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 find out if I am a desired candidate for their products and services.My grocery store...
"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 radio businesses out to pasture."Nextel Communications Inc., the largest specialized mobile radio operator, has...
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 2000 computer meltdown, topped with a dash of Seinfeld.I thought the worst was over....
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 wireless regulation and the politics that control many of our futures. I quit paying attention...
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 an application for AT&T Corp. long-distance wireline telephony. Someone, possibly the same person, somehow also...
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. My first column for the now-defunct Telocator magazine was titled, "Toto, I don't think...
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 share of the family fortune and leaves home to squander his money on wine...
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 to makes its case. And what a wonderful strategy shift it is. Better late...
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 I have a showplace home filled with beautiful designer furniture and the latest in...
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 is more than a decade old.What is surprising is how next year's Top 20...
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 you listen to Sid the Sycophant in the White House, who sold Hillary on the...
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 the Denver Distinguished Lecture Series.He shared antidotes about his presidency and his views on...
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 number shortage.Instead, the telephone number shortage is because phone numbers are assigned in an old-fashioned...
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, is the solution to network capacity expansion in areas where high customer use warrants...
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 for poor and high-cost rural subscribers.The bipartisan draft, authored by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska),...
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 for weeks-perhaps months-and the election date for any of its options won't be until...
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 households and small businesses in the United Kingdom.While its coverage now extends to more...
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 released at February's Wireless '98 show in Atlanta.Seventy-one percent of the survey's respondents said...
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 in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.Greenland, located far northwest of the European continent, is...
The following Web sites provide information related to cancer research: International EMF Project, www.who.ch/emf International Agency for Research on Cancer, www.iarc.fr Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., www.wtrllc.com EMF-Link (A Biomedical Science and Engineering Clearinghouse on Electric and Magnetic Fields), www.infoventures.com/emf Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health,...
BALTIMORE, United States-The World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the feasibility of conducting a multi-nation study to determine the connection, if any, between mobile-phone use and cancers in the brain, head and neck.Countries collaborating on the research initiative include Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Israel,...
In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications arena. Given emerging economies' pent-up demand for basic phone service, the introduction of local-exchange competition within industrialized nations and major...
To the editor: Instead of digging in their heals, it's time the carriers got with it. "It" being concealment or camouflage of antennas. Most local zoning authorities, like the one I sit on, would reduce the permitting process time if carriers agreed to conceal towers...
To the editor: I appreciated your recent article on customer care-you made several relevant points and I look forward to the day when carriers begin to heed your well-worded advice. If I may, I would like to add a few observations of my own: All potential...
