Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Interest in prepaid providers continues to boom. TNS Compete's behavioral panel tracks the online behavior...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. continued its roll out of higher-tier handsets with the launch of its first Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device, the Samsung Code. The device, which is priced at $300, includes Microsoft’s gaggle of tools including contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, voice recorded...
AT&T Mobility goosed its Pay As You Go GoPhone prepaid offering with the launch of an unlimited talk and messaging option for $60 per month, and as with all GoPhone offerings no contract is required. The new offering undercuts its unlimited postpaid offering by...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As fourth-generation network rollouts begin, the wireless industry’s value chain has viable buildout opportunities that should keep the sector healthy, as long as various segments work in harmony.“4G wireless will be the game changer that we all expect and hope it...
Flat-rate provider MetroPCS Communications Inc. said L.M. Ericsson will provide infrastructure for its LTE deployments, while Samsung will provide devices. The carrier is planning to launch LTE in the second half of the year.Ericsson also will provide LTE infrastructure to Verizon Wireless, which is...
Fresh off network wins with Clearwire Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is on its way to nearly double its staff in North America by the end of the year.The Chinese infrastructure company has had a...
Leap Wireless International Inc. saw its stock rise yesterday as speculation mounted that AT&T Mobility may want to add the flat-rate carrier to its stable. Leap’s stock jumped nearly $2 a share from $16.07 to $17.84 on the rumors, before settling down to $17.24...
T-Mobile USA posted a disappointing 325,000 net customer additions for the second quarter, which was half the 668,000 customers it added during the second quarter of 2008. The 2009 growth was also predominately prepaid, which accounted for 80% of new customer additions compared with...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering a $50-per-month unlimited voice plan to its veteran customers nationwide. In combination with the recent price cut on its unlimited data and unlimited text monthly add-on price to $35 per month, according to a customer service representative, T-Mobile USA...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The wireless industry has consolidated with regional carriers absorbed by larger national giants. Many decry...
Fourth-quarter numbers from T-Mobile USA Inc. showed that the industry's No. 3 and No. 4 players (Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA, respectively) were no match for their larger rivals during the all-important holiday shopping season.T-Mobile USA previously announced a prepaid-heavy 621,000 net customer...
On one level, Alltel Communications L.L.C. ceased to exist after Verizon Wireless closed its $28 billion acquisition of the Little Rock, Ark., company in early January. Indeed, attention promptly turned to how some Alltel wireless assets would be integrated into Verizon Wireless and how...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. said it added a company record 520,000 net customers during the fourth quarter of 2008, and ended the year with 5.4 million customers on its network. MetroPCS' Chairman, CEO and President Roger Linquist attributed the strong growth to the continued migration...
In the Obama era, the telecom and tech industries, consumer advocates, states and other stakeholders will be watching carefully for key policy tendencies emanating from a Federal Communications Commission apt to be headed by tech entrepreneur and former telecom policymaker Julius Genachowski.Will Genachowski -...
In the Obama era, the telecom and tech industries, consumer advocates, states and other stakeholders will be watching carefully for key policy tendencies emanating from a Federal Communications Commission apt to be headed by tech entrepreneur and former telecom policymaker Julius Genachowski.Will Genachowski -...
Cricket Communications Inc. continues its nationwide rollout with its Chicago launch today, bringing its total covered pops to 77.5 million. The carrier, parented by Leap Wireless International Inc., is scheduled to double its covered pops this year. Cricket recently launched service in pockets of...
The one-time rock of the wireless industry appears set to crumble. And I think that crumbling can't come soon enough. That rock is postpaid, contract-encumbered rate plans. These were necessary evils when the industry was rife with hundreds of wireless operators, each trying to...
Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc., the surprise winner in a 2006 auction of $3.6 billion worth of licenses covering the New York area, made its wireless debut today in New York City. The company's network covers 10 million customers in the New York metropolitan area,...
With the economy in a recession, many Americans are trying to scale back spending. Wireless providers, however, may experience just the opposite reaction: Each carrier has a "hop to it" mantra, whether it is to upgrade the network, recruit more customers (or actively...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.With the advent of the new Boost national $50 Monthly Unlimited plan, many consumers and...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers--Morgan Stanley reinstated its equal-weight rating on Verizon Communications after the company's stock recently outperformed both the market and the telecom sector. Barclays Capital lowered...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carriers--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'B" rating to MetroPCS Wireless Inc.'s proposed $300 million senior notes due 2014. The firm also affirmed its...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Boost Mobile subsidiary unveiled an unlimited offering dubbed "Monthly Unlimited" that includes unlimited calling minutes, text messaging, wireless Web and walkie-talkie services for $50 per month. The new plan is for the carrier's iDEN-based offering.Matt Carter, president of Boost Mobile, said...
