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Articles tagged with: Cingular and Alltel
Verizon-Alltel Deal Just One of Many as Wireless Consolidates
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Verizon Communications's $28.1 billion agreement to acquire Alltel Corp. is the latest megamerger in a wireless industry that's quickly consolidating to compensate for slowing subscriber growth. more
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USA - Slowing Growth Suggests a Need for Further Consolidation
The US mobile market in Q1 2007 continued its slow trudge towards 100% penetration, with the best part of two percentage points added in the quarter, to take the total to 79.6%. In absolute terms, there are now an (estimated) 239m mobile customers in the USA, up from 233m at the end of 2006 and 214m one year earlier. more
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Network Operators Trying to Restrict Hyperlinks to their Websites
.. a blog run by Harry Maugans who said he was just scanning the Cingular Terms and Conditions, when he noticed the following text:"Links to the Sites. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a hypertext link to the homepage of the more
T-Mobile Tops Network Quality Survey
As usage continuously increases and the number of new data-centric service offerings grow, call performance and network reliability are becoming more critical to wireless customers demanding consistent quality connections, according to the latest J.D. Power survey. more
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Sprint 4Q Net Up, Post-Paid Customers Fall"
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel is slipping further behind the top two U.S. wireless carriers in the fourth quarter. more
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Freedom Wireless Sues Ericsson and Other Providers
Freedom Wireless, a USA-based development and technology company that owns patents on systems and methods for providing prepaid wireless telephone services, filed two patent infringement lawsuits in federal court in Marshall, Texas. One suit is against cingular Wireless and Ericsson, and the other suit is against Alltel and two prepaid wireless services providers, Comverse and VeriSign. more
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US Phone Cos 3Q Driven By DSL Pickup, Wireless Strength"
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- U.S. telephone companies should post strong third-quarter results on an anticipated jump in high-speed Internet customers and continued wireless growth. more
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Verizon Wireless Continues to Take Market Share
The analysts at Merrill Lynch have conducted another of their regular trawls around the US phone and network retailers and have concluded from interviews with staff that overall wireless sales volumes appear healthy for 2Q06, with Verizon Wireless continuing to take share across the board. cingular is executing well. Alltel appears to have gained momentum. However, they believe that T-Mobile is likely to come up short on net additions during the quarter. more
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Customer Care Vital To Keep Business Customers Happy - report
American business wireless users who have an assigned dedicated channel to contact for service issues record significantly higher satisfaction ratings than customers at companies that do not, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study. The report, now in its second year, measures the satisfaction of businesses with their wireless voice and data services across eight key factors (in order of importance): call quality (18%); sales representatives/account executives (14%); customer service (14%); billing (12%); offerings and promotions (11%); performance and reliability (11%); company image (11%); and cost of service (9%). more
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Alltel, Cingular Wireless Extend Roaming Pact Until 2012"
Alltel Corp. and cingular Wireless extended an agreement that allows customers of both companies to roam on each other's networks until 2012. more
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