Global Crossing

WASHINGTON-Tower-siting bills in the Virginia and Massachusetts legislatures have triggered angry backlashes from local residents and officials who do not want to lose their voice in zoning matters and who …

NEW ORLEANS-As a New Orleans appeals court heard arguments on whether Metro PCS can keep its 14 personal communications services licenses, other developments in the continuing saga of the C-block …

Thirteen groups have applied to bid in the United Kingdom’s auction of third-generation mobile-phone licenses. The U.K. government by March plans to auction five licenses, with one license exclusively reserved …

WASHINGTON-The status of NextWave Telecom Inc.’s 63 personal communications services licenses is in doubt after an appeals court ruled that communications law supersedes bankruptcy law. In making that judgment, the …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. received the financial backing to allow it to pay the government the full $4.7 billion it bid for personal communications service licenses in 1996. “The plan would …

More than 660,000 U.S. and Canadian customers subscribed to GSM wireless service in the second quarter of 1999, according to the North American GSM Alliance. This brings the total number …

WASHINGTON-The most powerful telecommunications policy members of the House of Representatives are questioning the process used by the Federal Communications Commission to review mergers. Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), chairman of …

Following more than a month of bidding wars and posturing, the fight over which company will acquire U S West Inc. and Frontier Corp. is over and both suitors can …

DENVER – The boards of directors of U S West and Frontier Corp. both authorized their companies’ management and advisers to enter into discussions with Qwest Communications International Inc. U …

ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Frontier Corp.’s board of directors last week decided not to act on an unsolicited bid made by Qwest Communications International Inc. to buy the company, electing instead to move …

In a routine filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, BellSouth Corp. suggested it might be interested in increasing its ownership stake in broadband company Qwest Communications International Inc. The …

U S West Inc.’s and Global Crossing Ltd.’s marriage announcement last week leaves BellSouth Corp. the only Baby Bell not betrothed in the telecommunications industry. “There no longer is a …

NEW YORK-U S West Inc. reportedly is in merger talks with Global Crossing Ltd., the independent global fiber-optic network operator that recently announced plans to purchase Frontier Corp. Published reports …

NEW YORK-On the strength of three large mergers, communications led domestic industry sectors in merger activity last quarter, a period in which the dollar volume of these deals totaled nearly …

Frontier Corp., one of the parents of Frontier Cellular, announced plans to merge with Global Crossing Ltd., an independent global fiber-optic network operator. The transaction is valued at about $11.2 …

LCC International Inc. last week made two moves that appear to be pointing toward an increasing importance of international markets to its radio frequency engineering and network implementation services and …