WASHINGTON-Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of the House GOP leaders caught on a radio scanner last December strategizing how House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) could sidestep congressional ethics sanctions, said last week he turned down settlement offers from intermediaries of the Democratic congressman suspected...
WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on good corporate citizenship and uses the power of advertising to stress the public-safety benefits...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts to expand the Sichuan Posts and Telecommunications Association's analog and digital cellular phone systems in China's Sichuan province.The expansion is the fifth phase of expansion for the operator's Global System for Mobile communications...
Some sociologists pointing to the decline of morality in America comment that no one feels shame any more and that people are too quick to point the blame at others.Those sociologists must live in the nation's capital, where the telecommunications industry, in general, and...
WASHINGTON-House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), troubled by the lackluster pace of a Justice Department probe of an intercepted cellular phone call last year that proved politically embarrassing to GOP leaders, plans to sue Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and perhaps others, charging them...
ITASCA, Ill.-Shieldmate Robotics Inc. said it has been dismissed from a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Motorola Inc. against Shieldmate and Qualcomm Inc.Motorola filed a lawsuit in federal court in March against the two companies, claiming Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access-based Q phone infringed...
House and Senate conferees, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) in particular, apparently have had it with CALEA squabbling between the wireless industry and the FBI and will not appropriate any money for digital wiretap implementation in fiscal 1998, which began Sept. 1. There's still more...
WASHINGTON-Perhaps in a long-awaited move to mirror wireless billing practices around the world, the Federal Communications Commission released a notice of inquiry into the possibility of calling party pays in a commercial mobile radio services environment.While calling party pays exists in a few U.S....
NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of Cellular Additions. On the basis of that law, the Riverdale, Ga., company has built...
NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate Lucent's Inferno, a distributed inter-networking operating system, into its StreamProcessor, a network forwarding product line....
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex.With that goal in mind, the two companies announced an agreement last week that will permit delivery of Sun's Java...
Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are electrolyptic copper bars manufactured to individual design specifi-cations, said the company. The bars are available with a variety of options...
WASHINGTON-As he winds down the cellular industry-funded cancer research project with little to show for the $28 million that will have been spent by mid-1999 when he leaves, Wireless Research Technology L.L.C.'s Dr. George Carlo is quietly ramping up a new industry-backed health program...
Could this be "the" year?The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold's Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS '97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is in its third year focusing...
WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry's cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in mid-1999 without conducting either short-term or long-term animal exposure studies.Last week's revelation, which Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George...
Cellular phones, pagers, faxes and e-mail all are tools that help us function in today's fast-paced society. But how many times have you answered the phone, only to find yourself in the middle of a conversation that you really don't have time for?The need...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service said Oct. 14 it had assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to Audiovox Corp.'s $95 million senior secured revolving credit facility, which matures in 2000.Audiovox, headquartered in Hauppauge, N.Y., reported about $600 million in revenues for the fiscal year...
Sorry Jay, the edge this week goes to your friends at CTIA again.That's right. Tom just hired himself some "tall timber" lobbying talent: Steven K. Berry, former chief counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ex-Bush administration lobbyist and now partner in the Holland &...
"The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry."(Maybe not for the mice, in this case. I doubt they were consulted).Wireless Technology Research head Dr. George Carlo has said he will not be conducting short-term or long-term animal exposure studies during the...
PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 cellular phone holder can be used alone to prevent a phone from sliding around...
Lai treated poorly in cancer articleDear Editor: I must say I am very concerned with your article entitled "Scientist faults claim on cell phones and memory loss."I understand you spoke to Henry Lai last week and you never did ask him about the information in...
MILAN-Omnitel Pronto Italia, a private Global System for Mobile communications operator in Italy, introduced a rechargeable GSM Subscriber Identity Module card that will allow users to make international calls from Italy and in foreign countries, and does not have a recharge fee.The card, called...
Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune one cellular license at a time.Each merger, each alliance, each buyout, has been greeted with surprise, then understanding, and finally,...
NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers are experiencing and causing a lot of taxing questions related to how they are defined-and therefore treated-by tax departments in state and local government.It's not your father's Oldsmobile anymore. The comfortable monopoly or duopoly environments are going the way of the...
