Boingo Wireless Inc. launched with plans to provide wireless Internet access at speeds up to 11 Megabits per second in major hotels, airports and coffee shops.Founded by Sky Dayton, the founder and chairman of EarthLink, the company will use 802.11b technology. A beta version...
The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its current TDMA markets, roughly two-thirds of its coverage area, with CDMA 1x technology. The...
WASHINGTON-With Verizon Wireless Inc.'s abrupt decision to withdraw its request for a waiver to provide priority access service to local, state and federal personnel during emergencies, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. has gained an inside track on a $20 million government contract. Last week, the wireless...
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless completed the sale of $2 billion of global bonds, which the carrier said it would use to pay down short-term debt, finance licenses and construction related to the possible acquisition of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses and to fund its network sharing...
NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless plans to raise $2 billion this week from a private sale of senior secured notes of varying maturity. Proceeds from the sale are expected to be used for general corporate purposes, including repayment of commercial paper, financing of licenses and buildout...
WASHINGTON—The negotiators finally reached a settlement agreement Thursday that will give the PCS C- and F-block licenses of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. to the re-auction winners. It remains unclear whether Congress will pass legislation, as called for in the agreement, by the end of...
NEW YORK-Calling it "the most well-known secret in corporate America," Stephen Carter, president and chief executive officer of Cingular Wireless, said the nation's second-largest mobile operator will overlay all its TDMA and analog networks with EDGE, a software enhancement of GPRS technology.Atlanta-based Cingular, with...
AlcatelChina. With China Mobile for GSM network expansion contracts by Shanghai Mobile and Jilin Mobile.Value: US$70 millionMalaysia. With Telekom Cellular to expand its existing GSM 1800 MHz capacity and ready it for GPRS.Value: US$85 millionPhilippines. With Digitel to roll out its mobile network by...
During the past 20 years, two overriding factors have shaped the wireless carrier landscape: customer growth and carrier consolidation. The number of wireless customers has grown from less than 100,000 subscribers after the first full year of availability in 1984 to nearly 120...
DENVER, United States, and TORONTO—In the first such announcements from operators for second-generation (2G) networks, two separate network sharing agreements were announced this week—one between two U.S. operators and one between two Canadian carriers.In the United States, Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream Wireless entered into...
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.—ARC Wireless Solutions Inc. said it integrated inventory and equipment, including base station antennas and very low profile antennas for use with a low-earth orbiting satellite networks, recently acquired from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. into its newly formed Wireless Communications Products...
BOULDER, Colo.—SignalSoft Corp. announced VoiceStream Wireless Corp. licensed SignalSoft's Location Centre product, as well as its W911 product for GSM networks, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission E911 Phase II mandate.VoiceStream said in its semi-annual E911 report filed with the FCC Oct. 1...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has agreed to expand VoiceStream's national GSM wireless network and deploy EDGE infrastructure in a deal that could exceed $300 million over a three-year period, according to an Ericsson press statement.Under the pact, Ericsson will install GSM 1900 network equipment like...
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera sold approximately 11.5 million shares of Deutsche Telekom (DT) for nearly US$170 million, saying it will use the proceeds to cut its net debt. Sonera originally received the DT shares in return for selling its holdings in Powertel and VoiceStream Wireless when...
DALLAS—Nortel Networks has signed a $300 million GSM contract to upgrade VoiceStream Wireless' national networks for deployment in the first quarter of 2002.Under the pact, Nortel Networks will supply radio base station equipment, switching and professional services for EDGE."It also includes intelligent network equipment...
UNION CITY, Calif.—CPD Wireless, a master agent for multiple wireless service carriers, will become a master agent and wholesale distributor for VoiceStream Wireless Corp., expanding CPD's presence in Washington, Arizona, Idaho and Oregon.
WASHINGTON—Alaska Native Wireless L.L.C. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday that agreements signed by NextWave Telecom Inc. in an effort to emerge from bankruptcy make NextWave ineligible to hold the C- and F-block licenses in question."The combination of NextWave's...
The NextWave Telecom Inc. saga continued last week as the hopeful wireless wholesaler unveiled funding plans to roll out its network, while its potential wireless competitors/customers continued to look for ways to wrestle some control over licenses that are still waiting for a proper...
WASHINGTON—Bankrupt PCS carrier NextWave Telecom, in a strongly worded response, on 30 July urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a petition filed recently by a group of winning bidders in the re-auction of NextWave's licenses.The "petitioners—relying solely on speculation and innuendo—have fabricated...
WASHINGTON-The five largest bidders in the Federal Communications Commission's recent re-auction of PCS licenses sent a letter last week urging the agency to make a deal with bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. that would have NextWave relinquishing its licenses for a cash payment near NextWave's...
WASHINGTON-Three wireless carriers-all of which won licenses in the PCS re-auction-petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to re-evaluate the ownership structure of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc."This investigation should include an inquiry as to whether the company, based on the totality of the circumstances, was eligible...
FCC Chairman Michael Powell needs to direct his staff to get over it and get on with it. "It" is the agency's loss in federal appeals court to NextWave Telecom Inc. last month.Speculation has been rampant for at least two weeks that Federal Communications...
Close below the surface of the third-generation mobile-phone spectrum debate is a technology war, the kind of feud industry thought was behind it and wanted to avoid as it tries to present a unified front in the campaign to wrestle away frequencies from the...
