The high-speed wireless data field is filling up with contestants as most of the country's larger operators have announced plans to deploy services that in some cases will open up the door to additional competition from companies that either have resale agreements for wireless...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will begin offering a bundled device and services package allowing business customers to use Bluetooth-enabled Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Pocket PC devices and Nokia Corp.'s 6820 handset to access the carrier's EDGE network.The carrier said that customers who already own...
Although many agree the swift ascent of camera phones will cut into the market for digital cameras and traditional film, the camera-phone industry could also provide a new avenue of growth for well-known companies that have centered their businesses around imaging and images."We view...
NextWave Telecom Inc., at one point a symbol of all that could go wrong with government auctions, is hoping to use an auction to its advantage.Less than two months after reaching an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to give back a majority of...
"You just heard `Turn off the lights' by Frank de Jojo."For $1 per message, wireless users in the United States can identify virtually any song they hear, whether it's on the radio, in a supermarket or at a club. Currently available through AT&T Wireless...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is reportedly set to launch high-speed UMTS services as soon as this summer in select U.S. markets, according to published reports citing sources close to the matter. The reports noted the launch could happen by the end of July.An AWS...
Removing concern over its future network coverage, T-Mobile USA Inc. agreed last week to acquire Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s California and Nevada operations for $2.5 billion, properties that are currently part of the carriers' Empire network-sharing arrangement that also includes operations in New York. The...
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...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a deal with Lucent Technologies Inc. to deploy a UMTS-based trial network in Atlanta this summer supporting internal users who the carrier said it will use to evaluate mobile voice, high-speed data and multimedia services.The network will operate in Cingular's...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. reported plans to end their network-sharing arrangement, which currently provides Cingular access to T-Mobile USA's network in New York City in exchange for T-Mobile USA gaining access to Cingular's network in California and Nevada, pending the acquisition...
WILMINGTON, Del.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that 65 percent of all outstanding shareholders have approved the company's pending $41 billion acquisition by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., and 98 percent of the shares voted are in favor of the acquisition. The deal calls for AWS shareholders...
TORONTO-Rogers Communications Inc. said it has failed to reach an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to acquire AWS' 34.1-percent interest in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. during the recently completed 21-day exclusive negotiation period that ended May 19.RCI said it offered $22.61 per share...
Rogers Communications Inc. said it has failed to reach an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to acquire AWS' 34.1-percent interest in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. during the recently completed 21-day exclusive negotiation period that ended May 19.RCI said it offered $22.61 per share...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that 65 percent of all outstanding shareholders have approved the company's pending $41 billion acquisition by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., and 98 percent of the shares voted are in favor of the acquisition. The deal calls for AWS shareholders to...
Regional carriers Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Dobson Communications Corp. and Rural Cellular Corp. showed their continued uneasy reliance on roaming traffic in first-quarter financials released last week. The regional players are trying to increase internally generated revenues to make up for decreasing roaming yields,...
Dobson Communications Corp. posted an 81-percent increase in total revenues during the first quarter from $128.9 million last year to $233.8 million this year, boosted by the full ownership of its previous American Cellular Corp. joint venture with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and a...
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....
WASHINGTON-Consumer groups and cellular dealers asked the Federal Communications Commission to block the proposed merger of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C., while organized labor reiterated its support for the $41 billion transaction. "This merger proposes an unacceptable level of concentration...
Wireless customers hit with higher-than-expected bills when they exceed their monthly allotment of calling minutes could begin to see some relief. Sprint PCS and Nextel Communications Inc. have introduced overage protection rate plans that some analysts note could increase customer satisfaction at the...
Supported by the Telecom Act of 1996, wireless carriers are taking towns across the country that have denied them permits for tower builds to court-and winning. Reports from local newspapers nationwide show that the tower-related provisions in the telecom act are working as intended-to...
SINGAPORE-Following a similar launch from U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last month, Singapore's MobileOne announced plans to begin tomorrow a music recognition service called Point. Customers dial 188*, point their handsets to a source of music, and the service will send a text...
TORONTO-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 Inc., which currently consists of 48.6 million class A multiple voting shares and class...
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 penetration, customers begin porting their phone numbers from wireline to wireless, and the industry...
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 Inc., which currently consists of 48.6 million class A multiple voting shares and class...
