NEW YORK-Because of the burgeoning demand for data communications in the United States, wireless local access is emerging from the shadows of its mobile brethren and coming into its own as a bona fide business opportunity."There is tremendous enthusiasm for data, and the enthusiasm...
DENVER-U S West Wireless said it added nearly 60,000 customers during the third quarter, reaching a weighted average penetration rate of 2.6 percent.The personal communications services carrier said it ended the third quarter with 344,000 customers. Average revenue per user reached $58, with total...
MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. last week agreed to a definitive merger agreement that will combine the second- and third-largest U.S. long-distance carriers and give MCI WorldCom a much-needed nationwide wireless presence.According to the agreement, each share of Sprint will be exchanged for...
Speculation circulated last week that MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. were in merger talks, following published reports that linked the two companies.Neither company would comment on the reports.Meanwhile, MCI WorldCom closed on its acquisition of SkyTel Friday.Both MCI WorldCom and Sprint long have...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. said it completed a $251 million equity investment from Qwest Communications International Inc. and a group of high-tech investment funds.Henry C. Hirsch, ART's chairman and chief executive officer, said Qwest is the company's single largest investor and will be...
WASHINGTON-SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. agreed to include wireless issues in their proposed conditions for license transfer, said the Personal Communications Industry Association."In a nutshell, we are pleased that the scope has been expanded," said Angela Giancarlo, PCIA director of federal regulatory affairs.The...
WASHINGTON-The most powerful telecommunications policy members of the House of Representatives are questioning the process used by the Federal Communications Commission to review mergers.Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, told FCC Chairman William Kennard in a letter Thursday he was...
LONDON-Following weeks of industry speculation, Deutsche Telekom on Friday won its bid to buy U.K. mobile carrier One 2 One in a deal valued at about $13.6 billion.The deal is made up of about $11.2 billion in cash and the assumption of about $2.4...
Rumors that Deutsche Telekom AG is in talks to buy British mobile phone company One2One for about $12 billion continued last week amid renewed speculation the German phone company might also be interested in buying Sprint Corp.Deutsche Telekom has been the subject of such...
Following more than a month of bidding wars and posturing, the fight over which company will acquire U S West Inc. and Frontier Corp. is over and both suitors can claim victory.Qwest Communications International Inc., the Denver-based broadband specialist, successfully wooed its Denver neighbor...
DENVER - The boards of directors of U S West and Frontier Corp. both authorized their companies' management and advisers to enter into discussions with Qwest Communications International Inc.U S West and Frontier each had agreed to be acquired by Global Crossing Ltd. when...
It stands to reason that if you know how to make mobile phones work, you can shut them down-say, like at gas stations or in airplanes, theaters and hospitals. That's what a few ingenious Motorola Inc. inventors across the Atlantic have in mind with...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Frontier Corp.'s board of directors last week decided not to act on an unsolicited bid made by Qwest Communications International Inc. to buy the company, electing instead to move forward with its merger agreement with Global Crossing Ltd.Frontier's board said it would continue...
In a routine filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, BellSouth Corp. suggested it might be interested in increasing its ownership stake in broadband company Qwest Communications International Inc.The filing was required following the close of BellSouth's purchase of a 10-percent interest in Qwest,...
ATLANTA-Broadband Internet service provider Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced plans to test Triton Network Systems Inc.'s consecutive point 100 Mbps radio as part of a trial broadband network platform providing Internet access to selected businesses in Silicon Valley.The study will evaluate reliability, quality and...
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for broadband wireless access in the United States remains positive.As evidence is the amount of...
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a Bellevue, Wash., a provider of fixed-wireless broadband data networks, will receive a $251 million equity infusion from a group of investors led by Qwest Communications International Inc.Denver-based Qwest is building an 18,500-mile domestic Internet Protocol, fiber-optic network for...
My daughter is becoming quite proficient at putting together puzzles. She doesn't do it the way I would, matching the red of the mermaid Ariel's hair with another piece that also shows red hair. Instead, I think she actually memorizes how the puzzle pieces...
U S West Inc.'s and Global Crossing Ltd.'s marriage announcement last week leaves BellSouth Corp. the only Baby Bell not betrothed in the telecommunications industry."There no longer is a need for a regional Bell operating company or a local exchange carrier because today, we...
Two of the largest challenges facing today's telecom carriers are their existing IT systems and their employees. And both need to become more flexible if companies plan to prosper in today's changing-at-the-speed-of-light market, according to telecom execs who spoke at Andersen Consulting's recent Global...
Power ProductsPower Products Unlimited Inc. selected Ken Donofrio as its new marketing director. He will orchestrate all aspects of the company's marketing and carrier services program. Donofrio previously was director of marketing and carrier support for Cliffco Wireless.WirelessNorthWirelessNorth promoted its market development coordinator, Heidi...
NEW YORK-As mergers among telecommunications giants tear around the track at breathtaking speed, it may seem that domestic deregulation, intended to promote competition, has instead achieved consolidation.However, a glance in the rear-view mirror reveals a bevy of new competitive wireline local and interexchange carriers...
NEW YORK-GTE Corp. announced a series of asset sales and other actions April 2 that the company said are "designed to further sharpen its strategic focus and improve its competitive position."GTE said it expects to generate after-tax proceeds of $2 billion to $3 billion...
NEW YORK-Frontier Corp. of Rochester, N.Y., sold May 21 a $300 million debt issue of notes due 2004 priced at 99.996 percent of par, or face, value to yield 7.257 percent.Salomon Brothers Inc., New York, was lead underwriter for the debt offering, for which...
