WASHINGTON-CTIA has joined with several trade associations and telecommunications companies in opposing the entertainment industry's effort to create what it calls "a secondary copyright liability.""The judicial expansion of secondary copyright liability advocated by petitioners is precisely the wrong approach. It is simply impossible for...
Leap Wireless International Inc. appointed Albin Al Moschner executive vice president and chief marketing officer and Glenn Umetsu executive vice president and chief technical officer. Both positions are new to the company. Leap said Moschner will be responsible for overseeing Leap's overall marketing and...
WASHINGTON-K. Dane Snowden, chief of the FCC's Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, is leaving the Federal Communications Commission to become vice president of strategic relations at CTIA. Snowden's first day on the job will be at the CTIA show in New Orleans.The position of...
WAKEFIELD, Mass.-The Near Field Communications Forum, an industry association launched last year to promote NFC technology, announced 20 new additions to its organization.New sponsor members are MasterCard International, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., NEC, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Visa International....
News on the phone front continues in anticipation of the upcoming CTIA trade show, with Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sanyo making announcements.First up is LG, which appears to be readying a new slider-style phone for Sprint. Sprint...
WASHINGTON-CTIA said Tuesday that Laura Zuckerman, communications director and legislative assistant for Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), will join as a director of government affairs March 1."We are delighted to bring Laura on board. Her legislative experience in telecommunications and across a broad range of...
The Federal Communications Commission this week lauded CTIA's efforts to control mobile adult content and urged the association to step up its efforts in keeping inappropriate material out of the hands of children. In a letter to Steve Largent, CTIA president, FCC Wireless Telecommunications...
The Federal Communications Commission this week lauded CTIA's efforts to control mobile adult content and urged the association to step up its efforts in keeping inappropriate material out of the hands of children.In a letter to Steve Largent, CTIA president, FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday passed on telling wireless carriers whether wireline carriers can file tariffs at the state level for termination without first negotiating with them."The FCC's failure to decide these petitions robs consumers in the very markets that would benefit most...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Aloha Partners L.P., which claims to be the largest holder of 700 MHz spectrum in the country, reported a definitive agreement to purchase the second- and third-largest 700 MHz spectrum holders Cavalier Group L.L.C. and DataCom Wireless L.L.C. for an undisclosed amount.Aloha said...
WASHINGTON-A bill favored by CTIA that would have reduced telecom taxes in Virginia was killed by a state Senate committee last week but is expected to be resurrected in a year. "We have decided to not move forward with the bill as is but...
With a handful of operators yet to post fourth-quarter and full-year 2004 results, the wireless industry is well on its way to reporting one of the highest customer growth quarters-and years-in history. That potential was bolstered last week by three of the nation's fastest-growing...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry plans to meet this week to begin work on a wireless content ratings system similar to other entertainment industries. "We are going to do something. Hopefully by the end of the year, the industry will have adopted a voluntary rating system....
WASHINGTON-As expected, CTIA has told a federal appeals court it wants it to throw out the nationwide programmatic agreement recently entered into by the Federal Communications Commission, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers."CTIA challenges...
WASHINGTON-Softbank Corp., the Japanese Internet company trying to muscle or possibly buy its way into that country's mobile-phone market, has crashed the party here by breaking with U.S. and foreign mobile-phone carriers that do not want any further American intervention into rates charged by...
WASHINGTON-Hoping to capitalize on recent decisions by a pair of wireless carriers to postpone their involvement in the controversial wireless 411 directory, the Consumers Union is urging Congress to pass legislation that would require consumers to provide written permission to be included in such...
The Powell era is over. Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said he is leaving the agency within the next couple of months. "Having completed a bold and aggressive agenda, it is time for me to pursue other opportunities and let someone...
WASHINGTON-Often times when people go to trade shows, it is a business trip that feels nothing like being at home. CTIA hopes to change that this year at its show in New Orleans in March. It is building a 7,000-square foot home-the back porch...
WASHINGTON-Often times when people go to trade shows, it is a business trip that feels nothing like being at home. CTIA hopes to change that this year at its show in New Orleans in March.It is building a 7,000-square foot home-the back porch of...
WASHINGTON-CTIA plans to spend "tens of millions of dollars over the next three years" on an advocacy strategy legally separate from the wireless association, CTIA President Steve Largent told the press Tuesday.Largent said the CTIA executive committee had pledged the money, and no surcharges...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, consistently thrown off balance by new taxes and regulations in one state after another, is fine-tuning a master plan that draws on tried-and-true political strategies that carriers hope will attract consumer support and media attention while putting city and state officials...
WASHINGTON-The controversial California bill of rights for telecom consumers is about to go nuclear. This week, only months after narrowly approving a rule creating scores of new regulations governing wireless carrier disclosure, marketing, billing and service, a newly configured California Public Utilities Commission is...
WASHINGTON-C-Span junkies watching late into the night of Dec. 8 may not have realized that what happened just before the Senate left town was right out of a Hollywood script. Minutes (literally) before the Senate adjourned for the year, it managed to pass a...
WASHINGTON-Predicting the future is not as difficult as you might think. To predict the future is to know the present in cold, sober terms. You can read what the experts say down below. The biggest pitfall with year-end prognostications is they tend to lend...
