Opinion

I was once told that Dallas has such a great highway system because during the oil bust in the mid ’80s, business people ruled the local government bodies and did …

With only a month before oral arguments, challengers to the FCC’s new RF exposure standard managed to avoid imploding last week. Just barely. It all started a couple weeks ago …

WASHINGTON-It is Congress, not the Federal Communications Commission, that makes telecom policy, according to one of the new FCC commissioners, Harold Furchtgott-Roth. The FCC “must simply follow the law as …

The proposed combination of SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. could create a big obstacle to the implementation of calling-party-pays service in the United States. Speaking last month at a …

More than one person in the wireless industry has referred to the government’s auction of C-block personal communications services licenses as a bad dream. Now, it seems, the Federal Communications …

Could Japan, America’s venerable trade nemesis, be the key to future global economic stability generally and the wireless revolution specifically? Without doubt. The Clinton administration believes it has Japan over …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have …

TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off …

TOKYO-NTT has decided to liquidate its PHS (Personal Handyphone System) business, run by NTT Personal Group, with cellular subsidiary NTT DoCoMo Group taking over by year-end. DoCoMo said it has …

DENVER, United States-Personal Communications Services (PCS) carriers have made significant inroads into the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, weakening the entrenched cellular carriers’ net additions and driving down airtime prices. The …

DUBLIN, Ireland-One application driving the increasing amount of data traffic on mobile networks is short message service (SMS), which allows phone users to send a message from one handset to …

DUBLIN, Ireland-As mobile phone technology continues to develop rapidly, users continually are encouraged by operators and manufacturers to upgrade their phones to the latest models to take advantage of advanced …

The popularity of Internet Protocol (IP)-based wireless networks for voice and data has prompted several vendors to announced products to meet this new demand. Motorola Motorola Inc.’s Worldwide Data Solutions …

DENVER, United States-L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and United Kingdom-based Psion Computers plc conditionally have agreed to form a joint venture called Symbian, and Motorola Inc. has signed a memorandum of …

DENVER, United States-Analysts from consulting firm Strategy Analytics debated the future of data transmission over cellular networks in a June conference call, concluding that while current usage levels are low …

“These things come together. You date and date and date and one day you decide to get married. One day you decide there’s enough chatting and you say, `Let’s get …

In the end, all he could do from the far front corner of the spacious House Commerce Committee room he once ruled with an iron fist was sit silent, except …

Republicans, joyous over having launched Chinagate, are now writing the script for what they hope will be a best seller come 2000. We’ll call it White House in the Unbalance …

Jefferson, it is said, believed a revolution once every generation wasn’t such a bad thing for the republic. Today, if you look around at everything from the two-party political system …

The messaging industry (as it likes to be called) has an interesting public-relations dilemma on its hands. When the Galaxy 4 satellite lost contact with earth, millions of paging customers …

Some truths are not self evident, but every once in a while, the dawn’s early light shines through. Truth has no place in this city of self-serving factoids, where winning …

Thanks to the Seinfeld Gang of Four, taxes, CALEA, CPNI, WTR, moratoria, universal service, E911 and swervey drivers have now been eclipsed as major headaches of the day for the …

SBC Communications Inc.’s impending plans to add Ameritech to its growing stable of telecom acquisitions brings to the front burner the significance of the 45 megahertz cap on wireless spectrum. …

The bigger-than-life presence of Jim Brady at last week’s press briefing was unexpected but oh so welcomed, this enduring symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Why …

Is it time the Federal Communications Commission be overhauled? Not in the disappearing (non)sense that Gingrichites from the Progress & Freedom Foundation advocate. The new-age digital libertarians have it completely …