Opinion

Nearly a year into office, Bill Kennard has defied all attempts to be pigeonholed as the newest chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was general counsel and an understudy …

In about the same time-a nano-second or so-it took Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 62nd to leave the ball park and bring America together, Ken Starr was able to enter the nation’s …

When controversy comes calling, policy makers and wireless telecom firms turn to a high-tech sounding board whose work is based more on reality than on rhetoric: the Telecommunications Industry Association. …

Iridium announced last week it does not plan to meet its commercial launch goal of Sept. 23 because the mobile satellite service provider needs to tinker a bit more with …

With American carriers and manufacturers gallantly fighting here and abroad for global wireless supremacy and the U.S. government pocketing billions from the sale of airwaves that fuel pagers and mobile …

I need your help. The next few weeks at RCR and everywhere else in the wireless industry are going to be crazy. It’s too late to try to clean off …

WASHINGTON-A federal court ruling has exposed a huge loophole in the wiretap law, one that gives wireless consumers far less protection from eavesdropping than industry officials and government policy makers …

What does the acronym MoU mean? MoU stands for Memorandum of Understanding, of course-as in the GSM MoU Association. Any European cellular operator could tell you that. Except today, some …

The head of Philips Consumer Communications quit in late August amidst the company’s announcement it doesn’t expect to break even this year. PCC President and Chief Executive Officer Mike McTighe …

Across most of the world’s regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to …

Compared with defining-and keeping-the same wireless strategy over the years, gambling is beginning to look like a sound way to sock some money away for retirement. In today’s frenetic telecom …

President Clinton’s rapid-fire retaliation against terrorists suspected of bombing two U.S. embassies Aug. 7 in Africa, all cynicism aside, is in a broad sense more about invaluable eavesdropping by law …

I saw two stories over the news wire this week that made me wonder if wireless is heading the way of smoking as far as being labeled a public nuisance. …

Embattled Clinton Democrats, like FCC Chairman Bill Kennard and the First Family itself, know they’ve got a friend in Cape Cod and the islands, where I just returned from vacation …

As part of this week’s paging special report, RCR explores people’s love-hate relationship with technology. It’s an interesting read, and it certainly has caused me to wonder if the wireless …

Well, it is August in the Nation’s Capital and like almost everyone else (we’ll get to that in a moment), Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva, who usually occupies this space, is …

As PCS ’98 approaches, RCR editorial staffers are bracing themselves for an onslaught of press releases ranging in news value from important to the less-important. A print journalist for 20 …

Eloquent and elaborate quotes with references to Winston Churchill, the 1969 presidential inauguration and the devil himself spewed forth from press releases last Wednesday as three wireless associations praised the …

In this Clintonian Age of Relativity, there is always-for everyone here-a way out: denial. Having an extramarital affair with a girl your twenty-something daughter’s age. Deny it. Soliciting campaign contributions …

Cramming, slamming, telemarketing, annoying … Anymore when my home phone rings I am ready to repel, poised to protect. As a result, I recently had a conversation that went something …

Some U.S. GSM and TDMA operators are irked at Qualcomm Inc. and its lobbying efforts within the U.S. government to frame the third-generation issue as a trade issue with Europe. …

This week the wireless industry at last understood the pace of summer. Only 10 or so breaking news events designed to change the face of the industry as we see …

On the subject of funding fiascoes-E911, cancer research, CALEA, school and library Net links, etc.-someone tell President Clinton that it’s not just drug czar Barry McCaffrey who needs money for …

Turns out there is not one but two million-dollar men in the Portals fiasco. Subpoenaed documents provided to congressional investigators by Tennessee developer Franklin Haney last week supposedly reveal that …

The Washington Times last week reported China’s new rocket stage booster developed for Motorola Inc.’s Iridium project created a technology bridge that could help the Chinese deploy multiple warheads on …