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WASHINGTON-The cellular industry apparently knew what it was doing when it waited for Reed Hundt to retire as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission before asking that the spectrum cap …

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice has signed a letter of intent with a telecommunications manufacturer to buy software and give it to carriers to implement the digital wiretap act, Attorney General …

WASHINGTON-Consumer advocates are opposed to the “policy goals” approach government appears to have embraced to solve the wireless 911 dead-zone problem and have raised concerns about the decision-making process associated …

WASHINGTON-The regulatory landscape for the personal communications services industry is dominated not by issues that are PCS-specific but by issues impacting the entire commercial mobile radio services industry. “Even though …

WASHINGTON-The future of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association has become clouded by the anticipated departure of Nextel Communications Inc., the nation’s top dispatch radio operator and a major underwriter of …

WASHINGTON-The FBI should set digital wiretap capacity standards for messaging services based on percentages rather than geography, said the Personal Communications Industry Association in comments filed with the FBI last …

Increasingly, for wireless regulators, striking a policy balance on issues affecting competition, consumer safety and law enforcement is a big challenge. Owing in part to converging technologies and changing markets, …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission arguing entities-including the Personal Communications Industry Association-that say the spectrum cap should remain in place “misrepresent …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s decision late last year to entertain waiver extensions of the October 2001 date for automatic location identification rollout has mushroomed into a huge controversy that pits …

Canadian controversy, eh While the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and its patrons were whooping it up last week in New Orleans, Canada was working itself into a frenzy over an …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association continued its fight last week to keep the spectrum cap in place. The spectrum cap limits carriers to 45 megahertz in a given geographic area. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week unanimously granted a request from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to extend until Nov. 24, 2002, the deadline for implementing local number portability. Portability …

NEW ORLEANS-Calling wireless the poster child for competitive telecommunications, Tom Wheeler, head of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said today’s wireless industry will serve as a model for competitive telecommunications …

Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about …

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, the president and chief executive of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, does not want to enter the ‘holy war’ between local and long-distance companies. Rather, he wants to …

As if the wireless industry didn’t have enough to worry about with local zoning boards, citizen activists, organized labor, environmentalists, Civil War buffs and the National Park Service, now it …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected to grant a request from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association not to enforce wireless number portability rules until at least November 2002. Portability refers …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s review of the spectrum cap has turned into a big vs. little battle with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and most large wireless carriers in favor …

WASHINGTON-The FBI and the Department of Justice last week clearly described the issue in the fight over technical capabilities to implement the digital wiretap act. “These arguments are not new. …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is drafting legislation to shift the burden of the forbearance test in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from the industry to the Federal Communications Commission. This legislation …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an effort to create a worldwide information-sharing …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry forum studying whether the telephone network will work when the new century arrives needs better participation from the wireless industry, said Peter Spring of the Network Reliability …

WASHINGTON-A federal court of appeals on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum cap. The decision comes as the FCC is examining whether to remove the restriction that limits carriers …

WASHINGTON-A wireless industry appeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s rules on local number portability, which become effective on March 31, 2000, has been postponed until at least May. Portability refers …

WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives this week is expected to elect Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to be speaker of the House for the 106th Congress. Hastert’s rise to the third-in-succession-to-the-presidency …