NEW ORLEANS-Leap Wireless International Inc. continued its rapid evolution last week, signing a pair of deals with Verizon Wireless that will allow Leap to add nationwide roaming capabilities to its Cricket wireless offering and provide Verizon Wireless with another infusion of wireless spectrum. Leap...
Tower company SpectraSite Inc. said it lost $1.8 million in the fourth quarter, as part of its results for the period and full year. The company also revised its 2005 outlook. In 2004, the company said it achieved record revenues and net cash provided...
Global Signal Inc. said it recorded a fourth-quarter income of $4.1 million, amounting to a 34.4-percent leap over the same period in 2003 when it had a net income of $3.1 million.These figures give its shareholders 8 cents per share for the quarter compared...
Both Leap Wireless International Inc. and Dobson Communications Corp. in unrelated deals said that with the help of Daniels & Associates, they are selling and then leasing back towers. Leap is selling 142 towers to Mountain Union Telecom L.L.C. for $18 million. It will...
Infused with new leadership, Leap Wireless International Inc. announced plans to expand its offerings with the launch of its Jump by Cricket prepaid service, providing a true pay-as-you-go plan for customers. The new offering, which Leap hinted to late last year when it signed...
Leap Wireless International Inc. appointed Albin Al Moschner executive vice president and chief marketing officer and Glenn Umetsu executive vice president and chief technical officer. Both positions are new to the company. Leap said Moschner will be responsible for overseeing Leap's overall marketing and...
Less than three weeks after it began, the Federal Communications Commission's Auction 58 of 242 spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz band came to a quiet close last Tuesday, having garnered just more than $2 billion in net bids including FCC credits for 217...
SAN DIEGO-Cricket Clicks subscribers can find and download ringtones by saying artist names into their handsets with a new service, parent company Leap Wireless International Inc. said Tuesday. Leap is teaming with mobile software developer V-Enable for the offering, which uses voice-recognition technology to...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. expanded the international long-distance offering for its Cricket wireless service to more than 60 countries. The expanded service will allow customers to call the new markets for 18 cents per minute using a prepaid bucket of minuets.The service includes...
MetroPCS Inc. bidding partner Royal Street Communications L.L.C. continues as the single highest bidder in the Federal Communications Commissions' ongoing Auction 58 of 242 wireless spectrum licenses. Royal Street has posted combined high bids of $387.7 million for seven licenses through 18 rounds of...
The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to auction 242 spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz spectrum band as part of Auction 58 got off to a modest start last week with just more than $1.4 billion in bids placed for 201 of the licenses after...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Research Group Dell'Oro Group said infrastructure market revenues increased to $36.1 billion in 2004, amounting to a 26-percent leap over the prior year.The report expects revenues to grow up to 2007 when expenditure will plateau at $39 billion until 2009. The group...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp.'s fourth-quarter results showed a 13-percent drop in net profit, but the company is stressing the positive in its mobile-phone shipments and infrastructure performance.The company reported a net profit of $1.31 billion or 29 cents per share, compared with the year-ago period of...
Whittled down from 49 total applicants, 35 certified bidders placed more than $325 million in deposits with the government for a crack at 242 spectrum licenses up for bid in the 1.9 GHz band beginning on Jan. 26. Those licenses include spectrum in a...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. said it will begin offering Kyocera Corp.'s Koi camera phone for its Cricket wireless service, which Kyocera claims is the first megapixel camera phone offered by a flat-rate service provider. The handset, which is currently offered by Verizon Wireless,...
The Federal Communications Commission has certified 35 bidders for its upcoming Auction 58 that will include 242 spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz band scheduled to begin Jan. 26. The FCC has set aside 119 licenses for so-called designated entities, while the remaining 123...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc., which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, reported the successful syndication and closing of a previously announced senior secured credit facilities for its Cricket Communications Inc. wholly owned subsidiary. The new facilities consist of a six-year $500...
Leap Wireless International Inc. said it scored almost 29,000 net customer additions during the fourth quarter of 2004, bringing its total number of net additions for the year to 97,000. The carrier's churn rate for the quarter was 4.1 percent, and its full-year churn...
PalmOnePalmOne Inc. announced its VersaMail 2.7 wireless e-mail software is available for Treo 600 smart phones. Treo 600 users will now have access to Internet Message Access Protocol, said the company. Features include automatic mail retrieval and notification; Web content support; in-box management; and...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-The global market for multimedia messaging services will more than double next year, reaching $42.5 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Messaging between mobile-phone users will drive the revenue growth, as will services like sports updates that are supplied...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. unveiled an application that allows users to download movie quotes and soundtracks to their handsets.Subscribers of the company's Cricket service with Cricket Clicks-enabled phones can buy FlixTones, a ringtone application that includes songs and dialogue clips from movies. The...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-The global market for multimedia messaging services will more than double next year, reaching $42.5 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research.Messaging between mobile-phone users will drive the revenue growth, as will services like sports updates that are supplied by...
The New York State Supreme Court has a greed to hear the case involving Russian telecom contractor Whale Telecom in a $400 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. over plans to dissolve Metrosvyaz, the CDMA player's partner in Cyprus.Whale filed the lawsuit Nov. 15.Whale...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. added 9 Squared Inc.'s RealTone JukeBox music downloads to its BREW-based Cricket Clicks offering. The carrier said the application allows customers to download real music ringtones to their handsets. The downloads are available in three credit packages beginning at...
