WASHINGTON-President Bush last week signed an executive order directing federal agencies to implement recommendations in two spectrum reports, while a more pressing White House initiative to earmark military frequencies for third-generation wireless systems remains in limbo on Capitol Hill as lawmakers return this week...
WASHINGTON-President Bush signed an executive order directing federal agencies to implement recommendations in two spectrum reports, while a more pressing White House initiative to earmark military frequencies for third-generation wireless systems remains in limbo on Capitol Hill. Bush's directive puts into play spectrum policy...
WASHINGTON-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants excess revenue from a future third-generation mobile-phone auction to help fund deployment of enhanced 911 service, according to sources. The plan could potentially complicate passage of relocation fund legislation previously hamstrung by a controversial amendment that...
It appears Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L. P. will be able to unload some of its final CDMA phones in North America as Sprint PCS announced it will sell a limited number of Sony Ericsson's Bluetooth-enabled T608 phones.The move comes almost six months after...
WASHINGTON-As the House and Senate this week prepare to vote on a $29.4 billion homeland security spending bill, the wireless industry remains left in limbo on priority access service and emergency warning capabilities even as it makes headway on other fronts.The appropriations bill agreed...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said Aug. 8 that the 15 licenses owned by Airadigm Communications Inc., a bankrupt PCS C- and F-block licensee in Iowa and Wisconsin, did not cancel when Airadigm filed for bankruptcy and did not make a timely installment payment...
WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust chief Charles James is resigning to become vice president and general counsel for Chevron Texaco Corp., leaving several pending high-tech mergers in limbo and creating uncertainty for mobile phone operators that are in merger talks.James, who negotiated a settlement in the...
HACKENSACK, N.J.—Wireless data provider GoAmerica Inc. said it is establishing a team to assist new subscribers who migrate to GoAmerica from other wireless data and Internet services providers.A spokeswoman for the company said the move was partly due to the situation at wireless service...
WASHINGTON-A $148 million class-action lawsuit was filed last week accusing the Federal Communications Commission of breach-of-contract when it failed to redraw lottery applications for seven rural service area licenses when the original lottery winners were disqualified. Three of the seven licenses were eventually awarded...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling that the Federal Communications Commissions illegally repossessed NextWave Telecom's personal communications services licenses has turned a once $17 billion windfall for the federal government, and much needed capacity for wireless carriers, into...
WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News has learned that a General Accounting Office report scheduled for release next month will sharply criticize the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration for not educating consumers sufficiently on mobile-phone health issues, but the government study will stop...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The many delays that have beset South Africa's third mobile network license process could be at an end. In February, the Minister of Communications Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced the winner was the Saudi Oger-financed Cell C consortium, despite the fact that a...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee is expected shortly to approve the renomination of Federal Communications Commission member Susan Ness, but the Clinton Democrat's future is anything but clear.At last Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), head of the communications subcommittee, said Senate Commerce Committee...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department's Portals probe remains in limbo one year after a congressional panel referred a staff report alleging possible criminal violations by close associates of Vice President Gore in connection with a 20-year, $400 million lease for the Federal Communications Commission's new headquarters.The...
WASHINGTON-On one level, the wireless campaign on Capitol Hill this year was not unlike that of Congress as a whole. In the end, when it came time for Congress to adjourn for the year, lawmakers belatedly passed a handful of bills-mostly legislation to keep...
A new niche segment of the wireless industry-build-to-suit-is attracting a lot of attention, both from carriers and Wall Street.The idea behind the build-to-suit concept is to shift all aspects of tower siting-including zoning, construction and maintenance-to a third party. Carriers, increasingly burdened with competitive...
WASHINGTON-In the private sector, he has represented Pacific Telesis, Bell Atlantic Corp., Lockheed Martin and other high-tech corporate giants. In the world of politics, his No. 1 client is Albert Gore Jr.The inside-outside game of Peter Knight has paid off handsomely in recent years....
First, the nation's capital gave you the Million Man March. Now, the Million-Dollar Question.It's just a matter of time now before subpoenas go out to one or more of the Gore gang connected with the FCC Portals lease.The House Commerce Committee is none too...
WASHINGTON-As the end of the first session of the 105th Congress nears, the wireless telecom industry is left hanging with key policy issues unresolved.In limbo are antenna siting moratoria, wireless privacy, digital wiretap funding and implementation, wireless cloning, encryption, regulatory reform, high-tech securities litigation...
WASHINGTON-Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen blasted the Federal Communications Commission last week for ignoring congressional requests to reduce paging carrier contributions to the $2 billion annual universal service fund."The commission's actions ... are clearly inequitable and discriminatory for PCS (personal communications services)...
WASHINGTON-In an effort to move closer to gaining the C-block personal communications services licenses it won last summer and to circumvent any talk of collusion, Dallas-based GWI PCS Inc. has stated in no uncertain terms that neither South Korean-based Hyundai Electronics nor its U.S....
WASHINGTON-"That peculiar smell drifting up from Puerto Rico is the odor of burning money. Our money. I'm tired of smelling it," wrote Gary North Nov. 8 to other limited partners whose holdings are in limbo while PCS 2000 Inc. C-block personal communications services licenses...
WASHINGTON-San Juan, Puerto Rico-based PCS 2000 L.P. says it is running out of cash. The company, whose 15 C-block personal communications services licenses are in limbo due to an ongoing Federal Communications Commission investigation and the three petitions to deny filed against it, has...
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...
