CHICAGO-CenterPoint Properties Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, announced it has reached an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to grant the cellular company a master lease covering more than 70 of CenterPoint's industrial properties.The sites are located in all Chicago area...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has acquired the Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses from SBC Communications Inc.In addition to acquiring the two major trading area licenses, AT&T said it also will gain control of SBC's 35.7 percent interest...
NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, "where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases," rising gross domestic product signals increasing financing demands for wireless communications infrastructure buildout."GDP and demographics look good; there is a correlation between GDP and telephone penetration,"...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal communications services license."This tax puts PCS operators at a disadvantage because incumbents aren't facing...
Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily to finance the acquisition of paging networks and capital expenditures for the company's nationwide network construction, said Atlanta-based Preferred.Carlson Design/Construct...
NEW YORK-The establishment of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission by Aug. 10 heralds the advent of significant new foreign ownership opportunities south of the border for wireless services companies."Joint auctions for personal communications services and local wireless access are contemplated for year-end 1996," said Carlos...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end of the year when the agreements expire.Lucent said it is making good progress on establishing a factory in New Jersey...
3607 Communications Co. launched its Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone network in Las Vegas and is offering the service to new and existing customers.The system, which covers 85 percent of the company's analog traffic areas, will allow 3607 to increase network capacity...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
Comsat RSI Mark Antennas signed agreements with several contractors to supply antennas for Sprint Spectrum L.P.'s personal communications services network. The contractors include Black & Veatch and MFS Network Technologies, said Comsat.Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has signed intercarrier agreements with Southwestco, its wholly owned...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a new law regarding technical standards used by government agencies.The new RF guidelines are stricter than existing ones, combining exposure limits...
Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks.Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data service to more than 65 million potential customers in 34 cellular markets, AT&T said. Account...
WITCHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. has begun shipping its new Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular radio protocol analyzer.The analyzer is the first test platform available to verify TDMA standards compliance for wireless cellular radio equipment, said IFR. The new system was...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.'s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for the second quarter 1995."During the quarter, worldwide demand for wireless services exceeded our most...
Not wanting to be elbowed aside by rival new suitors, cellular carriers are beginning to serenade subscribers with their own chorus of "Digital! Digital! Digital!"But unlike emerging personal communications services networks that are digital by design, incumbent cellular carriers have some unexpected leeway in...
Growth, competition, churn and consumer demand for top-notch wireless services are compelling many wireless carriers to narrow their business focus to core network operations and marketing, and engage specialists outside the company to support services previously handled in-house.Americom of Lutherville, Md., is one such...
MONTREAL-BCE Mobile Communications Inc. announced it is filing an application to list its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange.The company said it expects the shares to begin trading on the exchange in the second week of September under the symbol "BCX." BCE...
Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said its solar systems will provide power to an extensive communications network linking remote sites...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and federal regulators have promised the public safety community a chunk of TV channels 60-69 in exchange for supporting efforts to free up that spectrum soon for auctions. The deal appears to circumvent normal rulemaking processes and calls into question the...
DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data services from AT&T's Wireless Data Division.Under the agreement, MobileWare and AT&T Wireless will train sales and technical field support, as...
SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc., a wireless company in the Philippines.McCaw International said it will invest about $16 million in cash in Infocom, which was...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. is developing enhanced 911 applications that will help wireless carriers and emergency dispatchers determine the location of wireless callers.These groups don't have to reinvent the wheel, said Kenneth Arneson, president and chief executive officer of Xypoint. Arneson was formerly vice president of...
