PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
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 Communications Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia.The Contrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna (CTHA) was developed at the...
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 the titans, Centennial Communications Inc., a small virtual company with access to coveted virgin...
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 of wireless opportunities and applications are under review or newly in use among electric power...
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 and information services, SpaceCom said.The network will use Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier signals,...
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 develop tower sites need to be extremely patient waiting for their capital investment to pay...
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 be big to survive."There's an assumption that small bidders are afraid to go it...
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 six-month moratorium on tower building violates the Telecommunications Act and Federal Communications Commission rules,...
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 states and then will go international.""Sometimes auctions create an artificial scarcity," countered Washington, D.C.-based...
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 a handful of manufacturers, regarding the assessments collected by CTIA for it's health and safety programs,...
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 of Medina, Wash., calling it a violation of the new federal telecommunications law.Medina, which...
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 of Medina, Wash., calling it a violation of the new federal telecommunications law.Medina, which...
MAY6 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 on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
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 company is one of the industry's leading infrastructure builders.Budagher quit his job as a...
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 California PCS Inc. has long advocated such a cable-based solution.The San Diego-based company began exploring...
APRIL28-1 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 Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
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 torch is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from Greece on April 27. Then after...
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 federal telecommunications law which, "sets explicit national (tower) siting standards resulting from a negotiated rulemaking...
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 him and 34 others on an international trade mission.The Administration previously had named Commerce...
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 wireless facilities are present. The logical solution is to seek collocation opportunities on 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 transmissions. But Preston has his sights set north where he sees the chance for...
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 nation's largest SMR operator, Nextel Communications Inc.Southern is the parent corporation for five utility...
JANUARY22-23 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 Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.24 PCS...
JANUARY16-17 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 Hotel Galleria, Dallas. (212) 964-7000.18 Spectrum Refarming Seminar: The Revolution Continues, by the Industrial Telecommunications Association. St. Louis...
