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The sixth largest PCS carrier (by pops) went bankrupt long before it ever got to market. Pocket Communications has $1.5 billion in liabilities, most of which is a large debt to the federal government.When people buy a typical business franchise, they pay an up-front...
Siemens Wireless Terminals, a unit of Siemens Business Communication Systems Inc., will supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Western Wireless Corp. Siemens values the contract at $35 million.Siemens g1050 handset and accessory products will be available in June to customers of Western...
RIGA, Latvia-Baltel Ltd., the second national mobile operator in Latvia, launched its Global System for Mobile communications network with switching, radio, transmission and microwave equipment provided by Northern Telecom Ltd.The network serves Latvia's capital city of Riga and its suburbs. Baltel will expand the...
DENVER-The city of Denver is close to adopting a new zoning ordinance pertaining to wireless tower and antenna siting.Denver carriers and the city have been working together since January on crafting a new ordinance, which is set to be filed within a week. Applications...
Western Wireless Corp. launched its personal communications services network in El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, N.M. The system is branded VoiceStream.The new PCS markets are part of the Albuquerque, N.M., major trading area, the company said. It launched its Global System for Mobile...
Western Wireless Corp. added 51,500 wireless subscribers during the fourth quarter, for a total of 359,700 subscribers. Of the more than 51,000 new subscribers, 33,700 signed up for cellular service, while 17,800 went with the company's personal communications services offering. The company now has...
A cellular operator with New England properties launched a digital cellular network on the specialized mobile radio frequency in Hawaii, saying it is the first non-traditional cellular company to accomplish this feat.Officials with Atlantic Cellular Co. of Colchester, Vt., said they have explored the...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. said it will use its Customer Acquisition System to streamline the customer acquisition process for eight of the 10 largest A- and B-block personal communications services license holders.Carriers that have signed contracts with Lightbridge include Aerial Communications Inc., AT&T Wireless Services...
WASHINGTON-Unlike most of the other auctions sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, the sale of 14 unserved cellular areas concluded Jan. 21 with no fanfare after 35 rounds and only $1.8 million in net revenues.The unserved areas, located in 11 states, originally were included...
WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Wireless reseller Northwest Communications, a division of Skylink Communications Corp., announced a prepaid wireless program called Pay-N-Talk.The service is available at grocery stores, gas stations and other consumer locations in 12 Western states, with 10 more to be added by the end of...
Western Wireless Corp. said it became the first commercial mobile radio service provider to obtain arbitration decisions from state regulatory bodies implementing the interconnection requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.The company said the decisions lower the rates Western Wireless pays for mobile calls...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communication Services Inc. signed a contract to provide its roamer administration service to personal communications services provider Western Wireless Corp. GTE TSI also will provide settlement and exchange services to Western Wireless.GTE TSI's Access service provides roamer billing information among cellular and...
WASHINGTON-Raking in a net total of $2.52 billion, the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction closed Jan. 14, bidding farewell to the last of the broadband spectrum that will be sold by the Federal Communications Commission."With the A, B, C, D, E...
WASHINGTON-Six congressmen instrumental in the crafting and eventual passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 have taken to task in writing those who oppose the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local competition order scheduled for oral argument in front of the Eighth Circuit Court...
Sprint PCS service is available in six cities, and just two days remain for Sprint Spectrum L.P. to meet its goal of launching 1900 MHz personal comm-unications services in two more of its 29 A- and B-block markets.Sprint's Code Division Multiple Access service is...
NEW YORK-CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Corp. "is on the threshold of making announcements" about deals to help some vendors finance the purchase of their wireless equipment by cash-poor, start-up American personal communications services providers, said Robert W. Stuart, managing director of the global telecommunications...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
WASHINGTON-Neither federal regulators nor lawmakers are likely to approve sweeping pre-emption of local-state taxation of wireless licenses, according to sources, but policymakers could strike down discriminatory levies on a case-by-case basis or make technical changes in the law to accomplish the same on a...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services will let its San Diego subscribers roam free of charge for the next six months in New York City, Honolulu, Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Knoxville, Tenn., Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.Those are all cities where a personal communications services...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A-, B- and C-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. Some of the companies have not yet received their licenses from the Federal Communications Commission because of challenges.Companies are ranked...
"The debate on CDMA is over, folks," declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas.It was the most comprehensive launch of both personal communications services and Code...
Digital service may not be the carrot that attracts consumers to personal communications services and digital cellular providers.According to a study by Economic & Management Consultants International Inc., 73 percent of existing wireless phone users in the United States believe they have digital wireless...
WASHINGTON-Certain parts of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local exchange rules dealing with negotiations between local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service operators will not be included in the current stay that prevents FCC pricing restrictions from being implemented.Responding to an emergency...
