Cingular Wireless L.L.C. used last week's Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Wireless financial conference to announce its UMTS rollout plans, while rival carrier Sprint Corp. backed off earlier promises that it would wait for DV technology to roll out its high-speed data offering.Cingular said that...
Bolstering its Ready Link walkie-talkie offering, Sprint PCS launched its fifth Sanyo handset for the service, which the carrier said now includes more than 275,000 users. Sprint also rearranged pricing for the service to align more with the carrier's PCS Vision wireless data service.The...
A pair of carriers shared the top spot in N. Moore Capital Ltd.'s ranking of 20 North American wireless operators' first-quarter financial results as Verizon Wireless and Canadian operator Telus Mobility both posted the lowest overall score and soundly outpaced the competition. The first-place...
Qualcomm Inc. announced its BREW application download service will be available in Europe through a new deal with CDMA 450 MHz operator Zapp in Romania."Zapp is proud to be the first CDMA 450 operator to introduce BREW-based services to the market," said Cuneyt Turktan,...
WASHINGTON-As the California Public Utilities Commission heads toward a vote next week on three bills of rights for telecom consumers, a contentious four-year proceeding pitting consumer advocates against the mobile-phone industry has turned into a high-stakes, political chess game whose outcome ultimately could be...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
In their spare time after work and on the weekends, three tech-savvy guys in Petaluma, Calif., in about six months have managed to surmount a technical hurdle that the multibillion-dollar U.S. wireless industry has not yet resolved after more than a year of effort.Paul...
JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the 31 percent spent on wired telecommunications services, according to a report from TNS Telecom....
The wireless industry's first full quarter of operating under local number portability provided few surprises as Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint PCS, Nextel Communications Inc. and Alltel Corp. all posted strong customer growth at the expense of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which posted a significant...
NextWave Telecom Inc.'s announcement last week that it would give back 60 of its PCS licenses to the Federal Communications Commission could finally give the government a clear path to auction the licenses to a spectrum-starved industry. But unlike the FCC's previous attempt to...
Alltel Corp. posted 157,741 net customer additions during the first three months of this year, which was slightly below the 159,251 subscribers the carrier added during the first quarter of 2003 that included nearly 111,000 customers added through acquisitions. Alltel ended the first quarter...
JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the 31 percent spent on wired telecommunications services, according to a report from TNS Telecom....
ATLANTA-The U.S. wireless content industry continues to crackle with growing pains as Japanese gaming company Square Enix announced it will buy UIEvolution for a stunning $58 million in cash. The deal is the latest in a series of major mergers and acquisitions in the...
ATLANTA-Qpass Inc. announced software agreements with Alltel, Cingular Wireless and Triton PCS at this week's CTIA wireless 2004 show in Atlanta.Alltel licensed Qpass' flagship Prosperity Series software to manage the delivery, payment and support of advance services including ring tones, graphics, e-mail and messaging.Cingular...
In addition to the freedom of keeping your cell-phone number when switching between carriers, local number portability has also brought frustration for some porting customers who-after finally freeing themselves from one carrier with their number-have been faced with the unenviable task of porting contact...
After nearly six years of semi-autonomous trading on the open markets, Sprint Corp. decided last week to rein in its wayward wireless division by folding in Sprint PCS' tracking stock under the company's wireline-based FON common stock symbol. Sprint PCS' stock has been trading...
SAN ANTONIO-Rebuffing claims that it was looking to sell up to 650,000 rural access lines in Michigan and Texas to help fund subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., SBC Communications Corp. said in a statement that while it has...
L.M. Ericsson said it has signed separate deals with operators in the United States, Switzerland and Nigeria. With operator Econet Wireless Nigeria, the vendor signed a $110 million GSM expansion contract to cover such cities as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Kaduna. With Alltel...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed separate deals with operators in the United States, Switzerland and Nigeria.With operator Econet Wireless Nigeria, the vendor signed a $110 million GSM expansion contract to cover such cities as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Kaduna.With Alltel, Ericsson...
In addition to propelling the combined entity past Verizon Wireless as the nation's largest wireless carrier, Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s successful $41 billion acquisition of smaller rival AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to have an enormous impact on many of its competitors as well...
Nextel Communications Inc. may have finally found some competition for its highly touted Direct Connect walkie-talkie service as independent testing of Alltel Corp.'s recently launched Touch2Talk service showed similar performance to what most analysts have dubbed Direct Connect's industry-standard service levels and superior performance...
Identity theft, a popular catch phrase in the financial services industry, is also the leading type of fraud afflicting the telecommunications industry, according to a new survey by the Telecommunications Risk Management Association. The TRMA's findings bolster last year's estimate from the Communications Fraud...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
DALLAS-Alcatel Corp. said it has acquired gateway company WaterCove Networks to reinforce its core network portfolio.Watercove makes GPRS gateway support node (GGSN) products, which enhances a network's capacity to transmit data and charge for services intelligently."The skill set of WaterCove Networks is highly complementary...
