BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless acquired the business assets of CDMA operator Alabama Wireless Inc., expanding the carrier's footprint throughout a seven-county area stretching from Birmingham to Huntsville and Florence in northern Alabama. Alabama Wireless' operations, marketed under the Cellular One brand name, cover 360,000 potential...
WASHINGTON-With Verizon Wireless Inc.'s abrupt decision to withdraw its request for a waiver to provide priority access service to local, state and federal personnel during emergencies, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. has gained an inside track on a $20 million government contract. Last week, the wireless...
NEW YORK-Convergent communications are getting closer to reality with development of gateways to distribute content among various stationary and mobile devices and interoperability technology that permits seamless roaming between fixed and mobile networks, speakers at the December Internet World conference said."Centralized media servers tied...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Flarion Technologies has completed a successful demonstration of a seamless handoff between an 802.11b wireless local area network and a mobile wide area network, the company announced December 18.Conducted in its headquarters town of Bedminster, N.J., the test involved people working on a...
REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless said it completed the first phase of enhancements to its New York area network designed to increase calling capacity and improve service quality. The carrier said the enhancements were part of a multi-vendor network equipment strategy unveiled two years ago for...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.—Edward and Kelcey, a design and engineering firm that maintains 6,000 cell sites in the northeastern United States, is assisting in returning wireless phone service to normal at the site of what was the World Trade Center in New York.Serving as part of...
ATLANTA—TWS International, a consulting service to the wireless industry, said its Latin subsidiary, TWS do Brasil, has been awarded a contract to manage 1,000 of Telemar's cell sites in its new GSM network in Brazil.Over a nine-month period, TWS do Brasil will manage the...
Cingular said its network continues to operate normally, with approximately a 20-percent increase in attempted calls nationwide. There are no blockages or network outages. Cingular is working to increase network capacity in the Washington, D.C., areas by deploying additional Cells on Wheels (COWs).Cingular said...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless lost 11 cell sites in the attacks on Tuesday in New York and at the Pentagon but service has generally been restored except in lower Manhattan by the use of temporary sites, Jim Gerace, Verizon Wireless spokesman, told RCR Wireless News.Verizon Wireless...
NEW YORK—Verizon said its wireless network experienced congestion due to heavy calling in the aftermath of yesterday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. During the peak of the day, Verizon said it experienced 50- to...
Cingular this morning said its network is operating normally following yesterday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. The company said it is experiencing a 20-percent increase in attempted calls nationwide, but that there are no...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Jamaica's cellular market could be engaged in a fierce competition for the consumer soon. A new provider, Centennial Digital Jamaica Ltd., is set to become the third operator by year-end 2001, with promises of bringing newer technology options and service to this Western...
A trio of wireless carriers released second-quarter results last week showing ongoing strength of the industry despite the continued slowdown in the general economy.Alltel Corp.'s reliance on its wireless operations increased during the second quarter of this year as the country's sixth-largest wireless operator's...
Editor's Note: As Leap Wireless International Inc. prepares to launch its Cricket wireless service in RCR Wireless News' home market in Denver, we thought we would use the opportunity to take a closer look at what's involved in launching service in a new market.Setting up...
The nation's largest wireless carrier created another plot twist in the ongoing E911 saga, filing a waiver petition with the Federal Communications Commission last Wednesday asking to change its location technology choice from a network- to a handset-based solution, citing the unavailability of a...
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. said it has completed the initial phase of network buildout in its Sprint PCS service territory, including all 41 of its markets covering more than 6.4 million residents, or approximately 65 percent of the population in its territory.The carrier's...
NEW YORK-Through manufacturing outsourcing and layoffs designed to return Ericsson Inc. to profitability, the company's Consumer Products Division will wind up this year with about 5,000 employees. That compares with 13,000 on staff at the end of 2000, Jan Wareby executive vice president of...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. launch its GSM service May 1 in Chicago. The carrier said subscribers have free access to its Great Lake Neighborhood plan, allowing free long-distance for calls placed in and to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.UbiquiTel Inc., a Sprint...
Nextel Communications Inc. posted stronger-than-expected subscriber numbers for the first quarter, along with financial results in line with most analysts' lowered expectations. The carrier also reported its customer acquisition and handset upgrade costs inched up along with its usually low churn rate, and it...
CANADACell-Loc Inc. completed and made available its Cellocate Beacon I, a wireless device that enables several location services via the company's existing networks in Calgary, Alberta and Austin, Texas. According to test data, the new device is consistent with enhanced 911 Phase II guidelines...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and U.S. Cellular Corp. signed a contract that calls for Lucent to supply digital wireless systems, engineering and installation services for the existing U.S. Cellular network in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.Lucent has already begun installing...
NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market's general concerns about telecommunications."At a time when companies like PSINet made announcements that their stock is...
NEW YORK -British Telecommunications plc will undertake "a massive, massive restructuring, and I don't want to underestimate what we plan to do this year," Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive officer, told securities analysts at a recent meeting here.Under the umbrella of a new group...
NEW YORK-To enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, Schema Ltd. has developed a network optimization tool that Yuval Davidor, company founder and president, said can increase capacity by as much as 30 percent."You cannot manufacture more spectrum, and we will always want more of...
