WASHINGTON-With major wireless issues facing federal regulators and the White House, the future of two key Bush telecom appointees is growing more uncertain by the day as a result of political bickering that is not altogether partisan. That the Bush administration has not...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved the nomination of Michael Gallagher to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The nomination now goes to the Senate floor. Gallagher currently is acting NTIA chief. Separately, NTIA Dec. 9 will hold the first of a...
WASHINGTON-Another unexpected snag has further complicated industry's chances for securing military spectrum for third-generation wireless services, with the powerful broadcast lobby claiming new studies-conducted in the absence of technical guidance promised by the Bush administration-show frequencies earmarked for the Pentagon in return for surrendered...
WASHINGTON-Michael Gallagher, President Bush's nominee to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, told Senate lawmakers that engineering and trust among agencies are key to forging spectrum policies that balance economic and homeland security objectives in the post-9/11 world.Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain...
WASHINGTON-Michael Gallagher, President Bush's nominee to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, told Senate lawmakers today that engineering and trust among agencies are key to forging spectrum policies that balance economic and homeland security objectives in the post-9/11 world.Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John...
WASHINGTON-Changes sought by wireless firms to a U.S. document being prepared for an upcoming International Telecommunication Union meeting are insufficient, a major industry group said last week, keeping alive a controversy the Bush administration must resolve in the next two weeks. Industry's criticism...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry and others have blasted Bush administration efforts to globally promote concepts in a November 2002 report by the Federal Communications Commission's Spectrum Policy Task Force, a criticism that comes as a U.S. delegation prepares to travel to Geneva later this month...
WASHINGTON-President Bush said he intends to nominate Michael Gallagher to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a key policy unit the administration wants to merge with other technology agencies.Gallagher, previously an aide to former Rep. Rick White (R-Wash.) and a Verizon Wireless lobbyist,...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee sent to the Senate floor a bill to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration without considering a Bush administration proposal to reorganize the Department of Commerce.Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman, reiterated his belief that there is not much...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday sent to the Senate floor a bill to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration without considering a Bush administration proposal to reorganize the Department of Commerce.Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman, reiterated to reporters his belief that there is...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week sent Congress legislation to fold the agency housing the president's key telecom adviser into a new Technology and Telecommunications Administration, prompting reactions from key lawmakers ranging from cautious neutrality to outright opposition.Under the draft bill, a new undersecretary of...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today sent Congress legislation to reorganize the Commerce Department by merging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Technology Administration."This administration understands that our global marketplace has changed and that telecom and technology operate together, not separately. We need to...
WASHINGTON-Nancy Victory, the embattled assistant Commerce secretary for information and administration, is leaving her post, which leads the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Aug. 15, said NTIA spokesman Clyde Ensslin."She decided that having reached the two-year mark now would be a good time to...
WASHINGTON-The head of the U.S. delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference today said that while there is support for a global 5 GHz allocation for Wi-Fi technologies, differences exist among nations about whether unlicensed operations in certain frequency bands should be allowed outdoors where...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief Nancy Victory Tuesday named Frederick Wentland to head the agency's spectrum management office, an appointment that comes just days after the agency lost its No. 2 official to a Commerce Department promotion.Wentland, a 22-year veteran of NTIA, has...
WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration shifts gears from overseas battles to domestic issues and the president's 2004 re-election bid, key personnel changes and political shakeups could delay or derail timely action on major spectrum management and wireless policy initiatives.Last week, the Commerce Department said Michael...
WASHINGTON-The Commerce Department later today will announce that Michael Gallagher, deputy head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and a key government go-between on contentious spectrum issues pitting the wireless industry against the Department of Defense, will become an adviser to Commerce Secretary...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed last Thursday to make 255 megahertz in the 5 GHz band available for unlicensed devices. The FCC praised the proposal, which suggests that devices built to use this spectrum deploy dynamic frequency selection to avoid government systems.The proposed rules...
The Bush administration and industry reached agreement supporting a global allocation of 5 GHz spectrum for unlicensed wireless technologies that would operate at power levels that do not interfere with military radar, culminating months of intense negotiations and strengthening the U.S. position for the...
WASHINGTON-The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) said National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) chief Nancy Victory should have disclosed costs associated with a private reception wireless lobbyists helped pay for in mid-October 2001, less than two weeks before the Bush administration's top telecom official...
WASHINGTON-The Office of Government Ethics said National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief Nancy Victory should have disclosed costs associated with a private reception wireless lobbyists helped pay for in mid-October 2001, less than two weeks before the Bush administration's top telecom official took a...
WASHINGTON-The volatile debate surrounding the rules allowing or restricting the use of ultra-wideband technologies got louder as companies commented on ambient noise test results from the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the tests were not relevant....
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association was appointed as a non-resident member of the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications on the same day the Federal Communications Commission released its response to a Bush administration critical-infrastructure report."As a member of NCC, CTIA's leadership and expertise...
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans was the keynote speaker at today's Spectrum Summit. Following are his prepared remarks.As I stand here in our Department auditorium, I am reminded of the first time I stood on this stage. It was Jan 23rd. I...
