LAS VEGAS-Left Right Marketing Technology Inc. said it expects to close its acquisition of NeoLink Wireless Content Inc. by July 31. NeoLink Wireless offers the MobiTV wireless broadcast platform that is offered by Sprint PCS.Upon completion of the acquisition, Left Right Marketing Technology plans...
Wireless solutions designed specifically for nurses, the largest healthcare group in the U.S. and the biggest users of IT systems in hospitals, could streamline the otherwise inefficient healthcare field. But to be successful with nurse end-users, technology companies have to gear solutions toward their...
WASHINGTON-Five percent of the nation's broadcasters are holding the nation hostage by refusing to give back their spectrum, which has been allocated to public safety, charged Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). "Because of broadcaster intransigence, some 5 percent of the TV stations in the U.S....
WASHINGTON-Though the next World Radiocommunication Conference is several years off, the United States already faces a potential controversy over whether mobile-phone carriers and mobile satellite operators can share spectrum in the 2500-2690 MHz band.The preliminary view of the Bush administration is that satellite-terrestrial sharing...
WASHINGTON-Five percent of the nation's broadcasters are holding the nation's hostage by refusing to give back their spectrum, which has been allocated to public safety, charged Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). "Unbelievably in such unimaginably critical and complex situations, our first responders were reduced to...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C's proposed $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. picked up support from a leading disability organization, but the deal continues to be dogged by a group that claims Cingular exaggerated the impact of cell-alert technology on its mobile-phone networks...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House Commerce Committee said last week he wants his committee to consider a "Berlin" subsidy plan to end the transition to digital TV so broadcasters can return spectrum to be auctioned."We have a date of Dec. 31, 2006, or when...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it is selling its customer care and billing software division, including its Singl.eView platform for revenue, transaction, billing and service management, to operational support services vendor Intec Telecom Systems for $74.5 million. Under the agreement, Intec will acquire all ADC...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C's proposed $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. picked up support from a leading disability organization, but the deal continues to be dogged by a group that claims Cingular exaggerated the impact of cell-alert technology on its mobile-phone networks...
WASHINGTON-Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that is not realistic, the public-safety community would support an FCC Media Bureau staff proposal that would make spectrum available in...
A grand opening last week marked the coming together of two seasoned wireless tower equipment companies. The festivities commemorated the re-opening of Rohn Industries Inc.'s Peoria, Ill.-based manufacturing operation, under its new owner, Canada's Radian Communication Services Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corp.Rohn has...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., and the rest of the wireless world, will have to wait a bit longer.The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday put out the agenda for its May 13 meeting, and again rules to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz...
Despite increased revenues, tower companies Crown Castle International Corp. and SBA Communications Corp. reported first-quarter financials in the red, although Crown managed to shave its losses.Crown reported site rental and broadcast transmission revenue of $219.4 million, up 18.6 percent, or $34.4 million, from last...
HOUSTON-Wireless communications tower owner Crown Castle International Corp. released financial results for the first quarter of 2004 in line with guidance issued last month.The company reported site rental and broadcast transmission revenue of $219.4 million, up 18.6 percent, or $34.4 million, from last year's...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. has agreed to pay the relocation costs of the broadcast auxiliary services in the 1.9 GHz band and in return has obtained the support of the National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service Television for the Consensus Plan...
Satellite is spreading its wings. The sector appears to be aligning itself with other wireless technologies in hopes of becoming a significant part of a hybrid wireless network.John Kealey, chief executive officer of iDirect, a networking equipment company that makes routers that allow customers...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. put wireless communications tower stock traders in a frenzy this week when it offered up a concrete sign of hope for the sector by raising its earnings expectations for the full year.Crown said it now expects site rental and broadcast...
WASHINGTON-In a move expected to make spectrum available to commercial operators sooner, the FCC's Media Bureau is proposing to move the digital TV transition date back to 2009. The proposal aims to replace foggy rules that exist today with a concrete date. As it...
Crown Castle International Corp. put wireless communications tower stock traders in a frenzy this week when it offered up a concrete sign of hope for the sector by raising its earnings expectations for the full year.Crown said it now expects site rental and broadcast...
WASHINGTON-In a move expected to make spectrum available to commercial operators sooner, the FCC's Media Bureau is proposing to move the digital TV transition date back to 2009.The proposal aims to get at the current 85-percent threshold, which says that broadcasters must give back...
Both Honda Motor Co. Inc. and XM Satellite Radio today announced licenses for mobile data broadcasting technology from start-up Digital Fountain. Although the news is a relatively small blip on the wireless industry's radar, the potential of such deals is far reaching.Digital Fountain declined...
WASHINGTON-As of Thursday morning it appears that Nextel Communications Inc. has been successful in convincing a majority of the Federal Communications Commission that adopting key portions of its Consensus Plan is the best way to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band.FCC Chairman...
WASHINGTON-Just as the new chair of the House Commerce Committee said Congress may not need to step in to speed the digital TV transition because the movement is gaining steam on its own, a public-safety group is lobbying to re-direct some frequencies set aside...
ATLANTA-FOX Sports Interactive Media said it expanded its publishing partnership with Sorrent into other areas besides games. Under the deal, Sorrent will create and publish all new FOX Sports Mobile multimedia sports content and FOX Sports Mobile Fantasy, a standalone wireless fantasy sports offering....
