ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said results for the first quarter of fiscal-year 2004 are estimated to exceed its previously provided guidance. The company's stock was up nearly 25 percent on the news to about $16.50 per share.The communications equipment supplier said it now estimates...
Building on the momentum of its initial two-city launch last year, Verizon Wireless said it will spend $1 billion to launch its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in major cities in the United States. The service, known as BroadbandAccess, will be available in the summer,...
WASHINGTON-As the calendar turns over to 2004-a biennial year as defined by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996-a federal appeals court will decide exactly what kind of review the Federal Communications Commission must undertake to satisfy the telecom act's mandate. Verizon Communications Inc....
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies announced a new suite of professional services for improved voice and data coverage in buildings. The in-building solution supports both Lucent and non-Lucent products and supports multiple wireless technologies.Lucent also announced non-exclusive reseller agreements with four distributed antenna systems hardware...
Nextel Communications Inc.'s youth-oriented Boost Mobile L.L.C. subsidiary lost its top executive last week as Peter Adderton, former chief executive officer and founder, said he was leaving the venture due to disagreements with Nextel over strategy, direction and the failure of Nextel to keep...
ORLANDO PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it will supply Samsung Electronics Co.'s third-generation base stations with multi-carrier power amplifier units.Both companies say they are jointly developing an integrated radio-amplifier subsystem for CDMA2000 and W-CDMA technologies."Our collaboration with Andrew on this integrated amplifier development project is...
Premium text messaging is now a reality in the United States-essentially creating a new market in the U.S. wireless industry.Most of the nation's wireless carriers have installed the necessary billing and management systems to offer the service-including all of the nationwide operators-and already a...
WASHINGTON-The Senate late Thursday approved a spending bill rider that partially restores funding to a rural broadband loan program. The agriculture appropriations amendment, co-sponsored by Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-S.D.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), increases by $6 million the amount of money for administering the...
With hundreds of wireless operators spread throughout the country, T-Mobile USA Inc.'s position as the sixth-largest carrier would seem to be one of the more enviable. The carrier has posted stronger customer growth in the past year than most of its larger rivals. Its...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Wireless data sales training company The Wireless Experience has been selected by Canada's Bell Mobility to create and implement a sales training program for its enterprise salespeople and wireless data advisors.The sales training program is designed to provide Bell Mobility's sales team...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today approved flexible rules for third-generation mobile-phone service in new spectrum obtained from the Pentagon and voted to permit fixed wireless broadband operations in higher frequencies on a commercials basis.FCC officials said the actions-based on market incentives and service flexibility...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said its Microceptor Window Mount Antennas are being used in Schlotzsky's Deli made-to-order sandwich restaurants to provide Wi-Fi coverage to countertop Apple Mac computers and to customer-owned laptops."The Andrew Microceptor antennas are easy to install, provide strong signal strength throughout...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. and Kathrein-Werke KG will cross license their relevant patents related to remote electrical downtilt antenna technology so both companies can offer the technology.The technology allows network operators to remotely adjust the electrical downtilt of an antenna system to control its...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. announced its global positioning system antenna will be used in the 2004 Lincoln Aviator luxury Sports Utility Vehicle's navigation system.With GPS capabilities, the car will be able to pinpoint its location and guide the driver to a given destination with...
NEW YORK-Andrew Corp. said it has agreed to sell $200 million in 3.25-percent convertible subordinated notes to undisclosed buyers, while the company will buy back 5 million common shares it sold for about $49.8 million.The company has set Aug. 8 for the sale and...
Telecommunications infrastructure provider Andrew Corp. has been busy this week with announcements regarding recent acquisitions and new contracts.The company has acquired the assets of ScoreBoard Inc., which supplies radio spectrum resource optimization services and products to wireless carriers. Andrew will add ScoreBoard's assets to...
Sprint PCS can be largely thanked (or blamed, depending on your outlook) for what those in the industry term the "Asian invasion."Sprint in the 1990s made the bold and risky decision to use an untried wireless technology-CDMA-to launch its nationwide wireless service. Sprint decided...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. has completed its merger with Allen Telecom Inc. following approvals by both companies' stockholders at meetings held this week. As previously announced, Allen Telecom stockholders will receive 1.775 shares of Andrew common stock for each share of Allen Telecom. Andrew...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. two months ago. The results of the auction, conducted over long hours on...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., desperately seeking spectrum, came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. last month.The results of last week's auction were disclosed in...
In an industry drowning in acronyms and meaningless catch phrases, few labels are as hard to pin down as the European-derived mobile virtual network operator. Separately the words are familiar and seem to have meaning, but when put together to describe a business model...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The wireless messaging and e-mail market continues its race toward consolidation with news of two new funding and acquisition deals, including a massive $50 million investment in wireless e-mail company Visto Corp.Visto said it extended its recent round of private equity financing...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
WASHINGTON-Northpoint Technology Ltd. is again pushing its plan to offer wireless broadband using digital broadcast satellite spectrum, and it has received some powerful support on Capitol Hill in the form of a positive hearing by the Senate communications subcommittee."We support because it ensures...
