WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. reported an increase in net revenues for its second fiscal quarter ended Nov. 30 from $173.4 million last year to $180.7 million this year, a majority of which came from the company's Caribbean wireless operations, which increased from ...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. reported first quarter results ended Aug. 31 showing a loss of 23,000 wireless subscribers in its Caribbean and U.S. operations and ending the quarter with 883,800 total wireless customers.The company noted 16,700 of those lost customers were in its Caribbean...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. sold its 51-percent interest in its Jamaica wireless business Centennial Digital Jamaica Ltd. to partner Oceanic Digital Communications Inc. The Jamaica business includes an 800 MHz license and a CDMA network in and around the Kingston area covering 2.6 million...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Pyramid Research does not expect Nextel to launch its digital service in Chile within the next 12 months, according to a report conducted by Carlos Rodriguez and Daniel Torras.The market research firm gave three fundamental reasons for the delay. A new competitive...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Pyramid Research does not expect Nextel to launch its digital service in Chile within the next 12 months, according to a report conducted by Carlos Rodriguez and Daniel Torras.The consultancy gave three fundamental reasons for the delay. A new competitive wave has...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it added 24,200 net subscribers in its Caribbean and U.S. operations during its fiscal fourth quarter ended May 31, well below the 45,300 subscribers the carrier added during the previous year. Centennial finished its fiscal year with 906,800 total...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Centennial Communications Corp. extended its information services outsourcing contract with Alltel through 2005. The contract calls for Alltel's Information Services to continue to provide remote outsourcing of all production operations servicing Centennial Wireless' customer care, billing, network and electronic billing requirements for...
KINGSTON, Jamaica—A fourth cellular operator is expected to enter the Jamaica market on 1 March, 2003.The Jamaican government announced plans to award a license for mobile communications, saying the market is far from saturated. Centennial Digital last October joined the Irish company Digicel and...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. added 11,300 wireless customers in its U.S. operations during its second quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with a loss of 12,100 customers during the same quarter last year. The carrier ended the latest quarter with 513,900 U.S. wireless customers.Centennial posted...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. added 11,300 wireless customers in its U.S. operations during its second quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with a loss of 12,100 customers during the same quarter last year. The carrier ended the latest quarter with 513,900 U.S. wireless customers.Centennial posted...
SAO PAULO, Brazil—Brazilian mobile operator Telesp Celular introduced cdma2000 1x-based high-speed wireless data services in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Lucent Technologies Inc., which supplied base stations as part of a $130 million agreement with the carrier, said the Guarulhos section of Sao Paulo will become active...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. launched CDMA-based digital wireless service in Jamaica, noting it expects to offer customers next-generation services beginning next year.Centennial currently provides digital service to more than 15 million potential customers in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands."We...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Centennial Digital Jamaica has become the third company to bring mobile cellular service to Jamaicans.Chief Operating Officer James Beneda said the company's use of CDMA technology will allow it to eventually offer third-generation (3G) services. It expects to attract 47,000 customers in its...
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...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-NTELOS Inc. and Conestoga Enterprises Inc. reached a definitive merger deal that will create an integrated communications provider in the Mid-Atlantic region with 200,000 PCS subscribers and 175,000 local access telephone lines.NTELOS will pay stockholders of Conestoga a total of $335 million, or...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-As Cable & Wireless positions itself to be the company of choice in wireless, Internet and its traditional bread-and-butter service, long-distance communications, some start-up companies are claiming it might well continue to hold the upper hand when the doors to competition are flung...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Indicast Corp., a provider of voice portal services, and Centennial Wireless, an independent wireless telecommunications service provider, have launched *100 News, a voice portal service that allows Centennial subscribers to hear the latest content from the Web by calling *100 on their wireless...
NEW YORK-The story of NTELOS Inc. and Citizens Communications Inc., as told at Legg Mason Wood Walker's recent "Future of Rural Telecommunications" conference, demonstrates the wireless opportunity's expansion well beyond urban centers."We've done this so quietly we haven't shown up yet on the tables...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-USIntellicom announced an agreement with Centennial Wireless that calls for Centennial to market USIntellicom's prepaid wireless service in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.Centennial, which will brand the service as Express prepaid phone service, said it is targeting college students and other...
AlcatelEurope. With Orange as a strategic supplier for its third-generation networks throughout Europe.Value: UndisclosedItaly. With Wind Telecomunicazioni as a preferred third-generation network supplier.Value: UndisclosedEricssonChina. With China Telecom and Guangdong Mobile Communications to build a fixed network and expand Guangdong mobile networks.Value: US$550 millionChina. With China Mobile for...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Wireless service provider Centennial Communications Corp. will begin offering Indicast Inc.'s personalized audio Internet content to its wireless subscribers starting in November.Indicast's audio content allows users to pre-select topics of interest on the Internet using their personalized start page, and create a broadcast...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Arizona 4 and California 7 markets from Centennial Communications Corp. for approximately $202 million.The two rural service areas are contiguous to each other and are located in southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, sharing...
NEW YORK-AirLink PCS, the E-block fledgling of a century-old local exchange carrier, has found a niche providing its prepaid "Super Cordless" service for calling from and within a six-county area of Michigan."We've had visits by dozens of people from the E- and F-block licensees,...
NEW YORK-Oceanic Digital Corp. joined with Centennial Communications Corp. to develop a nationwide 800 MHz broadband Code Division Multiple Access network, following a license recently won at an auction by Oceanic Digital in Jamaica. Centennial acquired a 51-percent interest with Oceanic Digital, retaining a...
