AT&T

Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly enabled sites grows daily, the lack of access and content …

Wireless service providers offering analog phone service to their subscribers are forced to walk a fine line between alienating established customers who rely on analog service and the increased profitability possible from value-added services offered on digital networks. As carriers …

TRENTON, N.J.-(AP)Troubled telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to cut about 10,000 jobs as part of an effort to reduce its annual costs by more than $2 billion after more than a year of increasingly severe financial and management problems. …

If we applied human attributes to mobile location services, they would be in preschool today, learning and acquiring the skills they will need to have a long and successful life in a world where bigger and tougher kids are always …

NTT DoCoMo became the largest investor in AT&T Wireless Group last week when the previously announced strategic alliance between the two wireless giants officially commenced. For its $9.8 billion investment, DoCoMo gained an approximate 16-percent interest in the country’s third-largest …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use Sierra Wireless’ GPRS wireless modems for its plans to deploy GPRS, which expands the companies’ previous $30 million agreement for EDGE wireless data devices. “Sierra Wireless and AT&T Wireless have worked together …

It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States. The date was Oct. 13, 1983. Bob Barnett, then president of Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc., placed a call from a …

NEW YORK-Domestic wireless operators have begun to take prepaid services seriously, although it will be awhile before they approach the successful benchmark set by their European counterparts. Comfort with credit is a key distinction between American consumers and those abroad, …

NEW YORK-Debt downgrades for telecommunications carriers last year outnumbered upgrades by a two-to-one margin, setting the stage for increased pressure on ratings this year, analysts for Standard & Poor’s Corp. said. The freewheeling initial public offering market of the late …

Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun. The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to “transform wireless …

Most analysts expected the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 422 personal communications services licenses to finish up late last week. Instead, there were 37 eligible bidders placing 27 new high bids on licenses during round 70 of the auction. The …

DENVER, United States-When the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set aside a portion of the permits up for bid in its 1996 auction of personal communications services (PCS) licenses, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by …

As likely winners begin to emerge in the re-auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.’s PCS licenses, it looks like these permits will be used in large part by major wireless players to shore up more spectrum, either to meet capacity needs …

Wireless operators may now have to take some of the blame for New York residents feeling somewhat superior to the rest of the country. Through 49 rounds of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s re-auction of PCS licenses, the Big …

When the Federal Communications Commission set aside a portion of the licenses up for bid in its 1996 personal communications services auction, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known as designated entities, …

NEW YORK-Online financial firm TD Waterhouse Group Inc. unveiled its TD Waterhouse Quotes & News wireless market information system for AT&T Wireless Service Inc.’s Digital PocketNet service. TD also announced it will be a featured provider of the service to …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless phone operator NTT DoCoMo plans to borrow $10.3 billion from five banks to pay for its 16-percent investment in U.S. operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. To …

Inspired by the growing consumer demand for high-speed data services and the spotty availability of such wireline connections, Loop Technologies teamed with Cisco Systems Inc., adopted a new name and redirected its focus toward providing wireless broadband access to small …

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless affiliate, added 145,231 subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2000, with 92 percent post-pay subscribers and 8 percent pre-paid customers. TeleCorp PCS, the holding company created by the merger of TeleCorp Wireless Inc. …

The news of WAP’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, according to the Wireless Application Protocol Forum. The WAP Forum last week struck back against a report released by the Nielsen Norman Consulting Group downplaying the advantages of the wireless Internet …

The Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses returned from its winter break by closing in on the $13-billion barrier, and seeing its total bidder pool dwindle from its original 82 members to 51 bidders after 29 …

In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So far, theory has proved superior to practice. But optimism may yet triumph. Unlike in the past …

Lawyers for AT&T Corp. rang in the new year with a class-action lawsuit brought against it and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by New York City area customers, and a federal magistrate’s ruling that a dispute with wireless operator Cellular One …

The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies, whose members often provide wireless as well as wireline service to rural America, is calling for the 107th Congress to repeal the estate tax. The estate-or death-tax was made …

DENVER, United States-With AT&T Wireless Services’ announcement it will overlay its existing TDMA-based network with a GSM network supporting General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the pressure is on other TDMA carriers, specifically the largest U.S.-based TDMA carrier Cingular Wireless, as …