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As far as first press conferences go, new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard did well. In fact, he was nearly flawless as far as these thing go. Relaxed, composed …

WASHINGTON-Federal telecom regulators, under fire from Congress, have proposed allocating more spectrum for little low-earth-orbit mobile satellites even though such a move may prove incompatible with land-based wireless communications. The …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton’s four picks for the Federal Communications Commission won approval by the Senate Commerce Committee last week, and there were new indications that the nomination of William Kennard for …

WASHINGTON-Rather than voting publicly on the pending public-safety allocation item announced on the sunshine agenda, Federal Communications Commissioners last Thursday chose to spend their last open meeting together patting each …

A Federal Express drop-box pages a route driver letting him know that it received no packages that day and that a stop is not necessary. A beer distributor sends an …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined the wireless industry in fighting back White House and congressional budgeteer efforts to add spectrum fees and toll-free number auctions to balanced …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee last week rejected spectrum fees and toll-free telephone number auctions, but embraced lease fees for private wireless licensees in budget legislation lawmakers concede will fail to …

As a procrastinator from birth, I’m usually not one to point fingers at slackers. During my school years, long-term projects were put on the back burner until the night before …

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee approved expanded spectrum auction legislation last week amid an uproar over signs the bill falls well short of the five-year, $26.3 billion target negotiated by congressional …

Over the past couple years, telecom lawmakers were known to have taken a shot or two at budgeteers if the subject of spectrum auctions happened to come up. The quips …

WASHINGTON-A major fracas erupted in the House telecommunications subcommittee last week when lawmakers rebelled against congressional budget instructions to raise $26.3 billion from spectrum auctions during the next five years. …

In the beginning, it was Reed Who? But by last week’s resignation announcement, the only question was, When? Arguably the most controversial, yet most constructive Federal Communications Commission chairman in …

Noise/Com Inc. introduced its BS-800 Dual Interference Signal Generators to aid in interference testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access base stations. The products include two …

As any business owner stuck with cartons of obsolete business cards and letterhead can attest, “portability”-at least in terms of a phone number-can be a real headache. That’s because changing …

WASHINGTON-Congress is slowly backtracking on spectrum auctions as a source of revenue in the bipartisan balanced budget plan, a retreat spurred by recent falling wireless license prices and financial troubles …

Lodestar Towers Inc., a developer and manager of multi-use transmission sites, broke ground on its Mt. Harvard facility in Southern California. Lodestar said the facility is the nation’s first multi-use …

The House Budget Committee on Friday was expected to approve a balanced budget deal reached by Congress and the White House that anticipates $26.3 billion from spectrum auctions during the …

WASHINGTON-“This is not an inscrutable, hard-to-figure-out issue,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at a hearing last week to discuss problems with his proposed Law Enforcement and Public Safety Telecommunications Empowerment …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. entered into a five-year strategic alliance with First Cellular of Southern Illinois. Under the terms of the agreement, First Cellular will deploy additional paging transmitters on the …

Are lawmakers finally addressing public-safety issues? It would seem so. Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) introduced a bill that would stop the FCC from auctioning 12 megahertz of new private wireless …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Radio Messaging AB agreed to transfer all production and marketing rights for Ericsson’s RDS products to Cetronic AB. RDS is a subcarrier technology that is used in the …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Coded Communications Corp. and Racom Corp. partnered to provide wireless data access to Iowa public safety fleets, which allows them to access various law enforcement databases, broadcast their positions …

ATLANTA-Paging Network Inc. launched its VoiceNow voice paging service in Atlanta. The service allows subscribers to receive a caller’s voice message. Service packages begin at $10 per month and the …

WASHINGTON-The government’s recent disappointing wireless auction and the prospect of failing to meet the administration’s five-year, $36 billion auction revenue goal prompted more fallout on Capitol Hill last week, including …

RF Connectors, a division of RF Industries, released several BNC, N and UHF connectors for use with RG-8/U type plenum cable having .108 solid center conductors and .355 outer jacket …