More bad news for the wireless telecom industry on the RF front. The Communications Workers of America is throwing its full weight behind an appeal in the D.C. circuit to overturn the 1996 hybrid RF exposure standard.
Organized labor, which threw $35 million at the ’96 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, showed its disapproval with the White House fast-track trade initiative by joining with liberal Dems to kill the legislation before Congress adjourned.
… Good news for wireless local loop providers, with FCC proposal to give them flexibility to compete at 39 GHz against Baby Bells, GTE and independents for business traffic.
… Bad news for Maryland Eastern Shore ducks when Rep. John Dingell, ranking Dem on the House Commerce Committee, and campaign contributors come hunting Dec. 17-18.
The cost for joining Big John to blast the cute feathery creatures, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is $2,500 (personal funds); $3,500 (PAC funds) and $6,000 (nonfederal corporate, labor union treasury funds). The ducks pay the biggest price.
… Good news for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Fortune magazine ranked CTIA as 107th most powerful special interest group in America.
The bad news is CTIA President Tom Wheeler is tagged as “overpaid” because of his $542,805 annual salary.
Gosh, let me see. All Wheeler has done is help deregulate the wireless industry, secure President Clinton’s signature on an executive order to force federal agencies to make way for antennas, take on the FBI, hackers and the Baby Bells, put wireless technology in needy schools and overall help write one of the biggest consumer product success stories in U.S. history (50 million subscribers and growing). The man is obviously underpaid.
… Now then, new FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth doesn’t have a TV or Internet service, but has five kids. And he was sworn in by pro-lifer Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Makes sense to me.
… Low-tech could mean high profits for Chadmoore Wireless Group SMR business. Las Vegas-based Chadmoore, the last of the Mohicans, announced it has turned on service in 154 small-and medium-sized markets with an aggregate population of 40 million in the Midwest and Southeast.
The news here is that Chadmoore is not an ESMR. It’s a regular 800 MHz analog SMR.
