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MELBOURNE, Australia-Melbourne wireless telecom developer Advanced Communications Technologies (ACT) is on track to be the first company in the world to commercially launch a multiprotocol mobile base station, including third-generation …

NEW YORK-American Tower Corp., Boston, warned June 21 of greater losses than securities analysts had expected due to acquisition integration problems and a write-off related to the Nasdaq delisting threat …

Blackstone Blackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates …

WASHINGTON-A German company announced last week that it has begun selling GSM phones manufactured by Siemens modified with military-grade encryption software. The TopSec cell phone, which is not currently being …

Under an agreement announced last week between messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. and entertainment company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., TV sets sold next year will be-in essence-really big pagers. The …

Paging lit up the wireless industry like a white-hot star. It showed that fistfuls of money could be made using wireless technology. It showed that wireless companies could grow by …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling said last week that restricting the broadcasting or publication of an illegally intercepted cellular-phone conversation violated the First Amendment because the contents …

LISBON, Spain-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract to design a national network that combines wireless local loop with digital TV broadcast services for Redes e Servicos de Telecomunicacoes SA (WTS). …

NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent …

WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including …

WASHINGTON-Congress last week was set to pass a new budget that embraces President Bush’s plan to delay two auctions of valuable radio spectrum but rejects an administration proposal to impose …

Tom Wheeler, that fierce wireless lobbyist, has a serious problem. It’s Bud Weiser. It seems wherever Tom goes, whatever wireless issue he’s spinning, there’s Bud Weiser. Tom can’t seem to …

American Tower Corp. and SpectraSite Holdings Inc. reported positive operational results last week for the first quarter ended March 31. American Tower said it constructed 375 new towers, acquired 238 …

WASHINGTON-House and Senate budget leaders are at odds over President Bush’s plan to delay auctions of valuable broadcast spectrum, a dispute that arises at a time when the mobile-phone industry …

WASHINGTON-Republicans and Democrats last week officially began the fight for control of America’s high-tech agenda, a battle more about broad national economic policies than about key digital issues like privacy, …

NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market’s general concerns …

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to …

DALLAS-Esoftsolutions Inc., an e-business integrator and solutions provider, adapted the Docent Enterprise Learning Management System platform to support a wireless capability for Gradepoint Inc., a provider of computer training and …

WASHINGTON-Whether the nation is plagued with daunting deficits or buoyed by gushing surpluses, spectrum auctions remain a lightning rod for controversy as the revenue-generating wireless licensing tool becomes inextricably intertwined …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out programs designed to bridge the Digital Divide, components of the president’s $1.96 trillion budget that …

Controversy is brewing in the Texas state House of Representatives over a far-reaching bill that could give individual counties the authority to regulate tower siting, even requiring those with whip …

WASHINGTON-TV broadcasters said they plan to fight any proposal that would force them to pay fees for 700 MHz spectrum they have not vacated by 2007. Further, during a Senate …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. “is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes,” Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Internet Software and …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president’s US$1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House’s …

The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun of favor from the financial community …