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Marc Rohleder

with Marc Rohleder, director business sales and engineering at T-Mobile USA

As part of T-Mobile's plan to rejuvenate itself following the failed $39 billion acquisition by AT&T (NYSE:T), the company said it will grow its market share in the business-to-business space.

After months of waiting, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) finally closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), elevating Dennis Woodside to CEO in place of Sanjay Jha, who is leaving the company (with a $47 million compensation package for 2011).

Zynga is one of the top players in mobile gaming, with its "With Friends" and "-Ville" series regularly topping the list of most downloaded apps for the App Store and Google Play.

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) said it hired investment bank Loop Capital Markets to help it manage the proposed sale of its 700 MHz Lower A and B Block licenses.

Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) said on Thursday it will start shipping the HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone to customers who pre-ordered the device online.

T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm said the nation's No. 4 carrier does not need to make a deal with another operator and that it is on the right path for growth, echoing comments made last week by Timotheus Höttges, the CFO of parent company Deutsche Telekom.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) officially closed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), making the Android smartphone maker a part of its business in the biggest acquisition in Google's history.

Wireless operators are facing a daunting challenge--they have a finite amount of spectrum and a subscriber base with a growing appetite for mobile data.

We are at a unique moment in the wireless industry's trajectory. On the one hand, wireless is growing like gangbusters, globally, across a range of metrics.

Quick news from around the Web.

@FierceWireless: RT @allthingsd: HTC Says Some New Products Are Making Their Way Through U.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook and Samsung Electronics CEO Choi Gee-sung will participate in two days of mediation talks starting today in San Francisco in hopes of putting the long-simmering patent feud between the two companies to rest.

The country's largest cable companies have banded together to create a nationwide Wi-Fi roaming network for their customers, giving their subscribers free access to 50,000 hotspots that the companies collectively own.

After a brief delay, MVNO Voyager Mobile unveiled its service, becoming the latest in a string of MVNOs catering to niches of the wireless market that are looking for a cheap service that is different from traditional wireless offerings.

Over the weekend Chinese regulators gave their stamp of approval to Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), the last remaining regulatory hurdle for the deal.

I've been assembling a list of the top U.S. wireless carriers for FierceWireless every three months since the first quarter of 2009.

The following charts the top U.S. wireless carriers in the first quarter of 2012 by subscriber base, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, and includes major metrics--such as churn, ARPU and revenue--of each carrier.

T-Mobile USA isn't planning to offer shared data plans to its customers like its competitors Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T).

LTE connections will reach 90 million by the end of 2012, according to a new study by Strategy Analytics.

German wireless carriers are in an uproar over what they said is a delay by the German telecom regulator BNA in approving their applications to deploy LTE network technology in key German cities.

Full-year revenues at pan-European MVNO Lebara are up 15 per cent to €648 million, helped by a 27 per cent increase in customers to 3.