press release, the company will be launching an unlimited data plan starting September 5 that will cost $20 a month when added to a Value [...]