Towers

WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a …

ARLINGTON, Va.-SiteSafe Inc. signed a three-year contract to provide approximately 2,000 Nextel Communications Corp. field personnel with radio-frequency safety and awareness training using PeopleSafe, a CD-Rom-based training program, the company …

A year ago, if a company was looking for a few million dollars in investment money, all it needed to do was call on Wall Street and wait for the …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has agreed to sell $1 billion worth of its 9.38-percent senior notes due 2009 through an institutional private placement, the company said. American Tower originally announced Jan. …

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Divine Tower International Corp. said it signed a contract with Metricom Inc. to manage, direct and construct Metricom’s Ricochet fixed-wireless service expansion into Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester, N.Y., and …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has priced the sale of 10 million shares of class A common stock through Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an underwritten public offering. The net proceeds of …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to consider appeals of mobile phone and tower radiation safety guidelines adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1996. Four parties had challenged …

WASHINGTON-The EMR Network-a grassroots organization of people opposed to wireless facilities due to a fear of the impact of radiation-has come out strongly against a recent publication of the National …

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. sold 127 of its towers in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas to SBA Communications Corp. for about $40 million. SBA paid $313,000 per tower, and US …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it expects fourth-quarter revenues to be in the range of $226 million to $233 million, exceeding the company’s previously announced expectations due in part to stronger-than-expected …

Back in October, when the top brass of the tower industry converged in Las Vegas for the 2000 Tower Summit and Trade Show, the room buzzed with anticipation over the …

Dear Editor: After reading the RCR Wireless News article entitled, “OSHA appeals to tower owners to require safety measures in contracts,” (Dec. 4, page 20) and various articles regarding who …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it signed a definitive agreement with Alltel Corp. to acquire the rights to as many as 2,193 of Alltel’s communications towers through a 15-year sublease for …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.’s Australian subsidiary will purchase 669 wireless communications towers for about $130 million from Vodafone Australia. The deal, expected to close in the second quarter of next …

WASHINGTON-A leading congressional telecommunications policy maker said Congress should pass legislation that would allow a “national tower-siting policy to ensure complete coverage and universal service.” Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio), vice …

WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s and claims he attempted extraordinary measures …

WASHINGTON-As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration prepares to launch a new tower safety program aimed at curbing increased injuries and fatalities that have accompanied phenomenal wireless growth during the …

NEW YORK-In this year’s RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Staff of the federal Advisory Commission on Historic Preservation said a wireless industry proposal on collocation of wireless facilities is sound, but did not adopt the proposal, instead opting …

WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, concerned with increased tower construction fatalities and injuries, is putting the tower industry under the microscope. OSHA head Charles Jeffress is expected shortly to …

It’s more than a rhetorical question. The future of the wireless industry arguably rests on the answer. Unless a workable and effective advertising model for m-commerce is developed, billions of …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, in a major blow to the wireless industry, last week said it would not hear an appeal of a lower court’s antenna-siting ruling favoring a Pennsylvania town. …

WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it plans to fine Clear Communications Group $120,000 for willful and repeated violations of federal workplace safety regulations. “The failure to provide adequate …

Arch Wireless Inc. reported a third-quarter net loss of $66.2 million, or $1 per share, compared with $68.2 million, or $1.42 per share, reported for the last third-quarter period. Arch …