ST. LOUIS-In an effort to maximize the use and revenue potential of its 1,200 telecommunications towers nationwide, Charter Communications Inc. plans to launch a nationwide tower licensing campaign throughout the country.As part of the campaign, Charter signed a tower listing agreement with privately held...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, in October granted the government's request for more time to respond to lawsuits seeking to have the high court hear their cases.Petitions for certiorari,...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said its revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 increased 76 percent to $174.6 million compared with $98.9 million reported for the same time last year.The company experienced a net loss of $53 million, or 36 cents per share,...
ORLAND PARK, Illinois, United States-Andrew said it will expand its Andrew Institute training facility in Suzhou, China. The facility provides product training for Andrew customers in Asia.The Andrew Institute will expand from a single classroom to two purpose-built classrooms for Connector Attachment and Terrestrial...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $209 million, significantly more than the $67.5 million reported in revenues for third-quarter 1999.The company recorded a net loss of $39.5 million, or 22 cents per share, compared with a net...
ATLANTA-Communications Equipment Specialists Inc. acquired 50 percent of the equity in Towerlink L.L.C., a wireless communications infrastructure company, in exchange for the exclusive right to provide all construction services and project management, as well as all towers and associated products.Towerlink currently works with carriers...
In the RCR Wireless News article, "Finalists named for tower industry awards" (Oct. 9, page 24), American Tower Corp. should have been listed as one of the finalists for Most Creative Zoning Solution.In the Oct. 9 issue of RCR, the Top 20 list of...
NEW YORK-A 6-percent average summer dip in the price of shares in American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International, Pinnacle Towers Inc., SBA Communications and SpectraSite Communications also reflected "a shift of investors out of telecom into what are perceived to be faster growth areas,"...
WASHINGTON-Attempts by the wireless industry to reach a collocation agreement with a historic preservation group hit a few bumps last week when members of the historic preservation community questioned language in a document intended to allow collocation on most existing towers.While industry representatives believe...
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Shorecliff Communications Inc. announced the finalists for the Tower and Site Development Industry's Annual Excellence in Business Awards, to be given out at a dinner and ceremony Oct. 30 at the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in conjunction with...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel questions for the courts.The high court, which returned to work last week, must decide...
Amdocs will integrate its IAF Horizon billing, rating, customer-care and service management solution with Comptel plc's MDS mediation software to provide mobile Internet Protocol service providers with an integrated billing mediation, rating and billing solution together with service activation and customer care. Motorola Inc....
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation to strengthen the legal standard law enforcement must meet before obtaining mobile-phone tracking information. The bill also places certain restrictions on law enforcement access to electronic communications, including those stored on computers and servers. Stronger reporting requirements on...
CHICAGO-More antenna sites and towers will be needed as the wireless industry begins to address the data market, said Malcolm Wood, president and chief executive officer of San Diego-based Littlefeet Inc."It is OK in voice to lose a few words. The real challenge is...
CHICAGO-"Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it," said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc.It is a widely held theory in the wireless industry. But is it accurate?This was a...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
As of Sept. 1, 2000, virtually all stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission were required to comply with the human radio frequency exposure standards. Those stations not now in compliance risk enforcement action by the FCC, including the possibility of substantial fines. If...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. and Midwest Wireless are collaborating with Minnesota State University, Mankato, to create a model wireless campus.MSU will act as a wireless learning environment and a research and testing ground for future wireless professionals by enabling students to perform daily tasks using...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry Data Services reported that Nu-Metrics selected its wireless data messaging services for a range of electronic highway monitoring solutions applications, including highway crash cushions and attenuators, traffic control signals, flood water and liquid levels monitoring, and tower beacon status indicators.Nu-Metrics also plans to...
BluetoothSilicon WaveRadio-frequency technology developer Silicon Wave Inc. unveiled its Odyssey line of hardware and software products designed for the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard. Included in the line are the Silicon Wave SiW1501 Radio Modem IC, SiW1601 Link Controller IC and lower layer Bluetooth protocol...
Working in cooperation with the state of Michigan, Iselin, N.J.-based AAT Communications Corp. is implementing a program under which AAT will build, collocate and manage all wireless towers on state-owned land, rights-of-way and structures, creating a "one stop shop" for wireless carriers to gain...
SpectraSite Communications Inc. snagged a major contract with one of the nation's top wireless carriers, entering an agreement to lease 3,900 communication towers from SBC Communications Inc. and build 800 new towers for SBC under a five-year build-to-suit agreement, for a total of 4,700...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-With Ireland-based Mossel Jamaica preparing to offer mobile communications competition to Cable & Wireless Jamaica early in the new year, negotiations on an interconnection agreement between the two networks appear stalled. Mossel Jamaica reported the fee proposed by the incumbent carrier is poles...
