OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. reported 30,150 total net wireless customer additions for the second quarter of this year, which was down slightly from the 38,350 the carrier reported for the same quarter last year. Customer churn decreased from 1.8 percent last year to 1.7...
DENVER, United States-VoiceStream Wireless' launch of wireless service last month in the U.S. states of California and Nevada not only provided the country's smallest nationwide operator with a footprint in a pair of lucrative markets, but also was the carrier's first public launch of...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two-way roaming capabilities with 41 GSM carriers in 35 countries and the United States and said it has more than 30 carrier agreements involving more than a dozen additional countries signed and in the launch process.The carrier currently...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. selected Wireless Services Corp. to serve as its network interoperability provider, enabling Nextel customers to send and receive text messages to and from subscribers of other U.S. wireless carriers.WSC said its service allows message confirmation, 500-character length messages, real-time delivery...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association was appointed as a non-resident member of the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications on the same day the Federal Communications Commission released its response to a Bush administration critical-infrastructure report."As a member of NCC, CTIA's leadership and expertise...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless Services and Microsoft said they will develop and distribute end-to-end solutions for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PCs, smart phones and laptops designed to provide wireless access to e-mail, information and applications behind corporate firewalls.In addition, AT&T Wireless plans to...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said they will develop and distribute end-to-end solutions for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PCs, smartphones and laptops designed to provide wireless access to e-mail, information and applications behind corporate firewalls.In addition, AT&T Wireless plans to be...
The attitudes of the late 1990s, where operators found it necessary to have a presence in as many countries as possible, have begun to fade as the cost of having many fingers in many pies becomes glaringly clear.Deutsche Telekom used to boast that it...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it has entered into a definitive agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to purchase personal communications services licenses in Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke, Va., for $65 million. The three 10-megahertz A-block licenses cover approximately 3.7 million potential customers.Triton...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to revive broadband wireless services in the United Kingdom, the government has outlined plans for an auction of the 3.4 GHz band that will carry the service. This move follows extensive industry consultation in April in an attempt to...
REDMOND, Wash.-Wayne M. Perry, a member of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s board of directors since last July, resigned Wednesday.Perry said he decided to resign to focus on serving as chief executive officer of Edge Wireless L.L.C. AT&T Wireless said it intends to name a...
WOBURN, Mass.-Positive earnings, a new contract and a new business line were among Boston Communications Group Inc.'s announcements this week.The company said its net income for the second quarter totaled $1.4 million, or 8 cents per share-well above the projected 3 to 4 cents...
BOISE, Idaho-One way to solve the capital crisis facing wireless companies today would be for the Federal Communications Commission to void the re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s PCS C- and F-block licenses, the president of Verizon Wireless Inc. told the nation's governors on...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless announced it has amended its supply agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and AT&T Wireless has given commercial acceptance to Sierra Wireless' AirCard 710 wireless network card.The agreement now says Sierra Wireless will supply AT&T Wireless with the AirCard 710...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, lost a legal battle with its U.S. partner AT&T Wireless Services over a domain name issue. NTT DoCoMo in April lodged a complaint against AT&T Wireless at WIPO requesting an injunction of using a domain name...
BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems Inc. released preliminary results for the fourth quarter that repeated an all-too-familiar story for companies trying to sell wireless services to corporations."Due to the current economic climate, information technology organizations and the companies for which they work are being very pragmatic...
NEW YORK-U.S. operators AT&T Wireless Services and VoiceStream Wireless are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A merged company would combine the country's third- and sixth-largest nationwide...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A merged company would combine the country's third- and sixth-largest nationwide...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-In an effort to show Americans how and when wireless services can help them to be more productive, Verizon Wireless and MSN have released the results of a recent survey conducted on their behalf by RoperASW.The research points to "time holes"-blocks of time...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia- The Telecommunications Office of the Slovak Republic awarded two of three available third-generation (3G) licenses to the country's two current mobile operators, Orange and EuroTel Bratislava. Each operator will pay $33.8 million for the 20-year licenses.The only other bidder, local company Profinet.sk,...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Despite the dark shadow the depressed economy has cast on much of the U.S. wireless sector, the Consumer Electronics Association's recently released Digital America 2002 report shows wireless device sales are still up, third-generation services are still unfolding and demand for wireless services...
for mModeREDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced its e-Wallet integrated billing platform for its mMode service, allowing content providers to charge their digital services directly to customers' wireless phone bills or credit cards. The carrier said the billing platform, which is powered by Qpass,...
The text messaging industry in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds, and most agree it has the potential to be huge. The application is really the first major win for the nascent and struggling U.S. wireless data market for consumers, and...
Editor's Note: In a new series, RCR Wireless News takes an in-depth look at nationwide wireless players, including their strengths and challenges in an ever-changing wireless environment. In this third installment, RCR Wireless News reporter Hilary Smith tackles the nation's third-largest carrier, AT&T Wireless.As...
