U S West Inc. said it plans to split U S West Media Group and U S West Communications Group into separate public companies with separate boards of directors sometime after mid-1998.The proposed split is an acknowledgement that U S West was apparently wrong...
TORRANCE, Calif.-Intek Diversified Corp.'s subsidiary Roamer One signed an agreement to provide voice communication and computer aided dispatch to Time Warner Inc. for its cable television fleet operating in northern Los Angeles.The system provides functions such as vehicle location, mapping, high-speed data transmission and...
While one arm of U S West Inc. prepares to roll out pocket phone service later this year, another arm, U S West Media Group's cellular division, is slated to disappear.The paradox highlights U S West's jagged wireless communications strategy. In its short wireless...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it.There are strong views on both sides of...
WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave's 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year.New York-based WinStar is a competitive access provider that has licenses for 38 GHz spectrum...
NEW YORK - The Delaware Chancery Court has denied a petition from U S West Inc. to stop the merger of Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc.U S West made a $2.5 billion investment in a strategic partnership with Time Warner called...
Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future.The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers at year-end 1995, not counting the subscribers in the markets where they hold minority stakes....
Stung by a Sept. 22 lawsuit from its erstwhile strategic partner U S West Inc., Time Warner Inc. shot back with its own bitter accusations in a countersuit filed Oct. 11 with the Delaware Chancery Court.The month-long legal battle involves Time Warner's proposed merger...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, having failed to win support for switched wireless resale at an oversight hearing he chaired earlier this month, might pursue the issue as a member of the House-Senate conference committee on telecommunications reform."We're not ruling it out; we're considering it,"...
Marriages and divorces are accenting the wireless telecom industry today.The biggest telecom provider of them all, AT&T Corp., announced late last month it would split its businesses into three different companies. Chairman Robert Allen said the company wanted to avoid the perceived conflict in...
The recent scuffle between Time Warner Inc. and U S West Inc. over the former's proposed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. may terminate yet another much-ballyhooed telecommunications partnership that couldn't survive changing industry conditions.On Sept. 22, U S West filed a lawsuit asking...
DENVER-RCR Publications Inc. has named Pegeen Prichard its Southern sales manager. Prichard will be managing RCR display advertising from the offices of RCR's parent company, Crain Communications Inc. in Chicago.Prior to joining RCR, Prichard was the Midwest sales manager in the Chicago offices of...
WASHINGTON-Resale could become a powerful force in wireless telephony in the coming years, bringing an odd mix of competition and commerce to facilities-based carriers.Resale has experienced modest success in the 12-year-old cellular industry, but the infusion of more spectrum (120 megahertz) and new competition...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee last week approved creating an industry-government panel to craft federal antenna siting guidelines and temporarily derailed a wireless resale proposal to regulate commercial mobile radio carriers like regional Bell telephone companies.The antenna siting measure, offered by Scott Klug, R-Wis., and...
U S West Inc.'s recent move to create two classes of common stock not only attracts a new kind of investor, but highlights the company's emphasis on maintaining cohesiveness for the future convergence of voice, video and data services."We can expect to see more...
Time Warner Telecommunications announced it will begin offering cellular phone service in Rochester, N.Y.-the company's largest cable television market-by reselling service from the city's B-side carrier, Rochester Telephone Mobile Communications.This will be the company's first move into the wireless market. Time Warner has conducted...
WASHINGTON-He's baaack!Craig McCaw, founder of the cellular empire that AT&T Corp. bought for $11.5 billion, will bid for broadband personal communications services licenses Dec. 5.The wireless entrepreneur is one of 74 applicants seeking 99 licenses to operate next-generation pocket telephone systems across the country....
