WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers and others are urging the government to launch a rulemaking to decide what to do with discarded mobile satellite services frequencies rather than unilaterally giving more radio channels to the two remaining non-operational 2 GHz MSS operators. The 2 GHz MSS controversy...
WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland defense officials, adding a new twist to current efforts by satellite companies to regain...
WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland defense officials, adding a new twist to current efforts by satellite companies to regain...
WASHINGTON-While sparks fly on Capitol Hill over wrestling free 700 MHz spectrum from TV broadcasters, a lower profile feud with high stakes for mobile-phone carriers is escalating at the Federal Communications Commission. The debate is over whether the remaining two 2 GHz mobile satellite...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today said Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. received the first ever authorization to operate land-based wireless systems to supplement satellite operations, a ruling that comes amid regulatory and court challenges to agency regulations allowing hybrid satellite facilities. The FCC said the...
WASHINGTON-Craig McCaw, who made a fortune in the cellular industry before stumbling in satellite and local telephone ventures, last week unveiled plans to leverage wireless technology to compete against dominant telephone and cable TV companies in the lucrative high-speed Internet market. McCaw will pursue...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Satellite Ventures, despite legal and regulatory challenges, is aggressively moving forward with its business plan and appears poised to be first to market with a potentially disruptive technology comprised of satellite and land-based facilities that will bring wireless signals to areas of the...
WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone operators told a federal appeals court the Federal Communications Commission went astray of the law by awarding additional mobile satellite service licenses despite the sector's desperate financial condition. In its opening brief, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless...
New ownership has provided mobile satellite services company Globalstar L.P. with hope in the new year.The company last month announced plans to be acquired by equity investor Thermo Capital Partners L.L.C. for $43 million. "We think this really restores our credibility," said Globalstar President...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite services company Globalstar announced a new reorganization plan to secure $43 million in financing, effectively canceling its expected acquisition by ICO Global Communications Ltd.Instead, the reorganized Globalstar would be majority owned by Thermo Capital Partners, which would hold 81.25-percent...
Just what are Craig McCaw and Nextel Communications Inc. up to, separately or together? Is there a grand plan waiting to be hatched or just some heady hedges that may-or may not-lead to something big? There's enough of a history there to make recent...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite service provider Globalstar L.P. and its subsidiaries have filed a joint plan of reorganization, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The plan follows news earlier this year that ICO Global Communications would invest $55...
WASHINGTON-U.S. law enforcement officials want federal regulators to delay a decision on ICO Global Communications Ltd.'s application to acquire Globalstar Corp. mobile satellite service licenses until public-safety and national security issues are resolved.The proposed ICO-Globalstar deal has been pending before the Federal Communications Commission...
WASHINGTON-U.S. law enforcement officials want federal regulators to delay a decision on ICO Global Communications Ltd.'s application to acquire Globalstar Corp. mobile satellite service licenses until public-safety and national security issues are resolved.The proposed ICO-Globalstar deal has been pending before the Federal Communications Commission...
Ten-years-old now, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 still casts a long shadow over the wireless telecom industry and remains a powerful symbol philosophically dividing Republicans and Democrats over an economic landscape increasingly influenced by the high-tech sector.OBRA, a tax-hike bill written by...
Mobile satellite service providers continue to struggle financially, but rebuilding efforts in Iraq appear to have increased minutes of use and precipitated the launch of new services.Bankrupt Globalstar L.P. said its second-quarter results were bolstered by its service launch in Iraq. The company's revenue...
MINNEAPOLIS-NextNet Wireless Inc., a provider of non-line-of-sight broadband wireless access systems, has raised an additional round of funding it plans to use to expand its markets, deployments and product line. Funding was led by private investment company COM Holdings L.L.C., which is controlled by...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission approved frequency changes for four mobile satellite service operators and said MSS licensees are making progress toward meeting milestones, a development that could hurt mobile-phone industry efforts to secure additional satellite spectrum for third-generation wireless systems.The FCC late Tuesday granted...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today warned Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell that allowing mobile satellite service operators to operate land-band transmitters could cause interference to mobile phone handsets in the personal communications services band."We cannot rob Peter in order...
McCain urges auction for MSS spectrumWASHINGTON-The wireless industry got some powerful support Dec. 20 in its quest to have the Federal Communications Commission auction off spectrum in the 2 GHz band currently set aside for mobile satellite services."Congress has mandated that FCC spectrum...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Dec. 17 urged the Federal Communications Commission to either auction off spectrum in the 2 GHz band currently set aside for mobile satellite services or go slow in allowing MSS operators the opportunity to offer ancillary terrestrial...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell to auction spectrum of financially troubled mobile satellite service providers.The FCC is expected to rule in January whether to allow Craig McCaw's ICO Global Communications and other MSS...
WASHINGTON-A Bush administration report due out shortly could hurt Nextel Communications Inc.'s campaign to win government approval of a controversial spectrum realignment plan designed to resolve commercial wireless interference to public safety and business radio systems, a proposal major U.S. industry sectors blasted last...
KIRKLAND, Washington, United States—ICO Global announced it has reached final agreement on its merger with New ICO Global Communications.ICO Global, previously known as ICO-Teledesic Global, also has agreed with Teledesic to end their proposed merger to allow both companies the greatest flexibility in the...
