TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones anywhere in Canada and the United States. The messages are then converted to voice and can be delivered in English...
Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones anywhere in Canada and the United States. The messages are then converted to voice and can be delivered in English...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. said its independent committee of directors has called the plan to take Rogers Wireless private "fair and reasonable" to minority shareholders of the Canadian wireless carrier following its review. Parent company Rogers Communications Inc. has proposed to buy all the...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. said its Rogers Wireless Inc. subsidiary is launching a $2.35 billion private placement of fixed and floating rate senior secured notes and fixed rate senior subordinated notes. RWI said it expects to use proceeds for the offering...
TORONTO-Canadian communications and media company Rogers Communications Inc. said it will launch an exchange offer for all of the outstanding Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. class B restricted voting shares owned by the public. The offer calls for 1.75 class B non-voting shares to be...
Canadian communications and media company Rogers Communications Inc. said it will launch an exchange offer for all of the outstanding Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. class B restricted voting shares owned by the public. The offer calls for 1.75 class B non-voting shares to be...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it has completed the sale of its 34-percent interest in Canadian wireless operator Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. to Rogers Communications Inc. for $1.35 billion. The sale included 48.6 million class B restricted voting shares for a cash price...
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...
Canadian wireless operator Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. said it has filed a request with the Canadian Competition Bureau for an advanced ruling certificate and a short form pre-merger notification relating to a possible offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of rival Microcell...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that it has reached an agreement with Rogers Communications Inc. to sell its 34-percent interest in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. for $1.372 billion. The transaction will be made through AWS' JVII general partnership and includes 27.6 million Class A...
TORONTO-Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it has entered into a letter of agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to facilitate the possible sale of AWS' 34-percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. The sale is related to AWS' pending acquisition by Cingular...
Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it has entered into a letter of agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to facilitate the possible sale of AWS' 34-percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. The sale is related to AWS' pending acquisition by Cingular...
With its pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. making its way through various governmental regulators and a final approval not yet certain, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued signing deals last week with AWS affiliates that will clear the way for Cingular to continue to...
TORONTO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. neglected to sell its 34-percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. by Sunday night's deadline.AWS earlier declined to accept a $1.15 billion bid from the Canadian wireless company's parent Rogers Communications Inc. for the stake. Rogers Communications retains rights of...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless announced it will use picture messaging software from LightSurf Technologies Inc. Canada's Bell Mobility and U.S. wireless carrier Sprint PCS also use LightSurf software."We are thrilled to advance our leadership position in outsourced MMSC solutions with partners like...
TORONTO-Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it received a notice from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on its intent to "explore options to monitize its stake" in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc., which currently consists of 48.6 million class A multiple voting shares and class...
NEW YORK-Following its announcement that stakeholder AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it planned to explore options for its interest in Rogers Wireless Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed a 'BB+' long-term corporate credit rating and CreditWatch with negative implications on Canadian telecommunications provider...
Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it received a notice from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on its intent to "explore options to monitize its stake" in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc., which currently consists of 48.6 million class A multiple voting shares and class...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Canadian operator Rogers Wireless Communications Inc., which operates as Rogers AT&T Wireless, launched a cross-border North American Corporate Digital Advantage program designed to provide businesses that are customers of both carriers with seamless access to ordering wireless services...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Inc. named Joseph Chesham president of the carrier's Ontario region where he will be responsible for all sales, distribution, service and regional marketing activities.
TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers Wireless Inc. appointed Jean Laporte president of its Eastern Region where he will be responsible for all sales, distribution, customer service and local marketing activities across Quebec and Atlantic Canada.Laporte was national vice president of sales for Microcell Solutions' Fido...
TORONTO-Ericsson Canada Inc. said it had renewed an agreement with Rogers AT&T Wireless Inc. to provide network equipment for the carrier's GSM and TDMA networks.The three-year deal includes Ericsson's Mini-Link microwave product, the rollout of 850 MHz GSM/GPRS capability, EDGE enhancements to the network...
LAS VEGAS-Known as the two-headed monster of the personal computing industry by the nickname Wintel, the heads of Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. made special mention of the importance wireless technology will play in the future of consumer electronics during their respective keynote speeches...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications reported its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit operating profit, with a 31-percent increase to C$158.2 million (US$100.6 million) from C$123.8 million (US$78.8 million) a year earlier.The strong results for the third quarter prompted Rogers Wireless to increase its operating profit guidance...
