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T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a surprisingly strong 957,000 net customer additions for the first quarter of this year, which fell short of the nearly 1.2 million customers the carrier added during the first quarter of 2004, but was well ahead of analysts' forecasts of...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is asking mobile-phone carriers to supply highly detailed data about their calling plans in connection with the agency's review of the proposed $35 billion merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc.FCC letters, dated May 6 but only recently released,...

Despite claims of nationwide coverage, a look at wireless coverage maps from some of the industry's largest operators shows there are numerous holes in those claims. While carriers note their networks cover most of the places customers want to use their wireless devices, many...

T-Mobile USA Inc. again topped a J.D. Power and Associates ranking, this time garnering the highest overall customer satisfaction among wireless voice and data service for business customers as part of J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study. T-Mobile USA also topped...

Following is a list of debt and credit upgrades and downgrades for wireless companies by financial and investment firms this week:Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on Sanmina-SCI Corp. to negative from stable following what S&P called disappointing earnings for the second quarter ended...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile International added current T-Mobile USA Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sue Swenson to its management board. Swenson will be responsible for transatlantic synergy programs and development projects, integrated wireless local area network services, roaming offers and terminals.Swenson joins T-Mobile USA Chief Executive Officer...

T-Mobile USA Inc. again topped a J.D. Power and Associates ranking, this time garnering the highest overall customer satisfaction among wireless voice and data service for business customers as part of J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study. T-Mobile USA topped a...

Verizon Communications Inc. said it will phase out its payphone-based Wi-Fi hot-spot service in New York City during the next two months in favor of its rapidly expanding CDMA2000 1x EV-DO wide area wireless network. Verizon noted that it currently operates around 380 hot-spot...

LAS VEGAS-Casino-gaming technology company Interactive Games Inc. announced plans to develop and distribute titles for wireless users.The company is teaming with Via-Cell Inc., a mobile content developer, to offer downloadable previews of three titles to subscribers of Cingular Wireless, Sprint PCS and T-Mobile USA....

LONDON-Mobile media company FoneStarz announced a deal with Perfect 10 magazine to bring adult wallpapers and videos to mobile devices. FoneStarz, which handles content services on 15 networks across four continents, said it will manage and distribute the content using more than 18 content...

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a contract with Alcatel to deploy a mobile next generation network core in Dobson's GSM-based network. Alcatel said the network solution will enable Dobson to evolve its current network to support advanced mobile services, support the growth of the...

Few customer segments have drawn as much consternation from the wireless industry as prepaid subscribers. Non-contract customers have traditionally rewarded operators with lower revenue and higher churn rates when compared with postpaid subscribers and thus have been offered only token rate plans. But, with...

We've all seen the ads: "Raising the Bar." "Can you hear me now?" "Nextel. Done." "Get More." Then again, with the wireless industry spending billions of dollars each year on advertising, how could we not have seen them?According to Advertising Age, the telecom industry...

Verizon Wireless garnered the top ranking in Vocal Laboratories Inc.'s quarterly SectorPulse report measuring the quality of customer care among wireless operators. The most recent test was conducted between January and March 31 of this year.Verizon Wireless achieved an "A" ranking in caller satisfaction...

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s position as the nation's fourth-largest wireless operator, as well as one of the industry's fastest growing, might not be enough to guarantee its long-term prospects. Several industry observers have questioned the carrier's ability to remain a standalone entity in the face...

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it plans to launch a new advertising campaign highlighting the carrier's prepaid service offering T-Mobile To Go. The carrier noted that it recently introduced lower per-minute rates for its prepaid service last month, as well as provided customers with a...

WATERLOO, Ontario-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. and Siemens AG joined the growing list of handset manufacturers selling devices that can connect to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail service.Sony Ericsson announced Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. in Singapore will sell its P910i smart phone with...

With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and how to present it to the consumer. It may be no surprise, then, that smaller carriers are working overtime to...

The nation's big five operators are not about to slow down. Following a record-setting year in which the wireless industry added more than 22 million customers and surpassed 60-percent penetration, analysts expect the industry's largest operators to post more than 4.5 million net subscriber...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-3G Americas elected Andrew Corp. to its board of governors.The company said it will be represented on the board by JC Huang and Ray Butler.Other board of governors members are Cingular Wireless, Cable & Wireless (West Indies), Ericsson, Gemplus, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lucent Technologies...

WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. told the Federal Communications that since it is actively trying to compete with wireline carriers, it should be able to receive access to unbundled network elements at regulated rates instead of having to pay special access for these elements. "If T-Mobile...

LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday. Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading....

Taking advantage of new technologies, peer-to-peer companies, otherwise known as dotcoms, are porting services to wireless subscribers without operator consent. Through handsets, personal digital assistants, laptops and other mobile devices, end users can enjoy services such as music downloads and file sharing, video on...

HOUSTON-Although they recorded increased revenues, two tower operators suffered net losses in their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2004 compared with the previous year. For the full year, American Tower Corp. and Crown Castle had better results. The two companies had postponed...