Wireless carriers continued to make progress in re-establishing wireless communications to the Gulf Coast region following Hurricane Katrina's fierce landing Aug. 28, while one carrier estimated damage at up to $600 million. Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported that as of Monday afternoon it had fully...
Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the carrier's total war chest to a staggering $600 million. The news highlights investors' apparent interest in the wireless broadband space, as well as the technology's potential to agitate entrenched wireless...
Sprint Corp.'s pending acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. will endow the new operation with a substantial war chest of network and spectrum assets, including a significant swatch of spectrum in the 2.5 GHz spectrum band covering 80 percent of the country's population. While both...
AT&T Corp. is reportedly set to begin testing a wireless broadband network in the Atlanta area using an early version of WIMAX technology. AT&T, which is in the process of being acquired by SBC Communications Inc., will use four towers in the Atlanta and...
WASHINGTON-The rate wireless carriers pay incumbent local exchange carriers to carry traffic from base stations to mobile switching centers will not be reduced, as hoped, without action by the Federal Communications Commission on a request to set a specific rate that large ILECs can...
BellSouth Corp. is not letting its minority stake in wireless operator Cingular Wireless L.L.C. deter its own wireless efforts as the regional telecommunications provider announced a pair of wireless initiatives. BellSouth said it plans to deploy a wide area wireless broadband network beginning in...
ATLANTA-Comverse Technology Inc. has agreed to license two patents for voicemail and call-forwarding technology from BellSouth Intellectual Property Marketing Corporation, BellSouth said late Thursday.The deal is part of a legal settlement reached in December after the two companies sued each other over the two...
WASHINGTON-A new study says the substance and timing of regulatory reform can determine the fate of entire industries and whether competition and consumer choice are created during times of technological disruption, a finding the authors say is a cautionary tale for lawmakers attempting to...
WASHINGTON-A new study says the substance and timing of regulatory reform can determine the fate of entire industries and whether competition and consumer choice are created during times of technological disruption, a finding the authors say is a cautionary tale for lawmakers attempting to...
Wireless carriers have gained a level of satisfaction among business users equal to wireline offerings, but are still struggling to gain truly loyal subscribers, according to the Walker Loyalty Report for Communications Services released this week by Walker Information. The study, which surveyed more...
WASHINGTON-After hearing emotional presentations from users who were unable to successfully connect to 911 from Voice over Internet Protocol phones, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted rules requiring VoIP providers to offer direct access to 911 services within about 165 days. "VoIP providers...
EDISON, N.J.-VoIP carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. said it has agreed to purchase access to elements of the wireless and wireline enhanced 911 network to offer E911 service to its customers from SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp.Vonage said the deal, which followed months of...
WASHINGTON- The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' fight to shut down and reclaim assets of a U.S. firm that assigns codes so foreigners can operate their mobile phones in the U.S. moved into the court room last week, putting into full view the inner...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. signed an agreement to sell its 34.75-percent equity ownership in Israeli wireless carrier Cellcom to Discount Investment Corp. for $625 million. Discount Investment currently holds a 25-percent interest in Cellcom.BellSouth said it expects to record a gain on the transaction based on...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee is drafting a telecom reform bill to be circulated among lawmakers and the telecom industry in May, but the document will not deal with universal-service reform, a key staffer told a gathering of telecom lawyers last week. "The bill being...
T-Mobile USA Inc.'s position as the nation's fourth-largest wireless operator, as well as one of the industry's fastest growing, might not be enough to guarantee its long-term prospects. Several industry observers have questioned the carrier's ability to remain a standalone entity in the face...
Following is a list of wireless companies that received ratings changes by financial and analyst firms this week.Merrill Lynch upgraded its ratings on several semiconductor companies. Among its upgrades were Intersil from sell to neutral and its rating on Broadcom from neutral to buy....
Following is a roundup of wireless companies that were either upgraded or downgraded by financial firms this week.Robert W. Baird upgraded its rating on Alamosa Holdings from neutral to outperform, saying recent weakness in the company's share price makes it a buying opportunity at...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless announced it now counts 50 million customers. "Attaining 50 million customers is a key indicator that our merger with AT&T Wireless is working and working robustly," said Stan Sigman, Cingular's president and chief executive officer. "Fifty million customers, which is over...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless today announced at CTIA Wireless 2005 that it now has 50 million customers."Attaining 50 million customers is a key indicator that our merger with AT&T Wireless is working and working robustly," said Stan Sigman, Cingular's president and chief executive officer. "Fifty...
WASHINGTON-Technology makers and service providers should not be responsible for their customers' actions, especially if the service providers are hurt financially from those actions, CTIA argued in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court is set to hear oral argument March 29...
WASHINGTON-CTIA has joined with several trade associations and telecommunications companies in opposing the entertainment industry's effort to create what it calls "a secondary copyright liability.""The judicial expansion of secondary copyright liability advocated by petitioners is precisely the wrong approach. It is simply impossible for...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its EDGE-based wireless wide area network connectivity service, which the carrier said is the first commercially available solution using a gateway device at the edge of a company's information technology network to provide enhanced and secure wide-area connectivity for data...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has changed its accounting for operating leases related to cell sites to conform to generally accepted accounting principals resulting in restated financial results for fiscal years 2000 through 2003 and the first three quarters of 2004. The carrier noted...
