WASHINGTON-Just because the telecommunications industry is urging the Federal Communications Commission to order the cable industry to open up its cable modem platform to competing Internet service providers, that does not mean the FCC should require "open access" on all platforms-including wireless, said John...
WASHINGTON-While President Clinton and FCC Chairman William Kennard called on federal agencies, broadcasters and others to take steps to free up spectrum for third-generation wireless services, allegations surfaced last week that the administration lobbied against legislation that could have accomplished the same thing and...
WASHINGTON-Fixed-wireless carriers last week were praising both the Congress and the Federal Communications Commission for rules they say will help them gain access to federal government and business customers in multitenant buildings.Congress included language in the transportation appropriations bill that prohibits landlords of buildings...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said its @ctiveLink two-way wireless messaging module for the Handspring Visor is commercially available, bundled with the handheld device.The module gives two-way wireless connectivity to the Visor for e-mail and messaging capabilities. It connects to the devices via the Springboard...
WASHINGTON-With worries in some quarters that America will lose the third-generation mobile- phone market to Europe and Asia, the blame game has begun.Leading the finger-pointing is John Stanton, chief executive officer of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and chairman of the Cellular Telecom-munications Industry Association.Stanton, addressing...
WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun' in the form of a legal memo on a license agreement between BroadBand Office and a national real estate company that imposes a 12-month...
While the United States claimed victory in securing global frequency bands for 3G mobile-phone service during the World Radiocomm-unication Conference earlier this year, the process of allocating that spectrum could become a nightmare for the U.S. wireless industry.The U.S. delegation during May's WRC-2000 accomplished...
DENVER, United States-With services already up and running in the Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Sprint said it filed a series of applications with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the U.S. telecom regulator, to extend its fixed wireless broadband services to 45 additional...
WASHINGTON-While the Communications Workers of America succeeded in winning concessions that make it easier to organize wireless workers at Verizon Communications-the nation's largest mobile phone and local telephone company-the prospect for widespread wireless unionization is challenged by a confluence of forces that conspire against...
WorldCom Inc. moved one step closer to officially jumping into the wireless broadband game by filing last week its first round of applications with the Federal Communications Commission to offer fixed wireless broadband services in more than 60 markets nationwide, beginning with Memphis during...
NEW YORK-Merger prospects tend to have a significant impact on a company's share price, although the degree of that influence can be difficult to precisely identify.The second-largest domestic personal communications services carrier, VoiceStream Wireless Corp., saw its stock price rise by less than $5,...
Pinnacle Holdings reversed itself last week on an announcement it made earlier this month that it planned to pursue opportunities in the colocation facility business.Long a renter of space on towers, the Sarasota, Fla.-based company had said it wanted to branch out to host...
Enticed by the tremendous expected demand for wireless broadband services, Loop Technologies Inc., based in Ridgeland, Miss., soon will offer high-speed data-only service in several major cities around the country.Loop recently entered into a Business Unit Alliance agreement with Cisco Systems Inc. to purchase...
The Federal Communications Commission has extended by 45 days the deadline by which carriers must report their telephone number utilization. A coalition of telecommunications trade associations had urged the FCC to extend the Aug. 1 deadline by 90 days.The FCC told the chairman of...
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...
WASHINGTON-Deutsche Telekom AG, after announcing its intent to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp. , spent last week trying to kill an appropriations bill rider that could kill the deal and others like it involving purchases of U.S. telecom firms by companies majority owned by foreign...
Nextel Communications Inc. added more than 677,000 new proportionate subscribers during the second quarter, giving the company approximately 6.2 million global subscribers, the company said.The company's growing subscriber base is a reflection of industrywide growth and demand. As such, Nextel President and Chief Executive...
WASHINGTON-The high-flying mobile-phone industry-poised to pick up its 100 millionth subscriber this week-could soon find itself in the throes of a major consumer backlash.Complaints about mobile-phone service-including dropped calls, busy signals, dead spots, improper billing, false advertising and poor customer service-have begun to resonate...
NEW ORLEANS-Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group and WorldCom Inc. revealed the first details of the Breckenridge Agreement, a document established to ensure the cooperation of wireless broadband carriers building systems in adjacent markets.The agreement encompasses carriers operating in the multichannel multipoint distribution service, multipoint...
NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...
It's Rummage Sale season.If one man's junk is another man's treasure, the insurance, health-care and financial industries should find some great bargains in today's wireless world-basically used names and logos.For the most part, wireless companies do it right. When two companies get together, they...
Let the bidding frenzy begin. Possibilities are blowing open now that Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. ended their $115 billion merger plans and reports of suitors for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. circulated last week.Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG and a partnership of Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo...
WASHINGTON-As Congress raises national security concerns about global telecom mergers, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.-the Japanese parent company of arguably the world's top mobile-phone Internet operator-confirmed last week the FBI is scrutinizing its proposed $5.5 billion purchase of a Colorado Internet firm."All that we...
As regulators seemingly around the world wrestled the life out of the Sprint-WorldCom merger last week and everyone and their brother speculated about who now might partner with whom as a result, I couldn't keep my mind off the contradictory stage being set across...
