BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. reported $359.2 million in total revenues during the second quarter compared with $290.8 million posted during the second quarter of 2002. Net income also increased from a loss of $27.4 million last year, a loss of 35 cents per share,...
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...
DALLAS-Western Wireless Corp. said it has awarded Nortel Networks Ltd. a $90 million contract to deploy networks for CDMA, GSM roaming and wireless data.Nortel will deploy cdma2000 core and radio access networking equipment, which will cover markets in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. continued to expand the reach of its GSM/GPRS service last week, signing roaming agreements with Dobson Communications Corp. and its joint venture American Cellular Corp. that will eventually add coverage to more than 11 million potential customers in parts of...
It has been just a few years since wireless broadband was all but declared dead. But the industry instead has made a small recovery.Wireless broadband service attracted a lot of attention from its dawn in the late 1990s until about 2000, as carriers were...
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its CCC rating to Western Wireless Corp.'s aggregate $600 million senior notes offering, reaffirmed the carrier's B- corporate credit rating and removed Western Wireless from the ratings agency's CreditWatch, on which it was placed earlier this year.The ratings...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. signed a GSM/GPRS roaming agreement with Western Wireless Corp. that will enable AT&T Wireless customers to roam onto Western Wireless' planned GSM/GPRS network in portions of 17 western states.Financial terms of the agreement were not released, although it will be...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced two new CDMA phone deals, moves that follow on the company's promise to expand its CDMA phone business, but ones that do not involve big-name CDMA carriers.Nokia said it will sell its advanced 1xRTT-capable 3586i through U.S. Cellular, and its...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission was correct when it opened an auction for rural cellular licenses rather than limiting it to those who had applied for a lottery years before.Ranger Cellular and Miller Communications Inc. argued in March...
Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular's Northeast region and 200,000 pops in the carrier's Northwest region.In connection with the purchase, Rural Cellular said...
Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular's Northeast region and 200,000 pops in the carrier's Northwest region.In connection with the purchase, Rural Cellular said...
Wireless carriers have joined the millions of homeowners who are taking advantage of the country's economic slowdown and resulting low interest rates to reduce debt levels and refinance existing debt at interest rates not seen in decades. Since the beginning of June, a number...
WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp. is protesting the Federal Communications Commission's proposed fine for operating a tower in a historic area without proper authorization.The FCC wants to fine Western Wireless $200,000 for constructing and continuing to operate a 180-foot tower in Medora, N.D., on a ridge...
WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp. on June 13 strongly objected to the Federal Communications Commission's proposed fine for operating a tower in a historic area without proper authorization.The FCC wants to fine Western Wireless Corp. $200,000 for constructing and continuing to operate a 180-foot tower in...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its CCC rating to Western Wireless Corp.'s $100 million convertible subordinated notes offering and placed the rating on CreditWatch with negative implications. S&P added that Western Wireless' B- corporate credit and secured bank loan ratings, as well...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it intends to sell $100 million of convertible subordinated notes due 2023, which will be convertible into Western Wireless Class A common stock.The offering will be made to institutional buyers in an unregistered offering and will include the option...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary Western Wireless International Corp. reported an agreement to sell its 19-percent interest in Croatia's largest GSM wireless operator VIPnet d.o.o. to Mobilkom Austria Aktiengesellschaft & CO KG.Western Wireless International said it expects to receive $70 million in proceeds from...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Nortel said that with the...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. has been chosen to provide vendor services for Western Wireless Corp.'s CDMA network and its recently announced GSM/GPRS overlay.Wireless Facilities will offer services, including project management, radio frequency design, network installation, and commissioning and construction management services. "WFI has provided...
After years of claiming there are too many competitors in the wireless industry for anyone to make a profit, the federal government finally pulled off the leash, lifting spectrum-cap rules prohibiting any one carrier from monopolizing spectrum capacity in any one market.But since the...
WASHINGTON-The Bush Administration was berated Thursday by a powerful lawmaker for cutting and eliminating funding for telecommunications grants that could be used by Native Americans to improve teledensity in Indian Country."In the last century and the current century, Indian Country has sent to war...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has proposed fining a carrier for building a tower without seeking the proper authorization.The FCC wants to fine Western Wireless Corp. $200,000 for constructing and continuing to operate a 180-foot tower in Medora, N.D., on a ridge overlooking a historic...
Although GSM proponent Nokia Corp. continues to profess plans to improve its CDMA phone sales, the company's efforts to date in the United States seem relatively unimpressive.Of the two major CDMA carriers in the United States-Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS-only Sprint sells Nokia phones....
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Monday proposed fining Western Wireless Corp. $200,000 for constructing and continuing to operate a 180-foot tower in Medora, N.D., on a ridge overlooking a historic area.The proposed fine, known as a notice of apparent liability, is the first time...
