Virgin Mobile USA reaches three million subs
By: By Jason Ankeny
Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA announced today it has surpassed the three million net subscriber mark, giving the company a 1.7% share of the U.S. wireless market...
Cingular cuts 160 ex-AT&T Wireless jobs
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless announced Thursday its third and largest round of post-merger layoffs, with 160 former AT&T Wireless workers in the Washington cities of Bothell, Redmond and Seattle scheduled to lose their jobs effective April 4...
Wireless boosts Sprint's 4Q
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint has reported a 16% year-over-year increase in revenue from its wireless operation during the fourth quarter of 2004, as well as a record number of new wireless subscribers, giving the company strong quarterly results despite an overall sluggish year for the company. ...
Verizon Wireless buys PCS licenses in NC
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless announced its acquisition of PCS licenses from bankrupt carrier Urban Comm-North Carolina in 10 North Carolina markets for $68.5 million. ...
Will SBC-AT&T live up to its promise?
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre clearly lives by the motto, "Make no small plans." For while the $16 billion acquisition of AT&T is not his company?s largest, Whitacre admits it may be among its most important. ...
AT&T MVNO becomes a question mark
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SBC's proposed acquisition of AT&T spells the end of AT&T's plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator with Sprint this year. Though AT&T chairman and CEO David Dorman said that it still plans on launching AT&T Mobile, that launch would be with Cingular, not its competitor. ...
Nortel uses joint ventures to advance in Asian market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Partnerships with China Putian, LG Electronics open 3G avenues...
T-Mobile lands 1 million subs in Q4
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile USA added 1 million customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total subscriber base to 17.3 million and giving it a record year of net additions at 4.2 million, according to parent company Deutsche Telekom....
Nokia reports handset decline, improved networks sales
By: By Kevin Fitchard
For the fourth quarter, Nokia saw a 6% decline in sales from handsets, but its overall revenues got a boost from its networks division, which saw a 12% leap in sales over last year...
Wireless growth energizes Verizon’s Q4 results
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Communications today reported its fourth quarter earnings, living up to most Wall Street forecasts with net earnings of $3.04 billion and a 6% revenue gain buoyed by the company’s thriving wireless business...
Verizon Wireless buys Cellular 2000
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless announced it has agreed to purchase St. Cloud, Minn.-based carrier Cellular 2000 from its owner, St. Cloud Wireless Holdings LLC....
EarthLink, SK Telecom team for U.S. MVNO
By: By Jason Ankeny
EarthLink announced Wednesday it will partner with South Korean wireless giant SK Telecom on a $440 million joint venture that will create a new mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) dubbed SK-EarthLink...
SBC earnings down; outlook up
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications coupled its announcement today of lower earnings with the promise of 7000 additional job cuts...
Cingular: Q4 losses offset by subscriber adds
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless announced fourth quarter losses of $497 million, results significantly impacted by the carrier's $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless....
Qpass buying its way into Euro market
By: By Tim McElligott
Digital media and services software company Qpass added several T-Mobile operating companies to its customer base this week with the acquisition of Vienna, Austria-based ucp morgen, a provider of content delivery software....
Hurricanes, merger knock BellSouth earnings
By: By Carol Wilson
The cost of the Cingular-AT&T merger and of recovering from the hurricane season left BellSouth?s fourth quarter earnings shy of Wall Street expectations....
Wireless, Internet adds buoy Alltel earnings
By: By Jason Ankeny
Alltel reported a 5% rise in profits during the fourth quarter, crediting the increase to strong sales of wireless and high-speed Internet services....
Nortel to form Chinese joint venture for 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is forming a joint venture with China Putian for the development, manufacture and sales of 3G network equipment....
Qualcomm posts higher profits, revenues, chipset sales
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today posted a $513 million profit for the final three months of 2004 off increased revenues, driven by sales of the 3G CDMA chipsets...
Lucent revenue flat after 3G contract wins
By: By Ed Gubbins
Some big wireless equipment contracts announced during Lucent Technologies’ first quarter of fiscal 2005 weren’t enough to help the vendor report more than flat revenues of $2.34 billion for the quarter...
Sony Ericsson handset sales jump
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sony Ericsson’s steady reclamation of global handset market share continued in the fourth quarter, as the Japanese-Swedish partnership announced a 58%...
WiFi Wireless acquires AValon RF
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless networking technology developer WiFi Wireless announced today it has acquired a majority interest in wireless receiver, transmitter and antenna...
Motorola reclaims handset might
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today posted a 27% increase in revenues for the fourth quarter, driven by a huge surge in handset sales and moderate improvements in its infrastructure...
Cisco acquires Airespace for $450 million
By: by Jason Ankeny
Cisco Systems today announced its acquisition of wireless local area networking systems provider Airespace. Cisco will pay approximately $450 million...
Visage Mobile nets $22.8 million in funding
By: by Jason Ankeny
Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile announced Tuesday it has closed a Series C funding round valued at $22.8 million, increasing its total capital...
