Opinion

I have really tried to keep myself and my thoughts above the fray when it comes to the whole Y2K issue. It is difficult. At the beginning of the year, …

Call Oliver Stone. The military-industrial complex is alive and well! Seems telecom execs want to be right in the thick of things at the 50th anniversary celebration of NATO, April …

I remember one, maybe two years ago when a merger story would pop up on the radar screen for the week and it is was news. Not necessarily because the …

Tell that to CTIA, which claims the FCC overcharged its members for regulatory fees to the tune of $8 million. Tell that to comm site owners on Bureau of Land …

While many of their counterparts in the high-flying build-to-suit industry are prospering, tower manufacturers are finding the road ahead may be a difficult one. Likewise, recent siting decisions do not …

My mom is flying into Denver today to see her 3-year-old granddaughter, (and the rest of us, too, I suppose.) Luckily, there is a direct flight from the small North …

The tortoise is Tortoise Paging & Communications, of Ridgecrest, Calif., and the scare is the U.S. government. This may not interest a lot of you. It’s a small-town story, not …

Qualcomm decides to sell its infrastructure division to archrival Ericsson. VLSI rejects Philips’ takeover bid, but says it will explore others. Four Canadian carriers join forces. Cable & Wireless and …

FCC Chairman Bill Kennard now says the agency has an open mind on the question of private wireless auctions. It wasn’t always that way. The FCC, going back to the …

To create some excitement before his swing through New Hampshire last week, Al Gore declared he invented the Internet. It worked. A dumbfounded James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), chairman of the House …

What exactly is Nextel Communications Inc.? The simple definition of an enhanced specialized mobile radio operator using integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network technology catering to business users who need private-dispatch functions …

Sometimes you just have to laugh … “When parents are on the car phone talking to their kids explaining why they can’t get home for dinner or can’t do bedtime …

Global wireless gatekeepers have been on high alert in recent weeks, preparing for next month’s publication of a U.K. study linking mobile phones to short-term memory loss and prepping for …

Helsinki-based Sonera Group plc, Finland’s largest telecommunications carrier, plans a $1.1 billion issue of medium term notes to help finance its expansion plans. The partially privatized carrier, owned 78 percent …

Are today’s high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable? Top antitrust minds, like Federal Trade Commission …

A recent survey by the Lucas Group found that telecom professionals are looking for more balance between their work and home life. “The top reason candidates seek a job change …

As the FCC awkwardly confronts one challenge after another with respect to Phase I and Phase II E911 implementation and the ‘dead zone’ issue, one gets a faint sense that …

The wireless industry’s toughest challenge may not be choosing 3G standards, or whether the handset or the network should transmit E911 information. Rather, the industry’s greatest stumbling block may be …

The evolution of the wireless handset has gone from the mobile in the car, to the transportable in the car, to the portable in the purse or suit jacket and …

Increasingly, for wireless regulators, striking a policy balance on issues affecting competition, consumer safety and law enforcement is a big challenge. Owing in part to converging technologies and changing markets, …

Canadian controversy, eh While the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and its patrons were whooping it up last week in New Orleans, Canada was working itself into a frenzy over an …

I guess there is no use longing for yesterdays when wireless trade shows were somewhat sane. Today’s conventions are full of new twists as last-minute press conferences are called to …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here rejected a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 800 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses in 1997, but struck down rules imposing tighter buildout …

“Certainly 1996 is not that long ago chronologically, but for technology, it was a lifetime ago. When Congress put that final stamp with that digital pen and signed the act …

If only the wireless industry could have the Internet’s deal. Oh, what a wonderful world it would be! The Internet, this brave new interior world of pixeled 1’s and 0’s …