At precisely what moment did Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler realize he'd created a monster? Was it after the first lawsuit? The second? The third? Or did it finally hit home this past summer when Dr. George Carlo warned the world of...
ORLANDO, Fla.-After nine years, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is considering consolidating its fraud conference with its wireless partnering conference to create an operations conference, said David Diggs, CTIA vice president for wireless security.Plans for a future fraud conference are in flux at this...
WASHINGTON-With only eight months before the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, U.S. spectrum policy for third-generation wireless systems is on the verge of meltdown as the Clinton administration and industry continue to clash without a resolution in sight."The interests of the U.S government and...
WASHINGTON-A top wireless safety expert has taken umbrage at Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler's call for speedier work on the development of a standard to measure mobile-phone radiation absorbed by the head."We know that the committee has already completed a great deal...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission reached a tentative agreement with state regulators on what type of notification will be heard when a person calls a calling-party-pays wireless subscriber, said Kris Monteith, chief of the policy division of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.It is really a...
Lucent Technologies Inc. will be noticeably absent when the Personal Communications Industry Association kicks off its 2000 showcase next September in Chicago.The infrastructure vendor has told PCIA it plans to stop exhibiting at its future shows in North America, opting instead to invest its...
The wireless guys aren't the only ones nagging the GOP-led Congress for liability protection against trial lawyers. The insurance, automobile, pharmaceutical, retail, chemical, tobacco and financial industries also have opened their wallets to get Congress to limit class actions by shifting lawsuits from state...
WASHINGTON-The wireless 911 bill, once assumed a sure bet for congressional approval this year, has hit snags over liability, privacy and other issues that threaten passage of the legislation in 1999.Failure to pass the 911 bill-the centerpiece of the wireless industry's lobbying campaign in...
The wireless industry has yet another trade show under its belt. It's time to sit back and take a deep breath before all hell breaks loose in preparation for the next one.Every year, after every major trade show, the industry collectively wonders whether it...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission "does not know if all required fees are being paid," according to a study released last week by the General Accounting Office at the direction of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations."It is troubling and sadly ironic that the -an...
WASHINGTON-Six House members last week sent a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging consideration of a bill recently passed by the House that would change the digital wiretap grandfather date from Jan. 1, 1995, to June...
WASHINGTON-In a victory for the wireless industry and a blow to free-speech advocates, a federal court here has revived a high-profile cell-phone eavesdropping lawsuit by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) against Rep. James McDermott (D-Wash.).McDermott leaked the contents of a GOP conference call-via Boehner's cell...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week gave four states interim authority to implement number conservation measures, including number pooling.The states-California, Florida, Massachusetts and New York-had argued it was necessary to implement number relief measures now rather than wait for the FCC to finish with...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission opposing the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin's petition seeking a greater role in number conservation and area code relief.Specifically, the PSCW requested authority to enforce current standards for number allocation or to...
GTE Wireless has taken an aggressive approach to combating fraud in its markets, an initiative that has resulted in an 83-percent reduction in fraud losses during the last two years.The company has a highly integrated, four-pronged approach to dealing with fraud that takes the...
Official dollar losses from wireless fraud have decreased significantly in the past several years, but whether that means the wireless industry is truly winning its war against fraud is a matter of debate.Tom McClure, vice president for wireless fraud and security at the Cellular...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. The FCC relaxed the cap to 55 megahertz in rural service areas.Additionally, at its...
WASHINGTON-Key lawsuits are set to go forward next month involving claims of fraudulent auditing and privacy violations against Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. and an allegation that a prototype mobile phone antenna caused brain cancer to a Motorola Inc. engineer in the mid-1980s.On Oct. 14,...
WASHINGTON-With just two weeks left in the fiscal year and many appropriations bills still pending, Congress and the White House once again are on a collision course for a budget showdown that could change the dynamics of wireless provisions wrapped up in spending legislation.Entangled...
If you want clout in Washington, the only thing better than being a top board member of either of the two largest wireless trade associations is not being a member of the two largest wireless trade associationsAsk Nextel Communications Inc. It's not a member...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies.The rules will come at an FCC Open Meeting on Wednesday, when the commissioners also will vote on whether or not to lift the...
NEW YORK-Chalk one up for the Federal Communications Commission, which received a stay Aug. 31 of several lower-court decisions that affirmed key aspects of the bankruptcy reorganization of C-block carrier NextWave Personal Communications Inc.As such, NextWave's Chapter 11 reorganization confirmation and consummation hearing is...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to announce it will consider lifting the spectrum cap-the restriction that a telecom carrier can control no more than 45 megahertz in a geographic area-at its Sept. 15 meeting.A staff proposal suggests modifying the cap in...
WASHINGTON-In what a spokeswoman for the Personal Communications Industry Association termed a "comedy of errors," the wireless industry and the Federal Communications Commission last week missed an opportunity to tout the wonders of wireless technology in developing countries.FCC Chairman William Kennard and key FCC...
