WAYNESBORO, VA and PARIS – March 27, 2013 — NTELOS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS), a Virginia-based regional mobile operator in the United States, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced plans to provide improved wireless data speeds and…
Is this essentially one more element of Project Velocity IP, AT&T’s rural initiative announced last year? AT&T today said it plans to acquire wireless spectrum and assets in rural areas of several southern and Midwestern states from Atlantic Tele-Network Inc….
For at least five years, Verizon Wireless and other CDMA operators have been shut out of the business of providing cellular communications for home security systems because North American alarm manufacturers opted to use GSM/GPRS communications when they began supporting…
Regional wireless carrier C Spire is the latest wireless carrier to target traditional home phone service by marketing a wireless replacement for wireline service. C Spire’s Home Phone Connect offers an unlimited local and long distance plan using wireless facilities…
Small, independent wireless carriers have important decisions to make regarding their transition to 4G (and 3G in many cases). Thanks to roaming and other business conditions of the legacy wireless business, many small rural carriers could build a decent wireless…
AT&T is expanding its wireless business in several rural markets, including territories in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Iowa and Montana, among others, having completed the transition of infrastructure in these states from that of its Alltel acquisition to…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), March 16, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced plans to expand its gold-standard push-to-talk leadership, unveiling fourth-quarter launch plans for next-generation push-to-talk capabilities powered by Sprint’s broadband CDMA network. As part of the launch,…
Verizon held a press conference today outlining the long rumored news that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. The move breaks the AT&T iPhone monopoly which they had for a little over three years. The Verizon iPhone is the iPhone…
One important aspect of the smart grid is the need for two way communication between the utility and the smart meter attached to every household. There are various methods to achieve this two-way communication, one of which involves leveraging existing…
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Jul 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a leading global provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, has secured two contracts to provide wireless managed services to service operators in Antigua and the…
The dissolution of Nortel following its bankruptcy filing took a big step forward with the June 19 announcement that management has entered into a ‘stalking horse’ asset sale agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for ‘substantially all’ of its CDMA…
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — More than 220 destinations for voice calling; more than 175 destinations for global data connectivity; 24-hour customer support; and a unique-to-the-industry relationship with Vodafone, one of the world’s largest wireless carriers, means Verizon Wireless customers get…
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