According to a popular if crass bumper sticker, "stuff" happens.In the case of outages or slowdowns for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service, stuff happens pretty rarely.But a days-long outage this spring and a day-long outage and slowdown in e-mail traffic Sept. 7-8 at...
Global Tower Partners acquired 549 communications towers from AT&T Inc., the company announced. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The sale includes towers in 27 states."The acquisition of these AT&T towers marks another major milestone in the growth of our company," said Marc...
LAS VEGAS-Less than two months into a broadcast mobile TV service trial, HiWire L.L.C. has wrapped the first phase of its study and is now preparing to increase its scope by 800% before month's end.T-Mobile USA Inc., which has signed on with the Aloha...
Proving who you are-wirelesslyIraqi students are using a mobile social network service to prove their identity, according to Mobixie. The company said students have used the service to get new identifying documents after incidents where they were kidnapped by militia forces who confiscated their...
The good news for the mobilephone industry is carriers, manufacturers, trade associations and standards bodies are nearly free of health litigation for the first time in years. The bad news is the industry is about to be confronted by an overlooked actor in long-running...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --R.W. Baird adjusted its third- and fourth-quarter estimates on MetroPCS Communications Inc. to reflect a delay in the launch of the company's Los Angeles...
While Congress and the Federal Communications Commission will have a full plate of wireless and high-tech issues this fall, policymakers are unlikely to move on any sweeping measures for the remainder of the year.Nonetheless, telecom/high-tech policy matters before Congress and the FCC are significant....
THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY DODGED one bullet and got tagged by another as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out six brain-cancer lawsuits against wireless carriers, manufacturers and others.The decision was a major legal victory that tempered the sting of a separate...
The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed a state ruling awarding an AT&T Inc. equipment installer total disability and medical benefits as a result of health problems tied to exposure to radio frequency radiation levels deemed to be slightly above those set by the Federal Communications...
The nation's first, and so far only, carrier to announce plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network now faces the successful completion of tens of thousands of construction projects before it reaches reality.Just a few weeks after announcing plans to collaborate on the development...
It's hard to find a mobile executive these days who doesn't speak affectionately about mobile advertising and the new gateways it could open, but where the sweet spot lies-specifically what format or level of personalization would receive the greatest response from the end user-is...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--R.W. Baird raised its EPS estimate on Alltel to $2.84 from $2.80 after the company reported solid second-quarter results. Lehman Brothers raised its estimates on...
And now it seems the mobile TV market is down to two.Last week Crown Castle closed its Modeo mobile TV business, leasing the company's 1600 MHz spectrum to a pair of venture capitalists. It's unclear what exactly Telcom Ventures and Columbia Capital plan to...
CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP. cut its losses in mobile video last week, agreeing to lease its Modeo L.L.C.'s nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms. What will become of that spectrum, though, is far from clear....
Crown Castle International Corp. is spinning off its Modeo business, agreeing to lease Modeo's nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms.The Houston-based tower company said it will rent the spectrum for $13 million a year to...
Global Tower Partners, which boasts 2,500 wireless communications towers and more than 4,600 rooftop sites, has been sold for $1.4 billion.GTP owner The Blackstone Group sold the wireless tower operator to a consortium led by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group.GTP generates...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Goldman Sachs adjusted its estimates on Leap Wireless to 63 cents from 49 cents for 2007; $1.10 from $1.11 for 2008; $4.91 from $3.71...
In a city that prides itself on the blood sport of politics, good guys are supposed to come in last. Often they do. It's just business, nothing personal, you understand. Dog-eat-dog. The jungle. Dogged Darwinism. Smash-mouth democracy at its finest. Bring it on! JAY...
RCR Wireless News has inducted Jay Kitchen and Arlene Harris into its Wireless Hall of Fame for 2007.Jay Kitchen led industry trade group Personal Communications Industry Association for 10 years, joining the group in 1994 after it merged with the National Association of Business...
Private equity has made its biggest wireless deal yet with the $27.5 billion agreement for ownership of Alltel Corp., the fifth-largest U.S. carrier and major roaming partner for all four national operators. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007 or...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its ratings on Alltel Corp. to BB from A- and kept the company on CreditWatch with negative implications...
Clearwire Corp. announced it completed the first phase of a mobile WiMAX field trial in Hillsboro, Ore., a suburb of Portland. Individuals participating in the trial, which covered 15-square miles in Hillsboro, used a mobile WiMAX laptop card and reported broadband connections at multi-megabit...
California announced plans to develop and launch a statewide emergency cellphone alert system within 12 to 14 months. The move is definitely apropos for "the Golden State," which has long prided itself on being a leap ahead of other states and the federal status...
Cellphone, tower, broadcasting and wireless broadband trade groups collectively told the Federal Communications Commission that scientific data on the relationship between antenna structures and migratory bird mortality is not sufficient to justify regulatory intervention."At present . there remains a striking absence of broad-based, peer-reviewed...
