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 Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland, Ohio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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 mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
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 this offering are expected to be approximately $361 million, American Tower said.The company also...
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 a decision last year by a federal appeals court in New York, which upheld the...
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 Trust for Historic Preservation that is meant to help in siting stealth antennas and...
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 Unwired said it will lease space on the towers for an initial monthly fee of...
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 sales in the Internet, voice, data and video segments.American Tower also said it expects...
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 new opportunities third-generation technologies were expected to bring.Why should the tower industry care about...
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 carries liability in working situations where hazards exist, I find myself feeling a bit sick....
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 up to $658 million in cash.American Tower said it has the right of first...
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 year, will bring Crown Castle's number of towers in the country to 1,400. The company...
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 chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, made his comments to telecom lawyers gathered for the...
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 to downplay suspected health risks.In "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age," Dr. George...
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 past decade, the agency is struggling with how to deal with a gaping loophole...
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 vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...
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 to wait for the National Conference of State Historic Preservations Officers to sign on.Staff...
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 write tower owners and mobile phone carriers to emphasize the importance of federal workplace safety...
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 dollars invested on spectrum licenses, network construction and the rest will be wasted. And...
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."It would appear that it gives towns again the opportunity to say the burden of...
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 fall protection is one of the most common and most preventable causes of injuries in...
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 was expected to close its merger with Paging Network Inc. Nov. 10. Net revenues...
LAS VEGAS-The once-sleepy tower industry revealed its flashier side last week at the third annual 2000 Tower Summit and Trade Show here, as industry executives touted the growing demand for towers and tower sites courtesy of fixed-wireless and third-generation services, and financial analysts promoted...
Tri-County Communications Systems sold an unspecified number of its telecommunications towers in northern New York state to Pinnacle Holdings Inc., said David Abraham & Co., which represented the seller. Details of the transaction were not released by Tri-County or Pinnacle. David Abraham specializes in...
LAS VEGAS- According to a new tower owner survey conducted by Fryer's TowerSource, third-generation wireless Web users account for 5 percent of all tower site users, which is up from zero percent in 1998.This, according to the survey, is the "most significant difference," in...
