BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. said it completed a $251 million equity investment from Qwest Communications International Inc. and a group of high-tech investment funds.Henry C. Hirsch, ART's chairman and chief executive officer, said Qwest is the company's single largest investor and will be...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced it completed an agreement with Devnet L.L.C., allowing ART access to 420 commercial office buildings in 11 states, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan and New York.Devnet controls the interior space, rooftops and wiring access rights for telecommunication and...
ATLANTA-Broadband Internet service provider Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced plans to test Triton Network Systems Inc.'s consecutive point 100 Mbps radio as part of a trial broadband network platform providing Internet access to selected businesses in Silicon Valley.The study will evaluate reliability, quality and...
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for broadband wireless access in the United States remains positive.As evidence is the amount of...
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a Bellevue, Wash., a provider of fixed-wireless broadband data networks, will receive a $251 million equity infusion from a group of investors led by Qwest Communications International Inc.Denver-based Qwest is building an 18,500-mile domestic Internet Protocol, fiber-optic network for...
My daughter is becoming quite proficient at putting together puzzles. She doesn't do it the way I would, matching the red of the mermaid Ariel's hair with another piece that also shows red hair. Instead, I think she actually memorizes how the puzzle pieces...
NEW YORK-The promises of wireless voice communications as a landline replacement and of mobile data as a significant wireless revenue generator are moving closer to fulfillment but remain a few years away, chief technology officers of three carriers said at a recent seminar.On the...
NECGraphics pagerNEC now is offering the APOP98 pager, which is a FLEX-based alphanumeric pager that is able to receive graphic images. NEC has developed software, which will be available from the company's Web site and runs on Windows. People wishing to send a graphic...
NEW YORK-By the tenor of their top executives' flirtatious banter Nov. 2, WinStar Communications Inc. appears to be an amorous suitor to a somewhat hesitant Advanced Radio Telecom Corp."Spectrum is a rare commodity, and the more we have the better. ART has some, and...
Electronic Data Systems said it signed a five-year systems management agreement with Motorola Inc., under which EDS will manage the technology infrastructure for Motorola's Systems Solutions Group and Satellite Communications Group. EDS said it will provide Motorola a full spectrum of Information Technology customer...
BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service test by more than 20 business.ART's integrated broadband wireless and fiber-optic technology uses a packet switched Internet Protocol and asynchronous...
CTIAChristopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of law-enforcement issues and served as Democratic staff director and chief counsel for Sen. Joseph R....
Metrocall Inc. is conducting technical and market trials of Omni-Voice Technologies Inc.'s digital voice paging technology, according to OmniVoice. The OmniVoice platform allows compressed voice messages to be sent over FLEX paging networks, along with text and data. The company also is working on...
In this Clintonian Age of Relativity, there is always-for everyone here-a way out: denial. Having an extramarital affair with a girl your twenty-something daughter's age. Deny it. Soliciting campaign contributions from a Buddhist temple or from the White House. Deny it. Call it something else,...
SEATTLE AND BELLEVUE, Wash.-Lucent Technologies Inc. committed to provide $25 million in financing to Advanced Radio Telecom, subject to certain conditions, to fund the buildout of networks in Portland, Ore., Seattle and Phoenix.ART is testing its asynchronous transfer mode broadband data network and providing...
Iridium L.L.C. said two more of its satellites failed last week, adding to a list of concerns that caused the company's stock price to fall about $8 following the disclosure.Of the 72 satellites placed in orbit to date, seven have failed. According to Michelle...
Is it time the Federal Communications Commission be overhauled?Not in the disappearing (non)sense that Gingrichites from the Progress & Freedom Foundation advocate. The new-age digital libertarians have it completely backwards.In the future, why not have national communications and information policy made at a fully...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. agreed to purchase from private investors 14.9 percent of Advanced Radio Telecom Corp.'s outstanding common stock, which is about 3.3 million shares, said WinStar.WinStar will issue one share of its common stock per every 2.2 shares of ART purchased, resulting...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The pace of liberalization in the Brazilian wireless markets has taken on new speed in the past two weeks following a judicial ruling grant-ing the region 2 B-band license to the Telia-led Tess consortium and swift movement by the Ministry of Communications...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with DCT Communications Inc. to acquire 49 additional 38 GHz licenses covering a population of approximately 63 million. ART will acquire all of the outstanding shares of DCT in exchange for...
InterDigital Technology Corp. made another move in a long-running patent dispute with Ericsson Radio Systems AB.The company's parent, InterDigital Communications Corp., announced ITC has sought a further stay of its patent litigation with Ericsson in federal court, requesting a re-examination by the U.S. Patent...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Crop. announced it has entered into agreements to acquire 24 additional licenses in the 38 GHz band and has received new grants of seven other 38 GHz licenses directly from the Federal Communications Commission.This brings ART's total domestic licenses to...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. next month will begin construction on a cellular equipment manufacturing plant and global provisioning center in Brazil. The company said more than 300 people will be employed there.Lucent said it will use the center to develop software and systems...
There are times when RCR staffers stop chasing stories and just sit around to debate the state of telecommunications. When the rumors about a Cable & Wireless takeover of Sprint began surfacing, all we could do is lay back in our pontifical chairs and...
