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New research shows the wireless data and entertainment industry is neglecting its most willing market segments: women and young adults. “Females and young consumers have a significantly higher propensity to …

MINNEAPOLIS-Fans of the TV show “American Idol” can purchase branded “American Idol” mobile phones, replete with messages, pictures and ring tones featuring the show’s contestants and acid-tongued judge Simon Cowell. …

When a small state retains a multimillion-dollar tax break for the nation’s largest telephone company out of sympathy and concern about attacks on the landline carrier’s subscriber base by mobile-phone …

Fans of the TV show “American Idol” now can purchase branded “American Idol” mobile phones, replete with messages, pictures and ring tones featuring the show’s contestants and acid-tongued judge Simon …

WASHINGTON-A safety group asked the Federal Communications Commission to block Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s proposed $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. if the parties do not agree to set …

NEW YORK-Following its announcement that stakeholder AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it planned to explore options for its interest in Rogers Wireless Inc., Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services placed a …

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said in a report that it expects the wireless industry to post moderate growth in the high single- to low double-digit range as carriers increase …

Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it received a notice from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on its intent to “explore options to monitize its stake” in Rogers Wireless Communications …

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. released full first-quarter results confirming its previously reported 196,000 net customer additions not including 76,000 subscribers transferred to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as part of a market …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average …

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 …

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 …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. posted disappointing first-quarter results, highlighted by the loss of 367,000 customers during the quarter and a 3.7-percent customer churn rate, which the carrier said were the …

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 …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average throughput of …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported 554,000 net customer additions during the first quarter of this year, which was a nearly 200-percent improvement compared with the 189,000 subscribers the carrier added during …

Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, …

Developers: Wireless wants you. At least, that’s the message coming from many of the largest players in the wireless industry. Companies from Microsoft Corp. to Nokia Corp. to Verizon Wireless …

Call automation can make or break perceptions of the quality of customer service offered by wireless service providers, depending on how well that automation works, according to a series of …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry-already facing the prospect of new rules and hefty fines in trend-setting California-suffered a major setback last week with the announcement that enough signatures were collected to put …

Showing a thirst for life rivaling the old man in Monty Python’s Holy Grail who repeatedly cries out, “I’m not dead yet,” AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has positioned itself to …

It was with great fanfare that the District of Columbia last week unveiled a new, underground first-responder wireless system stretching through subway tunnels that’s fully interoperable with an advanced public-safety …

Nextel Communications Inc.’s decision earlier this week to expand its wireless broadband network trial in the Raleigh, N.C., market may have proven well founded as network testing conducted by RBC …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission set a May 3 deadline for challenges to Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s $41 billion bid for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., a deal the two mobile-phone carriers want …

Showing there is still fight left in the dog, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its new GSM America rate plans, which provide consumers with no roaming charges anywhere in the …