WASHINGTON-The 800 MHz rebanding process may not be going as quickly as first hoped. The 800 MHz Transition Administrator recently told the Federal Communications Commission that there will be a significant number of incomplete agreements at the end of the negotiation process for Wave...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to use Attunity Ltd.'s data integration platform to provide seamless access to operational and call detail records for its voice network. The move is part of the carrier's zero-latency enterprise system.The system passes requests from external systems to Sprint...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to take a swipe at the success of Motorola Inc.'s super-slim Razr device by selling a similar slender gadget from rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Nicknamed the Blade, the Samsung A900 supports CDMA2000 1x EV-DO technology and features a...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. said it completed the redemption of $146.3 million aggregate principal amount at maturity of its 12.5 percent senior notes due Nov. 15, 2009. The carrier noted the total redemption price of $164.5 million including accrued interest was funded with available...
Global Signal Inc., the nation's third-largest tower company with around 11,000 towers, reported a third-quarter net loss of $15.4 million, or 23 cents per share. The numbers are a steep decline from the company's year-ago net income of $5.3 million, or 10 cents per...
WASHINGTON-Preferred Communications Systems Inc. is not giving up. The "non-Nextel" economic area 800 MHz licensee asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop the retuning process in the 800 MHz band."The FCC's authority for its rebanding process is premised upon its ability to provide all...
WASHINGTON-Lawmakers and homeland-security experts last week said the Bush administration lacks a plan to prioritize what critical infrastructure to protect-including wireless and other telecom networks-and that developing such a plan would require better sharing of information by federal, state and local authorities and the...
Nationwide wireless carriers received a big push from their smallest player as T-Mobile USA Inc. posted robust third-quarter financials that helped propel the group well beyond last year's growth. The industry's three largest operators were only slightly ahead of last year's growth before T-Mobile...
It appears the roller-coaster ride isn't over for Jamdat Mobile Inc. The wireless entertainment publisher celebrated its first full year on the Nasdaq last week, announcing third-quarter revenue that more than doubled from the year-ago period. Jamdat credited successful European launches of Tetris and...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. this week plans to launch a mobile radio service with more than three dozen channels of commercial-free streaming music.MobiTV Inc. is powering the service, dubbed MobiRadio. The service is available only on the Nokia 6620 but soon will be supported by...
WASHINGTON-California Public Utilities Service Commissioner Susan Kennedy could be forced to strengthen her proposal to overhaul the telecom consumer bill of rights before a scheduled vote next month, according to one of her fellow commissioners, Geoffrey Brown. Brown, a Democrat, whose bill of rights...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Visto Corp. hopes a whopping $70 million financing round can propel it to the forefront of the white-hot wireless e-mail space. The developer added to its already-fat wallet with the latest round, which was led by DFJ ePlanet Ventures. Current investors Draper...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-The Tier 1 carriers continued to move to universal multimedia messaging service interoperability this week as Verizon Wireless quietly became MMS-interoperable with Sprint Nextel Corp.'s iDEN network and T-Mobile USA Inc.Verizon Wireless subscribers can now exchange picture and video messages with users of...
WASHINGTON-Preferred Communications Systems Inc. is not giving up. Earlier this week the non-Nextel economic area 800 MHz licensee asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop the retuning of the 800 MHz band."The FCC's authority for its rebanding process is premised upon its ability to...
TOKYO-Japan hopes to stoke competition in its hard-to-penetrate mobile-phone market by allowing three new entrants to offer wireless services. The country's telecommunications ministry opened the door for Softbank Corp., eAccess Ltd. and IPMobile Inc. to introduce new wireless handsets and services. The new players...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Visto Corp. hopes a whopping $70 million financing round can propel it to the forefront of the white-hot wireless e-mail space.The developer added to its already-fat wallet with the latest round, which was led by DFJ ePlanet Ventures. Current investors Draper Fisher...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc., the nation's third largest tower company with around 11,000 towers, reported a third-quarter net loss of $15.4 million, or 23 cents per share. The numbers are a steep decline from the company's year-ago net income of $5.3 million, or 10...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. claims its recently launched CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network is now available in 141 markets covering more than 90 million potential customers, including more than 250 airports. The carrier added that the high-speed wireless data network is scheduled to cover...
LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint Nextel Corp.'s largest CDMA affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. posted a 65-percent jump in revenues during the third quarter from $211.4 million in 2004 to $349.4 million this year. The results were slightly below estimates of around $360 million in revenues during the...
IRVINE, Calif.-Boost Mobile L.L.C. launched a downloadable client that allows AOL, MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users to access the services from their handset. Montreal-based mobile IM developer Oz is powering the service, which is designed to duplicate the PC messaging experience from each service...
While most will busy themselves with decorations and gifts this holiday season, U.S. carriers and handset makers likely will be caught up in fierce battles over pricing, services and-ultimately-customers. As Halloween makes room for Thanksgiving, wireless executives need to gird themselves for perhaps the...
Regional carriers continued to bleed customers during the third quarter as more competition and evolving networks drove up churn for a number of operators Dobson Communications Corp., SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. and Rural Cellular Corp. all posted significant customer losses during the quarter, echoing...
Sprint Nextel Corp. took a significant step in fulfilling chief executive Gary Forsee's plans to expand the carrier's reach into other media distribution channels, and at the same time may have altered the balance of the wireless industry. Following months of speculation, Sprint Nextel...
SAN DIEGO-Two Asian carriers announced plans to launch CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev A networks by the end of next year-LG Telecom, a small Korean carrier, and KDDI Corp., Japan's second-largest carrier and the country's sole CDMA operator. Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless and U.S....
