Western Wireless

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. priced a public offering of 12 million shares of common stock that the carrier expects will generate $228 million. The carrier said it will use net …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.) asked the Bush administration to press the government of Cote d’Ivoire to make amends for the forced closure in that country of a mobile-phone system owned …

MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp., which announced last month plans to sell its wireless operations to Western Wireless Corp., reported a $25.9 million before tax and $15.3 million after …

Western Wireless Corp. reported strong third-quarter year-over-year customer growth and improved total revenues for its domestic wireless operations bolstered by increases in average revenue per user and a decrease in …

WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp. and other investors today said they will ask the Cote d’Ivoire government to compensate them for having to shut down a U.S.-owned mobile-phone system in the African …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. added two U.S. carriers to its list of BREW clients, with both Metro PCS and Western Wireless Corp. signing agreements with the vendor to offer BREW services …

Western Wireless Corp. announced the registration statement for the resale of its outstanding 4.625-percent convertible subordinated notes due 2023 and the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon conversion …

WASHINGTON-Universal service was a hot topic in Washington last week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign by TracFone Wireless. “The Federal Communications Commission’s …

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers currently finance about 30 percent of the universal-service fund, but only get about 2 percent of the money available, John Stanton, chairman, director and chief executive officer of …

WASHINGTON-When Stephen Largent was chosen as the new president of the Cellular & Telecommunications Association, his only connection to the wireless industry appeared to be as a former member of …

WASHINGTON-Universal service is a hot topic in Washington this week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign launched Tuesday by TracFone Wireless. “The Federal …

Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. said it will sell its wireless business to Western Wireless Corp. for $25 million, including $12.8 million in cash and about 1 million HickoryTech shares …

Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. signed a definitive agreement to sell its wireless business to Western Wireless Corp. for approximately $25 million, including $12.8 million in cash and approximately 1 …

Western Wireless Corp. filed amended quarterly reports for the first and second quarters of this year with the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to comments the carrier received from …

WASHINGTON-Two rural trade associations tried Wednesday to shoot down Western Wireless Corp.’s basic argument that competition and universal service can co-exist. “Congress was careful to treat areas served by rural …

Of the handful of rural carriers that reported second-quarter results last week, including Western Wireless Corp., Dobson Communications Corp., Rural Cellular Corp., Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Alamosa Holdings Inc. and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …