BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it launched its VoiceStream Wireless personal communications services in Seattle and Spokane, Wash.In western Washington, VoiceStream's network provides coverage in all cities along the I-5 corridor from the Canadian border south to Cottage Grove, Ore. In eastern Washington, coverage...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, of $171.6 million, up 51 percent from the same quarter the previous year. For 1998, the company reported revenues of $584.6 million, a 54-percent increase over the $380.6 million reported for...
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said Friday it would pursue a spinoff of its personal communications services business Aerial Communications Inc., a segment that has been a continual drag on its cash flow and earnings.TDS opted to withdraw its offers to exchange tracking stocks...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream Wireless personal communications services system in the Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., metropolitan areas.
Western Wireless Corp. said it is considering spinning off its 80.1-percent ownership interest in its personal communications business VoiceStream Wireless Corp. to its shareholders on a tax-free basis.The company, which owns mature and profitable cellular properties, said it filed a request for ruling with...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission late last week terminated negotiations with Pocket Communications Inc. debtors and called for the return of all but a few of the 46 personal communications services licenses for which Pocket pledged $1.4...
Western Wireless Corp. appointed Jay Florentine general manager for its Hawaii market. He will be responsible for 70 employees, four company-owned retail stores and 60 other retail stores on the Hawaiian Islands that carry VoiceStream Wireless products. Florentine most recently was the regional sales...
WICHITA,Kan.-Western Wireless Corp. said it launched VoiceStream personal communications services in Wichita.The VoiceStream Wireless network uses equipment supplied by Northern Telecom Inc. and operates on the Global System for Mobile communications 1900 MHz technology."Nortel's GSM 1900 digital wireless technology is proven in extensive service...
Western Wireless Corp. announced the official opening of its customer service center in Albuquerque, N.M., increasing its capacity to respond to calls from its VoiceStream wireless and Cellular One customers.The 65,000-square-foot facility is expected to employ 500 people over the next three years. It...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Network Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. announced a joint venture formed to expand personal communications services throughout Iowa.Called Iowa Wireless Services L.P., the venture is planned to bring PCS to 2.3 million Iowa residents and will market under the VoiceStream...
DENVER-Western Wireless Corp. said it plans to launch personal communications services based on Global System for Mobile communications technology May 1 in Denver. The company plans to open several VoiceStream Wireless retail outlets along the Front Range.Western Wireless will compete with digital cellular carriers...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream wireless service in Des Moines, Iowa. The system uses Global System for Mobile communications technology.The network includes metropolitan Des Moines, areas along Interstate 35 from Ames to Osceola and along Interstate 80 from Newton to just west...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream wireless service in Des Moines, Iowa. It is the sixth personal communications service market the company has launched.VoiceStream PCS includes wireless phone, paging and answering machine capabilities, as well as caller ID, call waiting, two-way text messaging,...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc., a provider of management solutions for the wireless industry, has completed the installation of the first Unix version of SCI's Intelligent Message Router for Western Wireless Corp.The system also incorporates an FTAM interface, the standard transfer protocol used throughout Europe...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area.The company's service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is available from the town of Espanola, north of Santa Fe, to Socorro, south of Albuquerque.By...
Northern Telecom Inc. announced the commercial launch of VoiceStream Wireless service on its Global System for Mobile communications-based personal communications services 1900 network in Hawaii, the second PCS network activated in the United States.The service, operated by Western Wireless Corp., was launched in Honolulu...
