OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-It's official. An arbitrator's ruling late March 18 has allowed Gary Forsee, vice chairman of Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp. and chairman of Cingular Wireless, to replace William T. Esrey as chief executive officer of Sprint Corp. The arbitrator, William Webster, former CIA and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Based on a new survey of the online customer care offerings of 500 companies, including 22 telecom service and equipment providers, The Customer Respect Group found one-third don't respond to inquiries sent to their Web sites, while half respond within 48 hours.The research...
ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth signed an agreement to sell its stake in Brazilian cellular provider BSE, also known as BCP Nordeste, to América Móvil subsidiary Telecom Américas for an undisclosed amount. The sale is expected to close during the second quarter. BellSouth and its Safra...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. signed an agreement to sell its stake in Brazilian cellular provider BSE, also known as BCP Nordeste, to America Movil subsidiary Telecom Americas for an undisclosed amount. The sale is expected to close during the second quarter.BellSouth said it will continue to...
NEW YORK-Despite what he called, "one of the greatest brand launches ever and excellent results in brand awareness," the Cingular Wireless name has "not delivered," said Stan Sigman, chief executive officer, at last week's Merrill Lynch & Co. "Communication Conference".The top five reasons consumers...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. and Sprint Corp. selected former FBI and CIA director William Webster to mediate the ongoing dispute between the two telecommunications providers concerning the future of current BellSouth vice chairman Gary Forsee.BellSouth is trying to prevent Forsee from joining Sprint Corp., which is...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Movicom Bellsouth in Argentina suspended payment of interests and capital of its debt, which is around US$ 500 million, and designated BroadSpan Capital as its financial adviser in order to restructure its debt with its creditors. The company's creditors include banks, technological...
PHILADELPHIA-BellSouth Corp. asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling voiding a clause in current Vice Chairman Gary Forsee's employment contract that would make it easier for him to accept the chief executive officer position at rival telecommunications company Sprint Corp.BellSouth is trying to...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-BellSouth's Latin American operation saw a fall in income of US$2.23 billion in 2002, a 23-percent drop compared with the previous year. These results form 10 percent of BellSouth Corporation's total income, and reflect the figures of seven of the 11 countries...
WASHINGTON-A key House lawmaker has requested a probe into whether the Bush administration's top telecom official acted properly in allowing wireless lobbyists to throw her a party in October 2001 and shortly afterward announcing support for lifting the spectrum cap, a move in line...
ATLANTA-BellSouth filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Call Sciences Inc. alleging that the companies are infringing on BellSouth's patent on call routing technology, used for "one number service" offerings."We are committed to maximizing the value of our intellectual property, and...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After having suffered a fall of 2 percent in incomes during 2002, Pyramid Research forecasts that this year will see an increase of 13 percent in the U.S. dollar income of the cellular operators in the principle 18 countries of Latin America,...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. lost 121,000 net customers during the fourth quarter of last year, below analysts' expectations of between 100,000 and 200,000 net customer additions for the quarter. The fourth-quarter customer net loss tops the 107,000 customers Cingular said it...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Council in Ecuador (Conatel) did not award a new personal communications services (PCS) license to the consortium headed by Andinatel as expected last week.The regional state-owned company was the only participant in the auction and offered more than the...
Getting into the holiday spirit, Nextel Communications Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. provided gift-wrapped updates on the technology upgrades for their respective networks, as well as time frames and what the industry should expect once the changes are complete. After previously announcing plans to...
Getting into the holiday spirit, Nextel Communications Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. provided gift-wrapped updates on the technology upgrades for their respective networks, as well as time frames and what the industry should expect once the changes are complete. After previously announcing plans to...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The two major cell-phone operators in Colombia, which operate on TDMA technology, announced they are migrating their networks to different technologies. In the case of BellSouth, the company will offer services over CDMA 1xRTT, supplied by Ericsson, as of the first quarter...
After talking with several operators from North and South America last week at the CDMA Americas Congress, it seems they have similar to-do lists heading into 2003. As 1x uptake increases, operators are looking to 2003 as the year for return on investment (ROI),...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Chilean branch of Nextel received a hard blow when the 29th Civil Judge of Santiago declared the 18 licenses granted by the government for mobile digital service to be void. The findings of the justice established that the concessions should be...
