BROWSING: AT&T

The telecommunications industry's on-again, off-again interest in offering bundled services appears to be back on again as a pair of companies announced initiatives last week that could make it easier to offer customers both wireline and wireless telecommunications services.AT&T Corp., which spun off its...

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Nortel said that with the...

SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys' Texas locations currently offer wireless products and services from T-Mobile USA Inc., AT&T Wireless Services...

The fate of wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. is unclear, and industry watchers have little faith that the company's destiny is a bright one."I don't really know what they bring to the table," said Michael King, senior analyst with Gartner Inc. "I do wonder...

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.Nortel said that with the win,...

BERWYN, Pa.-Southeastern wireless carrier Triton PCS said it is now selling Danger Inc.'s monochrome screen Hiptop device under its SunCom-branded service.Triton said the device is currently available at SunCom retail store locations in Norfolk, Richmond and Fredericksburg, Va., with other locations to follow. Triton...

Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to residential long-distance customers in select markets beginning this summer."This combined wireless and wireline calling...

Microsoft Corp. announced two new sales agreements for devices using its Smartphone operating system and reiterated commitments from T-Mobile in the United Kingdom and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in the United States to sell Smartphone devices.Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera said it...

SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys' Texas locations currently offer wireless products and services from T-Mobile USA Inc., AT&T Wireless Services...

The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will turn anytime soon.However, industry players continue to offer hopeful outlooks on the future. Some...

After years of claiming there are too many competitors in the wireless industry for anyone to make a profit, the federal government finally pulled off the leash, lifting spectrum-cap rules prohibiting any one carrier from monopolizing spectrum capacity in any one market.But since the...

Top execs from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. made appearances at this week's Lehman Brothers conference in New York to discuss their current and future business plans and financial performances. Verizon Wireless' Chief Executive Officer Denny Strigl attributed the...

With the deadline for reporting first-quarter results last week, a number of carriers posted financial and operating results including another strong showing from nationwide provider T-Mobile USA Inc. and mixed results for rural operators.Seeming to be saving the best for last, T-Mobile USA Inc....

Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word "instant," thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more traditional voice instant messaging, which suffer some degree of latency.Starent said several major carriers...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that allow wireless carriers to lease spectrum they are not using to other companies, a move heralded by the wireless community."The spectrum-leasing policies adopted are a landmark step in the evolution toward greater reliance on the marketplace...

Wireless pioneer Craig McCaw assembled an all-star executive team to start and drive McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. in the 1980s and early 1990s. And though McCaw sold the business in 1994 for almost $12 billion to what it now AT&T Wireless Services Inc., many...

BOSTON-Wireless carriers are increasingly searching for solutions to serve credit-challenged customers, according to The Yankee Group, which released its opinions on AT&T Wireless Inc.'s recently announced GoPhone service and a similar service from Washington D.C.-based Liberty Wireless, majority owned by InPhonic Inc. Both solutions...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted rules allowing for leasing of commercial spectrum and proposed rules allowing for leasing in certain circumstances for public-safety spectrum."The spectrum leasing policies adopted are a landmark step in the evolution toward greater reliance on the marketplace...

Verizon Wireless announced it will shut down its slow-speed wireless data CDPD network by December 2005, following a similar move by CDPD network operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The move comes as little surprise because much of the wireless industry is working to migrate to...

T-Mobile International AG and Microsoft Corp. sought to clarify media reports concerning possible delays of the release of a T-Mobile phone using Microsoft software in Europe, but T-Mobile wouldn't give a specific release date.Media reports surfaced last week that T-Mobile had delayed the release...

HELSINKI, Finland-Hungarian operator Pannon GSM Telecommunications plc announced it made a successful call using an EDGE phone and network. The carrier also said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. to launch a trial EDGE network in Budapest in the third quarter of this...

ARLINGTON, Va.-Since the National Communications System no longer pays for wireless priority access service, some phones are being returned because agencies in New York and Washington can no longer afford them, said the NCS's Kathy Blasco last week at a meeting of the Telecommunications...

Nokia Corp.'s 6200 EDGE-capable phone hit store shelves this week, making AT&T Wireless Services Inc. the first carrier in the world to sell an EDGE phone. However, the phone today is only running on AT&T Wireless' GPRS network.The phone supports both GPRS and EDGE...

REDMOND, Wash.-Nokia Corp.'s 6200 EDGE-capable phone hit store shelves this week, making AT&T Wireless Services Inc. the first carrier in the world to sell an EDGE phone. However, the phone today is only running on AT&T Wireless' GPRS network.The phone supports both GPRS and...