Midwest Wireless has launched its CDMA2000 1x digital network in 17 counties in Iowa. Midwest Wireless has 28,000 customers in the counties, which the carrier acquired when it purchased Cellcom's wireless network there in October. Following the acquisition, Midwest Wireless said it would invest...
Midwest Wireless has launched its CDMA2000 1x digital network in 17 counties in Iowa.Midwest Wireless has 28,000 customers in the counties, which the carrier acquired when it purchased Cellcom's wireless network there in October. Following the acquisition, Midwest Wireless said it would invest $3.9...
U.S. Cellular Corp. received mixed messages from debt rating agencies as Fitch Ratings affirmed the carrier's 'A-' senior unsecured debt rating and 'BBB+' subordinated debt rating, while Moody's Investors Services downgraded the carrier's senior long-term debt rating from A3 to Baa1 and its subordinated...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a range of entertainment applications and communications services on its recently deployed CDMA2000 1x network using Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform.The applications will include games like Fury of the Hulk, Jamdat Bowling, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six and Tetris;...
MANKATO, Minn.-Regional wireless operator Midwest Wireless said it has reached the 300,000-subscriber milestone."It's just amazing that what started about 13 years ago as an idea for connecting rural Minnesota has grown to all this," said Dennis Miller, president and chief executive officer of Midwest...
MANKATO, Minn.-Two and a half years after hitting the 200,000 customer mark, regional wireless operator Midwest Wireless said it has reached the 300,000-subscriber milestone."It's just amazing that what started about 13 years ago as an idea for connecting rural Minnesota has grown to all...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a trial high-speed wireless network in a Mankato, Minn., Bagel Bros. Restaurant providing customers with Internet access.The free trial service uses Midwest Wireless' 256K Small Business service offering and can be accessed using either Wi-Fi-enabled computers or...
MANKATO, Minn.-Regional wireless carrier Midwest Wireless announced it deployed wireless data services that include XML and Web services through a new deal with PolarLake."This project furthers Midwest Wireless' efforts to deliver leading-edge data services to our 250,000 subscribers," said Dennis Miller the carrier's president...
Wireless local loop continues to make a strong showing in its "classic" form in various parts of the world, particularly in India and South America, but in the United States, WLL is limited to small pockets of rural areas where the distance to the...
LAS VEGAS-With company names based more on family names or regions of the country instead of original creations brewed up by marketing experts, members of the Rural Cellular Association last week held their Ninth Annual Convention and Exhibition in the city of excess, Las...
If we applied human attributes to mobile location services, they would be in preschool today, learning and acquiring the skills they will need to have a long and successful life in a world where bigger and tougher kids are always around the corner.While still...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. announced it signed contracts with seven wireless operators to facilitate and manage their worldwide roaming agreements.The operators include Appalachian Wireless, Bell Mobility, BellSouth Cellular, First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Iusacell of Mexico, Midwest Wireless and U.S. Cellular.GTE TSI said...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. and Midwest Wireless are collaborating with Minnesota State University, Mankato, to create a model wireless campus.MSU will act as a wireless learning environment and a research and testing ground for future wireless professionals by enabling students to perform daily tasks using...
Large carriers across the country are painstakenly trying to determine what wireless Internet service offerings will attract customers. Surprisingly, some small and rural carriers are on the same page.Smaller operators historically have followed the coattails of their metropolitan counterparts when it comes to deploying...
DALLAS-Preferred Voice Inc. announced an agreement to install its Voice Integrated Platform System in the network control center of Midwest Wireless L.L.C., a privately held wireless services provider in Mankato, Minn.Using Preferred Voice's technology, Midwest Wireless will offer Safety Talk hands-free voice dialing services...
WASHINGTON-While it may not be an auctionwide pattern, bidders on the largest basic trading areas (ranked by pop) in the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction tend to be the heavy financial hitters, even if some of the prices being offered do...
Dennis Miller is the new president of Midwest Wireless Communications, the company taking over management of Cellular 2000. The transition between MWC and Cellular 2000's current management company, Pacific Telecom Cellular, is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Miller will...
Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established telecom heavy hitters-are taking advantage of this last big sale of spectrum. Even though...
