LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it will begin a new consumer-centric brand advertising campaign May 1 built around customer satisfaction. The campaign will highlight new wireless initiatives, including an automatic one-minute credit for any dropped call on the company's network; the ability for customers...
Three of the industry's six largest wireless operators posted first-quarter financial results in line with analysts estimates and ahead of 2004 results, demonstrating there is still plenty of growth left in the wireless industry. Building on its industry-leading customer growth during the fourth quarter...
Alltel Corp. posted mixed first-quarter wireless results with the company reporting an 11-percent year-over-year increase in total net customer additions, but a 23-percent drop in internally driven customer growth. For the first three months of this year, Alltel said it added 174,798 net subscribers...
Both Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. posted first-quarter results above expectations, news that helped bump up the tech-heavy Nasdaq around 1.5 percent to 1943 points. Nokia and Motorola too enjoyed investors' enthusiasm. Nokia's stock bounced up around 6 percent to $16.25 per share, while...
T-Mobile USA Inc.'s position as the nation's fourth-largest wireless operator, as well as one of the industry's fastest growing, might not be enough to guarantee its long-term prospects. Several industry observers have questioned the carrier's ability to remain a standalone entity in the face...
WASHINGTON-The Texas Court of Appeals Thursday said a lower state court erred when it said Western Wireless Corp. is not eligible to receive universal-service subsidies. The Texas Telephone Association and Texas Statewide Telephone Cooperative Inc. sued after the Texas Public Utility Commission rejected their...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it has sold its interest in Fidelity National Financial to Goldman Sachs for about $350 million. The telecommunications provider noted it acquired the Fidelity stock in 2003 as partial consideration for the sale of Alltel's information services business to...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) often describes his state as having a lot of land between light poles. In other words, rural America by its very definition has fewer people and more land. This combination has traditionally been harder and more expensive to serve by...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One customers in 19 states and in a separate announcement announced the availability of the CDM-8930 handset, a swivel clamshell...
Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One customers in 19 states and in a separate announcement announced the availability of the CDM-8930 handset, a swivel clamshell camera...
Western Wireless Corp., which is in the process of being acquired by Alltel Corp. for $6 billion, reported $508.3 million in revenues during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 22-pecent improvement compared with the $416 million the carrier posted during the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked Alltel Corp. to provide additional information in regard to its pending $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. The request, which was filed March 1 and released yesterday, follows a similar request by the Department of Justice earlier...
The Rural Telecommunications Group trade association, which represents small wireless operators in rural markets, filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny Alltel Corp.'s pending acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. RTG cited a lack of information in the acquisition application, potential harm...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked Alltel Corp. to provide additional information in regard to its pending $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. The request, which was filed March 1 and released yesterday, follows a similar request by the Department of Justice earlier...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Citing the pending completion of a review of its accounting for operating leased towers, Western Wireless Corp. said it is delaying the full release of fourth-quarter and year-end 2004 financial results originally scheduled for March 10. Western Wireless, which announced earlier this year...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department has asked for additional information on Alltel Corp.'s proposed $6 billion purchase of Western Wireless Corp., both companies said. While the latest development could delay final DoJ action on the pending merger, the department's request is not unusual and does not...
WASHINGTON-Rural wireline carriers can no longer file tariffs with state commissions that charge wireless carriers to terminate calls, said the Federal Communications Commission Thursday, but did not say the termination tariffs were unlawful as requested by a group of carriers."Because the existing rules do...
CANNES, France-Two global carriers announced contracts for content charging systems last week. Lucent Technologies Inc. and NetSpira Networks said they have provided Singapore's MobileOne Ltd. with a content-based online charging system for GPRS and UMTS services.M1's system will allow it to identify the type...
CANNES, France-L. M. Ericsson said it has signed a series of contracts with operators in the United States to deploy its hosted multimedia service.The service providers include Carolina West Wireless, Centennial Wireless, Golden State Cellular, Rural Cellular Corp., Western Wireless Corp. and WestLink."These operators...
CANNES, France-Two global carriers announced contracts for content charging systems Tuesday.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NetSpira Networks said they have provided Singapore's MobileOne Ltd. with a content-based online charging system for GPRS and UMTS services.M1's system will allow it to identify the type of data...
Alltel Corp. said it has successfully remarketed approximately $1.385 billion worth of senior notes due 2007 that were initially issued as part of its equity units. The company noted that as a result of the remarketing, the annual interest rate on the senior notes...
WASHINGTON-The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies urged the Federal Communications Commission to set stringent standards for competitors-usually wireless carriers-to receive universal-service subsidies and then require the staff to stick to those rules. "If the FCC's own bureaus cannot adhere...
WASHINGTON-The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to set stringent standards for competitors-usually wireless carriers-to receive universal-service subsidies and then require the staff to stick to those rules."If the FCC's own bureaus cannot adhere...
TAMPA, Fla.-Wireless retailer and Wi-Fi hot-spot provider FTS Wireless Inc. said it plans to begin marketing Alltel Corp.'s wireless products and services next month. The company currently distributes wireless products from Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint Corp. in select markets."Alltel has a solid footprint...
