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Despite a variety of one-time costs totaling $49 million, Embarq Holdings Co. L.L.C. generated $1.59 billion in revenue and $371 million in income, it announced in results for the first quarter of 2007. Among the costs that negatively affected income for the quarter was...

Shares of regional telecommunications provider Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. inched upward after the company reported a 71-percent increase in quarterly revenue thanks largely to its wireless business.The Edinburgh, Va.-based firm said it generated $7.1 million in operating income during the first quarter of 2007, up...

Paul Reddick has officially moved on from Sprint Nextel Corp. and joined the board of directors of Handmark Inc., a developer and distributor of mobile applications. Reddick served 10 years at the industry's No. 3 carrier, holding VP positions in product, business development, innovation...

Research In Motion Ltd. announced a "World Edition" BlackBerry for international travelers that combines CDMA and GSM technology and will be sold by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.The two-carrier deal covers the two CDMA operators in the United States, an arrangement that may...

AT&T Inc., parent of the top mobile phone carrier, urged the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether Sprint Nextel Corp. should be fined for failing to meet a key deadline in reconfiguring the 800 MHz band to fix interference caused to public-safety radio systems."he...

Sprint Nextel Corp. is upstaging with the Upstage.Perhaps taking advantage of a lull in pricing changes by its larger rivals, Sprint Nextel this week slashed its price on the latest and greatest from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.; the Upstage music phone, a Sprint Nextel...

Internet service provider Moline Dispatch Publishing Co. said it plans to launch a WiMAX network covering western Illinois and eastern Iowa using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd.The service, to be offered through MDPC's Quad-Cities Online subsidiary, will use 2.5 GHz spectrum available through a...

AT&T Inc.'s wireless division, Cingular Wireless, posted mixed first quarter results with customer growth coming in below expectations but churn and average revenue per user exceeding forecasts.The country's largest wireless carrier said it added just shy of 1.2 million customers during the quarter, which...

T-Mobile USA Inc. continued to dominate the J.D. Power and Associates regional survey of wireless customer satisfaction, receiving the highest ranking in all six regions of the U.S. for the fifth consecutive time-although it tied with other carriers in three of those regions. Verizon...

As carriers tempt customers to move into data services beyond text messaging, some of them are designing service or accessory packages that specifically appeal to how different types of customers will make use of their phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. recently introduced a new...

Following the mass murders at Virginia Tech, we received a number of e-mails touting the benefits of emergency broadcast alerts of one kind or another. Whether any of those systems would have helped in this tragedy, the issue is likely to garner more attention...

Big-box retail is second only to the network operators' own branded retail stores as the channel of choice among American consumers. Big-box retailers as a distribution channel are rapidly rising in importance among carriers as well. This evolution reflects the growing sophistication of the...

Sprint Nextel Corp. recently introduced a new series of segmented data packages, offering various options at similar or equal price points in order to appeal to different categories of customers. The carrier is offering six different CDMA-based consumer data packages, dubbed Vision Packs. They...

Marc LeFar, who shepherded the $1 billion-plus marketing budget of the former Cingular Wireless L.L.C. for the past four years, has resigned from AT&T Inc., the wireless provider's new parent. An AT&T spokesman said LeFar "wanted to do something else" and declined further comment....

Hello!And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong...

T-Mobile USA Inc. continued to dominate the J.D. Power and Associates regional survey of wireless customer satisfaction, receiving the highest ranking in all six regions of the U.S. for the fifth consecutive time-although it tied with other carriers in three of those regions. Verizon...

Alltel Corp. announced that it hired a wireless industry veteran to coordinate its mobile advertising strategy for its data services and technology platforms. Eric Martin has spent 11 year working in the wireless industry, Alltel said, and was most recently a group marketing manager...

A free conference calling service says that Sprint Nextel Corp. has stopped blocking calls to its numbers, a move that comes after FreeConference.com urged its customers to make an outcry.Now, FreeConference.com says that the major U.S. telcos who were blocking its service-including Sprint Nextel,...

Verizon Wireless has stepped into the unlimited messaging arena by including bottomless messaging in a new tier of individual and family plans. The individual plans are $20 more expensive per month than Verizon's regular plans, and the carrier tacks on an additional $30 per...

Boston Communications Group Inc.'s woes continued last week as the company said it will slash its workforce by 21 percent. The company also said it received a notice of noncompliance with listing standards from the Nasdaq Stock Market.BCGI, which develops billing and payment software...

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.You gotta love Nokia. Here is a company that is handily the largest cellphone maker in the world, yet it still has the nerve to bring the...

Mobile may not be the final frontier, but it sure is the latest frontier for media companies looking to expand their reach. As more and more people consume media on their mobile devices, the demand for rich mobile content is increasing. And in a...

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier Prudential Equity Group initiated coverage on Leap Wireless with an overweight rating and a $90 price target. The firm said it sees Leap as...

CBS Corp. will team with the nation's three largest wireless network operators on an aggressive effort to offer free, ad-supported content across computers, mobile phones and other devices.The network said it will provide content from a rotating list of shows including "Survivor," "CBS Evening...