IRVINE, Calif.-A federal court in Santa Ana, Calif. has ordered The Cellular Extension Co. to stop creating so-called "extension phones" that duplicate the electronic serial numbers from carrier-activated phones.In a lawsuit brought by AirTouch Communications Inc., the court ruled that the defendant was violating...
WASHINGTON-The House GOP strategy to reach out to voters this election year by repealing a 4.3 cents gasoline tax hike and underwriting forgone federal revenue by auctioning 35 megahertz of unspecified spectrum highlights tensions that have come to exist between budgeters and lawmakers with...
effrey Si;va Grumbling in private wireless land. The word is the refarming item that was anticipated for vote this month is being pushed back until fall, which could delay further the reconfiguration of private networks and orders for narrower band equipment.... John Windhausen, senior...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association continues to fight against any federally mandated rollback or eradication of interconnection fees that wireless companies must pay to local exchange carriers to terminate wireless calls on LEC networks."We are concerned about the possible direction of the process ......
WASHINGTON-Opinions are split when it comes to shortening the voluntary negotiation period between microwave incumbents and C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licensees. Several commenters on the proposed Federal Communications Commission amendment also would allow reimbursing incumbents to relocate links on their...
WASHINGTON-California specialized mobile radio operator James A. Kay Jr. has lost his 18-month battle against the Federal Communications Commission, at least for the time being. According to a May 31 summary decision handed down by the FCC's Administrative Law Judge Richard L. Sippel, Kay...
So now the Federal Communications Commission is mandated to study market entry barriers faced by small businesses and entrepreneurs, which could lead to reviving bidding credits and other incentives for women, minorities and others that are under-represented in the telecommunications industry, including wireless.Isn't this...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau plans to re-auction 18 C-block personal communications services licenses July 3, following the failure of BDPCS Inc. and National Telecom PCS Inc. to make their required 5 percent down payments by May 15.The bureau chose to re-auction the licenses rather...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's renewed effort to foster diversity in wireless telecommunications could collide with election-year politics as Republicans that control Congress and Democrats that occupy the White House struggle with the politically explosive affirmative action issue.The FCC, acting on a mandated provision in...
NEW YORK-Western Wireless Corp. went public May 22 with an 11 million share common stock offering priced at $23.50 each. At the same time, the company sold a 10-year, $150 million debt issue priced to yield 10.5 percent.The initial public offering of common stock...
NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of top C-block personal communications services license-winner NextWave Personal Communications, completed May 6 at $290 million private placement. The underwriter was ING Barings.Details of the private placement were revealed in the company's Form 600, which was submitted to the...
David Chadwick, a company vice president and director of engineering for Las Vegas-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., resigned his positions following a due-diligence procedure conducted prior to the company's recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Chadwick co-founded the specialized mobile radio concern with Robert...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
While Republicans and Democrats argue about encryption policy, the Pentagon is getting hacked up.The General Accounting Office says up to one-quarter of a million attempts possibly were made last year to infiltrate Defense Department computer networks and, of that total, 65 percent (162,500) succeeded.Sam...
It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In the last year more than ever, the industry has recognized that two-way paging and other wireless services, feature-rich as they...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry sent a clear message to the Federal Communications Commission that it expects to be treated as a local exchange carrier when it comes to distributing additional numbers and implementing new area codes.Comments submitted last week regarding how certain local-competition provisions...
I must admit, I was a little taken aback when I heard that BDPCS Inc. defaulted on the down payment it was required to make for the 17 C-block pocket-phone licenses it won at auction. With more than $10 billion anted up to win...
The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul.The question is why?As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not clear whether sweeping changes are being made to accommodate the federal government and large paging companies that have paid hundreds...
WASHINGTON - C-block personal communications services auction winner BD-PCS Inc. has several legal channels open to it before it is forced to give up the 17 markets it won at auction because it could not meet a $37 million down-payment requirement.The Federal Communications Commission...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief Ralph Haller, characterized by former Federal Communications Commission colleague James McKinney as "just a simple country boy from the wheat fields of Kansas," accepted this year's Eugene C. Bowler Award at a May 15 dinner at the National Building...
WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) said he wants legislation this year to streamline rules governing the relocation of microwave users from the 2 GHz band to higher frequencies that new broadband personal communications services operators are financing."The rules that the Federal Communications Commission...
WASHINGTON-Negotiations have broken down between hearing impaired advocates and the wireless telecommunications industry on permanently resolving interference to hearing aids by digital pocket phones, raising the possibility of government intervention.Each side filed its own proposal with the Federal Communications Commission last week on short-and...
