WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week went on the offensive to put in place a technical standard that will allow carriers to alert subscribers of an impending natural disaster or weather emergency.Also, James L. Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, last...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has petitioned a federal appeals court here to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision in April to eliminate equal employment opportunity rules governing telecommunications licensees.Though it addressed broadcast EEO rules, the ruling has potential hiring implications for the wireless industry."The rules...
Jefferson, it is said, believed a revolution once every generation wasn't such a bad thing for the republic. Today, if you look around at everything from the two-party political system and the Big Money that controls it, to the failed telecom act, revolution starts...
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of all paging subscribers in the country found themselves without service due to a faulty...
Creativity is becoming key for wireless carriers trying to build out their networks amidst resistance from local municipalities that in some cases have gone as far as placing moratoria on new tower sites.The wireless industry is facing hundreds of moratoria in communities concerned about...
BOULDER, Colo.-If Boulder, Colo., had experienced flooding last week, SCC Communications Corp. and U S West Communications Inc. might have been able to help the city notify residents that they needed to evacuate.But the city had sunny skies last Wednesday when it held its...
NEW YORK-Transco Research Corp., a provider of prepaid cellular and wireline calling cards, is at the center of a federal investigation into stock pickers who accept money from the companies they promote.A grand jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan unsealed a 29-count indictment...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's long-awaited decision on what should happen with low-power private wireless systems during refarming has been delayed by concerns over interference with heart monitors.The Land Mobile Communications Council submitted a plan last June to deal with low-power systems but operators of...
GlobalStar Telecommunications Ltd. announced that China Telecom Group Ltd. has agreed to invest $37.5 million to become a full partner in Globalstar L.P.China Telecom, which provides fixed and wireless services in China, along with China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp., will retain the sole rights...
Last week, conservative wordsmith and Baltimore Orioles baseball fan George Will cheered the recent federal appeals court decision to throw out FCC broadcast equal employment opportunity rules put on the books three decades ago in the twilight of Mays, Mantle and Clemente, before the...
RogersRogers Corp. introduced thin versions of its Poron urethane foam designed for making thin gaskets and pads used in pagers, personal organizers, cellular phones and global positioning systems. The Poron 4701-50 materials are cast in thicknesses down to 0.017 inch (0.43 mm), which produces...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Inc. Mobile Phones and Terminals announced it will be the exclusive presenting sponsor of Grammy Award winning singer Celine Dion for her 1998-1999 North American concert tour, "Lets Talk About Love."Dion sings "My Heart Will Go On," this year's Academy Award-winning song...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected blow to government efforts to foster diversity in the fast-growing telecommunications industry, a federal appeals court here last week repealed some Federal Communications Commission equal employment opportunity rules and put another nail in the coffin of affirmative action.The ruling of the...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has introduced three second-generation decoder chips and related software drivers to support the recently announced FLEX G1.9 high-speed, one-way paging protocol upgrade.The new one-chip solution integrates digital FM demodulation functionality that previously was available only through off-chip, multiple...
WASHINGTON-As the Justice Department broadens its antitrust probe of WorldCom Inc.'s proposed $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications Corp., Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition is using the mega-merger as a springboard to advocate increased diversification in the booming telecommunications industry.Last week, Jackson, Federal Communications...
NEW YORK-Globo Comunicagues e Participagues S.A., doing business as Globopar, plans to sell a $300 million issue of 10-year senior unsecured notes to refinance a bridge loan and short-term debt.Globopar, headquartered in Rio de Janiero, is Brazil's leading media and telecommunications company. It has...
Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers powered by the Windows CE operating system to receive personal, group and broadcast wireless messages. The agreement combines Socket's data...
Much hype has surrounded information services and what they mean to the future of the paging industry.By providing customers with information-such as news, sports scores and stock quotes-carriers hope to both change the perception of paging as a simple communications tool to that of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may have violated a key telecom provision of the 1997 budget act by making idle frequencies available to a paging company instead of to a Southern California public-safety agency that had sought them two-and-a-half years ago.Less than two months after...
BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We have come to Xizhimen, an area where narrow streets are lined by small "mom-and-pop" stores,...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
Imagine a reseller being able to offer paging services to thousands of customers while only paying a carrier for one cap code.Stop imagining.WireLink Communication Inc.-a small pager manufacturer based in Upland, Calif., new to the industry and relatively unheard of-said it has created a...
United States Cellular Corp. appointed Paul Henri Denuit to a special committee of the board of directors that will consider how the company should respond to a proposal from its parent organization, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. He has been on the board of...
WASHINGTON-After two years, is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 a success or failure? In the eyes of Washington telecom insiders, is it an industry boon or an industry bust? Right now, it's even money."You need to get some perspective on this," said Kathryn Brown,...
