The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake today stopped cold the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' legal efforts to shut down IFAST Ltd., the Maryland-based firm that assigns codes enabling foreigners to operate their cell phones in this country.ATIS, an industry standards group that used to...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Sonim Technologies Inc. said it has successfully completed an Open Mobile Alliance-compliant Push to Talk over Cellular call over a UMTS network using its Sonim Xperience PoC Client. Sonim had previously demonstrated its PoC solution in conjunction with Nortel Networks Ltd. at...
WASHINGTON-The cell-phone industry complained to the Federal Communications Commission that TMI Communications Co. and TerreStar Networks Inc. are seeking "a stealth redistribution" of 2 GHz mobile satellite service spectrum. The two companies, according to CTIA, made the spectrum request in an April 20 letter...
The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
Political rag Roll Call recently ran a frighteningly clever cartoon with a meaningless wireless twist that oh-so-poignantly captured a toxic Capitol Hill environment that threatens to undermine action on important issues, including a meaningful wireless one.First, the cartoon. A caricature of Senate Majority Leader...
WASHINGTON-CTIA plans to tell regulators next week that all distinctions used in determining how much carriers pay each other should be eliminated. "Different rates apply to different carriers," said Paul Garnett, CTIA director of regulatory policy. "The first reason the intercarrier compensation is broken...
WASHINGTON-Nine wireless carriers said they will send text messages to people who opt in to receive Amber Alerts over their cell phones in the culmination of a movement CTIA President Steve Largent began more than a year ago.Participating carriers are Alltel Corp., Cingular Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Public-interest groups interested in getting the attention of the Federal Communications Commission should take a hint from the American Family Association, which scored met with eight key staffers from the FCC's Wireless Telecom Bureau and two other family-interest groups-after sending nearly 800,000 e-mails to...
WASHINGTON- The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' fight to shut down and reclaim assets of a U.S. firm that assigns codes so foreigners can operate their mobile phones in the U.S. moved into the court room last week, putting into full view the inner...
WASHINGTON-The Consumer Product Safety Commission and CTIA Friday released a list of recommendations for mobile-phone users regarding the use of their handsets and batteries."It is increasingly important for consumers to follow guidelines on the maintenance of wireless phones and batteries," said CPSC and CTIA...
WASHINGTON-Public-interest groups interested in getting the attention of the Federal Communications Commission should take a hint from the American Family Association. AFA and two other family-interest groups met May 9 with eight key staffers of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."Our members were asked to...
An interesting aspect of scandals in official Washington is the bright light they unwittingly shine on other activities that otherwise manage to stay below the political radar screen.Take the cases of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and GOP lobbying pal Jack Abramoff. It's...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry is backing a bill in the Missouri legislature to raise wireless taxes in exchange for eventually capping the tax at 3 percent and ending a slew of lawsuits filed by municipalities to collect back taxes from cell-phone operators. The mobile-phone industry...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, decrying increasing taxes, has sent out a call to arms to the nation's 182 million wireless subscribers on Tax Day 2005. CTIA, the national cell-phone trade group, is urging consumers to log into www.stopaddingtomybill.com to register complaints about taxes that the...
WASHINGTON-CTIA said it has formed a working group to combat wireless-handset viruses."While electronic viruses-like human viruses-can never be completely eliminated, the industry is proactively taking steps to protect the security of wireless handsets and devices. Though wireless viruses are still rare, we intend to...
With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and how to present it to the consumer. It may be no surprise, then, that smaller carriers are working overtime to...
Fresh off its public launch at this year's CTIA event, soon-to-launch mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. reported several content and marketing sponsorship deals with a number of action sport athletes. The sponsored athletes include surfers Andy Irons, Bruce Irons and Sunny Garcia;...
The topic of how and if a wireless telephone number directory should be established has been and continues to be heavily debated, but so far little has been said about the organization that is charged with making it happen.At the recent CTIA show I...
The wireless industry is mad as @*@% and not going to take it anymore. As such, CTIA recently unleashed its grassroots attempt to stop what it sees as increasingly unfair state and local taxes on the wireless industry.Mywireless.org was unveiled by CTIA President Steve...
Nokia Corp. is in advanced discussions to purchase CDMA EV-DO phones from the phone-making subsidiary of Korean CDMA carrier SK Telecom, according to a report from Reuters. A Nokia spokesman said the company has made no such announcement and is "unable to comment on...
Nokia Corp. is in advanced discussions to purchase CDMA EV-DO phones from the phone-making subsidiary of Korean CDMA carrier SK Telecom, according to a report from Reuters. A Nokia spokesman said the company has made no such announcement and is "unable to comment on...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry increasingly finds itself like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, drawn into courts, public utility commissions and other bodies around the country to fight new state taxes, regulations and consumer lawsuits. The carriers' defiant defense in many...
WASHINGTON-A nasty legal fight has broken out over control of the U.S.-based roaming group that assigns codes enabling foreign travelers to use their mobile phones in the United States. The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions has sued Edward Hall and others in Maryland federal...
