MIAMI-Prepaid wireless provider TracFone Wireless Inc. launched its NET10 service offering providing a flat-rate 10-cent-per-minute calling rate for all calls. The service is available with select Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. GSM handsets with airtime card expiration dates available in $30, $60, $180 and...
NEW YORK—Technological advances are leaving wireline providers increasingly vulnerable to competition from wireless operators, according to a report released this week by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.The study indicates that while wireless carriers can’t match the bandwidth of wireline service yet, carriers can best take advantage...
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless provider TracFone Wireless Inc. launched its NET10 service offering providing a flat-rate 10-cent per minute calling rate for all calls.The service is available with select Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. GSM handsets with airtime card expiration dates available in $30, $60, $180...
Sierra WirelessSierra Wireless Inc.' board of directors said it is separating the roles of chair and chief executive officer and replacing the lead independent director position with a non-executive chair position. Peter Ciceri, the company's lead independent director since 2002, has been selected as...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile International added current T-Mobile USA Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sue Swenson to its management board. Swenson will be responsible for transatlantic synergy programs and development projects, integrated wireless local area network services, roaming offers and terminals.Swenson joins T-Mobile USA Chief Executive Officer...
JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless spending across all U.S. households during the fourth quarter declined for the first time in almost three years, according to TNS Telecoms' latest survey.Average household spending on wireless came in at $50.59 during the quarter. Before that, wireless spending had increased during...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News announces that Wayne Schelle has been inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame for 2005, now in its sixth year. The Hall of Fame recognizes the efforts of those people who have made significant contributions to advance wireless telecommunications....
Customer confusion over wireless rate plans and services is costing wireless operators $3 billion per year due to increasing customer churn and harmed brand relationships, according to a consumer survey from brand strategy company Siegel & Gale. The survey, which was part of the...
WASHINGTON-It has been one year since the Federal Communications Commission ordered carriers to allow customers to churn and take their phone numbers with them. The FCC said Wednesday that twice as many people-more than 8.5 million-participated in wireless local number portability in its inaugural...
Customer confusion over wireless rate plans and services is costing wireless operators $3 billion per year due to increasing customer churn and harmed brand relationships, according to a consumer survey from brand strategy company Siegel & Gale. The survey, which was part of the...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Citing low levels of customer satisfaction, a Harris Interactive Inc. study found that 13 percent of wireless customers have switched wireless providers during the past 12 months, an additional 13 percent are probably or definitely planning to switch carriers within the next year,...
WASHINGTON-The nation's top mobile-phone carriers asked a Minnesota federal court to stay a judge's decision last Friday upholding a new state law going into effect next week that bans mobile-phone carriers from making significant changes to service contracts without obtaining written or verbal permission...
WASHINGTON-A Minnesota federal court has upheld a new state law forbidding mobile-phone carriers from making significant changes to service contracts without obtaining written or verbal permission from subscribers, but ruled regulatory recovery fees can be passed through to consumers without notice.The Minnesota wireless consumer...
It's a bird-it's a plane-it's a Stratellite high-altitude airship that enables wireless communications from the Earth's stratosphere?Sanswire Networks L.L.C.'s vision for a national wireless broadband network began as just that-a vision that wireless high-speed Internet access could be available from anywhere in the world.To...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission modified several of its spectrum rules hoping that wireless services can be made more readily available, but its decision to eliminate rural cellular cross-ownership rules was criticized by the panel's two Democrats.The FCC voted 3-2 to eliminate cellular cross-ownership rules...
The continued emphasis carriers are placing on alternative sales and information channels appears to be paying off as a report from industry research firm Compete Inc. showed a dramatic increase in the number of wireless service prospects who are surfing carrier Web sites in...
WASHINGTON-Over the objections of the panel's two Democrats, the Federal Communications Commission Thursday voted to eliminate the cellular cross-ownership rules in rural America requiring merging parties to submit to a case-by-case review."The majority has failed to provide any real compelling reason for eliminating the...
T-Mobile USA Inc. ranked highest among the seven largest wireless service providers in customer-care performance, beating out Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc., which all performed above average, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study.The study's...
Canadian consolidation on horizon with Telus bid for MicrocellCanadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. said it intends to make a $780 million all-cash takeover bid for rival Microcell Telecommunications Inc., which is best known for its Fido-branded Canadian wireless service. The deal would cut the...
Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. said it intends to make a $780 million all-cash takeover bid for rival Microcell Telecommunications Inc., which is best known for its Fido-branded Canadian wireless service. The deal would cut the number of wireless providers in Canada to three...
Last month, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo said it sold more than 160,000 faulty mobile phones. The carrier said its new FOMA N900i handset, built by NEC Corp., suffered from a software glitch that would cause the phone to reboot if a user tried to...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the mobile-phone industry is so competitive that it does not need access to landline facilities at below-market rates."The Federal Communications Commission not only failed to conduct the requisite impairment analysis for wireless providers, but in fact found...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-WireIntel is raising the stakes for wireline replacement in the business sector with its patent-pending technology that allows wireless service providers to sell scalable multi-line telephone, data services and telecommunication equipment to businesses.The technology allows businesses to choose between traditional wireline service...
NEW YORK-Nearly a year and a half after selling its wireless properties to Alltel Corp. for $1.6 billion, regional telecommunications service provider CenturyTel Inc. said it is in talks with wireless providers to resell wireless services to its customers.CenturyTel's Chief Financial Officer Steward Ewing...
