ST. LOUIS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it was finishing the deployment of unobtrusive cell sites within shopping malls linked to small antennas located above ceiling tiles in an attempt to provide better coverage and serve more customers in select locations in Missouri and Kansas. The...
Verizon Wireless said it completed the purchase of Northern California wireless operator Mountain Cellular from Sierra Tel Communications Group. The deal includes Mountain Cellular's spectrum license covering 170,000 potential customers in El Dorado County stretching along Highway 50 from El Dorado Hills to South...
Verizon Wireless said Thursday it completed the purchase of Northern California wireless operator Mountain Cellular from Sierra Tel Communications Group. The deal includes Mountain Cellular's spectrum license covering 170,000 potential customers in El Dorado County stretching along Highway 50 from El Dorado Hills to...
SAN FRANCISCO-The number of wireless subscribers grew by an estimated 14.5 percent during the past 12 months, while the average price of local monthly service continued to hold steady, according to the Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. There...
Nextel Partners Inc.'s third-quarter financial results reflect improvements across the board.The carrier reported revenues of $337.2 million, up 29 percent from a year ago, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $103.5 million, an increase of 86 percent from last year. Free...
SAN FRANCISCO-The number of wireless subscribers grew by an estimated 14.5 percent during the past 12 months, while the average price of local monthly service continued to hold steady, according to the Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association.There are...
Verizon Wireless increased the stakes in the wireless data market last week, announcing the expansion of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO-based BroadbandAccess service to 11 new markets as well as limited coverage at 10 airports in eight additional markets. The expansion brings the carrier's total...
WASHINGTON-Tim Donahue, chief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc., said Thursday morning Nextel finds nothing in the Federal Communications Commission's plan to solve public-safety 800 MHz interference that it opposes and believes that the issues it has been discussing with the FCC can be...
With the second hurricane in the past several weeks set to hit Florida in the next 24 hours, a number of wireless carriers announced initiatives designed to lessen the possible impact on the state's population and telecommunications infrastructure.T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will offer...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau granted Nextel Partners Inc. eligible telecommunications carrier status, making it eligible to receive universal-service subsidies for the customers it serves in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia."Nextel's universal-service offering will provide a variety of benefits to...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau Wednesday granted Nextel Partners Inc. eligible telecommunications carrier status, making it eligible to receive universal-service subsidies for the customers it serves in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia."Nextel's universal service offering will provide a variety of...
TruePosition Inc. announced an agreement to provide its Finder system to Iowa wireless carrier I Wireless. The Finder system will allow the carrier to meet Phase II E911 requirements, said TruePosition.Motorola Inc. said it plans to incorporate Hewlett-Packard Inc. technologies into its CDMA and...
BISMARCK, N.D.-Verizon Wireless said it has activated 12 new digital cell sites in North Dakota this year, as well as completed the deployment of its CDMA2000 1x-based NationalAccess data network in western North Dakota. The carrier said it plans to add five more cell...
Regional carriers are swapping spectrum to shore up their strength in markets where they already operate and exit markets that are no longer a strategic fit.In the largest deal announced last week, Alltel Corp. said it would buy both wireless spectrum and assets from...
In releasing its second-quarter financial results, American Tower Corp., the largest U.S. wireless tower company, maintained good favor with analysts who indicated its overall efforts to reduce its risk profile by streamlining debt and being selective about adding assets to its portfolio will add...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has activated 13 new cell sites in Central Tennessee this year as part of a one-year, $100 million network investment in Tennessee and Kentucky that eventually should add nearly 150 cell sites to the region for improved call...
Western Wireless Corp. said it added 10,900 domestic subscribers during the second quarter of this year compared with 15,000 subscribers added during the second quarter of 2003. The rural carrier ended the first half of this year with more than 1.3 million total customers.Customer...
CHICAGO-Furthering attempts to focus on markets that it calls strategic to its long-term success, U.S. Cellular Corp. and TDS Telecom, both of which are subsidiaries of Telephone and Data Systems Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain wireless properties to Alltel Corp....
Continuing what it claims is its 18th consecutive quarter of exceeding analysts' expectations, Nextel Partners Inc. said it added 92,000 net customers during the second quarter, ending the first half of this year with more than 1.4 million total subscribers. Analysts expected the Nextel...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. said it will invest $160 million on next-generation upgrades during the next two years to increase network quality and coverage.The company plans to offer new entertainment applications and communications services after adding new network technologies and "a significant number" of...
In a move expected to bolster its spectrum position and coverage in the western United States, Verizon Wireless reported late last week that it had agreed to acquire Qwest Communications International Inc.'s wireless assets, including spectrum and network infrastructure for $418 million. Analysts noted...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its Louisiana network this year. In addition to GSM voice services, Cingular noted its EDGE wireless data service is also now...
In a move that could relieve its spectrum needs ahead of upcoming auctions by NextWave Telecom Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission, Verizon Wireless reported a definitive agreement to purchase Qwest Communications International Inc.'s wireless assets for $418 million. The purchase price is well...
LIMA, Peru-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a contract to provide Nextel Peru with managed services for its multi-vendor networks.Nextel Peru, which has contracted 300 cell sites to the services of Lucent Worldwide Services, expects the agreement to increase its efficiencies and reduce...
