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WASHINGTON-The recent rash of violent events-highlighting both the life-saving capabilities and limitations of wireless technology-will serve as a powerful backdrop to this Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on 911 wireless …

WASHINGTON-At a time when all the rage on Wall Street is about the Internet, a CEO of a major wireless company contends wireless is bigger. Speaking at a luncheon sponsored …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association blasted Rep. Charles Bass’ (R-N.H.) pro-local antenna siting bill, saying it would undermine public safety and competition and potentially make local zoning authorities hostage to …

Harris Harris Corp. named its current Communications Sector President, E. Van Cullens, president and chief operating officer of the company, effective July 1. He will be responsible for overseeing the …

LAS VEGAS-Rural Cellular Association leadership is preparing legislation, tentatively called the Rural Cellular Telecom Bill, to be introduced this summer in Congress that it says could relieve its members from …

MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by burgeoning …

DENVER, United States-Students at a high school used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their suburban school while two gunmen terrorized students and …

DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and …

WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office, the investigative unit of Congress, is looking into the internal controls of how the Federal Communications Commission collects regulatory fees, the GAO confirmed last week. Regulatory …

WASHINGTON-Policy makers this week will receive the last of nine bean-bag wireless phone toys designed to remind them “Competition, innovation and safety symbolizes the wireless industry,” according to a letter …

I have really tried to keep myself and my thoughts above the fray when it comes to the whole Y2K issue. It is difficult. At the beginning of the year, …

WASHINGTON-The Alliance for Telecommunications Solutions submitted a report last week to the Federal Communications Commission indicating no Year 2000-related problems were discovered in recent testing of the public switched telephone …

NEW YORK-A panel of three federal judges heard arguments April 5 in an appeal of Federal Communications Commission siting and safety requirements for the placement of microwave cell sites for …

While many of their counterparts in the high-flying build-to-suit industry are prospering, tower manufacturers are finding the road ahead may be a difficult one. Likewise, recent siting decisions do not …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will hold its first Lobby Day Wednesday, an event that will celebrate the success of the wireless industry and allow executives on Capitol Hill to …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry hopes to give the Federal Communications Commission a final report in June on how the deaf community can use text telephones (TTYs) with a digital wireless phone …

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission moves closer to setting guidelines to make telecom equipment and services accessible to disabled individuals, the wireless industry is pressing regulators to back off proposed …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry gained almost 14 million new subscribers by the end of 1998-a growth rate of nearly 25 percent in one year, said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last …

The Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Brooklyn, believed to be the first city in the nation to pass a mandatory seat belt law back in 1966, is making fresh legal tracks …

WASHINGTON-Wireless telephones will work when the new millennium arrives-right? Well, maybe. The Federal Communications Commission last week refused to give a clean bill of health to the wireless industry regarding …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission in May likely will complete rules to address wireless 911 calls in areas where only one cellular carrier provides service coverage-an issue that has pitted the …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is stalling on a lawsuit against the federal government over the implementation of the digital wiretap act. Briefs in the case were due today, but late last …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored big legal victories on the health front last week as the Supreme Court put strict limits on the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability cases …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has rejected an assertion by the wireless industry it should not have to pay into individual state universal service funds. “Today’s [March 16] decision is a …

Polson on target regarding public’s RF perception Thank you for Peter Polson’s excellent article “Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation,” Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there …