PCIA – Wireless Infrastructure Assoc.

NEW YORK-As wireless carriers have closed off easier avenues for theft of services, subscriber fraud, including outright theft of identity, has emerged as the next generation of dirty dealing that …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week challenged unexplained regulatory fee increases, claiming the fees will hinder competition between wireless and wireline services. PCIA argued the Federal Communications Commission …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in a long-awaited and far-reaching policy call, is expected to rule within weeks on wireless resale policy for the future. The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is about …

Nextel Communications Kevin Gleason was hired at Nextel Communications Inc. as Indiana General Manager and Sherri Cobb joined the company as market branch manager for Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to joining …

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 …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association filed comments last week at the Federal Communications Commission seeking to halt any merger of SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. until …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In response to MCI Communication Corp.’s “Ivan” ads, which portray American consumers as oppressed due to the lack of freedom to choose from more than one local phone service …

WASHINGTON-In a major victory for the wireless industry, the Justice Department last week approved an antenna siting collocation plan crafted by the Personal Communications Industry Association. The PCIA approach includes …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association received approval from the U.S. Department of Justice on planned efforts to help wireless communications carriers develop a seamless nationwide network by launching a …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week defended its study that claims a “resale blockage” exists in broadband personal communications service and specialized mobile radio service. TRA President Ernie Kelly, in …

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 a tsunami we don’t see until it’s too late, number portability is heading toward the wireless industry, and few companies seem prepared for the impending storm. While phones, technology …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association launched its “Agenda for a Wireless America” aimed at urging regulators and legislators at the local, county, state and federal levels to focus their efforts …

SINGAPORE-The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore is taking a new approach to encouraging competition in the local wireless market. Beginning April 1, 2000, TAS will lower annual license fees for mobile …

WASHINGTON-With the first round of universal service payments having been made this month to the government by any service-offering telecommunications operation, there still is controversy surrounding how and why commercial …

SINGAPORE-The Asia-Pacific currency crisis has taken its toll on the Personal Communications Industry Association’s first venture into the international trade-show arena. Wireless Showcase Asia, held here last week and touted …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association is awaiting Justice Department approval for a national database that will include information on potential wireless site locations targeting new and collocation opportunities. Justice is …

In an initial victory for paging carriers nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau announced its current rules do not allow local exchange carriers to charge paging carriers for …

WASHINGTON-Comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s notice of proposed rule making on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act have one thing in common-moving the compliance date back two years, …

Remember the old Kris Kristofferson standard, “Everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on?” Well, I think I saw that in spades when I sat in on a recent …

The state of wireless technology and devices is in good shape today, and should continue to stay healthy well into the future, as long as carriers understand the changing dynamics …

The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission’s Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order. …

ALEXANDRIA, VA.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Communications Society’s Wireless Communications Conference will be held in conjunction with PCIA’s Personal Communications Showcase …

WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on …

WASHINGTON-For the second time, the law enforcement community has nixed an industry-crafted digital wiretap standard by taking advantage of liberal voting procedures in a way that wireless companies believe amounts …