WASHINGTON—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association held the first meeting of its Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council last week.The council said it will address hurdles facing the U.S. market in wireless data and mobile Internet products and services. In its first day-long workshop, the...
CHICAGO—Until March 31, U.S. Cellular Corp. said it will be collecting used wireless phones through its Community Action Recycling Effort program with proceeds from the donations benefiting the Families Scholarship Fund, which was established to provide educational assistance for post-secondary study to financially needy...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is urging the Federal Communications Commission against a mandate for wireless local number portability (LNP)."In the matter of wireless number portability you will shortly be asked to make a decision for wireless carriers to choose between funding...
WASHINGTON—The association representing U.S. wireless carriers, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), has made Radio Frequency Investigation (RFI) a CTIA Approved Testing Laboratory (CATL), the first CATL in the United Kingdom.Benefits of the certification include product assurance for network operators and service providers, accelerated...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year.The goal of the group "will...
WASHINGTON—Cibernet, a subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, released its new Mobile Xchange Protocol, which the company said is designed to allow customers to bill for non-voice services.Cibernet said its MXP was developed to meet the needs of mobile application developers, wireless...
DENVER, United States—Spurred by recent announcements across the globe and a bold move by AT&T Wireless Services, network operators in the United States are scampering to open up their short message service (SMS) systems in hopes recreating the tremendous success of SMS in Europe."I...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Technology & Internet Association (CTIA) announced the launch of its new WOW-COM Market Research Center, which will provide reports, studies, white papers and articles from research and consulting firms within the wireless industry.The center is part of CTIA's www.wow-com.com Web site,...
WASHINGTON—A former Motorola employee on 15 November filed a US$1.5 billion lawsuit against the mobile-phone industry, claiming cell-phone use caused his brain cancer. In dollar terms, the suit ranks as the largest ever lodged against the industry. Various personal injury and class action lawsuits...
WASHINGTON—A former Motorola Inc. employee today has filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against the mobile phone industry, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. In dollar terms, the suit ranks as the largest ever lodged against industry. Various personal injury and class action...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Use of wireless devices is skyrocketing, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's recently released mid-year 2001 data survey results.According to the survey, total billable minutes of use hit almost 200 billion, up 77 percent from June of 2000. In addition, overall...
WASHINGTON-One word describes wireless telecom policy in the last 20 years: competition."Wireless was competitive before competition was cool," said Brian Fontes, vice president of federal relations for Cingular Wireless Inc. and former senior vice president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and...
The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago.As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile data, more and more trucking managers jumped on board to wirelessly track their vehicles,...
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WASHINGTON—The Bush administration pledged to accelerate efforts to give national security and emergency response personnel priority access on mobile-phone networks, a capability previously shunned by wireless carriers that suddenly has been given high priority by government and industry in the aftermath of the 11...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must eliminate the spectrum cap as an interim measure while government and industry representatives attempt to find harmonized spectrum for third-generation (3G) wireless services, said Thomas E. Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).Wheeler's plea comes...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission must eliminate the spectrum cap as an interim measure while government and industry representatives attempt to find harmonized spectrum for third-generation wireless services, said Thomas E. Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association.Wheeler's plea comes in the wake...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission today is expected to reject the cellular industry's request to indefinitely suspend the Sept. 30 deadline for meeting packet-data wiretap requirements, but a government source said the agency likely will give mobile phone carriers an additional two months to come...
SAN DIEGO—Amid the horror of yesterday's terrorist attacks in New York City and the nation's capital, CTIA's Wireless I.T. conference in San Diego is continuing, even as the show's participants individually try to grasp the fallout from the disaster.Today's keynote address has been cancelled...
SAN DIEGO—This year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless I.T. & Internet show will begin today and continue as scheduled until further notice.
SEATTLE-Open application development platform provider Mforma Corp. launched its Developer Network, a free program aimed at helping developers build a variety of easily deployable applications across current and emerging devices and networks.The Mforma open-standard platform is deployed commercially with 14 wireless operators and reaches...
WASHINGTON—In an attempt to get its preferred message back in the forefront, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association sent a letter to the General Accounting Office on Tuesday implying that the Department of Defense had held back information in the recent congressional investigation."These two...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—The Pen&Internet division of Parascript L.L.C. announced it has wirelessly enabled its riteMail communications application.The new version of riteMail will allow users to send and receive handwritten messages, diagrams and drawings on Pocket PCs. Pen&Internet is offering a free download of the beta...
ASHBURN, Va.-Comsearch announced it has been selected for the fourth consecutive year as the official frequency coordinator for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association for its upcoming Wireless I.T. & Internet show.Comsearch uses its frequency analysis software, IQ.Clear, and engineering knowledge to create a...
