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...
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...
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 results of near-record levels of customers coming off contract, the first full quarter of...
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....
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 the first quarter of 2003 and brings the carrier's total customer base to more...
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 surveys from Vocal Laboratories Inc.VocaLabs measures the user friendliness of telephone-based customer service, delivered...
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 continue to compete in the wireless industry despite its impending acquisition by rival Cingular...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched a music recognition service that allows customers to dial #ID from their handsets, and when prompted, hold the phone near a music source for approximately 15 seconds and receive a text message with the name of the song...
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 United States for both voice and data services. The carrier also said that through...
Citing the need to support two networks serving more than 20 million subscribers, its future ability to provide wireless data services on par with its CDMA-based competitors and poor results in recent customer surveys, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. informed the Federal Communications Commission it could...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported a strategic partnership with RE/MAX International providing RE/MAX affiliates in the United States with access to the carrier's EDGE wireless data service though laptops equipped with wireless modem cards or EDGE-enabled handsets. AWS said it would provide special...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Despite recent claims by company management that it expected its T-Mobile USA Inc. wireless subsidiary would benefit from industry consolidation, Deutsche Telekom AG noted in its 2003 annual report that its U.S. wireless subsidiary could be harmed by consolidation in the market if...
ATLANTA-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has enabled transatlantic text messaging. The carrier said it now has reciprocal text messaging services with nearly 130 foreign operators in more than 50 countries, allowing those subscribers to exchange text messages with AWS customers in the United...
Energy! The one word used over and over again to describe CTIA's Wireless show last week in Atlanta was energy, as in "There's a lot of energy this year." People were downright giddy about the long lines for onsite registration at the show and...
OAKLAND, Calif.-Kivera, in partnership with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., has launched Mobile Traffic, a customized wireless application offering real-time traffic information.Mobile Traffic, currently available exclusively to AWS customers, features: personalized real-time traffic information and alerts; enhanced traffic maps with real-time speed and incident data...
ATLANTA-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has enabled transatlantic text messaging. The carrier said it now has reciprocal text messaging services with nearly 130 foreign operators in more than 50 countries, allowing those subscribers to exchange text messages with AWS customers in the United...
Verizon Wireless ended 2003 in the same position as it began the year, as both the nation's largest carrier as well as the highest ranked wireless provider based on five operating metrics measured by N. Moore Capital Ltd. during the fourth quarter. The rankings...
MIRAMAR, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported a deal with Maritime Telecommunications Network to provide wireless phone service for customers on cruise ships using a combination of satellite and traditional wireless networks. The companies said they are currently working with several cruise lines and expect...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s presence in the wireless industry is set to come to an end sometime later this year when Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s pending $41 billion acquisition of the nation's third-largest operator is set to close. Along with the reduction in number of...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network partner Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it was looking at expanding its footprint in the wake of the pending acquisition of AWS by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., according to a Reuters report. Triton Chairman Michael Kalogris said the carrier...
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...
Wireless communication tower owners American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International Corp. and SpectraSite Inc. spoke at last week's Raymond James & Associates Inc. Institutional Investors Conference, where all three companies expressed optimism for strong tower lease-ups in 2004. American Tower said it expects industry...
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...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it had completed an exchange of wireless operations with Rural Cellular Corp. in Oregon, Mississippi and Alabama. The exchange agreement called for AWS to assume Rural Cellular's TDMA operations in the Lincoln, Oregon-4 market between Salem and Eugene,...
