Now that the Federal Communications Commission has completed the re-auction of 365 C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, it still could be months or even years before service in many of the markets is deployed.All the winners had met their payment...
More than a year after receiving a favorable ruling from a Dallas bankruptcy judge, General Wireless Inc. still is crafting its business plan and searching for financing.The company, which changed its name to Metro PCS in March, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1997....
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,...
A front-page story in USA Today several weeks ago introduced a new technology called electronic ink, marketed by a company called E Ink, and paging technology just may be what brings it to life.The result of research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
While paging carriers work to upgrade their network technology to fit the advanced messaging paradigm, several also are working to upgrade the services available on their networks, namely content.For about a year now, information content has been available to subscribers for free. The idea...
BelgiumKPN Orange launched GSM 1800 service in early April as the third mobile operator in Belgium.IrelandEsat Telecom Group confirmed it accepted an offer to acquire a pro rata share of 9 percent of Ireland's GSM operator Esat Digifone for US$57 million from International Investment...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Chile, which became the first country in Latin America in 1998 to implement PCS, has just felt the tremor of three new events in its market that could impact growth and market positioning.Calling party pays (CPP) was introduced 23 February, BellSouth bought...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the re-auction of 356 PCS licenses in the United States.Licenses had to be re-auctioned after several of the original bidders were unable to pay for the licenses they won in 1996 and 1997. The three largest bidders...
GermanyInterDigital Communications Corp., through its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp., entered a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany. According to the agreement, InterDigital granted Bosch the license under its TDMA patent portfolio to sell telecommunications equipment...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-In a $50 million transaction, Leap Wireless International Inc. increased its ownership of Chilesat Telefonia Personal S.A. from 50 percent to 100 percent, by purchasing Telex-Chile's and Chilesat S.A.'s 50-percent ownership in Chilesat PCS."We believe this acquisition will give us the opportunity...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reported revenues of $1.1 million for the 1999 fiscal second quarter, compared with no revenues in the second quarter of 1998.Operating expenses for Leap Wireless operating companies for the second quarter were $36.2 million, compared with expenses of $3.6...
WASHINGTON-By the end of nearly three weeks of bidding, action has all but stopped on the major markets left in the re-auction of personal communications services licenses.The only major market to receive any activity as of the end of round 42 was Little Rock,...
It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M.
Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week, ending more than 10 years of open hostilities
between the two.
"It's wonderful to be together," said Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman and...
WASHINGTON-Sixty-six bidders are competing for the 356 personal communications services licenses being re-auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission.Bidders include Omnipoint Corp., Cook Inlet/VoiceStream PCS L.L.C., Leap Wireless International Inc., a Qualcomm Inc. spinoff, and a host of other carriers whose identities could not immediately...
The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow's reauction of C-block spectrum.Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications, launched service last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., under a...
SAN DIEGO-Pegaso PCS, the Mexican operating company of Leap Wireless International Inc., last week launched its first market in Tijuana, Mexico.The company plans to build a nationwide network in Mexico valued at $1.3 billion with Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara planned for launch this...
WASHINGTON-Omnipoint Corp., Leap Wireless International Inc. and Cook Inlet/VoiceStream PCS could be among the top bidders for the March 23 re-auction of 356 C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses.The Federal Communications Commission last week accepted 52 applications as complete and rejected...
Sprint PCS is attempting to change the way the industry does business with affiliate companies, but the task has not been without its difficulties as some affiliate companies struggle to obtain financing.To date, Sprint PCS has signed on 16 affiliate companies that will work...
NEW ORLEANS-PulsePoint Communications and Leap Wireless International Inc. announced they agreed to make PulsePoint the primary voice-mail and unified messaging solution provider for Leap's new networks.To do so, Leap will implement PulsePoint's Enhanced Application Platform, an Internet-ready, open-system and standards-based solution. Under terms of...
The domestic telecom market is abuzz with mergers, acquisitions and mega-deals. The industry is consolidating again, not so long after AT&T Corp. was broken up into Baby Bells; cellular and then personal communications services licenses were awarded, and carriers of all stripes began competing...
Britain's Department of Trade and Industry cleared British Telecommunications plc to raise its stake in Cellnet above 60 percent and said the company can bid in auctions for third-generation mobile spectrum.According to Cellnet's Telecommunications Act License, which allows the company to operate a public...
The reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum is expected to be a dismal affair in March, and most small entrepreneurial businesses-which the auction was designed for-are likely to forgo bidding altogether.The Federal Communications Commission plans to reauction 134 15-megahertz and 208 30-megahertz C-block...
The clock is ticking away for Leap Wireless International Inc. as it awaits Federal Communications Commission approval to bid in the reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum.Five entities have filed comments or petitions to deny with the FCC protesting Leap's desire to qualify...
Alcatel to deliver network to PegasoSAN DIEGO-A subsidiary of Mexico's Pegaso Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V. and Alcatel Althsom signed an agreement that calls for Alcatel to provide up to $270 million in equipment, services and construction to build out Pegaso's nationwide personal communications services...
