WASHINGTON-More trees died last week as parties expressed their views in comments on what should be done with the personal communications services licenses of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.In the end, NextWave appeared to be the only entity that believed it will still have its...
WASHINGTON-There is a split at the Federal Communications Commission regarding whether the agency should be lobbying for changes in the law that would protect radio-frequency licenses from bankruptcy.I "do not support the statements made by in his testimony before the Budget Committee...
WASHINGTON-In another move in the litigative trench warfare that is the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, the federal government on Thursday filed a notice of appeal to preserve its rights to appeal the bankruptcy court's opinion stopping the Federal Communications Commission from canceling and...
WASHINGTON-Yet another federal appeals court has been brought into the debacle known as the personal communications services C-block.Bankrupt PCS operator NextWave Telecom Inc. filed on Feb. 11 a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit "for protective purposes."...
WASHINGTON-Last Thursday was a bad day for bankrupt personal communications services operator NextWave Telecom Inc. Not only did a federal appeals court deny its petition for rehearing but a United States senator took the opportunity of a Senate Budget Committee hearing to skewer the...
NEW YORK-Tower companies are sitting pretty and poised for even greater prosperity in 2000 and beyond as domestic demand for their properties grows.Prime movers in this rosy scenario are the "booming" cellular and personal communications services providers, whose voice traffic and subscriber numbers are...
NEW ORLEANS-As a New Orleans appeals court heard arguments on whether Metro PCS can keep its 14 personal communications services licenses, other developments in the continuing saga of the C-block auction further confused what ultimately will happen to certain C-block spectrum and the value...
Qualcomm Inc. on Friday officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant it spectrum in the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions.Qualcomm wants the commission to quickly award it spectrum to make up for the pioneer's preference license it repeatedly denied Qualcomm in the last decade...
WASHINGTON-Two attempts to stop litigation involving bankrupt wireless operator NextWave Telecom Inc. failed last week as both a federal appeals court and a bankruptcy judge refused requests to interpret a recent appeals court ruling in such a way that it would mean an end...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s efforts to keep its 90 wireless licenses despite a cancellation notice from the Federal Communications Commission moved to court last week, as Bankruptcy Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. asked the government to explain when the licenses were canceled...
WASHINGTON-With the legal and regulatory actions behind them, creditors for bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc. now must decide what to do with a bundle of major-market specialized mobile radio licenses it planned to sell to Nextel Communications Inc. before a federal judge here ruled otherwise...
Judge Hardin needs our positive thoughts. As he tries to make some sense out of the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, Hardin will find himself in the middle of some savvy wireless players that have spent a lot of time trying to manipulate just...
Besides being an American war hero, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, a powerful campaign finance reform voice, a credible GOP presidential contender and-until recently-the darling of the mainstream press, John McCain (R-Ariz.), we now know, is human. All too human. For some, that makes McCain...
Five years ago I was just starting at RCR as managing editor and the C-block auction was just about to get started, too.Everything was in place. The rules were set. And then along came a little Supreme Court decision called Adarand, which challenged programs...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. at RCR press time was expected to file papers with the bankruptcy court asking Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. to explicitly declare that any attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to cancel and/or re-auction its 90 personal communications service licenses without...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears to be preparing to take back 63 personal communications service licenses held by NextWave Telecom Inc.Action could come as early as this week as NextWave is set to go to court for its final reorganization hearing. Objections to NextWave's...
WASHINGTON-While Nextel Communications Inc. saw its stock price soar amid speculation the company could secure wireless licenses from bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc., key company officials sold large chunks of stock.Last November, even as its stock continued to climb in a meteoric rise that began...
WASHINGTON-The status of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s 63 personal communications services licenses is in doubt after an appeals court ruled that communications law supersedes bankruptcy law.In making that judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said it would be fair to assume...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to continue to set the regulatory agenda for 2000, believing a philosophy of anticipating problems and setting regulation is better than letting the market monitor itself.The FCC is "very quick to point to wireless as an example of competition,...
At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 1999 in chronological order.1. Jan....
WASHINGTON-The long awaited decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was released on Wednesday saying that communications-not bankruptcy-law is supreme and that a bankruptcy court could not interfere with how the Federal Communications Commission allocates licenses.The Second Circuit's order explains...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. received the financial backing to allow it to pay the government the full $4.7 billion it bid for personal communications service licenses in 1996."The plan would leave the Federal Communications Commission's claim against NextWave unimpaired," the company said after the stock...
WASHINGTON-On one level, the wireless campaign on Capitol Hill this year was not unlike that of Congress as a whole. In the end, when it came time for Congress to adjourn for the year, lawmakers belatedly passed a handful of bills-mostly legislation to keep...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, a federal appeals court in New York last week sided with the Federal Communications Commission and reversed a lower court ruling that had approved a bankruptcy judge's decision to lower NextWave Telecom Inc.'s payment for personal communications services licenses from...
