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WASHINGTON-A Clinton administration aide last week denied that industry or political pressure has played a part in delaying the issuance of a White House report advocating mobile phones and other …

WASHINGTON-The Baltimore law firm that earlier this month filed a mobile-phone cancer lawsuit against several wireless firms and two industry trade associations is expected to file additional lawsuits as early …

Wall Street insiders may lose some of their edge after a ruling last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission preventing officials of public companies from providing information to select …

The Federal Communications Commission has extended by 45 days the deadline by which carriers must report their telephone number utilization. A coalition of telecommunications trade associations had urged the FCC …

Legislation by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from approving the transfer of licenses from an American telecommunications company, such as VoiceStream Wireless Corp., was included …

Fires, floods, avalanches, carjackings. Disaster at every turn. This is everyday Americana? Yes, according to CTIA head Tom Wheeler at last week’s CTIA’s Wireless Foundation Awards dinner honoring 51 VITA …

WASHINGTON-The wireless and wireline industries are battling it out at the Federal Communications Commission over how much they should pay to connect the other’s calls. Sprint PCS asked the FCC …

WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council has asked the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a rule that LMCC says should significantly reduce the number of faulty coordination complaints the FCC receives. …

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors. All …

WASHINGTON-A proposal from the Federal Communications Commission to fund telephone service for Native Americans has come under fire from both inside the commission and the wireless trade associations. FCC Chairman …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has reduced the minimum bid amounts for the June 14 auction of 104 guard-band licenses in the 700 MHz band. The maximum opening bid will now …

WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king. The trade association again delivered a set of …

A corporate merger is not unlike a marriage. Two separate parties enter the union with two individual identities, and emerge from the ceremony as one entity, committed to achieving common …

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers were largely exempted, for now, from rules adopted last Friday by the Federal Communications Commission to establish thousand-number block pooling in an effort to reduce the ever-increasing need …

SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia and Visa International signed a global agreement to cooperate on the development of payment solutions for mobile electronic commerce. The deal calls for the companies to develop ways …

Aether Systems Inc., that wireless data wonder out of Owings Mills, Md., is on a roll. Baby, they’re hot! The rage of Wall Street. Aether stock, offered at $16 last …

WASHINGTON-A major controversy with national implications has erupted in Massachusetts over draft legislation that would promote antenna siting collocation and streamline siting approval for carriers throughout the state, despite protests …

WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler has close financial and business ties to two top wireless data firms-an arrangement CTIA’s top board members are comfortable with while others see …

WASHINGTON-The United States Telecom Association will not lobby on behalf of wireless carriers even as it attempts to broaden its focus and include wireless carriers in its membership, said USTA …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected to revise wireless enhanced 911 rules that would eliminate the cost-recovery obligation that now must be met before E911 services have to be deployed. …

The GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward worldwide interoperability between GSM and TDMA technologies. The nearly 490 …

The Wireless Application Protocol had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month life span during Telecom ’99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers, vendors and content providers displaying WAP …

Lucent Technologies Inc. will be noticeably absent when the Personal Communications Industry Association kicks off its 2000 showcase next September in Chicago. The infrastructure vendor has told PCIA it plans …

The wireless industry has yet another trade show under its belt. It’s time to sit back and take a deep breath before all hell breaks loose in preparation for the …

FREMONT, California, United States-ePhone Telecom announced it secured an initial agreement with Saigon Postel Corp. (SPC) to develop a fixed wireless local loop network in Vietnam. SPC has the authority …