ARLINGTON, Va.-RFM Facilities Management, a subsidiary of TeleCom Towers Inc., has been hired to provide antenna site management services for NationsBank Services Inc.The agreement calls for RFM Facilities to provide services at more than 1,350 buildings and properties located in Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia,...
WASHINGTON-A status report released at the third of a three-part series of open meetings between wireless industry players and government agencies outlined six critical issues that will form the basis of a future General Services Administration set of guidelines aimed at assisting federal agencies...
Antenna placement at the new Denver International Airport is on hold until carriers can convince airport authorities that additional sites won't cause interference."We didn't spend $8 million building a radio system for this airport to have anyone come in and interfere with the operational...
A Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary has filed a lawsuit in Arizona U.S. district court against the city of Tucson, claiming the city's new zoning ordinance discriminates against the company and favors existing wireless providers.Western PCS BTA 1 Corp., which received its E- and F-block...
WASHINGTON-A freshman Florida congressman concerned with constituent complaints about wireless tower proliferation is considering legislation to overturn the antenna siting provision of the 1996 telecom act."I am ... researching the possibility of developing legislation which repeals the provision prohibiting local authorities from taking health...
HOUSTON-Castle Tower Corp. said it is repairing towers and shelters it acquired from Pittencrieff Communications Inc. in 1995 as well as sites it acquired from Motorola Inc. in Puerto Rico. The clean-up program is expected to cost Castle $1 million.John Gwyn, senior vice president...
WASHINGTON-At least one federal agency appears to be stepping up to the plate regarding expedited siting of new wireless towers and antennas in an effort to comply with the August 1996 presidential memo regarding unimpeded building of such network elements on government land.At the...
Laws won't stop traffic accidentsDear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while operating their cruisers, and motorbikes.Sure they will.The police drive their cars at extreme speeds in all...
NEW YORK-American Tower Corp. plans to go public, and it could become the first independent company engaged solely in wireless communications tower site management to do so.The company, which is headquartered in Webster, Texas, owns approximately 600 towers on 550 sites in 30 states,...
NEW YORK-SBA Communications Corp., a tower site development and management company, announced March 14 it had raised $50 million to help it enter the site ownership business through acquisition and construction.Institutional investors ABS Capital Partners, TA Associates and The Hillman Co. purchased the debt...
DENVER-The city of Denver is close to adopting a new zoning ordinance pertaining to wireless tower and antenna siting.Denver carriers and the city have been working together since January on crafting a new ordinance, which is set to be filed within a week. Applications...
Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
As buildout battles blossom across the nation, many industry leaders are coming to recognize that success in site acquisition requires a comprehensive strategy for maintaining good relations with communities.The smart money is betting that front-end investments in community outreach always yield far greater dividends...
With up to nine wireless carriers in every major U.S. city competing for their share of the wireless telephone market, the recent winners of the C, D, E and F auctions are facing some of the most difficult challenges to date in developing infrastructure...
After a 1993 lawsuit charged a woman's brain tumor was the result of her cellular phone use, the wireless industry funded an independent research program to study any possible link between brain cancer or any other health maladies and the use of cellular phones....
GTE Wireless Inc. said it turned on service ahead of time in Cincinnati last week due, in part, to the existence of clear city zoning regulations."I correctly advised not to expect the FCC to completely exempt siting of telecommunications from land use regulations,"...
WASHINGTON-This may be the last year San Francisco will serve as the venue for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's still-growing annual convention and exposition. Every square foot of the huge Moscone Center has been booked for weeks; the waiting list is long. Show-goers this...
This is the fifth and last installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent....
ST. LOUIS-Project Group 2000 L.L.C. formed a new division to provide wireless site construction, antenna and feedline placement and site inventory in the Midwest and Southeastern markets.The company said the division, Tower Group 2000, was formed to control construction times and maintain quality services...
NEW YORK-McLeod Inc. is expected to sell publicly $200 million in debt by early March, some of which will be used to build out the 26 personal communications services licenses it won in the recent Federal Communications Commission D- and E-block auctions.Salomon Brothers Inc.,...
LaBarge Inc.'s telecommunications unit has found a way to offer its products and services to several parts of the wireless industry.The St. Louis-based company concentrates on designing and manufacturing products that require ruggedization, high reliability and high performance. These products include custom designed coaxial...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. introduced its SuperFilter family of receiver filter subsystems.The SuperFilter offers advantages over conventional filter technologies in the areas of interference protection, range extension and subsystem size for cellular and personal communications services networks, said STI."Wireless customers have identified the...
Ora Electronics Inc. announced its Signal Plus antenna performance kit, which the company said is designed to improve the performance of portable cellular telephones. Using a connector cable, users can connect the kit antenna directly to the antenna output of the portable phone which...
The wooden tower pole placed in Loveland, Colo., which was referred to in the laminated wood tower story on page 22 of the Feb. 17 issue of Radio Communications Report belongs to AirTouch Cellular.The wrong carrier was listed due to incorrect information provided to...
