BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. unveiled an integrated marketing campaign that the carrier termed a "new brand position and identity using the Cellular One name" throughout its 19-state coverage area.Western Wireless said the new campaign for Cellular One will focus on the company's hometown attributes...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. reported record first-quarter earnings of $23.1 million, a 53 percent increase from the same period a year ago.The telecommunications billing and transaction processing company, known best for its prepaid wireless services, earned net income of $3.3 million, or 18...
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.-Debisys Inc. said it has entered into a partnership agreement with Cellular One Bermuda to provide its turnkey processing technology for Cellular One's prepaid service offering. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
HELSINKI, Finland-Network upgrades continue the world over, as carriers in the United States, Taiwan and Denmark announced plans to upgrade to faster wireless technologies.In Taiwan, Taiwan Cellular Corp. said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. to begin building a W-CDMA network starting early...
Editor's Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.'s chief executive. Verizon, the nation's largest carrier, is known as a conservative company, and that has served...
HELSINKI, Finland-Network upgrades continue the world over, as carriers in the United States, Taiwan and Denmark announce plans to upgrade to faster wireless technologies.In Taiwan, Taiwan Cellular Corp. said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. to begin building a W-CDMA network starting early...
HELSINKI, Finland-Network upgrades continue the world over, as carriers in the United States, Taiwan and Denmark announced plans to upgrade to faster wireless technologies.In Taiwan, Taiwan Cellular Corp. said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. to begin building a W-CDMA network starting early...
Editor's Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.'s chief executive. Verizon, the nation's largest carrier, is known as a conservative company, and that has served...
PHOENIX—Verizon Wireless reported it had completed the previously announced acquisition of Dobson Communication Corp.'s 75-percent controlling interest in the Gila River Cellular General Partnership operating in the Arizona #5 RSA for approximately $85 million. The remaining 25-percent partnership interest is held by Gila River...
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...
More than a year after first making its intentions known, Verizon Wireless finally acquired regional wireless carrier Price Communications for $1.7 billion, including $550 million in net debt that Verizon Wireless said would be assumed or redeemed.The acquisition comes months after both companies announced...
DALLAS—Most consumers feel safe just owning a cellular phone, according to a recent WebViews survey conducted by Cellular One.In fact, when asked "Does having a cell phone make you feel safer?" 92 percent of the 1,199 respondents answered yes. Those who answered yes elaborated...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless signed definitive agreements to acquire certain Dobson Communications wireless operations in California, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee for approximately US$465 million. The Tennessee market, which Dobson said it was selling for US$202 million, was the property of American Cellular,...
During the past 20 years, two overriding factors have shaped the wireless carrier landscape: customer growth and carrier consolidation. The number of wireless customers has grown from less than 100,000 subscribers after the first full year of availability in 1984 to nearly 120...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Cellular One reported it will invest nearly $800 million in four states by the end of the year to upgrade the wireless infrastructure and expand digital services. The states include Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.The investments—$430 million in Texas, $129 million...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. completed the acquisition of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems' ownership interest in Cellular One Group. Southwestern Bell Mobile is a subsidiary of Cingular Wireless.Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
TERRY, Mont.-Western Wireless Corp. took a substantial step towards third-generation technology by launching 1xRTT high-speed wireless data service in rural Terry, Mont., last week.Western Wireless, which normally operates under the Cellular One name, said that upon availability of 1x handsets, theirs will be the...
Cell-phone use is distractingDear Editor: Your article "Subcommittee agrees mobile phones distract, wants more data" addresses the hazards of cell-phone use while driving. As the sponsor of the Response Insurance National Driving Habits Survey, a scientifically valid survey of drivers from around the nation that...
Shunichiro Mishima, vice president of business development for NTT DoCoMo USA Inc., said the Japanese parent company would convert its 16-percent ownership of AT&T Wireless Group into tracking stock of the AT&T unit once those securities are sold publicly. In coverage of his presentation...
Dear Editor,As the third employee of AT&T's cellular subsidiary AMPS (I was director of engineering) and as the first President/COO of MetroMobile CTS (an aggressive nonwireline carrier of the mid-1980s), I have found your articles on the early days of cellular bringing back many...
Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Wichita, Kan., where consumers can take advantage of Leap's unlimited local calling plans for $30 per month. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. began offering service to customers on the island of Hawaii, expanding its...
DALLAS-More than three-quarters of wireless customers use their cellular phones primarily for personal calls, according to a WebViews Survey conducted by Cellular One Group.The survey showed that only 23 percent of respondents said "business" was the most common destination for their wireless phone calls."There...
Lawyers for AT&T Corp. rang in the new year with a class-action lawsuit brought against it and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by New York City area customers, and a federal magistrate's ruling that a dispute with wireless operator Cellular One Group over the use...
DALLAS-According to an informal survey from Cellular One, close to 70 percent of wireless users are "comfortable" with their wireless security, while about 30 percent said they were concerned.The WebViews Survey, based on data collected during November from the Cellular One Web site, found...
