BROWSING: AT&T

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has begun what it calls the first volume shipments of commercial GSM/EDGE hardware by any vendor to the United States.The deliveries of the hardware, which are in the 900MHz and 1800 MHz frequencies, are to Cingular Wireless and AT&T...

QUITO, Ecuador—According to Conatel, Ecuador's national telecom regulator, AT&T and Mexico's Telmex have expressed a formal interest in Ecuador's upcoming April auction of three wireless telecommunications bands.At least six companies, including AT&T, Peru's Telefonica, Telmex, Bell Canada, Entel SA and Ecuador Telecom have shown...

DENVER, United States—Nothing demonstrates that the sun will eventually set on TDMA technology as strongly as the decision by its supreme advocates, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC), to dissolve its operations."We have accomplished our objectives," said Chris Pearson, executive vice president of the...

NEW YORK—AT&T announced last week it has sold the last of its interest, approximately US$3 billion worth of shares, in AT&T Wireless, leaving the company to fend for itself, five months after it announced it would spin off the wireless unit.

NEW YORK—Lucent Technologies Inc., which purchased Kenan Systems Corp. for $1.48 billion in stock in early 1999, has agreed to sell the billing and customer care unit for $300 million in cash to Denver-based CSG Systems International Inc.In a related transaction, CSG Systems will...

NEW YORK—AT&T announced last week it has sold off the last of its interest in AT&T Wireless, or approximately $3 billion in shares, leaving the wireless company to fend for itself five months after the parent company announced it would spin off the wireless...

WAYNESBORO, Va.-Continuing its sale of what it calls excess spectrum, Ntelos Inc. signed two separate definitive agreements to sell certain personal communications services licenses.The first agreement calls for Ntelos to sell a 10-megahertz D-block license for the Altoona, Pa., BTA covering approximately 225,000 potential...

The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its current TDMA markets, roughly two-thirds of its coverage area, with CDMA 1x technology. The...

WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won't be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness persisting here and abroad, the industry is not totally in control of its future....

A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year. The goal of the group...

Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless Inc. to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread W-CDMA-based third-generation...

1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...

A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year.The goal of the group "will...

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA)-based third-generation...

DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems, Borland Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The move could put further...

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless Inc. to maintain its current stake in the U.S. mobile carrier. NTT DoCoMo last year acquired a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless, aiming to spread W-CDMA-based third-generation...

NEW YORK—AT&T's board of directors has approved a $52 billion deal with Comcast Corp. to together create a single cable giant.The new company, AT&T Comcast Corp., will be headed up by Michael Armstrong, AT&T chairman and chief executive, serving as chairman of the new...

REDMOND, Washington, United States—U.S. wireless operator AT&T Wireless launched its Spanish-language Web site, allowing customers to shop online and access company information. The carrier also currently offers customer service, product literature, packaging and advertising in Spanish in select markets."Spanish-speaking customers can now visit our...

CHICAGO—AT&T Wireless said it expects to spend an additional $1 billion upgrading its current network to W-CDMA on top of the $2.5 billion the carrier planned to spend on moving to GSM/GPRS/EDGE.Speaking to investors at a Lehman Brothers conference, AT&T Wireless said it expects...

TORONTO—CellWand Communications has announced the launch of Pound Taxi (#TAXI), a new cellular service that will allow callers to obtain the first available taxi in any of more than 400 Canadian cities.Users simply dial #-T-A-X-I and say the name of the city, province and...

DENVER, United States—Spurred by recent announcements across the globe and a bold move by AT&T Wireless Services, network operators in the United States are scampering to open up their short message service (SMS) systems in hopes recreating the tremendous success of SMS in Europe."I...

ARLINGTON, Va.—TeleCorp PCS Inc. said it received early approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act for its acquisition by AT&T Wireless. TeleCorp announced last month it had agreed to sell the remaining 77 percent not already owned by AT&T Wireless for $2.3 billion...

TORONTO-In a joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers announced they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility will be...