WASHINGTON-Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos is teaming with George Carlo, who headed the industry-funded mobile phone cancer research program before breaking with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last year, to create a new radiation-protection project that will include follow-up studies and establish a comprehensive surveillance...
WASHINGTON-The ability of law enforcement to tap into telephone calls made over digital networks-either wired or wireless-is of such national security importance that the Department of Defense will reimburse the Department of Justice $120 million if President Clinton's fiscal year 2001 budget outline is...
Leveraging its strength as a leading management and consulting firm to most of the top companies in the world, Andersen Consulting has unveiled a new wireless portal designed for the businesses it serves.The company is introducing what it calls the Mobile Corporate Portal, and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As President Clinton stated in his Economic Forum speech, "The United States is unambiguously committed to open markets and trade as the best engine we know of to lift living standards, reduce environmental destruction and build shared prosperity."Space station technology was spawned...
WASHINGTON-At the same time the wireless industry was telling Congress and the Federal Communications Commission that it could not deploy enhanced 911 without liability protection, it was developing and implementing wireless arbitration rules designed to keep wireless carriers out of court.Congress bought the industry's...
WASHINGTON-An FCC staff proposal for the implementation of calling party pays service is being heavily debated by the commissioners' offices-a debate that could lead to its removal from this week's Federal Communications Commission's Open Meeting agenda.CPP is similar to long-distance toll calling where the...
Aether Systems Inc., that wireless data wonder out of Owings Mills, Md., is on a roll. Baby, they're hot! The rage of Wall Street. Aether stock, offered at $16 last October, continued its meteoric rise last week into the $180s. They're cutting deals left...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, growing increasingly concerned about the use of mobile phones and other high-tech gadgets in vehicles, plans to expand its review of driver distractions to include Web services and other digital devices that car manufacturers intend to integrate into...
DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. The inductees will be honored in May at a ceremony in...
WASHINGTON-Richard Blumenthal, the high-profile Connecticut attorney general who played key roles in successful lawsuits against Microsoft Corp. and the tobacco industry, has joined his counterparts in California and Wisconsin in urging the Federal Communications Commission to declare that state laws banning unfair deceptive practices...
WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the powerful Baltimore lawyer who has successfully litigated against the tobacco industry, asbestos manufacturers and others in personal injury cases, is looking into the mobile phone health issue."We have some people we represent and we're looking at that," Angelos told RCR last...
WASHINGTON-With the exception of some very large carriers in some very large markets, cellular carriers today are not starved for spectrum capacity, but they expect to be in the future.Spectrum scarcity "is a near-term problem. It is not a current problem, but it is...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s efforts to keep its 90 wireless licenses despite a cancellation notice from the Federal Communications Commission moved to court last week, as Bankruptcy Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. asked the government to explain when the licenses were canceled...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), attempting to play off GOP tax-cut and anti-big-government campaign themes, said he will push legislation this year to kill the telecom excise tax, to further deregulate the wireless industry and to downsize a Federal Communications Commission he...
While Steve Case, Gerald Levin and Ted Turner were cartwheeling last week over AOL's planned purchase of Time Warner, others were not jumping for joy over this or anything else digital.A world away, in Jerusalem, top ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis pulled the plug on the...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. at RCR press time was expected to file papers with the bankruptcy court asking Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. to explicitly declare that any attempt by the Federal Communications Commission to cancel and/or re-auction its 90 personal communications service licenses without...
WASHINGTON-Even as wireless carriers begin paying nearly 6 percent of their interstate and international revenues to the federal universal-service fund, they are gearing up on a number of fronts to fight the program.Celpage Inc. said it expects to know by the end of March...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears to be preparing to take back 63 personal communications service licenses held by NextWave Telecom Inc.Action could come as early as this week as NextWave is set to go to court for its final reorganization hearing. Objections to NextWave's...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will auction 30 megahertz of spectrum being made available with the transition to digital TV for advanced fixed and mobile wireless services, but is looking for more advice on what to do with the six megahertz of spectrum set aside...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler has close financial and business ties to two top wireless data firms-an arrangement CTIA's top board members are comfortable with while others see it as a potential conflict of interest.Wheeler, according to documents filed with the Securities...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to continue to set the regulatory agenda for 2000, believing a philosophy of anticipating problems and setting regulation is better than letting the market monitor itself.The FCC is "very quick to point to wireless as an example of competition,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to release auction and service rules that will make 30 megahertz of spectrum available for commercial use, setting aside six megahertz for private wireless use. If this happens, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association intends to sue...
BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told 800 civic leaders here that the marrying of the computer and wireless industries can happen anywhere, "not just in Silicon...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration urging that wireless carriers be given eligible telecommunications carrier status. Carriers must obtain ETC status before they can receive universal-service support.Both letters tell...
