fixed wireless

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. announced it has begun a field test of its broadband wireless technology in the Los Angeles area. “This is another important step to providing a complete …

WASHINGTON-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), responding to Federal Communications Commission delays in processing 50,000 fixed wireless applications that were dismissed last year, has introduced legislation to compensate 900 …

FREMONT, Calif.-ePhone Telecom Inc. announced it secured an initial agreement with Saigon Postel Corp. for the development of a fixed wireless local loop telephony network in Vietnam. SPC has the …

NEW YORK-Even amid the rapidly expanding parade of venture capital investments, the telecommunications/wireless sector of American industry stands head and shoulders above the crowd. Venture capital investments in this sector …

DENVER-VeloCom Inc. announced Canbra Telefonica, its consortium in Brazil, awarded a $500 million, five-year contract to Nortel Networks to design and build a wireless network to deliver telephone and data …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies. The rules will come at an FCC Open Meeting …

NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells broadband data …

WASHINGTON-The official battle over fixed wireless’ access to multi-tenant buildings got started last week as the Federal Communications Commission and industry began to wade through mountains of comments from the …

NEW YORK-Chalk one up for the Federal Communications Commission, which received a stay Aug. 31 of several lower-court decisions that affirmed key aspects of the bankruptcy reorganization of C-block carrier …

Bolivia Bolivia’s GOB Superintendent of Telecommunications is accepting international bids for a 20-year concessionary contract for providing PCS. Bidding documents must be submitted by 23 September. The service area to …

Ericsson signed a US$100 million contract with Diginet Americas to build out Diginet’s fixed wireless networks throughout Latin America. The agreement makes Ericsson the preferred supplier to Diginet to provide …

United States The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the paging services auction until 24 February, 2000. The FCC said in June that it would auction 2,499 licenses for paging. The …

SANDTON, South Africa-Until a short time ago, many African countries did not see the need for independent regulatory bodies. The monopoly state-owned telephone operators were regarded as all that was …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The government late Friday was granted a last-minute emergency stay in its appeal against the bankruptcy reorganization of NextWave Personal Communications Inc., despite a stinging rebuke from another …

WASHINGTON-Experts from the world’s leading wireless telecom standards bodies last week pledged cooperation on third-generation mobile phone technology, number portability, electromagnetic compatibility, fixed wireless access and health effects, despite signs …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to start struggling with the definition of competition as it reviews comments submitted in its competitive networks docket. Is it competition that …

NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, announced Aug. 17 it would acquire FaciliCom International Inc., Washington, D.C., by paying FaciliCom’s shareholders about $436 million and assuming $300 million in FaciliCom debt. …

WinStar Communications Inc. said it has been awarded 18 additional licenses from the Federal Communications Commission to operate in the 38 GHz band. Additionally, the company announced Siebel Systems Inc. …

The Ginger Media Group, owners of U.K.-based Virgin Radio, is collaborating with L.M. Ericsson in early trials of wireless third-generation technology that would allow local or national radio stations to …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. last week announced it created a new organization that will be responsible for building a broadband fixed wireless network in markets where Sprint has acquired licenses. …

WASHINGTON-Proponents of unlicensed spectrum announced plans to organize as a subcommittee with the Wireless Communications Association. The group’s mission statement is “to promote the interests of unlicensed spectrum providers, focusing …

When the clocks roll over at midnight on Dec. 31, the world will welcome not only a new year, but a new decade, a new century, a new millennium and, …

WASHINGTON-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell warned members of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council last week the millennium bug was a special problem that requires everyone to work together. For that …