Wireless Services

Merger-mania trickled down the food chain last week as super-regional operator Alltel Corp. said it had reached an agreement to buy rural operator Western Wireless Corp. for approximately $6 billion …

Whittled down from 49 total applicants, 35 certified bidders placed more than $325 million in deposits with the government for a crack at 242 spectrum licenses up for bid in …

For all of the talk about how wireless telephony brings people closer together, it has the opposite effect too. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Yes, wireless services enable …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday is expected to hear oral argument as it decides whether a city has to pay attorney fees if it loses a tower-siting case. Mark Abrams, …

LONDON-The GSM Association reported that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has replaced AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on the trade association’s board following Cingular’s $41 billion acquisition of AWS late last year. Jordan …

WASHINGTON-The Department of Labor said it reached a settlement with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. whereby the No. 1 mobile-phone carrier will pay more than 25,000 customer service representatives $5.1 million in …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. said it has completed the sale of its 10 Latin American wireless operations for Telefonica Moviles S.A. following the transfer of its ownership interest in Argentina. BellSouth noted …

Content providers and developers continued to chase the exploding Chinese wireless market with two announcements Wednesday. California-based mobile game publishers Jamdat Mobile Inc. and THQ Wireless Inc. said they were …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. said it expects to report a company-record 94,900 net customer additions for the fourth quarter, aided by a new company-low 1.3- percent customer churn rate. The …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Kristin Rinne, Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s chief technology officer, has been elected the 2005 chairwoman of the 3G America’s board of governors. Rinne succeeds former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. CTO …

LAS VEGAS-The slow rollout of high-speed wireless data networks continues as CDMA-based carrier Verizon Wireless last week said it will expand its BroadbandAccess network to 12 additional markets on top …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, consistently thrown off balance by new taxes and regulations in one state after another, is fine-tuning a master plan that draws on tried-and-true political strategies that carriers …

In addition to its carrier rankings, Consumer Reports also posted consumer rankings for handsets from the major carriers. Those rankings were dominated by Asians manufacturers. LG Electronics’ VX7000 and Kyocera …

The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. …

Consumers’ love-hate relationship with the wireless industry appears to be as contentious as ever. The latest survey and rankings released by Consumer Reports showed that despite the near-record-level of customer …

The U.S. carrier market appears to be headed for further constriction on news that regional carrier Alltel Corp. is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless Corp. for $4 billion. …

The wireless industry again faired poorly in Consumer Reports’ annual mobile-phone report, which detailed chronic, major problems with service, billing and complaint handling with every national wireless carrier. Consumer Reports …

Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they completed the first High-Speed Downlink Packet Access data calls using a trial UMTS network deployed by the two companies in the Atlanta …

Time Warner Cable is in discussions with Sprint PCS to test a wireless offering that would be bundled with the media giant’s TV, landline phone and Internet services. However, it …

The aftershocks from 2004’s massive carrier consolidation continue to reverberate across the wireless industry. As Cingular Wireless L.L.C. works to digest AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint Corp. completes its …

Editor’s note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless today said the company’s corporate Web site has been improved to make it more accessible to customers with disabilities. The nation’s No. 2 mobile-phone carrier said new …

DALLAS-A few days after a technical glitch interrupted service for Cingular Wireless customers in Dallas and Houston, the carrier announced it has spent almost $100 million this year improving its …

A few days after a technical glitch interrupted service for Cingular Wireless customers in Dallas and Houston, the carrier announced it has spent almost $100 million this year improving its …

Editor’s Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the …