Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.It took a strong stomach to just get through last week. In a single trading day, stocks...
LightSquared added yet another regional wireless operator to its wholesale LTE plans, signing up Flat Wireless L.L.C.'s ClearTalk Wireless to a bilateral roaming agreement. Financial terms of the deal were not released.The deal will provide CDMA-based operator ClearTalk with a nationwide LTE footprint through...
UPDATED: Editor's Note: With all of the domestic industry's public, facilities-based operators having announced second quarter results we decided to provide a quick snapshot of how the quarter stacked up.Verizon Wireless (106.3 million connections)Quick facts: Posted 2.2 million net additions for the quarter, including...
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s (LEAP) second quarter results were not as bad as some had feared, but were apparently bad enough to scare off investors who fled the carrier's stock this morning to the tune of a more than 30% drop in the carrier's...
Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) saw its stock price punished this morning after the carrier released lower than expected second quarter results that showed higher earnings, but slower growth that was impacted by increased customer churn.
MetroPCS reported that revenues increased 19% year-over-year...
Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) saw its stock price punished this morning after the carrier released lower than expected second quarter results that showed higher earnings, but slower growth that was impacted by increased customer churn.
MetroPCS reported that revenues increased 19% year-over-year...
Contract customers are more satisfied with their customer care than no-contract or prepaid customers, according to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates. Among contract customers, Verizon Wireless (VZ) scored best, while Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), fared...
Virgin Mobile USA is set to refine its rate plans and data speeds, moves that align the company with its direct rivals and could provide a peak at the future of parent company Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) plans for data services.Citing the increased data...
LightSquared filed a modified spectrum plan with the Federal Communications Commission that the company said would solve interference issues with approximately 99.5% of all commercial GPS devices, including 100% of GPS-equipped mobile phones.The report, which was filed after the granting of an extension from...
You can’t accuse LightSquared of not looking at its current glass of morass as half empty. With the possibility of network delays, or worse, hanging over its head, LightSquared continues to add customers to its planned wholesale network initiative announcing today a “multi-year wholesale...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.One of the great things about summer, especially this year’s Midwest rainfest, is watching things grow. Trees,...
GUANGHZOU, China – Network sharing among smaller U.S. operators could create a strong venture that would be able to compete against today's large incumbent operators, although that concept is just a concept today.Leap Wireless International Inc.'s (LEAP) Matthew Stoiber described how a network-sharing agreement...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Despite having previously been late adopters of new mobile technologies, the United States has taken the lead...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.June is a special month in the wireless industry. For the past four years, it has usually...
DALLAS—AT&T Mobility (T) formed its Antenna Solutions Group to focus on improving AT&T customers' experience by enhancing the network from the inside out, said Jim Parker, senior manager of the unit within AT&T. In that way, AT&T's Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business is different...
DALLAS—AT&T Mobility (T) formed its Antenna Solutions Group to focus on improving AT&T customers' experience by enhancing the network from the inside out, said Jim Parker, senior manager of the unit within AT&T. In that way, AT&T's Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business is different...
Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) joined its colleagues in denouncing the potential merger between AT&T Mobility (T) and T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) as bad for consumers as it would decrease competition and innovation, as well as investment in the wireless...
In an attempt to help fund its LTE network deployment plans, Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) said its Cricket Communications Inc. subsidiary plans to offer $400 million in 7.75% senior notes dues in 2020 to qualified institutional buyers “subject to market and other conditions.”...
In an attempt to help fund its LTE network deployment plans, Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP) said its Cricket Communications Inc. subsidiary plans to offer $400 million in 7.75% senior notes dues in 2020 to qualified institutional buyers “subject to market and other conditions.”...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.“This time, it’s for real.” If I have heard that phrase once, I’ve heard it a thousand...
The first three months of the year showed an interesting pecking order among the nation's largest wireless operators.While its position as the nation's largest operator is threatened by the impending AT&T Inc. (T) acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY), Verizon Wireless (VZ) continues to...
Leap Wireless International Inc. (LEAP), which operates its wireless business under the Cricket Communications Inc. brand, posted lumpy first quarter results as the carrier continues to manage changes in its operations. The carrier said it added 331,000 customers during the first quarter of the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Several companies provided earnings and further guidance last week. Interestingly enough, all of these earnings results were...
While the mobile market is indeed international in scale, don’t think carriers ignore local issues. A perfect example is a prepaid offering Verizon Wireless (VZ) unveiled last week in the Southern California and select Florida markets that looks to compete against similar offerings from...
