WASHINGTON-The auction of 700 MHz guard-band manager licenses ended on Thursday after 66 rounds. The auction raised $519.9 million.The FCC began auctioning off six megahertz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band (TV channels 60-69) on Sept. 6 to entities that will then lease...
WASHINGTON-At the end of 32 rounds of bidding, a subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc. has bid the most for guard-band manager licenses, while Pegasus Guard Band L.L.C. has joined in the fray for the largest markets.The FCC began auctioning off six megahertz of spectrum...
What should have been a blow to the U.S. mobile satellite services industry is turning more into a tap on the shoulder as MSS companies conduct business as usual despite Congress' recent findings that Loral Corp. and Hughes Electronics Corp. helped political and economic...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. reached a major milestone in its plan to provide global satellite communications service with the successful launch of eight low-earth-orbit satellites this morning, completing the company's initial constellation of 28 birds.An Orbital Sciences Corp. L-1011 aircraft flew the Pegasus rocket...
KSI Inc. announced it will demonstrate TeleSentinel, its prototype enhanced 911 system for locating and tracking wireless calls, at the National Emergency Number Association's conference this week at the Cincinnati Convention Center. "TeleSentinel is based on our patented Angle of Arrival technology, which is...
In the upcoming months and years, several events in space have the potential to threaten the existing array of satellites orbiting the planet. Any one of these events has the ingredients to do as little as weaken satellite strength to as much as knock...
WASHINGTON-With the auction of local multipoint distribution service scarcely a week old, the battle lines for leadership have been drawn between WNP Communications and McCaw/Nextel-backed Nextband Communications, with wireless local loop player WinStar LMDS L.L.C. in close pursuit. On the other hand, some initial...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. launched eight satellites into orbit Dec. 23, bringing its number of orbiting satellites to 10, the company announced. Satellite controllers at Orbcomm's Network Control Center in Dulles, Va., have established ground communication with all eight satellites and have begun a...
Orbcomm Global L.P. said 10 satellites were delivered to Orbital Sciences Corp.'s launch vehicle preparation facility at Vendenberg Air Force Base in California.The satellites, which will be integrated with the Pegasus XL and Taurus launch vehicles, will be launched into targeted circular orbits to...
