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WASHINGTON-President Clinton late last week signed legislation to give small businesses more leverage to challenge regulations of the Federal Communications Commission and other government agencies. The measure is a scaled-back …

What did he know and when did he know it? Ah, the immortal question of Sen. Howard Baker of Watergate fame. That’s what House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Texas) …

WASHINGTON-No matter how many times Federal Communications Commission economist Greg Rosston declared that spectrum auctions were not about money, it was clear to member associations of the Land Mobile Communications …

homas Gutierrez, David LaFuria Could it be that the C-block auction is too successful? After overcoming numerous pre-auction challenges, both from the industry and the Supreme Court, a new and …

MARCH 25-27 Wireless ’96, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Call Mary Claire Murphy at (202) 785-0081. 25-29 Third Annual Portable by Design Conference and Exposition. …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to auction toll-free 888 telephone numbers, a potential hot-button issue for Congress that could hurt paging operators in the near term and pocket telephone …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week called for sweeping spectrum reforms, but dodged the issue of whether broadcasters should pay for television channels. The reforms, which appear …

Dear Editor: The Telecommunications Act is now law. The President’s pen unlocked doors to fair and free telecommunications competition that had been closed in some key areas for decades. Business …

WASHINGTON-Only time will tell what the Federal Communications Commission will do with the information it gleaned from last week’s en banc hearing on spectrum policy. The all-day session, which involved …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in its New York metropolitan market. AT&T …

MARCH 6-7 PCS Seminars for ITCs Only, U.S. Intelco Wireless. Doubletree Grand Hotel, Bloomington, Minn. (360) 493-6241. 6-7 Re-engineering Billing Systems in the Telecommunications Industry, by the International Quality & …

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging company that will operate on the …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the Shaanxi PTA and the Hainan PTA. …

WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic lawmakers last week lambasted Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) plan to add broadcast auction language to debt ceiling legislation, a reaction that represents a widening schism in …

In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group’s help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast …

I’ve been kind of a wired wireless guy lately. My wife, Liz, just gave birth to Graham Robert, who weighed in at 9 lbs. 8 oz. and now joins our …

WASHINGTON-Congress passed landmark telecommunications reform legislation late last week, paving the way for the wireless lane of the information superhighway and setting the stage for a fierce debate on a …

WASHINGTON-The federal budget will play a large role in determining the future of spectrum auctions, according to several panelists taking part in “Spectrum Auctions: Pay or No Play?” last week …

WASHINGTON-Efforts were underway last week to address Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole’s (R-Kan.) concern about what he believes is a potential $70 billion broadcast spectrum giveaway in telecommunication reform legislation. …

WASHINGTON-To strike a fragile bipartisan deal on a sweeping telecommunications bill that includes federal antenna siting policy and other provisions sought by the wireless telecommunications industry, conferees had to cede …

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …

WASHINGTON-As the telecommunications reform marathon of 1995 nears the finish line, the great political race of 1996 is taking shape before a restless American electorate. Political theater at its best. …

Dear President Clinton, Majority Leader Dole and Speaker Gingrich, As the country enters Week Three of budget-related furloughs, I think the American public has figured out that “essential government personnel” …

The tower industry has banded together as the National Association of Tower Erectors to address collective issues of operations and safety and to affect industry-initiated standards. The nonprofit organization represents …

New York City-based software developer Ex Machina Inc. wants to expand the utility of paging networks by using paging carriers’ system capacity to broadcast critical corporate information-especially during off-peak hours. …