fixed wireless

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. and Telcom Ventures L.L.C. began deploying fixed wireless communications networks in Argentina, launching the partnership’s first point-to-multipoint link in Buenos Aires. The venture integrates Teligent’s SmartWave communications …

IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will …

WASHINGTON-Maritime Telecommunications Network Inc. last week blasted a public safety-private wireless coalition for making theoretical arguments about potential interference in urging federal regulators not to renew its experimental license. MTN, …

WASHINGTON-A high-powered coalition of public-safety and private wireless users, citing serious potential disruption to critical infrastructure in coastal cities, has urged the Federal Communications Commission not to renew an experimental …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp., which supplies wireless access solutions for broadband fixed wireless and mobile cellular networks, is changing its name to DMC Stratex Networks Inc. “We are very …

NEW YORK-With existing wireless carriers seeking to expand coverage and capacity and new spectrum poised for commercial use, building owners and managers must develop enhanced expertise in telecommunications before negotiating …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week raised nearly $411 million as it sold 2,173 licenses for fixed wireless service in the 39 GHz band. “Winning bidders have the potential to …

WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its Argentine subsidiary launched the first phase of its service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina also will provide wireless Internet services …

SINGAPORE-Falling margins, cheaper alternatives and technological obsolescence have combined to deal a major blow to Singapore’s four paging operators. From an all-time high of 1.36 million subscribers in June 1998-representing …

WASHINGTON-A divided federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled wireless carriers and Internet firms do not have the same right as other telecom service providers to access utility poles on a …

WASHINGTON-The Strategis Group is predicting a big year for fixed wireless broadband followed by continued strong growth in the near future. The group noted in a recent study, “World Wireless …

NEW YORK-For market watchers waiting to exhale, the AT&T Corp. Wireless Group’s $10.6 billion initial public offering proved not just big, but also graceful, as it took center court April …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular SA announced that its wholly owned Tele2 (UK) Ltd. subsidiary won a Wireless Telegraphy Act license from the U.K. Radio Communications Authority. The license allows Tele2 …

WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry knew from the start it faced an uphill battle to convince the U.S. government to embrace a multiband spectrum harmonization approach for third-generation technology at next …

NEW YORK-After first admonishing all attendees to turn off their cell phones, William T. Lake, a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., convened a recent Practising Law Institute …

NEW YORK-For about $2,000 per square mile, MCI WorldCom Inc. expects to launch multichannel multipoint distribution service systems able to give its fixed wireless customers data access at speeds faster …

WASHINGTON-The United States will enter the World Radiocommunication Conference in Istanbul next month without global or even regional support for its multiband proposal on third-generation mobile-phone service. The situation is …

LAS VEGAS-The Industrial Telecommunications Association, or a subsidiary thereof, “needs to do everything it can to participate” in the upcoming auction of the guard-band spectrum, said ITA President Mark E. …

After years of anticipation fueled by talk of a new technology still shrouded in secrecy, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced last week it is offering commercial digital wireless broadband service …

Switzerland United Pan-Europe Communications announced its wireless communications division, Priority Wireless, won two national licenses to build and operate broadband fixed wireless access networks in the 3.5 GHz band in …

Real estate owners told a House Judiciary subcommittee that forcing private building owners to give access to all telecom service providers would violate constitutional rights of landowners. The Real Access …

Qualcomm Inc. said it may seek a stay of the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions if the Federal Communications Commission denies its petition that requested spectrum from this auction as a …

SAN FRANCISCO-More than 1,600 people converged on San Francisco last week to confirm what most attendees already knew-wireless broadband is going to be big. The Second Annual Broadband World Wireless …

FAIRFAX, Va.-Fixed wireless is the best method for providing last-mile broadband while fiber is best for long haul, an executive of a fixed-wireless company told the Global Internet Summit last …