PHOENIX-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has gained two customers for every one customer it has lost since the implementation of wireless local number portability. "T-Mobile is a net winner in WLNP," according to a presentation from Brian Kirkpatrick, T-Mobile's chief financial officer, at last...
Affirmation from wireless carriers and equipment vendors, as well as industry analysts and Wall Street, is driving optimism from tower companies regarding new tower builds. Analyst firm Raymond James and Associates Inc. said its belief cell-site deployments are increasing was validated by equipment supplier...
Compete Inc. reported its findings on the effects of WLNP. According to the analyst, after a brief spike in churn threat during the first week of WLNP, pre-churn activity has started declining. Compared with 2002, pre-churn levels were 20 percent higher in 2003, indicating...
Consumer Reports bashed the wireless industry again in its second annual survey of rating wireless providers. It's safe to say carriers flunked in the magazine's eyes. The editor of Consumer Reports complained cellular service hasn't improved one iota since last year. But while Consumer...
Sprint PCS kicked off fourth-quarter customer results on a positive note last week, saying it added approximately 1 million subscribers to its PCS network in the quarter, including 390,000 direct additions and more than 610,000 additions from strategic partners. Analyst expectations for Sprint PCS'...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the activity at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Audiovox Communications Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone makers...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the ongoings at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, Audiovox Communications Corp. and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone...
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has gained two customers for every one customer it has lost since the implementation of wireless local number portability. "T-Mobile is a net winner in WLNP," read a presentation from Brian Kirkpatrick, T-Mobile's chief financial officer, at this week's...
The latest issue of Consumer Reports 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 executive officer of Consumers Union....
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and 10 Vodafone GSM networks beginning early next year.The inter-carrier and transatlantic service, which will be processed and converted...
Billing and customer retention management provider Amdocs Ltd. said it has reached an agreement to acquire privately held mediation software provider XACCT Technologies for approximately $29.5 million. Amdocs expects the acquisition, which includes $13.5 million in cash and the rest in Amdocs ordinary shares,...
Following years of steady decline, the wireless industry looks to have turned the corner during the past several quarters in posting year-over-year gains in customer growth. That turnaround was highlighted by a 76-percent year-over-year improvement in customer additions during the third quarter of 2003...
What were the best five things to happen to the wireless industry in 2003? What were the worst? Here are my picks (for better or worse).The Top 5 best things that happened:The camera phone. RCR Wireless News readers agreed; this was the readers' choice...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it received 2,394 informal consumer complaints targeted at wireless carriers from Nov. 24 through Dec. 24, which marked the first month of wireless local number portability. Complaints almost tripled in the latter two weeks of the month, since...
The Federal Communications Commission said it received 2,394 informal consumer complaints targeted at wireless carriers from Nov. 24 through Dec. 24, which marked the first month of wireless local number portability. Complaints almost tripled in the latter two weeks of the month, or since...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are reportedly looking at an initial public offering for their wireless division sometime next year to help fund expansion plans that could include a merger with industry rival AT&T Wireless Services Inc.,...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network integrator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a deal with Motive to jointly offer service-provisioning solutions designed to ease the installation of bundled Wi-Fi and DSL or cable model broadband services.Boingo noted the agreement fits into its Platform Services Wi-Fi...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and ten Vodafone GSM networks beginning early next year.The inter-carrier and transatlantic service, which will be processed and converted...
Dear Editor,Last month I got a new cell phone from T-Mobile. At the time of purchase, I was with my boyfriend helping him pick out a phone. The sales representative talked me into getting a phone also by telling me that all minutes between...
Just in time for the holiday season, New York area T-Mobile USA Inc. sub-dealers claim the wireless carrier has increased pressure prohibiting the independent agents from selling both T-Mobile USA and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. products and services in the same location. The increased pressure...
Editor's Note: Each year, RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers who are changing the wireless industry with both their praises and their complaints. ...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
The segregated world of wireless local area networks took a giant step toward integration as the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot spot provider T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a deal with software-enabled virtual network operator iPass Inc. allowing iPass' corporate customers to roam onto T-Mobile USA's...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
