With wireless local number portability right around the corner, wireless carriers are expected to become more aggressive in the next several months in offering retention incentives tied to contract extensions in an attempt to keep their current customers from fleeing to another operator. A...
DALLAS-Looking to grow its GSM business, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced a deal today with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which this month will begin selling Samsung's v206 camera phone."Our relationship with AT&T Wireless gives consumers innovative technology from a venture of industry powerhouses," said...
The last of the six nationwide wireless operators reported second-quarter results last week as German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG released results for T-Mobile USA Inc. that showed a dramatic drop-off in customer growth compared with the first three months of this year, but...
T-Mobile USA Inc. reported 606,000 net customer additions during the second quarter of this year, including 652,000 postpaid subscriber additions and the loss of 46,000 prepaid customers. The results were well below the 921,000 subscribers T-Mobile USA added during the first quarter of this...
The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...
Of the handful of rural carriers that reported second-quarter results last week, including Western Wireless Corp., Dobson Communications Corp., Rural Cellular Corp., Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Alamosa Holdings Inc. and US Unwired Inc., nearly all reported relatively flat roaming growth and all posted a...
Research In Motion Ltd. entered the appeals phase of its patent battle with NTP Inc. following a U.S. district court order that essentially stalls a potential ban on sales of RIM's products.The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia stayed an injunction...
Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million potential customers from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. for $1.4 billion.The official announcement, which was strangely similar to a...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Even without wireless local number portability, churn continues to increase, according to a recent study by Solomon-Wolff Associates. Annual churn is 17.7 percent, reflecting an increase of 62 percent during the past five years.According to churn ratios determined in the study, most...
WASHINGTON-The Coalition Provisional Authority may revisit a ban against government-owned telecommunications companies from winning a wireless license in Iraq, said a top military official on Friday afternoon."This is what the CPA needs to work out. That will be a factor in their thinking. If...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless ranked as the highest-quality network among the seven largest wireless operators, according to the J.D. Powers and Associates 2003 Wireless Network Quality Assessment Study.The study employed a network quality index rating based on seven customer-reported problem areas impacting overall carrier...
The country's two largest CDMA carriers posted strong second-quarter results last week, with customer growth surging past last year's results and customer churn rates falling to unexpected lows. The results followed similarly robust second-quarter customer growth announcements last month from nationwide rivals Cingular Wireless...
BONN, Germany-The European operator alliance formed earlier this year to counter Vodafone Group plc's strong European presence announced its first products and services. The alliance, which includes Orange SA, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia Mobile and T-Mobile, said the first offerings will allow prepaid customers...
Verizon Wireless ranked as the highest-quality network among the seven largest wireless operators, according to the J.D. Powers and Associates 2003 Wireless Network Quality Assessment Study released earlier this week.The study employed a network quality index rating based on seven customer-reported problem areas impacting...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has reportedly agreed to purchase $1.4 billion worth of wireless spectrum licenses from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc., according to Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the situation.The report said both companies plan to file the agreement with the...
LONDON-U.K. fixed-line operator British Telecommunications announced plans to focus on the consumer wireless market with a wireless product called BT Mobile Home Plan targeted at families. The carrier will resell wireless service from T-Mobile for the offering.BT also has a mobile virtual network operator...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Even without wireless local number portability, churn continues to increase, according to a recent study by Solomon-Wolff Associates that says annual churn is currently 17.7 percent, reflecting an increase of 62 percent during the past five years.According to churn ratios determined in...
As the wireless industry aims to work together to exploit data initiatives and conserve cash through network sharing, it continues to play hard ball whenever it has the chance. The competition is the enemy, after all. It must be frustrating to "work" with them....
Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access to high-speed Internet services in more than 800 locations across the country and plans...
A number of New York area sub-dealers said they received notice last week from T-Mobile USA Inc. telling the dealers that if they began selling wireless products or services from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., T-Mobile USA would terminate their sub-dealer contracts. The dealers said T-Mobile...
Caution chastened optimism in vendor earnings.While companies like Qualcomm Inc. and Siemens AG enjoyed profits, others like Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. didn't fare as well.Ahead of its earnings report, Lucent had retracted an earlier optimistic projection to turn a profit...
DENVER-Consumer-friendly pervasive telephony technologies were the focus of last week's Zelos Group's Pervasive 2003 show here. Directory assistance and speech-recognition technologies, both hot topics in the wireless industry, took center stage.Converging those themes was TeleCommunication Systems Inc., which has expertise in enhanced 911 services...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. signed a multi-year agreement with TruePosition Inc. to provide an enhanced 911 solution for T-Mobile USA's nationwide GSM network.The agreement calls for TruePosition to deploy its Finder technology as part of T-Mobile USA's Federal Communications Commission's E911 Phase II mandate...
In what is expected to be the first W-CDMA launch in North America, AT&T Wireless has announced agreements with Nortel Networks Ltd. and L.M. Ericsson to supply equipment for the launch. Although the companies did not disclose the dollar amounts, a source puts the...
