Opinion

NEW YORK-U.S. District Court of Maryland Judge Alexander Williams Jr. has dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit Comsat Corp. had filed Jan. 30 against IDB Mobile Communications Inc., saying it …

Are Judge Judy, Judge Koch and Judge Wapner behind this move in the wireless industry to settle disputes in court? Remember, it was Doug Llewelyn of People’s Court fame, who …

Here’s something to ponder: Is the FBI to blame for the current CALEA fiasco, as the wireless industry has long claimed? Or does this rather serious controversy reflect the wireless …

The European wireless community has been reasonably successful at being able to feel superior to its U.S. counterparts. Europe has a unified digital standard. It offers short message services. It …

To the Editor: Regarding your opinion article on April 13, (It’s time for small businesses to be creative) great insight; however, in order for the small operators to succeed we …

Last week, conservative wordsmith and Baltimore Orioles baseball fan George Will cheered the recent federal appeals court decision to throw out FCC broadcast equal employment opportunity rules put on the …

I’m not paranoid. Really, I’m not. But I am becoming increasingly protective of my privacy as I get bombarded with companies trying to glean bits of information about me to …

“The industry created two decades ago to foster dispatch wireless communications in the United States stands at a crossroads as regulatory, technological and market forces conspire to put mom-and-pop two-way …

I discovered writing about high-tech wireless hasn’t prepared me for the real world. On spring vacation with my family in central Florida, I got an early taste of the coming …

To the Editor: Before the advent of the brave new wireless world, I used to regularly read and identify with the opinion offered by Jeff Silva on numerous topics surrounding …

Slam! Bam! Thank you, ma’am. Opening mail that accumulated during a week’s vacation was a test case in re-entry shock and a reality check. Fraudsters had forged my signature on …

Thirteen years ago, I packed up the car with a 7-year-old, a Golden Retriever and a Siamese cat; and I left the Midwest to take the nation’s capital by storm. …

Last Sunday at church the main reading was the parable of the Prodigal Son. You remember the one, about the wealthy farmer with two sons. One son asks for his …

The wireless industry, having been defeated on Capitol Hill and Bunker Hill by environmentalists, organized labor and soccer moms, has turned to John Q. Public, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Ivan …

Like many other Americans, for the foreseeable future I am locked in the credit-card death cycle of “pay now, pay later, pay forever.” While I would like to say that …

Twelve of the carriers featured in RCR’s Top 20 Cellular operators list in 1987 either no longer exist or have substantially changed. It’s not really that surprising since the list …

In this March Madness season of religious conversion, I join David Brock (Clinton basher turned sympathizer) and Trent Lott (Starr malcontent turned sympathizer) in the mass confessional. You know, if …

My head has been full of thoughts about government this week. My husband and I had the opportunity to hear former President George Bush speak last Monday as part of …

What? There is not a shortage of available phone numbers? The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones is not to blame for what is being perceived as a …

NEW YORK-Although his company recently completed field trials with Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group plc Chief Executive Officer Chris Gent believes next-generation wireless technology, rather than Code Division Multiple Access technology, …

WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities from draining telephone service subsidies …

WASHINGTON-Despite recent Federal Communications Commission allusions to a prompt public notice detailing changes to its C-block personal communications services financial restructuring order, such a notice probably will not be released …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The challenges faced by radio-access network providers have been underlined by the experiences of Ionica, a company established in June 1996 to provide a new wireless telephone service to …

DENVER, United States-Consumers are aware of increased competition within the wireless industry in the United States, according to a recent report conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc. and …

DALLAS, United States-U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp.’s cellular infrastructure division, Celcore, has begun work with TELE Greenland A/S to test and evaluate a DSC Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) system …