WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about whether children are more vulnerable to possible health risks from phones than adults."No, it (possible increased risk for children from...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will enter the third millennium A.D. as the envy of the telecommunications industry. It is arguably the most competitive sector. It is innovative, with three different digital standards and third-generation wireless becoming reality. And it has conquered a huge nemesis: cloning."Cloning is...
WASHINGTON-In the continuing saga that is the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, telecom and privacy groups have appealed the technical standards the Federal Communications Commission set out in August claiming the rules are "contrary to law."The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association joined with the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the requirement that a cost-recovery mechanism be in place before carriers must deploy wireless enhanced 911 services.But the agency still will require that costs to public safety answering points be recovered before mandatory E911 service is deployed.Previously,...
DENVER-RCR announced the judges who will select the inductees to the first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, sponsored by RCR and Shorecliff Communications Inc., in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Industrial Telecommunications Association.The event, created to recognize and honor those...
Just as it took an unabashed California chick to do what no GOP or Democratic pol could do-outfox Bill Clinton-Naomi Wolf now has done what no pundit could ever do: explain what makes official Washington tick.It all boils down to the uneasy coexistence of alpha...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration-which recently agreed with the cellular industry to replicate two studies by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. that showed positive findings-may have rejected cooperating with industry on research when mobile-phone cancer allegations first surfaced in 1993 because of a potential conflict...
WASHINGTON-It went down to the wire, but when all was said and done, the personal communications service licenses won at auction by bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. escaped the machinations of balancing the federal budget.White House budget negotiators continually tried to convince the congressional leadership...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected to revise wireless enhanced 911 rules that would eliminate the cost-recovery obligation that now must be met before E911 services have to be deployed.The move faced heavy lobbying from wireless carriers, two associations representing public safety answering points...
WASHINGTON-Whether Congress and the White House can balance the budget for fiscal 2000 this week without delving into the Social Security Trust Fund may depend on whether the Clinton administration is able to push through a plan to recover at least $3.5 billion from...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association continued its fight to have the spectrum cap removed. In a petition for reconsideration filed last week at the Federal Communications Commission, CTIA said it was patently inappropriate for government to keep the cap in place.The cap says telecom...
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile late Thursday received consent from the National Capital Planning Commission to site two towers inside Rock Creek Park here, but the carrier is expected to continue to push legislation that quickly would grant the necessary permits to build the towers."Our objective...
NORMAN, Okla.-The Center for the Study of Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility said it will conduct research to determine whether mobile phones can interfere with aircraft navigation systems or ignite gasoline fumes at gas pumps."To date, there are not confirmed reports of phones causing any type...
The concept of a trade show devoted to wireless data applications, like Wireless I.T., is as marvelous as it is timely. The show no doubt is destined for greatness. Internet and wireless technologies-separately and converged-are the hottest things going these days.But Silicon Valley, which...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to spending money to open doors and change hearts and minds in official Washington, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is King of the Hill.As a wireless trade association, CTIA is without peer-a lobbying juggernaut. Money appears to be no object. In...
A U.S. investigative news television program caused a mild stir in the wireless industry after airing a report in October on the possible link between cellular phones and health problems. It was the first major U.S. media report on the issue since lawsuits claiming...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a congressional investigation into whether mobile phones pose a health risk to the nation's 80 million subscribers."In the last five years, the numbers of Americans using cellular telephones has increased...
Perhaps the greatest indicator of how the wireless data industry has matured is the almost giddy buzz of excitement generated by this week's Wireless I.T. show in Santa Clara, Calif., sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association.In the fall of 1997, some 56 companies...
In two different venues, two totally different approaches to antenna siting were on display in the nation's capital last week. In the power corridors of Congress, the House and Senate-hounded by warring lobbyists-deliberated over a controversial appropriations provision to foster antenna siting in Rock...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Byron Dorgan (N.D.), backed by industry and cities, last week introduced legislation to simplify taxation of wireless carriers by local and state authorities.Instead of having wireless calls taxed by multiple jurisdictions, the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act would assign all...
ABC's 20/20 segment, which was supposed to make me change the way I use my cell phone, instead made me more suspicious about TV journalism. The only person in the 30-minute segment who actually was credible and who appeared credible was Dr. Ross Ady.ABC's...
WASHINGTON-In some respects, the Main Event was a non-event.Wireless stocks did not go into free fall. Major dailies did not go wild with follow-up stories on ABC's "20/20" broadcast on mobile-phone health concerns last Wednesday evening. Congress did not call for hearings, although Sen....
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week attempted to delay ABC's "20/20" broadcast on mobile phones and attacked the credibility of the man who led CTIA-funded health research.ABC said it plans to air the segment on mobile phone health concerns, possibly this week. "60...
My family went out to eat the other night at a fondue restaurant. My sister, who works in the insurance industry, kept wondering aloud about the restaurant's exposure to risk.Scalding-hot metal pots on high-heat burners were the centerpiece of our table-a requirement for fondue....
