SAN DIEGO—Wireless Facilities Inc. announced that it will sell much of its Mexican holdings for $18 million in cash. The company also said it postponed the release of its fourth-quarter 2005 earnings report from Feb. 21 to March 14.The transfer of WFI’s Mexican holdings...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. announced that its contract for engineering services with a national wireless carrier has been extended for two more years. The contract extension is worth about $40 million to WFI, which designs, deploys and manages wireless networks, technology networks and security...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. said it racked up about $40 million in new government contract wins and extensions in the fourth quarter of 2005. The network design, deployment and management company said the duration of the contracts ranges from one month to five years."We're...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersFitch Ratings placed Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and United States Cellular on Ratings Watch Negative following the announcement that TDS intends to restate its...
AUSTIN, Texas-Tower company Kampen and Greenwell Inc. announced a deal with Kum & Go L.C. to license space on the chain's 425 or so Western and Midwestern convenience stores for cell-site construction. KGI said network design is in the works and includes rooftops, stealth...
Wireless Facilities Inc. announced a contract win to provide network design and deployment services for Madison, Wis.'s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. The company said it plans to work with communication technology company Cellnet and Madison Gas and Electric to deploy a Wi-Fi network in...
AUSTIN, Texas-Tower company Kampen and Greenwell Inc. announced a deal with Kum & Go L.C. to license space on the chain's 425 or so Western and Midwestern convenience stores for cell-site construction.KGI said network design is in the works and includes rooftops, stealth concealment...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. announced a contract win to provide network design and deployment services for Madison, Wis.'s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. The company said it plans to work with communication technology company Cellnet and Madison Gas and Electric to deploy a Wi-Fi network...
Municipal-Wi-Fi-mania has landed. By the end of the year, the world will have more than 100,000 Wi-Fi hot spots, according to Informa Telecoms & Media research. And the Asia-Pacific region is not in its usual predominant spot, as North America and Europe are getting...
Wireless Facilities Inc. said it's joining forces with Google Inc. to bid on San Francisco's municipal Wi-Fi project. WFI specializes in the design, deployment and management of wireless networks and said it's ready to provide Google with its services."As noted in the proposal, WFI...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers last week made significant progress restoring wireless service knocked out along the Texas-Louisiana coastline by Hurricane Rita, restoration efforts that added to those already under way in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Federal Communications Commission extended for 30 days certain regulatory...
SAN DIEGO-Network provider Wireless Facilities Inc. has won a $10 million network services contract to provide second- and third-generation network optimization for a major wireless carrier in Europe. The company said the contract is an extension of services they are already providing to the...
SAN DIEGO-Network provider Wireless Facilities Inc. has won a $10 million network services contract to provide second- and third-generation network optimization for a major wireless carrier in Europe. The company said the contract is an extension of services they are already providing to the...
Following is information on wireless companies that had ratings changes and other news from investment banking and financial services firms this week.Moody's Investors Service Inc. upgraded the long-term senior unsecured debt ratings of Sprint Corp. and Sprint Capital Corp. as well as the ratings...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Global Towers Partners said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 51 towers from Jesta Towers, a regional developer and wireless facilities owner with a focus on the Gulf Coast region. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed because both companies...
Global Towers Partners said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 51 towers from Jesta Towers, a regional developer and wireless facilities owner with a focus on the Gulf Coast region. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed because both companies are privately...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week said that a federal court needs to review a decision by the City of San Francisco to deny MetroPCS's tower application.It was the first time that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had waded into...
WASHINGTON-As expected, CTIA has told a federal appeals court it wants it to throw out the nationwide programmatic agreement recently entered into by the Federal Communications Commission, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers."CTIA challenges...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here rejected the latest challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's radio frequency radiation standard for mobile phones and base stations.In 2001, the EMR Network-pointing to new research-petitioned the FCC to re-examine whether to revise its regulations to address non-thermal effects...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's board of directors Wednesday voted to appeal rules recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission meant to streamline tower sitings in historic areas. "The CTIA Board of Directors believes the regulating of commercial mobile radio services and other...
The future of wireless could be the future of most everything. Wireless technology has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first transmission of radio communication signals across the English Channel and then across the Atlantic Ocean a century ago. Wireless technology is being...
In a picture resembling Nortel Networks Ltd.'s struggles and triumphs, Wireless Facilities Inc. is revising its quarterly results and attracting ratings downgrades just as it rakes in significant contracts and an acquisition.The company said it intends to restate its financial statements from 2000 to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-News relative to wireless home networking continues, with several players announcing new initiatives this week.2Wire said it has sold its millionth residential gateway since it launched its flagship product in August 2000. "Service providers need to be able to offer new services...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. and TruePosition Inc. have signed a multi-year agreement under which Wireless Facilities will support the installation and commissioning of TruePosition's enhanced-911 solution with wireless carriers in the United States.According to TruePosition, its Finder location solution enables wireless carriers to meet...
