WASHINGTON-The European Union warned the United States not to block Deutsche Telekom AG's planned purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp., threatening a transAtlantic trade fight if federal regulators give into objections raised by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and others."The European Community and its member states...
After 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 set in 1996."This most recent auction demonstrated the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will not reconsider the eligibility rules for the re-auction of 422 PCS licenses that allowed large carriers to bid on licenses previously reserved for small businesses.Six entities-Alpine PCS, National Telephone Cooperative Association, Northcoast Communications, the Organization for the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is not as partisan as many outside the commission may believe, said one of the Republican commissioners last week."There isn't an R camp and a D camp and they try to duke it out," said FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth.Furchtgott-Roth made...
ATLANTA-Just a few months after its successful initial public offering, O2wireless Solutions Inc. announced two acquisitions, which the company said will add site development and international consulting and legal services to its list of offerings.In separate announcements on the same day, o2wireless said it...
CHINAChina Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China's second largest wireless operator also said it added more than 1 million paging subscribers in 2000, bringing...
Most analysts expected the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses to finish up late last week. Instead, there were 37 eligible bidders placing 27 new high bids on licenses during round 70 of the auction. The new high bids brought...
TORONTO-To the relief of the wireless industry, the Canadian government raised the four-year-old spectrum cap that limits the amount of radio spectrum each PCS provider may operate. Wireless carriers in Canada can now each use 55 megahertz of spectrum, an increase from 40 megahertz.In...
DENVER, United States-When the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set aside a portion of the permits up for bid in its 1996 auction of personal communications services (PCS) licenses, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known...
When the Federal Communications Commission set aside a portion of the licenses up for bid in its 1996 personal communications services auction, the intent was to foster competition in the wireless industry by allowing minority-owned companies, known as designated entities, to purchase licenses without...
The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc., the advertising industry's self-regulatory forum, recommended that VoiceStream Wireless "modify its advertising to more clearly communicate the geographical limitations of its coverage area."The recommendation was made after Verizon Wireless challenged the truthfulness...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-RealName Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. plan to bring wireless keyboard navigation for the wireless Web to VoiceStream's mobile Internet service, WebStream.The intuitive navigation system will allow subscribers to use company, brand and product names instead of URLs to access content on...
As wireless operators enjoyed their holiday break from the Federal Communications Commission's re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses, a fair share of pre-auction predictions made by analysts were being discarded along with the holiday wrapping paper.Some of those early forecasts included predictions of...
FRANKFURT, Germany-A group of U.S. investors launched a $3 billion class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Deutsche Telekom AG claiming the company misled them in its takeover bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp.The shareholders said they...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission suspended its re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses on Thursday with bid amounts nearing $12 billion.The re-auction will resume on Jan. 5 after taking a holiday break.The FCC doubled the bidding rounds last week from two per day to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission made good on its plans to require wireless carriers to have the ability to pool telephone numbers as of November 2002-a move the wireless industry finds disconcerting.The commission also said it would seek comment on whether market-based mechanisms should be...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission frantically prepared to re-auction 422 C- and F-block personal communications services licenses beginning tomorrow, the agency on Dec. 1 released the names of those planning to participate in the auction and those that had been rejected.Of the large companies...
As wireless phones become smaller on the outside, their usefulness to the outside world continues to grow. In addition to wireless Internet capabilities, newly designed unified messaging and voice recognition technologies are opening up a whole new avenue for cellular phone users and new...
Isn't it ironic that German and Japanese interests are planning to take significant stakes in U.S. wireless telephony-countries that were sworn enemies of the United States nearly 60 years ago this week, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, catapulting the United States into World War...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may propose charging carriers for telephone numbers.Also at its open meeting on Thursday, the FCC is expected to tell the wireless industry that in addition to being ready to convert to local number portability by Nov. 24, 2002, the industry...
While most larger carriers are still feeling their way through the abundance of third-generation hype, a small carrier in Oklahoma is getting ready to deploy a GPRS network using AirNet Communications Corp.'s software-defined platform.MBO Wireless Inc. announced it will use AirNet's AdaptaCell and AirSite...
SEATTLE-Amazon.com is launching a wireless phone store on its Web site, providing background information, pricing and shopping comparison services for online shoppers of wireless devices.Customers will be able to choose a device and sign up for various service plans from national providers like AT&T...
NEW YORK-For Samsung Telecommunications America, South Korea's mandatory elimination of wireless handset subsidies created a ripple effect across the ocean that translates into more aggressive marketing in the United States.Next year, the manufacturer plans to introduce several new models, including a combination personal digital...
The Federal Communications Commission has extended the comment period for the merger of VoiceStream Wireless Corp., Powertel Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG to Dec. 13 and Jan. 8. The FCC granted the extension at the request of Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking member of...
