LAS VEGAS-Eight industry players received awards at the Comdex show from Andrew Seybold's Outlook 4Mobility for their contributions to the wireless industry.The companies include AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Digit Wireless, Lightsurf Technologies Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Sprint PCS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Verizon Wireless and WildSeed."The...
WASHINGTON-None of the 33 mobile phones tested by the Wireless Consumers Alliance meet the Federal Communications Commission's 911 strongest-signal rules adopted in 1999, WCA charges in a series of lawsuits filed by the group.The first lawsuit against Sprint Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd....
ATLANTA-Wireless development company Digital Orchid Inc. announced it scored an exclusive license to sell Nascar-related content to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS subscribers.The company will offer breaking news, live timing, scoring leaderboard and driver data.
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. released full quarterly results posting a slight increase in total revenues for the third quarter from $164.8 million last year to $169.1 million this year including its American Cellular Corp. holdings. The revenue increase was driven by a nearly $11...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. amended the terms of its participation in Alaska Native Wireless, which was its designated entity bidding partner in the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to re-auction NextWave Telecom Inc. and Urban Communications PCS Ltd. Partnership spectrum early last year. ANW...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced an online billing option for its customers through the carrier's Web site eliminating the need for customers to receive a paper bill through the mail.AT&T Wireless said the service will allow customers to pay their bills online with...
BERLIN-A German news agency reported that Deutsche Telekom AG does not plan to sell its T-Mobile USA Inc. division and will instead look for other alternatives in reducing its more than $60 billion debt load.DT interim chief executive Helmut Sihler reportedly told the VWD...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Football giant Fox Sports released a new wireless game in partnership with games developer Sorrent, which will initially be available through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS."Football has become synonymous with Fox Sports. Our new wireless football game, 'On Field Live,'...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International urged federal regulators to set rules by early year for fixed wireless broadband service in upper millimeter wave spectrum that promises gigabit- per-second speeds. "I am confident that the high speed wireless services and backhaul enabled by this new...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. said it provided AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with the software platform for its recently introduced #121 VoiceDial voice-activated dialing service.
TOKYO-The Financial Times reported German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG is unlikely to sell off its T-Mobile USA Inc. division when it announces its debt-reduction plans next week due to the delay in reaping revenue benefits in a timely fashion and DT believing it...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today fined AT&T Wireless Services Inc. $117,000 for safety-related violations involving antenna structures. The FCC said AT&T Wireless committed seven separate infractions including failure to register, light and paint antenna towers and failure to post antenna structure registration numbers at...
SAO PAULO, Brazil—Brazilian fixed wireless operator Vesper has signed separate contracts with Nortel Networks Ltd. and L.M. Ericsson to supply gear for a cdma2000 1x EV-DO network.Airvana Inc. said it will provide the channel card upgrade for data for the networks for Nortel."Our customers...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a non-binding letter of intent with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to exchange its two remaining wireless properties in California for two of AT&T Wireless' properties in Alaska. All of the properties are currently launched TDMA networks.The deal calls for...
BOSTON-The four publicly traded tower companies received a much-needed boost from Wall Street this week, following tolerable carrier earnings and some financial announcements of their own.Third-quarter earnings announcements from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc., including AT&T's plan to spend $2.3 billion...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. became the first nationwide wireless operator to officially report an increase in its customer base during the third quarter of this year following negative net customer additions from Sprint PCS and Cingular Wireless. The Redmond, Wash.-based operator said it...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Although carriers continue to lower the price of new mobile phones in an effort to attract more customers, wireless subscribers are waiting longer to replace their current mobile phones, according to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates.In the firm's "U.S....
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility,...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. posted $194.7 million in total revenues for the third quarter, a 31-percent increase from the $148.8 million the carrier reported for the same quarter last year. Net losses also dropped from $47 million last year, a loss of 72...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it will acquire location-services company Vicinity Corp. in a deal valued at about $96 million.Microsoft said it will integrate Vicinity into its MapPoint Business Unit.Vicinity offers location information through the Web, speech-based products and through wireless channels. Microsoft and its...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004.The company is working to alert all its CDPD customers of the change, and is offering them incentives to...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. reported that Sprint PCS would not renew its contract to provide enhanced directory services to the wireless operator once the current contract expires at the end of this year, though Sprint PCS has requested a transition arrangement through 2003....
NEW YORK-Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree nicknamed "Luna" for two years to protest old growth forest destruction, has reached an out of court settlement with OmniSky Corp., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the advertising agency TBWA Worldwide Inc. Ms....
SEATTLE-Billing and content management company Qpass Inc. released a new version of its software platform, dubbed Prosperity Series, which the company said allows carriers to change way they sell and charge for wireless data, from text messaging to Java-based application downloads.Tom Trinneer, vice president...
