WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should pay more into the universal-service fund, said a consumer advocate."It is time for cellular and the Internet to bear their share of a ubiquitous network," said Mark Cooper, research director for the Consumer Federation of America.Cooper participated in a conference call...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The wireless industry today can take a minute to pat itself on the back as it looks back exactly 30 years ago to the very first time a call was placed using a portable cellular phone.Indeed, the call was made by then...
NEW ORLEANS-A display celebrating the 20 years of commercial wireless services at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show includes a special feature on ArrayComm Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer Martin Cooper and the wireless phone Cooper used to place the first potable cellular phone...
Editor's note: In 2000, RCR Wireless News founded the Wireless Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to the wireless industry. Following is a look at each of the inductees:
WASHINGTON-The Senate May 25 confirmed by unanimous consent the nominations of the new Federal Communications Commission.It was unclear when they would report to work since they must wait to be sworn in."Now that the chairman and commissioners have been confirmed by the Senate, we...
Marconi Corp. plc and ArrayComm Inc. announced a deal under which Marconi will embed ArrayComm's Intellicell smart antenna technology in its third-generation wideband-CDMA base stations.The open-ended deal is expected to generate more than $300 million in revenues during the next five years, ArrayComm said."The...
The frenzy to find more spectrum for encroaching third-generation services is mostly unwarranted if wireless technology keeps progressing as it has, according to Marty Cooper, chief technology officer of ArrayComm Inc.Spurred by an Oct. 13 directive from President Clinton, wireless industry officials and players...
NEW YORK-Holding a cell phone while driving got the boot Oct. 3 in Suffolk County, a large and populous jurisdiction on Long Island, part of New York state.The county Legislature voted 12-6 to outlaw most handheld use of cell phones, beginning Jan. 1, by...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
NEW YORK-The Legislature of Suffolk County, N.Y., has scheduled a public hearing today on a bill to ban handheld wireless phone use by anyone, except emergency services workers, driving on all public streets within the large and populous jurisdiction.The law was introduced by Jon...
The Federal Communications Commission awarded a spectrum license to ArrayComm Inc. to trial its i-Burst wireless Internet system in San Diego, signaling the launch of the San Jose, Calif.-based company's broadband technology."Clearly we have to acquire more spectrum, but we have a plan to...
At the heart of all the hoopla and back patting over the success of wireless communications lies a critical problem that could bring the industry to a standstill-spectrum.With the advent of wireless Internet applications, the rush by carriers to snatch up as much spectrum...
DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. The inductees will be honored in May at a ceremony in...
LOS ANGELES.-Gershon N. Cooper, chief executive officer and founder of ORA Electronics Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., died Jan. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 50.Cooper founded ORA, previously known as Alliance Research Corp., in 1974, four years after he immigrated to the United States...
NEW YORK-Protecting trade secrets may seem impossible in a marketplace characterized by the simultaneous increase in the amount of privileged information and the frequency of employees with access to it changing jobs.Although state statutes and the way they are enforced widely vary, public policy...
WASHINGTON-Telecom mergers are not just about mergers anymore.Multibillion-dollar deals have become the jumping-off-point for activism on labor rights, civil rights, regulatory reform, consumer protection, globalism, politics and a slew of other special-interest issues.So many and so big have mergers become that Senate Judiciary Committee...
Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years.When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about how wrong the early subscriber forecasts were, while putting out new subscriber forecasts that underestimated...
Earlier in this decade, the wireless industry began heating up over the immense promise of wireless local loop applications. Predictions of an explosion of worldwide WLL system installations through the end of the century were everywhere. Yet the number of lines actually deployed today...
SAN DIEGO-Sony Corp. launched a $10 million advertising campaign this month in an effort to build awareness of the new wireless handsets created by Sony Personal Mobile Communications of America.The national campaign for the Digital Wireless Audio Visual Entertainment phones began with print ads...
WASHINGTON-Area-code splits are unnecessary at this time, and the Federal Communications Commission needs to take command of state-controlled phone number allocations that need to move away from the traditional 10,000-number blocks.The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones cannot be blamed for what...
NEW YORK-Imagine a bell curve for a clear picture of the landscape this year for batteries used in wireless handsets.That big bulge in the middle represents the domain of rechargeable nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride batteries, which seem likely to retain their dominant...
CHATSWORTH, Calif.-Ora Electronics Inc. said this month it will begin shipping Telecar, the entry-level model of its intelligent transportation system.Telecar is designed to integrate a cellular phone with a variety of existing vehicular audio systems made by Delco Electronics, used mainly in General Motors...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs.That was four years ago. Today Cooper, along with the esteemed scientist and engineer who...
Specialized aftermarket products and new marketing strategies have kept the decline in U.S. cellular telephone sales from affecting accessory product sales, according to several cellular accessory manufacturers and distributors.There has been a slight decline in point-of-purchase accessory sales in recent years, said Gershon Cooper,...
