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...
States rights vs. federal rights.It's an argument that is becoming more and more common in today's wireless industry.It's certainly not a new argument, and it's certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, it is probably one of the...
NEW YORK-Teletrac Inc., which uses a paging-based system to locate stolen vehicles, is poised for a fall foray geared to consumers and companies in six metropolitan markets on the West Coast, in the South, the Southwest and the Midwest.Until January, Teletrac was AirTouch Teletrac,...
More than a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission completed its first ever auction for both narrowband and broadband personal communications services frequencies. The winners are racing to design, acquire and build out their new digital networks. Some of these PCS systems...
COLUMBIA, S.C.-Scana Communications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Scana Corp. has informed the Federal Communications Commission that it violated certain licensing requirements in establishing and operating an 800 MHz trunked radio network in South Carolina.The two-way radio system is used by various state...
WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium together to challenge the safety guideline in court.By registering their grievances with the Federal Communications Commission, despite uncertain prospects for...
WASHINGTON-Public utilities that want to enter the telecom industry had many of the barriers to such action removed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday. Commissioners voted unanimously to streamline the FCC's procedure for determining who meets the criteria to be an "exempt telecommunications...
DALLAS-The PCS Group announced it has formed The PCS Finance Group to meet the demand for financing in the personal communications service market."Over a year ago, we recognized that the high prices for the purchase of PCS spectrum and the large sums of money...
Denver-based Mountain Solutions Ltd. has kept alive its challenge of the re-auction of C-block personal communications services licenses by recently opposing the government's attempt to have the case dismissed.Mountain Solutions said nearly $3 million is at stake. The woman-owned company was second runner up...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it.There are strong views on both sides of...
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, said it plans to go public by early autumn.The road show for the 5-million-share initial public offering of Class A common stock was under way last week, and the...
Hosting this week's PCS '96 conference and expo in San Francisco is Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association; as many as 15,000 people are expected to attend this year's event. Kitchen, who also served at the helm of the National Association...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton's nomination of Regina Keeney to sit on the Federal Communications Commission appears dead for this year, maybe for good.With only a few weeks left before Congress adjourns this election year, no date has been set for a confirmation hearing and all indications...
Mr. Silva,I've often wondered what's wrong with our country and then I hear the diatribe like spending on human capital, which falls so easily off your pen and I remember what the problem is ...In your Sept. 2 D.C. Notes, you seem to be...
The government may have auction fever, but companies are betting the 2.4 GHz band won't be disturbed, and it will continue to be a free industrial, scientific and medical band.Radiating in the dead middle of the 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz band, at 2.45...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
It was suggested in a recent RCR article that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 answered the question of "Who is in charge here?" by clearly placing the Federal Communications Commission in charge of regulating the telecommunications industry. The new law was said to have...
WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the intensity of monitoring number and market changes twice a day.At the end of Round...
NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. will mark its second commercial launch within a month when it begins offering its data-only wireless Internet access services in late September in the Washington, D.C., area.The company, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has provided wireless data applications to the utilities...
As an embattled small business curmudgeon and wireless industry activist, I find it necessary to respond to Federal Communications Commission spokesperson Michele Farquhar's recent letter that appeared in the July 29 issue of RCR.Ms. Farquhar excels in her newly appointed role as FCC chief...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. low-earth-orbit data satellite market may end up far less competitive than envisioned as policymakers struggle to craft rules around a smaller-than-anticipated spectrum allocation capable of supporting only a few licensees.The Federal Communications Commission delayed proposing rules last month for little LEOs-which are...
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has named G. Ron Olexa chief operations officer with overall responsibility for the company's Reach receiver front end products. Olexa also will manage the company's relationship with Raychem Corp., SCT's new sales and distribution partner for the Reach product line....
I knew Moses, he was friend of mine, and you're no Moses.Nice try, though, Mr. Chairman. Your creativity, though a bit corny, is admirable as you lead the telecommunications industry to the promised land via the information superhighway.Mount Sinai it wasn't. But there, at...
