Wireless Facilities

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW’s planned overlay of its existing …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Monday certified that bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. has met the five-year build-out requirement on its licenses. “The construction notifications that [NextWave] they have supplied to …

WASHINGTON-Sens. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) offered legislation to make wireless telecommunications equipment eligible for depreciation treatment on par with other qualified technological gear. The bill, introduced April …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is urging a California legislator to amend his bill to include tower companies in a plan to lease state lands to wireless service providers. …

NEW YORK-In profits, the category that counts the most, Nokia Corp. retained top billing, with Ericsson Inc. holding on to second place, according to information from Standard & Poor’s. Lucent …

VANCOUVER, Canada-The consequences of Metricom Inc.’s bankruptcy continue to ripple through the wireless industry, most recently forcing a serious drop in revenues for wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless Inc. The …

As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business …

HOUSTON-Compaq Computer Corp. has partnered with SignalSoft Corp., SnapTrack Inc. and Wireless Facilities Inc. to develop a location solution on one platform called the Compaq Discovery Location System, the company …

LAS VEGAS-Sonera’s zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation “favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures.” The lawsuit, …

Telcom Global Chris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.’s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company’s global …

Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of GPRS. Vendors are playing starry-eyed idealists while operators are avoiding a possible precipice on …

WASHINGTON-The EMR Network-a grassroots organization of people opposed to wireless facilities due to a fear of the impact of radiation-has come out strongly against a recent publication of the National …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-Location and traffic information provider U.S. Wireless Corp. selected Wireless Facilities Inc., a network design and deployment company, as the prime contractor for the buildout of its Washington …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Staff of the federal Advisory Commission on Historic Preservation said a wireless industry proposal on collocation of wireless facilities is sound, but did not adopt the proposal, instead opting …

Wireline technologies continue to trump broadband wireless in the journey to the last mile. In a new study on multidwelling units, Washington-based market research and consulting firm The Strategis Group …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks selected ABB, Bovis Lend Lease, MKI and Wireless Facilities Inc. as its main partners for turnkey implementation of third-generation and GSM networks in Europe, the Middle East …

WASHINGTON-Attempts by the wireless industry to reach a collocation agreement with a historic preservation group hit a few bumps last week when members of the historic preservation community questioned language …

SAN DIEGO, United States-Wireless Facilities said Siemens selected the company for phase two of its expansion of Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Co. dual-band GSM network, which Wireless Facilities said it originally …

SAN DIEGO-Wireless telecommunications systems management company Wireless Facilities Inc. acquired privately held telecom consultant Questus Ltd. for approximately $23 million in cash and stock. WFI said the additional resources provided …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will vigorously enforce wireless radiation safety rules that go into effect later this week. “We are serious about this and will be checking,” said …

IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo’s iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet. Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has …

Crown Castle International Crown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo’s iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet. Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has …