MetroPCS Communications Inc. launched service in Las Vegas and unveiled two new handsets.The Dallas-based carrier launched its flat-rate, unlimited service and announced plans to operate roughly six dozen retail locations in the greater Las Vegas area. MetroPCS also said it will establish four company-owned...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility won the vast majority of the 700 MHz spectrum up for grabs during the Federal Communications Commission's recently completed auction. Verizon Wireless was the event's biggest spender, doling out $9.63 billion (fully half of the almost $20 billion in...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday 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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Almost 18 months after the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped, carriers are on the verge of commercially launching networks and devices that make use of the recently cleared 1.7/2.1 GHz spectrum bands.Although the carrier hasn't launched any AWS markets yet, Leap Wireless International...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Lehman Brothers adjusted its estimates on Leap Wireless to a loss of $1.14 from a loss of $1.09 for this year and a loss of...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--R.W. Baird lowered its price target on MetroPCS to $25 from $30 on mixed fourth-quarter results. The firm also lowered its 2008 revenue estimates on...
The wireless industry relies on towers like a lifeline. All those wireless calls, messaging exchanges and data downloads and uploads rely on a steadily budding array of transmission towers. Without them, nothing happens.Bearing that in mind, it's no surprise towers are considered one of...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $47 million while adding almost 299,00 customers during the fourth quarter of 2007. The company's stock was down almost 7.5% in early trading with results falling short of analysts estimates, but has quickly inched beyond yesterday's...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Credit Suisse First Boston downgraded its industry rating on the telecommunications services sector from overweight to market weight. In related action, CSFB downgraded both AT&T...
The mobile-phone industry told a U.S. appeals court the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory powers in mandating the eight-hour backup power rule for cell sites as part of an otherwise legally flawed rulemaking."By promulgating a sweeping mandate far beyond its regulatory authority without...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is continuing its battle to right a listing ship. The nation's No. 3 carrier announced it would cut 4,000 jobs and close 8% of its stores after losing 683,000 postpaid subscribers and 202,000 prepaid users during the fourth quarter of last...
IT'S GAME TIME.The wireless industry's version of March Madness is set to tip off Jan. 24, with 214 applicants vying for 1,099 spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band being auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission.But, it will be like getting periodic scoring updates...
The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to craft rules for the 2155-2175 MHz band has been met with the kind of mixed industry feedback expected in such a proceeding, with a notable exception that could provide a window into what could become a bigger policy...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is continuing its battle to right a listing ship. The nation's No. 3 carrier announced it would cut 4,000 jobs and close 8% of its stores after losing 683,000 postpaid subscribers and 202,000 prepaid users during the fourth quarter of last...
The Federal Communications Commission said 214 applicants qualified to bid in the 700 MHz auction set to begin Jan. 24. Internet search engine giant Google Inc. joins a mix of leading mobile-phone carriers, cable and satellite TV operators and rural telephone companies in competition...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. plans to begin offering service in Jacksonville, Fla., following the acquisition of 10 megahertz of Personal Communications Service (PCS) spectrum.The company said it will pay an undisclosed sum for the spectrum from PTA Communications Inc.; MetroPCS also agreed to buy network...
The Federal Communications Commission is facing a gathering legal storm over its emergency back-up power rule, with the mobile-phone industry asking a federal appeals court to put its legal challenge on a fast track and Sprint Nextel Corp. seeking to stay the effective date...
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced it will provide handsets to MetroPCS Communications Inc., making it the second Chinese handset vendor this month to do so.Huawei's M318 handset, a clamshell model, is the first in what is expected to be an array of its devices...
ZTE USA, the American face of the Chinese handset and network vendor, will begin supplying co-branded CDMA handsets to MetroPCS Communications Corp., which offers service to 3.7 million subscribers in major metro areas. The deal is ZTE's second to provide devices to an American...
The Federal Communications Commission said it received 266 applications for the 700 MHz auction, with small and rural telephone companies dominating a field that also includes leading mobile-phone operators, Google Inc., EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., and some surprises.
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Regional, flat-rate carrier MetroPCS Communications Inc. has brought Cellfire Inc. on deck to offer its subscribers direct access to mobile coupon and discount offers. Cellfire enables users to find and use deals that are delivered to their handsets."The addition of Cellfire mobile coupons and...
Leap Wireless International Inc. added fewer than 40,000 net new subscribers during the third quarter and its churn rate soared, while the flat-rate carrier's financial losses for the quarter expanded to more than $43 million.Leap had warned investors that its third quarter customer numbers...
RULES THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASIER for small businesses to bid for the D-Block license in the upcoming January auction are under attack from the three companies that have entangled the Federal Communications Commission in auctionrelated litigation since last year.Council Tree Communications Inc., Bethel...
The Federal Communications Commission's relaxation of the small-business bidding rule for the commercial-public safety D-Block license in the upcoming 700 MHz auction has come under another attack, this time by the same parties that have entangled the agency in auction-related litigation since last year.Council...
