Water and power outages more than violent wind affected wireless networks as Hurricane Floyd skirted the East Coast last week.AT&T Corp. Friday apologized to customers for wireless network outages in parts of metropolitan New York and New Jersey caused by the hurricane.The company said...
CHICAGO-Cellular One in the Great Lakes region introduced Cellular One to One service, which allows up to 30 different people to talk on a wireless conference call by dialing one group number. Up to 99 groups, with each group containing three to 30 users,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse has consistently indicated one key to growing wireless market share is targeting the youth market. The carrier is hoping its new nationwide prepaid offering becomes a low-end version of its popular Digital One Rate plan...
American Tower Corp. signed a $260 million agreement with AT&T Corp. to acquire approximately 1,942 microwave towers and build 1,000 new wireless communication sites for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. during the next five years.Dave Johnson, spokesman for AT&T's Network Services Division, said the microwave...
A number of Internet sites have popped up in recent months offering side-by-side wireless services pricing comparison and purchasing. But some are evolving to become much more.The wireless industry soon could see a total of eight to 10 Web sites offering consumers the ability...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. The FCC relaxed the cap to 55 megahertz in rural service areas.Additionally, at its...
Three quarters of the way into 1999, we are inundated with good news from many of the wireless carriers showing record numbers of new customers added to their networks. These numbers are impressive and, in spite of local resistance to towers and the controversy...
The need to add a wireless play in global telecommunications alliances became clearer last week as AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc announced a strategic alliance designed to create seamless mobile communications services worldwide."In general, we've seen a lot of domestic consolidation," said Bob...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said it made a minority investment in Italtel Sistemi SpA, obtaining access to 2,300 telecom professionals and improving its position to capture a sizable percentage of the Italian wireless services market.Through its wholly owned subsidiary, LCC United Kingdom Ltd., LCC...
Bell Atlantic Mobile purchased six 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses from Rivgam Communications L.L.C. to increase voice capacity and prepare for the onslaught of high-speed data applications.The cellular operator purchased D- and E-block licenses in Buffalo, N.Y., Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Washington, D.C., and two...
Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry and upgraded a number of wireless stocks."I think of the analogy of an earthquake where pressure builds up on either...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Buyphone.com, a comparison shopping service for wireless phones, said it signed an Internet marketing agreement for nationwide marketing and distribution of wireless services with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Under terms of the agreement, Buyphone.com will market AT&T Wireless' service plans, including the Digital One...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Wireless Services is expanding its roaming capabilities to nine states in the Southeast, said the company.Roaming services now will be available in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee, as a result of a recent agreement Iowa...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced new pricing plans last week that could build on the success of the carrier's Digital One Rate plan by adding more phones into the home. Bell Atlantic Mobile also introduced a group calling plan for the Southeast.AT&T Wireless unveiled...
Ericsson Inc. said last week its displacement from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the majority vendor hurt the company and conceded part of the reason it lost AT&T Wireless contracts was because of problems supplying equipment throughout the year."It hurts," said Gary Pinkham, vice...
NEW YORK-Wireless carriers can only imagine scaling back their costly call-flooded customer support centers and slashing the overhead that comes with them. And wireless users long to regain those wasted afternoons on hold with a receiver glued to their ears only to find they've...
Amid increased media publicity over capacity problems in its New York City market, AT&T Wireless Services granted contracts to Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks that calls for the vendors to replace Ericsson's equipment in the country's two largest wireless markets, New York and Los...
TORONTO-Canada has vast acreage and is sparsely populated in many areas, yet it has the most affordable wireless rates in the world, according to new research.A recent study by the Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology research firm, concluded that Canada, when measured against 27...
PCS carriers can be credited with spurring huge demand for wireless service in the United States, but they continue to struggle with brand awareness and perceptions customers have about coverage.
"It's a brand game and a consumer-marketing game," said Andrew Sukawaty, president of nationwide carrier...
SINGAPORE-After two years of bad debts and line terminations, wireless operators in the economically worst-hit Asian nations of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia can finally look forward to better times ahead.Analysts say economic recovery combined with the growing acceptance of prepaid will help...
Wireless industry members agree smart phones will become a critical differentiating factor for handset vendors and mobile-phone operators within the next two years, but the proliferation of these devices remains relatively unknown.For handset providers, smart phones represent an opportunity to extend their products, boost...
ATLANTA-BellSouth International Wireless Services launched BellSouth Net eXchange, a Web-based interface that facilitates the upload and download of customer data files, said the company.BellSouth Net eXchange can transfer encrypted data files, detailing carriers' financial position with their cellular roaming partners, securely across the Web,...
Amidst increased media publicity over capacity problems in its New York City market, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week granted a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. that calls for the vendor to replace Ericsson Inc.'s equipment in the country's largest wireless market.Ericsson-AT&T Wireless' main...
DENVER-Analysts speculate AT&T Wireless Services Inc. may add Nortel Networks as an additional supplier of Time Division Multiple Access equipment.Growth on the carrier's networks has skyrocketed since AT&T Wireless introduced the Digital One Rate plan last May. The plan eliminates long-distance and roaming fees....
