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Following AT&T's merger with BellSouth in December 2006, Cingular Wireless is now solely owned by AT&T.
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Cingular, VZW drop kiddy phones.(Upfront)
Byline: PHIL CARSON Verizon Wireless has discontinued sales of its kid-focused Migo phone, by LG Electronics Co. Ltd., while Cingular has dropped its youth-targeted Firefly device at its retail stores, as the nation's top two carriers apparen Byline:...
Prepaid, resale boost Cingular's record quarter.(Financial report)
Byline: KELLY HILL Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s last quarter before being absorbed by parent company AT&T Inc. resulted in a company-record 2.4 million net customer additions, up from 1.8 million net adds a year ago and beating analysts' ex ...
Rent or own? Borrow, burn? Carriers offer diverse music downloads, but no one sure what consumer wants.(Focus)
Byline: COLIN GIBBS Sprint Nextel Corp. was the first U.S. carrier on the mobile music dance floor in October 2005, launching a full-track, dual-download service for its music-loving subscribers. For now, though, Verizon Wireless is the...
Carriers redesign online tools to connect with customers.(News)
Byline: KELLY HILL Two national wireless carriers launched redesigned Web pages last week, as operators increasingly try to drive traffic and sales to the low-cost Internet channel. Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a streamlined new W ...
Hedgehogging.(News)
hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube Maybe it was too much caffeine, but it seems the wireless industry did a lot last week to get our editorial staff talking/critiq ...
Robust 3Q expected for carriers.(News)
Byline: KELLY HILL As the wireless industry rounds third base on its way into the holiday home stretch, many will depend on momentum from the third quarter to carry them through. The first round of third quarter earnings...
Sony Ericsson and the prepaid crowd.(News)
Byline: PHIL CARSON If, at first blush, associating the Sony Ericsson brand with prepaid handset offerings at Cingular Wireless L.L.C. seems like a mismatch, look at it this way: the link simply illustrates a number of ways in which carriers ...
Cingular, CTIA diverge on intercarrier-compensation reform.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Cingular Wireless L.L.C. came out as the only major wireless carriers largely in favor of the so-called Missoula Plan, which calls for reforming the way and amounts telecommunications carriers pay each other to Byline:...
Carrier cat fight over best network.
Byline: KELLY HILL Cingular Wireless L.L.C. stirred up some controversy when it rolled out a new advertising campaign claiming that it has the least number of dropped calls on its network, claims that have led to a lawsuit. ...
Data, roaming partnerships key for rural players, USF still stymies.(News)
Byline: KELLY HILL Data holds the promise of new services and new revenues, and speakers at last week's Rural Cellular Association conference emphasized the importance of those revenues-and the importance of small carriers not falling behind Byline:...


