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BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained to call the number to gain …

WASHINGTON-Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta, Ga., became the 100th school involved in the ClassLink program, which evolved from a challenge issued by U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the wireless …

DENVER-CommNet Cellular Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Arnold C. Pohs has been elected chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the wireless industry’s trade association. “Throughout the past 14 …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has informed Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) that decisions are nearing on key wireless petitions seeking relief from antenna siting moratoria and …

WASHINGTON-In a January 1993 article, a year-and-a-half before joining the Federal Communications Commission, then-attorney Rachelle Chong laid out what has turned out to be a model defense of cellular phone-cancer …

WASHINGTON-Ed Jose, winner of this year’s VITA*award for Crimestopper from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, couldn’t be on hand to accept his award last week in Washington. He was testifying …

BOSTON-The New England Journal of Medicine published an article last week that says wireless phones can disrupt heart pacemakers but do not pose health risks-findings that are not new. Detecting …

The applications for this year’s VITA Awards are in and the winners will be honored during the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless Safety Week, May 19-25. Vita is the Latin …

Not so fast. Senate communications subcommittee Chairman Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). has asked Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to put Clinton’s nomination of Joel Klein to head the Justice Department’s …

WASHINGTON-Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom accused Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler of making false and misleading statements to Congress about the agency’s role in implementing the 1994 digital …

WASHINGTON-An Illinois judge last week ruled that personal injury claims in product liability lawsuits against cellular telephone manufacturers can proceed, but dismissed conspiracy charges against the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, …

The cellular industry joined Ellen and the Clinton administration last week, volunteering to come out as a consumer advocate. That’s right, CTIA joined the fight against aggressive driving-this coming from …

WASHINGTON-Local government officials have lashed out at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt over letters he sent to them questioning antenna siting moratoria they have imposed. “It is extremely disconcerting …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week launched a congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of the struggling cancer research program funded by the cellular telephone industry, a …

NEW YORK-Amid an expanding arsenal of competing fraud detection and prevention options, just two radio frequency fingerprinting companies have staked out a potentially lucrative niche in the analog cellular arena. …

Dear Editor: Any fair assessment of the “unraveling” of Wireless Technology Research’s research program on health effects of radio frequency fields requires consideration of the goals it set out to …

WASHINGTON-Margaret Tutwiler was appointed senior vice president of public affairs and communications for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Her responsibilities at CTIA will include oversight of the group’s communications and …

WASHINGTON-A key hearing in Illinois state court early next month could determine whether a major case proceeds in which consumers claim cellular pocket phones cause brain cancer and accuse pocket …

If one were to ask Congress for a written transcript of the Feb. 2, 1993, Capitol Hill briefing on alleged health risks from portable wireless phones, the reply would be …

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), reacting to continuing thefts on the information superhighway, is expected this spring to sponsor comprehensive legislation that bolsters wireless privacy and security. The …

A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is …

WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration, citing industry funding limitations, recommended the struggling wireless industry-funded bioeffects research program be redirected to give lifetime animal exposure studies highest priority and to expand …

When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George Carlo …

Motorola counters research memo Dear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR’s March 3 article on Motorola’s 1994 response to biological research …

NEW YORK-A bill that would mandate hands-free cellular phone use while driving cleared the Executive Committee of the Illinois General Assembly March 12 and now goes to the full house. …