WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday began a process that it hopes will lead to a secondary market for spectrum, and it put the private-wireless industry on notice that it might be subject to auctions if it wants additional spectrum.Secondary marketsA key policy objective...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association put Nextel Communications Inc. and Pegasus Guard Band L.L.C. on notice Friday that the private wireless association will "watch very closely" to ensure the enhanced specialized mobile radio carrier and the digital broadcast satellite provider play by the rules as...
WASHINGTON-The auction of 700 MHz guard-band manager licenses ended on Thursday after 66 rounds. The auction raised $519.9 million.The FCC began auctioning off six megahertz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band (TV channels 60-69) on Sept. 6 to entities that will then lease...
WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead with the guard-band auction.In addition, Verizon Wireless asked to delay the Nov. 29 re-auction...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association has signed an agreement with the American Petroleum Institute to notify petroleum and pipeline licensees of potential interference caused when ITA coordinates shared frequencies in the bands below 800 MHz."ITA has an obligation under its agreement with API's Petroleum...
LAS VEGAS-The Industrial Telecommunications Association, or a subsidiary thereof, "needs to do everything it can to participate" in the upcoming auction of the guard-band spectrum, said ITA President Mark E. Crosby.The Federal Communications Commission will auction off 104 licenses in the 700 MHz band...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday said it would create "guard-band managers" as licensees for spectrum being set aside to protect public-safety users in the 700 MHz band.The FCC is creating two guard bands to protect public safety from interference. One license will be...
WASHINGTON -"We started on our one-yard line and we drove down the field, but now we don't want to settle for a field goal," said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, describing continuing efforts to reduce a 64,000-item backlog that caught...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will auction 30 megahertz of spectrum being made available with the transition to digital TV for advanced fixed and mobile wireless services, but is looking for more advice on what to do with the six megahertz of spectrum set aside...
DENVER-RCR announced the judges who will select the inductees to the first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, sponsored by RCR and Shorecliff Communications Inc., in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Industrial Telecommunications Association.The event, created to recognize and honor those...
WASHINGTON-The No. 1 issue for the wireless telecommunications industry is access to additional spectrum, whether it is the incumbent cellular operators wanting the spectrum cap lifted (and start-up operator attempts to thwart that), spectrum for third-generation wireless or uses for spectrum made available with...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to spending money to open doors and change hearts and minds in official Washington, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is King of the Hill.As a wireless trade association, CTIA is without peer-a lobbying juggernaut. Money appears to be no object. In...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Just as the cellular fight in Israel intensified with the latest marketing campaigns, the Ministry of Communications announced it may license a fourth and maybe a fifth provider by the end of next year.Deputy Prime Minister and Communications Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer recently...
WASHINGTON-Two members of the Senate Commerce Committee last week introduced legislation that would insulate the private wireless community from auctions.The legislation sponsored by Sens. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) and John Breaux (D-La.) will define private wireless, insulate it from auction and require the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON-In a marked change from the private wireless industry's anti-auction stance, the Industrial Telecommunications Association this week expects to work out details of a proposal that would allow for-profit entities to become band managers of spectrum won at auction.The outlines of the proposal were...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is charging that private wireless receives a subsidy because it does not pay for its licenses. The enhanced specialized mobile radio operator made the remarks in reply comments filed at the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC is establishing a record on what...
WASHINGTON-The pace of technological change-rapid and frenzied-will have an impact on regulation, and in turn, how regulation impacts the wireless industry in the next millennium, most policy makers agree.The Federal Communications Commission already is changing the way it conducts business; that is, the way...
WASHINGTON-Associations representing private wireless users do not see a need for the petition, filed late Friday by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, urging the Federal Communications Commission to auction large chunks of spectrum in the 450-470 MHz band." does not favor auctioning 450-470 MHz...
In an effort to honor people who have made significant and exceptional contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry, RCR will sponsor the Wireless Hall of Fame, with input and support from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Industrial Telecommunications Association.The...
WASHINGTON-New allegations surfaced last week that the Federal Communications Commission is giving Nextel Communications Inc. preferential treatment, claims that come on the coattails of a proposed antitrust settlement between Nextel and the Justice Department that many dispatch operators strongly oppose, and as the agency...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau told private wireless advocates it is inclined to grant 54 waivers by Nextel Communications Inc., which would allow Nextel to use private wireless spectrum commercially.Senior WTB officials including Chief Thomas Sugrue told private wireless advocates from the...
WASHINGTON-As the private wireless industry prepares to enter the battle against auctioning spectrum, competing private wireless groups are fighting over how spectrum should be coordinated.At the middle of two disputes is the Personal Communications Industry Association, which has been criticized by some for spending...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday adopted proposed rules to implement the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.The long-awaited notice of proposed rule making does not "even render tentative conclusions" about the use of auctions in private wireless licensing, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the...
SAN DIEGO-If you are a small specialized mobile radio operator, which trade association, if any, should you belong to?Three trade associations, all based in the Washington, D.C., area, purport to represent the SMR industry: the American Telecommunications Mobile Association, the Personal Communications Industry Association and...
