WASHINGTON-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."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the tech and...
LAS VEGAS-The Association of Wireless Professionals (AOWP) announced at last week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet conference that it has reached a worldwide membership of 1,500."This announcement marks a major milestone for the wireless professional community's progress toward building community, education and certification for...
LAS VEGAS-Wavecom SA announced it will launch two new dual-band wireless modules by the end of 2002 at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet show in Las Vegas.The WISMO Quik Q2426 is an 850/1900 MHz wireless module that allows manufacturers to develop mobile...
LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called "Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into Mobile Device," on Thursday at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.In addition to discussions...
LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless' Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.The service will be available this week in Las Vegas, Dallas and Houston, in additional markets later this...
TAMPA-Zeosoft is releasing version 1.5 of its Zeosphere application server at this week's CTIA Wireless IT and Internet show in Las Vegas.Zeosoft's new solution, which was built based on feedback from trials with beta versions of 1.0 Zeospere, released in late Feb. 2002, offers...
WASHINGTON-A bill to create a rural advisory board at the Federal Communications Commission was not warmly received when it was introduced on Thursday."You don't fix the problem of burdensome and unnecessary regulations by creating yet another cog in the regulatory wheel," said Thomas Wheeler,...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday asked the U.S. Senate "to return the billions of dollars the wireless industry has paid to the U.S. government for auctioned spectrum."In a three-page letter to the leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee, CTIA President Thomas...
While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path as their worldly brothers when it came to deploying third-generation (3G) networks. Those models...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and Verizon Wireless have filed a joint petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the Federal Communications Commission's denial of Verizon's petition for forbearance from Wireless Number Portability (WNP)...
WASHINGTON-The wireless market is competitive so the Federal Communications Commission should not impose exit regulations on mobile-phone carriers, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association told FCC Chairman Michael Powell on Thursday."Requiring providers to secure permission to discontinue their services, however, offers no countervailing...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association was appointed as a non-resident member of the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications on the same day the Federal Communications Commission released its response to a Bush administration critical-infrastructure report."As a member of NCC, CTIA's leadership and expertise...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has declined to propose rules requiring wireless carriers to receive a customer's consent before divulging the customer's location to marketers."Because the statute imposes clear legal obligations and protections for consumers and because we do not wish to artificially constrain the...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced election results for its new board of directors and executive committee for 2002-2003. Nextel Communications' Tim Donahue was made chairman, Scott Ford of Alltel was made vice chairman, Terry Addington of First Cellular of Southern Illinois...
OWINGS Mills, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. said Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler and two other board members are stepping down from the financially struggling wireless data firm and being replaced. In addition to Wheeler, Frank Bonsal Jr. and Devin Wenig are...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association used the final day of Wireless Safety Week to remind drivers that a top priority this Memorial Day weekend should be to reach their destinations safely.'The wireless industry is working hard to educate drivers on the wide...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is expected to introduce legislation next week directing the Federal Communications Commission to go forward with the 700 MHz auction as scheduled on June 19.The legislation, which was still being drafted at...
WASHINGTON—As expected, U.S. legislators on Wednesday introduced the Auction Reform Act of 2002 to delay the 700 MHz auction."I am delighted that 52 members of the are original co-sponsors of this legislation. It demonstrates that an overwhelming majority of members of our committee...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) has decided to drop its annual trade show, global m-commerce user initiative and LifePage donor program and cut its skeletal staff by 20 percent as part of a major shakeup that officials said will enable it to...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has rejected a request from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) to delay the 700 MHz auction, currently set to begin on 19 June with short forms due 8 May.The FCC "has recognized that there are special circumstances...
WASHINGTON—The Department of Transportation convened a summit to discuss the thorny issue of wireless enhanced 911 service."Events of Sept. 11 highlight the need to be able to quickly and precisely locate people when they make 911 calls on cellular phones," said Transportation Secretary Norman...
MobileSpring Inc. and InphoMatch Inc., rival vendors for short message service interoperability solutions, have been working together during the past few months to ensure their cross-carrier messaging systems are themselves interoperable.The teaming comes as no real surprise. By making sure their systems can work...
Nearly six months after United Kingdom-based Virgin Group and Sprint PCS announced they formed Virgin Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless industry continues to wait for the launch of the highly touted mobile virtual network operator venture.But, since the announcement last October, there has been...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced seven laboratories are now authorized to test wireless products for the CTIA Certification Program."Our seven authorized testing labs allow CTIA to provide manufacturers with the testing capacity needed to handle the volume of new products now...
