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 bidding for the right to be among the first to offer broadband wireless services...
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 Canada can now each use 55 megahertz of spectrum, an increase from 40 megahertz.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 the Federal Communications Commission's re-auction of PCS licenses, the Big Apple is the only...
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 wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known as designated entities, to purchase licenses without...
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 due to inflation-as evidence.According to the study, "Telephony unplugged: Wireless achieves price parity with wireline,"...
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 at the end of 1999 to 446,401 for last year.Triton also reported a decrease...
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 report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.To pay for the loan, NTT...
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 on chasing wireless applications like some corporate holy grail-an illusion other Web development companies have...
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 practice. But optimism may yet triumph.Unlike in the past when AT&T's monopoly reigned, competition...
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 Wireless Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Zeglis called the event a "significant milestone in...
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 magistrate's ruling that a dispute with wireless operator Cellular One Group over the use...
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for a high speed mobile data service on its GPRS commercial network.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for UMTS technology in the...
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 first generation processed bills in batches well after the fact. More recent iterations provide real-time...
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 and software contract were not disclosed. In October, Alltel gave Motorola a contract for its...
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 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.AT&T Wireless is currently traded as a tracking stock...
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 stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2000 in chronological...
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 discarded along with the holiday wrapping paper.Some of those early forecasts included predictions of...
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 a holiday break.The FCC doubled the bidding rounds last week from two per day to...
BEND, Ore.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. gained a new affiliate, Edge Wireless Communications L.L.C., which will provide mobile services to rural markets in four Western states and launch a personal communications services system in Idaho.Edge Wireless, headquartered in Bend, Ore., will roll out PCS networks...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a "wireless travel concierge" portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and content providers.Alaska Airlines, Biztravel.com, Delta Airline, Qsent, Trip.com and United Airlines all debuted their travel-related wireless applications on AT&T's PocketNet...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week began looking into the various consumer questions-including privacy-and emerging technologies of the wireless Web by holding a day-and-a-half workshop."If people can be located every time they use wireless technology, is that a good thing?" asked FTC Chairman Robert...
NEW YORK-A law firm said it was continuing a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on behalf of AT&T's shareholders, alleging the company failed to disclose ongoing business problems.Wechsler Harwood Halebian & Feffer L.L.P. said the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District...
With a new venture fund and optimistic forecast extension, Nokia set out last week to fortify its already strong position in the wireless communications industry.Its venture arm, Nokia Venture Partners, launched a new $500 million fund to buoy start-up companies in the mobile Internet...
RICHMOND, Va.-The Navy Exchange Service Command has selected SunCom, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s first network affiliate, to provide digital wireless service and equipment to 10 military exchange Navy and Marine Corps locations in the United States.Under the agreement, the military personnel will also buy...
