Merger-mania trickled down the food chain last week as super-regional operator Alltel Corp. said it had reached an agreement to buy rural operator Western Wireless Corp. for approximately $6 billion in stock, cash and debt assumption. Alltel noted that when completed later this year,...
In a rare review of wireless advertising claims, T-Mobile USA Inc. received a modest slap on the wrist last week as The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. found that while most of the claims T-Mobile USA made in...
While there may be a lack of visual similarities, John Stanton's career in the wireless industry has nearly mirrored John Travolta's stardom in Hollywood. Both came out of nowhere at an early age to make an enormous impact-Travolta with "Saturday Night Fever" in the...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s presence in the wireless industry is set to come to an end sometime later this year when Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s pending $41 billion acquisition of the nation's third-largest operator is set to close. Along with the reduction in number of...
Beaten back by a lackluster economy and ambivalent wireless users, an assortment of veteran wireless data players has sought refuge in the company of network operators. By targeting wireless carriers, these companies are looking to find a stable customer base amid a cutthroat business...
WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. Thursday agreed to pay a fine of $1.1 million for failing to deploy wireless enhanced 911 services on its GSM network in a manner consistent with a waiver it received in 2000.The consent decree wraps up the outstanding issues regarding the...
WASHINGTON-Brian O'Connor, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs at T-Mobile U.S.A., has resigned to pursue opportunities elsewhere in the private sector. O'Connor said his departure from T-Mobile, effective Jan. 2, was amicable and had been planned for some time. He said it is...
TOKYO-The Financial Times reported German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG is unlikely to sell off its T-Mobile USA Inc. division when it announces its debt-reduction plans next week due to the delay in reaping revenue benefits in a timely fashion and DT believing it...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Instead of trying to sell off its U.S.-based VoiceStream Wireless Corp. holdings, analysts said German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG may choose an early public offering of its T-Mobile unit to help the company reduce its more than $60 billion debt load." want...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. officially replaced the VoiceStream Wireless Corp. brand name across the United States today with its T-Mobile brand. The rebranding began in July with the launch of service in California and Nevada and has rapidly expanded across the country.With the name...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States-T-Mobile USA officially replaced the VoiceStream Wireless brand name across the United States today with its T-Mobile brand. The rebranding began in July with the launch of service in California and Nevada and has rapidly expanded across the country.With the name...
While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path as their worldly brothers when it came to deploying third-generation (3G) networks. Those models...
FRANKFURT, Germany-German weekly magazine Focus reported VoiceStream Wireless Corp. added 500,000 new customers during July and August, which was approximately the same number of customers the carrier added during the three months of the second quarter.The magazine attributed VoiceStream's strong showing in part to...
WASHINGTON-A debate is simmering at the Federal Communications Commission that could result in wireless carriers having to pay incumbent local exchange carriers significantly more to carry calls on the ILEC network.Traditionally, wireless carriers paid ILECs one-quarter-cent in a bill-n-keep format to carry calls on...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Sprint PCS and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. are looking at swapping a handful of spectrum licenses in Louisiana and Florida, according to a report from Raymond James & Associates.The report, which sites documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, notes Sprint PCS...
NEW YORK-Deutsche Telekom AG has proposed merging its VoiceStream Wireless Corp. operations with Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which is owned by BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc., according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.The newspaper said unnamed sources close to both companies confirmed...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Technology giant IBM Corp. released an important new product the company said allows wireless device users to seamlessly roam across a variety of disparate wireless networks-including wireless local area network, cellular, private mobile radio and satellite networks-all without ever turning off the device.IBM...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile International AG reported detailed second quarter results for its U.S. operations consisting of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Powertel Inc., reaffirming its 525,900 net customer additions and ending the quarter with 8 million total subscribers. Contract customers increased from 5.7 million in the...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States-T-Mobile USA, which is known as VoiceStream Wireless in most of the country, launched its T-Mobile-branded Windows Powered Pocket PC Phone Edition for its T-Mobile and VoiceStream customers.The US$600 voice-enabled personal digital assistant (PDA) is powered by Microsoft's software, allowing users...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless Local Area Network services provider HereUare Communications Inc. is up for sale, and could shut down its services within two weeks if a buyer is not found, according to published reports.Company executives were not immediately available for comment. The move does...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced a decision made May 14 to keep in place the selective router as the demarcation point for wireless enhanced 911 cost recovery.Verizon Wireless Inc., VoiceStream Wireless Corp., Qwest Wireless L.L.C. and Nextel Communications Inc. had urged the...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially launched its GSM service in New York City today, placing the nation's second-largest carrier in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide and covering 217 million potential customers. The service uses VoiceStream Wireless Corp.'s GSM/GPRS network as part of...
NEW YORK-U.S. operators AT&T Wireless Services and VoiceStream Wireless are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A merged company would combine the country's third- and sixth-largest nationwide...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A merged company would combine the country's third- and sixth-largest nationwide...
