Towers

NEW YORK-It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s `super craft’! Look up in the sky over California’s Mojave Desert on the morning of Sept. 22, and you’re likely to …

CTIA Christopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. changed its name to OmniAmerica Inc. and now trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under a new ticker symbol, XMIT. The company was formed in April …

The global market for in-vehicle intelligent transportation systems is expected to grow from $1 billion today to more than $18 billion annually during the next five years, according to a …

WASHINGTON-It is becoming quite obvious that the key word on antenna-siting disputes is cooperation. In two situations last week, cooperation led to successful results for three wireless companies. In Fairfax …

Nearly a year into office, Bill Kennard has defied all attempts to be pigeonholed as the newest chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was general counsel and an understudy …

The latest rage in the wireless industry has been the rush to purchase and build towers and facilities and lease them to wireless carriers. This accumulation of vertical real estate …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court recently dealt a blow to wireless carriers hoping to site antennas in areas where residents believe they would be an eyesore. “[The wireless] industry should take …

So, you want to build a wireless telecommunications network. Then you must be thinking about how to leverage the infrastructures of existing cellular and PCS systems. After all, you figure, …

Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has closed the sale of its transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. for $170 million in cash. MobileMedia diverted the fee for the 163 …

WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) shortly plan to introduce new legislation that would repeal federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, encourage alternative technologies in lieu of large …

Omnipoint offers new rate plans CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. will announce today new service offerings that include bundled-minute rate plans. The company has long avoided …

WASHINGTON-In late spring, as federal regulators, wireless carriers and state and local officials neared the end of nearly one year of negotiations-culminating earlier this month with a highly publicized antenna-siting …

WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands. Instead, NPS decided each …

Airadigm Communications Inc. signed a contract to sell its entire tower inventory to SpectraSite Communications Inc., said the companies. The purchase price was not disclosed. The contract also includes a …

To the Editor: I am writing in response to two recent articles-“McCain: FCC is Running a Do Nothing Wireless Bureau,” (July 20) and “McCain Lays Foundation to Revamp FCC” (July …

NEW YORK-After dramatically reducing the size and price of its initial public offering, Crown Castle International Corp., a Houston-based wireless tower company, sold 14 million shares at $13 each Aug. …

In what is no doubt the single-largest transaction in the history of the paging industry, Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Corp. confirmed they have completed a definitive merger agreement …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. announced it no longer is pursuing its initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions. Pinnacle provides wireless communications rental tower space in the southeastern United …

The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry. The rate of acquisitions has moved …

Arch Communications Group Inc. lowered its cash interest expenses by $4.55 million a year following a series of interest rate swaps in connection with a $100 million 14-percent senior notes …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week made significant strides in its efforts to reach a conciliatory note on antenna siting with various parties with which the industry has often disagreed. Additionally, …

In this Clintonian Age of Relativity, there is always-for everyone here-a way out: denial. Having an extramarital affair with a girl your twenty-something daughter’s age. Deny it. Soliciting campaign contributions …

Tadiran Microwave Networks, which has made several structural changes designed to improve operating efficiencies, won a $4.2 million contract with the Maricopa County, Ariz., government to replace its analog network …