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PUBLIC DEBT OFFERING REGISTERED BY ADVANCED RADIO TELECOM CORP.

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service that went public last year, has registered to sell a public offering of debt and stock-purchase warrants. In documents filed Jan. 16 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ART, headquartered in...

REVENUE, RATHER THAN RF, NEEDS TO LEAD SITE ACQUISITION PROCESS

More than a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission completed its first ever auction for both narrowband and broadband personal communications services frequencies. The winners are racing to design, acquire and build out their new digital networks. Some of these PCS systems...

GREAT GROWTH IS EXPECTED FOR LATIN AMERICAN CELLULAR SERVICES

NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, "where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases," rising gross domestic product signals increasing financing demands for wireless communications infrastructure buildout."GDP and demographics look good; there is a correlation between GDP and telephone penetration,"...

NEXTEL’S AKERSON FOCUSES ON TRANSITIONING CUSTOMERS TO DIGITAL

WASHINGTON-At night, when most people are asleep, Dan Akerson thinks about Rubik's Cubes. Relating the colors and squares on the device to possible marketing strategies, he toys with going beyond the colored surfaces and into the deeper relationships that connect the pieces.The new chairman...

AIR COMMUNICATIONS ADDS SECU RITY OPTION

DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the phone last fall. It uses the company's proprietary AirTrue transmission protocol to offer voice, fax and circuit-switched data service on...

HILL HEATING UP AS TELECOM BATTLE BREWS

WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress this fall will tackle landmark budget and telecommunications bills as part of a legislative agenda so sweeping and historic in scope that the outcome may well determine the success or failure of the year-old Republican revolution and provide an early barometer...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Horizon Cellular Group has acquired the Georgia 2 rural service area in northeast Georgia from Southern Cellular Inc. This addition brings Horizon's total population equivalents up to approximately 2.9 million in 14 markets. It expands Horizon's presence around Atlanta to 460,000 pops.USA Mobile Communications...