Gerard J. Waldron, a communications attorney and former Democratic counsel to the House telecommunications subcommittee, is being prominently mentioned as the leading candidate to succeed John Nakahata as chief of staff to FCC Chairman Bill Kennard.Nakahata, who served as senior legal adviser to former...
WASHINGTON-Intek License Acquisition Corp. apparently could be the big winner in the continuing auction of licenses for the 220 MHz.At the end of round 67, Intek was the top bidder for two nationwide licenses and all of the regional licenses. Bidding on those licenses...
WASHINGTON-Last week's annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ended with a blueprint-but not a bold solution-for containing a worsening global financial crisis that is taking a toll on wireless firms in the global market.Highly symbolic of the contagion, which began...
WASHINGTON-With the scheduled adjournment of the 105th Congress last Friday, the wireless industry will be able to point to few visible victories. Indeed, industry can point to just two victories-one early in the session and one as Congress was racing to get out of...
WASHINGTON-She didn't ask for the job. She didn't even really know about the job before she got it. But here she is and she is going to do her best at this job, which as she sees it, is protecting the consumer.She is Gloria...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a case that could determine the scope of local telecom competition for years to come and possibly influence wireless policy in the near future.The central issue in Iowa Utilities Board v. FCC is whether...
WASHINGTON-Cellular operators last week overwhelmingly opposed a revised consumer-group proposal to route 911 analog calls to the cellular carrier most likely to complete the call, but it remains unclear whether carriers are ready to embrace a new Telecommunications Industry Association plan to handle emergency...
SpectraLink Corp., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that provides wireless telephone systems for the workplace, introduced its Link 3000 Wireless Telephone System.The company's systems, which can attach to existing private branch exchanges, deliver the same features of desk phones to wireless handsets. The handset, which...
WASHINGTON-The Boeing Co. was fined $10 million as part of an agreement with the State Department covering improper information transfers to Russian and Ukraine partners in a venture to launch rockets with communications satellites from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean.When Boeing announced...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. said it added 17,039 net new wireless subscribers during the third quarter, compared with 10,760 new subscribers during the same quarter last year.The company said its total subscriber base reached 364,189 at the end of the quarter."We have now achieved...
WASHINGTON-James Sasser, a former Tennessee senator hired by developer Franklin Haney to work on the Portals deal before becoming U.S. ambassador to China, denied trying to lobby government officials illegally for a 20-year, $400 million lease to house the Federal Communications Commission despite acknowledging...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.'s request to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree so the nation's largest dispatch operator can acquire more licenses, possibly those of bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc.In fact,...
Microsoft Corp. introduced its third-generation software platform for handheld personal computer products, called the Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, or H/PC Pro.The platform, based on Windows CE 2.11, improves remote access and connectivity to corporate data while retaining the familiar user interface of...
Officials at MobileMedia Corp. said they will not postpone the Oct. 14 bankruptcy court hearing to review its disclosure statement, setting in motion the legal process necessary to complete its acquisition by Arch Communications Group Inc. and putting to rest rumors of another company...
MCLEAN, Va.-Less than one year after assuming the posts of president and chief executive officer of LCC International Inc., Geoffrey S. Carroll resigned from those positions, to be temporarily replaced by Rajendra Singh, chairman of LCC's board of directors.Carroll agreed to continue serving the...
WASHINGTON-GTE Network Services announced it is adopting an anti-cramming policy that it defines as the toughest in the industry.Cramming is the practice of adding unauthorized charges to customers' telephone bills, such as for paging services or voice mail. With the growing popularity of bundling...
WASHINGTON(AP)-Federal antitrust regulators want information about Cisco Systems Inc. meetings with two other high-tech companies as they investigate whether Cisco illegally tried to divide the lucrative market for Internet hardware.Cisco, an $8.5 billion company that makes high-end networking equipment, acknowledged last Monday receiving a...
In comments that may reflect competitive positions in today's mobile phone market, mobile phone and mobile satellite service industries told the Federal Communications Commission more spectrum will be needed for third-generation services.Industry comments are in response to a Notice of Inquiry the FCC released...
Fledgling software company 3D Cellular offers products designed to provide a more efficient method for wireless carriers with Autoplex wireless systems from Lucent Technologies Inc. to manage database information and troubleshoot network defects.The Roam Translation Tool, Digit Translation Tool and Antenna Face Tool are...
CHICAGO-USN Communications Inc. launched cellular services in Midwest markets, where the competitive local exchange carrier already offers local and long-distance services.Small and medium-sized businesses in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin now can purchase all their telecommunications services from one provider, said USN.
ORLANDO, Fla.-Unwired Planet Inc. released its UP.Link Platform Version 3.1 with Wireless Markup Language support at PCS '98.The platform, which includes the UP.Link Server and UP.Browser, now can deliver WML content from industry-standard Web servers to wireless handsets and is Wireless Application Protocol compliant.The...
The campaigning efforts in Washington, D.C., are set to heat up within the next few months as the International Telecommunication Union enters the decision-making process for third-generation technology.The CDMA Development Group's operator members recently submitted a letter to 21 key government officials stressing the...
WASHINGTON-Like the communications industries it regulates, the Federal Communications Commission is converging.Last Thursday, FCC Chairman William Kennard announced the FCC would reform itself along function, not technological sector, lines. "When wireless carriers compete with wireline carriers, when cable companies provide telephone service, when broadcasters...
Citing in part its superior response to the Galaxy IV satellite outage, the U.S. Department of Defense said it will replace Paging Network Inc. with SkyTel Communications Inc. as its paging provider for the Pentagon's 25,000 paging users.PageNet's contract with the Defense Telecommunications Service-Washington-which...
