Wireless Services

NextWave Telecom Inc.’s announcement last week that it would give back 60 of its PCS licenses to the Federal Communications Commission could finally give the government a clear path to …

WASHINGTON-Buried in the legalese of the settlement document between the Federal Communications Commission and bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. was an agreement that NextWave would pay the FCC $10 million to …

The wireless industry’s first full quarter of operating under local number portability provided few surprises as Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint PCS, Nextel Communications Inc. and Alltel Corp. all posted strong …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. posted disappointing first-quarter results, highlighted by the loss of 367,000 customers during the quarter and a 3.7-percent customer churn rate, which the carrier said were the …

LEDBURY, United Kingdom-A new study by BWCS and Senza-Fili Consulting predicts the U.S. market for broadband wireless access services based on technologies such as WiMAX will be worth $3.7 billion …

WASHINGTON-It took more than a year and it wasn’t pretty, but the Federal Communications Commission and bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. Tuesday signed an agreement requiring NextWave to sell more than …

JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average throughput of …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported 554,000 net customer additions during the first quarter of this year, which was a nearly 200-percent improvement compared with the 189,000 subscribers the carrier added during …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. today signed an agreement that would require NextWave to continue to divest the majority of its spectrum holdings following a recently …

Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, …

Developers: Wireless wants you. At least, that’s the message coming from many of the largest players in the wireless industry. Companies from Microsoft Corp. to Nokia Corp. to Verizon Wireless …

Call automation can make or break perceptions of the quality of customer service offered by wireless service providers, depending on how well that automation works, according to a series of …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry-already facing the prospect of new rules and hefty fines in trend-setting California-suffered a major setback last week with the announcement that enough signatures were collected to put …

Showing a thirst for life rivaling the old man in Monty Python’s Holy Grail who repeatedly cries out, “I’m not dead yet,” AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has positioned itself to …

Privately held wireless carrier Cellular South, which controls spectrum licenses covering more than 5 million potential customers in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, said it recorded a 23-percent improvement in …

It was with great fanfare that the District of Columbia last week unveiled a new, underground first-responder wireless system stretching through subway tunnels that’s fully interoperable with an advanced public-safety …

Nextel Communications Inc.’s decision earlier this week to expand its wireless broadband network trial in the Raleigh, N.C., market may have proven well founded as network testing conducted by RBC …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched a music recognition service that allows customers to dial #ID from their handsets, and when prompted, hold the phone near a music source for …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission set a May 3 deadline for challenges to Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s $41 billion bid for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., a deal the two mobile-phone carriers want …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint will provide wireless voice and data devices and solutions to the telecommunications services division of the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) under a new two-year contract. …

Showing there is still fight left in the dog, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its new GSM America rate plans, which provide consumers with no roaming charges anywhere in the …

ATLANTA-Longtime BlackBerry supporter Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it will sell the BlackBerry 6280 and BlackBerry 7280 wireless handhelds through its more than 6,000 company-owned retail stores, a move the carrier …

The liberation of wireless local number portability is scheduled to sweep across the nation May 24 as carriers serving markets outside of the already WLNP-enabled top 100 markets will be …

Citing the need to support two networks serving more than 20 million subscribers, its future ability to provide wireless data services on par with its CDMA-based competitors and poor results …