Leap Wireless News

's stock had its "hold" rating restated by equities researchers at Jefferies Group in a report issued on Friday.

The analysts wrote, "As the post-paid market slows, we believe the Big-Four carriers are increasingly focusing on the pre-paid market to drive growth.

Leap Wireless International Inc. : Jefferies believes Leap's market opportunity and growth potential may be limited as the major carriers increasingly focus on the pre-paid market to drive growth.

With growth slowing in a saturated wireless market and growing concerns about the duopolistic environment that the industry is heading toward, some of the smaller incumbents may be looking at ways to consolidate and grow through acquisitions.

NII Holdings Inc had $2.34 billion in total cash and $4.71 billion in total debt for the latest quarter.

Just looking at the news makes me think that the cellular industry is having a week of mayhem.

Leap Wireless International plans to expand the projected coverage offered by its in-deployment Long Term Evolution network from 20-25 million people by the end of this year, to 60-65 million by late-2013/early-2014, Fierce Wireless reports.

The Federal Communications Commission today approved the preliminary applications from T-Mobile USA, Leap Wireless, Savary Island, and Cook Inlet with respect to a proposed spectrum swap.

The communications market in the U.S. is considered to be mature, so domestic carriers need to make acquisitions in order to grow.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Brooks Automation, Inc., Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

Nearly two-thirds of private sector job creation has come under Democratic presidents during the last five decades, according to a new study by Bloomberg News.

MetroPCS popped over 20% to a high of $8.45 Wednesday when Bloomberg reported Deutsche Telekom added Apple products last year.

In recent years, traders and investors have increasingly turned to social media to discuss their investments.

Huge drops in shares of prepaid wireless providers Leap Wireless and MetroPCS since 1Q results around the end of April have many on Seeking Alpha calling these "value" plays that are too cheap to ignore at these levels.

The Rumor : Deutsche Telekom is rumored to be discussing a merger of its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS Communications according to Bloomberg .

Shares of MetroPCS Communications Inc surged as much as 29 percent on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported the mobile phone service provider was discussing a merger with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA.

A Pegasus constructed entirely out of Huawei Ascend smartphones sat on the grounds of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

A number of other firms have also recently commented on LEAP. Analysts at RBC Capital downgraded shares of Leap Wireless from an "outperform" rating to a "sector perform" rating in a research note to investors on Tuesday, May 1st.

Rep. Edward Markey is "deeply concerned" that the law enforcement practice of tracking mobile phones with the help of carriers "may violate the privacy rights" of customers.

MALVERN, Pa. -- -- USA Technologies, Inc . , , a leader of wireless, cashless payment and M2M telemetry solutions for self-serve, small-ticket retailing industries, today announced that Albin F. Moschner has been appointed to the board of directors.