WASHINGTON-Voters across the country had a decidedly mixed view about whether their telecommunications bills should increase to upgrade their local 911 systems.The most-watched vote was the rejection in California of a 3-percent increase for emergency services."Wireless consumers have said enough is enough. Consumers sent...
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless said it lost 15,000 subscribers during the third quarter as higher-than-expected postpaid customer churn of 3.68 percent offset a 16-percent year-over-year increase in gross customer additions. The carrier blamed the increased churn, which nearly doubled from the 1.87 percent the carrier...
WASHINGTON-An 11th-hour effort to pass the wireless enhanced 911 funding bill was struggling against a senatorial objection that stopped the frenetic activity to get the bill passed. Still, supporters remained hopeful the bill would be considered before Congress leaves town for the election. The...
WASHINGTON-Carriers that chose the handset solution to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's wireless enhanced 911 Phase II rules may not be required to have complete deployment by the end of next year if an 11th-hour effort to pass a 911 funding bill includes...
Once relegated to outdated handsets and overpriced basic voice services, prepaid customers increasingly are being catered to with the latest handset technology and services to go along with more rational pricing plans. 7-Eleven Inc. and Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. last week each launched their...
Millicom International Cellular said its Central American wireless operations have launched GSM services in the 800 MHz band under the brand name Tigo. The service will cover 92 percent of the population of El Salvador and 75 percent of the populations of Guatemala and...
Rural operators continued to wean themselves from roaming revenues during the second quarter of this year with mixed results as some have been able to make up the revenue shortfall through their own service offering, while others are struggling to find the right mix...
BERTRANGE, Luxembourg-Millicom International Cellular said its Central American wireless operations have launched GSM services in the 800 MHz band under the brand name Tigo.The service will cover 92 percent of the population of El Salvador and 75 percent of the populations of Guatemala and...
Sales of infrastructure equipment covering all the major technologies surged 37 percent to $9 billion in the second quarter, according to a report from Dell'Oro group.Although the study covered GSM/GPRS/EDGE, TDMA and W-CDMA technology, GSM/GPRS/EDGE network sales accounted for 60 percent of the net...
With its pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. making its way through various governmental regulators and a final approval not yet certain, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued signing deals last week with AWS affiliates that will clear the way for Cingular to continue to...
The rush of companies joining the ranks of pseudo-wireless providers continued last week as mobile content and application provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced plans to begin offering its prepaid Uphonia wireless services using a yet-to-be named wireless operator's network. Unlike a number of companies...
Following an announcement last month with Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. cleared another hurdle to its pending $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by announcing an agreement with AWS affiliate Cincinnati Bell Inc. that alters their former non-compete clause and...
Small wireless carriers want to offer their customers the same advanced services the big companies offer theirs. But since the economics of innovation are less favorable for small companies, it is difficult for them to keep pace with the big carriers in deploying advanced...
Dobson Communications Corp.'s Dobson Cellular Systems jumped into the converged market last week with the launch of its MERGE product, which the company said would help bridge the gap between traditional wireline and wireless services by allowing customers to access their wireless calling plan...
JACKSON, Miss.-Rural wireless provider Cellular South launched BREW-based wireless data services on its CDMA2000 1x network in the Southeast, allowing customers to download wireless applications and services to BREW-enabled handsets.The carrier recently noted the completion of the overlay of its legacy TDMA network with...
Six of the nation's eight largest wireless carriers posted second-quarter results, highlighted by strong customer growth at Sprint PCS, Alltel Corp. and U.S. Cellular Corp. and continued financial gains by Nextel Communications Inc., but tempered by sluggish performances from Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has completed its $3.4 billion GSM technology rollout across the country with the recent launch of services in the Florida Panhandle. The carrier originally initiated its nationwide GSM technology overlay of its legacy TDMA network in 2001.Cingular added...
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., which supplies baseband processors and software, said the company will undergo a reorganization that will separate its second-generation TDMA products and third-generation development into separate business units.The company said the reorganization will allow it to more effectively allocate resources and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's thorough review of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s $41 billion play for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. represents a new level of merger analysis likely to be applied to future blockbuster deals in the mobile-phone industry.The proposed marriage of Cingular Wireless and AT&T...
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...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. a series of highly detailed questions about their proposed $41 billion merger, queries that suggest regulators are closely scrutinizing potential consumer and targeted-competitive impacts of a deal that would create...
The high-speed wireless data field is filling up with contestants as most of the country's larger operators have announced plans to deploy services that in some cases will open up the door to additional competition from companies that either have resale agreements for wireless...
Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary Cellular One said it completed the expansion of its CDMA 1x network upgrades in Arkansas, Nevada and Texas following upgrades to its CDMA digital network in Kansas and Nebraska last year and upgrades to existing CDMA markets in Missouri, Montana,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week opened up a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country.In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5...
