OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. said its subscriber additions improved significantly during the third quarter. In a preliminary quarterly report, the company said it added about 23,500 net subscribers, including 11,300 postpaid customers and 14,500 prepaid customers. During the third quarter of last year the...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. said it acquired Highland Cellular L.L.C. through its American Cellular Corp. subsidiary. The deal is valued at $95 million. Highland provides wireless service to about 50,000 subscribers in southern West Virginia and two counties in Virginia. American Cellular provides service...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. said its subscriber additions improved significantly during the third quarter. In a preliminary quarterly report, the company said it added about 23,500 net subscribers, including 11,300 postpaid customers and 14,500 prepaid customers. During the third quarter of last year, the...
There were no last-minute bombshells when the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped up last week after a few final, tedious rounds with a mere handful of bids. T-Mobile USA Inc. was the undisputed and unsurprising highest bidder, walking away with a hefty new...
The third week of the advanced wireless spectrum auction showed significant slowing in bidding action. Nevertheless, it appears the Sprint Nextel Corp.-cable joint venture is aiming to build a broad footprint of 20-megahertz B-block licenses. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS...
WASHINGTON—NextWave Telecom Inc. and Dobson Communications Co. are the two most active bidders remaining in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full AWS auction coverage.The bidding continued to wind down on...
If, as the saying goes, pops are tops in an auction, then T-Mobile USA Inc. is certainly outdoing itself in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction thus far. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel Corp.'s joint venture with several cable companies also is doing well, despite losing...
WASHINGTON—The total amount raised by the advanced wireless services auction is creeping toward $13 billion, although each round is raising less money that the previous. However, bidding is still active on a number of licenses; the number of licenses with new high bids continues...
NEW YORK—Verizon Communications Inc. announced a deal to provide directory assistance to customers of Dobson Cellular Systems, a subsidiary of Dobson Communications Corp. Verizon’s LiveSource unit won a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract with Dobson to provide directory services including call completion, movie and restaurant listings,...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless appears to be in a bidding war with T-Mobile USA Inc. over the valuable F-block licenses up for grabs in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel Corp.’s joint venture with four cable companies is focusing on buying spectrum within...
U.S. Cellular Corp. released limited operating results for the second quarter, reporting a churn rate that ticked upward and net overall customer activations that were about half of what the carrier achieved during the same period last year-however, the company expects to boost its...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. has completed its purchase of assets from four wireless companies in Kodiak and Nome, Alaska. Dobson Cellular Systems is a subsidiary of Dobson Communications Corp. The company purchased for $2 million the assets of New Horizons Telecom Inc. and...
WASHINGTON-Next month's advanced wireless services auction, anticipated for years due to the infusion of an additional 90 megahertz of spectrum into the U.S. wireless industry, may come to be remembered by who didn't show for the big dance. In the no-surprise category, Cingular Wireless...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. released positive preliminary customer numbers for its most recent quarter as well as an 18 percent improvement in its churn rate compared with the same period last year. Dobson said it expects to report full financial results on Aug. 8,...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. wrapped up its $25 million purchase of wireless assets and spectrum in Texas, which will expand the rural carrier's footprint in the central area of the state. Dobson subsidiary American Cellular Corp. made the purchase of assets in the Texas...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. wrapped up its $25 million purchase of wireless assets and spectrum in Texas, which will expand the rural carrier’s footprint in the central area of the state. Dobson subsidiary American Cellular Corp. made the purchase of assets in the Texas...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. is hoping to spur wireless Web usage with a new mobile home page for its Cellular One-branded service. The redesigned site includes five new buttons that give one-click access to content including ringtones, wallpapers, games, applications and mobile Web pages....
Small and mid-size carriers posted mixed results last week, with most losing customers but improving their revenues and bucking the industry trend of sliding average revenue per user. However, some carriers managed to beat analysts' expectations. UbiquiTel Inc. reported a steep drop in new...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp.’s subsidiary American Cellular Corp. said it agreed to purchase Highland Cellular L.L.C. for $95 million. Highland provides wireless service to approximately 51,000 customers in parts of West Virginia and Virginia in markets south of current Dobson operations. The deal includes...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. reported that its subsidiary Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. has initiated a cash tender offer for its $250 million aggregate principal amount of first priority senior secured floating rate notes due 2011 and a consent solicitation to amend the related noted...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. said it launched service in Deadhorse, Alaska. The launch extends the carrier’s GSM/GPRS/EDGE network into the North Slope region along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, an area that contains one of the major petroleum reserves in Alaska. Deadhorse serves...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp.’s wireless subsidiary, American Cellular Corp., expanded its spectrum position in Texas with the $25 million purchase of a Rural Service Area and additional spectrum in markets that the company already serves. The Texas 15 RSA covers nearly 12,500 square miles...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week proposed fining rural wireless provider Dobson Communications Corp. $750,000 for not providing enhanced 911 services in a timely manner. Dobson failed to deploy E-911 Phase I to nine public-safety answering points and Phase II to 41 PSAPs, according...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission late Tuesday proposed fining rural wireless provider Dobson Communications Corp. $750,000 for not providing enhanced 911 services in a timely manner. Dobson failed to deploy E-911 Phase I to nine public-safety answering points and Phase II to 41 PSAPs, according...
