WASHINGTON-Cellular pioneer Craig McCaw today unveiled plans to leverage wireless broadband technology to compete against telephone and cable TV companies in the high-speed Internet market, an undertaking he will pursue as chairman of Clearwire Corp. "We come into this opportunity...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Satellite Ventures, despite legal and regulatory challenges, is aggressively moving forward with its business plan and appears poised to be first to market with a potentially disruptive technology comprised of satellite and land-based facilities that will bring wireless signals to areas of the...
WASHINGTON-Alexander Good, a former telecom executive and Reagan administration official, has been tapped as the new chief executive officer and vice chairman of Mobile Satellite Ventures.MSV, a mobile satellite service licensee seeking to succeed in a market where others have failed, is currently seeking...
Satellite is spreading its wings. The sector appears to be aligning itself with other wireless technologies in hopes of becoming a significant part of a hybrid wireless network.John Kealey, chief executive officer of iDirect, a networking equipment company that makes routers that allow customers...
Mobile satellite services provider Globalstar announced it has completed its financial restructuring and will emerge from bankruptcy following the closing of the acquisition of its main business operations and assets by Thermo Capital Partners L.L.C.Following the acquisition, which was announced in December, Thermo owns...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission urged a federal appeals court here to reject a wireless industry challenge to mobile satellite service permits, saying mobile-phone carriers lack standing to bring legal action and are using the licensing proceeding to attack a separate agency decision allowing satellite...
WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone operators told a federal appeals court the Federal Communications Commission went astray of the law by awarding additional mobile satellite service licenses despite the sector's desperate financial condition. In its opening brief, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless...
New ownership has provided mobile satellite services company Globalstar L.P. with hope in the new year.The company last month announced plans to be acquired by equity investor Thermo Capital Partners L.L.C. for $43 million. "We think this really restores our credibility," said Globalstar President...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite services company Globalstar announced a new reorganization plan to secure $43 million in financing, effectively canceling its expected acquisition by ICO Global Communications Ltd.Instead, the reorganized Globalstar would be majority owned by Thermo Capital Partners, which would hold 81.25-percent...
WASHINGTON-Only 24 states told congressional investigators that they plan to meet the 2005 deadline for wireless enhanced 911 Phase II deployment. "Implementation of wireless E911 is several years away in many states, raising the prospect of piecemeal availability of this service across the country...
WASHINGTON-Only 24 states told congressional investigations that they plan to meet the 2005 deadline for wireless enhanced 911 Phase II deployment."Implementation of wireless E911 is several years away in many states, raising the prospect of piecemeal availability of this service across the country for...
Just what are Craig McCaw and Nextel Communications Inc. up to, separately or together? Is there a grand plan waiting to be hatched or just some heady hedges that may-or may not-lead to something big? There's enough of a history there to make recent...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has rejected a mobile-phone industry request to consolidate challenges to Federal Communications Commission decisions regarding awarding licenses to mobile satellite service applicants and allowing them to use satellite frequencies for land-based communications that could compete with cellular carriers."Consolidation . is...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell told Congress he is opposed to an amendment in a spending bill that would exempt from spectrum auction an application of a wireless startup with strong political connections to provide digital broadcast service to rural areas using hybrid...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite service provider Globalstar L.P. and its subsidiaries have filed a joint plan of reorganization, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The plan follows news earlier this year that ICO Global Communications would invest $55...
WASHINGTON-U.S. law enforcement officials want federal regulators to delay a decision on ICO Global Communications Ltd.'s application to acquire Globalstar Corp. mobile satellite service licenses until public-safety and national security issues are resolved.The proposed ICO-Globalstar deal has been pending before the Federal Communications Commission...
WASHINGTON-U.S. law enforcement officials want federal regulators to delay a decision on ICO Global Communications Ltd.'s application to acquire Globalstar Corp. mobile satellite service licenses until public-safety and national security issues are resolved.The proposed ICO-Globalstar deal has been pending before the Federal Communications Commission...
Mobile satellite service providers continue to struggle financially, but rebuilding efforts in Iraq appear to have increased minutes of use and precipitated the launch of new services.Bankrupt Globalstar L.P. said its second-quarter results were bolstered by its service launch in Iraq. The company's revenue...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. has been authorized by Iraq's office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the current governing authority in the country, and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for licensing commercial telecommunications services in the country, to provide and sell Iridium mobile...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Verizon Wireless asked a federal appeals court here to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling permitting mobile satellite service operators to use their frequencies to provide land-based mobile-phone communications."Converting a satellite-only authorization into a license for mixed satellite and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission approved frequency changes for four mobile satellite service operators and said MSS licensees are making progress toward meeting milestones, a development that could hurt mobile-phone industry efforts to secure additional satellite spectrum for third-generation wireless systems.The FCC late Tuesday granted...
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Ground Control, provider of DIRECWAY two-way mobile and fixed satellite systems, has released its IG-VoIP solution to allow DIRECWAY satellite subscribers to make voice calls to anywhere and from anywhere in the world via DIRECWAY Satellite Internet service at rates starting...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. today said it filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to add an ancillary terrestrial component to existing and planned mobile satellite systems.In January, despite fierce opposition from the mobile-phone industry, the FCC approved ATC for mobile...
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera's mobile satellite division has been acquired by an international business group led by Italy's Compagnia Generale Telemar S.p.A. and Sweden's Laumar Marine AB.Telemar Finland, a branch of Telemar Satellite Services AB will take over all of Sonera's mobile satellite communication businesses and...
