Often seen as lacking a strong next-generation wireless data roadmap, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has began to nudge its way up the wireless data ranks thanks to the continued strength of its Mobitex network, the pursuit of spectrum to support high-speed services and partnerships with...
WASHINGTON-Bankruptcy Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. has given bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. the green light to proceed with the sale of 34 licenses to Cingular Wireless L.L.C., a sale that according to bankruptcy law must first be put out for higher and better offers.Cingular...
WASHINGTON-Bankruptcy Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. has given bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. the green light to proceed with the sale of 34 licenses to Cingular Wireless L.L.C., a sale that according to bankruptcy law must first be put out for higher and better offers.Cingular...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered into a definitive agreement with Sunshine PCS Corp. to acquire portions of three PCS licenses in Florida for $13.75 million.The deal calls for Cingular to obtain 15 megahertz of spectrum in the Tallahassee, Panama City and Ocala markets, where the...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered into a definitive agreement with Sunshine PCS Corp. to acquire portions of three PCS licenses in Florida for $13.75 million.The deal calls for Cingular to obtain 15 megahertz of spectrum in the Tallahassee, Panama City and Ocala markets where the...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said Aug. 8 that the 15 licenses owned by Airadigm Communications Inc., a bankrupt PCS C- and F-block licensee in Iowa and Wisconsin, did not cancel when Airadigm filed for bankruptcy and did not make a timely installment payment...
The headline in the July 28 issue on page 12 about American Tower earnings should have read "American Tower to shed tall tower construction service subsidiary."In the "Cingular to use NextWave spectrum" story in the Aug. 4 issue of RCR Wireless News, the price...
Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million potential customers from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. for $1.4 billion.The official announcement, which was strangely similar to a...
More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS that calls for Qwest to transition its nearly 1 million wireless subscribers to Sprint...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced it has reached an agreement with bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. to purchase spectrum licenses covering 34 markets and 83 million potential customers for $1.4 billion. The deal, which primarily covers markets where Cingular currently has spectrum and...
Second-quarter results from public tower companies reflect improved financial stability and greater optimism that cell-site additions will ramp up in the coming months. Crown Castle International Corp. released its second-quarter financials late last week. The company reported revenue of $224.2 million, down slightly from...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s rumored $1.4 billion purchase of 34 PCS licenses from NextWave Telecom Inc. was semi-announced last week as NextWave's public-relations agency distributed a press release claiming the two companies had agreed on a deal that if approved by NextWave's bankruptcy court and...
Despite a press release from NextWave Telecom Inc.'s public relations company that a deal had been reached, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it is still in negotiations to purchase wireless licenses covering 83 million potential customers in 34 markets from the bankrupt license holder for...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has reportedly agreed to purchase $1.4 billion worth of wireless spectrum licenses from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc., according to Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the situation.The report said both companies plan to file the agreement with the...
Siemens AG said it will expand Russian mobile operator MegaFon's mobile-phone network under a $94.2 million contract. The agreement covers the extension of the carrier's GSM network with switching and transmission technology in the Volga and Ural regions. Siemens will also supply an intelligent...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. on Monday passed the final regulatory hurdle when the Federal Communications Commission said it was not in violation of foreign-ownership rules."We're glad that it's now put to rest," said Michael Wack, NextWave senior vice president and general counsel.The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. two months ago. The results of the auction, conducted over long hours on...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee passed by voice vote a bill meant to keep the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy saga from happening again."The bill would ensure that valuable spectrum would not go unused unnecessarily. It precludes a successful bidder in a spectrum auction to avoid...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday passed by voice vote a bill meant to keep the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy saga from happening again. NextWave filed for bankruptcy in 1998 after not being able to secure financing to pay the Federal Communications Commission back for...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved NextWave Telecom Inc.'s partnership plan with venture capital firm Clarity Partners in an attempt to acquire additional spectrum for NextWave's plans to launch a nationwide data network.The $150 million partnership, which the...
NextWave Telecom Inc. said it filed for permission with its bankruptcy court to form a partnership with California-based venture capital firm Clarity Partners L.P. to acquire additional spectrum. The partnership, which NextWave said would be named IPCom, would be formed and funded by Clarity...
NextWave Telecom Inc. is reportedly close to an agreement to sell approximately 20 percent of its recently recovered spectrum licenses to Cingular Wireless L.L.C. for nearly $1.5 billion.While neither NextWave nor Cingular are commenting on the rumored deal, published reports note executives close to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Monday certified that bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. has met the five-year build-out requirement on its licenses."The construction notifications that they have supplied to us have been granted," said a spokeswoman for the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.There was no...
WASHINGTON-President Bush has appointed Janice Obuchowski to head the U.S. delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference this summer in Geneva.The expected appointment of Obuchowski, a former telecom policy-maker and NextWave Telecom Inc. executive who now heads a consulting firm, comes just days after the...
