fixed wireless

Alcatel Cameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam. Value: US$21.15 million China. With Post and …

NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft Corp., the fixed wireless access carrier …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a $200 million contract with Diginet Americas to further build out Diginet’s fixed wireless broadband network throughout Latin America. The agreement expands Ericsson’s previous agreement …

At the recent Practicing Law Institute’s Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless industry. Here is how the wireless …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is considering using some of its reserved personal communications services spectrum to solve capacity problems in high-density cellular markets. The Time Division Multiple Access carrier owns …

It appears that since Dan Hesse’s appointment as president and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp.’s wireless business three years ago, AT&T has had a tenuous relationship with the man. …

NEW YORK – Shortly after announcing divestiture plans for its telecommunications equipment operations Dec. 9, World Access Inc., Atlanta, said it agreed to sell Galaxy Engineering Services, one unit within …

Wireless stocks became the darling of Wall Street this year. Just a year ago analysts were predicting the death of stand-alone wireless stocks as landline companies planned to fold their …

Speculation continues that AT&T Corp. will unveil plans to issue a separate tracking stock to trace its wireless business, which has grown significantly since the carrier introduced its successful Digital …

MONTREAL-SR Telecom Inc. announced that it signed contracts with the Municipal Telecommunications Project Office of the Government of the Philippines and with the Saudi Telecom Co. The $150 million MTPO …

HONG KONG-Hong Kong mobile telephone operator SmarTone Communications said it is looking to secure a wireless fixed network license. SmarTone is among 14 companies that have applied to the Hong …

NEW YORK-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments Nov. 1 in the government’s appeal of decisions that had affirmed key aspects of the bankruptcy reorganization …

NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment. This is not a high-stakes game of …

NEW YORK-Because of the burgeoning demand for data communications in the United States, wireless local access is emerging from the shadows of its mobile brethren and coming into its own …

WASHINGTON-House and Senate lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission to lift the processing freeze on 900 MHz multiple address systems applications, but there is little sign private wireless users will …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said capacity problems and handset shortages constrained the company’s ability to add subscribers in the third quarter. The nation’s largest wireless operator added 269,000 subscribers in …

NEW YORK-Denver-based Formus Communications Inc. hopes to raise $150 million in an initial public offering of stock to help finance its deployment of fixed wireless data, voice and Internet access …

WASHINGTON-Although the Federal Communications Commission does not regulate the Internet or broadband access to the Information Superhighway, the agency has created a committee to monitor broadband activities and has released …

WASHINGTON-The Association of American Railroads again urged federal regulators to lift the licensing freeze on private multiple address system applications and not auction fixed wireless frequencies internally used by railroads, …

FREMONT, California, United States-ePhone Telecom announced it secured an initial agreement with Saigon Postel Corp. (SPC) to develop a fixed wireless local loop network in Vietnam. SPC has the authority …

Alcatel Argentina. With Telecom Argentina for a fixed wireless access network. Value: US$99.6 million Ericsson Argentina. With Unif

When the clocks roll over at midnight on 31 December, the world will usher in not only a new century, but a new paradigm in the way people communicate. What …

SANDTON, South Africa-A wave of liberalization and privatization is transforming the cellular market in Africa. Countries riding high on this tide include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritius, C”te d’Ivoire, …

WASHINGTON-Reps. Thomas Davis (R-Va.) and James Moran (D-Va.) last week introduced legislation to foster nondiscriminatory telecommunications access to federal government buildings, bolstering competitive prospects for fixed wireless carriers. The bill …

NEW ORLEANS-The fiery politics that once characterized the third-generation standards-setting process is rapidly dying, members of a 3G panel said at the PCS ’99 show last week in New Orleans, …