Cingular Wireless L.L.C. kicked off the industry's second-quarter reporting with an unexpectedly high 1.5 million net customer additions, as well as the company's highest-ever net income of $540 million. The nation's largest carrier also continued to reduce its churn rate, pushing it down to...
Helio L.L.C. has 90,000 MySpace friends and counting—and how many wireless companies can say that? Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s "Cingular Sounds" MySpace page only has about 35,000 friends, while the "Sprint Guy" character formerly featured in Sprint Nextel Corp. ads has a scant 203 friends....
My understanding of our elected officials in Washington has dropped below that of anything mathematical and the popularity of country music, thanks to how the Federal Communications Commission is handling the upcoming advanced wireless services auction.What has sent that understanding over the top—or is...
Consolidation in the mobile content space remains white-hot, with Motricity Inc. the most recent player to tap the booming off-deck market with the acquisition of GoldPocket Wireless Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Motricity has gained substantial traction with its Fuel software, which...
Without divulging financial details, Nortel Networks Ltd. bagged what is likely a hefty contract to supply Verizon Wireless with CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network technology beginning in the third quarter. Albert Lin, telecom analyst at American Technology Research, estimated that Verizon's total Rev....
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. kicked off the industry’s second quarter results reporting with an unexpectedly high 1.5 million net new customer additions, as well as the company’s highest-ever net income of $540 million. The nation’s largest carrier also continued to reduce its churn rate, pushing...
TORONTO—Nortel Networks Ltd. bagged what is likely a hefty contract to supply Verizon Wireless with CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network technology beginning in the third quarter. Though Nortel didn't disclose financial terms of the deal, Albert Lin, telecom analyst at American Technology Research,...
Time to play "Guess the mobile virtual network operator." Your clues: U.S.-based, postpaid but requires no contract and relies on Internet sales and telephone sales for distribution. The MVNO is hosted by a national carrier and has nearly doubled its customer base within the...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Leap Wireless International Inc. has been growing by leaps and bounds-raising the question of whether the company's rapid market rollouts will bring a repeat of the implosion that the carrier faced when it pushed...
Tira Wireless is expanding its porting services and stepping onto the crowded playing field of mobile content management. The company this week plans to unveil the latest version of is flagship product Jump, a software offering designed to port-or customize-applications across the spectrum of...
WASHINGTON-Next month's advanced wireless services auction, anticipated for years due to the infusion of an additional 90 megahertz of spectrum into the U.S. wireless industry, may come to be remembered by who didn't show for the big dance. In the no-surprise category, Cingular Wireless...
WASHINGTON—U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty today approved a final settlement requiring Mario Gabelli and 38 affiliated companies to pay $130 million to end a lawsuit alleging the Wall Street money manager created sham small business companies to buy discounted wireless licenses at Federal Communications...
OAKLAND, Calif.—Clearwire Corp. filed a lawsuit against a community college district that wants to get out of a deal allowing Clearwire to use its excess spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band. According to court filings by Clearwire, the company signed an agreement in December...
COSTA MESA, Calif.—GTC Wireless Inc. is looking to the Amway-style Independent Distributor Sales model to help boost sagging revenues. The 9-year-old provider of business process outsourcing services announced the formation of Shine Wireless, a subsidiary that will offer discount wireless services through independent agents....
WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein said the government should prohibit Wall Street money manager Mario Gabelli from participating in the Aug. 9 advanced wireless services auction as part of a fraud settlement with the Justice Department. "I think the Justice Department as part...
A recent report from Lehman Brothers Equity Research suggests that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. plans to cut its capital expenditures next year by $1.5 billion, a 20-percent drop from the $7.5 billion the nation's leading carrier is planning to spend this year. However, Lehman Brothers...
The Federal Communications Commission late Friday said 81 applications for the advanced wireless services auction were accepted for filing, while 171 applications were deemed incomplete and must be corrected to remain eligible for the scheduled Aug. 9 start of bidding for 1,122 licenses.Verizon Wireless,...
WASHINGTON-Two new class-action lawsuits filed against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless, and industry's tax lawsuit loss in Maryland, raise questions about whether wireless carriers would significantly rid themselves of consumer litigation and state and local fees if it won expanded federal pre-emption and...
As if the Texas wireless market wasn't hot enough-with Leap Wireless International Inc. launching its Cricket Communications service left and right, and T-Mobile USA Inc. responding aggressively-a new, flat-rate wireless carrier recently set up shop in San Antonio and hopes to expand service elsewhere...
WASHINGTON—Class-action consumer lawsuits have been filed against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless, litigation that comes as the mobile phone industry lobbies Congress and federal regulators for protection against such legal challenges through broader federal pre-emption. A nationwide lawsuit filed against Cingular yesterday alleges...
WASHINGTON—The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to halt the Aug. 9 start of the advanced wireless services auction, but the Federal Communications Commission likely faces continued litigation over small-business bidding rule changes in light of the court's discomfort with the process by...
WASHINGTON—The Senate Commerce Committee passed its sweeping telecommunications-reform bill, including in it two critical bits for the wireless industry: wireless pre-emption with a small caveat and a moratorium on cell-phone taxes. The bill is now headed to the Senate floor. However, Sen. Ron Wyden...
WASHINGTON—The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to halt the Aug. 9 start of the advanced wireless services auction, but the Federal Communications Commission likely faces continued litigation over small-business bidding rule changes in light of the court’s discomfort with the process the...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commissions told a federal appeals court more than half of the 252 applicants seeking to participate in the Aug. 9 advanced wireless services auction claim "designated entity" status, a revelation presumably intended to refute arguments that recent changes to bidding rules...
