To the editor: Instead of digging in their heals, it's time the carriers got with it. "It" being concealment or camouflage of antennas. Most local zoning authorities, like the one I sit on, would reduce the permitting process time if carriers agreed to conceal towers...
To the editor: I appreciated your recent article on customer care-you made several relevant points and I look forward to the day when carriers begin to heed your well-worded advice. If I may, I would like to add a few observations of my own: All potential...
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the first week in Cannes, France, at the GSM MOU conference and this week hosting...
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American Radio Systems Corp. completed its consent solicitation of its 11.38 percent cumulative exchangeable preferred stock with the majority of the stockholders giving the requested consent, ARS announced. ARS entered into a merger agreement with CBS Corp. on Sept. 19, under which its radio...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. earlier this month announced the termination of its previously disclosed definitive agreement to sell its site-management business to Telecom Towers L.L.C. of Arlington, Va. Arch said it plans to begin discussions with alternative buyers soon.Moody's Investors Service placed Arch's...
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WASHINGTON-The Vermont congressional delegation last week applauded Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard's rejection-for now-of federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, but vowed to continue fighting for legislation to overturn antenna siting provisions of the 1996 telecom act.At the same time, it was announced...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Signal One Corp. recently started building nine new towers at major interstate locations in Tennessee. Eight locations will have 330-foot towers and the Monteagle location will have a 350-foot tower.Signal One said it currently owns 15 towers and has another 50 under construction.
DALLAS-UniSite Inc. announced it has closed the private placement funding it began in August, reportedly surpassing its goal of raising $50 million in financing."After very enthusiastic receptions from venture capitalists and high-yield portfolio managers during the road show, we closed in December on $63...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 20 towers in Fort Smith and Little Rock, Ark., for $8.7 million from the Texas-based paging company, Teletouch Communications.This acquisition brings Pinnacle's inventory to about 350 towers and rooftop antenna sites, including 12 towers in Maryland it...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, signaling a clear policy shift, declared late last week that "pre-emption shouldn't even be considered" until the wireless industry and local zoning authorities first try to reach a compromise themselves.In favoring a negotiated settlement between industry and local...
Pinnacle Towers Inc. has gained access to cellular, paging and personal communications services markets in Baltimore and the eastern coast of Maryland following its acquisition of 12 towers from Shore & West Shore Communications."These acquisitions enhance the company's current inventory of 310 existing sites,"...
While the personal communications services industry is characterized as up and running, a host of PCS carriers have yet to launch service, raising questions about whether they will survive in the marketplace.Twenty-six out of RCR's 40 top PCS operators (ranked by pops) have yet...
NHancement Technologies Inc. announced that its Voice Plus subsidiary installed and launched a voice processing system in Wichita, Kan., for VoiceStream Wireless, the personal communications services division of Western Wireless Corp.Corsair Communications Inc. announced it completed an agreement with Telesis Sistemas em Telecomunicacoes Ltda....
WASHINGTON-Key House and Senate lawmakers last week signaled plans to address antenna siting moratoria in 911 legislation this year, setting up a showdown with competing bills in what appears to be a retreat by the wireless industry from its unsuccessful campaign to win sweeping...
American Tower Systems Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corp., announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Washington International Teleport from Midcontinent Media for approximately $30.5 million.Berliner Communications Inc. announced it has opened regional offices in San...
WASHINGTON-When Congress returns next week, battle lines will begin forming for a highly charged antenna siting debate that is likely to be shaped as much by election-year politics as by colliding national telecom and land-use policies.The midterm election this fall could turn into a...
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BOSTON-American Tower Systems Corp., a subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corp., announced it agreed to sell $80 million in a private placement of its common stock to certain officers, directors and other American Radio affiliates for $10 per share.American Tower, an antenna site marketer,...
1. Jan. 6NextWave awarded its PCS permitsIn a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan to bring its foreign-ownership percentages into federal compliance.2....
WASHINGTON-The National Park Service finally has issued a director's order to establish procedures dealing with locating wireless sites on federal park land. As written, the order is in line with rules dictated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a presidential memorandum that was...
My New Year's resolution is the same every year: find some way to stay in this business and make more money. However, this time, I think I've got a plan that will work (for the money part). After reading a Dec. 17 letter from Terry...
