CHICAGO-Triton PCS Holdings Inc.'s said its co-branding agreement with AT&T Corp. is expected to end in February when the current deal between the two companies expires."More than likely we will operate as a standalone brand," said Daniel Hopkins, senior vice president and treasurer of...
CHICAGO-Triton PCS Holdings Inc.'s said its co-branding agreement with AT&T Corp. is expected to end in February when the current deal between the two companies ends."More than likely we will operate as a stand-alone brand," said Daniel Hopkins, senior vice president and treasurer of...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. introduced downloadable ring tones of popular music and high-resolution graphics that appear on the handsets display area for its SunCom subscribers suing Nokia 5165, 3360 and 8260 handsets.Subscribers can select ring tones and icons through either the SunCom Web site,...
ARLINGTON, Va.—Convergys Corp., a provider of integrated billing and customer care services, signed a contract with TeleCorp PCS Inc. to provide its Atlys solution to support flexible billing for TeleCorp's SunCom digital wireless services.Convergys said its Atlys service will allow TeleCorp to support content-based...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunBurst OnDemand service, allowing customers to access real-time information by typing a request into their wireless handsets. The service includes 15 types of OnDemand content and regularly scheduled InfoAlert services providing news, sports, lottery, stocks, horoscope, daily jokes,...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS said it plans to use Invertix Corp.'s technology in the carrier's voicemail password reset and over-the-air activations.The Software Services group of Invertix specifically designed the software application suite for TeleCorp's SunCom customers, the company said.
RICHMOND, Va.-SunCom, an AT&T affiliate, has been approved to provide digital wireless phones and service to federal government agencies in its southeast territory.The approval comes under a modification to the contract the General Services Administration (GSA) holds for wireless services from AT&T Wireless Services...
The use of affiliates to manage and operate local markets is common in the wireless industry. While the larger carriers use affiliates to help build out their national footprints, affiliates are often left behind the scenes operating the networks and providing a local connection...
NEW YORK-As part of its wireless data strategy, TeleCorp PCS officially launched two-way short message service in all its markets May 18 and is offering its customers free three-month trials, Gerald T. Vento, chief executive officer and board member, said at the Lehman Brothers...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. launch its GSM service May 1 in Chicago. The carrier said subscribers have free access to its Great Lake Neighborhood plan, allowing free long-distance for calls placed in and to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.UbiquiTel Inc., a Sprint...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., a tower developer and owner, has closed on 203 of the 275 towers included in its agreement with TeleCorp PCS Inc., an affiliate of AT&T Wireless. The entire sale is expected to be finalized in the second quarter. The...
Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Wichita, Kan., where consumers can take advantage of Leap's unlimited local calling plans for $30 per month. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. began offering service to customers on the island of Hawaii, expanding its...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Milwaukee, with plans to expand service to Madison, Racine and Appleton, Wis., in the coming months."In addition to the attractiveness of the market-healthy size, right demographics and strong...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Des Moines, Iowa.The Des Moines market is contiguous to AT&T Wireless' St. Louis and Kansas City digital personal communications markets and includes a portion of the Interstate 35 corridor.
RICHMOND, Va.-The Navy Exchange Service Command has selected SunCom, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s first network affiliate, to provide digital wireless service and equipment to 10 military exchange Navy and Marine Corps locations in the United States.Under the agreement, the military personnel will also buy...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc., which plans to merge with fellow AT&T affiliate Tritel, added 85,563 subscribers during the third quarter ended Sept. 30, bringing the company's total customer base to 405,444 subscribers. The additions were a 27-percent increase from...
JACKSON, Miss.-AT&T Wireless network partner Tritel Inc. launched digital wireless phone service in nine markets under its SunCom and AT&T brand names.The markets include Corbin and Owensboro, Ky.; Florence, Muscle Shoals and Gadsden, Ala.; and Brookhaven, McComb, Greenville and Greenwood, Miss."These nine markets have...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, and Comverse Network Systems introduced a voice-activated voice-mail service, providing TeleCorp's SunCom subscribers the ability to retrieve messages and interact with their voice-mail system verbally.TeleCorp said the service will allow users to review, respond...
BERWYN, Pa.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network affiliate Triton PCS Holdings Inc. posted second-quarter financial results, adding 58,000 subscribers during the quarter, bringing the company's total subscriber base to 300,000.Total company revenue increased from $26.7 million during the second quarter of 1999 to $85.2 million...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Alexandria, La.; Blytheville, Ark.; and Dyersburg, Tenn., bringing the total number of markets with SunCom service to 35." introduce SunCom to a bevy of new and growing markets,...
Qualcomm Inc. introduced its Eudora Internet Suite version 1.1 for the Palm operating system, allowing any Palm-based device with a wireless or wired Internet connection to browse the Internet without going through a proxy server, the company said. It also supports e-mail management and...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company's westward network expansion and to handle additional growth.The Lucent 5E switch was installed in a new facility located in TeleCorp's Little Rock, Ark., market, which...
While the big names in the wireless industry usually get most of the credit for providing wireless coverage across the country, it is the smaller players who often make up the backbone of the much larger beast.Affiliations between large, national carriers and small, local...
JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, launched wireless phone service in Birmingham, Ala., under the SunCom brand name."The Birmingham area has been waiting for a wireless carrier that offers a true national coverage area and Tritel is finally here," said...
