As the list of potential suitors became clearer last week, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s management took control of the situation by announcing a mid-February deadlines for potential buyers to submit acquisition proposals. The carrier also said it plans to make a decision about its...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
Although Bluetooth technology gradually is taking hold among the world's mobile-phone providers, the short-range wireless technology has elicited somewhat differing reactions from U.S. wireless carriers.Most notably, Sprint PCS introduced a separate pricing plan for its first Bluetooth-capable phone, the Sony Ericsson T608. The carrier...
WASHINGTON-A lawsuit was filed against a truck driver and a North Carolina company in connection with the death of a girl killed Jan. 13 when a school bus was rear-ended by a truck whose driver allegedly was reaching for a cell phone he dropped.Officials...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is one step closer to making a formal bid for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the Wall Street Journal reported Cingular's parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. have granted their wireless subsidiary approval to place a bid ahead...
NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless said it added approximately 1.5 million net subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2003 compared with 970,000 net customer additions during the fourth quarter of 2002. The strong quarterly growth pushed Verizon Wireless' full-year net customer additions to more than 5...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has received 4,734 informal complaints about wireless local number portability as of Jan. 23.Most complaints were about porting numbers between wireless carriers, while about 5 percent of the total complaints involved porting numbers from wireline to wireless carriers.AT&T...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it added nearly 4.4 million proportionate net subscribers during the final three months of last year across its international operations, ending 2003 with 130.4 million total proportionate subscribers.Included in Vodafone's customer growth results were 678,000 net subscriber additions from its...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has reportedly set a Feb. 13 deadline for companies interested in submitting bids to acquire the nation's third-largest wireless carrier, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company expects to have until Feb. 29 to...
WASHINGTON-A lawsuit was filed against a truck driver and a North Carolina company in connection with the death of a girl killed Jan. 13 when a school bus was rear-ended by a truck whose driver allegedly was reaching for a cell phone he dropped.Officials...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless bolstered its phone offerings as well as its wireless data application listings through two new deals.First, the nation's largest carrier announced it will sell the new VX4500 phone from LG Electronics Co. Ltd. for $90 with a two-year agreement. The LG...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. received the most consumer complaints registered with the Federal Communications Commission during the third quarter of last year according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The report noted that AT&T Wireless, the country's third-largest operator that recently announced...
Municipalities and states, hungry to find ways to fix their own budget woes, are targeting the wireless industry. As reported last week in RCR Wireless News, the city of Overland, Mo., and the states of South Dakota and Pennsylvania, all have added or are...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is replacing its America Online Inc. instant-messaging service in favor of a more open, standards-based offering. The carrier signed a deal with IM company Oz Communications to install a gateway in its network that complies with instant-messaging and presence specifications from...
The burgeoning push-to-talk market welcomed its latest competitor last week as Alltel Corp. announced an initial limited launch of its Touch2Talk service, joining long-time push-to-talk provider Nextel Communications Inc. and recent additions from Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS.Alltel said its walkie-talkie service, which uses...
Chet Huber is selling safety, security and peace of mind. And, he says, people are buying.Huber, president of General Motors' telematics company OnStar Corp., offers up plenty of evidence for his claim: a total of 2.5 million paying customers, renewal rates above 50 percent...
The wireless industry has had a long and lucrative history with sponsoring sporting events. According to a report released last year by Sports Marketing Surveys Ltd., the telecommunications industry signed 91 sports sponsorship deals in 2002, trailing only the automotive industry's 124 sponsorship agreements....
WASHINGTON-Reports of exploding mobile-phone batteries finally hit a high note with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announcing a voluntary recall of 140,000 of Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s 7135 smart-phone batteries. The federal agency said the faulty batteries can short circuit and "erupt with force...
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...
Reports of exploding mobile-phone batteries finally hit a high note with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announcing a voluntary recall of 140,000 of Kyocera Wireless Corp.'s 7135 smart-phone batteries. The federal agency said the faulty batteries can short circuit and "erupt with force...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc., the majority owner of Verizon Wireless, reported its board of directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to 80 million shares of its common stock, circumventing a previous authorization for the company to purchase approximately 47.5 million shares that...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it will add a new picture messaging phone, the CDM-8900 from Audiovox Communications Corp., to its line-up.Verizon said the phone will sell for $100 with a two-year customer agreement. For a limited time, the carrier said customers can sign up...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it beat market expectations in its first-quarter results with a net profit of $352 million, up 21 percent over the last quarter. This represented 43 cents per share, 23-percent higher sequentially.Revenues were $1.2 billion for the quarter, a 37-percent jump...
