Opinion

As the U.S. mobile-phone industry strategizes how to counter state efforts to impose new regulations, taxes and antenna-siting moratoria on wireless carriers, it may want to keep tabs on another …

The next stop in the evolution of the wireless industry is customization. And it’s expected to hit with all the subtlety of a tornado. This is not your father’s faceplate. …

I suspect there could be something to allegations leveled by former cyber security czar Richard Clarke against the Bush administration. Ditto for former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. Yet there is …

Energy! The one word used over and over again to describe CTIA’s Wireless show last week in Atlanta was energy, as in “There’s a lot of energy this year.” People …

Team Bush is back on message, sending out minions to declare the only thing we have to fear is economic isolationism itself. This is the White House’s answer to the …

Are state legislatures beginning to over-legislate? It seems when states are not busy addressing hands-free legislation, they are trying their collective hands at laws that restrict the types of pictures …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a 47 percent year-over-year increase in revenues from $5.7 billion in 2002 to $8.4 billion in total revenues last year. Net losses also improved from …

Wireless technology took its place in the election process last week. I am not referring to Motorola’s Rock the Vote Mobile campaign either. Still worth noting, Rock the Vote Mobile …

You’ve got to feel for the President’s loyal pal, Don Evans, whose colossal bureaucracy oversees everything from the health of the atmosphere to the well-being of the airwaves. Days after …

WASHINGTON-Just as public safety confirmed its support for the Consensus Plan, the United Telecom Council, a major proponent of the Balanced Approach Plan, confirmed that it believes this plan will …

In this case, the suffering is widespread, with states north to south and east to west bleeding in an uncertain economy with costly homeland security demands on governors, mayors and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received some unsolicited advice from 23 members of Congress on Thursday about how not to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band. “We …

To borrow a phrase from the auto business, the wireless industry seems to be running on all pistons. The news out of last week’s 3GSM show in Cannes, France, seemed …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received some unsolicited advice from 23 members of Congress on Thursday on what not to do to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz …

Ladies and gentlemen, AT&T Wireless (like Elvis) has left the building. So now what? Is this a new Ma Bell? Not likely, but I suspect the new and improved Cingular …

Only time will tell whether Arun Sarin and other Vodafone Group plc execs were snookered by indefatigable Yanks or all the wiser for hitting the sack at a proper hour. …

In a presidential election year when the export of tech jobs and towering trade imbalance with China are being repackaged by Democrats as wedge workforce issues against the GOP, it …

You didn’t expect AT&T Wireless to go quietly into that good night, did you? AT&T Wireless has a storied history. The carrier can claim roots in both AT&T Corp., which …

Movies adversely impact the privacy vs. security debate in this country. Law enforcement agents are either mythologized or demonized, using exotic technologies to monitor half the country without any obvious …

In recent years, the blurring line between print and electronic publishing has become a frequent discussion topic among editorial types. Just how will people receive and consume “the written” word …

More challenging than erasing a $477 billion budget deficit (which should keep the 3-percent federal phone tax intact for another hundred years or so) is figuring out where the U.S.-China …

Municipalities and states, hungry to find ways to fix their own budget woes, are targeting the wireless industry. As reported last week in RCR Wireless News, the city of Overland, …

One day soon, perhaps after Justice Antonin Scalia and Vice President Cheney return from their next weekend hunting trip, the Supreme Court will be asked to take an antenna-siting case. …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that could benefit the wireless industry. Mountain …

China is a land of enormous opportunity for wireless infrastructure makers and the like, no doubt about it. A land with more than 1 billion people can yield a lot …