LAS VEGAS-Advancing its wireless data initiative, Leap Wireless International Inc. acquired a pair of wireless data applications providers to support the location-based myAladdin wireless technology the company acquired last year.The deals include plans to purchase Backwire, a publisher of customized e-mail newsletters and developer...
For a company only a few years old, and one that prides itself on making decisions easier for its customers, it might seem odd for Leap Wireless International Inc. to be making a branding change. While the change is not dramatic-the addition of "Another...
Dear Editor: Peter Angelos, the U.S. attorney leading several lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants, and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now...
To the Editor: Peter Angelos has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now this high priest of the mass tort has his...
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
A variety of wireless operators released fourth quarter results last week, including national carrier VoiceStream Wireless Corp., regional operator Western Wireless Corp. and flat rate, local calling provider Leap Wireless International Inc.VoiceStreamVoiceStream, which is in the midst of a takeover by Germany's Deutsche Telekom,...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
In an attempt to expand their customer bases, some wireless operators have taken to rolling out wireless local loop-type services allowing customers to pay a pre-set amount for unlimited wireless calls in their local area. These services are being touted as "super cordless phones"...
WASHINGTON-The battle over automatic roaming crystallized between entrenched carriers and their would-be competitors as parties recently filed reply comments in a proceeding that could change the rules by which carriers enter roaming agreements.Large carriers do not want the Federal Communications Commission to mandate automatic...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to write applications for mobile phones from a variety of vendors.The product, known as Binary...
After 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum set in 1996."This most recent auction demonstrated the...
NEW YORK-Domestic wireless operators have begun to take prepaid services seriously, although it will be awhile before they approach the successful benchmark set by their European counterparts.Comfort with credit is a key distinction between American consumers and those abroad, where cash is king. Prepaid...
Finally, a glass of champagne.Nortel Networks toasted its fourth quarter with a result that matched market expectations and a robust promise for the future.Nortel, a leader in communications equipment for wireless networks, switching, transmission and access, reported fourth-quarter net earnings of $825 million, or...
MELBOURNE, Australia-In a part of the world that still relies on word of mouth as a means to keep in touch, cellular communications-both digital and analog-is continuing to spread through the Pacific Islands as greater numbers of people in the region adjust to using...
DENVER, United States-When the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set aside a portion of the permits up for bid in its 1996 auction of personal communications services (PCS) licenses, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known...
As likely winners begin to emerge in the re-auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s PCS licenses, it looks like these permits will be used in large part by major wireless players to shore up more spectrum, either to meet capacity needs today or for third-generation...
When the Federal Communications Commission set aside a portion of the licenses up for bid in its 1996 personal communications services auction, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known as designated entities, to purchase licenses without...
As reports of a slowdown in the wireless industry continue to make headlines in the news and on Wall Street, wireless carriers have been reporting strong customer addition numbers for the fourth quarter, with analysts predicting continued growth for 2001."Subscriber numbers have simply failed...
The Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses returned from its winter break by closing in on the $13-billion barrier, and seeing its total bidder pool dwindle from its original 82 members to 51 bidders after 29 rounds.Verizon Wireless, through its...
With the large wireless carriers bidding top dollar on wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of personal communications services licenses, smaller companies looking to build out their wireless business plans are left to carefully bid their way into smaller markets that may...
The prospects for wireless Internet use in Asia-Pacific during the next decade will be both a leap forward and a heartbreak.The Strategis Group concluded in a recent study that the number of users will grow tenfold to 216.3 million by 2007.The bad news is...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced a $250 million line of credit from Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund Ltd., which the company said it will use to supplement funds for acquisitions, spectrum purchases and general corporate expenditures.The money is in common stock equity...
With a population hungry for services, Latin America is challenging telecom and Internet companies to tap their imaginative resources to provide the devices, killer applications, high-speed networks and customized content, which will be the pathway to a robust wireless Internet industry there in the...
