Opinion

Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog service. But will call clarity remain …

Dear Editor: This is in reference to Tracy Anderson Ford’s “Viewpoint” column in the May 19 issue of RCR. In that column, Ms. Ford correctly notes how the spectrum needs …

Dear Editor: In the May 12 issue of RCR, you published an article titled, “Phone shield pamphlet pulled from U.S. shelves,” with a picture of our product, the PhoneShield, underneath …

WASHINGTON-“This is not an inscrutable, hard-to-figure-out issue,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at a hearing last week to discuss problems with his proposed Law Enforcement and Public Safety Telecommunications Empowerment …

WASHINGTON-Dan Phythyon, acting chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, does not want to characterize himself or his staff as “the James Brown of the commission.” He modestly …

WASHINGTON (AP)-MCI Communications Corp. can continue its practice of not disclosing on monthly bills that it charges customers in full-minute increments, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court …

WASHINGTON-In the final salvo of paperwork regarding NextWave Telecom Inc.’s opposition to its application for review, Antigone Communications L.P. and PCS Devco Inc. continue to maintain their push for, at …

Dear Editor: Any fair assessment of the “unraveling” of Wireless Technology Research’s research program on health effects of radio frequency fields requires consideration of the goals it set out to …

Laws won’t stop traffic accidents Dear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while …

Motorola counters research memo Dear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR’s March 3 article on Motorola’s 1994 response to biological research …

This is the fifth and last installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, …

Fear is a powerful emotion. It keeps people behind locked doors. It makes them give up their chance to find the love of their lives. It keeps them from pursuing …

WASHINGTON-The formal memorandum opinion and order regarding the award of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.’s long-awaited personal communications services licenses creates more questions than answers about the licensee’s foreign capitalization and …

Dear Editor: As the world becomes more mobile, and our tools become more portable, our collective frustration with the performance of our portable phones and computers is increasingly blamed on …

This is the fourth installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in …

This is the third installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in …

What is the real motivation behind the reluctance of the Federal Communications Commission to make a decision about what to do with the specialized mobile radio industry? Is it greed? …

This is the second installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in …

WASHINGTON-“The Telecom Act was an act of Congress and not an act of God, so it will not be immediately perfect,” commented AT&T’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Allen …

RCR missed boat on NextWave story Dear Editor: RCR is a respected wireless trade publication known for its journalistic standards. It inexplicably departed from those standards in its Jan. 13 …

WASHINGTON-Now that some of the dust has settled following the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 23 adoption of a memorandum opinion and order regarding private-radio refarming, the Industrial Telecommunications Association has …

The Federal Communications Commission granted GWI PCS Inc. the remaining 14 C-block personal communications licenses won last May. The markets had been on hold since that time because of an …

This exclusive RCR five-part series highlights the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-American Phoenix Group Inc. announced the creation of Tetherless Access New Zealand Ltd. to supply data communications services to New Zealand companies. The company will be headed by Greg …

WASHINGTON-On the day before the first anniversary of the bidding error that plunged C-block personal communications services applicant PCS 2000 L.P. into the lion’s den of licensing problems, the Federal …