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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …