Wireless Shakeout Alters Marketplace
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Just when you thought it was safe to go and shop for a wireless phone plan, the competitive landscape has once again shifted. This comes as no surprise as cutthroat industries with numerous players are bound to undergo consolidation.
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Cingular Wireless, which completed its $41 billion acquisition of AT&amp;T Wireless in October, is to have finished today its makeover of 226 company-owned stores that were former AT&amp;T Wireless locations, a job that started Sunday night.
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SAN FRANCISCOâThe tension between enterprise and consumer segments of the wireless market was evident at Monday&#39;s keynote addresses here at the CTIA Wireless conference and expo.
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WLAN switch market consolidation begins
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Picking a wireless-phone service is supposed to have gotten easy. Competition and consolidation over the past couple of years have led most companies to adopt the same basic price structure, making it easy to compare rates. Two-week trials are standard. And, in the biggest improvement the business...
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The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members&#39; real company affiliations, has changed its voting rules.
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Allowing consumers to mix and match wireless gadgets and service providers could spark innovation--and compromise security.
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Sprint&#39;s acquisition of Nextel Communications is fueling speculation of more deals to come in a telecommunications industry roiled by intense competition and rapid technological change.
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The Wi-Fi Alliance appears to have lost patience with vendors who it feels have been jumping the gun by launching wireless products using standards that have not been ratified by the Alliance.
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Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them yesterday, a day after Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced a merger that the phone companies promised would shake up the wireless business.
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Wireless carriers look beyond home markets for new growth.
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AT&amp;T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) recently debuted its mMode Music Store. Developed together with Loudeye (Nasdaq: LOUD) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the store allows subscribers to browse
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You buy a cell phone, load any software you want on it, then choose your carrier. This vision of expanded consumer choices in the wireless world might be a little closer today than it has ever been, especially with reports that the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is circulating an &quot;open platform&quot; proposal for the upcoming auction of the 700-MHz band.
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Two months ago, Fred Poteet walked into a Sprint store to resolve some problems with his cellphone. When he walked out, he had a new wireless contract, with Cox Communications Inc., his cable television operator.
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Meat wagons hitched to wireless bandwagon
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While an auction is underway for a large chunk of wireless spectrum in the 700MHz range, the FCC approved a separate deal enabling AT&T to acquire similar wireless spectrum from another owner.