WASHINGTON-All the turmoil, chaos and confusion of merging two major trade associations and sponsoring a huge industry conference in a year's time might drive one to write one of those heart-felt country and western songs that Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen likes...
For more than 30 years, microwave communications systems have been used by utilities, oil and gas pipeline companies, railroads and municipalities to provide basic services to the American public including energy and transportation services, heating, air conditioning, power and fuel. Even public-safety agencies rely...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has appointed David Diggs the vice president of operations. He will oversee CTIA's intercarrier operations and fraud management groups. Diggs previously worked for American Mobile Satellite Corp.Other promotions include Eileen Gatens Mercilliott to vice president and managing director of...
WASHINGTON-A campaign that officially kicks off this week to fight the planned giveaway of digital TV channels to broadcasters is partially funded by the cellular telephone industry, which fears any such giveaway will mean increased fees for cellular operators.Specifically, the cellular industry is worried...
Safety and security may be among the top reasons people buy cellular phones, but these features often fall short in one area: 911 service. But the state of Washington is hoping to remedy that situation with a new law that makes cellular carriers offer enhanced...
WASHINGTON-Stepped-up lobbying by city, state and county officials and support from a top House Republican likely will weaken the Klug-Manton antenna siting amendment in the House-Senate conference on telecommunications reform legislation this fall.Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Va., chairman of the Commerce Committee and chief sponsor...
August is supposed to be a slow month in the nation's capital, but even though Congress and the president are out of town there is movement on other fronts. There's some noise, too.Didn't you hear the giant suck-up sound from Dallas, where Democrats and...
WASHINGTON-The first system and billing identification codes for personal communications services have been assigned to AT&T Wireless Services by Cibernet Corp.Cibernet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, which urged the assignment of codes so PCS carriers could proceed with negotiations...
Creating a nongovernmental United States Numbering Association to administer phone numbers will offer "an independent administrator, with a neutral governing board for which all carriers will be eligible," said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.CTIA recently proposed USNA to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC...
Bell Atlantic Mobile and Racotek Inc. have signed a multiyear marketing and technology agreement to integrate BAM's cellular digital packet data and circuit-switched data capabilities with Racotek's KeyWare product.KeyWare is mobile networking software that operates on network servers and within portable computers. It allows...
WASHINGTON-The Florida brain-cancer lawsuit that questioned the safety of cellular phones was dismissed May 17 by a federal court judge on grounds that the claim was not supported by adequate scientific research.H. David Reynard of Madeira Beach filed a wrongful death lawsuit in late...
WASHINGTON-While most of the population is at least aware of the cyberworld, more than 90 percent of American classrooms are cut off from the information revolution because they are without a phone.Earlier this year, U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich challenged the industry...
WASHINGTON-In a major setback for states, the Federal Communications Commission ruled public utility commissions cannot regulate local rates of commercial wireless carriers.The FCC on May 11 rejected petitions from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Ohio seeking to retain rate regulation of...
In the wake of the Oklahoma city bombing, the Clinton adminstration and Congress are pressing for changes on telecommunications laws to combat terrorism. Clinton ans Senate Majority Leader Robert Doyle, R-Kan., likely combatants in nexy year's presidental race, each gave preposed to expand the...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association donated $50,000 worth of advanced telecommunications testing equipment to the U.S. Secret Service as part of an ongoing industry-government effort to crack down on wireless telephone fraud by small hackers and organized crime alike.The high-tech gear will be used...
WASHINGTON-Jay Kitchen has always had a knack for being able to talk to folks, whether they be mom-and-pop two-way radio dealers who for years have looked to him for representation in Washington, D.C., or Fortune 500 executives, engineers and policymakers whom he mixes with...
WASHINGTON-Jay Kitchen has always had a knack for being able to talk to folks, whether they be mom-and-pop two-way radio dealers who for years have looked to him for representation in Washington, D.C., or Fortune 500 executives, engineers and policymakers whom he mixes with...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's equipment certification program is now testing digital equipment, including dual-mode Time Division Multiple Access phones.Certification testing for Code Division Multiple Access phones will be introduced in 1995, CTIA said. Phones that pass certification can display the CTIA seal on...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with federal regulators opposing Ameritech's new telephone numbering plan for Illinois.CTIA said the new area code plan is anticompetitive and discriminatory against wireless carriers and customers. Under the new area code plan, customers who order paging...
WASHINGTON-With the number of people using mobile telephones increasing each year, federal regulators want to improve 911 emergency service for calls made over the airwaves, and could force carriers that fail to meet future government standards to put warning labels on handsets indicating their...
WASHINGTON-The number of people who use cellular telephones in the United States is nearing the 20 million mark, with more than 17,000 new cellular customers added daily.In its semi-annual survey of industry growth, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association said the number of subscribers in...
