WASHINGTON-Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) plans to introduce two separate pieces of legislation aimed at aiding the public-service industry in its quest to secure additional spectrum and new equipment to take it through the year 2005.Presiding over a March 11 town meeting held in conjunction...
WASHINGTON-"This is an exciting wireless opportunity for businesses with clear vision and a good business plan," commented Michele Farquhar, chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at a bureau-sanctioned wireless communications services auction forum held Feb. 28. "There will be no commercial...
Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has overestimated by $12 billion the amount of revenue from spectrum auctions over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.CBO's numbers, prepared at the request of the Senate Appropriations Committee, appear to confirm growing suspicions about devaluation of...
This is the fifth and last installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent....
In January, Greg Rosston and Jeff Steinberg released a staff working paper that clearly articulated how a market-based approach to spectrum management would maximize the public interest. That report informed my congressional testimony on spectrum management in February. The article below illustrates the principles...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has crossed all borders in North America and some in Central America with its formation of the PageMart Network.The international network is supported by affiliate carriers in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and areas of Central America to enable roaming...
WASHINGTON-In a four-pronged simultaneous marketing announcement McLean, Va.-based Nextel Communications Inc. will unveil today a $35 million nationwide advertising campaign, the introduction of enhanced specialized mobile radio service in San Francisco, one-second rounding and a half-price phone.The company, which is plunging head-first into the...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics reported it has shipped more than 1 million Code Division Multiple Access portable phones. Qualcomm Personal Electronics, a joint venture of Qualcomm Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc., manufactures the Qualcomm QCP-800 cellular and QCP-1900 PCS phones, and the Sony CM-D500 cellular...
WASHINGTON-Formulating future spectrum policy not only is a hot topic for those who must handle the regulatory and legislative aspects of parceling out channels, those that need more frequencies and those that want to hold onto what they've got also are making their opinions...
Inc.'s VoiceNow voice paging service is priced not only to compete, but to undercut industry rates for most numeric, alphanumeric and other advanced paging and messaging services.The company turned on its voice paging service in Dallas, marketing to both personal and business users, which...
This is the fourth installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results...
This is the third installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. This article explores public attitudes on tower siting and NIMBY (Not In My...
WASHINGTON-Now that most of the spectrum earmarked for auction has been sold by the Federal Communications Commission, the question of spectrum management for the future is on the front burner both at that agency and in Congress.Will future management policy be measured by the...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.), introduced legislation last week to set aside broadcast spectrum for state and local public safety communications and to earmark up to $750 million in auction revenues for new equipment for them.In doing so, McCain beat the Clinton...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's balanced budget plan calls for $36 billion from expanded auctions over the next five years, a projection that raises key wireless policy questions.The initiative, which includes selling toll-free 888 telephone numbers but is otherwise vague, was included in the $1.7 trillion...
NIXA, Mo.-Applied Cellular Technology Inc. will acquire an 80 percent interest in Signal Processors Ltd. based in Cambridge, England. The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter ending in March.Signal Processors develops and manufactures satellite subsystems including antenna controllers for satellite communication...
This exclusive RCR five-part series highlights the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent.The Wireless ParadoxLove me,...
The Failure Group Inc. acquired Broadcast Communications Systems Inc., a company that designs, installs and maintains wireless communications networks. Broadcast Communications has erected communications towers and provided related training and technical services since 1981. For the last two years it has specialized in personal...
WASHINGTON-In a stinging setback for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, three commissioners rejected a proposed spectrum policy statement to substitute market forces for government regulation in the future.Only Hundt endorsed the failed policy statement, which the full commission had wanted to unveil last...
Odyssey signs ChinaSat asservice providerOdyssey Telecommunications International Inc. signed on its first service provider, China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp. The Odyssey mobile satellite system, which is scheduled to begin service in 2001, will allow subscribers to use a pocket-sized mobile phone or a fixed...
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
The latest radio acquisition by Harris Corp. puts the company in the position to compete for a multimillion dollar government contract upgrading airport radio systems.Harris is buying the Digital Radio Technology Inc. unit of California Microwave Inc. The Digital Radio unit was created in...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
