Following months of speculation, sports entertainment company ESPN Inc. reported a deal with Sprint Corp. to begin offering ESPN-branded wireless services using Sprint PCS' network. The mobile virtual network operator agreement is expected to be similar to Sprint PCS' existing agreement with Virgin Mobile...
LONDON-I-mode services are coming to the competitive U.K. market, in addition to Ireland and the second such service in Germany, through a new deal between U.K.-based MmO2 plc and Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. Under the long-term strategic agreement, MmO2 will launch the i-mode mobile...
LONDON-U.K. fixed-line carrier British Telecommunications plc launched a mobile virtual network operator service for the corporate market, dumping its former wireless subsidiary MmO2 for rival carrier Vodafone U.K. as the wireless service supplier.BT Mobile, which has plans for a fully converged fixed and mobile...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering Monday, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company had initially expected to raise a total of $83.5 million.InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share Monday,...
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.-SmartServ Online Inc. will offer prepaid mobile phone service and handsets on Sprint PCS' nationwide network, the company announced Wednesday.SmartServ will launch the mobile virtual network operator service under the company's Uphonia brand on Sprint's network in the first quarter of 2005....
Following stronger-than-expected third-quarter growth results posted by seven of the nation's eight largest wireless operators late last month, a trio of smaller players posted mixed results last week. Meanwhile, a rural operator postponed its planned financial release, citing past accounting adjustments. Sprint PCS' largest...
Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a 13.2-percent drop in wireless segment revenues during the third quarter from $152 million in 2003 to $132 million this year. The company, which recently began offering nationwide wireless services using Sprint PCS' network through a mobile virtual network...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. began a new advertising campaign that includes links to recently acquired AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and represent the carrier's new position as the nation's largest wireless operator. The campaign, which was created by BBDO Atlanta and BBDO New York, is set...
OTTAWA-Virgin Mobile USA has licensed and implemented Bridgewater Systems' AAA Service Controller solution to support its high-speed data services rollout.The mobile virtual network operator will use the solution for its user management and mediation needs, including authentication, authorization and account management. Certain features of...
Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.'s $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Microcell Telecommunications Inc., Canada's smallest wireless operator, could propel Rogers Wireless past Bell Mobility as the nation's largest wireless operator with approximately 5.1 million total subscribers. The deal also trumps a long-standing unsolicited $800 million...
Regional telecommunications provider CenturyTel Inc. said it has entered into a reseller relationship with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow CenturyTel to provide wireless voice and text-messaging services as part of a bundled service offering. CenturyTel said it will be responsible for all marketing,...
Regional telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. expanded its nationwide wireless voice service to residential and small business customers in Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Clovis, N.M. Qwest said customers who select the new plans as part of their bundled telecom offerings would see additional...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Regional telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. expanded its nationwide wireless voice service to residential and small business customers in Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Clovis, N.M. Qwest said customers who select the new plans as part of their bundled telecommunications offerings would see...
Despite the continued financial uncertainty surrounding a number of Sprint PCS network partners, the carrier's largest affiliate by subscriber numbers-Alamosa Holdings Inc.-said last week it would be interested in further consolidation among the remaining affiliates.Speaking at the Raymond James Midwest Mini Conference in Chicago,...
Sprint Corp. announced a multiyear agreement with the country's eighth-largest cable operator Mediacom Communications Corp., enabling Mediacom to provide telephony services in nearly all of its markets currently covering 2.7 million homes in 23 states.The telephony services will initially use Sprint's wired network to...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and AT&T Corp. reported an agreement resolving issues related to the use of the AT&T brand in connection with Cingular's pending acquisition of AWS, as well as a provision for the purchase of AT&T network services by...
Qwest Communications International Inc. confirmed it has received anti-trust approval from the government for the $418 million sale of its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless. The sale, announced in June, includes Qwest's CDMA-based infrastructure and spectrum licenses covering 62 markets in the West and...
Qwest Communications International Inc. confirmed that it has received anti-trust approval from the federal government for the $418 million sale of its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless. The sale, which was announced in June, includes Qwest's CDMA-based network infrastructure and spectrum licenses covering 62...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-TDC, a Danish telecom carrier, said it will launch a mobile virtual network operator service in the United Kingdom in cooperation with U.K. company EasyGroup. The U.K. service will launch under the "easy" brand in the third quarter and is eventually planned for...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-TDC, a Danish telecom carrier, said it will launch a mobile virtual network operator service in the United Kingdom in cooperation with U.K. company EasyGroup. The U.K. service will launch under the "easy" brand in the third quarter and is eventually planned for...
The rush of companies joining the ranks of pseudo-wireless providers continued last week as mobile content and application provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced plans to begin offering its prepaid Uphonia wireless services using a yet-to-be named wireless operator's network. Unlike a number of companies...
Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a 16-percent drop in second-quarter wireless revenues from $153 million in 2003 to $128 million this year, despite what it claimed was an improvement in its wireless division, including a gain of 2,000 net subscribers that reversed its customer...
Qwest Communications International Inc. unveiled nationwide wireless voice services to residential and small-business customers in eight Oregon cities as part of its mobile virtual network operator agreement signed last year with Sprint PCS. The agreement allows Qwest to offer wireless service in markets where...
LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. has cut the price of its shares in its pending initial public offering by 20 percent due to "tough market conditions," according to international press reports.Virgin Mobile shares will now be priced between $3.70 and $4 rather than the original $4.35...
