Towers

WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on Feb. 28, sponsored by the National …

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it acquired from CommStructures Communications Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., 10 towers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and a build-to-suit contract for 11 towers …

Nextel Communications Inc. said it more than doubled its 1998 subscriber unit base to a total of 2.96 million, adding more than 1.5 million domestic digital subscribers during the year, …

Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial …

HOUSTON-Shaffer Tower Services Inc., a Houston-based communications consulting firm and tower construction company, announced it signed an agreement with Pathnet to upgrade their microwave system on a path that runs …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. and OmniAmerica Inc. announced they have completed their merger transaction. American Tower said it issued approximately 16.7 million shares of Class A common stock to OmniAmerica stockholders …

In what could become a precedent-setting case, a jury in Harris County, Texas, last week awarded more than $1 million to a couple who claimed a GTE Wireless tower near …

The wireless industry’s toughest challenge may not be choosing 3G standards, or whether the handset or the network should transmit E911 information. Rather, the industry’s greatest stumbling block may be …

BOSTON-CDS Business Mapping announced it entered into an agreement with AAT Communications to list their sites on the Telecom Site Source, an Internet search engine maintained by CDS Business Mapping …

MILWAUKEE-Cumulus Media Inc. announced it established a new business unit, Cumulus Wireless Services Inc., which will lease space on its broadcast towers to communications service providers. Cumulus owns 194 AM …

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc., a radio-frequency engineering and wireless telecommunications consulting firm, said it is considering spinning off some of its product businesses in an effort to focus on its …

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Apex Site Management Inc. announced Triton PCS Inc. hired Apex to manage the collocation marketing and management portion of its tower portfolio, which consists of approximately 200 towers throughout …

Iridium L.L.C. announced that Kyocera Corp. has completed its handset testing process and has been approved to begin volume distribution of its single-mode satellite phones and dual-mode adapters, as well …

VANCOUVER, Wash.-WesTower Corp. announced a build-to-suit agreement with Houston Cellular Telephone Co. WesTower will build a portion of Houston Cellular’s towers in the Houston area in 1999 and 2000 under …

WASHINGTON-Wireless E911 and privacy bills breezed through the House Commerce Committee last week, setting the stage for votes on the House floor by month’s end. The bills, passed by the …

Nextel Communications Inc. last week agreed to sell its portfolio of towers to independent tower company SpectraSite Communications Inc., ending months of speculation about which tower company the specialized mobile …

NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., announced it entered into a long-term agreement with WirelessNorth to supply its PCS-Over-Cable distributed antenna system to support the deployment of a wireless network …

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J.-Berliner Communications Inc., which provides radio-frequency engineering, site acquisition, project management and tower construction services nationwide, secured $1.5 million in additional financing from Critical Capital Growth Fund L.P. …

NEW YORK-OmniAmerica Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., announced the Department of Justice Antitrust Division approved its merger with American Tower Corp., Boston. OmniAmerica and American Tower announced Nov. 16 their plan to …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. announced the closing of a public offering of 27 million shares of Class A common stock at $25. Of the total number of shares, 25.7 million were …

Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about …

WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile has reached an agreement with the National Park Service that should produce a decision on whether the controversial antenna towers can be built in Rock Creek Park …

Wireless carriers often face a dilemma in obtaining radio-frequency engineering services to implement and operate their networks. How do they find experienced RF engineers to design and build those networks, …

February 8-10 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (202) 785-2842. Post-CTIA ’99 February 10-12 Wireless Institute of Technology. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. …

Marketwave Richard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales …