WASHINGTON-It is a little hard to tell-and opinions differ-but it appears a bill to give the Federal Communications Commission additional authority to fine local exchange carriers for not opening up their markets to competition could impact wireless carriers just as the industry faces impending...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it supports Nextel Communications Inc.'s waiver application from enhanced 911 Phase II requirements."Nextel has documented the process by which it arrived at its Phase II technology choice, which includes extensive investigations into multiple Phase II E911 technologies,...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced election results for the 2001-2002 board of directors and executive committee.Rick Ekstrand of Rural Cellular Corp. will serve as chairman, Tim Donahue of Nextel Communications Inc. was voted vice chairman, Mohan Gyani of AT&T Wireless will be...
Dr. George Carlo has missed his true calling. Carlo, who led the six-year, $28 million effort to study any potential links between wireless phone use and cancer, should write self-help books, become a motivational speaker and tour the talk show circuit. He is worth...
Sens. John Edwards (D-N.C.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) are expected as early as this week to introduce pro-consumer wireless location privacy legislation, according to an Edwards staff member. Privacy advocates have raised concerns about mobile-phone carriers and marketers having the ability to track the...
The cellular industry's inception in the United States is made up of thousands of stories of business leaders, technology gurus and ordinary people each pursuing for one reason or another an unproven and unpredictable industry made possible by the federal government's free gift of...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.LC., the organization headed by Dr. George Carlo that clashed with the cellular industry after researchers found genetic damage from mobile-phone radiation, has entered into a settlement agreement in an Illinois class-action lawsuit that would clear it of any wrongdoing and...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has prepared a letter for President Bush that will stop just short of opposing the transfer of military spectrum in the 1700 MHz band to the mobile-phone industry, a major blow to efforts of carriers and manufacturers to...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos will drop an $800 million mobile-phone brain cancer lawsuit but will continue to press ahead with class-action lawsuits to force the wireless industry to supply consumers with radiation-reducing headsets, a development that could have a chilling effect on...
WASHINGTON-If you are a congressman driving one Friday evening to Connecticut while holding a mobile phone in your hand, and your wife exclaims suddenly that you are driving erratically, what do you do?When this happened to Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), he introduced legislation...
The looming October deadline for carriers to comply with the Federal Communication Commission's Phase II E911 requirements has implications beyond safety. Companies like Annapolis, Md.-based TeleCommunication Systems Inc. hope it will open up the market for its privacy technologies and set in motion many...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling said last week that restricting the broadcasting or publication of an illegally intercepted cellular-phone conversation violated the First Amendment because the contents of the call were of public significance.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the...
This year, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's National Wireless Safety Week aptly fell in the midst of heated congressional disputes regarding risks cellular phone use poses to drivers and potential harm created by cell-phone radiation.But rather than focus on the harm wireless devices...
DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that CTIA President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Wheeler dubbed the "wireless survivor conference" during his opening remarks. While attendance levels...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Friday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate spectrum assigned to struggling mobile satellite firms to cellular phone carriers struggling to capture additional frequencies for third-generation wireless systems.The anticipated move by the mobile-phone industry comes in response...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week said he only partially agreed with an exhortation by the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union that the United States is falling behind in the global race for third-generation wireless."Parts of it I agree with...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including that held by McCaw's New ICO and other struggling satellite firms-available for third-generation wireless...
WASHINGTON-Wireless phone use while driving is a distraction, but should phone use while driving be banned? Not unless more data proves they are the cause of a significant number of accidents, according to a House highways subcommittee hearing held last week."The data is not...
WASHINGTON-Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos and attorneys in Atlanta were expected to file another lawsuit against the wireless industry either Friday or today in Georgia, demanding that mobile-phone carriers supply subscribers with headsets to minimize any potential health risk from radiation.The action, which also seeks...
ORLANDO, Fla.-In the sun-draped city of Orlando, with its springtime spurts of rain and dreamy lakes, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium drew a mixed crowd of wireless vendors, operators, developers and analysts to re-energize interest in its brand of technology and to contemplate strategies...
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. Instead of earth-shattering technology, Dwyer's contribution involves both...
DENVER, United States-With its feet in the New York Stock Exchange and an eye toward the future, Siemens has advanced a package of products and strategies to make it a major player in the U.S. wireless space.At the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)...
NEW YORK-SV1, which last year introduced SafeTShield, an aftermarket earpiece cover to reduce radio-frequency emissions from wireless and cordless phones, will begin marketing the product through 7-Eleven stores in May.Since debuting the product a year ago, the Boca Raton, Fla., company said it has...
