The last of the six nationwide wireless operators reported second-quarter results last week as German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG released results for T-Mobile USA Inc. that showed a dramatic drop-off in customer growth compared with the first three months of this year, but...
Verizon Wireless again raised the stakes in the wireless local number portability fight, urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from a number of its competitors that Verizon Wireless said would create barriers for wireless customers looking to switch carriers once WLNP is...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed up Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications Inc. (APBW) as the latest carrier to offer Qualcomm's BREW application download service.Indeed, the CDMA2000 1x carrier is working to expand the capabilities of its CDMA network as just last week APBW signed a...
The camera-phone craze appears to have officially hit the United States, with Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless both boasting of millions of picture messages passing over their networks every month. Indeed, new research released today by advisory firm Zelos Group shows the market for...
Heavy call volumes on wireless networks frustrated end users and led cell sites, operating on backup generators and batteries, to quickly falter during the massive power outage that crippled the northeastern United States this week.Given the situation, even the best system would have been...
Verizon Wireless again raised the stakes in the wireless local number portability fight, urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from a number of its competitors that Verizon Wireless said would create barriers for wireless customers looking to switch carriers once WLNP is...
Verizon Wireless provided details on its highly anticipated Push to Talk service set to officially launch Aug. 18. As RCR Wireless News reported yesterday, the service allows customers to communicate across the carrier's nationwide CDMA2000 1x network using the same phone number for both...
Verizon Wireless' highly anticipated press-to-talk service is expected to introduce tomorrow with the carrier rolling out a nationwide offering using the carrier's CDMA2000 1x packet network, Winphoria's PTT server and initially a Motorola V60p handset. The service is expected to be similar to Nextel...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a range of entertainment applications and communications services on its recently deployed CDMA2000 1x network using Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform.The applications will include games like Fury of the Hulk, Jamdat Bowling, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six and Tetris;...
The camera-phone craze appears to have officially hit the United States, with Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless both boasting of millions of picture messages passing over their networks every month. Indeed, Sprint's camera-phone service played a major role in a widely reported story of...
The headline in the July 28 issue on page 12 about American Tower earnings should have read "American Tower to shed tall tower construction service subsidiary."In the "Cingular to use NextWave spectrum" story in the Aug. 4 issue of RCR Wireless News, the price...
If you go into someone's shop and take something without paying, it's shoplifting and is punishable by jail time and a fine. But when a customer who owes a carrier money takes his or her phone number with them to another carrier without paying...
More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS that calls for Qwest to transition its nearly 1 million wireless subscribers to Sprint...
The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...
SAN DIEGO-A delayed initial public offering and the resulting moves toward integration with the company's parent in Japan compelled top executives at mobile-phone maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. to resign, the company said.Howard Speaks resigned as Kyocera's chief executive officer and president. He was hired...
PRAGUE-The Czech Office for the Protection of Economic Competition has approved Cesky Telecom's planned purchase of the 49-percent stake it does not already own in wireless operator Eurotel Praha.Cesky Telecom is buying the stake from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. according...
A delayed initial public offering and the resulting moves toward integration with the company's parent in Japan compelled top executives at mobile-phone maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. to resign, the company said.Howard Speaks resigned as Kyocera's chief executive officer and president. He was hired in...
SBC Communications Inc. said it plans to deploy more than 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in 6,000 venues during the next three years and create an integrated Wi-Fi and next-generation wireless service with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow customers to move between the Wi-Fi...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless reported a roaming agreement with Wayport Inc. that will allow the carrier's customers to roam onto Wayport's more than 650 wired and wireless high-speed Internet access locations across the country at speeds of up to 1.5 megabits per second.Verizon Wireless said...
The country's two largest CDMA carriers posted strong second-quarter results last week, with customer growth surging past last year's results and customer churn rates falling to unexpected lows. The results followed similarly robust second-quarter customer growth announcements last month from nationwide rivals Cingular Wireless...
DENVER-Federal and state telecommunications officials prodded almost every aspect of the universal-service program at a hearing here last week, focusing mainly on the major effects from wireless, in an attempt to determine whether the fund needs to be changed-and if so, how."The time for...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s rumored $1.4 billion purchase of 34 PCS licenses from NextWave Telecom Inc. was semi-announced last week as NextWave's public-relations agency distributed a press release claiming the two companies had agreed on a deal that if approved by NextWave's bankruptcy court and...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Even without wireless local number portability, churn continues to increase, according to a recent study by Solomon-Wolff Associates. Annual churn is 17.7 percent, reflecting an increase of 62 percent during the past five years.According to churn ratios determined in the study, most...
Instilling further proof of their strong partnership Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc reported plans to develop a dual-branded "Verizon Vodafone" laptop data card service designed for business customers who travel between the United States and Europe.The companies said the...
