Wireless Services

If we applied human attributes to mobile location services, they would be in preschool today, learning and acquiring the skills they will need to have a long and successful life …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use Sierra Wireless’ GPRS wireless modems for its plans to deploy GPRS, which expands the companies’ previous $30 million agreement for EDGE wireless …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. made the move to invest in the infrastructure services necessary to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s Phase II E-911 mandate with a multi-year agreement with …

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Verizon Wireless launched digital wireless services in Florence, Lee, Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina. “With this significant digital expansion into eastern South Carolina, Verizon Wireless has …

More than 50 percent of the 39.8 million business travelers in 1999 brought cellular phones with them on their trips, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Such numbers …

NEW YORK-Domestic wireless operators have begun to take prepaid services seriously, although it will be awhile before they approach the successful benchmark set by their European counterparts. Comfort with credit …

GENEVA-With just a few months to go until the next ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-2000) on 8 May-2 June in Istanbul, Turkey, tensions are already running high as rival national …

GENEVA-With the world’s first third-generation (3G) mobile systems due to come online in Japan in less than a year, Europe’s wireless operators are gearing up for an intense round of …

TORONTO-To the relief of the wireless industry, the Canadian government raised the four-year-old spectrum cap that limits the amount of radio spectrum each PCS provider may operate. Wireless carriers in …

Wireless operators may now have to take some of the blame for New York residents feeling somewhat superior to the rest of the country. Through 49 rounds of bidding in …

When the Federal Communications Commission set aside a portion of the licenses up for bid in its 1996 personal communications services auction, the intent was to foster competition in the …

MELVILLE, N.Y.-A new study from pulver.com finds wireless revenues will exceed wireline revenues by as early as 2003, pointing to the quickly falling costs of wireless services-and rising wireline costs …

BERWYN, Pa.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Holdings Inc. added 84,811 net customers during the fourth quarter of 2000 and more than doubled its total customer base from 195,204 …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless phone operator NTT DoCoMo plans to borrow $10.3 billion from five banks to pay for its 16-percent investment in U.S. operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to a …

Refinery Inc., a six-year-old Web development company, identified the wireless industry as something it “definitely needed to be involved in,” the company’s director of marketing said. However, Refinery isn’t planning …

In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So far, theory has proved superior to …

NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. completed its acquisition of PrimeCo PCS’s wireless system in the Houston market covering a population of about 5.6 million people and serving 180,000 subscribers. AT&T …

Lawyers for AT&T Corp. rang in the new year with a class-action lawsuit brought against it and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by New York City area customers, and a federal …

AirNet United States. With MBO for a GPRS system. Value: Undisclosed Alcatel Gambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area. Value: Undisclosed …

NEW YORK-Extent Technologies is beta testing a new generation of software designed to help wireless carriers rate and bill multiple kinds of wireless services as customers are using them. The …

Alltel Corp. awarded Motorola Inc. a third-generation CDMA 2000 1X contract for its Phoenix market, which is scheduled for commercial launch next year. The financial details of the standards-based hardware …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. will allow stockholders to trade in shares of its stock for up to $10 billion in AT&T Wireless Services Inc. stock, according to papers the company filed …

At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the new events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting …

As wireless operators enjoyed their holiday break from the Federal Communications Commission’s re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses, a fair share of pre-auction predictions made by analysts were being …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission suspended its re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses on Thursday with bid amounts nearing $12 billion. The re-auction will resume on Jan. 5 after taking …