WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association today said it established a state affairs division, a move that comes as mobile-phone carriers face heightened scrutiny from public utility commissions, state attorneys general and the courts over rising consumer complaints about coverage, billing, advertising and service...
WASHINGTON-A U.S. government-sponsored study said mobile-phone exposure causes brain damage in rats.The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath Perspectives, is said to represent the first time researchers have found damage to neurons in rats brains exposed to radiation...
WASHINGTON-In an issue that could pit Japan and other Asian countries against the European Union (EU) at a major telecom meeting later this year in Geneva, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) quietly decided late last year to delay the rollout of fourth-generation (4G) mobile-phone...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to rule that a wireless carrier must allow its customers to keep their telephone numbers if they transfer to a wireless carrier. The mobile-phone industry-after various delays granted by federal regulators...
FOLSOM, Calif.-The Association of Wireless Professionals (AOWP) announced it will hold its AOWP Certified Wireless Sales Associate (CWSA) Training Course March 16 and 17 as part of the CTIA Wireless 2003 conference in New Orleans.The course, designed for wireless sales people, will cover telecommunications...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
WASHINGTON-The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) said National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) chief Nancy Victory should have disclosed costs associated with a private reception wireless lobbyists helped pay for in mid-October 2001, less than two weeks before the Bush administration's top telecom official...
WASHINGTON-The Office of Government Ethics said National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief Nancy Victory should have disclosed costs associated with a private reception wireless lobbyists helped pay for in mid-October 2001, less than two weeks before the Bush administration's top telecom official took a...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said on Wednesday it will ask the Federal Communications Commission to again delay the implementation of wireless local number portability until the rules for wireline LNP can be changed to allow a consumer wishing to cut the cord...
WASHINGTON-The wireless policy-making world will ring in 2003 in much the same way it rang in 2002: by debating the merits of wireless local number portability.In the final days before Christmas, the Federal Communications Commission found itself being pressured by a senator and state...
Editor's Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.'s chief executive. Verizon, the nation's largest carrier, is known as a conservative company, and that has served...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission was preparing for Christmas it was being pressured by a senator and state regulators to remove the bona fide request requirement for the implementation of wireless local number portability."The bona fide request rule makes this feature contingent upon...
McCain urges auction for MSS spectrumWASHINGTON-The wireless industry got some powerful support Dec. 20 in its quest to have the Federal Communications Commission auction off spectrum in the 2 GHz band currently set aside for mobile satellite services."Congress has mandated that FCC spectrum...
WASHINGTON-The wireless policy-making world will ring in 2003 in much the same way it rang in 2002: by debating the merits of wireless local number portability.In the final days before Christmas, the Federal Communications Commission found itself being pressured by a senator and state...
Editor's Note: Each year RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2002 is Dennis Strigl, Verizon Wireless Inc.'s chief executive. Verizon, the nation's largest carrier, is known as a conservative company, and that has served...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2002 in...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Dec. 17 urged the Federal Communications Commission to either auction off spectrum in the 2 GHz band currently set aside for mobile satellite services or go slow in allowing MSS operators the opportunity to offer ancillary terrestrial...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers are now required to contribute 28.5 percent-up from 15 percent-of their revenues to the universal-service fund due to action taken on Friday by the Federal Communications Commission.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association did not complain about the increase but warned that the...
WASHINGTON-Rather than relying on industry-supplied data-much of it from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association-the Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on the state of competition in the mobile phone and mobile-data industries."The CMRS Competition Report serves as the factual foundation of many...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should raise the wireless safe harbor for universal-service contributions from 15 percent to 40 percent, said the Coalition for Sustainable Universal Service.Long-distance carriers make universal-service fund payments based on a portion of their revenues since universal service is funded with...
Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...
NEW YORK-Sony Music Entertainment acquired wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Sony's move underscores the rapidly growing importance of the ring tone business and the wireless industry in...
WASHINGTON-The president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last Friday stepped back from comments he made to the press earlier in the week calling for merger guidelines from the Federal Communications Commission."The comments I used as reported in the press articles may have...
WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the...
