WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration progressed in getting more telecommunications and information technology products shielded from tariffs, but last week acknowledged problems persist in convincing China to open its market and hinted the United States was ready to consider retaliation."Our companies do not have market access...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association warned the Federal Communications Commission not to use a pending proceeding involving Nextel Communications Inc. to make a de facto ruling that private wireless spectrum should be auctioned."Saia argues that the policy behind the prohibition against intercategory sharing will...
WASHINGTON-The most conservative member of the Federal Communications Commission last week said the current microscopic review of telecommunications mergers is unfair given the lack of attention the FCC is expected to give to the merger between oil giants Exxon and Mobile."If the issue is...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Friday named Thomas J. Sugrue chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau effective Jan. 19.Sugrue replaces Daniel Phythyon, who was slated to leave the post on Dec. 1 for special project assignments within the FCC. As of the latter...
ITAThe Industrial Telecommunications Association said it appointed Laura Leigh Smith executive director, government relations. She formerly was deputy division chief (legal) in the public safety and private wireless division of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Smith will be responsible for representing interests...
The main goal for the American Mobile Telecommunications Association is regulatory flexibility or more accurately-one-size-does-not-fit-all. AMTA President Alan Shark has been fighting the good fight with the Federal Communications Commission to convince it traditional specialized mobile radio is not the same thing as commercial...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is looking for a new primary spectrum band for wireless medical devices used by hospitals.Medical telemetry devices, such as heart monitors, today are secondary users on various blocks of spectrum, including frequencies used primarily by the land mobile radio industry.The...
One can only imagine the potential import of the victory of Jesse "The Body" Ventura, the ex-professional wrestler and Reform Party candidate who won the Minnesota gubernatorial election last Tuesday.Policy making in America may never be the same. Jesse could change everything. Indeed, why...
WASHINGTON-Dan Phythyon, top mobile communications regulator at the Federal Communications Commission, last week cautioned against overreaction to congressionally mandated private wireless auctions and urged licensees to lobby Congress for spectrum lease fee authority as an alternative."I know that many people have taken the impression...
WASHINGTON-At a time other sectors of the telecommunications industry are urging the Federal Communications Commission to go away and leave them alone, Mark Crosby, president of the Industrial Telecommunications Association wants more attention. He wants an advocate fighting for private wireless spectrum inside of...
WASHINGTON-Whether spectrum used by the private wireless industry will be included in future auction plans remains a murky matter as the Federal Communications Commission gets ready to debate a proposed rule making concerning auctions.The FCC is getting ready to implement the Balanced Budget Act...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has been asked to help the Federal Communications Commission reduce a three-inch thick backlog of work yet to be completed by the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. At the urging of congressional staff, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Industrial Telecommunications Association...
WASHINGTON-The users of private wireless communications recently stressed their support for more spectrum. The reply comments were in response to a petition filed by the Land Mobile Communications Council on April 22 asking the Federal Communications Commission to allow them access to various blocks...
WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America said last week it should be given "quasi public-safety" status by the Federal Communications Commission. This status would allow it the right of first refusal when others want to use spectrum formerly in the Automobile Emergency Radio Service (AERS)...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Industrial Telecommunications Association have signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow ITA to be the first contact on interference complaints for private wireless users.The MOU originally was announced at the International Wireless Communications Exhibition in Las Vegas...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's long-awaited decision on what should happen with low-power private wireless systems during refarming has been delayed by concerns over interference with heart monitors.The Land Mobile Communications Council submitted a plan last June to deal with low-power systems but operators of...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to expand the global trade agreement that eliminates tariffs on telecom and information technology products by 2000.With developing countries increasingly turning to wireless technology for mobile and basic communications, the initiative would further improve the ability...
WASHINGTON-Amid an uproar of protest within an earshot of the White House against China's human and religious rights record and its sale of nuclear technology to rogue states, President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin announced China will sign a global pact to phase...
WASHINGTON-The private radio industry is waiting this week to see if the long-awaited refarming plan, scheduled to be implemented Oct. 17, actually will go into effect as planned. At the 11th hour, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is continuing to sort out a consensus agreement...
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ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. filed a petition on the Second Report and Order in the Federal Communications Commission's refarming proceeding.The association reiterated its support for radio service consolidation, while suggesting substantive changes to the new trunking rules and expressing concerns about speculation...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission concerning Motorola Inc.'s petition for clarification in the refarming proceeding, the organization said.In the petition filed in February, Motorola supported the commission's efforts to encourage the deployment of new technologies in...
WASHINGTON-Congress has charged the Federal Communications Commission with raising $152.5 million in regulatory fees for fiscal year 1997, a $26.1 million (nearly 21 percent) hike above the amount the commission had to raise to finance FY96.To reach this goal, a notice of proposed rulemaking...
WASHINGTON-The Utilities Telecommunications Council, has taken issue with a recent technical blueprint regarding pool consolidation floated at the Federal Communications Commission by the Industrial Telecommunications Association, and the group has submitted a plan of its own that it said better protects utilities and public-safety...
