PCIA – Wireless Infrastructure Assoc.

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association has taken another stab at urging the Federal Communications Commission to become less regulatory and less burdensome. “PCIA is continuing to find ways to press …

WASHINGTON-Taking advantage of a recent court decision that the Federal Communications Commission re-examine its pay-phone compensation scheme, the Personal Communications Industry Association continues to urge the FCC to institute a …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission that it wanted to examine the annual budgets of the regional number portability administrators to ensure these entities …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the industry leaders who will speak at the Personal Communications Showcase ’98 conference Sept. 22-25 in Orlando, Fla. Federal Communications Commission Chairman William …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.), increasingly distressed about Federal Communications Commission wireless policy management, plans legislation next year that would overhaul the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and mandate more …

WASHINGTON-Ten telecom industry associations urged the Federal Communications Commission not to impose rules designed to protect consumer privacy. In a July 20 letter to the FCC, the groups said the …

In the eyes of some, the Federal Communications Commission’s great experiment with personal communications services licensing has been a smashing success. Facilities-based competition is all around. Subscriber numbers and revenues …

WASHINGTON-The FBI and the Department of Justice are shopping an amendment to congressional appropriators to change the Justice Department budget in a way that would re-write the controversial digital wiretap …

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission last week that since a majority of personal communications services customers in Louisiana said they use their PCS phone to make or receive …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission not to enforce newly enacted rules on customer information. In February, the FCC enacted rules that the telecommunications industry-especially …

WASHINGTON-When the Galaxy IV satellite went berserk in May and left most paging carriers and their customers holding the bag, the Federal Communications Commission said the Network Reliability and Interoperability …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week urged the FBI to revise its definition of key words in rules implementing the digital wiretap act. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association asked the FBI …

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 …

WASHINGTON-A much ballyhooed victory by the telecommunications industry to get the dates for compliance with the digital wiretap act extended is less certain as both sides in the continuing debate …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) will oppose a universal-service proposal endorsed by the Personal Communications Industry Association last week that would earmark half of the 3-percent telephone service …

They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday announced it would hold off until June 8 an anticipated decision on a request by the Personal Communications Industry Association that certain rules, including …

WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America said last week it should be given “quasi public-safety” status by the Federal Communications Commission. This status would allow it the right of first refusal …

Metawave Metawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here Friday told the Federal Communications Commission to re-evaluate its decision on pay-phone compensation but left in place rules that require pay-phone operators to be paid …

WASHINGTON-As the compliance deadline for the digital wiretap law looms ever closer, policy makers last week again attempted to gain advantage on the legislative, regulatory and standards fronts. On the …

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 …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The 1998 Eugene C. Bowler award was presented to David Siddall, legal adviser to Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness at the Personal Communications Industry Association’s Eighth Annual Eugene C. …

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 …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Personal Communications Industry Association, unable to get wireline carriers and manufacturers on board, moved forward on their own last week with a lawsuit …