Conceding that no carrier wants to offer islands of coverage, U.S. Cellular Corp. and Alltel Corp. swapped assets in rural America to fortify their geographic footprints and shed nonstrategic assets. U.S. Cellular paid $50 million and gave up two rural Idaho licenses in exchange...
Alltel Corp. reported a deal with U.S. Cellular Corp. to swap 15 rural markets in Nebraska and Kansas that Alltel acquired when it purchased Western Wireless Corp. for two Rural Service Area markets in Idaho currently operated by U.S. Cellular and $50 million in...
T-Mobile USA Inc. again showed that size is not what's most important to customers. The industry's smallest nationwide operator posted the highest customer satisfaction performance across all six regions in the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 U.S. Wireless Regional Customer Satisfaction Index Study. The...
T-Mobile USA Inc. again showed that size is not what's most important to customers as the industry's smallest nationwide operator posted the highest customer satisfaction performance results across all six regions in the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 U.S. Wireless Regional Customer Satisfaction Index...
WASHINGTON-As the bill-of-rights brawl in California enters a critical stage, emerging developments on the federal front could end up eclipsing state regulator Susan Kennedy's campaign to enact by year's end a consumer protection regime far less regulatory than the one approved last year to...
Leap Wireless International Inc. announced free Wireless AMBER Alerts for its Cricket customers. Wireless AMBER alerts are short text messages with local information about abducted children. In May, nine wireless carriers announced they would send text messages to people who opt in to receive...
Alltel Corp. finally joined the multimedia messaging service interoperability bandwagon, announcing deals with the nation's two largest wireless carriers. Alltel said it signed agreements allowing its subscribers to exchange picture and video messages with both Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless users. The deals...
Alltel Corp. finally joined the multimedia messaging service interoperability bandwagon Thursday, announcing deals with the nation's two largest wireless carriers. Alltel announced agreements allowing its subscribers to exchange picture and video messages with both Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless users. The deals mark...
Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. all gained bragging rights from this year's J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Call Quality Performance Study. Customers rated each carrier highest in call quality in at least one of the six geographical regions included in...
Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. all gained bragging rights from this year's J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Call Quality Performance Study. Customers rated each carrier highest in call quality in at least one of the six geographical regions included in...
U.S. Cellular Corp. launched wireless service in St. Louis, which becomes the carrier's second-largest market behind Chicago. The carrier noted that it has deployed nearly 300 cell sites, hired more than 400 people and invested about $90 million to build out its St. Louis...
The frenzy of consolidation sweeping the wireless industry may not be over as an industry research firm recommended that some nationwide operators could see both long- and short-term benefits by acquiring keenly focused regional players. Citing the possibility of increased penetration into key Hispanic...
The second quarter is shaping up as a one-horse affair as Verizon Wireless appears set to take substantial market share away from its competitors and move ever closer to its larger rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C. Verizon Wireless, which ruled supreme as the industry's big...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The move toward universal multimedia messaging service interoperability continued with a deal between two of the top U.S. carriers. Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are the latest Tier 1 carriers to ink deals allowing subscribers to exchange picture and video messages with...
U.S. Cellular Corp. launched wireless service in St. Louis, which becomes the carrier's second-largest market behind Chicago. The carrier noted that it has deployed nearly 300 cell sites, hired more than 400 people and invested about $90 million to build out its St. Louis...
U.S. Cellular Corp. said it added 94,000 customers during the second quarter, which was well below the 137,000 subscribers the carrier added during the second quarter of last year and below industry estimates of around 125,000 net customer additions.The shortfall was attributed to a...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said it formed the CDMA Certification Forum to develop a global standardized certification process from CDMA devices.Founding members of the forum include the CDMA Development Group, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Telstra Corp., U.S. Cellular and Via...
Universal multimedia messaging service interoperability among U.S. Tier 1 carriers moved closer to becoming reality with two agreements unveiled last week. T-Mobile USA Inc. users can exchange pictures and video clips with subscribers of both Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint Corp., the three carriers...
U.S. Cellular Corp. joined the push-to-talk fray with the launch of SpeedTalk, which operates on the carrier's CDMA2000 1x data network available across its 25-state coverage area. The service will compete with similar offerings from a number of operators, including Nextel Communications Inc., Verizon...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. reported a partnership with Jabra to begin selling Bluetooth and corded headsets at U.S. Cellular's retail locations. The headsets will include Jabra's BT250v Bluetooth model that retails for $100 and the C250 corded model that retails for $30.Both companies are based...
OTTAWA-Canada's wireless carriers introduced intercarrier multimedia message services last week. The initiative enables customers with MMS-capable mobile phones, regardless of the customers' wireless service provider, to send and receive messages with rich content to and from MMS-capable phones of friends, family and colleagues. The...
OTTAWA-Canada's wireless carriers will introduce intercarrier multimedia message services July 1. The initiative will enable customers with MMS-capable mobile phones, regardless of the customers' wireless service providers, to instantly send and receive messages with rich content to and from MMS-capable phones of friends, family...
WASHINGTON-The lawyer for a former cell-phone programmer in California said a settlement totaling $180,000 was reached on a worker's compensation claim that alleged Sharesa Price's brain cancer was caused by her workplace. Price joined Advance Communications Systems-a small Northern California firm affiliated with U.S....
U.S. Cellular's 5 million subscribers can send photos and other content from their handsets to users on Verizon Wireless' network, the carrier said Wednesday. The Chicago-based operator announced it has become interoperable with multimedia messaging service offerings from Verizon Wireless, the nation's second-largest carrier....
