SBA Communications

With a portfolio of nearly 1,000 towers, SBA Communications Corp. is among the top five public tower companies in the United States, and yet it is a small player among …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. entered a definitive agreement to acquire 56 wireless towers from Horizon Telecom Inc. The agreement also calls for SBA to provide exclusive site acquisition, development, …

NEW YORK-Heading into a scorcher of an Independence Day holiday, American stock markets closed in record-setting territory, thereby heating up the prospects for wireless sector companies seeking financing during the …

The gap between large and small independent tower companies became wider last week as a pair of transactions added nearly 2,500 towers to the portfolios of two of the larger …

NEW YORK-SBA Communications Corp., a Boca Raton, Fla., owner of wireless communications towers, plans to go public in June via an offering of 11.54 million shares in an expected price …

WASHINGTON-Rural America may be left out of the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. At the end of round six on Thursday, 37 percent of the C-block licenses had not …

The clock is ticking away for Leap Wireless International Inc. as it awaits Federal Communications Commission approval to bid in the reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum. Five entities …

NEW YORK-The current public capital crunch has slowed dramatically the buildout of some domestic wireless networks, but it hasn’t changed the positive prospects for the wireless tower industry. “We think …

INTERDIGITAL Gerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology …

Topp Telecom Inc.’s TracFone prepaid cellular phones now can be purchased in 7-Eleven stores in Phila-delphia and southern New Jersey. Charles Fortner, president of Island Page, was recognized last week …

A new niche segment of the wireless industry-build-to-suit-is attracting a lot of attention, both from carriers and Wall Street. The idea behind the build-to-suit concept is to shift all aspects …

WASHINGTON-No one was more surprised at the eventual outcome of the most recent Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction as was Thomas Jones, president of WNP Communications Inc., who walked away …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., a developer of build-to-suit wireless antenna sites, closed on the sale of $269 million in principal amount of 12-percent senior discount notes to mature in …

Western Wireless Corp. filed a complaint against GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. Inc. seeking an order compelling GTE to implement arbitrated interconnection agreement rates between the companies. Gene DeJordy, director of …

NEW YORK-Venture capital-backed investments during the first quarter of 1997 totaled $2.3 billion, up 5 percent compared with the same period last year, according to Price Waterhouse L.L.P.’s National Venture …

Samsung Electronics Co. has sold more than 1 million Any Call digital Code Division Multiple Access phone sets and obtained more than 1.4 million new subscribers in one year. The …

With up to nine wireless carriers in every major U.S. city competing for their share of the wireless telephone market, the recent winners of the C, D, E and F …

Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority’s structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has balked at a congressional request to make available classified National Security Council documents possibly tied to telecommunications trade and U.S. encryption policy that were removed from …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the Industry Award Winners for 1996. Winners will receive their awards at the industry award dinner on Sept. 18 at PCIA’s annual PCS …

The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too many jobs and not enough people. …

WASHINGTON-“Let’s not fool ourselves-the number one issue is money,” said Carl Thompson, the new president and chief operating officer of Vienna, Va.-based North American Wireless Inc., who pulled no punches …

Is the C-block PCS auction successful? Is it unsuccessful? Or, as Thomas Gutierrez and David LaFluria ask in an RCR guest article this issue, is it too successful? The answer …

The personal communications services industry is buzzing with discussions of technology, the consumer, equipment infrastructure, merging, financing, site acquisition, capitalization, innovation, deregulation, litigation and the list goes on. However, the …