The roller-coaster ride local multipoint distribution services provider Teligent Inc. is on took an unwelcome dip last week when the company announced it cut 900 jobs, or approximately 38 percent of its work force.On Tuesday the company also must show definitive documentation that it...
Teligent Inc. got the reprieve it was hoping for last week when several of its creditors agreed to grant the local multipoint distribution service carrier a waiver to an amendment and consent to credit agreement, providing an extension until May 15. But Alex Mandl,...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week was set to pass a new budget that embraces President Bush's plan to delay two auctions of valuable radio spectrum but rejects an administration proposal to impose fees on TV broadcasters in order to encourage the clearing of frequencies sought by...
It may seem unbelievable now, but there was a time, not too long ago, when having spectrum that cost millions of dollars was looked upon as a good thing when offering wireless broadband service.The promise of interference-free transmissions and the freedom of owning a...
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, potentially impacting the stability of an entire industry that just a year ago was...
FAIRFAX, Va.-One must first define the world before predictions can be made about how soon the world will be connected to the Internet, said an expert at last week's 2001 Global Internet Summit."It depends on what you mean by the world. ... We have...
To know what the broadband industry is going to do tomorrow, just look at what the cellular industry is doing today.Year after year, several key cellular carriers and vendors have systematically acquired or merged with competitors to form vast corporations offering diverse product and...
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
WASHINGTON-Despite uneven progress of fixed wireless broadband carriers in recent years, the ability of newcomers to the local market-small and large alike-to offer voice, data, video and Internet services competitively hinges on key policy decisions confronting regulators, the courts and the Bush administration.2001 will...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court last week agreed to decide whether wireless carriers have the right to attach antennas to utility poles under government-regulated rates, a case with major business implications for mobile-phone and fixed wireless operators that want to bring Internet-based services to business and...
NEW YORK-Debt downgrades for telecommunications carriers last year outnumbered upgrades by a two-to-one margin, setting the stage for increased pressure on ratings this year, analysts for Standard & Poor's Corp. said.The freewheeling initial public offering market of the late 1990s gave new players unrealistic...
Wireless broadband started out as a unique and rapidly growing concept, poised on the edge of a data revolution that promised to produce millions of dollars and bring the Internet to those left out in the cold by wireline technologies.For months, momentum has been...
Wireline technologies continue to trump broadband wireless in the journey to the last mile.In a new study on multidwelling units, Washington-based market research and consulting firm The Strategis Group says that cravings for high-speed data and video on demand among U.S. residents for cable...
NEW YORK-The major players' rankings reflect the dynamic environment of telecommunications as some stalwarts held their ground, some newcomers joined the group, while still others showed substantial rises or falls in various categories.AT&T Wireless Group, listed this year as an entity distinct from its...
Following the disclosure of their third-quarter earnings, two leading local multipoint distribution services carriers proved the business of financing is a hit-and-miss proposition.Winstar Communications Inc. said it secured approximately $1.02 billion in financing, enough money to keep the company funded until it can generate...
WASHINGTON-Fixed-wireless carriers last week were praising both the Congress and the Federal Communications Commission for rules they say will help them gain access to federal government and business customers in multitenant buildings.Congress included language in the transportation appropriations bill that prohibits landlords of buildings...
Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure also includes provisions funding scholarships for American students and training for U.S. workers."The overwhelming bipartisan support for the H-1B visa...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth got the agency to delay the vote on telecom building-access rules, but brow beating from Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) appeared to have contributed to assurances that the controversial matter will not be sidetracked and will be voted on in...
WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun' in the form of a legal memo on a license agreement between BroadBand Office and a national real estate company that imposes a 12-month...
WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission set to rule shortly on whether building owners should be forced to open their doors to upstart telecom carriers, lobbying between fixed broadband wireless carriers and the real estate industry over building access has intensified in a controversy that...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will auction 172 10-year licenses to offer fixed-wireless service using spectrum located in the 24 GHz band."The auction for the first time will make 24 GHz spectrum available on a nationwide basis ... The flexible and streamlined service...
NigeriaMotorola Inc. was awarded a $21 million expansion contract from Intercellular Nigeria Ltd. to supply and deploy a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless loop network in Nigeria. Motorola's Network Solutions Sector said it will deploy its CDMA WiLL infrastructure at 800 MHz providing...
NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...
WASHINGTON-While lobbying intensifies in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission over whether real-estate landlords should provide nondiscriminatory access to fixed broadband wireless carriers, an apparently divided Clinton administration is quietly considering an executive order that would mandate such connections as a prerequisite for...
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