INDIANAPOLIS—Brightpoint Inc. subsidiary Brightpoint North America L.P. entered an agreement to provide integrated logistics and distribution services for PrimeCo Personal Communications, including product procurement, handset kitting, inventory management and distribution to PrimeCo agents, dealers, retail stores and subscribers.PrimeCo recently entered an agreement to sell...
LEXINGTON, Mass.—Logica signed a multimillion dollar network services agreement with U.S. Cellular, providing the carrier with its Short Message Service Center.U.S. Cellular will use Logica's SMSC solution to provide its customers with cross-technology messaging capabilities. The solution, which is supported by Logica's Messaging Application...
NEW YORK—Merrill Lynch downgraded its ratings on U.S. Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone & Data Systems Inc., from neutral to sell pointing out slowing subscriber growth in the wireless industry, increasing competition and falling roaming revenues. The investment firm also noted U.S....
ATLANTA—U.S. Cellular Corp. deployed Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s IP-based Versera Large Solution platform in Milwaukee. Under the agreement, Glenayre's platform will help U.S. Cellular customers manage their voice, fax and e-mail messages from a single, centralized mailbox. In addition, Glenayre said the platform will enable...
CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. posted $478.4 million in operating revenue for the first quarter of 2002, a 9-percent increase compared with the $439.7 million reported last year. Net income increased more than 44 percent during the same time frame from $30.3 million, a return of...
Global interest in the U.S. cellular market is high. And with consolidation expected in the United States and around the world in coming months, U.S. carriers that are owned by foreign companies could be impacted by their partners’ interests and strategies around the globe.The...
CHICAGO—Until March 31, U.S. Cellular Corp. said it will be collecting used wireless phones through its Community Action Recycling Effort program with proceeds from the donations benefiting the Families Scholarship Fund, which was established to provide educational assistance for post-secondary study to financially needy...
The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its current TDMA markets, roughly two-thirds of its coverage area, with CDMA 1x technology. The...
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.-U.S. Cellular Corp. signed a network services agreement with Schema Inc. to deploy Schema's Telecom Resource Management software designed to increase network capacity and improve service quality.Under the agreement, Schema will deploy its network optimization system throughout several U.S. Cellular operating markets.
NEW YORK-Once upon a time in the United Kingdom, cellular service was so difficult to obtain that carrier marketing was unnecessary because each customer could resell his service connection to another consumer for $10,000 in the gray market, said Keith Mallinson, executive vice...
During the past 20 years, two overriding factors have shaped the wireless carrier landscape: customer growth and carrier consolidation. The number of wireless customers has grown from less than 100,000 subscribers after the first full year of availability in 1984 to nearly 120...
WASHINGTON—The Bush administration pledged to accelerate efforts to give national security and emergency response personnel priority access on mobile-phone networks, a capability previously shunned by wireless carriers that suddenly has been given high priority by government and industry in the aftermath of the 11...
The country's continued slowing economy seemed to have little impact on wireless carriers reporting second-quarter results last week, with Sprint PCS, often used as a bellwether for the industry, and U.S. Cellular Corp. posting solid financial results and customer additions.Sprint PCS surprised many with...
With as many as six wireless operators to choose from in some markets, wireless carriers have to work overtime to keep their customers from jumping ship. While customer churn industrywide remains steady in the 2-percent to 3-percent range per month, wireless carriers are seeing...
Many people have claimed the success of the Internet really took off once service providers implemented one-rate plans for unlimited usage. The plans allowed computer users to surf all they wanted without having to worry about a surprise bill at the end of the...
WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to a strongly worded letter from Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet...
While large wireless operators are more than happy to discuss their plans for next-generation wireless services, some of the small- to mid-sized carriers seem to have let the idea of high-speed networks fall through the cracks of providing services to their customers. Even though...
DENVER-Daniels & Associates announced U.S. Cellular Corp. acquired the E-Block personal communications services licenses serving the St. Joseph, Mo., basic trading area from Triad Holdings I L.L.C. covering approximately 190,000 potential customers.In addition, Telecorp Wireless Inc. acquired the E-Block PCS license covering the Cedar...
WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called "the most compelling issue to come before it this year: " enhanced 911 deployment. But instead of a status report, the committee was treated to finger pointing and unanswered questions.The...
Rural Cellular Corp. reigned supreme during the first quarter of this year, according to Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown's recent metric ranking of 22 U.S. wireless operators. The report ranked each operator on five metrics included in their first-quarter financial results, including penetration gain, average...
The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly-that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is more than a bit in the future and comes with a significant price tag attached. Still, many are slow to...
Telecommunications provider McLeodUSA Inc. sold two of its personal communications services licenses and entered into agreements to sell the remainder of its PCS licenses to four buyers for more than $100 million. The buyers include U.S. Cellular Corp., TeleCorp PCS, HickoryTech Corp. and Midwest...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. posted disappointing first-quarter profits, despite increased operating revenues and customer growth.For the quarter, U.S. Cellular reported net income of $30.4 million, a 28-percent decrease from the $42.2 million reported for first-quarter 2000. Earnings per share followed suit, dropping from a return...
