WASHINGTON-Differences over liability continue to slow digital copyright legislation in Congress, keeping wireless and wireline carriers in limbo about whether they will be held accountable for unintentionally transmitting unauthorized copyrighted material.The bill is not a high priority for the wireless telecommunications industry, despite the...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton signed appropriations legislation Friday to fund the Federal Communications Commission and scores of other government agencies for the rest of fiscal 1996, ending a bloody budget battle between the White House and the GOP-led Congress that caused two partial government shutdowns and...
WASHINGTON-Licensees of 220 MHz private land mobile radio services finally got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission to relocate their authorized base stations to a previously unauthorized site inside any designated filing area, if need be."Licensees who received authority to operate 220 MHz...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators are preparing to propose a novel regulatory scheme combining private and commercial mobile radio rules under one license, while work continues on crafting final wireless common carrier rules.The two rulemakings are offshoots of landmark 1993 legislation that restructured the wireless telecommunications industry...
