BOSTON-American Tower Systems Corp., a subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corp., said it intends to file a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public offering of class A common stock.Proceeds of the public offer will be used to finance the company's...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. restated its 1998 outlook on a pro forma basis to reflect its April 6 acquisition of U S West MediaOne Group's domestic cellular and personal communications interests. The new outlook has been restated as if the acquisition closed on Jan....
The story on Rock Creek Park antenna siting in the April 10 issue (page 3) misidentified the companies of two executives. Maureen Kane is the manager of site acquisition for Cellular One of Washington, D.C.-Baltimore and Mike Mause is director of real estate for...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. experienced higher revenues and net income in all its business units during the first quarter ended March 31, reporting a slight overall revenue increase, from $2.7 billion in 1997 to $2.72 billion in the recent quarter.First-quarter revenues at Nokia Telecommunications were...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector introduced a 900 MHz digital wireless communications system using a variation of its integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology last week at the International Wireless Communications Expo.The company said the new system will help network operators maximize the...
WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep. James McDermott is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him by a fellow lawmaker, arguing it is a "bedrock of our constitutional freedom" that no one be punished for distributing information critical of a public official's performance."It is to be expected...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. reported revenues of $6.2 billion for its second quarter ended March 31, a 20-percent increase compared with $5.1 billion reported in the same quarter of 1997.The company experienced a 65-percent drop in quarterly net income from $66 million, or...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. announced that its linear modulation technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement with Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of Nokia Corp.Linear modulation technology is a patented narrowband technology that can overlay digital and analog radio transmissions to...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into patent license agreements with two unnamed Japanese manufacturers of digital cellular equipment, resulting in up-front payments of $33 million.One licensee will pay the ITC future royalties on the sale of products based on Personal Digital Cellular...
GlobalStar Telecommunications Ltd. announced that China Telecom Group Ltd. has agreed to invest $37.5 million to become a full partner in Globalstar L.P.China Telecom, which provides fixed and wireless services in China, along with China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp., will retain the sole rights...
LONG BEACH, Calif.-Phone Time Resources Inc.'s board of directors announced it approved a merger with Global Access Pagers Inc., featuring a 1: 40 reverse stock split.The company, to be called Global Access, will market and distribute prepaid calling cards and prepaid cellular services and expand...
NEW YORK-As wireless carriers have closed off easier avenues for theft of services, subscriber fraud, including outright theft of identity, has emerged as the next generation of dirty dealing that carriers confront.The chemistry for this volatile situation results from an industry in the throes...
Personal communications services carrier BellSouth Mobility DCS said it is offering an enhanced voice-mail service called RapidReply to customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia.With the new service, customers do not have to exit voice mail or dial a caller's telephone number...
DENVER-Satellink Paging L.L.C., a subsidiary of Satellink Communications Inc., has acquired Premier Paging of New Orleans Inc., announced Daniels & Associates, a Denver-based investment banking and financial services company that represented the sellers.The transaction represents 10,000 paging units in New Orleans and Baton Rouge,...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. reported a net loss of $205 million for the quarter ended March 31, which the company said is consistent with its expectations.The consortium is developing a global wireless communications network based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbiting satellites, expected to begin commercial...
WASHINGTON-A federal bankruptcy judge in Baltimore last week ordered the Federal Communications Commission to surrender to unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. information intentionally omitted from the company's reorganization plan provided last month by the FCC, Justice Department and several vendors.The Creditors Committee argued...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week challenged unexplained regulatory fee increases, claiming the fees will hinder competition between wireless and wireline services.PCIA argued the Federal Communications Commission has denied wireless, local exchange and interexchange carriers; and television stations and private radio services...
NORMAN, Okla.-Follow-up research examining the interaction between cardiac pacemakers and certain wireless phones found that an adverse interaction only occurred when the devices were less than three inches apart from each other. This is half the previously recommended distance.Researchers at the University of Oklahoma's...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced the company's second roaming partnership in Lebanon, with Libancell.Omnipoint also initiated its second roaming partnership in Russia with MTS Moscow. The first Russian partnership is with North-West GSM in St. Petersburg.Omnipoint subscribers traveling in these areas will be...
Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Corp. last week became one of the first C-block licensees to select options from the Federal Communications Commission's license rules.Omnipoint said it elected to return portions of its spectrum in a move it expects will reduce debt and accrued...
ESPOO, Finland-Tecnomen announced it signed a contract valued at about $2 million with Chinese operator Tianjin Toll Telecommunications Bureau to expand the capacity of its Global System for Mobile communications messaging system to 135,000 subscribers.The expansion will allow TTTB to offer value-added services such...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it has acquired the tower assets of Tower Industrial Park, which is based in the Cleveland area.Major tenants include Ameritech Corp., AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc., said Spectrum.The purchase was made...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. added 112,000 wireless subscribers during this year's first quarter-and 919,000 during the past 12 months-bringing its total number of domestic wireless subscribers to 5.6 million.Subscriber growth during the quarter was driven by SBC's personal communications services offering in California...
