When RF engineer David Ohanlon took a contract job working for C Spire Wireless through LCC, he thought he’d be installing small cells or a distributed antenna system. These are technologies Ohanlon knows well, but in his new job he has hasn’t spent time...
Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its wireless engineering business to LCC International for $46 million. The San Diego-based infrastructure vendor expects the deal,...
Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its wireless engineering business to LCC International for $46 million.The San Diego-based infrastructure vendor expects the deal, which...
LCC International Inc. has delayed the filing of its annual financial statements for 2006 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said its management needs more time to assess the accuracy of its financial reporting, and for its auditors to complete a...
LCC International Inc., which designs and deploys wireless networks, announced an agreement to purchase Wireless Facilities Inc.'s businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in a cash-for-stock transaction valued at $4 million. The sale is subject to closing conditions; however, LCC expects the...
WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone carriers, having bid the lion's share of the $13.9 billion for advanced wireless services licenses auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, now face the potentially time-consuming and costly process of negotiating to relocate commercial and government users off of the 2110-2155 MHz...
ATLANTA-Nokia Corp. announced it will acquire LCC International Inc.'s U.S.-based network deployment operations. The deal is expected to close in 45 days and impacts 80 LCCI employees, some of whom may become Nokia employees. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, according...
Tri-County Communications Systems sold an unspecified number of its telecommunications towers in northern New York state to Pinnacle Holdings Inc., said David Abraham & Co., which represented the seller. Details of the transaction were not released by Tri-County or Pinnacle. David Abraham specializes in...
MCLEAN, Va.-UbiquiTel Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, awarded LCC International Inc. a contract to provide comprehensive design and deployment services in all of the markets recently awarded to UbiquiTel under the Sprint PCS Affiliate Program.The multiyear contract calls for LCC to provide radio-frequency design...
McLEAN, Va.-Egypt-based Misrfone Telecommunications Co. S.A.E. selected LCC International Inc. to design and deploy Misrfone's nationwide Global System for Mobile communications network, announced LCC.Under terms of the one-year, $17 million contract, LCC will build approximately 180 wireless cell sites throughout Egypt, including the cities...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse says enough is enough when it comes to the press his company has received in recent weeks about capacity problems in New York."It isn't a story anymore," said Hesse in an interview with RCR. "Compared...
The gap between large and small independent tower companies became wider last week as a pair of transactions added nearly 2,500 towers to the portfolios of two of the larger players in the tower industry.American Tower Corp. will add about 600 owned and operated...
AndrewAndrew Corp. elected Guy Campbell group president of wireless products and distributed communications systems. Campbell joined Andrew from Ericsson Inc., where most recently he was vice president of wireless business systems.Alaska DigiTelAlaska DigiTel selected Kris Perry as general manager. She will supervise all sales,...
MCLEAN, Va.-Less than one year after assuming the posts of president and chief executive officer of LCC International Inc., Geoffrey S. Carroll resigned from those positions, to be temporarily replaced by Rajendra Singh, chairman of LCC's board of directors.Carroll agreed to continue serving the...
BEACHWOOD, Ohio-Allen Telecom Inc. and LCC International Inc. announced they formed an agreement in which LCC will swap its test and measurement equipment and related software analysis tools business for the engineering, software and consulting business of Allen Telecom's Comsearch division.Comsearch has leading positions...
NEW YORK-"The dam is about to burst on outsourcing in the wireless world," and LCC International Inc., the giant radio-frequency engineering firm, is getting ready to ride the resulting rapids into new lines of business, said Geoffrey S. Carroll, its new president and chief...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-When you look at a postcard of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with its magnificent beaches flanked by a line of mountains, the landscape seems timeless and still. But looks can be deceiving. As with any big city in the last part of the...
NEW YORK-Taxicab, overnight mail delivery and other fleet vehicle drivers may soon be doing double duty as remote monitors of wireless telecommunications networks, according to a plan by LCC International Inc., McLean, Va.The radio-frequency engineering firm recently acquired European Technology Partner, a company based...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. and engineering provider LCC International Inc. have concluded negotiations revolving around the C-block winner's default of a March 31 payment for services. A $2 million wire transfer was made to LCC from NextWave on or about April 23.According to a written...
WASHINGTON-After being hit with loan-repayment defaults by the top two C-block personal communications services licensees March 31, LCC International Inc. has decided to "reserve with respect to 1996 earnings $30.1 million, pre-tax, against certain receivables from, investments in and costs associated with Pocket Communications...
Paging co. defaults on bank agreementPageAmerica Group Inc. said it is in default for the full amount of a $34 million bank credit agreement, which matured Nov. 30. The company is being purchased by Metrocall Inc. That transaction is expected to be completed this...
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
Nextel Communications Inc. charted a new frontier in its acquisition strategy with plans to buy most of Wireless Ventures of Brazil Inc., owner of Brazil's only nationwide specialized mobile radio license.Nextel of McLean, Va., said it reached definitive agreements with Wireless Ventures, of Arlington...
