Cox Communications has launched converged services in two markets in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp., offering consumers in Arizona and San Diego a bundle that includes wireless service and mobile access to some cable content.Sprint Nextel has introduced similar services in Boston and Portland,...
BARCELONA, Spain-A trio of executives from operators counting more than 400 million subscribers made for an entertaining opening keynote at this year's 3GSM World Congress.As has been the case for several years, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin led off the keynote proceedings at 3GSM, this...
Regional wireless operator SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. has reached an agreement with its bondholders to reduce its debt, and also hired a company to advise it on its options, including a possible sale. SunCom's stock was de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange in...
It's only been a few months since the close of the Federal Communications Commission's advanced wireless services auction, and carriers aren't expected to begin using the spectrum they purchased until late this year or 2008. But the wheels are already turning at NextG Networks,...
AT&T INC. HAS A HISTORY as a highly respected brand. Cingular Wireless L.L.C., its name and image conjured out of thin air just a few years ago, is a young and thriving brand that AT&T has begun to dismantle. So far, AT&T has hinted...
While Sprint Nextel Corp. has faced downgrades in recent weeks from various investment companies, the carrier still is feeling the love from investment-banking firm Raymond James. Analyst Ric Prentiss rated the company's stock as a "strong buy" in a recent research note based on...
T-Mobile USA Inc. continued its run as the carrier with the best customer-service ratings by consumers, edging out other operators for the fifth year in a row in J.D. Power and Associates' semi-annual survey. Verizon Wireless scored second place with a ranking of 101...
Music publisher EMI Entertainment World Inc. has slapped InfoSpace Inc. with a $100 million lawsuit, claiming the buffeted mobile content company has been underpaying royalties and selling ringtones without proper licensing rights.The suit, filed Jan. 12 in U.S. District Court in New York, accuses...
The Fox network has opted for a new dance partner to handle its wildly successful "American Idol" text-message voting campaign, according to sources familiar with the deal.The News Corp. subsidiary will no longer use Mobliss Corp. but has tapped VeriSign Inc. for the popular...
The Fox network has opted for a new dance partner to handle its wildly successful "American Idol" text-message voting campaign, according to sources familiar with the deal.The News Corp. subsidiary will no longer use Mobliss Corp. but has tapped VeriSign Inc. for the popular...
A new market research report by Insight Research concluded that wireless services accounted for more than one-third of all corporate telecommunication services last year. U.S. businesses spent more than $132 billion on telecommunications services last year and spending is forecast to grow to nearly...
Verizon Wireless announced it purchased a spectrum license from Alpine-Monterey F Inc. for $4.5 million. The carrier said the license covers 426,000 potential subscribers in the Salinas-Monterey area of central California.Verizon Wireless said it bought the license to add capacity to its network and...
So long, Cingular. The wireless carrier's parent company announced that it will begin dismantling the Cingular Wireless L.L.C. brand next week with a series of broadcast TV and print ads proclaiming to consumers that "Cingular is now the new AT&T.""AT&T , BellSouth and...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers are renewing their fight for relief from new regulations and taxes levied by cities and states, while manufacturers find themselves caught in the crosshairs of a dispute headed for Capitol Hill between the mobile-phone industry and public-safety community over the latter's efforts...
Conventional wisdom says, and consumers certainly seem to think, that family wireless plans offered by cellular carriers are a great deal. In exchange for tying other family members into one service plan at the standard $10 per month, consumers can cut down on their...
NextWave Wireless Inc. has agreed to acquire Go Networks Inc., which develops Wi-Fi networks for campus and municipal deployment. NextWave will pay about $13.3 million in cash for the company, and will also assume Go's $7.5 million in debt. NextWave's purchase price could increase...
Orb Networks Inc. co-founder and chairman Joe Costello will take the reins as CEO of the place-shifting technology provider.Costello also currently serves as chairman of software developer think3, and spent a decade as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc. Orb has...
Wireless service provider MobilePro Corp. said a subsidiary will offer satellite video from DirecTV Group Inc. CloseCall America will initially carry DirecTV services in 14 northeastern states including New Jersey and Pennsylvania. MobilePro resells fixed-line and wireless services from Verizon Communications Inc. and...
Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
Brightpoint Inc. will shell out $88 million in cash to purchase a major piece of crippled competitor CellStar Corp.The Plainfield, Ind.-based logistics and distribution giant announced plans to buy CellStar's 500-employee U.S. operations, including its Miami headquarters, and the bulk of its Latin American...
Editor's Note: Following are the most-read stories from RCRNews.com this year. They have been edited to fit in paper format.1. Vodafone records $41B loss, reworks strategic plansMay 30Vodafone Group plc posted a massive $41.1 billion loss for 2005, mainly from impairment charges over assets...
WASHINGTON-A bipartisan group of House lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission to act on SouthernLINC Wireless' two-year-old request for eligibility to draw on universal service funds to serve rural areas in several Southeast states of its territory, including those the iDEN carrier managed to...
Machine-to-machine wireless network operator Aeris Communications Inc. reported recent enhancements to its data services to support asset tracking, automotive telematics and stolen vehicle recovery using CDMA and GSM networks nationwide-a move that puts the company in the same space as telematics veteran OnStar.In fact,...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Cellular Nigeria: Motorola Inc. said it won a contract...
