WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week began investigating various issues fixed wireless carriers believe make it difficult for them to offer facilities-based competition to landline incumbent telcos.The Personal Communications Industry Association has been at the forefront of this battle, urging the FCC to require...
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for broadband wireless access in the United States remains positive.As evidence is the amount of...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. and Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. entered into an agreement under which WinStar will provide communications capabilities, including local and long-distance telephone, high-speed data and Internet services, to 22 Crescent properties in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco and...
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a Bellevue, Wash., a provider of fixed-wireless broadband data networks, will receive a $251 million equity infusion from a group of investors led by Qwest Communications International Inc.Denver-based Qwest is building an 18,500-mile domestic Internet Protocol, fiber-optic network for...
WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, wireless czar at the Federal Communications Commission, said he will propose shortly that a new rule making be initiated to fully address prickly issues stifling competitive wireless access to multi-tenant buildings.Even if the FCC moves forward, it appears Congress may be forced...
The market for broadband access services is on the verge of dramatic growth, and fixed terrestrial wireless systems are expected to play a big role, according to a new Strategis Group report titled, "World Wireless Broadband: LMDS, MMDS and Broadband WLL 1999-2008."Broadband wireless access systems...
WASHINGTON-The previously announced Wireless Day at the Federal Communications Commission will occur June 10, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."I am hopeful that (the agenda) will be devoted entirely" to wireless issues, Sugrue said, noting other bureaus may want to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J./NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. and WinStar Communications Inc. announced an agreement under which WinStar's Broadband Services unit will resell Lucent's entire portfolio of enterprise data networking products, including the PacketStar Access Concentrators, the PortMaster remote access products and network management products.The agreement...
Wireless broadband service has finally received attention from the likes of big telecom players Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom Inc. The race is on to access the local market and cheaply bypass connection to regional Bell operating companies.Sprint announced last week plans to purchase...
GermanySiemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, T-Mobil and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they will participate in a field trial to integrate Wireless Application Protocol compatible software from Unwired Planet into Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure. Under the agreement, Siemens will integrate Unwired Planet's...
UkraineOrbcomm Global L.P. announced it has signed a service license agreement with Transexpo Corp. to provide its satellite data services to the Ukraine. According to the agreement, Transexpo will take delivery of an Orbcomm gateway, which includes a gateway earth station and a gateway...
Standard & Poor's Corp., New York, has placed the low-tier, speculative-grade CCC rating of $350 million in Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. convertible preferred stock due 2011 on "CreditWatch with negative implications." Proceeds of the convertible preferred stock are to be used for purchasing preferred partnership...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens and P-Com Inc. announced they successfully completed the first phase of the commercial deployment of their point-to-multipoint Wireless Access solution with WinStar Communications Inc. in Washington, D.C.The PMP solution is an access system that enables wireless broadband operators to offer voice,...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to re-visit its rooftop access rules.The rules adopted in November to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996 restrict access only to customers with balconies or patios. FCC regulations extended its over-the-air reception...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-The cable TV and wireless industries are poised to dominate the high-speed Internet access market, according to Datacomm Research Co.'s report, "Bandwidth Bonanza: High-Speed Internet Access Technologies, Markets and Vendors.""The cable TV industry, with its broadband hybrid fiber-coax networks, and the wireless industry, with...
NEW YORK-By the tenor of their top executives' flirtatious banter Nov. 2, WinStar Communications Inc. appears to be an amorous suitor to a somewhat hesitant Advanced Radio Telecom Corp."Spectrum is a rare commodity, and the more we have the better. ART has some, and...
L.M. EricssonBrazil. With Telet S.A. to construct a TDMA network.Value: US$140 millionChina. With Chongqing Telecommunications Administration to expand its GSM network.Value: US$138 millionChina. With Hebei Post & Telecommunications Administration to expand its GSM and TACS networks.Value: US$110 millionMexico. With Telcel to build a 1900 MHz TDMA network...
NEW YORK-Following the successful launch in eight initial target markets, WinStar Communications Inc. announced plans to expand its accounts sales initiative to 15 major U.S. markets by the end of the year.The company said it plans to further expand the initiative to 30 key...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc., New York, is beta testing in Washington, D.C., a point-to-multipoint system with Optical Carrier level-3 (OC-3) radio capacity, said Randy Domolky, the company's general manager for carrier sales. A commercial service launch is anticipated for sometime next year."We have announced...
The race is on for local multipoint distribution service carriers to launch service, but many players remain confused about which services to offer and which markets to target."One of the most influential factors in delaying the LMDS market is the actual conceptualization of what...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. said it will provide its second-generation, point-to-multipoint AIReach Broadband equipment to WinStar Communications Inc. for its broadband fixed wireless network.The multiyear agreement calls for HNS to begin shipping equipment in November that initially will be deployed in WinStar's wireless...
NEW YORK-Siemens Telecom Networks will provide point-to-multipoint equipment and systems-integration services for WinStar Communications Inc.'s wireless broadband demonstration network in Washington, D.C.WinStar has engaged Siemens to integrate P-Com's point-to-multipoint systems into the network, and to provide asynchronous transfer mode equipment, network management systems and...
The Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems engineering committee created a new work group that will address fixed wireless access and wireless local loop applications, said the organization.The group-TR-45.4.1-is assigned to the TR-45.4 Radio to Switching Technology subcommittee, which is responsible...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. agreed to purchase 850 megahertz of bandwidth in New York from CellularVision USA Inc. for $32.5 million in cash.The bandwidth is being disaggregated from CellularVision's local multipoint distribution service license in the New York area to be combined with WinStar's...
