Canada-based telecom provider TerreStar names former Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead to its board as it looks to launch satellite- and cellular-based services
Longtime Verizon Communications executive Dan Mead is set to join the board of directors at Canada-based satellite and terrestrial telecommunications provider TerreStar...
Dish Network (DISH) said it has closed on an acquisition of BDSD North America and “substantially all of the assets of TerreStar Networks,” which has helped Dish secure 40 megahertz of nationwide spectrum in the 2 GHz band. Those spectrum holdings have become a...
The domestic market for wireless spectrum assets narrowed a bit in the short term late last week as the Federal Communications Commission said it would open up a formal debate in regards to Dish Networks’ attempt to use satellite spectrum for a terrestrial cellular...
Dish Network Corp. (DISH) has submitted a $1.375 billion cash bid for TerreStar Networks Inc. in a bankruptcy auction, according to Reuters. Among other assets, TerreStar holds wireless spectrum.Dish was competing for the opening bid against MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) and a group of...
Looking to capitalize on its satellite service capabilities, LightSquared announced a partnership with the Indian Health Services federal agency to provide free phones and service for use in American Indian and Alaska Native communities through 2020. The plan calls for LightSquared to provide up...
Looking to venture successfully where others have struggled, Harbinger Capital Partners’ Lightsquared venture has many in the industry scratching their head. This has not deterred the Lightsquared squad in the least as the company appears very confident in its chances to compete in a...
AT&T Mobility plans to offer TerreStar Networks Inc.’s dual-mode cellular/satellite Genus smartphone and mobility solution to enterprise, government and small business customers and their corporate liable users beginning in the first quarter of 2010. The partnership follows a recipricol roaming agreement signed between the...
Satellite communications company TerreStar Networks Inc. said it signed a nationwide reciprocal roaming agreement with AT&T Inc.TerreStar is developing an all-IP integrated satellite-terrestrial communications network. The company plans to target its service at commercial, government, rural and public-safety users in North America.The company is...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has sued ICO Global Communications Ltd. and TerreStar Networks Inc. to force the mobile satellite service licensees to pay the No. 3 mobile-phone operator for relocation costs associated with a Federal Communications Commission rebanding plan to eliminate interference to 800 MHz...
TerreStar Corp. said it received $300 million in investor commitments through the launch of its hybrid mobile satellite, with the transaction also giving the company access to additional frequencies to improve North American coverage.The funding will be provided by EchoStar Corp., Harbinger Capital Partners...
SkyTerra Communications Inc., Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. and Inmarsat plc said they reached a major pact to resolve complex technical, regulatory and business issues, a move they believe will better enable each to offer L-band hybrid mobile satellite services in North America. ...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Uruguay: L.M. Ericsson said it has been chosen by ANTEL...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Bosnia and Herzegovina: M:Tel, the mobile arm of Telekom Srpske,...
Inmarsat Global Ltd. has challenged TerreStar Networks Inc.'s request to delay for nearly a year its mobile satellite launch currently scheduled for November.TerreStar in late May asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to extend the launch until September 2008 for its planned 2...
Vermont officials have tapped TerreStar Networks Inc. to bring wireless broadband and telecommunications services to the state's rural and underserved areas.TerreStar, which is a subsidiary of Illinois' Motient Corp., announced a pilot project to build a network that will be available for all voice...
Remember James D. Dondero, the Highland Capital Management L.P. honcho who made Motient Corp. want to forget 2006 and all the fun that comes with nasty proxy fights and lawsuits? Dondero has some folks scratching their heads about why he sold 93,000...
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to reserve a spectrum block for mobile satellite services provider TerreStar Networks Inc., one of a handful of firms trying to avoid past mistakes that nearly wiped out the MSS sector in the previous decade.How does TerreStar expect to...
The Federal Communications Commission agreed to reserve a large chunk of frequencies for TerreStar Networks Inc., a firm that plans to provide wireless service throughout North America using a hybrid satellite-terrestrial cellular network. The news essentially gives TerreStar direct ownership of spectrum covering all...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Cellular Thailand: Nokia Corp. said it won a $110...
WASHINGTON—Motient Corp. named a new management team, continuing moves to separate two affiliated mobile satellite service companies into two independent publicly traded entities and possibly to better position the Lincolnshire, Ill. firm to be acquired. Robert Brumley was named president and chief executive officer...
WASHINGTON-The unsuccessful proxy fight lodged by Highland Capital Management L.P. against Motient Corp. has given way to another nasty skirmish over proposed ownership changes in mobile satellite assets whose value may have been a factor in the exit of a high-rolling satellite TV bidding...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.—Motient Corp. increased its ownership of TerreStar Networks Inc. from 54.3 percent to 55.1 percent, according to an 8-K filing the company made. The transaction involved Motient Ventures Holding Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Motient Corp., purchasing more than 700,000 shares of...
Despite initial anticipation that cable and satellite companies would use the advanced wireless services spectrum auction to catapult into the mobile marketplace, the hype doesn't seem to be panning out. However, walking away from the spectrum auction may not be a bad thing, at...
Motient Corp. scored a solid win against Highland Capital Management L.P. and its president, James Dondero, with news that Motient stockholders voted to elect all of the company's six nominees to the board of directors at its annual stockholder's meeting. "Today's vote is a...
