It has been nearly five months since NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of NextWave Personal Communications and NextWave Power Partners, submitted its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering. The company, which paid a remarkable $4.2 billion for...
WASHINGTON-It's still a low-numbers game as the second week of the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction winds down, and there still aren't many surprises to report. However, no markets are going for less than $1,000, as of the end of Round...
Competition strategies used by France Telecom may change a little now that the national company has become a private entity, researchers say."As a private company, they have to be more accountable for their operations, and there will be more pressure to be competitive," said...
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public offering of common stock and a concurrent debt issue."We are postponing both issues pending improved market conditions," said Thomas A....
WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the near future. What may garner the carrier some unwanted questions in the process are...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of class A common shares that is expected to raise about $200 million.The company also plans to file a concurrent debt offering for up to...
As part of AT&T Corp.'s plan to spin off its system and technology business, newly named Lucent Technologies Inc. filed last week for an initial public stock offering, aiming to sell between 15 percent and 20 percent of the company.Lucent also cautions that it...
A landmark merger deal announced last month, in which Arch Communications Group Inc. agreed to pay $340 million for Westlink Holdings Inc., will establish the nation's third largest paging company and reunite two long-time industry players.The fusion of these two companies is a perfect...
NEW YORK-For successful bidders in the government's C-block auction for personal communications services, "the good news is you've got a license; the bad news is you've got a license." So said Norman C. Frost, Jr., managing director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., sounding...
