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 attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown 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 vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
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 attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
WASHINGTON-Language that requires the National Park Service to issue permits to Bell Atlantic Mobile to site two towers in Rock Creek Park made its way into the federal budget. The provision also ensures that future antenna-siting applications will be completed within a four-month time...
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile late Thursday received consent from the National Capital Planning Commission to site two towers inside Rock Creek Park here, but the carrier is expected to continue to push legislation that quickly would grant the necessary permits to build the towers."Our objective...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week attempted to neutralize legislation to curb antenna siting by telling Congress that consolidation in the tower business will reduce the number of wireless facilities in communities across the country in the future.John Kelly, president of Crown Castle...
NEW YORK-Companion bills to enact the Wireless Facilities Siting Act never made it out of New York State Assembly and Senate committees before the Legislature adjourned Aug. 6 for summer recess.The proposed legislation, some believe, would have been the first in the nation to...
CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products for wireless carriers, last week acquired Ortel Corp.'s domestic wireless assets, including certain technology properties, products, leased facilities and the company's wireless employee base.Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, although Ortel said it...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. last week announced it created a new organization that will be responsible for building a broadband fixed wireless network in markets where Sprint has acquired licenses.The Broadband Wireless Group will focus on building fixed wireless facilities and developing high-speed Internet...
NEW YORK-The New York Wireless Carriers Coalition is hoping for passage this spring of a bill that some group members believe would be the first in the country to set uniform statewide tower-siting requirements for local governments to follow and implement.The proposed legislation's primary...
effrey Silva Can your beer do that? The National League of Cities, which just wrapped up its 75th annual meeting in Kansas City, boasts to members of forcing the withdrawal of the cellular industry's petition before the FCC seeking to pre-empt local zoning moratoria;...
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile refuses to throw in the towel on antenna siting and continues to fight for sites the company claims are necessary for coverage. In two cases, opponents see their actions as intransigent and perhaps even threatening. In another case, BAM has been...
Last month marked the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission's revised radio-frequency radiation guidelines. Those guidelines constituted the first major overhaul of RF rules in nearly a decade and the only one since wireless entered the high-tech era of personal communications services, digital...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court recently dealt a blow to wireless carriers hoping to site antennas in areas where residents believe they would be an eyesore. " industry should take it as a shout across the bow. The political winds are shifting," said Paul Rosa...
WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands.Instead, NPS decided each application must be reviewed individually, including applications for collocation."The good news is that they have...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week made significant strides in its efforts to reach a conciliatory note on antenna siting with various parties with which the industry has often disagreed.Additionally, the House Commerce Committee approved legislation that encourages tower sitings on federal property and uses...
WASHINGTON-The Superintendent of Rock Creek Park, an urban national park, said it would take five months before an environmental assessment is completed to determine whether Bell Atlantic Mobile can site two antennas inside the park. The National Park Service sent a letter to BAM...
WASHINGTON-Local government representatives and the wireless industry appear to be close to announcing procedures for local governments and industry to resolve disputes about siting wireless facilities.The Federal Communications Commission's Local and State Government Advisory Committee hopes to announce a completed alternative dispute resolution at...
MetawaveMetawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine years with McCaw, Jarvis held many positions including vice president of McCaw Development Group, vice...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking minority member of the House telecommunications subcommittee, will not engage in the controversy surrounding antenna siting in Rock Creek Park, said Colin Crowell, a member of his staff. "The (National) Park Service was told at a hearing (on March...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has informed Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) that decisions are nearing on key wireless petitions seeking relief from antenna siting moratoria and taxation through federal pre-emption of state and local regulations.In a May 14 letter to...
Here's a question: Is the wireless business being ill served by leaders unable to adjust thinking and strategy during a period of transition from a heavily regulated industry to one increasingly free of rules and dominated by consumers?Here's why I ask: antenna siting and health effects....
With up to nine wireless carriers in every major U.S. city competing for their share of the wireless telephone market, the recent winners of the C, D, E and F auctions are facing some of the most difficult challenges to date in developing infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-A settlement is believed near that would have Teledesic Corp. pay to relocate Associated Communications L.L.C. fixed wireless facilities to the 24 GHz band, though it is unclear whether the deal will be voluntary or government-imposed.The two wireless startups have been battling for months...
