VIENNA, Va.-Broadband wireless operator Teligent Inc. and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., the telecommunications subsidiary of Mannesmann AG, have formed a joint venture called ArcTel that will provide high-speed voice, data and Internet services to businesses throughout Germany.ArcTel intends to have broadband, fixed wireless...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc., Vienna, Va., has found a way to bend radio signals around buildings, dramatically enlarging its actual footprint without much additional network infrastructure.The fixed wireless carrier has nine months left on an exclusive one-year contract with Remec, a San Diego company that...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. said it launched wireless broadband services in Columbus, Ohio. The launch brings to 41 the number of U.S. markets in which Teligent provides service.
WASHINGTON-With the House up for grabs this fall and a slew of high-tech bills pending before Congress, the high-tech lobby is flexing its muscle on Capitol Hill and shaping the debate on key issues important to the wireless industry such as China trade, high-tech...
WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry knew from the start it faced an uphill battle to convince the U.S. government to embrace a multiband spectrum harmonization approach for third-generation technology at next month's conference in Turkey, carriers and vendors perhaps did not count on opposition from...
Teligent Inc.'s board of directors authorized a two-for-one stock split subject to shareholder approval of an amendment to the company's certificate of incorporation authorizing an increase in the number of shares of Teligent common stock. The proposed amendment will be presented to shareholders at...
Real estate owners told a House Judiciary subcommittee that forcing private building owners to give access to all telecom service providers would violate constitutional rights of landowners. The Real Access Alliance, comprised of 11 real estate trade associations, has mounted an aggressive lobbying campaign...
DENVER-The government of Norway awarded broadband wireless access licenses to Formus Communications Inc. and Broadnet.Formus said it plans to invest about $23.7 million in its Norway network, which will offer broadband radio services to 24 Norwegian communities."We are optimistic this license will lead to...
SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless broadband network provider Nextlink Communications Inc. announced at the 2000 Broadband Wireless World Forum held in San Francisco last week that it has selected Nortel Networks' Reunion ATM-based point-to-multipoint Frequency Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access solution, jump-starting the rollout...
SAN FRANCISCO-More than 1,600 people converged on San Francisco last week to confirm what most attendees already knew-wireless broadband is going to be big.The Second Annual Broadband World Wireless Forum 2000, produced by Shorecliff Communications Inc., brought together broadband wireless service providers, equipment manufacturers,...
Broadband. It is a familiar term being tossed around the wireless industry like a hot potato, but its relatively new status is making its definition, applications and implications elusive to many.At the most basic level, wireless broadband-also known as fixed wireless, Broadband Wireless Local...
PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring.Still, like a hockey game, broadband wireless attracts plenty of fans. Interest is downright rabid among telecom carriers, equipment vendors and...
NEW YORK-Aided by a federal regulatory regime that has leveled the playing field for newcomers, broadband telecommunications competitors are coming on strong in their efforts to wrest business customers from incumbents."There are significant opportunities, a $100 billion business marketplace that broadband is targeting with...
NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice and data communications in Germany.Mannesmann AG, which recently agreed to merge with Vodafone AirTouch...
NEW YORK-As 1999 drew to a close, two mutual fund managers, one overseeing a diverse investment portfolio, the other specializing in telecommunications, offered contrasting views of the year-2000 stock market outlook.Peter M. Donovan, president of Wright Investors' Service Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., sees the big...
As pocket telephone companies cater to the mobile society and make tiny inroads into the monopolized residential sector, a new breed of wireless carriers are emerging to challenge Baby Bells for the highly lucrative high-speed business communications market.2000 could be their year. If not...
NEW YORK-Diginet Americas Inc., Washington, D.C., a wireless broadband access provider in Latin America, signed a $100 million vendor supply and credit facility agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc.The company plans to serve as the Teligent Inc. or Winstar Communications Inc. of Latin America. Under...
SpectraSite Holdings Inc. last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire property management firm Apex Site Management Inc.The stock-for-stock transaction, which is expected to close by the end of the year, is valued at $60 million.Terms of the agreement call for Apex to become...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. said it raised $500 million in new capital through an investor group led by Microsoft Corp. and private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc.Other investors include Chase Capital Partners, DB Capital partners and Olympus Partners.Both Microsoft and Hicks Muse...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to spending money to open doors and change hearts and minds in official Washington, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is King of the Hill.As a wireless trade association, CTIA is without peer-a lobbying juggernaut. Money appears to be no object. In...
SkyTel Communications Inc. introduced two new pagers branded by strategic partner eBay, an online trading and auction service firm, as part of a new paging service called "eBay a-go-go." The new service allows eBay members to receive auction information on any SkyTel pager. One...
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. completed its reorganization into five businesses and began operating under its new corporate structure July 1.The company split into three companies under the control of a single holding company. The new companies include two separate telephone companies covering east...
NEW YORK-For bond investors, high-yield debt deals by telecommunications and media companies are hard to ignore since they have constituted 30 percent to 40 percent of all new dollar-denominated issues in the last several years.Of the $617 billion in this type of debt outstanding...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. announced it launched its services in Seattle.Using its SmartWave technology, which integrates point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radio equipment with broadband wireless technology, Teligent offers small- and mid-sized businesses local, long-distance, high-speed data and Internet-access services.
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