DENVER-Dobson Communications Corp. announced an affiliate has acquired 75-percent owner-ship in the Gila River Cellular G.P. through partnership agreements. The interests were acquired from Tohona O’odham Utility Authority and other …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc. confirmed Monday its speculative grade ratings, all in the `B’ range, on $1.4 billion of debt and preferred stock either outstanding or pending issue by …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service placed the long-term debt ratings of Ameritech Corp., Chicago, and the affiliates it supports under review for possible downgrade. The rating agency announcement, which affects about …
Ameritech Corp. announced it will invest $3.2 billion to become a strategic partner in Tele Danmark, helping the company speed up its domestic and international growth. Through a two-step transaction, …
CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. assigned a BBB rating to Aerial Communications Inc.’s $100 million proposed offering of 10-year series B zero coupon notes. The notes are unconditionally guaranteed …
PAOLI, Pa.-Conestoga Wireless selected Orga Card Systems, a supplier of Global System for Mobile communications subscriber identity module cards, to provide smart cards for use with its personal communications services. …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced commitments from two cellular operators to deploy its ClearSite receiver subsystems in their base stations. According to Conductus, the ClearSite superconductor-based receiver subsystem improves network quality, …
WASHINGTON-Amid an uproar of protest within an earshot of the White House against China’s human and religious rights record and its sale of nuclear technology to rogue states, President Clinton …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. said it sold to Citibank its $132 million vendor financing loan facility with Omnipoint Communications Inc. Ericsson is one of two suppliers of Global System for Mobile …
WASHINGTON-Perhaps in a long-awaited move to mirror wireless billing practices around the world, the Federal Communications Commission released a notice of inquiry into the possibility of calling party pays in …
TAMPA, Fla.-BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it plans to launch its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network early next year in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area. The service area …
NEW YORK-Despite recent volatility in the equities markets and lawsuits against it by six competing carriers, Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, apparently still plans to proceed by mid-November with its …
WASHINGTON-If statistics and probability are indicators, the auction of 525 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services licenses that began last Tuesday could be over sometime this week, with Nextel Communications …
NORCROSS, Ga.-Ameritel Communications Inc. plans to expand its cellular services coverage to include an additional population of 80 million, bringing to more than 200 million the total population covered, announced …
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.’s board of directors authorized the company to repurchase up to $1 billion of its common and preferred stock. AirTouch said it plans to buy shares occasionally …
LOS ANGELES-Specialized mobile radio carriers AirCom L.L.C., TelAll Corp., Alaska Communications, Cardiff Communications, South Central Radio, Unitel Inc. and Lancelot Holding Corp. agreed in principle to merge their companies and …
WASHINGTON-In a stunning setback and reversal of fortune for the wireless industry, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) last week introduced legislation to gut antenna siting pre-emption provisions …
WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital multipoint local network systems for deployment …
CellPort Labs Inc. introduced its second-generation communications server platform for wireless data applications in intelligent vehicle communications. Formerly called Mobile Web, the renamed C/P Connect server platform is “an embedded, …
NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of …
