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First, the confusing color-coded threat alerts. Then, the duck tape and plastic-sheeting quacker. Next, cybersecurity chaos that continues to this day. Now this. On Sept. 22, testifying before a House …

October is a scary month, full of goblins, ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Wireless is scary business too. Have you noticed all the issues that once …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Senate Wednesday sacrificed commercial-spectrum users in an attempt to require TV broadcasters to give back spectrum in the 700 MHz band if public-safety shows a bona fide need …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell plans to present for a vote at either the November or December meetings of the Federal Communications Commission a Media Bureau plan to set an end …

WASHINGTON-The wireless and public-safety communities lost another battle for 700 MHz spectrum to the powerful TV broadcasting lobby. Last week started out well: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the …

WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin …

Oh to be a TV broadcaster. Just when you think all is lost, the dice roll your way, yet again. All summer, it appeared that TV broadcasters were going to …

WASHINGTON-House Democrats today criticized the Bush administration for delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system, but a homeland security official told lawmakers progress is now being made, and a …

WASHINGTON-The 700 MHz spectrum situation just got worse. The Senate Commerce Committee voted 13-9 Wednesday to possibly never require TV broadcasters to return spectrum in the 700 MHz band. “The …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. has signed on as the official communications service provider to the Academy of Television Arts & Science’s 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday night. …

A flurry of announcements Friday brought European mobile users one step closer to watching video broadcasts on their handsets. In three separate announcements: Handset manufacturers Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc., Sony …

NEW YORK-Redline Communications announced that New York’s Channel 13/WNET television station is using broadband wireless for two-way broadcast applications between remote sites and its production studios in downtown Manhattan as …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell called on Congress to codify the agency’s recently adopted plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band. Such a move would mean that Nextel …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration and the high-tech sector oppose Japan’s proposal to add a user fee to unlicensed wireless devices, arguing it would undercut consumer demand and stifle development of wireless …

Sprint PCS introduced a new multimedia message service that can deliver more than 600 new streaming audio and video clips per day to subscribers carrying the new Samsung MM-A700. MobiTV …

I’m not-so-officially declaring 2004 the year of wireless data. Anyone who has been in the industry for a while knows that “next year” has been the year of wireless data …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday adopted rules designed to hasten the transition to digital TV, but did not say how it plans to handle broadcast extension requests after Dec. 31, …

A hard nationwide date for the end of the transition to digital TV will reduce the value of the spectrum to be auctioned to the commercial wireless industry, complained John …

WASHINGTON-A hard nationwide date for the end of the transition to digital TV will reduce the value of the spectrum to be auctioned to the commercial wireless industry, complained John …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. remains silent as to whether it plans to accept a government offer to pay $5 billion in cash and spectrum to gain access to spectrum in the …

Nextel Communications Inc. will pay nearly $5 billion in both cash and spectrum to gain access to spectrum in the 1.9 GHz band, according to a plan adopted Thursday by …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission planned July 8 vote on its solution to the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band likely won’t resolve the issue, as details of the …

Crown Castle International Corp. last week confirmed it is selling its U.K. business, including 3,600 tower sites, to British utility company National Grid Transco plc for $2.035 billion cash. “The …

LAS VEGAS-Left Right Marketing Technology Inc. said it expects to close its acquisition of NeoLink Wireless Content Inc. by July 31. NeoLink Wireless offers the MobiTV wireless broadcast platform that …

Wireless solutions designed specifically for nurses, the largest healthcare group in the U.S. and the biggest users of IT systems in hospitals, could streamline the otherwise inefficient healthcare field. But …