WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $63.9 million, a significant increase over the $40.8 million reported for second-quarter 1998. Powertel recorded net earnings of $60.6 million, or $2.19 per basic share, compared …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. was dealt a major blow last week by the Federal Communications Commission, which told the nation’s top dispatch operator it cannot use private wireless spectrum to build out its nationwide network. “This portion of Nextel’s [waiver] request …
Poor Tom Daschle. First, the Senate minority leader from South Dakota is handily rebuffed by the GOP in a high-profile fight over managed health-care reform. A big sticking point: Liability protection for HMOs. Sound familiar? Then Daschle gets deluged with …
I say ol’ chap, want to know how you rate as a reporter of mobile phone health & safety issues in the United Kingdom? Ring up the Federation of the Electronics Industry. Not that they’ll tell you, but the folks …
ATLANTA-Crown Castle International Corp. and BellSouth Corp. reached a preliminary agreement that calls for BellSouth to sublease the unused space on its 773 personal communications services towers to Crown Castle for $317 million in cash. In addition, Crown Castle’s and …
WASHINGTON-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle’s (D-S.D.) move to pre-empt the planning commission here from deciding on Bell Atlantic Mobile’s Rock Creek Park tower applications set off protests from local officials, environmentalists and others last week, setting the stage for a …
WASHINGTON-Even as the National Capital Planning Commission was voting to further delay the siting of two Bell Atlantic Mobile towers in Rock Creek Park, the Senate was voting to override the NCPC. Sen. Thomas A. Daschle, the Democratic leader from …
DENVER-Wireless carriers may be sitting on a revenue stream that would be relatively easy and cost-effective to deploy, according to Len Gee, vice president of North American Sales for Wireless Inc., a provider of wireless access communications systems for IP …
WASHINGTON-The close of the six-year, $27 million Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. program has re-energized a public debate about whether mobile telephones cause cancer or pose other health problems to the nation’s 70 million wireless subscribers. Indeed, WTR Chairman George Carlo …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. raised $850 million last week from the sale of two 12-year note issues totaling $482 million and a secondary offering of 21 million shares of common stock priced at $17.50 each. Goldman, Sachs and Co. and …
As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a way to hold on to their customers. With strong brand names, customer bases and billing capability, …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. said it entered into an agreement to acquire 73 towers in Louisiana and southeast Texas for $19 million in cash.
MCLEAN, Va.-SpectraSite Communications Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced an agreement under which SpectraSite will purchase 2,000 Nextel towers and build 1,700 more for $560 million in cash. Nextel, for its part, negotiated an 18-percent ownership interest in SpectraSite. SpectraSite …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. acquired six towers in two acquisitions last week. The towers are located in Mississippi and Arkansas.
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and full Internet access for $40 a month. Novatel Wireless Inc. …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. and Bell Atlantic Mobile have closed a $660 million transaction involving a five-year exclusive build-to-suit program, the construction of 1,460 wireless towers and the establishment of Crown Atlantic Holding Co. L.L.C., a joint venture formed to …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 85 wireless towers located in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, in a series of five transactions. These towers add to the more than 900 towers Pinnacle already owns in …
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M.-After determining traditional telephone landlines would be too expensive, Excel Communications Corp. and Solectek Corp. suggested the Native American community of Isleta, N.M, use a wireless solution to connect the 15 business offices on the pueblo, said the …
Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial equipment. BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it selected Compass Telecom Services …
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it acquired from CommStructures Communications Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., 10 towers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and a build-to-suit contract for 11 towers in the same area. The towers in Louisiana have PrimeCo …
Nextel Communications Inc. said it more than doubled its 1998 subscriber unit base to a total of 2.96 million, adding more than 1.5 million domestic digital subscribers during the year, including 372,500 new subscribers during the fourth quarter. The enhanced …
VANCOUVER, Wash.-WesTower Corp. announced a build-to-suit agreement with Houston Cellular Telephone Co. WesTower will build a portion of Houston Cellular’s towers in the Houston area in 1999 and 2000 under the agreement.
Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about how wrong the early subscriber forecasts were, while putting out …
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile has reached an agreement with the National Park Service that should produce a decision on whether the controversial antenna towers can be built in Rock Creek Park by the middle of April. The agreement could be precedent-setting …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with JP Realty Inc. in Salt Lake City to manage the radio-frequency communications equipment facilities located on JP Realty’s property. Increasingly, wireless communications service providers are placing their equipment on the …
