While executives at AT&T and Verizon Wireless were traditionally the highest paid in the wireless industry, a new report from FierceWireless reveals that the compensation trend in 2014 shifted toward Google , Microsoft , Apple and Qualcomm . Phil Goldstein, editor of FierceWireless , said that the reason for the shift was stock awards, which made up much of the compensation for the executives from Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Apple.