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T-Mobile USA expects continued growth, 3G rollout next year

Despite increasing competition and spectrum concerns, T-Mobile USA Inc. said it expects to continue posting around 1 million net customer additions per quarter through the rest of 2005, and with the help of upcoming spectrum auctions to begin rolling out next-generation services by the...

T-Mobile USA expects continued growth, 3G rollout next year

Despite increasing competition and spectrum concerns T-Mobile USA Inc. said it expects to continue posting around 1 million net customer additions per quarter through the rest of 2005 and with the help of upcoming spectrum auctions begin rolling out next-generation services by the end...

Regional carriers put up strong customer growth

The industry's heavyweights are not the only wireless operators benefiting from the recent consumer surge. A handful of regional operators posted first-quarter results that included generally strong customer growth numbers as well as improving financial metrics. Western Wireless Corp.Posted a company record 58,600 domestic...

SunCom 1Q net loss nearly double 2004 figure

Regional wireless provider SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc., which formerly changed its name from Triton PCS Holdings Inc. earlier this month, said it added 9,382 subscribers during the first quarter of this year and ended the quarter with 961,127 total subscribers. The first-quarter customer growth...

States rights vs. federal rule

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry increasingly finds itself like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, drawn into courts, public utility commissions and other bodies around the country to fight new state taxes, regulations and consumer lawsuits. The carriers' defiant defense in many...

CTIA requests protection from early-termination-fee class actions

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a ruling that would shield mobile-phone carriers in the future from class-action lawsuits challenging early termination fees assessed against subscribers who break their contracts with service providers. CTIA, the national cell-phone trade group, said...

Cingular takes over SunCom Va. markets

RICHMOND, Va.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. expanded service to western, central and southern Virginia, including the markets of Norfolk, Richmond and Roanoke.The nation's largest carrier added former customers of regional carrier SunCom, and the move gives Cingular presence in the top 100 U.S. markets. The operator...

Triton, SouthernLinc aim to keep customers close with branding efforts

The Southeast is in for a pair of new branding efforts from regional operators looking to reposition their brands in an ever-changing industry. Triton PCS Inc.'s SunCom Wireless brand and SouthernLinc are each launching ad campaigns geared to reaching new customers as well as...

Triton to stress SunCom brand

RICHMOND, Va.-Triton PCS Inc., which recently negotiated itself out of an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliation following Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s acquisition of AWS late last year, launched a new advertising campaign that the carrier said would stress its SunCom brand and include a "Truth...

Cingular divests markets as part of AWS buy

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued the business of integrating AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with a pair of deals to sell spectrum and wireless assets designed to comply with government divestiture requests related to the merger. The first deal was with Alltel Corp. and calls for...

Cingular Wireless raises expectations

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. provided a financial update of its acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., highlighted by expectations of between $3.6 billion and $5 billion in cost savings from the deal by 2007, which is nearly double the $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion the...

Triton loses subscribers, plans to buy Urban assets

Former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it lost 19,211 subscribers during the third quarter as the carrier was hit by an increase in customer churn that it associated with AWS' recently completed acquisition by Cingular Wireless L.L.C. Triton noted...

Triton PCS loses subscribers, acquires Urban Comm

Former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it lost 19,211 subscribers during the third quarter of this year as the carrier was hit by an increase in customer churn that it associated with AWS' recently completed acquisition by Cingular Wireless...

Intellisync partnership brings synch to Danger users

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intellisync Corp.'s synchronization technology is now available through Triton PCS-operating under the SunCom brand name in the southeastern United States-Cable & Wireless in the Caribbean, Germany's E-Plus and Austria's ONE, as a result of its partnership with Danger Inc.The technology, offered with...

Cingular, AWS, Triton swap assets ahead of heavyweights’ merger

Tying up one of the loose ends caused by Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the companies announced a multi-faceted deal with Triton PCS Holdings Inc. that will free Cingular of AWS' non-compete clause with Triton, and in turn, cut...

Cingular to swap assets with Triton PCS

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. tied up one of the loose ends to its pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by announcing a deal with AWS affiliate Triton PCS Inc. to swap assets in a handful of markets. The deal also will back AWS out...

Cingular banks on AWS with $41B buy

In addition to propelling the combined entity past Verizon Wireless as the nation's largest wireless carrier, Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s successful $41 billion acquisition of smaller rival AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to have an enormous impact on many of its competitors as well...

AT&T Wireless, Triton PCS renew brand agreement

BERWYN, Pa.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it has renewed its current agreement with AT&T Wireless and AT&T Corp. to continue to use the AT&T brand name for one year until Feb. 4, 2005. The agreement was also amended to...

GW Briefs

GERMANYU.S. company Danger Inc. announced its first European customer, reporting German operator E-Plus will soon launch Danger's Hiptop device. The German carrier also plans to offer an unlimited data plan that will enable customers to use the phone's e-mail, Internet and instant messaging features...

Triton PCS sells Hiptops under SunCom brand

BERWYN, Pa.-Southeastern wireless carrier Triton PCS said it is now selling Danger Inc.'s monochrome screen Hiptop device under its SunCom-branded service.Triton said the device is currently available at SunCom retail store locations in Norfolk, Richmond and Fredericksburg, Va., with other locations to follow. Triton...

Triton PCS renews Convergys customer care contract

CINNCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced the renewal of a three-year customer care contract with Triton PCS. Convergys said it will continue to supplement Triton PCS' customer care operations in Richmond, Va., and Charleston, S.C., during peak calling periods, assisting with new account activations, change of address...

Triton PCS narrows loss

BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. posted $194.7 million in total revenues for the third quarter, a 31-percent increase from the $148.8 million the carrier reported for the same quarter last year. Net losses also dropped from $47 million last year, a loss of 72...

Metro One loses Cingular, adds AT&T Wireless as customer

PORTLAND, Ore.-Enhanced directory assistance provider Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said it will discontinue service for Cingular Wireless L.L.C. in California, Nevada and Washington after the contract related to the service expired last May. The Cingular contract accounted for approximately 5 percent of Metro One's...

AT&T Wireless expands service in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. completed the re-branding of its recently acquired TeleCorp PCS markets by expanding service in Puerto Rico. TeleCorp previously operated in Puerto Rico under the SunCom brand name.AT&T Wireless said it has 25 stores across the island and...