WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today opened 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 GHz...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary Cellular One said it has completed the expansion of its CDMA 1x network upgrades in Arkansas, Nevada and Texas to go along with upgrades to its CDMA digital network in Kansas and Nebraska last year and upgrades made to...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it will score an upfront payment of $27 million thanks to an expanded licensing deal with handset maker Sanyo Electric Co. InterDigital's stock was up slightly after the news to about $17.25 per share.Sanyo, which previously licensed...
Rural wireless provider Cellular South said it has added more than 100 cell sites since last September as part of the planned expansion of its CDMA2000 1x-based network, which is an overlay of its legacy TDMA network. The carrier noted that with the recent...
CALGARY-CSI Wireless Inc. announced product details and shipping plans for its new 410 series of GSM/GPRS fixed wireless telephones. CSI said product shipments are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year, and the phones will likely be sold under other companies'...
Regional carriers Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Dobson Communications Corp. and Rural Cellular Corp. showed their continued uneasy reliance on roaming traffic in first-quarter financials released last week. The regional players are trying to increase internally generated revenues to make up for decreasing roaming yields,...
While there may be a lack of visual similarities, John Stanton's career in the wireless industry has nearly mirrored John Travolta's stardom in Hollywood. Both came out of nowhere at an early age to make an enormous impact-Travolta with "Saturday Night Fever" in the...
Quietly operating in the background of the industry, InterDigital Communications Corp. describes itself as a wireless think tank. And though few recognize the name or understand the business, over the course of its 30-year history InterDigital has managed to inject its innovations into the...
Dobson Communications Corp. said it lost approximately 5,400 total subscribers during the first quarter of this year compared with 13,500 net customer additions during the first quarter of 2003. The carrier noted the customer loss was due to lower gross customer additions during the...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched a music recognition service that allows customers to dial #ID from their handsets, and when prompted, hold the phone near a music source for approximately 15 seconds and receive a text message with the name of the song...
Citing the need to support two networks serving more than 20 million subscribers, its future ability to provide wireless data services on par with its CDMA-based competitors and poor results in recent customer surveys, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. informed the Federal Communications Commission it could...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong's Office of Telecommunications Authority announced plans to issue a new license in vacated spectrum of two existing mobile services licenses offering CDMA and TDMA services when the licenses expire next year.A consultation paper addressing the issue noted subscribers on the CDMA...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong's Office of Telecommunications Authority announced plans to issue a new license in vacated spectrum of two existing mobile services licenses offering CDMA and TDMA services when the licenses expire next year.A consultation paper addressing the issue noted subscribers on the CDMA...
ATLANTA-There are now 1 billion GSM customers in the world and the technology is experiencing rapid growth in the Americas, according to the 3G Americas organization. Some analysts, according to 3G Americas, predict GSM will reach the 2 billion customer market by 2010."The Americas...
ATLANTA-There are now 1 billion GSM customers in the world and the technology is experiencing rapid growth in the Americas, according to the 3G Americas organization. Some analysts, according to 3G Americas, predict GSM will reach the 2 billion customer market by 2010."The Americas...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s presence in the wireless industry is set to come to an end sometime later this year when Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s pending $41 billion acquisition of the nation's third-largest operator is set to close. Along with the reduction in number of...
Polaris hopes to take the stress out of E911."We are a location-technology company," said Bob Dressler, Polaris' vice president of technology. "We are a software-based solution."The E911 mandate hangs like a cloud over the U.S. wireless industry. The Federal Communications Commission requires that the...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it had completed an exchange of wireless operations with Rural Cellular Corp. in Oregon, Mississippi and Alabama. The exchange agreement called for AWS to assume Rural Cellular's TDMA operations in the Lincoln, Oregon-4 market between Salem and Eugene,...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless services Inc. said it completed its $95 million cash purchase of U.S. Cellular's TDMA wireless operations in south central Texas, a market serving 74,000 customers and covering a population of more than 1.3 million people. The carrier said the acquisition complements...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless yesterday said it completed its $95 million cash purchase of U.S. Cellular's TDMA wireless operations in south central Texas, a market serving 74,000 customers and covering a population of more than 1.3 million people. The carrier said the acquisition complements its...
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it added 374,000 net additions during the fourth quarter of 2003 and passed the 3-million-customer mark.As part of those price improvements, TracFone also announced lower airtime rates and added a $150 Double Minute Prepaid Plan card that...
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it added 374,000 net additions during the fourth quarter of 2003 and passed the 3-million-customer mark less than one year after surpassing the 2-million-customer milestone. "Achieving 3 million active subscribers clearly reflects the significance customers place on...
NEW YORK-ICT Technologies Inc. and its operating company EurophoneUSA Inc. said they will partner with Korean mobile phone design company Uroa Tech to sell a range of wireless devices across the world, including an advanced GPRS smart phone."We're on the horizon," said Konstantzas Takantzas,...
Industry observers believe that infrastructure vendors favor a tie-up between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Both companies have deals with the same manufacturers, including L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Siemens AG.Nortel is proud of its role as provider...
