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 reach.Unlike a chemical company with a new product, the wireless industry does not have 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 public affairs activities including the CTIA Foundation, CTIA's website and annual CTIA conventions.Tutwiler has held...
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 phone companies of conspiring with the industry-funded bioeffects research group to cover up alleged...
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 that it doesn't exist.The omission speaks volumes-figuratively and literally-about the state of government oversight...
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 coming Tauzin bill will likely serve as a companion to narrower legislation introduced just more...
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 trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
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 scientific investigation beyond brain cancer to other diseases.But WTR head Dr. George Carlo said...
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 passionately replies that his critics-those in the wireless industry and in the scientific community-just...
Motorola counters research memoDear 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 conducted at the University of Washington by Drs. Henry Lai and Narendra Singh. The article failed...
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.The vote was 10-4, said State Representative Robert Bugielski, a member of the Executive Committee...
More than 20,000 people with more than 20,000 different views. And yet, I kept hearing one recurring theme at CTIA Wireless '97 last week. When it comes to competition, the difference between successful wireless carriers and those that lag is going to be in...
WASHINGTON-Despite being overruled by his fellow commissioners, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has signaled his intention to campaign aggressively for a highly deregulatory, market-driven spectrum policy.Using the office of chairman as a bully pulpit, Hundt turned his speech at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry...
SAN FRANCISCO-More than 230,000 square feet of exhibit space already has been leased for next year's Wireless '98 industry trade show-hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in Atlanta-almost as much space as was used in this year's event.Wireless '97 attracted 20,000 to 21,000...
SAN FRANCISCO-Market segmentation and minimizing costs are critical success factors for wireless operators, and as countering forces, these topics were hot conversation at this year's Wireless '97 conference. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler hatched dialogue among four of the industry's carrier heads...
After a 1993 lawsuit charged a woman's brain tumor was the result of her cellular phone use, the wireless industry funded an independent research program to study any possible link between brain cancer or any other health maladies and the use of cellular phones....
WASHINGTON-This may be the last year San Francisco will serve as the venue for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's still-growing annual convention and exposition. Every square foot of the huge Moscone Center has been booked for weeks; the waiting list is long. Show-goers this...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. planned two years ago to collaborate with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. to downplay potentially damaging scientific findings on possible health risks from portable telephones, according to a December 1994 internal Motorola memo.The memo, first reported by...
FEBRUARY23-25 Mobile Insights '97, by Mobile Insights Inc. The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif. (800) 640-6497.24 The Wireless Buildout-Pacific Northwest, by RCR Publications Inc. and the American Planning Association. Seattle Marriott, Seattle. (800) 608-9641.24-25 Wireless Telecommunications Real Estate and Permit Acquisition for the 90s, by...
Having problems?Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to fill the GOP vacancy at Federal Communications Commission with Michael Powell, chief of staff in the Justice Department's antitrust division and son of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell. But Senate...
A new study from the University of Toronto released last week concludes drivers face a four-fold increase in risk of having an injury-producing accident when using a cellular telephone.Researchers Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Dr. Robert Tibshirani studied 699 drivers who had cellular phones and...
FEBRUARY19 Auctions '97, by the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Communications Business Opportunities and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Kim Sescoe at (202) 546-4356.19-21 The 1997 GSM World Congress, by IBC Technical Services Ltd. Le Palais Des Festivals, Cannes,...
The cost to relocate microwave systems has met or been lower than projections for two personal communications services carriers, providing a positive mark on balance sheets otherwise heavy with loss due to network buildout."PCS is finding it can reach agreements with microwave incumbents, which...
The Personal Communications Industry Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission regarding universal service fund reform. PCIA agreed with the FCC that it must implement access charge and universal service fund reform concurrently to avoid local exchange carriers receiving double recovery of costs....
While the GOP-led Congress and the White House gush on about making nice in the 105th/Clinton II, rumblings of cyberpolicy war are growing louder.Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), chairman of the Senate communications subcommittee, re-introduced his encryption bill "to override the Clinton administration's encryption plan." Burns'...
