The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has asked about a dozen federal agencies to evaluate the relocation costs and other needs associated with returning spectrum for private use. The NTIA request was made as the government begins the study process following the recently completed...
WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said it is preparing a draft testing plan to examine the interference potential between ultra-wideband technologies and the global positioning system."My goal is to let science decide this, not politics," said Greg Rohde, NTIA administrator and assistant commerce...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has turned back an attempt from the aviation industry to overturn three waivers that allow limited use of ultra-wideband technology, but not until after some political wrangling between it and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration."Repeated NTIA editing of our...
WASHINGTON-A House appropriations subcommittee last week slashed administration-proposed budgets for the Federal Communications Committee and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, prompting criticism from Democrats who want funding restored for the White House's digital divide initiative.The panel voted for a $207 million budget for...
WASHINGTON-Wireless technology increasingly is seen as the end-all, be-all to the digital divide issue. But will it get here soon enough?The Clinton administration, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Service, said last month that wireless solutions to the digital...
U.S. WirelessThe board of directors of U.S. Wireless Corp. announced the appointment of Dale Stone as president, chief operating officer and member of the board of directors. Stone is the former president of Qualcomm Inc.'s infrastructure division.TellabsRichard Notebaert, retired chairman and chief executive officer...
NEW YORK-If the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 were a building under construction, inspectors evaluating this work in progress should be concerned about its structural integrity.The law "is supported by two pillars: universal service and competition," said Gregory L. Rohde, who was appointed U.S. assistant...
NEW ORLEANS-The federal spectrum czar believes that federal government spectrum users need to do a better job of encouraging innovation by private industry.Such communication could also lead to the federal government using its spectrum more efficiently, said Greg Rohde, assistant commerce secretary for telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's campaign to narrow the digital divide has come under attack by the American Electronics Association, the National Telephone Cooperative Association and some Republican presidential candidates.The digital divide is a term coined by the administration to describe what it sees as a...
WASHINGTON-A Clinton administration telecom grant program under attack by key House Republicans has changed its name and recommitted itself to helping minorities, rural communities and other underserved entities.The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a Commerce Department unit that advises the president on telecom policy,...
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...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should begin to have rules in place for using ultra-wideband wireless technologies before the end of 2000, said FCC Commissioner Susan Ness.Ultra-wideband radio frequency technologies long have been recognized as the technology of choice for ground-penetrating radars, but it is...
WASHINGTON-Outgoing National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving said he will launch a start-up Internet firm and open a consulting practice here, but downplayed suggestions he would use his new, private sector status to lobby former colleagues in government."It's been a great run,"...
WASHINGTON-With lawmakers back at work, the wireless industry will shift gears to push for passage of pending bills and try to position other legislation for congressional approval in 2000.Before the House and Senate recessed in August, the industry was forced to play defense against...
WASHINGTON-The universal-service fund should be paid for out of general revenues, not from taxes on telephone bills, said Philip M. Burgess, president and senior fellow of the Center for the New West, located in Denver."Where do you stop in saying who should pay for...
WASHINGTON-While President Clinton's nomination of Greg Rohde to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration progressed toward Senate conformation last week, the White House's reappointment of Democrat Susan Ness appears dead.Rohde, a telecom aide to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), breezed through his confirmation hearing...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored on public safety, liability protection, federal-land antenna siting and sales commissions in Congress last week, while fending off a Pentagon assault on federal spectrum management and a pro-state challenge to federal numbering policy.Wireless gains on Capitol Hill came after a...
WASHINGTON-As industry, congressional and administration officials struggled to craft a compromise on Pentagon spectrum priority legislation late last week, a new controversy erupted as the House telecommunications subcommittee voted to overhaul the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.Lawmakers, mindful of the coming August recess, scrambled...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving last week reiterated the administration's opposition to Department of Defense spectrum priority bills, but sidestepped the question of whether the legislation signals a loss of confidence in NTIA's ability to manage federal government spectrum.Irving, unveiling a...
WASHINGTON-The digital divide between those who do and those who don't have access to the Internet persists even as the number of Americans connected to the Information Superhighway grows, according to a report released Thursday by President Clinton in Anaheim, Calif.The report, "Falling Through...
WASHINGTON-While 911, encryption and commercial space launch bills advanced in Congress last week, other wireless-related bills remain steeped in controversy and uncertainty.As important as 911, encryption, commercial space launch, privacy, private wireless, rural cellular and other initiatives are, the issues pale in comparison to...
WASHINGTON-In one way or another, Dale N. Hatfield has been connected to the wireless industry as a telecom policy maker, a consultant, an academic and now back full circle as chief of the Office of Engineering Technology at the Federal Communications Commission.He was there...
WASHINGTON-Larry Irving, telecom adviser to President Clinton, last week said a 1993 bill transferring government spectrum to the Federal Communications Commission has been a failure."I don't know what happens to the spectrum. It goes into a dark hole. I don't know what the FCC...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's recent adoption of truth-in-billing practices was endorsed by the Clinton administration before the vote was taken and it appears many of the administration's suggestions were incorporated into the final rules.Although the final rules have yet to be released (they are...
