Nextel Communications Inc. affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. completed its 30,000-square-foot customer care center expansion in Panama City Beach, Fla., which the carrier said would help support its rapid growth. The expansion is located adjacent to the carrier's existing 65,000-square-foot center that opened in 2002....
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau Wednesday granted Nextel Partners Inc. eligible telecommunications carrier status, making it eligible to receive universal-service subsidies for the customers it serves in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia."Nextel's universal service offering will provide a variety of...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business said it will provide Nextel Communications Inc.'s Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry 7510 handheld devices to its 400 full-time MBA students at the start of the fall 2004 semester. The school noted...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Communications Inc. affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. reported the completion of its 30,000-square-foot customer care center expansion in Panama City Beach, Fla., which the carrier said would help support its rapid growth. The expansion is located adjacent to the carrier's existing 65,000-square-foot center...
WASHINGTON-The official wireless world was strangely silent last week with everyone from Nextel Communications Inc. to Verizon Wireless refusing to say what happens now that the Federal Communications Commission has released the details of its plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. today announced said Madison Dearborn Partners will sell 6 million shares of Nextel Partners' Class A common stock. These shares, which were originally purchased by Madison Dearborn Partners in January 1999, represent approximately one-third of the company's aggregate holdings of...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and its affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. signed a 10-year agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide wireless service at 15 TVA public utility facilities in three states. The agreement includes the installation of in-building wireless coverage and enhanced outdoor...
Verizon Wireless added some much-needed fuel to a rather bleak-looking second quarter last week as the nation's largest carrier posted an industry-record 1.5 million net customer additions during the quarter and blew past the 40-million total-subscriber mark. With just T-Mobile USA Inc. left to...
Continuing what it claims is its 18th consecutive quarter of exceeding analysts' expectations, Nextel Partners Inc. said it added 92,000 net customers during the second quarter, ending the first half of this year with more than 1.4 million total subscribers. Analysts expected the Nextel...
While wireless broadband technologies stir some excitement around both service providers and vendors, rural carriers are likely to take the most advantage of them in the short run as the business model catches on with the big operators in the wireline and wireless spheres,...
High-profile nationwide carriers and niche-focused mobile virtual network operators are not the only wireless service providers that stand to benefit from specific marketing geared toward the highly desirable youth market. A survey released last week by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and the Foundation...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. joins Nextel Communications Inc. in offering a mobile phone-based global positioning system service through a deal with Televigation. The service offers location-based driving directions and points of interest."This is another example of the added efficiency and value Nextel Partners provides...
A pair of carriers shared the top spot in N. Moore Capital Ltd.'s ranking of 20 North American wireless operators' first-quarter financial results as Verizon Wireless and Canadian operator Telus Mobility both posted the lowest overall score and soundly outpaced the competition. The first-place...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. reported the expiration and final settlement of the tender offer for its 11-percent senior notes due 2010, noting it had accepted for purchase approximately $355.8 million aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes representing 99.68 percent of the total principal...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Rating Services assigned its 'B+' bank loan rating and a '3' recovery rating to Nextel Partners Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary Nextel Partners Operating Corp. $800 million senior secured credit facility. S&P also assigned a 'B-' rating to Nextel Partners' $25...
Nextel Partners Inc. said it has accepted for purchase approximately $352.5 million aggregate principal amount of outstanding 11-percent senior notes due 2010, representing approximately 98.8 percent of the total principal amount of the notes. The carrier paid $1,123.44 per $1,000 principal value at maturity...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
While there may be a lack of visual similarities, John Stanton's career in the wireless industry has nearly mirrored John Travolta's stardom in Hollywood. Both came out of nowhere at an early age to make an enormous impact-Travolta with "Saturday Night Fever" in the...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. reported $4.7 million in net income during the first quarter of the year or a return of 2 cents per share, which the carrier noted was its first quarter of positive net income and a dramatic increase compared with the...
Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, analysts note the cost of acquiring and servicing those subscribers has to be weighed...
The liberation of wireless local number portability is scheduled to sweep across the nation May 24 as carriers serving markets outside of the already WLNP-enabled top 100 markets will be required to allow wireless consumers to keep their phone numbers when switching carriers. While...
Verizon Wireless ended 2003 in the same position as it began the year, as both the nation's largest carrier as well as the highest ranked wireless provider based on five operating metrics measured by N. Moore Capital Ltd. during the fourth quarter. The rankings...
Nextel Partners Inc. said it plans to open at least 30 new retail stores this year to keep up with demand for its services and to build on the 40 retail outlets the carrier has opened during the past two years. "As demand...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. said it plans to open at least 30 new retail stores this year to keep up with demand for its services, and building on the 40 retail outlets the carrier has opened over the past two years. "As demand continues...
