LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. posted mixed first quarter results, with strong wireless growth and healthy customer numbers but lower net income due to merger-related expenses from the acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. and the upcoming spin-off of the company’s wireline operations. Alltel’s total revenues...
Network integration work has given Cingular Wireless L.L.C. a better grasp of how subscribers are using its network, according to company officials-and in some cases, that is leading to customers' service being suspended due to excessive roaming. Cingular's terms specify that customers must live...
DURHAM, N.C.-Motricity is looking to expand its content business after raking in $40 million in venture capital. Advanced Equities Inc. led Motricity's most recent round; fellow existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated. Motricity has raised more than $120 million...
BEDFORD, Mass.—Boston Communications Group Inc. was hit hard by the ongoing defections of Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Alltel Corp. from its real-time billing platform, and said it would be relying heavily on Sprint Nextel Corp. for future revenues. BCGI’s net income for...
DURHAM, N.C.—Motricity is looking to expand its content business after raking in $40 million in venture capital. Advanced Equities Inc. led Motricity’s most recent round; fellow existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated. The announcement follows July’s $30 million fundraising...
Alltel Corp. launched a new service offering that allows customers to select up to 10 phone numbers-wireless, landline, home or office-that they can call for free at any time of day.The My Circle program is available to Alltel subscribers on rate plans of $60...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department asked the Federal Communications Commission for sensitive numbering information-including local number portability data-from Alltel Corp. and Midwest Wireless Holdings L.L.C. in connection with Alltel's proposed $1 billion acquisition of Midwest that is being opposed by U.S. Cellular Corp. While the FCC...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it has sold one of its Arkansas rural service areas to Cingular Wireless L.L.C., as part of Alltel's divestiture requirements related to its purchase of Western Wireless Corp. last year. The Arkansas 11 RSA covers the counties of Hempstead,...
PLEASANTON, Calif.—FunMail Inc. is teaming with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to deliver images, voice tones and other content from all 30 of its teams. Images are available through Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp., U.S. Cellular Corp. and other BREW-based carriers in the United States...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. has launched a new service offering that allows customers to select up to 10 phone numbers—wireless, landline, home or office—that they can call for free at any time of day. The My Circle program is available to Alltel subscribers on...
PUNE, India—Indian GSM operator Idea Cellular Ltd. deployed Kodiak Networks’ Real-Time Exchange System in the Maharashtra and Goa circle, according to the companies. The product allows for group-oriented voice applications as part of Idea’s Group Talk suite. Services include Voice Bridge instant group conferencing,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Financial analysts are awaiting Motorola Inc.’s first-quarter earnings report—scheduled for later today—which may exceed the company’s own projections and those of Wall Street made in the fourth quarter of 2005 when handset sales growth was expected to slow this year. Motorola’s industry-wide megahit...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. is teaming with software developer Seven Networks Inc. to offer mobile e-mail and data to subscribers with Palm-powered and Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile-based smart phones. The operator launched two versions of Office Sync, allowing users to send and receive e-mail...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. said it has sold one of its Arkansas rural service areas to Cingular Wireless L.L.C., as part of Alltel’s divestiture requirements related to its purchase of Western Wireless Corp. last year. The Arkansas 11 RSA covers the counties of Hempstead,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that it will help parents locate their children through a downloadable Family Locator service that utilizes Global Positioning System technology in handsets. The service sneaks into the market ahead of mobile virtual network operator Disney Mobile's locator service,...
Verizon Wireless said it purchased Mid-Missouri Cellular, a small TDMA/CDMA operator in central Missouri. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal includes Mid-Missouri's 27 cell sites and other network equipment, plus spectrum licenses that cover 198,000 potential customers in seven counties,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that it will help parents locate their children through a downloadable Family Locator service that utilizes Global Positioning System technology in handsets. The service sneaks into the market ahead of mobile virtual network operator Disney Mobile’s locator service,...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The new wireline company to be formed when Alltel Corp. spins off its landline business and merges it with Valor Communications Group now officially has a name: Windstream Communications.Jeff Gardner, Alltel’s former chief financial officer, is set to be the president and...
By Jeremy Mullman CHICAGO—An alcohol industry watchdog group is accusing Anheuser-Busch of marketing beer to underage drinkers after the brewer announced a partnership to advertise on MobiTV, a streaming TV service for mobile phones.A-B said it is partnering with MobiTV in a deal that...
SAN RAMON, Calif.—Kodiak Networks said Cellular South is offering push-to-talk service to its subscribers using Kodiak’s Real-Time Exchange System. Cellular South also plans to offer real-time presence updates and call-waiting services with Kodiak’s system, said the companies.Kodiak’s RTX system also has been chosen by...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. said it will offer some of its customers commercial-free music streaming over its CDMA network. MobiTV Inc. developed the carrier’s new Axcess Radio service. The service initially will be available to customers with Motorola Inc. Razr V3c and Kyocera Wireless...
Alltel Corp. is on track to complete its wireline spinoff by mid-year, and the company plans to extend CDMA2000 1x EV-DO services to about 60 percent of its potential customers, Chief Financial Officer Sharilyn Gasaway told analysts at the Bank of America Media, Telecommunications...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. has made a free mobile Web content filter available to parents to help them keep their children from accessing inappropriate content through wireless phones. The content filter can be added to any Alltel wireless account by calling a toll-free technical...
Last week's TelecomNext event in Las Vegas was painful at times.Not because the event was poorly run or because of the beating I took at the tables. No, the painful part was watching wireline executives use a bevy of acronyms and catch phrases in...
