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'...
WASHINGTON-Tempering her replies with the caveat that she was speaking only for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and not for the full Federal Communications Commission, bureau chief Michele Farquhar in a Jan. 13 reply provided some positive responses to state and local concerns voiced Jan....
WASHINGTON - Following up on a spate of concerns put forth by his constituents nationwide, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler has asked Wireless Bureau Chief Michele Farquhar for clarification on a number of state and local problems that may be impeding the...
Editor's Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
JANUARY7-8 Telecommunications Business Environment Conference, by the International Telecommunications Group. Denver. (303) 779-4141.9-12 Consumer Electronics Show '97, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7674.19-22 19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, by the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. (808) 941-3789.22-23 Local...
WASHINGTON-Some 116 siting moratoria have taken place or are pending in the United States since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted in February, impeding the entry of several varieties of wireless service providers into the marketplace, according to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.A...
DECEMBER9-10 Wireless in the Local Loop, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. The Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. (508) 481-6400.9-10 Universal Service, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Md. (508) 481-6400.10 Wireless Messaging Integration, by Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products. Dallas Medallion, Dallas. (800)...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association agreed last week to insure Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. scientists against lawsuit damages, while dashing speculation that it wants to dissolve WTR over the indemnification issue.The stalemate over legal coverage threatened to shut down the already struggling research program,...
WASHINGTON-Neither federal regulators nor lawmakers are likely to approve sweeping pre-emption of local-state taxation of wireless licenses, according to sources, but policymakers could strike down discriminatory levies on a case-by-case basis or make technical changes in the law to accomplish the same on a...
WASHINGTON-Incoming House telecommunications subcommittee head Billy Tauzin (R-La.) said he's irked by the Federal Communications Commission's 2.3 GHz auction plan."It's a real serious problem," said Tauzin, in an interview with RCR.Tauzin has met with FCC Chairman Reed Hundt to relay wireless telecom industry fears...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association have advised the Federal Communications Commission to take a more proactive role with individual states to ensure the success of wireless tower siting on state-owned property.In comments submitted earlier this month, PCIA noted...
WASHINGTON-Certain parts of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local exchange rules dealing with negotiations between local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service operators will not be included in the current stay that prevents FCC pricing restrictions from being implemented.Responding to an emergency...
WASHINGTON-Environmentalists have teamed up with organized labor to block antenna siting and publicize alleged health risks from pocket telephones in a potent grass roots movement that could lead to litigation and delays in the buildout of new personal communications services systems.Environmentalists have seized upon,...
A funny thing happened on my way out of the exhibit area at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless Apps '96 conference last week in Las Vegas.When I left Sunday evening, I could have sworn the backside of the entryway banner announced next year's...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. last week declared digital pocket phone interference with cardiac pacemakers not to be a public health problem, saying interference problems can be minimized in the short run by increased consumer awareness and in the long run by improved design of...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry last week downed a stealth Federal Aviation Administration effort to raise millions of dollars by charging carriers to process antenna clearance applications.The agency, with backing of the Clinton administration, but not lawmakers, floated an amendment during late stages of the...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
You can't keep a good man down.The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler's face. The New York Times and CNN wanted to know why the wireless telecom industry doesn't want to help the Clinton administration fight...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling the growing trend "a profound moral hazard."The filing represents the wireless industry's most serious attempt to date to combat wireless...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and the wireless telecommunications industry are in a standoff over the implementation of the 1994 digital wiretap law, also known as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.In a reported 17-0 vote, members of a Telecommunications Industry Association ad hoc engineering...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-There were 38.2 million cellular and personal communications services subscribers at the end of June, a penetration rate of 14.5 percent, according to a new survey from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.More than 10 million new customers signed up for service during the...
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is off the hook or should I say off the leash. John Dingell (D-Mich.), a hurricane-like force even when not House Commerce Committee chairman, struck his own amendment to ban Hundt from traveling 50 miles from home. Big John (Commerce...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade group's aggressive wireless agenda clashed with the Midwest regional Bell telephone company's business plans."Over time it has become clear to...
