NEW YORK-The good news for emerging personal communications services players is that capital is available, and the investment community is bullish on wireless telephony as a general category.The bad news is that the public and private capital markets are accommodating the favorites, so not...
If money is the root of all evil, PCS is either going to be a very evil service or PCS is going to prove that maxim wrong.Money is certainly at the root of all PCS plans. The government's auction of PCS licenses started the...
CINCINNATI-GTE Mobilnet Inc. initiated the first call on its personal communications services network to Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls in her office at Cincinnati City Hall.The inaugural call represented the first use of Code Division Multiple Access technology in the Cincinnati market, said GTE. The...
NEW YORK-"The summer of 1996 was when high-yield (debt) investors decided they're not in the venture capital business. They prefer cash flow now, not cash flow in five years," said Richelle Elberg, analyst for Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif."The returns demanded are in...
Tomorrow has always been a bit tricky to forecast. Did John Walter know on his first day at R.R. Donnelley that one day he would be picked to run AT&T Corp?Keeping that in mind, I give you my predictions for RCR's Top 20 PCS...
Western Wireless Corp. is expected soon to privately sell $200 million in notes due 2007 to help finance its ongoing personal communications services buildout and to acquire additional spectrum in the latest Federal Communications Commission auctions.Headquartered in Issaquah, Wash., Western Wireless owns and operates...
Andres Link and Richard Swerdlow met three years ago playing basketball in Miami, and began discussing business opportunities. Last month, the University of Florida named the pair's partnership, Cellular Works, the fastest growing company in the state.Based in Hollywood, Fla., Cellular Works sells cellular...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications for sites submitted before the moratorium was established, said City Planner Cathy Czerniak."We didn't want to change the rules midstream,"...
Gemplus America Inc. said it signed contracts to provide subscriber identity module cards, point-of-sale equipment and personalization and over-the-air services to American Personal Communications, American Portable Telecommunications Inc., BellSouth Personal Communications Inc., Omnipoint Communications Inc. and Western Wireless Corp."With these agreements, Gemplus further solidifies...
Nextel Communications launched a fully digital communications service in Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and northern Indiana. Features of the new PowerFone service include digital cellular calling, instant group and private two-way conferencing capability and numeric or alphanumeric paging all...
WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission's local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least delaying, commission rules that they view as being anti-states' rights. And in the midst...
The Eugene, Ore., City Council has proposed a four-month moratorium on tower building for wireless phone services that has some operators sympathetic and others calling their attorneys.Eugene officials and citizens are concerned not only with aesthetics and health-related issues, but with "the unknown," said...
States rights vs. federal rights.It's an argument that is becoming more and more common in today's wireless industry.It's certainly not a new argument, and it's certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, it is probably one of the...
WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the intensity of monitoring number and market changes twice a day.At the end of Round...
Several state tax offices and wireless carriers responded to the tax predicament faced by Western Wireless Corp. in Oregon.The Oregon Department of Revenue sent Western a proposed assessment that included in the valuation the $34 million Western paid for the Portland personal communications service...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp. raised $250 million in gross proceeds in its sale of 10-year senior notes Thursday to help finance the buildout of its personal communications services network in the New York City area.Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, lead managed the...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc., a provider of management solutions for the wireless industry, has completed the installation of the first Unix version of SCI's Intelligent Message Router for Western Wireless Corp.The system also incorporates an FTAM interface, the standard transfer protocol used throughout Europe...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal communications services license."This tax puts PCS operators at a disadvantage because incumbents aren't facing...
Following their deposit of upfront funds, the following entities will be eligible to bid on all licenses in all blocks: 21st Century Bidding Corp.Advanced Telecommunications Technology Inc.AirGate Wireless L.L.C.Alaska Telephone Co.Alpine PCS Inc.BTA Venture II Inc.CellutechCentral Alabama Partner~ship L.P. 132Central Oregon Cellular Inc.ComScape Telecommunications Inc.Conestoga...
From Wall Street to Main Street, the outlook for the cellular industry remains positive, especially for major players abroad and minor players at home that exploit markets with lower competition and penetration levels.The new Telecommunications Act has unleashed forces that could transform the entire...
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders.Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rorke, President and Chief Operating Officer John Kealey and Senior Vice President of Operations Rodolfo Ploder are leaving the company....
