Towers

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), compromising with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on privacy, liability and cancer-research funding, won bipartisan approval last week on legislation to improve E911 wireless …

Communication Solutions Inc. awarded Conductus Inc. a subcontract, valued at about $1 million, to build a multichannel wireless receiver front-end enhanced by superconductors. The Baltimore-based company plans to integrate the …

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said its subsidiary, Microcell Management Inc., has agreed to work with an unnamed personal communications services carrier to construct 60 towers. The build-to-suit services will take …

WASHINGTON-The Superintendent of Rock Creek Park, an urban national park, said it would take five months before an environmental assessment is completed to determine whether Bell Atlantic Mobile can site …

The success of the personal communications services industry has astounded industry analysts, PCS company executives and cellular carriers alike. The PCS industry is about two years old and already has …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it signed a definitive agreement to sell its 163 transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. The $170 million sale allows MobileMedia to retain ownership of …

A dispute between Omnipoint Communications Enterprises L.P. and one of its site-acquisition consultants highlights the potential problems that can occur when wireless carriers loosen their control on tower siting. Omnipoint …

WASHINGTON-It is Congress, not the Federal Communications Commission, that makes telecom policy, according to one of the new FCC commissioners, Harold Furchtgott-Roth. The FCC “must simply follow the law as …

NEW YORK-Boston-based American Tower Systems Corp. sold a secondary offering of 29.37 million shares of Class A common stock July 2 at a price of $23.50 each in connection with …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector signed a multiyear contract to manage wireless communications equipment facilities located on Waste Management of North America Inc.’s property at sites across the …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its site management business sale to OmniAmerica Inc. In the first of two transactions, Arch sold its communications …

FWT Inc. announced its first installation of the PowerMount antenna system on anything other than an electrical transmission tower-this one inside the legs of a Shell Oil Co. sign at …

SINGAPORE-If there’s one good thing that has come out of the current economic crisis in Southeast Asia, it’s the added push it has given to the long-talked-about and much-needed shakeout …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. recently filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the initial public offering of $300 million of its common stock, par value 1 …

U.S. utility companies could become significant players in the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years if they can figure out the right strategy to enter the business. Analysts indicate utilities …

WASHINGTON-Federal E911 legislation has yet to be introduced in the Senate and is on hold in the House. A bill introduced by Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the House …

Applied Cellular Technology Inc. received a letter of commitment for a $15 million unsecured line of credit from Boston’s State Street Bank and Trust Co.’s High Technology Lending Group. Proceeds …

NEW YORK-“The dam is about to burst on outsourcing in the wireless world,” and LCC International Inc., the giant radio-frequency engineering firm, is getting ready to ride the resulting rapids …

SecurFone America Inc., a company specializing in prepaid communications, said it plans a major market expansion of its Buy-the-Minute prepaid cellular handset solution. Bill Stueber, president and chief executive officer …

WASHINGTON-A hearing on an E911 bill backed by a cellular industry-public-safety coalition and championed by House telecom committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) backfired last week when the measure’s supporters were …

A wave of activity between carriers and tower management firms appears to be developing, signaling a growing trend toward carriers selling off their tower assets in purchase/leaseback arrangements. In such …

Allgon Mobile Stockholm, Sweden-based Allgon Mobile Communications AB introduced a dual-band antenna called “Twin,” which can be mounted on a car window. The antenna can receive and transmit Global System …

VANCOUVER, Wash.-Wireless tower builder and owner Westower Corp. last week acquired privately-held MJA Communications Corp. for $10 million in stock. The acquisition of the Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based tower-construction company …

NEW YORK-Boston-based American Tower Systems Corp. will become a stand-alone company following CBS Corp.’s acquisition of its parent and its spin-off, which involve a secondary offering of the tower company’s …

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. announced it plans to acquire all of the membership interest in Koll Telecommunication Services L.L.C. Published industry reports state that LCC’s tower-ownership subsidiary, Microcell Management Inc., …