WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that could benefit the wireless industry.Mountain Communications Inc., a Colorado paging carrier, had challenged the FCC's dismissal of an interconnection complaint...
WASHINGTON-Two months after the long-awaited wireless local number portability rules became effective, signs continue to point that porting phone numbers is still not a smooth transition.After spending several years of foot-dragging, the wireless industry-with prodding from the Federal Communications Commission-did a major media push...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here has ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that may not necessarily benefit the wireless industry.Mountain Communications Inc., a Colorado paging carrier, challenged the FCC's dismissal of an...
The latest issue of Consumer Reports, published by nonprofit Consumers Union, comes down hard on the wireless industry in its annual wireless consumer review, referred to facetiously as an "Annual Address on the State of Consumer's Cell Hell," by Jim Guest, president and chief...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. is expected to launch VoIP consumer telephone service next week in select Minnesota markets allowing customers to move their current voice traffic from traditional telecommunications lines to less-expensive, high-speed Internet lines.Qwest has reportedly signed up customers for the service and...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court panel signaled it was prepared to send back to the Federal Communications Commission an interconnection decision with far-reaching implications for the wireless industry, but the agency could use a legal defeat to revise its policy in such a way that...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Qwest Communications Inc. plans to deploy the Accelerate voice over Internet Protocol solutions the vendor just introduced for mobile and wireline service providers for voice, data and multimedia services.Lucent said its solutions will support the convergence of traditional...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Qwest Communications Inc. plans to deploy the Accelerate voice over Internet Protocol solutions the vendor just introduced for mobile and wireline service providers for voice, data and multimedia services.Lucent said its solutions will support the convergence of traditional...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. reported its wireless operations posted a 15.1-percent drop in revenues from $179 million during the third quarter of 2002 to $152 million this year. The decrease was attributed to both a year-over-year loss in customers from 1.1 million last year...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Monday said wireline carriers must port customers' telephone numbers to wireless carriers even if the wireless carrier does not have a switch in the wireline carrier's rate center, but the FCC is seeking comment on how to make it possible...
UbiquiTel Inc. said it has reached a three-year agreement with network partner Sprint PCS covering a number of inter-carrier issues, including roaming, reseller and back-office rates that UbiquiTel noted would provide immediate savings to its cost structure.The agreement calls for UbiquiTel to continue to...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives last week passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003 by voice vote. "While most state governments tax cell-phone users for upgrades and implementation of enhanced 911 services, that money often has been diverted for other uses. The E911 bill gives...
Sprint PCS president Len Lauer said the carrier expects its upcoming Ready Link push-to-talk service will be competitive with Verizon Wireless's current offering, though would still fall short of the sub-one-second call latency provided by Nextel Communications Inc. Direct Connect service."I feel fairly good...
The last of the six nationwide wireless operators reported second-quarter results last week as German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG released results for T-Mobile USA Inc. that showed a dramatic drop-off in customer growth compared with the first three months of this year, but...
Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. reported $66 million in total revenues during the recently completed second quarter, a 23-percent increase compared with the $53.6 million the carrier reported last year. The carrier added that roaming revenues dropped 9 percent year-over-year. Net losses improved from...
More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS that calls for Qwest to transition its nearly 1 million wireless subscribers to Sprint...
Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million potential customers from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. for $1.4 billion.The official announcement, which was strangely similar to a...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. and Touch America Holdings Inc. reported an agreement in principle to continue to provide services between the companies that maintain service quality and reliability for Qwest and Touch America customers during Touch America's bankruptcy proceeding.The agreement calls for Qwest to...
DENVER-Embattled telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. reported $152 million in wireless operating revenue during the first quarter of 2003, which was a 19.1-percent drop compared with the $188 million the company reported for the first quarter of 2002.Contributing to the drop in operating...
Qwest Communications International Inc. reported the Securities and Exchange Commission has expanded its investigation into the telecommunication provider's accounting practices, and the company will restate more than $2.2 billion in sales of optical network capacity, equipment and services for its 2000 and 2001 fiscal...
Embattled telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. reported $152 million in wireless operating revenue during the first quarter of 2003, which was a 19.1-percent drop compared with the $188 million the company reported for the first quarter of 2002.Contributing to the drop in operating...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said it will not file its 2002 10-K form on time due to its current work with external auditor KPMG L.L.P. on restating its 2001 and 2000 financial statements. Qwest noted it filed 12b-25 forms indicating the delayed filing, but...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Based on a new survey of the online customer care offerings of 500 companies, including 22 telecom service and equipment providers, The Customer Respect Group found one-third don't respond to inquiries sent to their Web sites, while half respond within 48 hours.The research...
