Sprint Corp. is expected to announce this week a plan that would restructure its ownership in Sprint Spectrum L.P. and allow its cable partners to exit the business.Sprint confirmed that it has made substantial progress in negotiating with its three cable partners-Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast...
MetawaveMetawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine years with McCaw, Jarvis held many positions including vice president of McCaw Development Group, vice...
Adler Engineering Inc. has won a contract with the state of New Jersey to evaluate all state-owned property for wireless antenna siting and assist in marketing viable sites to carriers.Adler Engineering, headquartered in Barrington, N.J., provides site design, surveying, environmental investigation and structural engineering...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. reported a first-quarter net income of $212.1 million, or 49 cents per share, which reflects a 27-percent drop from its net income for the comparable period last year, listed as $290 million, or 67 cents per share.Much of the loss...
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. said it launched the Comcast International Roaming service to provide business customers with communications services in 70 countries.Customers use their existing wireless number, which is programmed into a Subscriber Identity Module card containing account information and relevant data that...
WASHINGTON-Just who is WNP Communications Inc. in Earlysville, Va., and where did it come up with a $100 million upfront payment for the upcoming local multipoint distribution services auction, set for a Feb. 18 start date?This earnest-money payment eclipsed those forwarded by BCK/Rivgam L.L.C....
WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week predicted "widespread boycotts" of major wireless firms that are found to have poor records of hiring and promoting African Americans.The Economic Reciprocity Initiative, which also covers wireline carriers and eventually could encompass the entire telecom industry, follows the...
WASHINGTON-Some familiar heavy hitters have applied for a berth at the Feb. 18 start of the local multipoint distribution service auction, including Wall Street's Mario Gabelli and Cablevision's Robert Dolan; former Nextel Communications Inc. executive Jack Markell (now with Comcast Corp.); Haynes Griffin of...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Comcast Cellular Communications will use Metapath Software Corp.'s Ceos software for real-time call detail record collection and subscriber provisioning management.Ceos processes and manages millions of call detail records per hour as individual transactions, and the records can be duplicated, split, filtered and routed...
NEW YORK-Teltrust Inc., Salt Lake City, a wholesaler of prepaid calling card, directory assistance and other telecommunications services, has secured a five-year, $15 million revolving line of credit from Fleet Bank."This new credit line will facilitate ability to serve an increasing customer base...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. has begun streamlining its operations nationwide, eliminating engineering and operations positions. Sprint PCS spokesman Tom Murphy said the reorganization reflects the company's move from building out new markets to an operational phase.Murphy declined to comment on how many employees will lose...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, announced it will acquire Teleport Communications Group in a stock swap transaction valued at about $12 billion, based on AT&T's current stock price.The acquisition is AT&T's first big move into the local phone business since the breakup of Ma...
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Inc. and Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. signed an agreement to conduct a six-month program to test an integrated solution for managing customer churn, the companies announced.The solution integrates Cincinnati Bell's customer-care businesses with services from Cincinnati Bell Information Systems and Matrixx Marketing.The...
MIAMI-National Comm Link L.L.C., a prepaid wireless and long-distance services distributor, announced it signed an agreement with Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. to distribute its Wave Communications prepaid wireless phone in all of Comcast's retail stores and authorized dealer locations.The Wave phone requires no programming...
Sprint Corp. reportedly is intensifying its search for a European partner to construct a possible merger or partnership scheme that could give the long-distance carrier enough cash to buy out its cable partners in the personal communications services business.Analysts close to the situation indicate...
Holiday shoppers this year will be faced with a variety of choices when it comes to selecting a wireless service, and the average consumer probably will have a difficult time wading through all the alphabet soup.According to a survey commissioned by Ameritech Corp. and...
For many cellular carriers, this holiday season marks the first in which more than two wireless carriers in each market will be competing to earn the business of gift givers. As such, cellular carriers are offering a variety of attractive pricing plans and phone...
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced the launch of its $200 million personal communications services network at a gala in Philadelphia, complete with a laser and light show, and celebrity performances.The company's new "The Faces of Comcast Country" advertising campaign also was unveiled at...
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract investor interest for a personal communications services tender.The CNC is looking for foreign companies to operate two 50-megahertz bands in...
A $1 billion capital infusion from Bill Gates' Microsoft Corp. will help cable giant Comcast Corp. accelerate construction of a fiber-optic cable network to expand Internet access to millions of Americans.In purchasing an 11.5 percent stake in Comcast, the nation's fourth-largest cable company and...
NEW YORK-Like late night talk show host David Letterman, Jerome Lucas, president of Telestrategies Inc., McLean, Va., has a top 10 list-this one for wireless telecommunications industry trends.In the near term, the biggest winners won't be the behemoths. Instead, they will be the small...
