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 drains on drivers, and hands-free devices do not improve the situation even if...
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."The FCC proposal is not crafted from a security perspective. We do not want...
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 agreement between the carrier and government."The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association thinks it is...
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 issue of finding missing children quickly via wireless."At Nextel, we believe supporting the efforts...
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 Telecommunications & Internet Association to open the bidding to all comers in the auction...
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 the FCC Monday."The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association thinks it is a very important...
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 criticized by the panel's two Democrats.The FCC voted 3-2 to eliminate cellular cross-ownership rules...
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 market changes have occurred during the four years since the FCC last modified the entrepreneur...
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 market changes have occurred during the four years since the FCC last modified the entrepreneur...
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 work today."To facilitate further the use of advanced technologies, the FCC established a new...
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 the Federal Communications Commission to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band.FCC Commissioner...
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 requiring hands-free devices. The law, signed by the New Jersey governor in January, is...
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 have been unable to replicate genetic damage and other biological effects from radiation observed...
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 important, said Rich Nespola, chief executive officer of the Management Network Group."In wireless today,...
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 ruling will not be released until later, and at least one carrier is expected...
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 important, said Rich Nespola, chief executive officer of the Management Network Group (TMNG)."In wireless...
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 leaving other non-Nextel economic area licensees in the non-cellular band."The 800 MHz channel plan...
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 requiring hands-free devices. The law, signed by the New Jersey governor in January, is...
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 are simply incorrect. Once again it wrongly states that 'public safety will be forced to...
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 of the industry from the experts, is leading the charge. Atlanta, home to the...
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 portability rules."In the settlement, the Office of Advocacy agreed to withdraw its intent to...
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 the additional channels at 816-817/861-862 MHz may not be optimum assignments for mission-critical public-safety communications-given...
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. Data services have been unfurled, but adoption is still in its infancy. Enterprise players...
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 walk away from any plan that includes 2.1 GHz as replacement spectrum."The public-safety associations...
