GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access carriers.For now,...
WASHINGTON-After 235 rounds of bidding, Nextel Communications Inc. ended up paying $88.8 million for 475 licenses covering 97 percent of the country in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction.North Sight Communications Inc. came in a second, monetarily, pledging $1.5 million for the A-block...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will kick up the pace of the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services auction tomorrow to 24 rounds per day in another effort to bring the bidding to a close; each round will last 10 minutes.The commission tried a similar...
With 1997 drawing to a close, the paging industry is readying itself to go out with a bang.Whether the achievement of the carrier, reseller or distributor, fourth-quarter sales traditionally count for an average of about 40 percent of the paging industry's annual revenue, in...
WASHINGTON-With the numbers showing net revenues of $80.7 million at the end of round 142 last Wednesday, and with 14 new high bids garnered, there was hope at press time that the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction would be over by Thanksgiving. Sixteen...
Voice paging service will get another chance at success as Conxus Communications Inc. launches Pocketalk in the nation's capital and South Florida.Conxus said it launched service last week in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla., and in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore metropolitan area,...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is on its way to a rout in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction, leading its closest competitor in the race for licenses by nearly $29 million.Gross revenues for the auction have been rising steadily at about $1 million per...
Combining paging technology and personal organizer, PageMart Wireless Inc. announced agreements with Motorola Inc. and 3Com Corp. and with Texas Instruments Inc. to bring messaging capabilities to 3Com's PalmPilot handheld computer and TI's Advantra unit.PageMart said it plans to integrate its messaging network with...
WASHINGTON-Fourteen subsidiaries of Dallas-based General Wireless Inc., the third-ranked bidder at the C-block personal communications services auction last year, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Company attorneys Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C.; and Andrews & Kurth L.L.P. in Dallas would not...
WASHINGTON-C-block personal communications services licensee General Wireless Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny an application for review filed May 5 by Antigone Communications L.P. and PCS Devco Inc. regarding GWI's alleged collusion with Hyundai Corp. during the auction.In its order earlier this...
Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent the 20 largest cellular markets in the United States. Ranking is based on the total number of subscribers in each metropolitan statistical area.Most carriers are unwilling to reveal subscriber numbers because of the highly competitive nature of the...
WASHINGTON-Antigone Communications L.P. and PCS Devco Inc. charged the Federal Communications Commission with ignoring their petition to deny GWI PCS Inc.'s C-block licenses and with granting GWI's licenses in light of alleged collusion with Hyundai Electronics of America Inc."Petitioners were injured by the conduct...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Cellular towers constructed on the property of schools in Boca Raton, Fla. are receiving increased scrutiny by city officials.The Palm Beach County School district apparently thought it could bypass county and municipal zoning regulations when it leased land for the 150-foot cellular...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-The state of Florida along with Motorola Inc. announced 12 more counties will be added to the state's trunked two-way radio communications network operating at 800 MHz.The system currently is operational in Fort Lauderdale, Miami and the Florida Keys. The expansion includes Florida's...
WASHINGTON-A freshman Florida congressman concerned with constituent complaints about wireless tower proliferation is considering legislation to overturn the antenna siting provision of the 1996 telecom act."I am ... researching the possibility of developing legislation which repeals the provision prohibiting local authorities from taking health...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest resellers of cellular service in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number of cellular resale subscribers reported by each company. Personal communications services was not included because resellers have either recently entered...
The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.'s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless access.Jeff Hawkins, Palm's chief technical officer, was named industry Person of the Year for...
DALLAS-General Wireless Inc. has signed a five-year vendor financing equipment contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to build GWI's personal communications service networks.GWI PCS Inc., a subsidiary of Dallas-based General Wireless, was the highest bidder for 14 basic trading areas in the Federal Communications Commission's...
SkyTel Corp. introduced the SkyTel Messenger for Windows CE, a software messaging system developed by SkyTel in conjunction with Microsoft Corp.Jackson, Miss.-based SkyTel said the software messaging application, which is scheduled to be available late this year, will be marketed with handheld personal computers...
NEW YORK-Cellular subscribers said they are most satisfied with customer service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to J.D. Power and Associates' second annual survey of customer satisfaction in the cellular telecommunications sector.AT&T's move to market services as AT&T Wireless contributed to its higher...
WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the intensity of monitoring number and market changes twice a day.At the end of Round...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission garnered approximately $750 million in upfront fees from the 153 qualified bidders it accepted for the next round of personal communications services auctions scheduled to begin today.Fifty original applicants did not make the cut, possibly because of botched applications, lack...
Following their deposit of upfront funds, the following entities will be eligible to bid on all licenses in all blocks: 21st Century Bidding Corp.Advanced Telecommunications Technology Inc.AirGate Wireless L.L.C.Alaska Telephone Co.Alpine PCS Inc.BTA Venture II Inc.CellutechCentral Alabama Partner~ship L.P. 132Central Oregon Cellular Inc.ComScape Telecommunications Inc.Conestoga...
WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave's 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year.New York-based WinStar is a competitive access provider that has licenses for 38 GHz spectrum...
