WASHINGTON-East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative located in Northeast Iowa said that as of last Monday it was no longer going to allow wireless calls to connect to its network because it has not received payment for the calls."When people use our facilities, we should get...
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...
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...
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...
Former Qwest Wireless Chief Financial Officer Michael Felicissimo was sued this week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for providing it with materially false and misleading financial statements.According to the SEC, parent company Qwest Communications International Inc. improperly recognized $112 million in revenue...
With a customer base of more than 40 million subscribers and nearly 500,000 new customers added each month, Verizon Wireless has firmly established itself as the leading wireless carrier in the country. If it can maintain that growth through the rest of the year,...
NextWave Telecom Inc.'s highly anticipated attempt to auction a half-dozen spectrum licenses fell short of expectations as the bankrupt license holder managed to generate only $973.5 million in winning bids.The final prices included a minimum winning bid of $930 million for 10 megahertz of...
In a move expected to bolster its spectrum position and coverage in the western United States, Verizon Wireless reported late last week that it had agreed to acquire Qwest Communications International Inc.'s wireless assets, including spectrum and network infrastructure for $418 million. Analysts noted...
The high-speed wireless data field is filling up with contestants as most of the country's larger operators have announced plans to deploy services that in some cases will open up the door to additional competition from companies that either have resale agreements for wireless...
In a move that could relieve its spectrum needs ahead of upcoming auctions by NextWave Telecom Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission, Verizon Wireless reported a definitive agreement to purchase Qwest Communications International Inc.'s wireless assets for $418 million. The purchase price is well...
Capitalizing on the growing interest in wireless broadband services. BellSouth Corp. has launched a wireless router product as part of its business broadband portfolio that will integrate a DSL modem and router into a single device with the option of wired or wireless Internet...
NextWave Telecom Inc., at one point a symbol of all that could go wrong with government auctions, is hoping to use an auction to its advantage.Less than two months after reaching an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to give back a majority of...
EDINBURG, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. reported that its wireless subsidiary and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. signed an addendum to its management and services agreement with Sprint. The addendum gives Sprint more flexibility in the negotiation of nationwide reseller agreements...
Rural telecommunications provider Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. reported that its wireless subsidiary and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. signed an addendum to its management and services agreement with Sprint. The addendum gives Sprint more flexibility in the negotiation of nationwide reseller agreements in...
Government approval of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s proposed $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has never really been in doubt, predictable consumer-group opposition notwithstanding.Now it is a near certainty. A veritable cakewalk. A done deal. The Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission can...
Mobile virtual network operator agreements sprung up on both sides of the Atlantic this morning, with two wireline providers overlooking their former wireless subsidiaries for the partnerships. AT&T Corp. reported a deal with Sprint Corp. to sell AT&T-branded wireless service during the next five...
DENVER-Following a slower-than-expected transition of its wireless customers to Sprint PCS' network as part of a mobile virtual network operator agreement announced last year, Qwest Communications International Inc. posted a 17.4-percent year-over-year drop in its wireless customer base from 988,000 customers at the end...
SEATTLE-Annette M. Jacobs has been named president and chief executive officer of SafeHarbor Technology Corp. where she will be responsible for setting the strategic growth course of the company.Jacobs most recently was president and corporate vice president of Qwest Communications International Inc.'s consumer markets...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said it will begin offering all new digital subscriber line customers and small business subscribers a Wi-Fi-capable DSL model that the telecommunications provider said would save customers approximately $50 on their Wi-Fi network setup costs because the solution does not...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Semotus Solutions, which provides software for mobile enterprise applications, deployed its HipLinkXS wireless messaging software into Dex Media, a directory publishing company being spun off from Qwest Communications.Dex Media will use the HipLinkXS as the wireless alert notification component of its network...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. launched its nationwide wireless voice service for residential and small business customers as part of its network-sharing agreement announced last year with Sprint PCS. Qwest said its nationwide plans start at $25 per month for 200 anytime calling minutes when...
After nearly six years of semi-autonomous trading on the open markets, Sprint Corp. decided last week to rein in its wayward wireless division by folding in Sprint PCS' tracking stock under the company's wireline-based FON common stock symbol. Sprint PCS' stock has been trading...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said that later this week it will become the first telecommunications service provider to offer customers stand-alone DSL service."Customers are telling us that they want greater flexibility when it comes to selecting communications services," said Richard Notebaert, Qwest's chairman and...
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...
