Verizon Communications Inc. President and Chief Operations Officer Dennis Strigl announced he will retire at the end of the year, leaving behind a fantastic career that helped shape the wireless industry during his tenure as CEO of Verizon Wireless.Strigl has spent 41 years in...
Goodman Networks Inc. is a national telecommunications services company founded in 2000 that provides engineering, deployment, integration and maintenance services to wireline and wireless carriers and original equipment manufacturers.The Plano, Texas-based company this summer recently received $62 million in equity and debt financing...
Nokia announced pricing for its 3G booklet would run more than $800 if it is sold without carrier subsidies. The world's largest handset manufacturer showed the netbook at its annual Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany.The netbook runs on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system...
Leap Wireless International Inc. saw its stock rise yesterday as speculation mounted that AT&T Mobility may want to add the flat-rate carrier to its stable. Leap’s stock jumped nearly $2 a share from $16.07 to $17.84 on the rumors, before settling down to $17.24...
Even as the wireless industry moves ahead to LTE technology, the CDMA Development Group is aligning its efforts to make sure that CDMA technology can coexist with the developing fourth-generation standard.The CDG announced last month that specifications for CDMA2000 1X Advanced had been published...
Wireless technology will be used to help utility grids become smarter as the technology can help better manage in the delivery of electricity in real time in a more efficient manner. But how great a role wireless plays in the evolving smart grid has...
VeriSign Inc.’s mobile messaging unit said it won a contract to offer text-messaging-based mobile banking services to Wilmington Trust. Customers can access banking information, such as ATM and branch locations, personal account information, and recent transaction history by text message. Wilmington Trust offers regional...
The hospitality industry is realizing the increasing importance of adding mobility and wireless technologies to its business processes, according to a recent survey commissioned by Motorola Inc.’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions unit.The survey found that 82% of respondents said that mobility was becoming more important...
Aircel Cellular has shortlisted four players — US-based American Tower Corporation (ATC), Crown Castle International, Bharti Infratel and the Tata-Quippo combine — for buying out its tower business in a deal worth $1.5-2 billion, according to an executive familiar with the development. http://budurl.com/rcr05
US telecom giant AT&T is learnt to have approached public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) for investing in the Indian behemoth to re-enter the world’s fastest-growing telecom market. http://budurl.com/rcr04
US telecom giant AT&T is learnt to have approached public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) for investing in the Indian behemoth to re-enter the world’s fastest-growing telecom market. http://budurl.com/rcr04
It would be the second-largest IPO after the Rs 6,000-crore one by state-run National Hydroelectric Power Corporation. Reliance Infratel, the tower subsidiary of telecom service provider Reliance Communications (RCom), will file a draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) for its proposed Initial Public Offer (IPO)...
EBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Skype communications unit in a deal valuing the business at $2.75 billion. The buyer, who will control an approximately 65 percent stake, is an investor group led by Silver Lake...
Diamond announces today that First Telecom Services LLC (“First Telecom”), a subsidiary of First Communications, has contributed its wireless tower assets (the “Assets”) to Diamond. The Assets include 368 leases on wireless communications towers and selected FirstEnergy Corp. (“FirstEnergy”) operating affiliates’ utility structures throughout...
PCIA took advantage of the Federal Communications Commission's probe into the competitive state of the wireless industry to point out the heavy financial investment made in wireless infrastructure and to ask the government to ease siting and other regulatory restrictions that slow wireless deployments.“We...
While the Federal Communications Commission probes whether the U.S. wireless industry is competitive, Canadian wireless companies are responding to reports that that market is not competitive with a new code of conduct.The code of conduct is designed to help wireless subscribers understand their bills...
Following is a list of announced global infrastructure awards for the month of August. Ukraine: ZTE has signed an exclusive contract with Icon Private Equity to build a WiMAX network for Ukraine High Technologies, an Icon portfolio company. The agreement calls for ZTE to...
T-Mobile and Sierra Wireless have agreed to partner to help develop the nascent machine-to-machine communications space, the latest in a series of tie-ups between wireless operators and technology companies. Indeed, in the United States, Sprint Nextel Corp. is the latest carrier to announce an...
Cox Communications Inc. selected Interop Technologies to provide its messaging solutions, including its SMS Center 4 Series, Multimedia Messaging Center , WAP Gateway, and the hosted Common Short Code Gateway.Cox is quietly building out its wireless network and has publicly released little information about...
Clearwire Corp. turned on another 10 markets this morning using equipment supplied by Motorola Inc., bringing the total number of markets launched with standardized WiMAX service to 14.Cities launched today are Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls, Texas; Bellingham,...
The government said it received almost 2,200 applications totaling $28 billion in broadband stimulus package requests. "Applicants requested nearly seven times the amount of funding available, which demonstrates the substantial interest in expanding broadband across the Nation," said Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary...
Editor's Note: As part of RCR Wireless News' relaunch, Publisher Jeff Mucci and Editor Tracy Ford interviewed a number of wireless executives across the industry to find out firsthand what they're doing. In a few words: carriers are building. Verizon Wireless Verizon...
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Yes, it is good to be back. Thanks for asking.OK so maybe technically you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you just the same; it is good to be back. We’ve missed you.Even though the wireless industry has been one of America’s great success stories...
