Following a robust holiday season that witnessed less pricing competition from nationwide operators, carriers waited the customary month into the new year before putting away their limited holiday promotions and rolling out new rates that are expected to set the stage for the rest...
Identity theft, a popular catch phrase in the financial services industry, is also the leading type of fraud afflicting the telecommunications industry, according to a new survey by the Telecommunications Risk Management Association. The TRMA's findings bolster last year's estimate from the Communications Fraud...
In the "T-Mobile USA to drop AOL for OMA-compliant IM company" story on page 7 of the Jan. 26 issue of RCR Wireless News, T-Mobile USA Inc.'s relationship with America Online Inc. was misstated. T-Mobile will continue to support AOL's instant messaging service as...
Following are mobile contracts awarded in January 2004:AlcatelChina. With Gansu Mobile Communication Co., a subsidiary of China Mobile, for GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.Value: $14 millionCyprus. With Investcom for GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and mobile core network.Value: UndisclosedNetherlands. With T-Mobile for data over asynchronous transfer mode, gigabit Ethernet transport...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported Wi-Fi expansion plans including a deal with Amtrak to provide high-speed data services in six of the railroad's busiest train stations along the Northeast Corridor and a reciprocal roaming agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. expanding service in a...
The last three months of 2003 proved fruitful for the country's largest and smallest nationwide operators as Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. posted subscriber results well ahead of their competitors and provided a solid conclusion to what was a strong year of growth...
As the list of potential suitors became clearer last week, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s management took control of the situation by announcing a mid-February deadlines for potential buyers to submit acquisition proposals. The carrier also said it plans to make a decision about its...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications Inc. said it has signed an agreement to supply network infrastructure equipment to T-Mobile Netherlands.The carrier covers 1.84 million customers in the country. The agreement involves both new and redeployed equipment."Our agreement with T-Mobile confirms the growing trend we are...
Although Bluetooth technology gradually is taking hold among the world's mobile-phone providers, the short-range wireless technology has elicited somewhat differing reactions from U.S. wireless carriers.Most notably, Sprint PCS introduced a separate pricing plan for its first Bluetooth-capable phone, the Sony Ericsson T608. The carrier...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is one step closer to making a formal bid for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the Wall Street Journal reported Cingular's parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. have granted their wireless subsidiary approval to place a bid ahead...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications Inc. said it has signed an agreement to supply network infrastructure equipment to T-Mobile Netherlands.The carrier covers 1.84 million customers in the country. The agreement involves both new and redeployed equipment."Our agreement with T-Mobile confirms the growing trend we...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. received the most consumer complaints registered with the Federal Communications Commission during the third quarter of last year according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The report noted that AT&T Wireless, the country's third-largest operator that recently announced...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it will supply a third-generation UMTS network for Polish operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa. The agreement also includes UMTS handsets.The value of the deal was not disclosed.PTC, which has 6.1 million subscribers, initially plans to offer UMTS service in the capital...
T-Mobile USA Inc. posted just more than 1 million net subscriber additions during the fourth quarter of 2003, surpassing the 670,000 customers the carrier added during the third quarter of last year and nearly matching its fourth-quarter 2002 results. Analysts were expecting T-Mobile USA...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is replacing its America Online Inc. instant-messaging service in favor of a more open, standards-based offering. The carrier signed a deal with IM company Oz Communications to install a gateway in its network that complies with instant-messaging and presence specifications from...
The wireless industry has had a long and lucrative history with sponsoring sporting events. According to a report released last year by Sports Marketing Surveys Ltd., the telecommunications industry signed 91 sports sponsorship deals in 2002, trailing only the automotive industry's 124 sponsorship agreements....
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that could benefit the wireless industry.Mountain Communications Inc., a Colorado paging carrier, had challenged the FCC's dismissal of an interconnection complaint...
NEWTON, Mass.-Nextel Communications Inc. and T-Mobile USA Inc. have entered multi-million dollar contracts to use BatteryCorp's patent-pending OMS solution for battery preventative maintenance.The OMS solution provides Web-based management for testing, installing and recycling stationary batteries used by telecommunications companies. According to BatteryCorp, Nextel and...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a major new instant messaging strategy through a deal with IM company Oz Communications. T-Mobile said it will use Oz's gateway and client technology to manage a standards-based instant messaging service, one that can work with desktop IM services including...
The rumor mill kicked into high gear last week with published reports claiming a handful of domestic and international wireless carriers are targeting AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as a possible merger partner.The reports began with claims that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. had rekindled its often-rumored...
Despite being a relatively new player in the traditional wireless field, Wi-Fi services have quickly taken over as one of the leading technologies for high-speed wireless data communications as shown by the small but increasing number of tech-savvy consumers clustered in local coffee houses...
The latest issue of Consumer Reports, published by nonprofit Consumers Union, comes down hard on the wireless industry in its annual wireless consumer review, referred to facetiously as an "Annual Address on the State of Consumer's Cell Hell," by Jim Guest, president and chief...
