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 One Rate plan.The tracking stock, according to published reports, also would include fixed wireless...
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 contract calls for engineering and supplying fixed wireless access networks as part of the Telephones...
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 Kong government for wireless local fixed-telephone network licenses. SmarTone is beginning the second phase...
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 of C-block carrier NextWave Telecom Inc., Hawthorne, N.Y.The three-judge Circuit Court panel comprised Judges...
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 winner takes all, however. Telecommunications providers are learning more about how best to exploit the...
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 as a bona fide business opportunity."There is tremendous enthusiasm for data, and the enthusiasm...
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 get access to the spectrum before year's end."In our view, suspension on the filing...
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 the third quarter, down 17.4 percent from the previous year and down significantly from 473,000...
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 services in Europe.The three-year-old company has launched commercial broadband access service in Poland. It...
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 a study on how best to ensure all Americans benefit from high-speed technologies.The FCC...
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, pipelines, utilities and other industries that support critical U.S. infrastructure.In Sept. 17 comments filed...
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 to provide telecommunications services in Vietnam and is contributing to the government's plan of adding...
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 took decades to build in developed countries-a telecommunications infrastructure-will take a matter of months or...
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, Kenya and Uganda.Pyramid Research predicts that only Angola, Burundi, Libya and Gambia will have...
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 mirrors one introduced in June by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Byron Dorgan...
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, but concerns remain over worldwide acceptance of the new standards."In order for 3G to...
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. The FCC relaxed the cap to 55 megahertz in rural service areas.Additionally, at its...
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 package of end-to-end, broadband communications services to enterprise customers throughout the United States," said Nextlink...
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 MHz multiple address system applicants for filing fee interest that has accrued since early...
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 authority to provide telecommunications services in Vietnam, contributing to the national telecommunications plan of adding...
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 totaled $1.59 billion during the second quarter of the year, more than triple the amount...
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 services to customers in Rio de Janeiro and 15 other states in northern Brazil.Nortel...
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 on Wednesday, when the commissioners also will vote on whether or not to lift the...
