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#TBT: Cellular vs. PCS; Motorola sued over paging play-by-play; Need a cell? Rent it … this week in 1996

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Cellular vs. PCS From...

Verizon Enterprise division hacked

Verizon Enterprise Solutions hack claims info on 1.5M customers, data offered up for $100,000 Verizon Communications’ Enterprise Solutions division was hit by a data breach that reportedly included information on 1.5 million customers, which ended up for sale online. According to a report from Krebs on...

Report: Verizon could sell enterprise assets for $10B

UPDATE: Verizon CTO blasts reports of possible sale of enterprise assets Verizon CTO Fran Shammo, in comments made today during the 2015 Wells Fargo Securities Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, called reports that Verizon was considering a sale of its enterprise assets "factless. These are the...

#TBT: Telematics take stage at auto show; telecom dominates M&A … 15 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Telematics products take...

RCR Wireless News Time Machine: 17 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...

Reality Check: CTIA – Any new news?

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The spring CTIA has a very tough role – trying to be new and different on the...

Reality Check: Three dinosaurs

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Greetings from the ice-crusted prairie where we celebrate mid-30 degree temperatures. The mercury wasn't the only thing...

AT&T Mobility lawsuit tackles autodialing telemarketers, claims ‘annoyance and intrusion’

AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the second national wireless operator to pursue litigation to halt the practice. The carrier's lawsuit alleges the telemarketers used spoofing techniques...

Using WiMAX to bridge nation’s digital divide

WiMAX is only one of the wireless technologies being explored to extend services into rural areas, and in some cases the use of unlicensed spectrum is providing new services to rural customers. Unlike municipal Wi-Fi projects, the provisioning of rural wireless broadband networks establishes...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: CloudShield, Ecrio, Nexcom and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--CloudShield: Tektronix Inc. participated in a $15 million investment into CloudShield Technologies Inc, an IP services provider. CloudShield said...

Sprint Nextel snares piece of government contract

Sprint Nextel Corp last week snagged one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications system. In late March, Sprint Nextel-a perennial government contractor-came up short in the awarding of Networx Universal contracts.But the outcome was different for...

Second times a charm: Sprint Nextel snares piece of government contract

Sprint Nextel Corp. made the cut this time, snagging one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications system. The General Services Administration today awarded Networx Enterprise contracts to Sprint Solutions Inc. (Sprint Nextel), AT&T Inc., Level...

Sprint Nextel appoints new strategy VP

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced a new senior vice president of strategy as the company tries to turn around and its recent poor performance.Jack Dziak, who has worked for MCI Communications and Accenture, and was most recently senior vice president of services and distribution for...

GAO report could boost resistance to AT&T/BellSouth deal

WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone carriers may have gained leverage to have stringent conditions imposed on AT&T Inc.'s $79 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp., with the Government Accounting Office concluding competition in the special access market is generally lacking in major U.S. cities.Jessica Zufolo, a telecom analyst...

Bush White House reluctant referee in Iraqi telecom

WASHINGTON -- Bush administration efforts to help Iraq create a competitive wireless market and an independent regulatory regime to oversee telecom reconstruction in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion are at risk of being undermined by internal political strife in the war-torn country,...

Bell Industries buys into paging with purchase of SkyTel from Verizon

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Verizon Communications Inc. is selling off a paging and wireless telemetry unit that it acquired when it purchased the former MCI Inc. earlier this year.Bell Industries Inc. agreed to purchase Verizon Communications' subsidiary SkyTel Corp., which provides paging, telemetry, two-way messaging and...

AT&T promises wireless broadband trial in attempt to seal BellSouth purchase

WASHINGTON-AT&T Inc. offered to conduct a series of wireless broadband trials as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning Federal Communications Commission approval of its proposed $79 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. AT&T said the newly merged company would launch 10 trials...

2Q slams Sprint Nextel, boosts Verizon Wireless

Polar opposite pictures of the second quarter emerged last week from Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. as the industry's No. 2 and No. 3 operators reported financial results. Verizon Wireless' parent company, Verizon Communications Inc., encountered what its executives called a "pivot point"...

Flashbacks to Judge Greene?

WASHINGTON—A confluence of legal, technological and political forces could slow or significantly alter mega-merger mania that has raged largely unabated in the wireless and wireline telecom sectors in recent years, with AT&T Inc.'s $67 billion bid for BellSouth Corp. materializing into a grand test...

AT&T will accept conditions in BellSouth deal

WASHINGTON-AT&T Inc. Chairman Edward Whitacre last week told the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee he would not oppose conditions on special access lines as part of any regulatory approval of the company's proposed $67 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. Whitacre told the Senate panel he...

Carriers plead their cases to investors

Gas prices and higher mortgage rates have not affected the demand for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless services, the carrier's chief financial officer told analysts last week. Paul Saleh's remarks were made during a parade of wireless executives at conferences in New York, hosted by...

Verizon plans ‘significant’ cuts in wireline operations

NEW YORK—Verizon Communications Inc. will be looking to make "significant" workforce reductions in the next year and a half, the company’s chief financial officer told analysts during a conference earlier this week. "I think you will see some reductions on the wireline side that...

Verizon denies working with NSA

WASHINGTON—Verizon Communications Inc. became the second large telephone company to explicitly deny turning over to the National Security Agency phone call records of millions of Americans. "Contrary to the media reports, Verizon was not asked by NSA to provide, nor did Verizon provide, customer...

Alltel announces $455 million buyout of wireless partnerships in Carolinas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. announced it purchased the remaining 50 percent interests in 10 partnerships with Palmetto MobileNet, L.P. that it did not already own. The partnerships cover about two million potential customers in North and South Carolina. Alltel did not disclose the value of...