With big fanfare but little surprise, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it would begin deploying UMTS technology across its network beginning early next year. The move follows the recent completion of the Federal Communications Commission's advanced wireless services auction that saw T-Mobile USA plunk down...
NEW YORK—Following its $4.2 billion worth of spectrum auction winnings, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced plans to spend $2.6 billion to upgrade its network to 3G technology. The carrier said it has already been working with 3G handset and equipment vendors for months to get...
WASHINGTON—Motient Corp. named a new management team, continuing moves to separate two affiliated mobile satellite service companies into two independent publicly traded entities and possibly to better position the Lincolnshire, Ill. firm to be acquired. Robert Brumley was named president and chief executive officer...
It seems like only yesterday my days were filled with nervous anticipation, my nights with restlessness. No, it wasn't nightmares of another CTIA I.T. show, a reaction to my increasing dependence on Red Bull, or my outlandishly complex plots related to the downfall of...
WASHINGTON—House and Senate lawmakers face a major challenge in trying to reconcile differences over legislation that would subject foreign investment in wireless and other U.S. business sectors to stiffer national security review, with some lawmakers keenly aware that a heavy-handed approach could backfire and...
In a quarter where the carrier transitioned from one-year to two-year service contracts, T-Mobile USA Inc.'s net customer additions were down sharply and its churn was up. Service revenues increased 18 percent year-over-year, but the carrier's net income plunged nearly 40 percent. T-Mobile USA's...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—In a quarter where the carrier transitioned from one-year to two-year service contracts, T-Mobile USA Inc.’s second quarter net customer additions were down and its churn was up. Service revenues were up 18 percent year-over-year, but the carrier’s net income was down by...
BRUSSELS-The European Union has announced plans to cap the international roaming rates that carrier charge one another, which could end up cutting those prices by as much as 70 percent. "The commission wants to ensure that prices paid by consumers for roaming services within...
BRUSSELS—The European Union has announced plans to cap the international roaming rates that carriers charge one another, which could end up cutting those prices by as much as 70 percent. "The commission wants to ensure that prices paid by consumers for roaming services within...
LONDON—Market research firm Ovum plc said it will pay $1.2 million to acquire Boston-based counterpart Summit Strategies Inc. Ovum, which staged an initial public offering in March, offers research and analysis to customers including Alcatel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG and Vodafone...
WASHINGTON-Could a small wireless deal in an age of blockbuster mobile-phone mergers be a threat to national security? The Federal Communications Commissions will make the call as it considers Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s proposed $72 million purchase of Guam Cellular & Paging Inc. and...
The Federal Communications Commission likely was wise to postpone the auction of advanced wireless services spectrum in a calculated move that could deflect potential lawsuits from disgruntled designated entities. The DEs charge that changes to rules aimed at closing DE loopholes hurt them too...
T-Mobile USA Inc. posted a strong first quarter, beating analysts' expectations in gaining just over 1 million new customers and lowering its customer churn rate while improving its revenues and income. The carrier posted1.04 million net customer additions, which was nearly 9 percent more...
WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless said they did not participate in a data-mining operation run by the National Security Agency that collects phone records and looks for trends that would indicate terrorist activities. The NSA phone-records operation, first reported by USA Today ,...
WASHINGTON—T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless said they did not participate in a data-mining operation run by the National Security Agency that collects phone records and looks for trends that would indicate terrorist activities. The NSA phone-records operation, first reported by USA Today Thursday,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—T-Mobile USA Inc. posted a strong 1.04 million net customer additions during the first quarter, which was above analyst expectations as well as the 957,000 subscribers the carrier added during the first three months of 2005. The nation’s No. 4 carrier noted that...
WASHINGTON-Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have been forced to defend their proposed trans-Atlantic merger after a key lawmaker raised security concerns about the deal in a letter to President Bush. "I have several grave concerns about the potential merger of French-owned Alcatel and...
WASHINGTON—Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have been forced to defend their proposed transatlantic merger after a key lawmaker raised security concerns about the deal in a letter to President Bush. "I have several grave concerns about the potential merger of French-owned Alcatel and...
BONN, Germany-Blackstone Group, a private investment group, has agreed to buy about 4.5 percent of Deutsche Telekom AG's outstanding shares, the German-based operator announced. Blackstone plans to purchase approximately 192 million shares from Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau, a German state-owned bank. According to DT, the...
BONN, Germany—Blackstone Group, a private investment group, has agreed to buy about 4.5 percent of Deutsche Telekom AG’s outstanding shares, the German-based operator announced. Blackstone plans to purchase approximately 192 million shares from Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau, a German state-owned bank. According to DT, the...
WASHINGTON—Two key Senate lawmakers introduced legislation to overhaul the secret government panel responsible for scrutinizing foreign investment in U.S. companies—including those in the wireless, telecom and high tech sectors—and transferring jurisdiction from the Treasury Department to the Department of Homeland Security. The bill, sponsored...
HANNOVER, Germany-Opera Software ASA scored a major win, inking a deal to pre-load its Java-based mobile browser on T-Mobile International phones in Europe. The deal calls for a custom, branded version of Opera Mini with "T-Mobile's look and feel" to be embedded on three...
WASHINGTON-House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) last week unveiled a bill that would require majority U.S. ownership of critical infrastructure deemed essential to national security and a five-year divestiture of foreign-owned infrastructure, legislation with potential implications for German subsidiary T-Mobile USA Inc.,...
Now that the Chinese government has sanctioned its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology as the preferred third-generation technology of the land, and with precious 3G licenses about to be granted to Chinese operators, Qualcomm Inc.'s claims on TD-SCDMA products bear more weight. The CDMA developer said...
