BROWSING: Towers

NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing "Go" means collecting a lot more than $200.Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new federal telecommunications law which, "sets explicit national (tower) siting standards resulting from a negotiated rulemaking...

BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta.The symbolic torch is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from Greece on April 27. Then after...

One of the most important issues facing all wireless carriers is how to achieve rapid deployment of new networks and overcome local opposition to multiple facilities in areas where existing wireless facilities are present. The logical solution is to seek collocation opportunities on existing...

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.-On a clear day, you can look south and see the Manhattan skyline from the landmark hilltop house of Steve Preston, who owns and leases towers for wireless transmissions. But Preston has his sights set north where he sees the chance for...

Armed with about 4,000 users on its digital specialized mobile radio system, the Southern Co. is marketing its services to businesses in the southeastern United States, going head-to-head with the nation's largest SMR operator, Nextel Communications Inc.Southern is the parent corporation for five utility...

JANUARY22-23 Liberalization and Privatization of International Telecommunications: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Competitive Market, by The Adam Smith Institute. Inter-Continental Hotel, Geneva. 44-171-490-3774.22-24 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.24 PCS...

JANUARY16-17 Telecom Opportunities in Latin America, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.17-19 Mobile Communications Conference: Wireless on the Move, by Frost & Sullivan. Westin Hotel Galleria, Dallas. (212) 964-7000.18 Spectrum Refarming Seminar: The Revolution Continues, by the Industrial Telecommunications Association. St. Louis...

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday was expected to propose industry-crafted reforms governing interconnection compensation arrangements between commercial mobile radio service providers and local exchange companies, and put the proposed guidelines into effect during the time the rulemaking is pending.Wireless carriers, under a reciprocal...

It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...

WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while providing the two warring factions a public forum to continue fighting.The Federal Communications Commission's proposal would enable initially licensed PCS...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission last week approved streamlined antenna structure registration procedures that make owners rather than licensees primarily responsible for complying with construction, painting and lighting requirements.At the same time, the FCC revised antenna painting and lighting rules to conform to...

The Antenna Co. said it now is offering a portable hands-free kit that requires the cellular subscriber to plug one end of the speaker into the phone and the other into the cigarette lighter. At the touch of a button, the wireless microphone is...

The tower industry has banded together as the National Association of Tower Erectors to address collective issues of operations and safety and to affect industry-initiated standards. The nonprofit organization represents communications tower erectors, service contractors, maintenance companies, vendors and manufacturers across the nation.Safety is...

Cellular One said it introduced FreedomLink Personal Communications System to businesses in western New York. The system operates as an extension to an existing office phone system by using very low power cellular frequencies to communicate with the office's existing phone system. This enables...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's proposed microwave relocation cost-sharing plan would free personal communications services operators of their financial obligation to 2 GHz fixed users by 2005, a policy shift that could hit rural microwave licensees hard.The PCS industry and microwave advocates each found reason...

While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...

While some microwave incumbents are being unreasonable, others are negotiating fairly, reaching agreements and making plans to move their microwave links from the 2 GHz spectrum, according to telecom and utility people involved in the process."It's unfair to tarnish the image of the microwave...

American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission towers.The relationship could help APC leap over some of cellular's long-time site acquisition hurdles-zoning board battles. Electric utilities are well...

Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers. Consideration for the transaction totaled $135,000 in cash, consisting of two semiannual payments of $65,000 during a 12-month period. Specialty,...

The summer's battle between the adjoining New York cities of White Plains and North Castle has ended, with the state Supreme Court ruling in favor of White Plains.The dispute began last spring when Nynex Mobile received permission from White Plains to erect a monopole...

The personal communications services industry is buzzing with discussions of technology, the consumer, equipment infrastructure, merging, financing, site acquisition, capitalization, innovation, deregulation, litigation and the list goes on.However, the tremendous job market opening up in PCS and affiliated businesses has been understated. PCS companies...

A Richardson, Texas, business is offering utility companies the chance to have a two-way wireless communications network with automated meter reading without the full capital expense of building a network."Because utility companies are facing competition today, they have to protect their market as well...

For more than 30 years, microwave communications systems have been used by utilities, oil and gas pipeline companies, railroads and municipalities to provide basic services to the American public including energy and transportation services, heating, air conditioning, power and fuel. Even public-safety agencies rely...

ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are willing to assume enormous financial risk, on the order of tens of billions of dollars-an unprecedented level of risk-taking by...