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REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. amended the terms of its participation in Alaska Native Wireless, which was its designated entity bidding partner in the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to re-auction NextWave Telecom Inc. and Urban Communications PCS Ltd. Partnership spectrum early last year. ANW...

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Football giant Fox Sports released a new wireless game in partnership with games developer Sorrent, which will initially be available through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS."Football has become synonymous with Fox Sports. Our new wireless football game, 'On Field Live,'...

BERLIN-A German news agency reported that Deutsche Telekom AG does not plan to sell its T-Mobile USA Inc. division and will instead look for other alternatives in reducing its more than $60 billion debt load.DT interim chief executive Helmut Sihler reportedly told the VWD...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-AT&T Corporation announced that its Latin American subsidiary will lose US$40 million during the fourth quarter of 2002 and into 2003. The majority shareholder remarked that it will not bail the subsidiary out. This situation places the AT&T Latin American partner near...

NEW DELHI, India-Idea Cellular, a joint venture of AT&T Wireless International and Indian partners the Tatas and Birlas, on Thursday launched its much-awaited GSM service in the Indian capital, with a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering and features like multimedia message service (MMS)...

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. said it provided AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with the software platform for its recently introduced #121 VoiceDial voice-activated dialing service.

TOKYO-The Financial Times reported German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG is unlikely to sell off its T-Mobile USA Inc. division when it announces its debt-reduction plans next week due to the delay in reaping revenue benefits in a timely fashion and DT believing it...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today fined AT&T Wireless Services Inc. $117,000 for safety-related violations involving antenna structures. The FCC said AT&T Wireless committed seven separate infractions including failure to register, light and paint antenna towers and failure to post antenna structure registration numbers at...

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a non-binding letter of intent with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to exchange its two remaining wireless properties in California for two of AT&T Wireless' properties in Alaska. All of the properties are currently launched TDMA networks.The deal calls for...

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. became the first nationwide wireless operator to officially report an increase in its customer base during the third quarter of this year following negative net customer additions from Sprint PCS and Cingular Wireless. The Redmond, Wash.-based operator said it...

BOSTON-The four publicly traded tower companies received a much-needed boost from Wall Street this week, following tolerable carrier earnings and some financial announcements of their own.Third-quarter earnings announcements from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc., including AT&T's plan to spend $2.3 billion...

NEW YORK-Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree nicknamed "Luna" for two years to protest old growth forest destruction, has reached an out of court settlement with OmniSky Corp., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the advertising agency TBWA Worldwide Inc. Ms....

PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. reported that Sprint PCS would not renew its contract to provide enhanced directory services to the wireless operator once the current contract expires at the end of this year, though Sprint PCS has requested a transition arrangement through 2003....

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility,...

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004.The company is working to alert all its CDPD customers of the change, and is offering them incentives to...

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it will acquire location-services company Vicinity Corp. in a deal valued at about $96 million.Microsoft said it will integrate Vicinity into its MapPoint Business Unit.Vicinity offers location information through the Web, speech-based products and through wireless channels. Microsoft and its...

BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. posted $194.7 million in total revenues for the third quarter, a 31-percent increase from the $148.8 million the carrier reported for the same quarter last year. Net losses also dropped from $47 million last year, a loss of 72...

SEATTLE-Billing and content management company Qpass Inc. released a new version of its software platform, dubbed Prosperity Series, which the company said allows carriers to change way they sell and charge for wireless data, from text messaging to Java-based application downloads.Tom Trinneer, vice president...

TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications reported its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit operating profit, with a 31-percent increase to C$158.2 million (US$100.6 million) from C$123.8 million (US$78.8 million) a year earlier.The strong results for the third quarter prompted Rogers Wireless to increase its operating profit guidance...

LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called "Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into Mobile Device," on Thursday at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.In addition to discussions...

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless said it will make Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service available to its text messaging and mMode users.With the service, AT&T customers can send text messages between wireless devices and PCs as well as extend their online IM contact lists to their...

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. reported mixed financial results for the third quarter 2002, with increased service revenues and strong customer additions offset by reduced operating cash flow and earnings per share.The carrier recorded service revenues of $561.2 million, up 17 percent from the year ago...

CAMBRIDGE, England-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. said its latest trial results show enhanced observed time difference systems are making progress, with 81 percent of calls now being located to within 150 meters.The Federal Communications Commission requires that by next year, 95 percent of calls must...

WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. agreed on Wednesday to pay $2 million to the U.S. Treasury following revelations that it was not deploying enhanced 911 Phase II in the manner that it had said it would.The $2 million fine represents a slight reduction from the...