TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. posted less-than-spectacular fourth-quarter results with average revenue per user falling from $32.06 during the fourth quarter of 1999 to $30.39 during the fourth quarter of 2000, and customer churn rising from 2.37 percent to 2.76 percent during the same time...
Although U.S. trade negotiator Richard Fisher called the mobile Internet arm candy, the delicacy may have to improve into an eye candy for Americans to call it sweet. But, so far, it is not tasty enough because it is not big enough. The size...
Schlumberger Ltd. spent close to $6 billion across three technology acquisitions last week, proof the oil services giant is serious about moving into the technology sector, with special emphasis on wireless services and smart cards.But while some in the wireless and smart-card industry see...
According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users in the United States and Europe, 80 percent of all wireless customers, will play...
WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase II service in exchange for providing disaster-warning alerts to the phones of subscribers."We made...
NEW YORK-With the stocks of mobile operators down from their 52-week highs, despite some recent rebounding, now is a good time to buy them, said Sean P. Butson, wireless services analyst for Legg Mason Wood Walker, Baltimore.Investors have legitimate but overblown concerns about downward...
WASHINGTON-Spectrum-management policy looms large on the agenda of a key lawmaker even as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he will not comment on the policy initiatives of either Capitol Hill or the Bush administration.That is not to say that Michael...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. completed a $200 million sale of series AA preferred stock to AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Dobson said AT&T Wireless could exchange the stock for series A preferred stock if it increases its ownership of Dobson from the current 4.6 percent to...
Several large wireless operators showed proof of continuing strength in the wireless industry, amid rumblings of a general slowdown in the economy. AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless and Powertel Inc., all released fourth-quarter earnings reports last week showing positive results.AT&T Wireless...
AT&T Wireless wasted little time in exploiting its relationship with Japan's NTT DoCoMo in an attempt to jump start its wireless Internet offerings. AT&T, which received nearly $10 billion from the Japanese telecom giant, signed an agreement with DoCoMo and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc....
Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com's recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS and third-generation wireless networks, and it already has a customer in KDDI of Japan.The...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should be exempt from the actual or threatened rolling blackouts that have plagued California in recent weeks in the same way wireline carriers are exempt, two of the largest carriers said last week."We would like to be placed in the same category...
Residential customers paid an average of $9 per month for wireless services in 1999, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which examined residential phone bills as part of its research for a report on the long-distance industry that it released last week.The Cellular Telecommunications...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.-Nextel Partners Inc. announced it launched wireless services in Terre Haute, Ind., as well as the Interstate 70 corridor east from Terre Haute to Green Castle through Indianapolis; and I-74 west from Indianapolis to Highway 63 near Covington, Ill.
A year ago, if a company was looking for a few million dollars in investment money, all it needed to do was call on Wall Street and wait for the flood of dollars to come. But in the past year, Wall Street financing has...
Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly enabled sites grows daily, the lack of access and content these sites provide has...
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 in a world where bigger and tougher kids are always around the corner.While still...
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 data devices."Sierra Wireless and AT&T Wireless have worked together to develop industry-leading wireless Internet...
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 emergency communications service provider SCC Communications Corp. Under the agreement, SCC will provide call...
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 positioned itself as the wireless carrier with the largest digital coverage in the area," said...
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 have prompted a variety of wireless companies to offer systems and services to travelers...
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 is a key distinction between American consumers and those abroad, where cash is king. Prepaid...
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 delegations jostle to secure a bigger slice of the radio frequency spectrum to support...
