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Articles tagged with: Cricket
Cricket offers unlimited SMS in the USA
Leap Wireless, the USA based CDMA network that trades under the cricket brand name has launched an unlimited text messaging service in 30 markets in 16 states across the country. For an additional price of US$4.99 a month, cricket customers can send and receive an unlimited number of text messages. This includes exchanging messages not only among cricket customers across the country, but also with almost any other wireless customer in the United States and Canada who subscribes to a text messaging service that supports inter-carrier text messaging. more
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Leap sells surplus radio spectrum
Leap Wireless, which operates the cricket CDMA network in the USA has announced two transactions that involve selling and exchanging surplus licenses for cash and a license in Rochester, N.Y. Last week the company also announced a renegotiation of its vendor financing loans. more
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Ericsson, Lucent and Nortel renegotiate their vendor loans"
Leap Wireless International has said that its CDMA network subsidiary, cricket, has amended its vendor financing agreements with Ericsson, Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks. All three vendor financing agreements have been amended in substantively the same manner. Leap also agreed to pledge as collateral under the vendor financing agreements substantially all of the wireless operating licenses owned by Leap and its subsidiaries that have not previously been pledged as security for the vendor financing. The pledge of these licenses will cause the aggregate book value of licenses pledged as collateral under these agreements to increase by approximately $50 million. more
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The USA's telecoms regulator, the FCC has said that discussions have concluded between the government, the auction 35 winners and Nextwave. Under the terms of the agreement, Nextwave will surrender all the C and F block licenses it had previously won and the wireless carriers that won these licenses in this years reauction will receive them and finally the American government will receive US$10 billion, more than twice the amount than would have been received had Nextwave kept the licenses in accordance with recent court rulings. more
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Two more networks sign up for location based services
TeleCommunication Systems, which develops location based services has secured service agreements with two USA cellular networks, Corr Wireless Communications and MetroPCS. Under the agreements, TCS will provide the backbone wireless location technology and service components, via its Xypoint Location Platform, that enable wireless carriers to meet their regulatory obligations under the FCC's E911 order to be able to locate cellular phone users to within 100 yards. With these agreements, TCS is now able to provide wireless location services in more than twenty states to twenty wireless carriers, including Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular and cricket Communications. more
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Three more American carriers comply with the E911 ruling
TeleCommunication Systems has signed new contracts to provide wireless E911 service to three wireless carriers in the USA, Thumb Cellular, CMS St. Cloud and HickoryTech. Additionally, TCS said that it is now providing wireless E911 location service to more than 7.8 million cellular subscribers nationwide. TCS provides the essential backbone wireless location technology and service components via its Xypoint Location Platform that enable wireless carriers to meet their Phase I and II regulatory obligations under the American telecoms regulator's E911 order. In addition to its technical platform, TCS provides carriers E9-1-1 end-to-end support from switch integration and Geographic Information Services (GIS) database management, state and local regulatory compliance expertise, to administrative management and deployment more
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Vodafone negotiating 3G sports coverage
..oard to acquire transmission rights over 3G networks. Vodafone is an existing sponsor of the ECB cricket teams, so this would be a logical tie in. Mike Caldwell, corporate communications director at Vodafone, told New Media Age, that Vodafone does no more
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