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Verizon Communications Inc. added 2.2 million net subscribers on Verizon Wireless’ network during the recently closed quarter, bringing its total to 106.3 million connections, including 89.7 million retail customers.

The company’s wireless business saw a 10.2% year-over-year increase in revenues to $17.3 billion and data revenues were up 22.2% to $1.1 billion. The company close the quarter with $1.61 billion in profit. Average revenue per user (ARPU) for retail postpaid customers grew 1.9% from the year-ago period to $54.12 and data ARPU jumped 15.2% to $21.26. Read more

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AT&T Inc. added 1.1 million subscribers during the last quarter, bringing its total to 98.6 million customers. The carrier reported $3.6 billion in net income on revenues of $31.5 billion. Profits are down 10% from the year-ago period, but revenues are up 2.2%.

The carrier, which is pressing ahead with plans to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. to become the largest carrier in the country, reported 9.5% growth in wireless revenues. Data revenues jumped 23.4% from the previous year. Read more

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The pain continues for Nokia Corp. (NOK). Device sales are down across the board and profits have fallen off a cliff, well into the red. Indeed, Nokia is bleeding red all over its balance sheet for the quarter.

The Finnish company shipped 88.5 million devices during the quarter, shedding 20% in volume from the year-ago period and 18% from the previous quarter. Over the past year, smartphone sales have slipped 34% to 16.7 million devices and feature phones have dropped 16% to 71.8 million units. Device volume is down to 2006 levels. Read more

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Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.

During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads. It has sold a cumulative 222 million iOS devices to date. The company now sells twice as many iPads as Macs. It’s an astonishing shift, considering the first Mac was introduced 27 years ago and the iPad’s been out for 15 months. Even the K-12 education market is buying more iPads than Macs. Read more

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Mobile commerce gained some considerable momentum today when it was announced that the four largest national payments networks would be joining Isis. The national mobile commerce joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. will get a significant boost with the help and support of Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services.

The new partners come on board two and a half months after Isis abandoned plans to build a proprietary payment network with Discover and Barclays Plc and repositioned the venture to become more of an open mobile wallet initiative. Read more

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.

“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty well,” CEO Greg Brown told a group of journalists and analysts invited here for an update on the company’s road map and overall strategy. Read more

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“Android’s really on a tear,” Larry Page said in his first earnings call as Google Inc. CEO today. Consider these numbers, which certainly contributed to the company’s 32% growth in revenue from the previous year to $9.03 billion.

More than 130 million Android devices have been activated to date and at least 550,000 are being activated every day now, which represents a current growth rate of 4.4% week over week. More than 250 million apps are available on Android Market and 6 billion downloads have been served so far. Overall, downloads have doubled from a few months ago. Read more

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With more than half of 2011 behind us, Chetan Sharma Consulting is projecting the mobile industry to drive $1.3 trillion in activity by year’s end. Mobile data is expected to comprise 24% of that market with revenues cresting above $300 billion worldwide for the first time. Moreover, non-messaging data revenues are expected to make up the majority of overall global data revenues at 53%.

“The global mobile industry is the most vibrant and fastest growing industry,” Sharma begins in his State of the Global Mobile Industry half-year assessment. Read more

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DETROIT — Linda Daichendt, a small business consultant, was frustrated a couple years back when she kept coming up empty in her quest for mobile businesses based here in her home state of Michigan. With large, national associations barely touching the state or local level, she saw a large need that wasn’t being met and decided to form the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM). Read more

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DEARBORN, Mich. — Here at Ford Motor Co.’s (F) headquarters, Doug VanDagens is preparing to rapidly expand the size of his connected services team over the next three to four years. The global director of the connected services group at Ford recently got the go ahead to double the size of his U.S. team over the next three years and quadruple the size of his global team over the next four years.

“It is by far the fastest growing arena in Ford that I am aware of,” he told RCR Wireless News during a recent visit. A team of 40 people people work directly with VanDagens on connected services today and there are still hundreds more that contribute from IT and hardware development. Read more