RED LODGE, Mont.—The ribbon is expected to be cut on Sept. 5 on a new wireless communications tower and building known as the Palisades Project.The project consolidates wireless radio communications equipment in one facility and allows federal, state and local public-safety officials to share...
PHOENIX—Under a strategic partnership, Yaahteh Communications L.L.C., a majority Navajo-owned company, and North/South Communications Corp. will work to provide a telecommunications network to the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.The companies will also work on an upgraded E911 system. North/South Communications...
The NextWave Telecom Inc. saga continued last week as the hopeful wireless wholesaler unveiled funding plans to roll out its network, while its potential wireless competitors/customers continued to look for ways to wrestle some control over licenses that are still waiting for a proper...
Crown Castle International Corp., SpectraSite Holdings Inc. and SBA Communications Corp. reported positive revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, but they did not escape the current telecom shakedown unscathed.All three companies laid off employees and cut back on general expenses during the...
Sprint Corp. announced the pricing structure of its planned $2 billion secondary offering of Sprint PCS shares and equity units, placing 70 million shares of PCS common stock at a public offering price of $24.50 per share and 60 million in equity units at...
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Several panelists and moderators speaking at the upcoming Tower Summit and Trade Show, presented by Shorecliff Communications, said the overall outlook for the tower industry looks positive.Kip Rupp, senior vice president for Wachovia Securities, said the tower industry has been meeting...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-NTELOS Inc. and Conestoga Enterprises Inc. reached a definitive merger deal that will create an integrated communications provider in the Mid-Atlantic region with 200,000 PCS subscribers and 175,000 local access telephone lines.NTELOS will pay stockholders of Conestoga a total of $335 million, or...
In another twist in the cellular phone legal health battle, a complaint has been filed jointly by four families in the St. Joseph Circuit Court for the State of Indiana alleging that their proximity to cellular towers, owned by defendants Charles S. Hayes, Charles...
NEW YORK-Florida has codified into its own law a sweeping overhaul and simplification of telecommunications taxation that responds, in part, to a new federal statute that becomes effective next year.This month, the Florida Department of Revenue began accepting registration forms from all entities subject...
WASHINGTON-House and Senate lawmakers plan to introduce legislation after the August recess that would provide federal funding for mobile-phone health research and repeal a 1996 law prohibiting local officials from considering health as a factor in reviewing tower-siting applications, a top Senate staffer said...
WASHINGTON-Despite fierce lobbying by Western Wireless Corp. and the Oglala Sioux Indian Tribe, a decision from the Federal Communications Commission to award Western Wireless eligible telecommunications carrier status in time to allow Western to continue building out its network on the Pine Ridge Indian...
If your mother is like mine, she probably told you to share when you were a child. Sharing is a good thing, at least in the eyes of most moms.Some mobile operators are about to discover what it is like to share their 3G...
WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to begin building out a CDMA network."We are...
NEW YORK-TrinTel Communications Inc., an Irving, Texas, builder, owner and operator of wireless communications towers, has secured $50 million in new private equity investment, the company said June 25.Austin Ventures, which led the initial venture-capital financing for TrinTel in 1999, joined the latest round...
WASHINGTON-An Illinois state court this week is poised to rule on a proposed $1.4 million health-related privacy suit against the cellular industry, which faces increased litigation as science raises more questions about whether mobile phones can cause brain cancer and other neurological disorders. The...
If your mother is like mine, she probably told you to share when you were a child. Sharing is a good thing, at least in the eyes of most moms around the world.Some mobile operators are about to discover what it is like to...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom, a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the U.S. government's C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, following a U.S. appeals court ruling 22 June that said the government could not...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) officially asked the General Accounting Office to probe growing mobile-phone service problems in the United States, a move likely to produce additional data that could bolster the lawmaker's consumer wireless bill. "Unfortunately, a growing number of wireless phone users are...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the government's C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, following an appeals court ruling last Friday that said the government could not cancel...
Michael K. Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said consumer welfare and market economics can coexist. But Powell, speaking to the Federal Communications Bar Association, conceded the marketplace does not address all concerns, especially those involving individuals with disabilities.President Bush nominated Jeffrey Runge...
NEW YORK-American Tower Corp., Boston, warned June 21 of greater losses than securities analysts had expected due to acquisition integration problems and a write-off related to the Nasdaq delisting threat against a company in which it invested.The wireless and broadcast tower owner and operator...
Tower companies tend to fall into a safe and cozy place in the hard driving, fast moving wireless machine, seemingly immune to the pitfalls that plague carriers and network equipment suppliers, pitfalls such as subscriber churn, microprocessor shortages and a crashing stock market that...
BT Wireless and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile International said their operating companies in the United Kingdom and Germany plan to cooperate on the rollout of third-generation networks.The agreement includes coordinated rollout of 3G infrastructure and sharing of new and existing base stations, including sites, masts...
The commercial wireless division of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau allowed the Friends of the Earth and the Forest Conservation Council to withdraw a petition that claimed a tower being built by SBA Towers Inc. violated the National Environmental Protection Act. The petition is...
