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...The ROKR, which sold for $249.99 with a two-year commitment to Cingular, could hold 100 songs, writes Adam Samson in New York....
...But the UK mobile group was outbid by rival Cingular and revelations of Vodafone’s interest did little to help relations with Verizon, its US wireless joint venture partner....
...Wireless and Oracle....
...The case concluded a process that began in 2002 when Cingular Wireless (now AT&T Mobility) was looking to find an alternative solution to the expensive class actions being brought against it by customers...
...by Cingular in 2004....
...Previous expansion plans by DoCoMo came unstuck when the value of its investments in companies such as AT&T Wireless, KPN Mobile, Hutchison 3G UK and KG Telecom in Taiwan rapidly diminished....
...Mr Sarin had barely settled into his new office before coming under siege from investors angry about an attempt to buy AT&T Wireless of the US and the lack of payback from costly investments in new network...
...Other big telecoms acquisitions from that period, such as the $41bn purchase of AT&T Wireless by Cingular, were more smoothly absorbed....
...First, in 2004, Vodafone made a $38bn bid for AT&T Wireless, a rival US mobile operator but was outbid by Cingular....
...Since taking the job three years ago, Mr Lefar had played an important role in developing the Cingular brand, including folding the former AT&T Wireless operations into Cingular after Cingular acquired AT...
...Cingular had 62.2m customers at the end of March, compared with Verizon Wireless’ 60.7m....
...Although Cingular has more subscribers than Verizon Wireless, the latter signed up more new customers than the former in 2006....
...Margins AT&T’s wireless unit – previously called Cingular Wireless - jumped from 15.2 per cent to 25.5 per cent as service revenues grew by 13.5 per cent helped in part by higher revenues per subscriber....
...Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon and Britain’s Vodafone Group, added 2.3m net customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its nationwide total to 59.1m and closing the gap with Cingular Wireless...
...Profits at Cingular Wireless, the largest US wireless carrier, almost quadrupled in the fourth quarter, buoyed by particularly strong wholesale revenues and pre-paid subscriber growth....
...After a fevered auction, that business was acquired by Cingular Wireless for $41bn....
...The BellSouth acquisition consolidated AT&T position as the largest US telecoms carrier ahead of New York-based Verizon Communications and gave AT&T full control of the Cingular Wireless joint venture, the...
...In 2004, Cingular, the mobile joint venture between SBC and BellSouth, bought AT&T Wireless, another wireless operator, for $41bn....
...The 8800, which will be offered initially by Vodafone and T-Mobile in Europe and by Cingular Wireless in the US, is possibly the most innovative of the smartphones launched at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona...
...AT&T already had an ”impressive” domestic footprint after its acquisition of BellSouth - a move that consolidated AT&T’s ownership of the Cingular wireless joint venture, now renamed AT&T wireless. ”I think...
...He could ill afford a repeat of Vodafone’s failed $38bn offer for AT&T Wireless, the US mobile operator, in 2004, which badly strained relations with investors....
...Stronger than expected subscriber growth and reduced subscriber “churn” helped Cingular Wireless, the biggest US mobile carrier, nearly quadruple profits in the third quarter....
...As with Cingular in 2004, Vodafone faces a rival bidder with a far better synergy case, in the form of Reliance, India’s second operator....
...The group’s mobile unit, Cingular Wireless, reported a sharp rise in fourth-quarter profit due to a surge in new customers during the period. AT&T fourth-quarter figures are due on Thursday....
...US mobile carriers including the “big four” networks – Cingular, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit – are in the midst of rolling out their 3G networks and are hoping...
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