Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could be a much-needed jolt for the anemic mobile search business.
Sprint Nextel Corp. is providing another possible incentive for customers to stick around, knocking $35 off one of its monthly plan offerings - but shoppers will need to check the fine print. According to industry research firm Current Analysis, the carrier lowered its Phone...
ASPEN, Colo. - The cable industry remains infatuated with wireless, yet details on how it plans to tackle the market remain murky.The latest to shine a light on the issue was Cox Communications Inc. President Patrick Esser. Esser, speaking at the Progress and Freedom...
The companies listed below represent the ten largest national and regional licensed wireless carriers based on subscriber numbers at the end of the second quarter of this year.
Once again, there was no movement among the top 10 carriers. AT&T continued to rank No. 1...
Mimicking a recent move by rival T-Mobile USA Inc., Verizon Wireless is now offering "more-control" options for parents. Verizon Wireless' new service, dubbed "Usage Controls," acts as an online tool that allows customers to set limits on their children's minutes and text messages, outline...
Lately in the land of red, white and blue, people are talking a lot about green, including wireless service providers. In an industry that boasts 263 million subscribers who get a heap of stuff with their service, carriers can have a large carbon footprint....
A number of Alltel Communications L.L.C employees may soon lose their jobs.According to an Associated Press report, when Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel finalizes, the carrier plans to keep a regional headquarters in Alltel's base city of Little Rock. However, the existing Alltel headquarters...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. showed more enthusiasm toward its newer, postpaid offerings in its second-quarter report - not the normal behavior for a company that made its name with prepaid. When asked about average revenue per user (ARPU) results related to its recently launched...
RCR Wireless News' sister publication Advertising Age ranked the leading national advertisers in its June 23 issue. Interestingly, wireless carriers accounted for the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots in U.S. advertising spending by company in 2007. (See below.)
As Verizon Wireless works to purchase the carrier, Alltel Communications L.L.C. announced the addition of 319,687 customers in the second quarter, showing it is still thriving even as its potential end draws near.Verizon Wireless said in June that it would acquire Alltel in a...
A handful of rural operators again raised concerns over future roaming capabilities in filing a petition to deny Verizon Wireless' attempt to acquire the nation's No. 5 operator Alltel Communications L.L.C.In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, more than a half dozed...
NEW YORK - Verizon and the unions that represent 65,000 of its workers reached a new tentative three-year contract agreement Sunday that protects union jobs and maintains employer-paid health care while providing cost saving for the company on retirement health care for new hires.The...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. plans to hitch its 4G plans to Long Term Evolution technology. Following in the footsteps of other CDMA carriers, MetroPCS said during its second quarter conference call that it would use LTE for its 4G network technology. Verizon Wireless, Alltel Communication...
Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast. We take a closer look at Sprint and what the carrier might do with its iDEN network. ; Sprint Nextel iDEN; Welcome to the RCR Wireless Newscast. We take a closer look...
A group of rural and small wireless providers asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to impose an interim cap on high-cost universal service fund payments to eligible telecommunications carriers, urging the agency to refrain from putting the rule into effect and...
The Federal Communications Commission asked a federal appeals court to throw out enhanced 911 location accuracy rules approved last November but not yet put into effect, pointing to public safety groups' recent disclosure that they would settle for a relaxed standard."In light of the...
T-Mobile USA Inc.'s second-quarter results showed increases in the two Cs, customers and churn. The nation's No. 4 carrier added 668,000 customers, pushing its customer base to 31.5 million at the end of the quarter, but T-Mobile USA's churn reached 2.7%, up from 2.6%...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than individual tracks.Ringback Playlist, as the offering is marketed, offers 12 channels consisting of five ringback tones that are rotated every...
Verizon Wireless announced it completed its purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., bringing to a close a yearlong transaction that sparked complaints from consumer advocates and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).Under the final agreement, Verizon Wireless placed Rural Cellular licenses and assets in Vermont, New York...
T-Mobile USA Inc. kept good on its 3G rollout promise; the carrier launched its 3G network in Las Vegas. Although it currently lags behind its tier-one competitors in the high-speed data arena, T-Mobile USA has plans to launch 3G in 20 more markets by...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s comeback campaign showed limited progress but remains a work in progress, as the struggling No. 3 wireless provider slowed its hemorrhaging customer churn while recording a $344 million loss in the second quarter. The Q2 results, which had Sprint Nextel losing...
Leap Wireless International Inc. is planning to aggressively expand its broadband offering even as that buildout weighs down its financials. The carrier said it added added 171,000 net customers during the second quarter. Most of those additions (116,000) were new customers in recently launched...
Just like Ronald Reagan claimed with his trickle-down economic plan, wireless customers are beginning to see unlimited offerings filter down to cheaper price points and in some cases to offerings that do not require a cumbersome contract.Last week Tracfone Wireless Inc. subsidiary Net10 jumped...
The Federal Communications Commissions gave the green light to Verizon Wireless' $2.67 billion purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., with the transaction and a separate pending deal involving the No. 2 mobile-phone operator bringing to the forefront a number a key policy issues.The FCC, like...
