Towers

A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry. “There is no antenna to outperform it currently,” said John Robertson, president of IAS …

NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin July 19 in Atlanta. But amid …

NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment. A variety …

TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier’s new network of alphanumeric paging …

NEW YORK-The rapid growth in volume and kinds of wireless telecommunications services has created a strong ripple effect on the tower site administration sector of the industry. Independent companies that …

Smaller C-block licensees with only a handful of permits say they’re confident of making a profitable business from the properties they have, disregarding naysayers who claim a wireless business must …

MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city’s …

WASHINGTON-“Auctions have revolutionized the way governments will distribute valuable resources and assets,” said Jerry Vaughan, deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. “This will transfer to the …

Dear Editor: Your article in Monday’s RCR is a great disappointment in which you misled your readers. Somehow you have turned a story about differences in opinion between CTIA and …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

MAY 6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050. 6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus …

When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his …

Cable television infrastructure is making a comeback as a solution to help companies mix-and-match architectures to deliver personal communications services in the face of community resistance to tower build-outs. Cox …

APRIL 28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference ’96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870. 30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer …

BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta. The symbolic …

NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing “Go” means collecting a lot more than $200. Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new …

President Clinton late Friday appointed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor the new Secretary of Commerce. Kantor replaces Ron Brown who was buried last week following an airplane crash that killed …

One of the most important issues facing all wireless carriers is how to achieve rapid deployment of new networks and overcome local opposition to multiple facilities in areas where existing …

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.-On a clear day, you can look south and see the Manhattan skyline from the landmark hilltop house of Steve Preston, who owns and leases towers for wireless …

Armed with about 4,000 users on its digital specialized mobile radio system, the Southern Co. is marketing its services to businesses in the southeastern United States, going head-to-head with the …

JANUARY 22-23 Liberalization and Privatization of International Telecommunications: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Competitive Market, by The Adam Smith Institute. Inter-Continental Hotel, Geneva. 44-171-490-3774. 22-24 Technology Forecasting for the …

JANUARY 16-17 Telecom Opportunities in Latin America, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050. 17-19 Mobile Communications Conference: Wireless on the Move, by Frost & Sullivan. Westin …

WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while providing the two warring factions a …

It’s the morning after. The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview …