Nextel Communications Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Donahue admitted that while the wireless industry will encounter bumps associated with the impending local number portability mandate, he expects Nextel to gain market share following the Nov. 24 implementation date."We believe Nextel will be a beneficiary...
Just what are Craig McCaw and Nextel Communications Inc. up to, separately or together? Is there a grand plan waiting to be hatched or just some heady hedges that may-or may not-lead to something big? There's enough of a history there to make recent...
WASHINGTON-After weeks of speculation, it appears that GSM technology has won out over CDMA systems in Iraq. The Coalition of Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Minister of Communications Oct. 6 announced the winners of mobile-phone licenses in Iraq. Asia-Cell, the incumbent GSM provider, will...
WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc., which is doing business under the name MCI, named five independent directors to its board late last month.Laurence Harris is a partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs L.L.C. Harris was an executive of Teligent Inc., a fixed wireless startup that...
WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...
WASHINGTON-After settling with the federal government and admitting to more than $11 billion in accounting misdeeds, WorldCom Inc., parent to SkyTel Paging and recipient of a contract to build a private mobile-phone system in Baghdad, now must face the wrath of the states.Oklahoma filed...
WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...
WASHINGTON-A consortium with investors from Iraq, the United States, South Korea and the United Kingdom applied last week to construct U.S.-engineered CDMA technology mobile-phone networks in Iraq, according to sources, despite indications the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority and new telecom ministry may be leaning...
WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc. said Monday that its suspension from doing business with the government could cost the company as much as $137 million by 2005.In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, WorldCom-now doing business as MCI-gave two different scenarios. One has it resuming...
WASHINGTON-The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc. on Wednesday approved the company's settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission."It represents additional validation of all the positive steps the company has taken over the past year to both put its house in order and...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Corp. responded bitterly to a recommendation from the inspector general of the General Services Administration that it be debarred from future government contracts."We find it outrageous that they would even consider this," said Sprint spokesman James Fisher. "There was no attempt on our...
WASHINGTON-As suspected due to last week's Pentagon press conference, the Coalition Provisional Authority has changed the rules regarding government ownership of telecommunications companies wanting to offer mobile-phone service in Iraq from 5 percent to 10 percent."No government shall directly or indirectly own more than...
WASHINGTON-The Coalition Provisional Authority may revisit a ban against government-owned telecommunications companies from winning a wireless license in Iraq, said a top military official on Friday afternoon."This is what the CPA needs to work out. That will be a factor in their thinking. If...
WASHINGTON-The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc., parent of SkyTel paging, delayed by two weeks the telecom giant's confirmation hearing. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez's decision followed a decision by the General Services Administration to debar WorldCom, doing business as MCI, from future government...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. was awarded the fixed-wireless assets of bankrupt WorldCom Inc. by Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez.Nextel will pay $144 million for the licenses. BellSouth Corp., which originally entered an agreement to buy the licenses for $65 million, will receive a $1.95 million breakup...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc.'s proposed $144 million sale of fixed wireless assets to Nextel Communications Inc. potentially faces far more obstacles than initially thought, a situation that a federal bankruptcy judge is set to address at a hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez...
WASHINGTON-The U.S.-led occupational force in Iraq will seek bids for three regional mobile-phone licenses in the war-ravaged nation, but growing security problems could undermine wireless and other telecom reconstruction efforts. The Coalition Provisional Authority, led by L. Paul Bremer, said it would...
WASHINGTON-U.S.-led coalition officials are expected within days to issue a tender for a regional mobile network in Iraq and schedule a conference in Amman, Jordan, on July 31 for prospective bidders, according to an administration source.The Iraq wireless solicitation, subject of much speculation and...
WASHINGTON-A federal bankruptcy court in New York postponed to July 22 a hearing on objections and other issues regarding WorldCom Inc.'s $144 million sale of its fixed wireless properties to Nextel Communications Inc. A court hearing in Manhattan was set for yesterday before being...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. two months ago. The results of the auction, conducted over long hours on...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., desperately seeking spectrum, came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. last month.The results of last week's auction were disclosed in...
In an industry drowning in acronyms and meaningless catch phrases, few labels are as hard to pin down as the European-derived mobile virtual network operator. Separately the words are familiar and seem to have meaning, but when put together to describe a business model...
