BROWSING: Policy

PAGING NOT THREATENED BY PCS, INDUSTRYWIDE GROWTH PREDICTED

Growth in the paging industry exploded this year, led by public companies that have pushed boldly across market borders, stepped confidently into marriages of convenience and reaped tremendous opportunities from serving a new consumer-oriented market.The result is a 38 percent industry growth rate at...

NTIA REPORTS MINORITY FINANCING COULD TAKE UNCONVENTIONAL FORM

WASHINGTON-A new government study says minorities may have to adopt nontraditional financing strategies to break into the telecommunications market. The report, issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, concludes accessing capital through traditional sources, like banks, continues to be the major barrier to...

BUDGET BATTLE TO INCLUDE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON-The big budget battle of 1995 now unfolding in Congress will shape wireless telecommunications policy in a fierce debate expected to test the resolve of the new Republican majority and the resiliency of the sputtering Clinton presidency.Budget politics will touch almost everything in sight,...

ONCE SEEN AS A CLONE OF HUNDT, FCC'S NESS SHOWS INDIVIDUALITY

In unspectacular fashion, Susan Ness diligently immersed herself in spectrum auction and personal communications services rulemakings at the Federal Communications Commission soon after she was confirmed as a commissioner by the Senate in May.Such is the style of the former banking executive and House...

D.C. NOTEBOOK

Timing is everything.Ask Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, who took advantage of auction frenzy to send Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt a somber message.On the day before the Oct. 28 application filing deadline for the Dec. 5 broadband personal...

ONCE SEEN AS A CLONE OF HUNDT, FCC’S NESS SHOWS INDIVIDUALITY

In unspectacular fashion, Susan Ness diligently immersed herself in spectrum auction and personal communications services rulemakings at the Federal Communications Commission soon after she was confirmed as a commissioner by the Senate in May.Such is the style of the former banking executive and House...

PCIA SHOW HIGHLIGHTS GROWTH, OBSTACLES OF WIRELESS INDUSTRY

SEATTLE-The Personal Communications Industry Association's annual meeting started here last Wednesday with a bang but ended with a bust.About 7,000 people attended the three-day Personal Communications Showcase, more than double the attendance of last year's event. Exhibit and hotel space sold out early. About...