WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
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You can't keep a good man down.The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler's face. The New York Times and CNN wanted to know why the wireless telecom industry doesn't want to help the Clinton administration fight...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling the growing trend "a profound moral hazard."The filing represents the wireless industry's most serious attempt to date to combat wireless...
A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs.The P450 by AML Communications Inc. has a split chassis design. Most repeaters are housed in a single unit that combines the receiver...
WASHINGTON-As expected, the Federal Communications Commission refused to stay its recently adopted order regarding local competition and interconnection by denying last week a joint petition filed Aug. 28 by GTE Corp. and Southern New England Telephone Co. and a single motion filed Sept. 6...
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with capitalism and democracy for the first time .By a vote of 260-157, the House...
WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission's local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least delaying, commission rules that they view as being anti-states' rights. And in the midst...
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August.Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-"Lawrence of Arabia"-had described it as "the most inhospitable desert" in the Middle-East. The Bedouin had abandoned...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee voted last week to downsize the Federal Communications Commission and remove travel restrictions on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.The bill now goes to the Commerce Committee, which is expected to approve it and send it to the House floor before adjourning...
The ability to press a button to locate your child, find your car in a crowded parking lot or retrieve your lost dog may soon be a reality, said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiRF Technology Inc.The one-year-old company has developed a Global Positioning System chipset that...
With the fall and winter openings of personal communications services in New York City, the issue of network control will become highly visible. Nowhere else is there likely to be so complex and difficult an installation or one that will require operation so well...
Collocation is the latest trend to sweep the industry for the acquisition of wireless communications sites. There are several incentives for carriers to enter into collocation agreements.The ability to collocate allows the sublessee to avoid a large expenditure of capital if it can locate...
The equipment arm of Geotek Communications Inc. has signed a supply contract with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. designed to strengthen the New Jersey-based company's position in Korea.Hyundai will build infrastructure equipment based on Geotek's proprietary Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology. The agreement is...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised.Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable & Wireless Inc., the U.S. arm of Britain's Cable & Wireless plc, recently struck a deal...
CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China.Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology for cellular systems as well.Arun Sarin, president and chief executive officer of AirTouch International and...
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as part of a property swap agreement announced previously with PriCellular Corp. The RSA includes six counties with a population of...
Motorola Inc. unveiled a new open messaging software platform called Memos that is adaptable to all networks but optimized for the unique environment of wireless."Motorola believes the establishment of standard software platforms will further expand the market," said Doug Kraul, vice president and general...
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...
CellPort Labs Inc. is redesigning and enhancing its universal car kit for both cellular and personal communications services applications.Car kits provide power and hands-free talking capability for portable handsets, but most are designed for use with only one type of phone.Boulder, Colo.-based CellPort introduced...
The Chilean supreme court recently dismissed a lawsuit regarding spectrum regulations, which means the government is on track to issue three personal communications services licenses.Isabel Valenzuela, commercial specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, said the PCS licenses are expected to be awarded in...
Telesp Celular, the cellular division of the telephone operating company for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, announced plans to install a digital network by December 1997 to eliminate capacity problems of its current analog network.Telesp said it has not chosen which digital standard...
A week after Mobistar launched Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Belgium, sole incumbent Belgacom Mobile cut its cellular rates between 30 percent and 34 percent.However, Mobistar's rates are equally competitive to Belgacom's new rates, said Luca Tassan, analyst at London-based Economic...
