WASHINGTON-Even as mobility is seen as the greatest benefit to the next generation of the Internet, the wireless world is still trying to get up to speed with mobile use …
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As if we needed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration head Jeffrey Runge to tell us hands-free is a loser. Research on this point is now gospel: Cell phones are brain …
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WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee told the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday that its proposed outage reporting requirements for wireless carriers go against the Critical Infrastructure Information Act. …
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WASHINGTON-Rural local exchange carrier CenturyTel Inc. has agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission $100,000 and set up procedures and systems to properly route ported wireless numbers, according to an …
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WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. has joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to develop an Amber Alert wireless solution, one of three efforts under way to address the …
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WASHINGTON-Council Tree Communications Inc., an investment company that identifies telecom business opportunities for minorities and women, told the Federal Communications Commission late Thursday to reject the argument of the Cellular …
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WASHINGTON-CenturyTel Inc. has agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission $100,000 and set up procedures and systems to properly route ported wireless numbers, according to a consent decree released by …
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WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission modified several of its spectrum rules hoping that wireless services can be made more readily available, but its decision to eliminate rural cellular cross-ownership rules was …
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WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Thursday urged the Federal Communications Commission to open the bidding to all companies for the recently returned spectrum of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. “Significant …
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WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Thursday urged the Federal Communications Commission to open the bidding to all companies for the recently returned spectrum of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. “Significant …
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WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday created a “private commons” option for licensees that allows some licensed devices to operate in another licensee’s spectrum in the same way the unlicensed bands …
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Nextel Communications Inc. will pay nearly $5 billion in both cash and spectrum to gain access to spectrum in the 1.9 GHz band, according to a plan adopted Thursday by …
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New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning the use of handheld phones and …
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WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, having decisively triumphed in health litigation, believes more than ever science is solidly in its corner as a result of a growing number of new studies that …
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Subscriber numbers are an important metric for the wireless industry because the industry is still growing, so an inquiry by a federal agency into how those numbers is calculated is …
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WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission planned July 8 vote on its solution to the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band likely won’t resolve the issue, as details of the …
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WASHINGTON-Subscriber numbers are an important metric for the wireless industry because the industry is still growing, so an inquiry by a federal agency into how those numbers is calculated is …
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WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. and SouthernLinc have reached an agreement that would change the channel allocations in the retuning of the 800 MHz band, putting Southern in the cellular band but …
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New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning the use of handheld phones and …
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WASHINGTON-The public-safety advocates of the Consensus Plan told the Federal Communications Commission that statements made by Verizon Wireless are misleading. “Verizon continues to repeat claims regarding the Consensus Plan that …
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A regional wireless industry association could be coming to a neighborhood near you. A movement is afoot in the wireless industry, and the tower sector, hungry to learn the intricacies …
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WASHINGTON-The Small Business Administration said late Thursday it was withdrawing from a court case that rural wireline carriers had filed against the Federal Communications Commission regarding the intermodal local number …
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WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. late Wednesday provided more details of how it plans to give up 2 additional megahertz of spectrum in the 800 MHz band to solve public-safety interference. “Although …
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The new wireless gizmos may be humming with new applications, but promises keep outweighing results. CDMA, the technology leading the march toward a full third-generation era, continues to confront challenges. …
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WASHINGTON-Public-safety advocates of the Consensus Plan to solve interference in the 800 MHz band spoke by telephone with FCC Chairman Michael Powell May 27, expressing concern Nextel Communications Inc. will …
