WASHINGTON-While sparks fly on Capitol Hill over wrestling free 700 MHz spectrum from TV broadcasters, a lower profile feud with high stakes for mobile-phone carriers is escalating at the Federal Communications Commission. The debate is over whether the remaining two 2 GHz mobile satellite...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers have abandoned legal challenges to a Federal Communications Commission rule permitting mobile satellite service operators to build land-based cellular networks with some of their frequencies to supplement satellite operations. Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 mobile-phone operator, last week filed a motion to...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers have abandoned legal challenges to a Federal Communications Commission rule permitting mobile satellite service operators to build land-based cellular networks with some of their frequencies to supplement satellite operations.Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 mobile-phone operator, last night filed a motion to dismiss...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry this week continued to voice opposition to a request that mobile satellite service spectrum surrendered by Boeing Co. and Iridium be redistributed to other licensees. CTIA said TMI and TerreStar Networks Inc. are simply wrong, arguing the two companies "offer no...
WASHINGTON-The cell-phone industry complained to the Federal Communications Commission that TMI Communications Co. and TerreStar Networks Inc. are seeking "a stealth redistribution" of 2 GHz mobile satellite service spectrum. The two companies, according to CTIA, made the spectrum request in an April 20 letter...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association asked the Federal Communications Commission to delay action on Globalstar L.L.C.'s application to add an ancillary terrestrial component into its mobile satellite service system until it can be determined whether broadband wireless licensees would be protected from harmful interference. Globalstar...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced it purchased a $200 million controlling interest in TerreStar Networks Inc., a company building a mobile satellite network. Motient now owns 61 percent of TerreStar's outstanding stock. Motient's move caps the company's long push to get back...
Motient Communications Inc. announced it will shut down the rural sections of its network, reducing its DataTAC network coverage from 200 million people to 137 million. The move is not totally unexpected-Motient has been bleeding customers and revenues for years, and has lately been...
WASHINGTON-Satellite service provider Globalstar L.L.C. said it filed an application today with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to offer ancillary terrestrial service in conjunction with its mobile satellite services. Globalstar is the second MSS operator to seek approval for ATC, which allows a...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today reaffirmed a 2003 decision allowing mobile satellite service licensees to integrate an ancillary terrestrial component into their systems, rejecting a cell-phone industry demand that spectrum used for land-based cellular operations be assigned by auction. The FCC ruling clears the...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Motient Corp. announced it will up its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures to 49 percent, just under what it needs to control the company. Motient's stock was up more than 10 percent on the news to about $32.35 per share.Motient said it closed...
RESTON, Va.-Mobile satellite communications provider Mobile Satellite Ventures announced a new rate plan program and a push-to-talk handset, both aimed at satisfying the needs of the public-safety and first-responder markets.The company said the new PTT handset is compatible with existing customer equipment and allows...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission granted Mobile Satellite Ventures Subsidiary L.L.C. permission to launch a satellite to serve South America and the area between South America and the United States.The FCC said the authorization will increase competition in the global mobile satellite service market to...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. is protesting an Application for Review filed by rival Inmarsat Ventures Ltd., claiming Inmarsat's arguments are nothing new and meant to slow MSV's entry into the mobile satellite service market. "The Federal Communications Commission has recognized the opportunity ATC provides...
WASHINGTON-Predicting the future is not as difficult as you might think. To predict the future is to know the present in cold, sober terms. You can read what the experts say down below. The biggest pitfall with year-end prognostications is they tend to lend...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications. The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock placement to increase its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures from 29.5 percent to 38.6...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications.The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock placement to increase its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures from 29.5 percent to 38.6 percent,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today said Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. received the first ever authorization to operate land-based wireless systems to supplement satellite operations, a ruling that comes amid regulatory and court challenges to agency regulations allowing hybrid satellite facilities. The FCC said the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, despite interference concerns voiced by the mobile-phone industry, today released an additional 20 megahertz for third-generation mobile-phone communications and other advanced wireless services.At the same time, the FCC proposed service and licensing rules for wireless operations in the 1915-1920 MHz,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday said it would require mobile satellite service carriers to file reports regarding the implementation of its MSS 911 call center rule adopted last year.The rule sets "forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements in connection with implementation of the MSS emergency...
WASHINGTON-The two main players in the mobile satellite services market reacted favorably to the Federal Communications Commission's spectrum-sharing plan.The FCC approved a plan for Iridium Satellite L.L.C. to share 3.1 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.6 GHz band with Globalstar L.L.C. to meet increasing...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week opened up a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country.In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today opened a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country. In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5 GHz...
WASHINGTON-Though the next World Radiocommunication Conference is several years off, the United States already faces a potential controversy over whether mobile-phone carriers and mobile satellite operators can share spectrum in the 2500-2690 MHz band.The preliminary view of the Bush administration is that satellite-terrestrial sharing...
