PCIA – Wireless Infrastructure Assoc.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced Mark Golden, senior vice president of industry affairs, is leaving the association as of Dec. 3 to become executive director of the National …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week will vote to consider lifting the 45 megahertz spectrum cap, revamping relocation rules for 2 GHz mobile satellite operators and auctioning spectrum mandated by …

The main goal for the American Mobile Telecommunications Association is regulatory flexibility or more accurately-one-size-does-not-fit-all. AMTA President Alan Shark has been fighting the good fight with the Federal Communications Commission …

One can only imagine the potential import of the victory of Jesse “The Body” Ventura, the ex-professional wrestler and Reform Party candidate who won the Minnesota gubernatorial election last Tuesday. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission agreed with law enforcement that five controversial features of new digital wiretap capabilities are within the law. However, the agency ruled three other capabilities are outside …

WASHINGTON-The two trade associations representing the wireless industry last week joined other trade associations and the federal government in a major advertising campaign asking, “Are You Y2K OK?” The campaign’s …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said personal communications services is a facilities-based competitor to wireline services. However, in an order rejecting BellSouth Corp.’s application to offer long-distance service in …

An open letter praising the UWCC To the Editor: I feel compelled to write a letter of congratulations to the entire UWCC organization. It is the first time in my …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry, while failing to get the digital wiretap grandfather date statutorily changed, appears to have been successful in getting written assurances included in the end-of-the-year spending bill that …

The Personal Communications Industry Association hasn’t released the official number of those who attended PCS ’98 two weeks ago in Orlando, Fla. It wants to take its time to ensure …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a “watershed point,” and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. The …

CTIA Christopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of …

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 preparation for PCS ’98, RCR sat down last month with Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association to talk about the trade show, the wireless industry in …

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers this week will be writing checks-big checks-to the Federal Communications Commission to pay statutorily required regulatory fees. Regulatory fees finance approximately 80 percent of the FCC’s operating expenses. …

WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns. But these are not normal times. An …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau last week issued an order granting the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s request for a nine-month stay of wireless number portability requirements. The Wireless …

WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America received a powerful push from six U.S. senators last week, who urged the Federal Communications Commission to grant AAA “quasi public-safety” status, a request AAA …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week announced it is creating a new membership council to represent local multipoint distribution services operators. PCIA said it plans to represent fixed, broadband …

To the Editor: I am writing in response to two recent articles-“McCain: FCC is Running a Do Nothing Wireless Bureau,” (July 20) and “McCain Lays Foundation to Revamp FCC” (July …

The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one. PCS once was viewed as the …

WASHINGTON-A petition by three trade associations representing railroads, utilities and the petroleum industry is being criticized soundly by other frequency coordinators, which claim the request for a separate “public service …

WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with “regulatory guidance but without regulatory fiat,” …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has been asked to help the Federal Communications Commission reduce a three-inch thick backlog of work yet to be completed by the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. At …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week made significant strides in its efforts to reach a conciliatory note on antenna siting with various parties with which the industry has often disagreed. Additionally, …