Towers

After watching the company their parents founded 40 years ago begin to fall apart, Roy Moore and his two brothers decided earlier this month it was time to take the …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. acquired six towers in two acquisitions last week. The towers are located in Mississippi and Arkansas.

With tower companies and carriers facing difficulties getting permission to build sites at local zoning boards and collocation increasingly becoming a favored business model, CoLocation Technologies Inc. is marketing a …

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Crown Communications said it won a contract to provide build-to-suit services in Texas for Western Wireless Corp., increasing Crown’s domestic tower portfolio by about 50 towers. Crown Communications is …

Call Oliver Stone. The military-industrial complex is alive and well! Seems telecom execs want to be right in the thick of things at the 50th anniversary celebration of NATO, April …

Pinnacle Towers Inc. acquired four towers in North Carolina and Texas in two transactions. AirNet Communications Corp. said it is supplying additional infrastructure equipment, including base transceiver stations and a …

Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and …

More than two years after it first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, MobileMedia Communications Inc. now has two reorganization plans before it to settle its debts-merge with Arch Communications …

While many of their counterparts in the high-flying build-to-suit industry are prospering, tower manufacturers are finding the road ahead may be a difficult one. Likewise, recent siting decisions do not …

WASHINGTON-Radio licensees beware: In 18 days, on May 1,if you file an application for a radio-frequency license with the Federal Communications Commission and there is an error or omission, the …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. and Bell Atlantic Mobile have closed a $660 million transaction involving a five-year exclusive build-to-suit program, the construction of 1,460 wireless towers and the establishment of …

Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT …

Sprint PCS Sprint PCS named Steve Geldmacher president of its new north central region. Prior to this position, Geldmacher was area vice president for north Texas and Oklahoma. He joined …

Cellular towers ruining America To the Editor: I have two comments regarding your antenna-siting article. (Antenna siting is hot topic for NACo Crowd, March 8.) First, it is my understanding …

In the last two weeks alone, Crown Castle International Corp. has more than doubled its tower portfolio in the United States and United Kingdom, securing a top position for itself …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.), in the latest effort to strengthen state and local oversight of antenna siting, has introduced legislation to shift the burden to wireless carriers to ensure transmission …

ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M.-After determining traditional telephone landlines would be too expensive, Excel Communications Corp. and Solectek Corp. suggested the Native American community of Isleta, N.M, use a wireless solution to …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 85 wireless towers located in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, in a series of five transactions. These towers add …

Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce the visual impact of their equipment. …

WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.), reacting to persistent complaints that federal law inadequately addresses the impact of antenna proliferation on property values, aesthetics and health, plan to …

NEW YORK-Television programming often can be as good a barometer as hard numbers about trends that are hot, and so it is with the wireless tower industry. In a recent …

Global wireless gatekeepers have been on high alert in recent weeks, preparing for next month’s publication of a U.K. study linking mobile phones to short-term memory loss and prepping for …

Crown Castle International Corp. sealed its second deal to manage a large wireless carrier’s tower portfolio with last week’s announcement that BellSouth Corp. is selling 1,850 towers to the company …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. completed its acquisition of TeleCom Towers L.L.C. In connection with the transaction, American Tower issued about 3.9 million shares of class A common stock, paid $60.1 million …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies …