WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.- DCN Wireless, a California-based wireless services reseller, will begin providing GTE Mobilnet Inc. service in the San Francisco area and Northern California."Our decision to offer the service of both AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet is in keeping with our...
NEW YORK- The media and telecommunications industry was pronounced "generally healthy" by a panel of Wall Street officials discussing new equity and debt issues at an Institute for International Research conference, Jan. 29.The clean bill of health isn't without qualification, however."Certain sectors have fallen...
A statement by minority owner Lee McDonald in a Jan. 27 story in RCR about the class action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services should have read, "The 1996 settlement proposal included the 1995 changes already in place."
NEW YORK-CCPR Services, the principal subsidiary of Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico, was expected to privately place last week a $175 million issue of senior subordinated notes. The deal was trimmed from the $200 million issue originally planned.Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New...
NEW YORK-Esat Holdings Ltd., Dublin, plans to sell privately about $85 million in debt securities, partly to help finance buildout of a Global System for Mobile communications system that will provide Ireland's second cellular service.Esat Holdings owns a 40 percent stake in Esat Digifone,...
While one arm of U S West Inc. prepares to roll out pocket phone service later this year, another arm, U S West Media Group's cellular division, is slated to disappear.The paradox highlights U S West's jagged wireless communications strategy. In its short wireless...
WASHINGTON-A settlement is believed near that would have Teledesic Corp. pay to relocate Associated Communications L.L.C. fixed wireless facilities to the 24 GHz band, though it is unclear whether the deal will be voluntary or government-imposed.The two wireless startups have been battling for months...
WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Wireless reseller Northwest Communications, a division of Skylink Communications Corp., announced a prepaid wireless program called Pay-N-Talk.The service is available at grocery stores, gas stations and other consumer locations in 12 Western states, with 10 more to be added by the end of...
A California federal judge dismissed a proposed settlement between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and minority owners of AT&T cellular markets after the court discovered AT&T signed an employment agreement with attorneys that represented the minority owners.If approved, the settlement would have closed the door...
Some news announcements in this industry have become very low on facts and high on bombastic marketing language.The launch of competing networks throughout the country has led to a marketing war. With technology decisions behind them and buildout underway, wireless carriers are focused on...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Corp. have been awarded nationwide mobile phone licenses in Taiwan, beating competitors such as Sprint Corp. and France Telecom Group out of the prize.Also, a regional license covering southern Taiwan was won by a consortium that includes U.S.-based...
ST. LOUIS-A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard nearly four hours of argument from opponents and proponents of currently stayed federal interconnection rules last Friday, but it is not expected to render a decision regarding the validity...
WASHINGTON-Raking in a net total of $2.52 billion, the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction closed Jan. 14, bidding farewell to the last of the broadband spectrum that will be sold by the Federal Communications Commission."With the A, B, C, D, E...
Proponents of Time Division Multiple Access technology quietly formed a formidable group last year, while the industry's attention was focused on high-profile scraps between two other competing technologies.Universal Wireless Communications L.L.C. now has 44 members, representing support for TDMA systems in Canada, South America,...
Netro of Santa Clara, Calif., makes what it says telecommunications operators building networks in the new era of deregulation need-radio equipment that uses a wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol.Introduced about five years ago and driven by networking giant Cisco Systems-a Netro partner-ATM allows high-speed...
Israel's two cellular operators are working hard to sign up as many customers as possible while the government continues to ponder details for licensing a third cellular operator."The (technology) standard of the third license hasn't been determined yet. The ministry has had a lot...
Metawave Communications Corp. appointed Kathryn Surace-Smith general counsel for the company. She will provide legal support for Metawave's business development activities including customer contracts, licensing agreements, strategic partnerships and financial, operational and corporate matters. Previously, Surace-Smith was international counsel for Alcatel Telecom.Glenayre Technologies Inc....
NEW YORK-"Within three years, PCS will take the market away from local paging in the top 40 markets," predicted Gordon Kaiser, chief executive officer of Cue Network Corp., a unique nationwide one-way paging carrier."I don't believe PCS companies will ever have the coverage we...
WASHINGTON-The restart of the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services license auction in the new year has begun not with a bang but with a trickle. New bids and new high bids have settled into a single-digit pattern for the 10 rounds per...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems launched wireless service last week in Arkansas. The company acquired the Arkansas markets from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in August.Southwestern Bell said it plans to market its local phone and wireless services together at some point. The company...
Summa Four Inc. named Robert A. Degan president and chief executive officer, with responsibility for directing the company's growth and profitability. He has been a member of Summa Four's board of directors since 1984. Most recently, Degan was president and CEO of TyLink Corp.,...
WASHINGTON-Six congressmen instrumental in the crafting and eventual passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 have taken to task in writing those who oppose the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local competition order scheduled for oral argument in front of the Eighth Circuit Court...
To the cynic, walking away from AT&T Corp. and the prospect of being chairman of the world's biggest telecommunications company to head a wireless start-up with unproven technology was no big gamble for Alex J. Mandl.Start with a $20 million signing bonus to launch...
MONTREAL-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. announced a new pricing program for its Digital PCS cellular customers in the greater Montreal area."Montreal and More" costs about $44 a month and includes 400 minutes of calls. Additional calls are billed at 20 cents per minute.Digital PCS...
