Nextel Communications Inc. filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission disputing NextWave Telecom Inc.'s and Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s plans seeking a waiver concerning $170 million in interest on 34 C- and F-block PCS licenses Cingular is attempting to acquire from NextWave for $1.4 billion.Nextel...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. for the first time reported financial results separate from its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. Cingular reported net subscriber additions of 745,000 for the third quarter, bringing its nationwide customer base to 23.4 million. Gross subscriber additions were...
WASHINGTON-A think tank funded by the wireless industry and other tech sectors today warned in a new study that U.S. cellular subscribers could pay over $16 billion a year-or about $10 per month extra-to pay for taxes and regulations imposed on the wireless industry....
WASHINGTON-Commerce Department Deputy Secretary Samuel Bodman in June was urged by government investigators to take administrative action against then-Bush telecom advisor Nancy Victory for ethics violations connected with a 2001 party thrown for her by wireless lobbyists in advance of a major regulatory ruling,...
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom said it expects customer churn from its T-Mobile USA Inc. operations to increase during the current third quarter due to expiring one-year contracts from its launch in California and Nevada last summer.A DT spokesman said the company expects T-Mobile...
Often seen as lacking a strong next-generation wireless data roadmap, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has began to nudge its way up the wireless data ranks thanks to the continued strength of its Mobitex network, the pursuit of spectrum to support high-speed services and partnerships with...
ATLANTA-Reinforcing its relationship with parent companies BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its FastForward device that allows wireless customers to automatically forward unlimited calls from their mobile devices to their landline telephone numbers. The service, which requires a $40 cradle...
WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month's end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split on competing legislation to repeal tax breaks for U.S. exporters.The export subsidy issue directly impacts Motorola Inc., the nation's top...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will challenge a record $12 million fine levied by the California Public Utilities Commission for violating state telecom laws.Cingular, jointly owned by SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., said it was appalled and shocked by the decision. "Even a...
Reinforcing its relationship with parent companies BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its FastForward device that allows wireless customers to automatically forward unlimited calls from their mobile devices to their landline telephone numbers. The service, which requires a $40 cradle...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Aug. 18 officially announced that former Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.) will replace Thomas Wheeler as president and chief executive officer effective Nov. 1."After an exhaustive search, it became clear that Steve Largent was the right person for the...
The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...
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...
SBC Communications Inc. said it plans to deploy more than 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in 6,000 venues during the next three years and create an integrated Wi-Fi and next-generation wireless service with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow customers to move between the Wi-Fi...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Building on a resale agreement announced earlier this year with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., AT&T Corp. launched its AT&T One program allowing customers to combine their wireline and wireless calling services and use unlimited night and weekend calling minutes from either offering.AT&T said...
Building on a resale agreement announced earlier this year with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., AT&T Corp. launched its AT&T One program allowing customers to combine their wireline and wireless calling services and use unlimited night and weekend calling minutes from either offering.AT&T said the...
WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc.'s proposed $144 million sale of fixed wireless assets to Nextel Communications Inc. potentially faces far more obstacles than initially thought, a situation that a federal bankruptcy judge is set to address at a hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez...
WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said the telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3...
WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3 million...
Verizon Communications Inc.'s Verizon Avenue subsidiary is set to further blur the line between wireline and wireless communications when it launches its Verizon One service next year. The service will integrate cordless and cellular capabilities into a single handset with one telephone number.Verizon Avenue...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will partner with its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to offer residential customers a single bucket of share-calling minutes between their wireline and wireless phones later this year. Cingular said the MinuteShare service would include a...
Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to residential long-distance customers in select markets beginning this summer."This combined wireless and wireline calling...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe."We know we are going to pursue the public hot spot arena aggressively, and we are now in the final stages of figuring out the fastest,...
SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe, according to a CNET report. Coe said the company is shopping around for equipment for public hot spots that will allow SBC customers to access the...
