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VoiceStream Wireless Corp. last week reiterated its confidence in its merger with German operator Deutsche Telekom as both companies’ stock values dropped since the merger announcement. By press time, the …

WASHINGTON-House lawmakers late last week failed to cast a floor vote on appropriations legislation that was to include a repeal of the telephone tax, putting that measure and other wireless-related …

WASHINGTON-Cellular carriers have mounted an all-out assault on the Federal Communications Commission to get more spectrum. “Spectrum is the `life blood’ of wireless services. But not all radio-frequency spectrum is …

WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last month refused to stay the scheduled re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.’s personal communications services licenses or hear an appeal on their cancellation. “A petition …

NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those …

The Federal Communications Commission received comments from wireless operators over its tentative decision to allow large carriers to bid in the re-auction of C- and F-block personal communications services spectrum. …

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 …

The eight-year dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission over a pioneer’s preference license ended last week. The FCC granted Qualcomm a $125 million auction-discount voucher applicable during …

There’s a virtual reality about government spending these days. Just ask Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee. Faced with GOP cuts in Clinton-proposed budgets …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two decisions from a federal appeals court that said bankruptcy court did not have jurisdiction when the case …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will delay the re-auction of C-and F-block licenses to give the wireless industry time to digest rules that allow large carriers to bid, said Ari Fitzgerald, …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. last week said the Federal Communications Commission is attempting to re-auction its licenses before a federal appeals court can rule whether it has the authority to do …

WASHINGTON-Yet another court will have to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to re-auction the 90 personal communications services licenses once owned by NextWave Telecom Inc. The …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission got support for its actions regarding the 90 personal communications services licenses of NextWave Telecom Inc. from one of NextWave’s competitors in the 1996 C-block auction. …

SignalSoft Steven Adams was appointed vice president of operations for SignalSoft Corp., a developer of wireless location services. Adams will oversee product deployment and installation, product technical support and customer …

WASHINGTON-Heavy lobbying by NextWave Telecom Inc. to have Congress stop the Federal Communications Commission from taking back NextWave’s 90 personal communications services licenses failed Thursday when the congressional leadership agreed …

NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, …

WASHINGTON-Apparently not able to get a majority of the commission to agree with him, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard has directed staff to release proposed rules that would allow …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission asked for Capitol Hill’s blessing to delay until September the 700 MHz auctions after large wireless carriers said the spectrum was too heavily encumbered to be …

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) early this week plans to ask the Justice Department to investigate alleged lobbying violations by the Federal Communications Commission. The lobbying activity in …

WASHINGTON-The government stepped closer to opening its July 26 auction of personal communications services licenses to large wireless carriers that may pay high dollar for spectrum in key markets like …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau appears willing to remove some, if not all, of the small business restrictions on the licenses it reclaimed from NextWave Telecom Inc. This during the …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. appears to have gotten the attention of the House Judiciary Committee with a letter sent to its chairman last week complaining that the Federal Communications Commission is …

NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream’s chairman and chief …