Opinion

That’s why Bill Clinton is president. Last Tuesday, in harmony with Brit counterpart Tony Blair, Clinton accomplished something even the Great Greenspan couldn’t pull off. The Big Guy managed to …

What a wonderful and exciting time and place … where you can experience all four seasons within 24 hours. At press time Thursday I am staring out my office window …

As a journalist I have never had occasion to write a business plan, but I am guessing that one of the first questions for those who do write business plans …

NEW YORK-Rural carriers, many of which began as landline providers, already have experienced a long learning curve in service bundling-a current hot topic in the telecommunications industry. No doubt they …

Philadelphia, like many big American cities, has its share of thorny issues: crime, poverty, drugs, rotting schools and urban flight. But last Wednesday, one issue overshadowed them all in The …

Wireless 2000 was the place to be. It was the place where dot-com met wireless, and that made it the single-most noteworthy and newsmaking event of the week in the …

WASHINGTON-A new study failed to find an increase in cancer and other diseases among nearly 200,000 employees who worked at Motorola Inc. from 1976 to 1996. The study, published in …

I missed out on the conga line of carriers, vendors and Digerati who stole the show last week in New Orleans. It’s a wireless data world after all. The Net …

Speculation circulated last week that Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG is in talks with Qwest Communications International Inc. about a possible merger between the two, while SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth …

NEW ORLEANS-The Federal Communications Commission will decide by early April whether to restrict bidding in the scheduled re-auction of personal communications services C- and F-block licenses to small businesses-known as …

PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring. Still, like a hockey game, …

HONG KONG-In January, the Hong Kong government awarded five licenses for wireless fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), signaling a major advance in Internet access. The licensees will use base stations …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Latin American data-transmission industry has been surprised at the unusual technological and financial display of Diginet Americas, which plans to offer fixed-wireless broadband communications in some of …

WASHINGTON-More trees died last week as parties expressed their views in comments on what should be done with the personal communications services licenses of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. In the …

By the time anyone reads this column, the madness and mayhem will be well under way in New Orleans and a quiet calm will have settled over the RCR editorial …

The first thing you need to know about me is that I am a lot like my pet bulldog: When I get ahold of something, I do not let go. …

WASHINGTON-In another move in the litigative trench warfare that is the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, the federal government on Thursday filed a notice of appeal to preserve its rights …

WASHINGTON-Yet another federal appeals court has been brought into the debacle known as the personal communications services C-block. Bankrupt PCS operator NextWave Telecom Inc. filed on Feb. 11 a petition …

The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Omnipoint Corp. last week and noted the Department of Justice and the FBI delayed its decision, a problem …

This is getting interesting. The Net, home of The Next Big Thing and casually clad, overnight millionaires, is in a bit of a funk. Seems there’s an evolving class of …

Aether Systems Inc., that wireless data wonder out of Owings Mills, Md., is on a roll. Baby, they’re hot! The rage of Wall Street. Aether stock, offered at $16 last …

WASHINGTON-Last Thursday was a bad day for bankrupt personal communications services operator NextWave Telecom Inc. Not only did a federal appeals court deny its petition for rehearing but a United …

I wonder what it was like to be around when the automobile first really hit it big. Suddenly, there was a whole new world opened up for people, all based …

There they were-Bill Clinton in Davos and Al Gore in the Granite State-basking in the glory of a record U.S. economic expansion fueled by a raging high-tech sector of mobile …

NEW ORLEANS-As a New Orleans appeals court heard arguments on whether Metro PCS can keep its 14 personal communications services licenses, other developments in the continuing saga of the C-block …