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Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure also includes provisions funding scholarships for American students and training for U.S. workers."The overwhelming bipartisan support for the H-1B visa...

Nextlink reintroduced with new name, image and pricing

Wireless broadband service provider Nextlink Communications Inc. ushered in a new look and feel for the company last week, announcing it changed its name to XO Communications and now will offer inclusive flat-rate service packages."This industry has made it much too difficult for business...

Nextlink selects Lucent solution

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextlink Communications Inc. signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to deploy Lucent's WaveStar optical networking products to remotely manage bandwidth along Nextlink's 16,000-mile fiber-optic network, the companies announced.The initial phase of the contract, valued at $25 million, includes the deployment of the...

Con Ed’s high-stakes game of phone tag

Armed with approval from the state, a unit of Consolidated Edison Inc. is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build a state-of-the-art, $115 million telecommunications network that will stretch from the financial district in lower Manhattan to Westchester County.Con Edison Communications has started...

Burst, Lucent trial to offer increased data speeds

Burst Wireless Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. are collaborating in a trial of high-speed wireless Internet services that Burst says will offer data rate speeds up to 144 kilobits per second, and, using Lucent's infrastructure equipment, keep in step with burgeoning third-generation technologies.The trial...

Broadband firms point to `smoking gun’

WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun' in the form of a legal memo on a license agreement between BroadBand Office and a national real estate company that imposes a 12-month...

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BSWDBellSouth Wireless Data L.P. has named cellular industry veteran Donald Kovalevich as its new president and chief executive officer. Former BSWD President and CEO William Lenahan left the company in May to take a position at another telecom firm. Since then, J.D. Gardner has...

Nextlink grows revenues 132 perªcent

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextlink Communications Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $140.6 million, a 132-percent increase from the revenues reported for the same period last year.The company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization totaled $68.6 million for the quarter, compared...

Wireless broadband carriers urgent to get to market

NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...

Portable Internet to `burst’ onto scene next year

WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service with what could be megabit data rates.The market for Burst Wireless Inc. are those customers that cannot get access to...

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IPmobileWireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company's initiative to secure and capitalize on the growing wireless data market opportunity...

Nextlink receives investment commitment

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextlink Communications Inc. and equity firm Forstmann Little & Co. announced they signed a commitment letter under which Forstmann Little will purchase $400 million in Nextlink convertible preferred stock with a conversion price of $63.25 per share and a 3.75-percent dividend.This investment, coupled...

NEWS BRIEFS

Nextlink Communications Inc. said it is beginning field trials in Boston and Dallas of consecutive-point broadband wireless access technology that is expected to be used to extend Nextlink's local fiber networks. Consecutive-point technology essentially forms wireless sub-rings within the 20- to 40-square-mile area that...

FINANCE BRIEFS

Metrocall Inc. said it exchanged 1.5 million shares of common stock for $19.5 million in senior subordinated debt notes after the close of its exchange offer April 14.CenturyTel Inc. filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, registering $2 billion of...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. reported more than 40,000 subscribers had signed up for the company's wireless communications service as of March 31, an increase of 43 percent from the same period last year.Cellular antenna systems provider Metawave Communications Corp. announced the initial public offering...

Fixed wireless lobby influences WRC debate

WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry knew from the start it faced an uphill battle to convince the U.S. government to embrace a multiband spectrum harmonization approach for third-generation technology at next month's conference in Turkey, carriers and vendors perhaps did not count on opposition from...

Nextlink selects Nortel BWA solution

SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless broadband network provider Nextlink Communications Inc. announced at the 2000 Broadband Wireless World Forum held in San Francisco last week that it has selected Nortel Networks' Reunion ATM-based point-to-multipoint Frequency Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access solution, jump-starting the rollout...

Service reliability, not the service vehicle, is what really matters

SAN FRANCISCO-More than 1,600 people converged on San Francisco last week to confirm what most attendees already knew-wireless broadband is going to be big.The Second Annual Broadband World Wireless Forum 2000, produced by Shorecliff Communications Inc., brought together broadband wireless service providers, equipment manufacturers,...

Technology leaders form holding company for wireless Internet start-ups

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Several former executives of Microsoft Corp. and McCaw Cellular have joined other wireless industry pioneers to form Ignition Corp., a holding company designed to fund, mentor and help build wireless Internet start-up companies.Ignition has raised an initial $140 million toward this effort from...

“Broad” is key word in definition of broadband wireless

Broadband. It is a familiar term being tossed around the wireless industry like a hot potato, but its relatively new status is making its definition, applications and implications elusive to many.At the most basic level, wireless broadband-also known as fixed wireless, Broadband Wireless Local...

BWA vendors work toward standards, commercial deployments

The enthusiasm surrounding the emerging broadband wireless access industry is creating an opportunity for a variety of new and established equipment vendors hoping to cash in on what is expected to be a lucrative market.Vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for BWA deployments....

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Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...

Expanded services make broadband carriers strong players

NEW YORK-Aided by a federal regulatory regime that has leveled the playing field for newcomers, broadband telecommunications competitors are coming on strong in their efforts to wrest business customers from incumbents."There are significant opportunities, a $100 billion business marketplace that broadband is targeting with...

Seven pioneers to be inducted into RCR Wireless Hall of Fame

DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. The inductees will be honored in May at a ceremony in...