WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $63.9 million, a significant increase over the $40.8 million reported for second-quarter 1998. Powertel recorded net …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. was dealt a major blow last week by the Federal Communications Commission, which told the nation’s top dispatch operator it cannot use private wireless spectrum to build …
Poor Tom Daschle. First, the Senate minority leader from South Dakota is handily rebuffed by the GOP in a high-profile fight over managed health-care reform. A big sticking point: Liability …
I say ol’ chap, want to know how you rate as a reporter of mobile phone health & safety issues in the United Kingdom? Ring up the Federation of the …
ATLANTA-Crown Castle International Corp. and BellSouth Corp. reached a preliminary agreement that calls for BellSouth to sublease the unused space on its 773 personal communications services towers to Crown Castle …
WASHINGTON-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle’s (D-S.D.) move to pre-empt the planning commission here from deciding on Bell Atlantic Mobile’s Rock Creek Park tower applications set off protests from local officials, …
WASHINGTON-Even as the National Capital Planning Commission was voting to further delay the siting of two Bell Atlantic Mobile towers in Rock Creek Park, the Senate was voting to override …
DENVER-Wireless carriers may be sitting on a revenue stream that would be relatively easy and cost-effective to deploy, according to Len Gee, vice president of North American Sales for Wireless …
WASHINGTON-The close of the six-year, $27 million Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. program has re-energized a public debate about whether mobile telephones cause cancer or pose other health problems to the …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. raised $850 million last week from the sale of two 12-year note issues totaling $482 million and a secondary offering of 21 million shares of common …
As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a way to hold on to their …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. said it entered into an agreement to acquire 73 towers in Louisiana and southeast Texas for $19 million in cash.
MCLEAN, Va.-SpectraSite Communications Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced an agreement under which SpectraSite will purchase 2,000 Nextel towers and build 1,700 more for $560 million in cash. Nextel, for …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. acquired six towers in two acquisitions last week. The towers are located in Mississippi and Arkansas.
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. and Bell Atlantic Mobile have closed a $660 million transaction involving a five-year exclusive build-to-suit program, the construction of 1,460 wireless towers and the establishment of …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 85 wireless towers located in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, in a series of five transactions. These towers add …
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M.-After determining traditional telephone landlines would be too expensive, Excel Communications Corp. and Solectek Corp. suggested the Native American community of Isleta, N.M, use a wireless solution to …
Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial …
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it acquired from CommStructures Communications Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., 10 towers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and a build-to-suit contract for 11 towers …
Nextel Communications Inc. said it more than doubled its 1998 subscriber unit base to a total of 2.96 million, adding more than 1.5 million domestic digital subscribers during the year, …
VANCOUVER, Wash.-WesTower Corp. announced a build-to-suit agreement with Houston Cellular Telephone Co. WesTower will build a portion of Houston Cellular’s towers in the Houston area in 1999 and 2000 under …
Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about …
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile has reached an agreement with the National Park Service that should produce a decision on whether the controversial antenna towers can be built in Rock Creek Park …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with JP Realty Inc. in Salt Lake City to manage the radio-frequency communications equipment facilities located on JP Realty’s property. Increasingly, …
