Preferred Voice Inc. notched its second carrier win with the announcement that it will provide ringback services for Oklahoma regional carrier Panhandle Telephone Cooperative.Ringbacks allow subscribers to choose music clips that callers hear instead of the traditional ring before a phone is answered. PVI...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless today said the company's corporate Web site has been improved to make it more accessible to customers with disabilities.The nation's No. 2 mobile-phone carrier said new enhancements-such as scalable text size, improved global navigation, accessible online forms, link and image descriptions...
Verizon Wireless said it has extended coverage of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Broad- bandAccess network to nearly all of Los Angeles county, as well as into portions of Riverside and San Bernardino, Calif., counties. Verizon Wireless added that the network now covers nearly 4,400...
Many in the industry peg iDEN handset vendor Motorola Inc. as a major winner following the merger between Sprint and Nextel Communications Inc. Motorola's position is enviable as the company also has managed to capitalize on the merger between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
They've been called the last untapped demographic for mobile phones, but some seniors say the industry itself may be to blame for the lack of elderly mobile users. Wireless devices are ubiquitous among nearly every age group in the nation except the elderly. According...
WASHINGTON-Airplanes soon could lose their distinction as being one of the few places where a person cannot be reached by a wireless device due to decisions last week to re-auction 800 MHz band air-to-ground spectrum and a proposal to allow cell-phone use in airplanes....
WASHINGTON-Rather than simply depending on high-powered lawyers to do battle with the Federal Communications Commission or the California Public Utilities Commission or the City of Baltimore, the cell-phone industry soon will be looking for a few good men and women from its 173 million...
Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. tied the knot last week in what the two telecom providers call a $35 billion "merger of equals." The newly formed Sprint Nextel operation will serve more than 35 million customers, including Sprint PCS' 2.8 million resale customers,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it had received 49 applications to participate in the Jan. 26 auction of licenses returned by bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and other PCS licenses. More than half-27-of the applications were deemed incomplete. These applicants have until Dec. 29...
With carriers focusing on network efficiency, tower companies are not expected to yield any immediate benefits from the anticipated merger between Sprint PCS and Nextel Communications Inc., according to analysts. In a few years, however, SpectraSite Inc. may reap some financial gains if and...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Industry witnessed the release of three unique, advanced handsets from the likes of Verizon Wireless, NTT DoCoMo Inc. and startup Mobiado, a division of Bonac Innovation Corp., which released a $1,200 GSM camera phone built from aircraft aluminum. First up is Verizon Wireless,...
Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of common stock from 37 cents in the third quarter of 2004. The dividend is payable Jan. 20. The tower player owns...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it had received 49 applications to participate in the Jan. 26 auction of licenses returned by bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and other PCS licenses.More than half-27-of the applications were deemed incomplete. These applicants now have until Dec. 29...
IRVINE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless said it has extended coverage of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO BroadbandAccess network to nearly all of Los Angeles county, as well as into portions of Riverside and San Bernardino, Calif., counties. The carrier noted that the service previously covered all of...
Industry witnessed the release of three unique, advanced handsets from the likes of Verizon Wireless, NTT DoCoMo Inc. and startup Mobiado, a division of Bonac Innovation Corp., which today released a $1,200 GSM camera phone built from aircraft aluminum.First up is Verizon Wireless, which...
WASHINGTON-Four national mobile-phone carriers have petitioned state and local officials in Maryland for refunds of taxes imposed on them.. The requests were delivered to the City of Baltimore and Montgomery County by T-Mobile USA Inc., Sprint PCS, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless.Since July...
Following months of speculation that increased in intensity during the past several days, Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. reported a deal this morning to combine their operations into what the two telecom providers call a $35 billion "merger of equals." The newly formed...
FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp. reported a deal with online wireless distributor and activation provider InPhonic Inc. that will enable RadioShack to begin offering wireless phones and service plans through its Web site.The deal calls for InPhonic, which said it distributes phones and services plans...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. became the second national mobile-phone carrier to back off from opposing a government plan to reconfigure frequency assignments of Nextel Communications Inc. and others to eliminate interference to police, fire and medics operating radio systems at 800 MHz. Cingular on Dec....
Verizon Communications Inc. may be getting into the wireless consolidation game with published reports indicating that the telecommunications provider, which controls 55 percent of No. 2 wireless operator Verizon Wireless, is set to make a bid for Sprint Corp., which controls the nation's third-largest...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. reported the closing of a secondary offering of 48.55 million common shares and 24.94 million non-voting shares that were controlled by a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc.Telus noted that aggregate proceeds from the offering totaled...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers expect to meet in San Diego this week to continue work on a mobile-phone battery standard, an effort that comes in response to reports of injuries from exploding handsets likely caused by faulty batteries. CTIA and the Institute of...
