WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will vigorously enforce wireless radiation safety rules that go into effect later this week."We are serious about this and will be checking," said Robert Cleveland, the FCC's expert on radio-frequency exposure rules. Cleveland said the FCC will conduct...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. signed an agreement with Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., giving ART access to approximately 480 buildings in Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.Pinnacle also said it signed a master lease agreement with Times Three, a subsidiary of...
Pinnacle Holdings reversed itself last week on an announcement it made earlier this month that it planned to pursue opportunities in the colocation facility business.Long a renter of space on towers, the Sarasota, Fla.-based company had said it wanted to branch out to host...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has been dragged into litigation that has percolated up to the Supreme Court, which has been asked by a group of Vermont citizens to rule whether local zoning is pre-empted by federal law when telecommunications facilities cause interference to electrical and electronic...
RF Micro Devices Inc. agreed to privately place $250 million aggregate principal amount of 3.75 percent convertible subordinated notes due 2005.The company said the notes will be convertible into RFMD common stock at a conversion price of $90.17 per share. The conversion price will...
CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Transco Communications Ltd. announced it acquired Aerial Sites plc and AGL Systems International Ltd. from a group of shareholders.Aerial Sites has a portfolio of more than 900 tower sites under contract and approximately 15,000 more under negotiation. AGL Systems is a specialist...
Crown Castle International Corp. finished a strong second quarter, reporting revenues for the quarter ended June 30 increased 91 percent to $148.4 million from the $77.5 million reported for second-quarter 1999.The company reported a net loss of $59.2 million, or 43 cents per share,...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $167 million, a significant increase from the $50.2 million reported for second-quarter 1999.The company recorded a net loss of $58.6 million, or 36 cents per share, compared with a net loss...
CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Holdings Inc. reported significantly increased revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $77.8 million, compared with $14.4 million reported for the same time the previous year.SpectraSite had a net loss of $38.4 million, or 31 cents per share, compared with...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has accepted the applications of 16 bidders to participate in the Sept. 6 auction of guard-band manager licenses.The FCC said six applications were incomplete. All applicants have until Aug. 18 to make upfront payments and, if necessary, resubmit complete and...
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...
Hoping to understand why 67 percent of U.S. subscribers said they would be interested in changing their wireless service provider in a 1999 survey, the Yankee Group has compared wireless coverage in the United States to four countries with high wireless penetration and usage...
InterWaveWireless networking provider InterWave Communications International Ltd. introduced TurboMax, a macro network product offering wireless community network service providers extended coverage capabilities to meet the needs of community networks with dispersed populations. The company said the solution is ideally suited for network expansion where...
Two companies have introduced performance indicator product offerings to help carriers keep tabs on the competition.Arthur Andersen claims its "Wireless Benchmarking Tool for Key Performance Indicators," allows wireless carriers to make apples-to-apples comparisons between service quality using key performance indicators selected and defined by...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it will provide turnkey services for at least 1,500 sites in five regions for the AT&T Digital Broadband network.Under an agreement announced July 27, deployment of these sites is expected to be completed by year-end 2001, and additional markets may...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. intends to offer 4 million shares of class A common stock to be sold pursuant to SBA's shelf registration statement.SBA said net proceeds of the offering will be used to finance construction and acquisition of towers and related businesses,...
ARLINGTON, Va.-SiteSafe L.L.C. signed a two-year agreement to provide its PeopleSafeT software and classroom radio-frequency compliance training to BellSouth Mobility.The PeopleSafeT course on RF site safety provides an understanding of how non-ionizing radio waves operate on towers and rooftops where licensed carriers place radio...
Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association plans to file documents this week asking a federal court to allow it to join in a lawsuit that could have a substantial impact on antenna sitings near historic properties.The lawsuit goes to the heart of the process carriers...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., an independent owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure, reported an increase in its tower portfolio by 309 towers to 1,660 total towers during the company's second quarter.SBA noted that of the 309 towers added, 217 were newly built...
CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc.'s TimesThree division reported an agreement with Sprint Sites USA to lease space on more than 2,000 Sprint Sites tower sites throughout the United States.Cell-Loc said the agreement enables TimesThree's U.S. deployment of its Cellocate Network, which is scheduled to be deployed...
Sprint PCS affiliate IWO Holdings filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $173 million in an initial public offering. The company said it would use proceeds from the offering to expand its network. IWO serves more than 56,000 subscribers in...
As the bigger tower companies gobble up tower sites across the country, TrinTel Communications Inc. is building its business on filling in the gaps and constructing new sites to lease back or sell to carriers.Founded in July 1998, TrinTel is comprised of three subsidiaries,...
ABILENE, Texas-Titan Towers L.P. completed a communications facilities agreements with Equilon Enterprises L.L.C. and Motiva Enterprises L.L.C. granting Titan exclusive rights to construct communications towers, facilities and equipment on 111 properties owned by Equilon and Motiva in 34 states.The agreement provides Titan a 24-month...
