Byline: Jeffrey Silva The Federal Communications Commission normally would welcome a transaction of this kind, particularly in the post-9/11 world where having multiple telecom networks supports homeland security and economic objectives. But Leucadia National Corp., the New...
Paging providers acknowledge their businesses don't have the same pizzazz they enjoyed before cellular became popular and absorbed much of the paging customer base. But that doesn't mean these carriers are going to abandon their roots. While paging now is a...
The American Association of Paging Carriers AAPC is asking the Federal Communications Commission to trim a proposed monthly fee it would collect from one-way paging service providers from 25 cents to 5 cents per customer. The newly formed AAPC on Monday launched its regulatory lobbying for the paging industry...
Special To Wireless Week Editor's Note: This article is Part I of an excerpt from an autobiography that wireless pioneer Clayton Niles is preparing for his family. Watch .for Part II in an upcoming issue of Wireless Week. ...
WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission is accepting comments on a request from Space Data Research L.L.C. for a declaratory ruling or waiver to allow it to use balloons as base stations to offer two-way paging and other advanced messaging services. Space Data...
WASHINGTON--The FCC has scheduled a paging auction for June 26, but it's likely to generate about as much interest as another loss by the Chicago Bulls NBA basketball team. The auction is not expected to generate nearly the money that previous FCC...
The scene is late September 1995, and PCIA's annual convention is getting under way in Orlando, Fla. As wireless personnel attend standing-room-only seminars and browse shiny new products on the exhibit floor, few realize that this moment in time is a pivotal one for their industry--the...
The rapid evolution of wireless technologies and the convergence of wireless and computing has pushed PCIA to take a new tack with regulators and legislators, and head for the future. WASHINGTON--Call it an aperture adjustment. As new Internet and data applications are...
For 51 years PCIA has advocated for emerging wireless businesses, sometimes threatening established telecom interests. Today, the association prides itself on inclusiveness, diversity and a willingness to fight for its members. The Early Days Here's a piece...
WASHINGTON--Like the wildfires sweeping across America's dry acreage this summer, another courtroom loss has sparked a debate over the validity of paging auctions. Many smaller paging carriers oppose auctions, contending they make it more difficult to acquire spectrum when larger carriers, flush...
WASHINGTON--Echoing a grumble heard with increasing frequency in the age of spectrum auctions, some paging industry participants claim the FCC is revising license rules to fatten federal coffers. While nobody acquainted with the ways of Washington is shocked that the commission might...
The FCC's recent decision to uphold the rights of paging carriers to fair interconnection with local exchange carriers is a much-needed boost to the paging industry. The FCC says telephone companies cannot charge paging carriers for delivery of the telephone companies'...
* Ericsson won the contract to provide equipment for Vodafone AirTouch's planned 3G networks in the United Kingdom. * Sprint PCS network partner US Unwired Inc. priced its initial public stock offering at $11 per share, for gross proceeds of $88 ...
WASHINGTON--Flop or fabulous? Opinions differed about the FCC's recent auction for 900 MHz paging spectrum, which raised about $4 million for the U.S. Treasury and was dominated by incumbent messaging companies. At least one industry observer is not happy about it because...
Should the FCC remove the spectrum cap? When will wireless Internet services achieve mass-market acceptance? What will happen to the paging industry? How should the industry handle wireless phone health studies and driving safety? Wireless Week editorial staff members who cover these...
Business Editors/Technology Writers TYLER, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--March 3, 2000 Teletouch Communications, Inc. (AMEX:TLL) today announced that it was the winning bidder for 32 paging licenses auctioned by the FCC for the 900 MHz spectrum. The 900 MHz licenses will provide significant paging capacity for all of Teletouch's current markets...
WASHINGTON--Once again, big time financiers are showing up at an FCC spectrum auction with the likely intention of reselling for profit any licenses they snare. Industry insiders say Betapage Communications LLC, for instance, which has made the largest up-front deposit--$2 million--probably will...
FAIRFIELD, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 24, 1996-- -- Warrants now convertible at $2.25 instead of $5.00 -- Electronics Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: ELCC) announced today that the company's Board of Directors had authorized a reduction in the conversion price of the company's Class A Common Stock Purchase...
ON A CLEAR, WINTER AFTERNOON, A $6.5 MILLION TWIN-ENGINE Beechjet speeds quietly above storm clouds toward Atlanta and a meeting with the city's former mayor, Maynard Jackson, now chairman of Jackson Securities, a full-service brokerage firm. The eight-passenger aircraft, which flies higher and faster than commercial flights, features baby-soft, taupe...
On July 29, the Federal Communications Commission closed the auction for paging service frequencies with a total of $617 million in bids for 10 nationwide licenses. The FCC expects to take in around $35 million more for the 11th license sold early to Mobile Telecommunications Technologies...
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