AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s future as well as the future plans of its suppliers and employees were put on hold last week as the carrier announced its board of directors had decided "to explore the company's strategic alternatives," which most industry observers equated to...
The reverberations from a mega-merger involving AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could easily spark repercussions in Illinois, Finland, South Korea and a number of other mobile-phone hot spots. The creation of a new wireless powerhouse in the United States might affect the fortunes of Motorola...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s admission that it was looking at strategic alternatives for its operations is expected to have broad implications for the carrier's direct and indirect dealer agents. Analysts noted that if AWS were acquired by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., consolidation would take place...
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 device running Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system. RCR Wireless...
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...
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...
WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. said it has received $25.3 million in purchase orders from Latin American wireless network operators since Sept. 1. The orders were for CDMA, TDMA and GSM/GPRS versions of the company's Phonecell fixed cellular product, which allows telephone access via existing...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of NPI-Omnipoint Wireless L.L.C., which provides GSM service in northern Michigan, for approximately $28 million. NPI, which reported $20.7 million in total revenues during 2002, owns PCS licenses...
WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of NPI-Omnipoint Wireless L.L.C., which provides GSM service in northern Michigan, for approximately $28 million.NPI, which reported $20.7 million in total revenues during 2002, owns PCS licenses covering...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular said it plans to overlay its TDMA networks in Guatemala (Comcel) and Paraguay (Telecel) with GSM 800 MHz networks. The operator said it has selected the supplier for the networks, which will be operational during the second quarter of 2004,...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular said it plans to overlay its TDMA networks in Guatemala (Comcel) and Paraguay (Telecel) with GSM 800 MHz networks. The operator said it has selected the supplier for the networks, which will be operational during the second quarter of 2004,...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it added 2,400 wireless customers in its U.S. operations and 23,300 customers in its Caribbean operations during the company's second fiscal quarter ended Nov. 30 compared with the loss of 3,900 subscribers in its U.S. operations and the gain...
Following on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the agency outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it has taken to fix...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in November:Philippines. With Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) for GSM/GPRS and EDGE equipment, including radio base stations and mobile switching equipment.Value: $100 millionEricssonChina. With Guangxi Mobile Communications Co. to supply GSM network equipment in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Value: $56...
FCC asks for details from AT&T WirelessWASHINGTON-Regulators in both Washington and San Francisco last Thursday began looking into problems with local number portability, with the Federal Communications Commission focusing on AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and a California state regulator calling for a broader review.Meanwhile,...
WASHINGTON-Regulators in both Washington and San Francisco Thursday began looking into problems with local number portability, with the Federal Communications Commission focusing on AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and a California state regulator calling for a broader review.Meanwhile, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. entered into a definitive agreement to sell its TDMA wireless operations in South Texas to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for $95 million in cash. The operations include 25 megahertz metropolitan statistical area and rural service area licenses currently serving 74,000 customers...
U.S. Cellular Corp. entered into a definitive agreement to sell its TDMA wireless operations in South Texas to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for $95 million in cash. The operations include 25 megahertz metropolitan statistical area and rural service area licenses currently serving 74,000 customers...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in October 2003.China. With China Mobile to expand its GSM networks.Value: $50 millionComorian Union. With SNPT to roll out the country's first GSM network.Value: UndisclosedEricssonFinland. With Finnish 2G for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA mobile services.Value: UndisclosedLithuania. With...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said last week it was making progress on fixing a software glitch that has prevented the carrier from activating new GSM customers, converting current TDMA customers to its GSM network or accessing any of its current GSM customers' information since...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it was moving towards fixing a software glitch that has prevented the carrier from activating new customers or converting its current TDMA customers to its GSM network for more than a week."We're definitely moving exponentially in the right...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Carolina West said it has upgraded its networks with a CDMA overlay using the equipment and services of Paragon Networks.According to the carrier, Paragon will provide "an end-to-end solution for optimizing the backhaul of their AMPS and TDMA technologies, as well as their...
