WASHINGTON, D.C.-Federal anti-trust officials have opted not to take any action against Sprint Nextel Corp's acquisition of the carrier's largest CDMA affiliate, Alamosa Holdings Inc. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave notice that the officials had completed their examination of the transaction and made...
EDINBURG, Va.-Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. and Sprint Nextel Corp. agreed to extend a mutual agreement to avoid litigation until they can work out a management agreement that takes Sprint Corp.'s acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. into account. The two companies entered into the agreement...
ANDOVER, Mass.-Groove Mobile music service is partnering with Telecom New Zealand to power the carrier's nationwide music service, the Telecom Music Store. Subscribers will be able to download songs from the mobile store via the Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. 9000 handset, which comes with...
VANCOUVER, B.C.-Sierra Wireless Inc. unveiled a new embedded laptop card ready to operate on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network. The Sierra Wireless MC5720 PCI Express Mini Card is the first product in Sierra's "mini card" series, designed for integration into laptop computers...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Sprint Nextel Corp. will purchase the 68 percent of Nextel Partners Inc. it does not currently control for $6.5 billion, the two companies announced today. Nextel Partners had the right to require Sprint Nextel to buy the remaining interest of the company that...
TORONTO-Bell Canada launched a full track music download service powered by Groove Mobile, which also enables a similar service recently launched by Sprint Nextel Corp. Bell Canada said consumers are charged $2.58 per song and that the service is available using the Samsung Electronics...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will acquire Velocita Wireless through a stock purchase agreement, and that the national carrier will begin using some of Velocita's 900 MHz spectrum to supplement coverage of the iDEN network acquired with Nextel Communications Inc. Terms of the...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it entered into a new 5-year, $6 billion revolving credit facility and a new 364-day $3.2 billion term loan. The new credit facilities replace Nextel Communications Inc.'s previous $4 billion revolving credit facility and $2.2 billion term loan. Sprint...
The wave of litigation in the mobile e-mail space continued last week as Visto Corp. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. Visto claims the software giant violated three patents relating to wireless synchronization, managing and securing data between servers and handheld devices. The...
Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including the assumption of debt.The move is the latest in a string of affiliate acquisitions in the wake of Sprint Corp.'s purchase...
WASHINGTON-Public-safety network operators should consider partnerships with commercial wireless businesses, said Timothy Donahue, executive chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. and NRIC VII chairman. Acting as chairman of the FCC's Network Reliability & Interoperability Council, it was the only time Donahue questioned a presenter at...
WASHINGTON-The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gutted Minnesota's wireless consumer-protection law, defeating Attorney General Mike Hatch (D) and handing the mobile-phone industry a major legal victory at a time of increasing state intervention into the wireless business. In reversing a lower court, the...
With Alltel Corp.'s announcement last week that it would spin off its wireline business and merge it with Valor Communications Group, the nation's fifth-largest carrier is on its way to becoming purely a wireless player in an increasingly consolidated mobile marketplace. The declaration had...
Some text messages to Santa were sent to my phone by mistake. Someone somewhere is going to get into big trouble. Anyway, here's a sampling of what wireless executives are hoping for this holiday season.Dear Santa Claus,Please give some direction to the FCC's wireless...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. last week made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch. The carrier is offering a range of postpaid calling services, including an unlimited calling option and push-to-talk capabilities, as well as a trio of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO handsets....
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, featuring two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO. HBO Mobile and HBO Family Mobile plan to include clips and select episodes from HBO cartoon and sports programs, as...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including the assumption of debt. The move is the latest in a string of affiliate acquisitions in the wake of Sprint...
WASHINGTON-Public safety should consider partnerships with commercial wireless, said Timothy Donahue, executive chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. and NRIC VII chairman. Acting as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission's Network Reliability & Interoperability Council, it was the only time Donahue questioned a presenter at...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc., the nation's third-largest tower company, declared a fourth-quarter dividend of 50 cents per share on its common stock.The dividend payment underscores a significant financial improvement compared with the third-quarter when the company reported a net loss of $15.4 million, or...
Cingular unveils CingularVideo with HBO showsNEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced today that it will launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, and that the service will feature two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO.HBO Mobile and HBO Family Mobile plan to...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The wave of litigation in the mobile e-mail space continued as Visto Corp. filed a patent-infringement suit against Microsoft Corp. Visto claims the software giant violated three patents relating to synchronizing and managing data between servers and handheld mobile devices. The move...
By Alice Z. CuneoSAN FRANCISCO-In an effort to harness mobile phone TV as a major branded entertainment medium, Jeep is launching its own mobile phone channel with MobiTV.The content is available to about 500,000 subscribers using Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corp., Alltel Corp....
WASHINGTON-The 2 GHz spectrum band is becoming ground zero as the Federal Communications Commission attempts to promote third-generation wireless phone, broadband and mobile satellite services without trampling spectrum rights of incumbents in the band or undermining the very wireless policy objectives it seeks to...
Promises fulfilled was the message from Cingular Wireless L.L.C. as the industry's largest operator announced the launch of its UMTS/HSDPA network-dubbed BroadbandConnect-in 16 U.S. markets. The carrier has been touting plans to launch the high-speed wireless data network in between 15 and 20 markets...
