WASHINGTON-The regulation of content could become a major issue for the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years as carriers in an increasingly competitive market seek to supplement voice traffic with information services on high-capacity digital networks.Already there is evidence of the new trend as...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
Senate lawmakers kept the heat on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week insofar as implementing the 1996 Telecom Act. Hundt didn't let lawmakers force him into a corner, and artfully dodged questions that Commerce Committee members wanted him to answer their way. Sen. Slade...
WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the near future. What may garner the carrier some unwanted questions in the process are...
WASHINGTON-National Telecom PCS Inc., which continues to battle to regain its C-block personal communications services license for American Samoa rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission, last Friday filed a petition to deny all C-block licenses granted to DCR PCS Inc.In its petition, NatCom charged...
WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal and political forces are increasingly driving spectrum auction policy on Capitol Hill and that the Federal Communications Commission has become...
Pocket Communications Inc. (formerly DCR Communications Inc.) said it submitted a $1.3 million deposit to the Federal Communications Commission Friday to bid on the C-block personal communications service licenses scheduled for re-auction July 3."Our primary targets are the Phoenix and Tucson licenses," stated Daniel...
WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according to Common Carrier Bureau economist Gregory Rosston, already is wondering how it will make spectrum available to new and incumbent...
WASHINGTON-Wide-area specialized mobile radio operators and broadband personal communications services licensees now will be subject to the same resale rules under which cellular carriers have been operating since 1983.The Federal Communications Commission June 12 adopted interim rules that would prevent PCS and enhanced SMR...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association has submitted a business plan to the Federal Communications Commission to become a clearinghouse that will administer the 2 GHz relocation cost-sharing plan.The plan details how ITA will process reimbursements between personal communications services licensees that mutually benefit from...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping the telecommunications industry. But it is not clear whether the policy changes being contemplated will help or hurt consumers and...
WASHINGTON-The industry group largely responsible for securing regulatory relief during the paging freeze has demanded that the Personal Communications Industry Association cease charging frequency coordination fees under interim paging rules.The Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry, a collection of nearly 200 local and regional...
WASHINGTON-According to a new order adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, public safety answering points (PSAPs) have the next year to develop a system that accepts 911 emergency calls from cellular, broadband personal communications services and wide-area specialized mobile radio users-without delays...
WASHINGTON-DSC Communications Corp. announced it has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting radio spectrum allocation within the 2 GHz band for wireless fixed access local loop services.The wireless fixed access architecture comprised in DSC's AirSpan product offers telecommunications access to customers...
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Geez, what a week of winners, losers and schmoozers.A three-judge panel in Philadelphia overturned the Internet indecency ban in the new telecommunications law, a big victory for free speech advocates and wireless carriers that carry information services. Next stop: the Supreme Court.Marge Schott, Cincinnati Reds...
WASHINGTON-In an address with major policymaking implications, Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness said government-endorsed wireless standards could improve U.S. competitiveness abroad and cautioned against spectrum reform based entirely on market forces.Ness, speaking last week at a conference sponsored by the Federal Communications Bar Association...
WASHINGTON-Wireless services still haven't figured into the unserved, underserved, high-cost and rural area matrix in a significant manner when it comes to universal service.Meeting at the Federal Communications Commission June 5, the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service focused on how much it will...
The Federal Communications Commission was expected late last week or by today to give local and regional paging companies further relief from the paging freeze in response to lobbying by the Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry.The FCC, which imposed the freeze Feb. 8...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, touting economic accomplishments of the Clinton administration and laying out his own agenda, said America must continue to invest in high technology and press for free trade while protecting U.S. markets closed overseas."We are and will be the pre-eminent economic...
WASHINGTON-Following on the heels of a recent Federal Communications Commission decision to allow interactive video and data services licensees to provide mobile services, Chantilly, Va.-based Eon Corp. announced its test of a two-way messaging/monitoring service catering to vending-machine owners in Monterrey, Mexico.Prior to the...
WASHINGTON-In a big blow to the wireless telecommunications industry, the Pentagon has decided not to take a high-profile stand against expected changes to radio frequency radiation exposure guidelines backed by the Environmental Protection Agency.For weeks, it had been anticipated the Pentagon would urge the...
WASHINGTON-Raising capital for the extensive buildout of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s 56 markets appears to be less of a problem for the C-block personal communications services auction winner than it will be for other tentative licensees, according to Allen Salmasi, NextWave's chairman, president and chief...
MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city's six-month moratorium on tower building violates the Telecommunications Act and Federal Communications Commission rules,...
