Alltel Corp.'s acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. is expected to be completed this week following a shareholder consideration election held late last week at Western Wireless Corp.'s final annual shareholders meeting. An Alltel spokesman noted that the shareholder election was the final step in...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless carrier Western Wireless Corp. has chosen an electronic lending services system from CGI-AMS Inc. Western Wireless will use CGI-AMS' NetCredit system to improve the efficiency of customer acquisitions. With the system, Western Wireless said it will be able to add new qualified...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp.'s board of directors today declared regular quarterly dividends on the company's common stock. The 38-cent dividend is payable Oct. 3 to stockholders of record as of Sept. 9. Regular quarterly dividends also were declared on all series of the company's...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless carrier Western Wireless Corp. has chosen an electronic lending services system from CGI-AMS Inc. Western Wireless will use CGI-AMS' NetCredit system to improve the efficiency of customer acquisitions.With the system, Western Wireless said it will be able to add new qualified customers...
WASHINGTON- Alltel Corp. set a July 21 deadline for Western Wireless Corp. shareholders to vote in favor of Alltel's pending acquisition of Western Wireless if they want to receive consideration in cash or shares of Alltel common stock. Alltel noted that Western Wireless shareholders...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. set a July 21 deadline for Western Wireless Corp. shareholders to vote in favor of Alltel's pending acquisition of Western Wireless if they want to receive consideration in cash or shares of Alltel common stock. Alltel noted that Western Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps said the agency should have required greater assurance from Alltel Corp. that it will comply with the Dec. 31 enhanced 911 deadline as part of the agency's conditional approval of the mobile-phone operator's $6 billion acquisition of Western...
What value should the government place on the spectrum at 2.5 GHz owned by Sprint Corp. and the company its plans to acquire soon, Nextel Communications Inc.? How should the Federal Communications Commission regulate spectrum for a service that doesn't exist-yet?Some consumer groups and...
As the mobile-phone market continues to surpass all forecasts, there are multiple ways those phones end up in the hands of consumers. At the beginning of last year, industry observers expected handset makers to sell around 500 million phones worldwide in 2004. Instead the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears close to approving the proposed $35 billion merger between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc., though it remains unclear whether the agency will impose any conditions on the deal as consumer groups and community technology centers have advocated. The...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department said Alltel Corp. must divest wireless assets in Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska in order to win government approval of its proposed $6 billion purchase of Western Wireless Corp. Justice last week simultaneously filed a civil suit in federal court here to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears close to approving the proposed $35 billion merger between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc., though it remains unclear whether the agency will impose any conditions on the deal as consumer groups and community technology centers have advocated.The Wireless...
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department today said Alltel Corp. must divest wireless assets in Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska in order to win government approval of its proposed $6 billion purchase of Western Wireless Corp.Justice today simultaneously filed a civil suit in federal court here to block...
The wireless industry is quickly following the wireline market with a handful of large operators dominating the market, according to independent credit rating agency Standard & Poor's. With the latest round of merger and acquisition activity fully under way, S&P claims the industry's soon-to-be...
BOSTON-Verizon Wireless trumped all other telecommunications providers in the latest online customer respect survey conducted by research and consulting firm The Customer Respect Group. TCRG said the index was a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a customer's online experience when interacting with companies via...
WASHINGTON-When the Community Technology Centers' Network officially began its ambitious campaign in late March to persuade federal regulators to force Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. to divest "sufficient spectrum" in the 2.5 GHz band as a condition for approval of their proposed $35...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it will issue $24.5 million shares of its common stock May 17 in settlement of purchase contracts that are components of its equity units. The company noted there were approximately 27.7 million purchase contracts outstanding, and each contract obligates...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is asking mobile-phone carriers to supply highly detailed data about their calling plans in connection with the agency's review of the proposed $35 billion merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc.FCC letters, dated May 6 but only recently released,...
Infrastructure giant L.M. Ericsson announced it will put the brakes on its CDMA business, a move that coincides with the shuttering of its CDMA headquarters in San Diego. Ericsson said it will no longer seek out new CDMA deals and instead will focus on...
WASHINGTON-A large coalition of government, public interest and telecom industry groups sent a letter to Capitol Hill urging the Senate Commerce Committee to pass a bill that would permanently exempt the universal-service fund from the Anti-Deficiency Act. More than 30 organizations, including Alcatel, Western...
The industry's heavyweights are not the only wireless operators benefiting from the recent consumer surge. A handful of regional operators posted first-quarter results that included generally strong customer growth numbers as well as improving financial metrics. Western Wireless Corp.Posted a company record 58,600 domestic...
In what is expected to be its final quarterly financial report before being acquired by Alltel Corp. later this year, Western Wireless Corp. posted a company record 58,600 domestic net customer additions during the first quarter of this year. The company noted the growth...
WASHINGTON-A large coalition of government, public interest and telecom industry groups sent a letter to Capitol Hill Wednesday urging the Senate Commerce Committee to pass a bill that will permanently exempt the universal-service fund from the Anti-Deficiency Act. "The April 11 hearing left no...
Infrastructure giant Ericsson announced it will put the brakes on its CDMA business and will not seek any new customers. The company will instead focus on its line-up of existing CDMA carriers."We will not aggressively look for any new customers," said Ericsson spokeswoman Pia...
