MONTREAL-Canadian telecom companies Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. and Aliant Inc. announced that they are combining their operations to form what they say is one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in North America. As part of the deal, BCE will receive Aliant's wireless...
MONTREAL—Canadian telecom companies Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. and Aliant Inc. announced that they are combining their operations to form what they say is one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in North America. As part of the deal, BCE will receive Aliant’s wireless...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularCanada: Nortel Networks said it is supplying equipment to Aliant...
OTTAWA-The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association said its carrier members have agreed to implement wireless number portability and have begun making their implementation plans. The LNP deployment, which is expected to be completed by Sept. 1, will allow customers to keep their phone number when...
OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Canadian wireless provider Telus Mobility said it expanded its CDMA digital coverage across Atlantic Canada through reciprocal roaming and resale agreements with Aliant Telecom Wireless and Bell Mobility.The expansion includes towns in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and increases...
Amid mounting layoffs and company bankruptcies across the entire telecommunications sector, a little start-up out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is making its debut, hoping to capitalize on the growing voice-enabled applications market.OkamLogic Inc. is beta testing its Wireless Voice Commerce Gateway, a suite of...
Flarion TechnologiesFlarion Technologies, a new company formed to commercialize a wireless data technology for Internet mobility market, announced that Matthew J. Desch has been appointed to a new seat on the company's board of directors. Desch is chairman of Airspan Networks Inc. and former...
SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, Canada-NBTel Mobility launched digital service in Fredericton."NBTel Mobility is the only cellular service provider in New Brunswick capable of providing customers in our three major cities with digital coverage," said Roxanne Fairweather, NBTel Mobility president. "We made a multimillion-dollar investment...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1999 figures reported by each company.Triton Cellular Partners...
CanadaBell Canada offered to purchase for cash up to 15.8 million of the outstanding common shares of Aliant, the largest telecommunications company in Atlantic Canada, at a price of US$18.40 per share. Such an acquisition would give Bell Canada, which already owns about 41...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $1.47 million, a 13-percent increase over the $1.3 million reported for second-quarter 1998.The company recorded net earnings of $189,921, or 67 cents per share, compared with net earnings of $233,786,...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered its rating on about $90 million in outstanding debt and $250 million in pending debt securities of Aliant Communications Co. because of the Nebraska phone company's recent acquisition by Alltel Corp."Ratings are constrained by the credit profile of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission saw its review of telecommunications mergers curtailed by a Senate committee last week just as it was succeeding in extracting 26 merger conditions from SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp., and it approved the transfer of Aliant Communications Inc.'s licenses...
Alltel Corp. last week expanded its wireless reach with a definitive agreement to buy Liberty Cellular Inc., a privately held company operating under the name Kansas Cellular.Liberty, based in Salina, Kan., offers wireless, paging, long-distance and Internet services throughout Kansas.Terms of the agreement call...
NEW YORK-With more than 7,700 transactions valued at $1.2 trillion announced, the domestic mergers and acquisitions market for 1998 crushed by 84 percent its previous record of $650.7 billion, set the prior year.Although the number of deals was about even with 1997, the average...
LITTLE ROCK-Alltel Corp. announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Aliant Communications Inc. in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.Under terms of the agreement, each share of Aliant will be exchanged for $39.13 of Alltel stock, within a range of .67...
NEW YORK-In a "three-peat" of its 1995 and 1996 performance, AT&T Corp. again took first place in revenues and net income among carriers last year, despite a marked decline in profits year-to-year.AT&T closed its last fiscal year with $51.32 billion in revenues, up 1.53...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp.'s Cellemetry Business Unit announced it has signed five new carriers to provide its Cellemetry Data Service.The carriers are Aliant Cellular, Glacial Lakes Cellular 2000, Illinois Valley Cellular, Carolina West Wireless and Dobson Cellular System. The additions fill out Cellemetry's coverage in North...
NEW YORK-Aliant Communications Inc. said it will use part of the proceeds of a recently completed public debt issue to pay for its purchase of a 50-percent stake in Omaha Cellular General Partnership, which it will then own completely.Aliant, formerly known as Lincoln Telecommunications...
LINCOLN, Neb.-Aliant Communications said it entered a definitive agreement to acquire 3607 Communications Co.'s 50-percent interest in Omaha Cellular G.P.Following the close of the acquisition, which is expected during the first quarter, Aliant will own 100 percent of Omaha Cellular and about 56 percent...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said Aliant Cellular Inc. awarded it a contract to replace an analog cellular network and deploy Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code Division Multiple Access cellular infrastructure equipment in Aliant's Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., markets.Motorola values...
