Pocket Communications

These are different times, good times for Susan Ness. She’s the surviving member of the new-look Federal Communications Commission who, despite being denied the title of chairman, could still become …

WASHINGTON-C-block personal communications services bidder National Telecom PCS Inc. has charged DCR PCS Inc., also known as Pocket Communications Inc., with conducting illegal ex parte communications regarding its PCS licenses …

WASHINGTON-A NextWave Telecom Inc. plan that would defer interest payments for C-block personal communications services companies for five years was circulating last week on Capitol Hill. The plan would circumvent …

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 …

WASHINGTON-Wireless resellers have interconnection rights that have been ignored by carriers and federal regulators said an industry coalition, including surprise MCI Communications Corp. suitor WorldCom Inc., in a brief filed …

PCIA vs. CTIA: An update on the battle for the heart, soul and wallets of the wireless telecom industry. The nod for last week goes to CTIA, somewhat by default. …

WASHINGTON – In a surprise move, National Telecom PCS Inc., which lost its C-block American Samoa personal communications services license last year due to default but which has been fighting …

The months-long debate at the Federal Communications Commission over C-block personal communications services debt restructuring, culminating in last month’s factious decision to offer limited relief to floundering auction winners, saw …

The PCS companies now proposing that the Federal Communications Commission change the rules to allow them to stay in business are proposing options that any creditor in the business world …

WASHINGTON-Comments submitted last week by NextWave Telecom Inc. to the Federal Communications Commission regarding proposed changes to the established C- and F-block personal communications services repayment plans smacks of a …

BALTIMORE-Major investor and creditor Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd. has pledged another $5 million infusion to Pocket Communications Inc. to keep the C-block personal communications services licensee going until mid-December. This …

Over the past couple years, telecom lawmakers were known to have taken a shot or two at budgeteers if the subject of spectrum auctions happened to come up. The quips …

WASHINGTON-According to a June 3 petition filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc. is courting a white knight …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a rulemaking that would allow almost limitless foreign ownership of U.S.-based telecommunications carriers. The commission, however, vowed to retain certain safeguards that would restrict …

BALTIMORE-Following a creditors’ meeting held May 7 in Baltimore regarding Pocket Communications Inc.’s Chapter 11 reorganization, National Telecom PCS Inc. filed a brief with the court trustee May 21 that …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. shut down its Southeast and Midwest operations last week, the first wave of what could be a nationwide reduction in force that could cut the C-block personal …

C.J. Silas resigned as a member of Comsat Corp.’s board of directors for health reasons. He recently had open-heart surgery. Edwin Colodny was appointed to serve as chairman. Colodny has …

WASHINGTON-Dan Phythyon, acting chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, does not want to characterize himself or his staff as “the James Brown of the commission.” He modestly …

WASHINGTON-While no notice of proposed rulemaking is pending regarding the start and parameters for the next round of paging and narrowband personal communications services auctions, the wireless industry does need …

NEW YORK-Wall Street, once ebullient about wireless stocks, is somewhat gloomy these days about the prospects for new personal communications services carriers to raise public equity. A convergence of global …

Oh, the C-block PCS auction is becoming one of life’s little ironies. Consider this: Congress in 1993 demanded that spectrum be set aside for smaller companies that want to participate …

BALTIMORE-A creditors’ committee made up of the seven largest owners of unsecured debt in C-block winner Pocket Communications Inc. was chosen by the U.S. Trustee’s Office in Baltimore April 16 …

Editor’s Note: As C-block winner Pocket Communications Inc. goes through its bankruptcy restructuring, RCR takes an in-depth look at how Congress, the FCC and Wall Street are addressing PCS auction …

Julius Caesar had his ides of March. I had my ides of April, and I think it would have been cheaper for me this year to have just fallen on …

WASHINGTON-In the early to mid-1980s, the rush was on at the Federal Communications Commission to get cellular licenses in major metropolitan and rural areas issued as quickly as possible to …