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As if the wireless industry didn’t have enough to worry about with local zoning boards, citizen activists, organized labor, environmentalists, Civil War buffs and the National Park Service, now it …

Earlier in this decade, the wireless industry began heating up over the immense promise of wireless local loop applications. Predictions of an explosion of worldwide WLL system installations through the …

The 3G debate these days could be characterized as a global poker game-no one is quite sure who’s bluffing, who holds the winning cards or who plans to fold. Whether …

After the embarrassing $1 license sales in the Wireless Communication Service auction two years ago and the C-block personal communications services bankruptcies, some began to question whether spectrum still had …

On Monday, it’s Vodafone-AirTouch. Wednesday, it’s SBC-Comcast. Friday must mean BellSouth. (Actually, it’s Thursday as I write this so if anything has happened to BellSouth, I should be on Wall …

We already knew Vice President Al Gore was good at working White House phones and Buddhist temples for noble causes, like the presidency. Now we’ve learned the veep is conspiring …

Today’s telecommunications behemoths soon will rank right up there with journalists and used-car salesman on the “Who don’t you trust” list. As competition tries to come to the telecom industry, …

Welcome to 1999 and woe to pols that haven’t discovered the digital age. No wonder House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.) counts cellular privacy as a top priority in …

We are witnesses to history in the making. Yes, yes, tomorrow’s students will study the impeachment of President Clinton in History class (now isn’t that something to look forward to), …

Will ’99 be the year wireless becomes airborne? Iridium, hoping to further entice business travelers to trust and use the Iridium name, spent $65 million in December to buy Claircom …

Happy New Year from the Nation’s Capital. Only 361 days until the new millennium, at which time we will get to see if the millennium bug-also known as Y2K-really is …

The introduction of digital phone technology has changed dramatically the landscape of wireless communications across the globe and put the heat on the global paging industry. Paging’s old advantages of …

Inventors often have said people will find new uses for wireless products, whether they are data or voice, once they have a chance to play with them. The human factor …

As a call to arms goes out to prepare for cyberterrorism, we now know at least a few ways vital U.S. infrastructure can be shut down. There are errant construction …

Research companies predicting wireless handset market share have ruffled a few industry feathers. Qualcomm last week issued a statement disputing Dataquest research that had Qualcomm’s market share dropping from 17.4 …

By the time Jan. 19 rolls around, newest Wireless Telecom Bureau Chief Tom Sugrue will be in for an education that goes far beyond the quirks and quarks (B.S. in …

Get ready, the wireless world as we know it is going to change-again. When we look back at 1998 in wireless to see which announcements impacted the industry, it may …

effrey Silva Can your beer do that? The National League of Cities, which just wrapped up its 75th annual meeting in Kansas City, boasts to members of forcing the withdrawal …

“Consumers of third-generation wireless technology will be better served by marketplace competition than by a single government-mandated standard, according to a new economic white paper released today by the North …

Who’s hot on wireless stocks? Some judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, apparently. The explanation for the latest delay in the FCC …

As I debate again this year whether to actually make mashed potatoes to bring to the family Thanksgiving dinner or whether to buy them and pretend I made them (you …

Dueling high-tech agendas In coming years, the debate for control of the nation’s high-tech policy agenda will become as fierce, and perhaps as important, as any in official Washington. Given …

That the Clinton administration hasn’t said all that much since the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections is instructive. For one thing, who can say it better than angry Republicans who …

Is this it? Is the wireless data market sitting on the runway to (finally) take off, offering instant text applications anywhere on the planet? Like a child before Christmas, I …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week will vote to consider lifting the 45 megahertz spectrum cap, revamping relocation rules for 2 GHz mobile satellite operators and auctioning spectrum mandated by …