KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it anticipates signing up its 1-millionth subscriber this week. The company also said its personal communications services subscribers used more than 1 billion minutes of airtime during 1997.Sprint PCS' average minutes of use and revenue per subscriber figures...
AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Media Group announced a new $5.7 billion definitive agreement to merge U S West Media's U.S. cellular and personal communications services interests into AirTouch.The agreement replaces a 1994 multiphased joint venture agreement, under which Media Group was...
NEW YORK-Along with its fourth-quarter earnings release Jan. 28, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, reported a lawsuit challenging its plan to repurchase publicly held stock in three of its subsidiaries.The company-parent and majority owner of Aerial Communications Inc., American Paging Inc., United States...
WASHINGTON-The National Park Service finally has issued a director's order to establish procedures dealing with locating wireless sites on federal park land. As written, the order is in line with rules dictated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a presidential memorandum that was...
NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, announced Dec. 18 a plan for "roll-up mergers" involving its repurchase of the publicly traded stock of its three subsidiaries and issuance of three new classes of "tracking stock," one each for United States Cellular Corp., Aerial...
CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., announced plans to sell to AirTouch Communications Inc. its minority interests in the cellular systems serving Seattle and Olympia, Wash.; Tucson, Ariz.; Duluth, Minn.; and rural areas in Arizona, Colorado and...
Privacy invasion more important than witch huntTo the editor: I read your viewpoint article from the Nov. 17 issue of RCR. I thought that your cavalier attitude about this crime was outrageous. Anyone in our industry should be very concerned about this invasion of our...
SAN FRANCISCO-Personal communications services carriers using Global System for Mobile communications technology in the United States and Canada now have more than 1 million customers."Thirteen PCS companies provide commercial GSM service across the U.S. and Canada and are adding new customers at a rate...
SEOUL-It was only fitting that the future of Code Division Multiple Access technology was discussed in South Korea at the 2nd CDMA International Conference.Since SK Telecom launched the country's first CDMA system in January 1996, South Korea now has five CDMA operators and about...
NEW YORK-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. said June 25 it had raised the ratings on debt securities issued by U.S. Cellular Corp. while affirming the ratings on outstanding debt of its parent, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago. TDS and its subsidiaries have...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The wireless infrastructure market grew 63 percent to $5.3 billion last year, driven largely by the increased spending of personal communications services companies, according to research compiled by Dataquest Inc. in its report "Personal Communications Services and Equipment Market Share."PCS spending increased...
Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent U.S. cellular markets 21 through 40, ranked by total number of subscribers in each metropolitan statistical area.Most carriers are unwilling to reveal subscriber numbers because of the highly competitive nature of the business.Tallies for total market subscribers and...
The announcement of a proposed merger between a large New York investment firm and CommNet Cellular Inc. increased CommNet's already high profile in the rural cellular market while boosting the value of the company's stock by nearly 15 percent.CommNet and Blackstone Capital Partners Merchant...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. only now is receiving the dual-band handsets necessary to make its vision of a Digital PCS nationwide network a reality."Things will start happening pretty quickly," said AT&T Wireless spokesman Ken Woo. AT&T has not launched any of its 1900 MHz...
Belt-tightening, steady growth of one-way services and advances in two-way and voice paging are winning the paging sector renewed interest on Wall Street."I think there are people in the investment community beginning to kick the tires," stated Jeanine Oburchay, paging analyst at Bear Stearns...
WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and further undercut long-standing cellular industry claims about phone safety.The research results, which have been...
Aerial Communications posted $21 million in operating losses for the first quarter, which the company said was slightly below expectations.Aerial's parent, Telephone and Data System Inc. of Chicago, reported good first-quarter growth in its core telephone business and its subsidiary cellular operations.Executives said those...
U S West Media Group and AirTouch Communications Inc. have signed a letter of intent that allows AirTouch to gain total ownership of U S West Media Group's domestic cellular properties.U S West will merge U S West NewVector, its domestic cellular business that...
A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The digital handset market saw significant growth in 1996, an indication that this market is developing into a formidable one, says a study by Dataquest.The digital handset market grew 73 percent in 1996, said the company. L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Corp. were...
Several low-earth-orbit satellite systems will have initial launches this year, marking the beginning of services that a Washington, D.C., consulting firm says "will fill the gaps other wireless systems don't cover."Big LEOs and medium earth orbit systems will not only be viable but will...
CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. released a report confirming that a Washington court Feb. 5 ruled in its favor concerning a limited partnership in Seattle.U.S. Cellular filed a lawsuit in September claiming U S NewVector Group had breached its duties as a general partner in...
