AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Inc. selected Transcept Inc. to help the carrier extend its personal communications services network using Transcept's TransCell 1900TM PCS-Over-Microwave system.Trancept's focus is on offering equipment that helps carriers deploy and improve their networks while building fewer towers...
NEW YORK-Nextel is a "rag dog" company that has fought against the odds of regulators, antitrust lawyers and Wall Street to win, said Morgan E. O'Brien, vice chairman of Nextel Communications Inc.O'Brien made his remarks during a keynote speech at the 90th Annual Radio...
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced legislation to remove the spectrum cap for third-generation wireless spectrum to be assigned by auction after Dec. 31. "The Third-Generation Wireless Internet" is not as far reaching as the spectrum cap repeal initiative Brownback planned to sponsor in July,...
The House, over protests from the White House and some congressional Democrats, last week approved legislation to make electronic signatures legal.The measure, which passed by a 356-66 margin, comes as more and more commerce moves to the Internet, which is becoming increasingly accessible by...
The first satellite for the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) mobile telephony and data services communication system is scheduled to be launched in November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to the satellite's manufacturer Lockheed Martin. The ACeS System is owned by Bermuda-based ACeS...
Bankrupt mobile satellite service provider ICO Global Communications said it has received letters of intent for the first in an expected three-stage debtor-in-possession financing package that, when complete, would total $1.2 billion.The company said the letters of intent cover the first $225 million installment...
WASHINGTON-For the second straight week, Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) hammered the Federal Communications Commission over questionable wireless licensing activity and opened a new probe into the proposed merger of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Comsat Corp.Bliley's Sept. 13 letter to FCC Chairman William...
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...
NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide the power of Internet access to the rich and poor alike."The big social message...
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. said its stockholders approved the proposed merger with Lockheed Martin Corp.About 99 percent of votes cast were in favor of the merger. Upon obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals and legislative action, Comsat will become a part of Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications,...
WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its intended takeover of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Communications Industry Services business.CIS Acquisition Corp. will now...
Spotcast Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md., is billing itself as the world's first provider of localized, advertisement-sponsored mobile communications.The company recently completed a beta test with its first carrier customer, Peoples Telephone Co.. The Hong Kong-based Global System for Mobile communications 1800 provider has...
BETHESDA, Md.-Astrolink L.L.C. and partners Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, TRW and Telespazio closed an equity investment of $900 million in cash that will allow Astrolink to offer on-demand wireless broadband services, said the company.Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications owns 46 percent of the new company....
During its second-quarter earnings conference call, Motorola executives said Iridium L.L.C. could face liquidation if it fails to bring in the revenues and subscribers originally planned.At the same time, Motorola asserted it will not contribute further funding to Iridium unless other investors do."Motorola will...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Teledesic L.L.C. has completed a major launch contract with Lockheed Martin and signed a system agreement with Motorola Inc. to build Teledesic's satellite communications network, said the company.Under terms of the contract with Lockheed Martin, Teledesic will use two heavy-lift launch vehicles-the Proton...
The government of Kazakhstan's temporary ban on Russian rocket launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome has mobile satellite service providers with upcoming launch dates there watching the situation carefully.The ban was initiated after a Russian-made Proton K booster rocket carrying a Russian military satellite exploded...
NASHUA, N.H.-Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has agreed to sell operating company Sanders Telecommunications Systems to a newly formed affiliate of Spencer Trask & Co. called Transcept Inc.Following the close of the transaction, expected next month, Transcept will be jointly owned by ST&Co., Lockheed...
NEW YORK-Astrolink L.L.C., a strategic venture initiated by Lockheed Martin Corp., announced it received $900 million in equity from founding partners Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, Telespazio and TRW Inc. to develop and build a wireless broadband services system.Astrolink will focus on services such as...
WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on Feb. 28, sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo).Leon County, Fla., has become a "tower farm ... there isn't...
NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin company, announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with eXpert Wireless Solution for radio-frequency network planning and services for Sanders' line of personal communications services products.
NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., announced it entered into a long-term agreement with WirelessNorth to supply its PCS-Over-Cable distributed antenna system to support the deployment of a wireless network throughout the 13 basic trading areas covered by WirelessNorth's personal communications services licenses.The PCS-Over-Cable...
Geoworks Corp. and APiON Ltd. announced they successfully completed interoperability tests of their products based on the Wireless Application Protocol. The testing process lasted several months and involved Geoworks' new Premion Interface+ graphical user interface and APiON's WAP gateway system to allow Premion-enabled handsets...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking initiative" with four companies to create the "geostationary mobile satellite standard," or GMSS.Participating with Ericsson in developing GMSS are United...
Triton Network Systems Inc. is aiming to give competitive local exchange carriers a wireless alternative to building fiber-optic networks to get into the local loop, yet keep the same quality associated with fiber-optics.Capitalizing on an exclusive design from Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles Co.,...
