wireless operators

Antagonism is high between wireless carriers and local governments these days as carriers continue to fight with municipalities about zoning ordinances and tower sites. “Cities really want to deal with …

Western PCS BTA 1 Corp. lost the first round of its battle with the city of Tucson, Ariz., over the city’s new zoning ordinance. Western claims the law prohibits it …

Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group and Coral Systems Inc. reached an agreement to allow Motorola to offer its customers Coral Systems’ FraudBuster fraud management system as part of its IN2 …

U S West Communications Inc. filed two lawsuits against the city of Longmont, Colo., challenging a city council decision that denied the company’s application to raise a 100-foot monopole for …

While many cities across the nation have been caught off guard by the number of towers wireless providers want to construct, the city of Greensboro, N.C., forecasted the onslaught nearly …

NEW YORK-Latin American countries may offer new opportunities for wireless telecommunications carriers, but they must be prepared to compete against incumbents for purchasing power that is concentrated in the hands …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc., a subsidiary of InterCel Inc., reached an agreement with BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. for decreased and reciprocal interconnection rates as directed by the …

NEW YORK-Century Telephone Enterprises Inc., a Monroe, La., telecommunications firm, signed a letter of intent to purchase several cellular and personal communications services markets, primarily in the Midwest. The seller …

A Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary has filed a lawsuit in Arizona U.S. district court against the city of Tucson, claiming the city’s new zoning ordinance discriminates against the company and …

A Dallas-based company has focused its efforts on assisting smaller wireless providers by offering a combination of products and services to help them survive in the increasingly competitive wireless arena. …

In between the land of resellers and the land of licensed wireless providers lies a place where MCI Telecommunications Corp. lives all by itself. The company prefers not to be …

As buildout battles blossom across the nation, many industry leaders are coming to recognize that success in site acquisition requires a comprehensive strategy for maintaining good relations with communities. The …

WASHINGTON-The formal memorandum opinion and order regarding the award of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.’s long-awaited personal communications services licenses creates more questions than answers about the licensee’s foreign capitalization and …

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet signed an agreement to allow members of its Procurement Consortium to obtain antenna infrastructure from Celwave at volume prices. Cellular, personal communications services and other wireless providers are …

Washington-The wireless telecom industry opposes funding proposals for the Clinton administration’s plan to link all schools and libraries to the Internet by 2000, a component of a sweeping $51 billion …

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communications Services Inc. has designed an animated electronic presentation on computer disk to promote its ChurnManager system. The disk, called “Wireless Romance, or The True Life Story of …

WASHINGTON-Certain parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s interconnection and local exchange rules dealing with negotiations between local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service operators will not be included in …

The fervent growth of the wireless industry has turned into a gold mine of opportunities for Safco Technologies Inc. The Chicago-based company develops and provides automated signal strength testing products …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc.’s proposed $159 million buyout of Pittencrieff Communications Inc.-a deal that could give one firm half of the 2.2 million dispatch customers and access to most of the …

Regional Bell operating company U S West Communications Group said it hopes to bundle wireless services along with its local exchange service by 1997. The company is bidding for several …

The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too many jobs and not enough people. …

WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, “initiates a comprehensive review of our existing regulatory framework of …

A government summary outlining the reclassification of specialized mobile radio operators “may pose more questions than it answers,” said SMR organization leader Alan Shark. “Reclassified operators are being thrown into …

The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. …

Sales and marketing practices in the wireless communications industry are substandard and could cause carriers worldwide to lose as much as a third of their revenues to new competitors over …