Kodiak Network's rapidly expanding Real-Time Exchange System and accompanying Advanced Voice Services applications received another set of updates, which the company said further advances the platform beyond a push-to-talk offering. The new updates include a BREW client designed to enable faster deployment on CDMA...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Citing the pending completion of a review of its accounting for operating leased towers, Western Wireless Corp. said it is delaying the full release of fourth-quarter and year-end 2004 financial results originally scheduled for March 10. Western Wireless, which announced earlier this year...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched an all-inclusive, flat-rate messaging offering, allowing users to send and receive text, picture and video messaging at one monthly price. The carrier said the plans are unique in allowing users to send and receive any combination of messages in...
WASHINGTON-North Carolina authorities confirmed they are investigating the death of a man who fell at least 100 feet from a cell-phone tower owned by Alltel Corp. and managed by American Tower Corp.An American Tower official said the company is conducting its own probe of...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department has asked for additional information on Alltel Corp.'s proposed $6 billion purchase of Western Wireless Corp., both companies said. While the latest development could delay final DoJ action on the pending merger, the department's request is not unusual and does not...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched an all-inclusive, flat-rate messaging offering, allowing users to send and receive text, picture and video messaging at one monthly price.The carrier said the plans are unique in allowing users to send and receive any combination of messages in any...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. said Alltel will use its wireless data connectivity solution to support its high-speed data customers.Smith Micro will customize its QuickLink Mobile and QuickLink Mobile Phonebook software for Alltel's data connectivity kits to support all CDMA2000 1xRTT handsets that...
Alltel Corp. said it has successfully remarketed approximately $1.385 billion worth of senior notes due 2007 that were initially issued as part of its equity units. The company noted that as a result of the remarketing, the annual interest rate on the senior notes...
The multi-billion dollar wireless industry remains a good bet for investors despite the cutthroat nature of the market and the always-evolving technology, according to reports. However, the sector will continue to have its share of winners and losers. According to a report from investment...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
SKOKIE, Ill.-Rand McNally & Co. released its Rand McNally Traffic application, a downloadable mobile application that delivers real-time traffic flow and incident reports for more than 90 cities in the United States. Users can view information on accidents, construction, areas of congestion, road closures,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it has upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell sites on wheels near Jacksonville, Fla.'s Alltel Stadium ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, which is expected to attract more than 73,000 people to the event.The carrier noted that...
With a handful of operators yet to post fourth-quarter and full-year 2004 results, the wireless industry is well on its way to reporting one of the highest customer growth quarters-and years-in history. That potential was bolstered last week by three of the nation's fastest-growing...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-Kodiak Networks reported that Montana-based rural wireless provider 3Rivers Wireless plans to deploy Kodiak's Real Time Exchange System and accompanying push-to-talk service. Kodiak noted its RTX System is network technology agnostic and is compatible with both digital and analog networks. Kodiak added...
TAMPA, Fla.-Wireless retailer and Wi-Fi hot-spot provider FTS Wireless Inc. said it plans to begin marketing Alltel Corp.'s wireless products and services next month. The company currently distributes wireless products from Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint Corp. in select markets."Alltel has a solid footprint...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services, according to a survey...
As the nation's largest wireless carriers consolidate, large questions remain about what these companies should do with their existing wireline businesses. And carriers are talking openly about potential plans to shed these slow-growing parts of their operations in favor of the explosive wireless business.Indeed,...
WASHINGTON-Hoping to capitalize on recent decisions by a pair of wireless carriers to postpone their involvement in the controversial wireless 411 directory, the Consumers Union is urging Congress to pass legislation that would require consumers to provide written permission to be included in such...
Validating its increasing focus on wireless operations, Alltel Corp. posted robust fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2004, including higher-than-expected customer growth, average revenue per user and lower churn. Alltel, which recently announced plans to acquire rural wireless provider Western Wireless Corp., posted 139,000 internal...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., research firm Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services. The results,...
Merger-mania trickled down the food chain last week as super-regional operator Alltel Corp. said it had reached an agreement to buy rural operator Western Wireless Corp. for approximately $6 billion in stock, cash and debt assumption. Alltel noted that when completed later this year,...
The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. The report follows Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint...
Even as the wireless industry consolidates to four national carriers and as more regional consolidation is predicted, wireless customers are getting more choices-not fewer-as to which companies will provide their services. It's a characteristic that has played out time and time again in wireless....
The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. The report follows Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint...
