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Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) and larger rival MetroPCS (NASDAQ:PCS) are at an impasse over a potential merger, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The report, citing unnamed sources familiar with the discussions, said the two prepaid unlimited carriers opened talks in February, but are now deadlocked over the relative value of each company. Coming to a consensus on that issue will allow Leap shareholders to determine the exchange ratio for trading their shares for MetroPCS shares, the report said.

Representatives for Leap and MetroPCS declined to comment.

Any deal would be similar to the stock-for-stock deal No. 5 carrier MetroPCS proposed for Leap in 2007, the report added. Leap, the nation’s seventh-largest carrier, rejected that .7 billion takeover bid. Since then, speculation has continued to swirl that the two should merge. Reports in February indicated the two carriers had hired outside advisers to explore the possibility of a deal.

Last month, MetroPCS CEO Roger Linquist predicted mergers in the crowded prepaid wireless market soon. Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Linquist said ideally there should be three prepaid wireless players. Today there are seemingly dozens beyond MetroPCS and Leap, including the four distinct brands offered by Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S)–Boost Mobile, the recently relaunched Virgin Mobile brand and Common Cents Mobile–as well as TracFone Wireless’ Straight Talk service, running on Verizon Wireless’ (NYSE:VZ) network.

For more:
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)

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Following up on this morning’s forthcoming data plan changes, AT&T has confirmed on its Facebook page that it would allow customers that have the current DataConnect unlimited data plan after June 7th to keep the plan when upgrading.  The…



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Swiss technology developer Starhome has filed suit against AT&T and T-Mobile alleging that both carriers have violated its patents centering on the use of shortcodes instead of the typical long number strings typically required for voicemail…



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Here’s an interesting video. Toronto’s CityTV put a good collection of 4 various cameras to the test:
8.1 megapixel Sony Ericsson Xperia 10
3 megapixel iPhone camera
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10.1-megapixel Canon EOS 40D
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Friday sales of the well-reviewed
HTC EVO 4G were the highest number of a single phone sold in one day ever for Sprint – which broke the records held by both Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre.

The total number of HTC
EVO 4G smartphones sold on launch day was three times the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days on the market combined.

Walter Piecyk at BTIG Research estimated Sprint sold at least 250,000 HTC EVO 4G smartphones over the weekend, and speculated that sales could have topped 300,000 this weekend given the pre-ordering appointments that throughout the weekend

FBR Capital Markets’ David Dixon, calculated that Sprint sold 320,000 HTC EVO 4G smartphones, gaining 100,000 new customers and 220,000 upgrades.

The great HTC EVO 4G sales led to temporary shortages of the
device at some of the 22,000 sales locations across the United States,
including Sprint retail stores, national retail partners including
RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart, and indirect dealers.

Sprint in a news released today, reported that they and HTC
are  working around the clock to increase inventory in all
sales channels. Additional shipments are arriving in retail stores on a
regular basis with many stores seeing daily deliveries.

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WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Att announced today that it is ending its unlimited iphone data plans for a month, introducing new plans for new customers on June 7th, 2010:

DataPlus — Provides 200 megabytes (MB) of data. for example, enough to send/receive 1,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 150 emails with attachments, plus view 400 Web pages, plus post 50 photos on social media sites, plus watch 20 minutes of streaming video

DataPro — Provides 2 gigabytes (GB) of data. for example, enough to send/receive 10,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 1,500 emails with attachments, plus view 4,000 Web pages, plus post 500 photos to social media sites, plus watch 200 minutes of streaming video

This is terrible news for new customers.
Thankfully existing contracts are not effected, and Att is “generously” offering to allow existing contracts to chose this new plan with no contract extensions.

New plans cost a month for the DataPro and for DataPlus.
Att has announced it is also ending the unlimited iPad data plans.

for unlimited data with an existing plan, or for limited?
Each 1 gigabyte over costs a user and Att will send a txt to a device nearing the monthly limit.

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