WASHINGTON-Canada announced last month it will award 354 licenses for spectrum in the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands by both auction and first-come-first-served, beginning in August.The spectrum allocations match those used in the United States. Currently, the most prominent U.S. licensees of this...
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...
Liberty Media Group's announcement last week that it plans to acquire The Associated Group Inc. would give Liberty, the Tele-Communications Inc. offshoot traditionally focused on video programming, a foothold in the emerging broadband wireless access market.Among other things, Associated owns a 41-percent interest in...
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...
The market for broadband access services is on the verge of dramatic growth, and fixed terrestrial wireless systems are expected to play a big role, according to a new Strategis Group report titled, "World Wireless Broadband: LMDS, MMDS and Broadband WLL 1999-2008."Broadband wireless access systems...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission regulatory procedures and wireless privacy have been put under the microscope by a federal appeals court here, following lawsuits by wireless firms and a former House Republican leader.Last week, FCC rules and processes were scrutinized by a three-judge panel in connection...
WASHINGTON-The previously announced Wireless Day at the Federal Communications Commission will occur June 10, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."I am hopeful that (the agenda) will be devoted entirely" to wireless issues, Sugrue said, noting other bureaus may want to...
Wireless broadband service has finally received attention from the likes of big telecom players Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom Inc. The race is on to access the local market and cheaply bypass connection to regional Bell operating companies.Sprint announced last week plans to purchase...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. announced it now is offering its high-bandwidth, local, long distance, high-speed data and Internet services to small- and mid-size businesses in San Diego and Sacramento, Calif.Teligent's services are available across the country in 26 markets with a combined population of 78...
Safco Technologies Inc. announced the completion of TEC Cellular's integration into the company. TEC Cellular's products, services and training now will be sold under the Safco brand. Safco acquired TEC Cellular in April, 1997.Anne Sleater, the AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee wounded Jan. 14...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to re-visit its rooftop access rules.The rules adopted in November to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996 restrict access only to customers with balconies or patios. FCC regulations extended its over-the-air reception...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-The cable TV and wireless industries are poised to dominate the high-speed Internet access market, according to Datacomm Research Co.'s report, "Bandwidth Bonanza: High-Speed Internet Access Technologies, Markets and Vendors.""The cable TV industry, with its broadband hybrid fiber-coax networks, and the wireless industry, with...
WASHINGTON-WebCel Communications Inc. continues to push forward with its challenge of a Federal Communications Commission 1997 decision to reallocate spectrum from the 18 GHz band to the 24 GHz band, a ruling that settled a long-running dispute between Teligent Inc. and Teledesic Corp.Congress at...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent announced it has continued the rollout of its Digital SmartWave technology to the San Francisco Bay Area, after the initial launch in 10 markets last week.The company began service in San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose, Calif. Teligent's technology uses small rooftop antennas...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc., Vienna, Va., opened for business Oct. 27, offering its bundled point-to-multipoint telecommunications services to small- and medium-size companies in 10 major cities.The commercial launch occurred in Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles; New York; Tampa, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; and Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth...
The race is on for local multipoint distribution service carriers to launch service, but many players remain confused about which services to offer and which markets to target."One of the most influential factors in delaying the LMDS market is the actual conceptualization of what...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. reported a net loss of $59.1 million for the second quarter on revenues of about $143,000, reflecting the company's continued expenditures for network engineering, sales and marketing as it approaches its planned commercial launch this fall.Revenues were down from $1 million...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) last week accused the Federal Communications Commission of concocting a bogus national security issue to avoid attracting public attention to internal negotiations with two politically-connected telecom firms, which led to a 1997 decision to give away 400...
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a 1997 decision to move Teligent Inc. wireless local loop licenses from the 18 GHz band to the 24 GHz band. Laurence Harris, senior vice president at Teligent, applauded the decision. "Teligent continues to move forward with construction of...
I was once told that Dallas has such a great highway system because during the oil bust in the mid '80s, business people ruled the local government bodies and did whatever was necessary (build roads) to help locate business in the economically depressed city.While...
WASHINGTON-In an action that provides insight into the complex policy issues simmering beneath the surface of the fiery debate on local competition, the Federal Communications Commission quietly has rejected a bureau-level proposal to pre-empt states from heavily regulating fixed wireless local loop service provided...
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 by Vice President Al Gore as the National SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year, said...
WASHINGTON-Real competition will not succeed in the marketplace until "realistic rates" can be reached and subsidies cut back or restructured-including those earmarked for universal service, said three Wall Street analysts who testified before a Senate subcommittee last Wednesday.Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said an investigation confirmed that BellSouth Corp. offered to drop a regulatory challenge to Teligent Corp.'s wireless licenses if Teligent would actively support the Baby Bell's entry into long distance.The congressional probe also found that BellSouth threatened to attack Teligent's...
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