Depending on your perspective, WiFi and mobile Internet may go together as well as oil and vinegar or as poorly as oil and water. Initially accepted with cautious hesitation and skepticism, WiFi connectivity has arguably found its way into homes, offices, coffee shops, trains and aircraft with such success that both wireline and wireless carriers are being forced to examine how to leverage the technology to avoid it eroding revenues in their aging business models…

In what looks to be shaping up to be another healthy week for M&A activity, Sprint Nextel is putting more of its focus on the prepaid cell phone service market with a $483 million deal to buy out Virgin Mobile USA . The acquisition, which was announced earlier this morning, calls for Sprint [...]