This holiday season, those shopping for wireless service and devices will find a culmination of new offerings, as well as traditional bargain rates on buckets of wireless minutes.For the first time ever, shoppers will be able to use their wireless devices to purchase items...
NEW YORK-The major players' rankings reflect the dynamic environment of telecommunications as some stalwarts held their ground, some newcomers joined the group, while still others showed substantial rises or falls in various categories.AT&T Wireless Group, listed this year as an entity distinct from its...
Verizon Wireless bought up the last bits of the Sacramento Valley L.P., which covers about 3.8 million people in Northern California and Nevada and operates under the Verizon brand.Centennial Communications Corp. will give up its 23.5-percent interest in the partnership, covering about 865,000 people,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday released the list of applicants to participate in the re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses, scheduled for Dec. 12.The FCC accepted 44 applications, including Alltel Communications Inc. and Cook Inlet/VoiceStream Wireless Corp., and told 66 other entities-including...
NEW YORK-Bolt Inc., a communication platform geared for 15- to 20-year-olds, launched an interactive wireless advertising effort with a Nintendo ad campaign in conjunction with wireless carriers AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless and others.Bolt said it will deliver text-based and WAP-formatted...
London-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group plc reported strong interim results for the six months ended Sept. 30, including a 55-percent increase in proportionate customer additions compared with the same period last year, bringing the company's proportionate customer base to 65.5 million subscribers.Proportionate earnings...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-Verizon Wireless announced plans to open a new retail store in Grand Junction, Colo., and launch digital service in the area.This marks Verizon's 15th new retail store in the state and extends the company's digital coverage from Denver to Grand Junction along...
The hunt for spectrum by wireless carriers continued last week as Verizon Wireless, the country's largest operator, offered more than $2 billion for Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Price Communications.While the purchase was not surprising-Price has been looking for a buyer...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Although Alltel last week announced it will sell 20 of its personal communications services licenses to Verizon Wireless, it will keep another 42 licenses. The company also plans to buy some of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses during the auction scheduled for next...
The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, Motorola Inc. and others convinced the Illinois Supreme Court to stay the publication in USA Today last week of a notice of class-action litigation alleging privacy violations in connection with an epidemiology study funded by the wireless industry....
WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that solutions-whether they be handset, network or hybrid-will meet the time lines or accuracy requirements...
WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it plans to fine Clear Communications Group $120,000 for willful and repeated violations of federal workplace safety regulations."The failure to provide adequate fall protection is one of the most common and most preventable causes of injuries in...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday began a process that it hopes will lead to a secondary market for spectrum, and it put the private-wireless industry on notice that it might be subject to auctions if it wants additional spectrum.Secondary marketsA key policy objective...
WASHINGTON-Qwest Communications International Corp. was able to emerge from the union negotiating table without agreeing to allow the Communications Workers of America to have access to its wireless employees, something that neither Verizon Communications nor SBC Communications Inc. were able to do.Qwest announced Oct....
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Oct. 27 approved the transfer of several personal communications services and local multipoint distribution service licenses to TeleCorp Wireless Inc.The bulk of the licenses are being transferred as part of TeleCorp's merger with Tritel Inc."The approval is...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Nortel Networks and Verizon Wireless announced today they completed a third-generation, over-the-air trial of data transmission and voice calls using cdma2000 technology.The companies said the successful trial processed both voice and data calls between three active cell sites. The companies said the trial...
NEW YORK-The battle over customer ownership in the emerging mobile-commerce market will evolve, by necessity, into a model of "coopetition," said Philip Yen, executive vice president of e-Visa International.Banks, credit-card companies, middleware providers, telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers must and will join forces, each...
SAN FRANCISCO-Critical Path Inc. and Logica announced they have extended their relationship in which they jointly provide wireless messaging infrastructure to wireless carriers.The two combine Logica's Short Message Service Center with Critical Path's InScribe Wireless Messaging Internet messaging infrastructure, allowing for two-way text messaging...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Cesky Mobil, the Czech Republic's third mobile telephone operator, is seeking to differentiate itself from its competition by offering low start-up costs and emphasizing ease of use.The formula has paid quick dividends. In its first four operational months, it signed up more...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
WASHINGTON-Network-based solutions to meet the wireless enhanced 911 Phase II mandate may be winning the battle with handset-based solutions because handsets are not available as the deadline looms for carriers to make a choice.While many of the largest carriers-including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and...
WASHINGTON-Aggressive industry lobbying and strong bipartisan backing by the Washington state congressional delegation in this election season of giving helped win removal of a measure that would have killed the VoiceStream Wireless Inc.-Deutsche Telekom AG merger in the final days of the 106th Congress.Sen....
WASHINGTON-As the nation prepares for a sea change that will come when a new president is elected, the wireless industry's main trade association experienced some major changes recently and prepared for an upcoming campaign on one of its thorniest issues-driver distraction.From `industry' to `Internet'The...
NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data Inc. has begun providing its trademarked Synapse to bridge the divide between rural farmers and their city customers.The pilot program, involving wireless point-of-sale terminals at 45 urban Green Markets in New York state, represents just one way the company "is...
