WASHINGTON-Motient Corp. and SkyTerra Communications Inc. signed agreements to consolidate ownership and control of mobile satellite service assets, whose value is tied to plans to build and operate next-generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications networks covering the United States and Canada. As a result of a...
WASHINGTON—Motient Corp. and SkyTerra Communications Inc. said they signed agreements to consolidate ownership and control of mobile satellite service assets, whose value is tied to plans to build and operate next-generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications networks covering the United States and Canada. As a result...
WASHINGTON-Motient Corp. last week said company Chairman Steven Singer and four other directors would not seek re-election at the wireless company's annual meeting, a development that comes at a time when Highland Capital Management L.P.-the largest single investor in Motient-is lodging a proxy fight...
WASHINGTON—Motient Corp. said Chairman Steven Singer and four other directors will not seek re-election at the wireless company’s annual meeting, a development that comes at a time when Highland Capital Management L.P.—the company’s largest single investor—is lodging a proxy fight to completely revamp the...
WASHINGTON-Motient Corp. may be the wireless industry's premier high-wire act. The Lincolnshire, Ill., company is attempting a great leap forward from a business model based on unprofitable land-based wireless data operations to one premised on high-risk-but potentially lucrative-mobile satellite communications that would work with...
WASHINGTON-Warring wireless broadband and educational groups last week struck a deal on 2.5 GHz spectrum-lease terms, settling one of the many unresolved regulatory issues associated with the deployment of wireless Internet and third-generation wireless services in the United States.The Federal Communication Commission this week...
The advent of ancillary terrestrial component, or ATC, will revolutionize the mobile satellite services industry in the long run, according to a new report from Northern Sky Research, a market research firm that focuses on the mobile satellite sector. The prospects have brought renewed...
Inmarsat plc intends to join the mobile satellite services sector's handheld voice market, which it sees as a potential outgrowth of its existing, maritime customer base that could use excess capacity on its recently completed constellation of next-generation satellites. The company said it expects...
Congratulations. You've just been awarded $612.5 million. But if you're NTP Inc., you're probably not headed to Disneyland. Instead, the company likely is going back to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to defend its claims-patents that some call worthless but that just reaped...
President Bush's 2007 budget released last week proposes a tax on un-auctioned spectrum licenses, which immediately caused an uproar in the telecom industry with news that Wi-Fi devices could be taxed. Later, the Office of Management and Budget clarified (backtracked?) that radio channels for...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission authorized Globalstar L.L.C. to operate land-based cell phone networks to augment its existing mobile satellite services, a significant enhancement that should allow the company to reduce the size of its satellite phones. Globalstar is the second MSS operator to win...
RESTON, Va.-Wireless Matrix Corp., which provides enterprise wireless data services, extended its contract with satellite provider Mobile Satellite Ventures through January 2008.Wireless Matrix uses satellite services as part of its wide area wireless communications network, which also makes use of terrestrial wireless services to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission authorized Globalstar L.L.C. to operate land-based cell phone networks to augment its existing mobile satellite services, a significant enhancement that should allow the company to reduce the size of its satellite phones. Globalstar is the second MSS operator to win...
WASHINGTON-Two satellite firms last week challenged the Federal Communications Commission's decision to give reclaimed 2 GHz mobile satellite service spectrum to ICO Satellite Services and TMI Communications and Co. Globalstar L.L.C., which lost its 2 GHz MSS license but operates mobile satellite services in...
The wireless sector will enter 2006 with great expectations, everybody watching third-generation systems shift into higher gear with all that jazzy, digital content whose anytime, anywhere availability is transforming other industries even as cellular carriers of old reinvent themselves. Indeed, the mobility given voice...
WASHINGTON-The 2 GHz spectrum band is becoming ground zero as the Federal Communications Commission attempts to promote third-generation wireless phone, broadband and mobile satellite services without trampling spectrum rights of incumbents in the band or undermining the very wireless policy objectives it seeks to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late last week granted idle 2 GHz mobile satellite service spectrum to ICO Satellite Services and TMI Communications and Co., a stinging defeat with potential competitive implications for the mobile-phone industry. As part of its decision, the FCC agreed to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continues to face relocation problems with its third-generation mobile-phone spectrum plan, a situation that could affect the timing of June's auction and combine with other factors to lower revenues the United States needs to move Pentagon radio systems to new...
The Federal Communications Commission should auction the 24 megahertz of spectrum at 2 GHz that mobile satellite service companies gave back to the government. To do anything else would set a bad precedent for spectrum policy.The spectrum in question was returned to the FCC...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers and others are urging the government to launch a rulemaking to decide what to do with discarded mobile satellite services frequencies rather than unilaterally giving more radio channels to the two remaining non-operational 2 GHz MSS operators. The 2 GHz MSS controversy...
WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland defense officials, adding a new twist to current efforts by satellite companies to regain...
WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland defense officials, adding a new twist to current efforts by satellite companies to regain...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Motient Corp. and Mobile Satellite Ventures LP announced an agreement with SkyTerra Communications Inc. and TMI Communications & Co. to consolidate ownership of MSV and TerreStar Networks Inc. within Motient. Motient, a wireless data provider for small to medium enterprise businesses, and MSV...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission next week is expected to approve a band plan for third-generation wireless services, a ruling with major implications for incumbent mobile-phone operators of all sizes, potential new entrants and the U.S. Treasury. Deciding how to configure the 3G band-the 1710-1755...
