WASHINGTON-The users of private wireless communications recently stressed their support for more spectrum. The reply comments were in response to a petition filed by the Land Mobile Communications Council on April 22 asking the Federal Communications Commission to allow them access to various blocks...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., admonished by the Federal Communications Commission for alleged marketing misrepresentations that could-if continued-lead to hefty fines or revocation of licenses, has ordered its sales force not to use pressure tactics or make misleading statements to sign up customers on its digital...
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a 1997 decision to move Teligent Inc. wireless local loop licenses from the 18 GHz band to the 24 GHz band. Laurence Harris, senior vice president at Teligent, applauded the decision. "Teligent continues to move forward with construction of...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless transmission solutions providers Digital Microwave Corp. and Innova Corp. announced plans to merge in a tax-free pooling-of-interests transaction that will give Innova shareholders a 27-percent interest in the combined company, announced the companies.Terms of the definitive agreement call for Digital to...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is taking the lead on implementing wireless number portability at the same time it waits for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on its request that the wireless number portability rules be delayed or eliminated early next century.Earlier this...
NEW YORK-Except for Geotek Communications Inc., wireless telephony companies here and abroad were conspicuous by their absence from the growing number of bond defaults that Moody's Investors Service, New York, reported July 20.Some 54 companies, 21 of them domestic, defaulted on $8.19 billion in...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc. announced a fairly expansive technology transfer agreement with Advanced Micro Devices Inc., allowing the two to collaborate on making embedded and desktop microprocessors and embedded flash memory.AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., provides semiconductors to the telecom and computer industries.Under terms of the...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said its subsidiary, Microcell Management Inc., has agreed to work with an unnamed personal communications services carrier to construct 60 towers.The build-to-suit services will take place in the southeastern United States, said the company. LCC will provide project management, site...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a second-quarter net loss of $531.3 million, or $1.94 per share, compared with a $261.6 million loss for the corresponding period last year.Total revenue for the quarter was $421.4 million, up from $145.9 million a year ago and above...
WASHINGTON-The Superintendent of Rock Creek Park, an urban national park, said it would take five months before an environmental assessment is completed to determine whether Bell Atlantic Mobile can site two antennas inside the park. The National Park Service sent a letter to BAM...
The success of the personal communications services industry has astounded industry analysts, PCS company executives and cellular carriers alike.The PCS industry is about two years old and already has penetrated the market, driven down prices and earned high revenues faster than anyone had expected."It's...
CARACAS, Venezuela-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has received a contract from Telcel valued at $100 million to upgrade the Venzuelan cellular operator's network.Telcel will upgrade its system from analog to digital, using cdmaOne technology, a step that will expand the capacity and customer features...
NEW YORK-InterDigital Communications Corp., King of Prussia, Pa., will field test its new wireless local loop product in northwest Iowa this fall in conjunction with Pioneer Holdings L.L.C.The agreement represents the first full U.S. field trial of InterDigital's TrueLink fixed wireless system, which uses...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc. has joined the other nearly 1,300 members of the Personal Communications Industry Association, said the trade association.Powertel, based in West Point, Ga., has PCS licenses in 12 states.
NEW YORK-Even if telecommunications giants seeking to combine with each other clear the myriad hurdles confronting their plans, the success of their bids to merge may depend ultimately on approval by the little guy.Holding what may be the ultimate trump card is the holder...
The personal communications services industry emerged almost unscathed in its quest for automatic roaming agreements with analog cellular carriers.Last year's lawsuit, which subsequently was dropped, brought by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. against Southwestco Wireless L.P. over in-market roaming, was thought to be a clash...
NEW YORK-When it comes to American pure-play personal communications services IPOs, the million-dollar question is, "Where did they go?"Sprint Corp. may hold the answer with its planned initial public offering this fall of $500 million to $1 billion in common stock to finance a...
In the eyes of some, the Federal Communications Commission's great experiment with personal communications services licensing has been a smashing success. Facilities-based competition is all around. Subscriber numbers and revenues are growing by leaps and bounds, with equipment and service prices falling just as...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission created a new "accelerated docket" for complaint resolutions between telephone companies. Complaints that are accepted for the docket will be resolved within 60 days.The FCC believes the new procedures should benefit consumers and the industry alike by safeguarding fair competition...
With personal communications services carriers reporting average monthly churn levels about twice as high as cellular carriers, bad debt increasingly is being blamed for PCS churn problems.Some PCS carriers are reporting average monthly churn levels of around 4 percent, while cellular carriers are averaging...
WARWICK, R.I.-Cellular One of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., launched its digital wireless network and is offering calling plans that provide for free long-distance wireless calls throughout North America, said the company.The service also includes a rollover-minute calling plan, which allows customers to...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services' electronic billing solution will be offered to the entire client base of Cincinnati Bell Information Services, which provides billing and customer-support solutions to the communications industry, the companies said.According to the multiyear agreement, CBIS customers will have the...
Metapath Software Corp. today introduced its Cerve Provisioning Manager 2.0, which will be commercially available during the fourth quarter.The Cerve product is a real-time provisioning platform designed to decrease carriers' time-to-market for new products and services and reduce operating costs. The product acts as...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.), turning the tables on the Clinton administration, has accused the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission of running a do-nothing wireless bureau.McCain, angered specifically by the three years it took to sort out licensing issues connected with a dispatch...
