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Ah…August in Washington. Congress is on hiatus. Agencies have ratcheted down. Tourists are dwindling. Humidity on certain days is below 99 percent. John Tesh (and his Olympic drivel) is gone. …

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: …

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …

WASHINGTON-Even before the Federal Communications Commission voted last week to solicit comments regarding the possibility of taking back UHF broadcast channels 60 through 69, the National Association of Broadcasters let …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and federal regulators have promised the public safety community a chunk of TV channels 60-69 in exchange for supporting efforts to free up that spectrum soon for …

Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?) While the GOP-led Congress debates what to …

Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.’s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and one-touch VCR recording device all in …

ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc system equipment, announced the companies. “This …

WASHINGTON-Fifty-eight arts, education and consumer groups signed off on a July 11 letter to five congressmen to “express*…*profound dismay” on their recent letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt …

WASHINGTON-The broadcast auction issue has reappeared on the political radar screen with the same intensity and fanfare that nearly upended the telecommunications reform bill earlier this year. This time around, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is crafting a politically correct auction plan that would convert TV broadcast spectrum into a launching pad for new wireless telecommunications services. The initiative, briefly mentioned …

TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier’s new network of alphanumeric paging …

WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal and political forces are increasingly driving …

A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard. National Band …

CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live! PageNet said it will carry AirMedia …

WASHINGTON-The House GOP strategy to reach out to voters this election year by repealing a 4.3 cents gasoline tax hike and underwriting forgone federal revenue by auctioning 35 megahertz of …

David Chadwick, a company vice president and director of engineering for Las Vegas-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., resigned his positions following a due-diligence procedure conducted prior to the company’s recent …

It’s quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do. That’s how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.’s …

It was one book in Alighieri Dante’s 14th century classic Divine Comedy trilogy that inspired the name for Lucent Technologies Inc.’s new software program, Inferno. The technology behind Inferno will …

Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) said Congress is unlikely to consider spectrum reform legislation this year, and conceded the bill he wants to craft probably will fall short …

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a “videot.” There is no such thing as too much television. My personality-when split into its definitive sectors-reflects the social mores of Roseanne, Murphy Brown …

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it is offering TalkDial voice-activated dialing service to its Philadelphia tri-state region customers. The company said customers will be able to place cellular phone calls …

APRIL 14-16 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Grand Kempinski, Dallas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887. 16-18 Universal Wireless Communications International Conference, Singapore International Convention …

“The Internet is the killer app!” declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps ’95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas. He was …