Wednesday, August 06, 2008
: Vermont
The Vermont Telecommunications Authority, formed scarcely a year ago, is moving forward in its efforts to improve communication access to state residents.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
: Nebraska
Sparsely populated areas of Nebraska with no cell phone service could be helped by a policy from the Public Service Commission that makes millions of dollars available for new cell towers.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
: Alabama
Verizon Wireless added new transmitting towers in 17 Alabama communities including Birmingham, Jasper and Warrior during the second quarter of 2008.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
: Tennessee
Verizon Wireless has spent over $78 million to enhance voice and data services and coverage throughout Tennessee in the first six months of 2008. Verizon now covers all 95 counties and approximately 41,898 square miles across the state due to an investment of nearly $634.5 million in Tennessee since 2003, which is part of Verizon's multibillion-dollar nationwide network investment
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
: West Virginia
Using $1 million a year in cell phone fees, the state of West Virginia partnered with businesses and local governments to build up to 11 cell phone towers in the past year, but that may not be enough to reach all of the areas without service soon.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
: Florida
PowerOne Internet LLC will spend $3 million and create 20 new jobs by expanding its airPowered business-class Internet service into the Orlando market by the end of this year.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
: North Carolina
Verizon Wireless has spent nearly $75 million to upgrade its voice and data network in North Carolina in the first six months of 2008.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
: Colorado
Watch video on the go. Surf the wireless Internet at lightning speed. Share live video during a wireless call. These are just a few of the things you can do with AT&T’s third-generation (3G) wireless service, now available in the Roaring Fork Valley. AT&T announced the launch of the company’s 3G wireless network in Aspen, Snowmass Village, Basalt, El Jebel, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs and the Highway 82 corridor offering consumers and businesses broadband-like speed and access to the latest interactive voice, video and data applications.
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Friday, July 04, 2008
: Oregon
Cell phone towers and large antennae in residential neighborhoods are not a pretty sight. So Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard is drafting a plan that would allow new towers or large antennae only in commercially zoned areas. Commissioner Nick Fish would limit them to commercial areas or transportation arteries.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
: Pennsylvania
Wireless carrier MetroPCS Inc. has expanded its service area to the Philadelphia region.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
: Kentucky
Verizon Wireless has completed a service expansion in southeastern Kentucky.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
: Texas
Cricket Communications Inc. has announced plans to offer its wireless services in Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Laredo and McAllen. The company is also expanding into the Beaumont area in East Texas as well.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
: North Carolina
AT&T Inc. plans to invest more than $80 million this year to expand and upgrade wireless coverage in North Carolina.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
: Northern California
AT&T Inc. plans to invest more than $290 million in Northern California and Reno to expand wireless coverage this year.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
: National
Sprint Nextel may be a takeover target, according to analysts for Merrill Lynch.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
: National
Sprint Nextel, whose stock has lost half of its value in the last year, fell another 6 percent Wednesday after Standard & Poor's cut its credit rating to one level above junk status.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
: North Carolina
Sprint Nextel Corp. added 148 cell towers to its N.C. operations last year.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Sprint Nextel Corp., which paid $36 billion to acquire Nextel Communications, will write down a significant portion of the goodwill value of its wireless business
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
: National
The FCC denied a petition from Verizon Communications seeking relief from government pricing regulations regarding how much it can charge rival telecoms for access to its network in six cities.
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Monday, December 03, 2007
: National
The ubiquity of the cell phone has finally prompted AT&T to pull out of the pay-phone business, the company announced on Monday. By the end of 2008, AT&T says, it will have exited the business completely.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
: National
Google announced on Friday that it will bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, in a move that could pit the Web search leader against U.S. wireless service providers.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
: North Carolina
In an effort to improve statewide cell-phone service for the public, government agencies and emergency first responders, legislators passed a law last month that changes the way local governments approve construction or modification of all cell-phone towers.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
: Missouri
Residents along Milton Road could be saved from the view of a hulking cell phone tower if one company has its way. Saved, that is, by a giant cross.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
: National
The proposal formally portions the USF(Universal Service Fund) into three parts: one part to help pay for high-speed Internet service; a second portion for subsidizing wireless services in rural areas; and a third as a "last resort" for landline telecom providers.
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Friday, November 09, 2007
: National
T-Mobile USA also reported ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) of $53, up from $52 for the same quarter in 2006, and reduced contract customer churn to 2 percent from 2.3 percent year over year.
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Friday, November 09, 2007
: National
Today, Sprint and Clearwire announced that they are terminating the agreement they had to build out a mobile WiMAX network together.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
: National
Public safety will be the prime beneficiary, but carriers and other telecom companies will be burdened with considerable expenses that will be incurred in order to meet the FCC's deadline.
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Monday, October 01, 2007
: Arkansas
Leo Koch wades among tall grass, thorny cacti and shrubs, not to mention chiggers, ticks and fire ants. He climbs along a rugged hill and takes care not to step on any snakes. It’s barely sunrise, and Koch’s eyes focus on the ground. His job is to scour the rugged field surrounding a cell-phone tower just northeast of Conway for bird carcasses, all in the name of science
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