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 two-and-a-half years ago.After the A- and B-block auction of personal communications services licenses was...
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 of a few."A lot of the licenses coming up are for the third or...
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 Telecommunications Act of 1996.Powertel and BellSouth's local network will compensate each other for terminating...
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 is Pacific Telecom Inc., a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, an electric utility headquartered in Portland,...
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 favors existing wireless providers.Western PCS BTA 1 Corp., which received its E- and F-block...
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 terms of the way we're putting services together it is unique. We're looking at...
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 called a reseller and was reluctant to be included on RCR's Top 20 Cellular Resellers'...
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 smart money is betting that front-end investments in community outreach always yield far greater dividends...
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 its equity vs. debt.The order, written by the commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, tasked with...
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 eligible.Under the agreement, wireless providers will receive volume prices on base station antennas, duplexers,...
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 education package in the five-year balanced budget plan that the president calls his top...
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 Senseless Customer Churn," is part of a direct mail campaign that is being distributed to...
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 current stay that prevents FCC pricing restrictions from being implemented.Responding to an emergency...
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 and has seen its business grow at a rate of 42 percent for the last...
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 U.S. population-could become a key antitrust test case in the new wireless regime of...
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 licenses in the Federal Communications Commission's D-, E- and F-block auction of personal communications services...
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."It took a period of 10 years to build out the cellular networks, 11,500 facilities....
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 structural and nonstructural safeguards for local exchange carrier provision of commercial mobile radio services."Taking...
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 competition with huge new services without really knowing where they stand. It has often appeared...
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. That was before Congress added the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the picture.Underlying all...
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 the next three years, according to a new global benchmarking study from Andersen Consulting.For...
MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city's six-month moratorium on tower building violates the Telecommunications Act and Federal Communications Commission rules,...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association continues to fight against any federally mandated rollback or eradication of interconnection fees that wireless companies must pay to local exchange carriers to terminate wireless calls on LEC networks."We are concerned about the possible direction of the process ......
NEW YORK-As the 1996 campaign season gets into high gear, wireless providers might do well to consider this profile when looking for loyal customers most likely to vote early and often for communications services: they are young, religious, affluent, well-read and tuned-in.These characteristics represent snippets...
