AT&E Corp has filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission – that means the shares or bonds are there to be sold, but that the issuer has no particular date in mind with regard to shares bought from the company in recent private placements by Cincinnati Bell Inc; the Compagnie Generale des Communications SA subsidiary of FranceTelecom; and Chief Holdings Inc; the shelf registration relates to 986,168 shares owned by the three; plus 29,125 shares to be issued to Chief on conversion in part of a convertible loan under a prior agreement with that company; and 750,000 shares that may be issued by from time to time over the next two years to FM radio station licensees in lieu of cash payments for options to lease, or leases, of FM subcarriers by the firm, which is setting up a paging service using wristwatch pagers.
