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 telecommunications subcommittee, was supposed to be marked up last week but was postponed. Part of...
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 from the line of credit, expected to close by June 30, will be used...
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 into new lines of business, said Geoffrey S. Carroll, its new president and chief...
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 of SecurFone, said the company during the next 45 days plans to add markets...
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 forced to defend their opposition to independent cancer research and to a consumer-group proposal...
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 transactions, carriers sell their towers to a tower management company and then lease back the...
Allgon MobileStockholm, 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 for Mobile communications-based digital signals at 1800 MHz and 900 MHz frequencies. Holes don't have...
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 will extend Westower's construction business to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the country, add...
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 stock.American Tower owns and/or operates more than 1,800 wireless communications towers in 44 states...
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., combined with KTS' tower-management business will create one of the largest pools of towers available...
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of all paging subscribers in the country found themselves without service due to a faulty...
This one's for the birds, but I hope you will take it seriously and do the right thing.The solutions seem so simple as to make this act of corporate environmental stewardship seem nearly a no-brainer."It is not far-fetched to predict that annual tower kills...
MetawaveMetawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine years with McCaw, Jarvis held many positions including vice president of McCaw Development Group, vice...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has signed a three-year contract extension with IBM Corp. to provide the computer company with wireless data network services over its Ardis network through 2001. IBM uses the Ardis network for its field-service support personnel using a national...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), straddled by cellular industry representatives and health-care activists, last week introduced E911-federal land antenna-siting legislation and signaled he would negotiate with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on privacy concerns but probably not on cancer-research funding."Today we talk about...
For the cellular industry, it's the morning after. Sort of.The industry was deregulated significantly in 1993, a high mark for the powerful cellular lobby in Washington, D.C. Life was good. Congress had put states out to pasture. Growth was running as high as 40...
NEW YORK-Pathnet Inc. hopes to raise $100 million by going public to help finance its goal of becoming a national carrier's carrier in smaller markets by upgrading existing wireless infrastructure to develop a synchronous optical network (SONET) system.Pathnet intends to provide a high-capacity, dedicated...
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Creativity is becoming key for wireless carriers trying to build out their networks amidst resistance from local municipalities that in some cases have gone as far as placing moratoria on new tower sites.The wireless industry is facing hundreds of moratoria in communities concerned about...
BOSTON-American Tower Systems Corp., a subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corp., said it intends to file a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public offering of class A common stock.Proceeds of the public offer will be used to finance the company's...
Since paging became available in 1983, the number of paging operators in China has mushroomed to more than 2,800, with more than 40 million customers. According to the Chinese language China Reform Daily, 70 million pager users are expected by 2000.China Unicom Paging Corp....
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it has acquired the tower assets of Tower Industrial Park, which is based in the Cleveland area.Major tenants include Ameritech Corp., AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc., said Spectrum.The purchase was made...
WASHINGTON-For the second time in as many weeks, the National Park Service has returned an antenna-siting application to a wireless carrier as incomplete and in doing so may have unwittingly bolstered chances for E911 federal property antenna-siting legislation that House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy...
