BROWSING: AT&T

WASHINGTON—Bankrupt PCS carrier NextWave Telecom, in a strongly worded response, on 30 July urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a petition filed recently by a group of winning bidders in the re-auction of NextWave's licenses.The "petitioners—relying solely on speculation and innuendo—have fabricated...

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications and SBC Communications Inc. held onto their respective first- and second-place rankings for profitability for 2000, according to research from Standard & Poor's.Deutsche Telekom-which was not listed on RCR Wireless News' stock chart in 2000 and therefore not among the major...

Wireless carriers continued to stave off a weakening economy with second-quarter results mostly in line with analysts' expectations. Three of the six largest operators, including Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc., reported both customer additions and financial results showing little economic effect...

It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.Sprint PCS reported second-quarter financials so great, they even surprised analysts covering the industry. Last week, three of the six largest wireless operators- Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc.-reported both customer...

SEATTLE-A week after being spun off as an independent wireless operator, AT&T Wireless launched its GSM/GPRS network in Seattle, the first market for the carrier's planned technology overlay of its current TDMA network.Using Motorola Inc.'s Timeport wireless handset, combined data and voice services begin...

With as many as six wireless operators to choose from in some markets, wireless carriers have to work overtime to keep their customers from jumping ship. While customer churn industrywide remains steady in the 2-percent to 3-percent range per month, wireless carriers are seeing...

Vodafone to delay 3G plans due to handset shortageVodafone Group plc said it might delay the launch of its third-generation network until 2003 due to a shortage of handsets. Vodafone confirmed its was cutting back the deployment of 3G base stations in the United...

Like two pods in a peanut shell, Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to realign its business operations into two main divisions-wireless and wireline.It is part of the Murray Hill, N.J.-based company's efforts to evolve a business model to rescue it from its series of financial...

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. added nearly 90,000 postpaid customers during the second quarter, bringing the wireless operator's customer base to just more than 1 million wireless subscribers. The carrier's results include its 50-percent ownership in American Cellular Corp. through its joint venture with AT&T...

Close below the surface of the third-generation mobile-phone spectrum debate is a technology war, the kind of feud industry thought was behind it and wanted to avoid as it tries to present a unified front in the campaign to wrestle away frequencies from the...

While the event was not celebrated with fireworks across the country, AT&T Wireless finally was able to celebrate its independence last week as it began its first trading day as an independent company. And, while most people were not expecting AT&T Wireless' stock to...

WASHINGTON-A Richardson, Texas, inventor says he has developed a way to allow public safety answering points to call back non-initialized phones that make 911 calls.The statement comes as the industry, public-safety agencies and consumer advocates submitted comments on proposed Federal Communications Commission rules that...

Many people have claimed the success of the Internet really took off once service providers implemented one-rate plans for unlimited usage. The plans allowed computer users to surf all they wanted without having to worry about a surprise bill at the end of the...

NEW YORK-NTT DoCoMo of Japan says it will open an office here to work with its United States partner AT&T Wireless while also planning to open another office in Washington D.C. to work with the Federal Communications Commission.

NEW YORK-Citing "consistently strong operating results" and a "very good liquidity position," Moody's Investors Service raised the ratings July 5 on approximately $1.3 billion in debt of Triton PCS, which in 1998 became the first affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Moody's upgraded to B2...

PARIS-AT&T Latin America in Colombia has chosen Alcatel as a strategic partner to deploy a local multipoint distribution service network in two of the most important cities in Colombia including Medellin and Bucaramanga."The multi-year contract will offer small and medium enterprise customers in those...

ATTW added to S&P 500AT&T Wireless Group, which has been spun off to AT&T Corp. shareholders, replaced Potlatch Corp., an integrated forest products company, in the S&P 500 Index at the close of trading July 6. Standard & Poor's Corp. said early July 6...

Network coverage is the unexciting side of the wireless industry. Sure, most carriers proclaim to have excellent coverage in their markets, but real-world results are often lacking. Someone in the wireless industry recently discussed a conversation she tried to have with an executive of...

A major question in the wireless data industry today seems to be: How do you make money?The recent refrain from industry watchers is that wireless data is set to soon explode, both in the United States and worldwide-but exactly how that blast will occur is...

While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and other, more advanced wireless...

WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to a strongly worded letter from Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet...

NEW YORK-edocs Inc., which develops software for online account management and electronic billing, has announced a contract with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.As the foundation for its upcoming online account management offering, AT&T Wireless will use three edocs' software products: eaDirect, eaPay and eaPost. The carrier...

If there were ever any doubts that voice-recognition technology would become a big business, New York state swiftly put those questions to bed when it passed a state law two weeks ago banning the use of mobile phones while driving.Such a well-publicized legislative move,...

Unplugged Games Inc. officially released its MobileStage gaming product, a wireless video game platform for carriers designed to increase revenues through multiplayer games and specialized billing systems."It, in many ways, is the core of our business," said Eric Goldberg, founder and president of Unplugged...