Western Wireless

The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. …

Even as the wireless industry consolidates to four national carriers and as more regional consolidation is predicted, wireless customers are getting more choices-not fewer-as to which companies will provide their …

The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued the business of integrating AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with a pair of deals to sell spectrum and wireless assets designed to comply with government divestiture requests …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has rescinded a proposed $200,000 fine against Western Wireless for operating a transmitter on a historic site in North Dakota. The FCC said Western Wireless made …

WASHINGTON-Wireless and wireline carriers serving rural America hailed congressional passage of a measure that prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from restricting universal-service subsidies to primary lines. “Now that the primary-line …

WASHINGTON-Wireless and wireline carriers serving rural America hailed passage of language in the Consolidated Appropriations Act that prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from restricting universal-service subsidies to primary lines. “Now …

WASHINGTON-Three independent wireless carriers told the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday that changes to the intercarrier-compensation regime should move toward a bill-and-keep regime where carriers would choose the best way to …

In what is traditionally a quiet period for the wireless industry, T-Mobile USA Inc. reported robust third-quarter results that trailed only Verizon Wireless in customer growth and further separated the …

Rural wireless provider Western Wireless Corp. reported $276.1 million in domestic revenues during the third quarter of this year, which was a 6-percent improvement compared with the $260.6 million the …

Following stronger-than-expected third-quarter growth results posted by seven of the nation’s eight largest wireless operators late last month, a trio of smaller players posted mixed results last week. Meanwhile, a …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it was delaying the release of its third-quarter financial results until Nov. 8 after determining that the accounting for certain direct labor costs associated with …

WASHINGTON-While new industry figures show top Republicans casting pro-technology votes more often than their counterparts in Congress, a review of fresh campaign finance data reveals top high-tech firms are hedging …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp.’s Cellular One subsidiary said it will open more than 40 authorized dealer locations in Kmart retail stores by the end of the year. The kiosk locations …

The wide ranging world of wireless roaming has fallen on deaf ears when it comes to CDMA2000 1x data services. Most U.S. operators have yet to sign agreements that would …

WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp., which does business as Cellular One, said Wednesday it has received eligible telecommunications carrier status for eight additional areas in South Dakota. ETC designation is necessary to …

WASHINGTON-The Montana Public Service Commission last week said that 11 rural wireline carriers could delay intermodal local number portability to no later than Jan. 1, 2006, and Western Wireless Corp. …

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Cellular One have made the Kyocera Aktiv wireless handset available to Cellular One subscribers. The durable, rubbberized CDMA phone is targeted at users with active …

Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will supply its converged multiple network offering to rural carrier Western Wireless Corp. Nortel said it will supply Passport 15000 Multiservice Switches to bring the …

WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp. is appealing a decision by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to impose conditions on it receiving universal-service subsidies, arguing the conditions amount to rate regulation prohibited by …

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Cellular One have made the Kyocera Aktiv wireless handset available to Cellular One subscribers. The durable, rubbberized CDMA phone is targeted at users with active …

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia-NuevaTel PCS de Bolivia S.A., a Western Wireless subsidiary, launched a new GSM network in Santa Cruz using an infrastructure solution from Nortel Networks Ltd. The new network …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it would offer $200 million of its Class A common stock to help fund general corporate purposes, working capital requirements, capital expenditures and for potential …

Rural operators continued to wean themselves from roaming revenues during the second quarter of this year with mixed results as some have been able to make up the revenue shortfall …

WASHINGTON-A group of nine wireline companies, two with wireless affiliates, are proposing to radically change the way carriers compensate each other to carry traffic on each other’s networks, and most …