Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company's headquarters in Hoffman Estates to Woodstock,...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
The Eugene, Ore., City Council has proposed a four-month moratorium on tower building for wireless phone services that has some operators sympathetic and others calling their attorneys.Eugene officials and citizens are concerned not only with aesthetics and health-related issues, but with "the unknown," said...
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States rights vs. federal rights.It's an argument that is becoming more and more common in today's wireless industry.It's certainly not a new argument, and it's certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, it is probably one of the...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association has endorsed the EDR-Site Locator manufactured by EDR-Wireless Group, a division of EDR Inc. The EDR-Site Locator, a map-based database of nearly 1 million existing and potential wireless antenna sites, will be updated daily and maintained by EDR...
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...
Motorola Inc. unveiled the XTS 3000, its next generation portable radio. The XTS 3000 is smaller than the Astro Saber portable and has several enhancements. The radio comes in two models: the XTS 3000 Model I, a pure talk-and-listen radio, and a similar model, the...
Collocation is the latest trend to sweep the industry for the acquisition of wireless communications sites. There are several incentives for carriers to enter into collocation agreements.The ability to collocate allows the sublessee to avoid a large expenditure of capital if it can locate...
Hosting this week's PCS '96 conference and expo in San Francisco is Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association; as many as 15,000 people are expected to attend this year's event. Kitchen, who also served at the helm of the National Association...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
CLEVELAND-Allen Telecom Group will introduce seven new products at PCS '96 this week.The PMR-722GC1 Sector-Extender Repeater and a new line of tower mounted amplifiers are designed to enhance base station performance.The Surveyor Digital Wireless System Test Platform is a system analysis tool for network...
RALEIGH, N.C.-North Sight Communications Inc. of Levittown, Puerto Rico, has selected SmartLink Development L.P. to supply and install a multiprotocol trunking and networking system behind its 800 MHz channels throughout Puerto Rico.North Sight will use SmartLink's trunking and networking controllers behind its repeaters and...
Allen Telecom Group's Telecom Systems Division introduced NanoLite, a fiber optic microcell system the company said allows service providers to select locations for optimum cell site coverage while reducing site-related costs. The NanoLite remote unit can be mounted on utility poles, billboards, buildings and...
LEWISTON, N.Y.-New York Power Authority trustees have approved an agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to allow the personal communications services operator to install antennas on NYPA transmission towers.NYPA said the 10-year agreement authorizes Sprint to install the first antenna at a site on the...
To the Editor: I am writing to clarify the law applicable to state and local regulation of personal wireless service providers, as discussed by Susan H.R. Jones in her article titled, "Who is in charge here?" in the Aug. 5 issue of RCR. Specifically, Ms....
WASHINGTON-Sometime this week, the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Department should be able to use most capabilities of an $18 million Enhanced Digital Access Communications Systems radio system being installed by Ericsson GE Mobile Communications. However, county commissioners still slapped the Lynchburg, Va., manufacturer with...
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission denied all arguments and affirmed its decision to charge Centel Cellular Co. of North Carolina with "endanger public safety for a period of five months" when it constructed in 1993 a 187-ft.-tall antenna tower without permission and without...
The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too many jobs and not enough people."It took a period of 10 years to build out the cellular networks, 11,500 facilities....
Some of the nation's most powerful industries said they have been "too quiet, too long" about the U.S. government's auction hunger, and have formed an alliance to make sure businesses can keep their private radio channels and are included in radio plans for the...
WASHINGTON-In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has focused the bulk of its attention on meeting and beating congressional telecom-reform mandates, the most recent of which involved adopting an order outlining the regulatory structure of local competition. Many commission projects-including several far-reaching wireless dockets-have...
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: The transition to digital technology will continue to grow, adding new voice and data services,...
The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. That was before Congress added the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the picture.Underlying all...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
