LAS VEGAS-Spectrum issues were at the forefront of discussions during the opening keynote speech at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 show in Las Vegas Tuesday. Highlighting the industry's spectrum woes were CTIA president Thomas Wheeler, CTIA Chairman and Voice-Stream Wireless Corp....
LAS VEGAS-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc., a global supplier of interoperability solutions, made announcements regarding several newly formed strategic alliances at CTIA Global Wireless 2001.The company signed a technology agreement with AT&T Wireless Services supporting simplified international roaming capabilities. The agreement will enable AT&T Wireless...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced its Global Telecom Solutions Sector has successfully transmitted live video over its own third-generation CDMA 1xEV-DV solution in its lab in Arlington Heights, Ill.According to the company, the new solution enables real-time voice, data and multimedia services on existing cdma2000...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's name may have changed, and CTIA may hope to increase its membership by focusing on wireless data, but it is by and large still concentrating on the issue that has been front and center for the last several...
WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself vulnerable to consumer litigation on a wide range of business...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Tele-communication & Internet Association launched its new Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC), a forum addressing development of the wireless Internet.An inaugural meeting of WIC will take place in Las Vegas Monday, March 19, just before CTIA's WIRELESS 2001 begins. CTIA said its goals...
WASHINGTON-Come Monday, March 12, wireless carriers may be facing fines of up to $10,000 per day if they cannot meet wiretap capacity requirements and did not previously warn the government of the possibility of missing the deadline.After March 12, "any law enforcement agency requesting...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president's US$1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end corporate telecom subsidies.Bush's spectrum...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation "favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures."The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on regulations recently promulgated...
WASHINGTON-A California appeals court on Thursday told a lower court it must deny a petition from two California mobile-phone carriers that claimed they could not be sued in state court for false advertising due to the Communications Act's pre-emption on rate making."We conclude that...
WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase II service in exchange for providing disaster-warning alerts to the phones of subscribers."We made...
They say that whatever they do, wherever they go, the Clintons leave a path of destruction behind them. And so it is that Bill and Hillary are catching it from all sides for questionable pardons, the trashing of the Old Executive Office Building, the...
WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a mushrooming field of litigation that is beginning to hang over the wireless industry.In addition...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should be exempt from the actual or threatened rolling blackouts that have plagued California in recent weeks in the same way wireline carriers are exempt, two of the largest carriers said last week."We would like to be placed in the same category...
Residential customers paid an average of $9 per month for wireless services in 1999, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which examined residential phone bills as part of its research for a report on the long-distance industry that it released last week.The Cellular Telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-Norman Mineta, confirmed last week by the Senate to head the Department of Transportation, said driver distraction is among the highway safety issues that will take top priority in the Bush administration."First of all, guaranteeing the safety of the traveling public is the No....
WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry insists steady progress has been made in the five years since the Federal Communications Commission was asked-but held back-from mandating hearing-aid compatibility for mobile phones, the hearing-impaired community is now unwilling to accept anything less than government intervention.The Cellular Telecommunications...
I believe the Federal Communications Commission should keep the spectrum cap in place.The agency last week decided to review whether the spectrum cap-which prohibits any carrier from owning more than 45 megahertz of spectrum in any urban market-is still needed. While there may be...
It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States.The date was Oct. 13, 1983. Bob Barnett, then president of Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc., placed a call from a Chrysler convertible at Soldier Field...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard, after signing off on a $106 billion communications deal with far-reaching implications for wireless and other high-tech industry sectors, announced his resignation last week."Our work here is done. It is time for me to go," said Kennard last...
To the Editor: On the front page of your Christmas day issue was an article headlined "Judge largely dismisses RF health lawsuit." The lawsuit asks for damages from brain cancer supposedly caused by cellular telephone use. The news that a federal district judge essentially dismissed...
WASHINGTON-SouthernLinc, the iDEN division of the Southern Co., will be going up against Nextel Communications Inc. and the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association if it follows through on comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to mandate automatic roaming between carriers with like technologies."Given the...
