I'm still recovering from PCS '96 in San Francisco.Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn't take it all in. In fact, PCIA said it had to turn away numerous companies that wanted to exhibit.It's always difficult to take...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade group's aggressive wireless agenda clashed with the Midwest regional Bell telephone company's business plans."Over time it has become clear to...
Hosting this week's PCS '96 conference and expo in San Francisco is Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association; as many as 15,000 people are expected to attend this year's event. Kitchen, who also served at the helm of the National Association...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Golden, senior vice president of Industry Affairs for the Personal Communications Industry Association, has been accepted as a voting member of the Federal Communications Commission's North American Numbering Council. Golden was chosen to represent PCIA and the wireless telecommunications industry.Historically, numbering resource...
AirNet Communications Corp. named Dr. Lee Hamilton vice president of product engineering. Hamilton will be responsible for developing and implementing AirNet's wireless broadband base station and related infrastructure equipment products. Hamilton previously served as general manager of system transmission products at Motorola Inc.'s Information...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association won their fights to become designated clearinghouses that will administer the Federal Communications Commission's microwave-relocation cost-sharing plan."We are gratified that the FCC went the way it did," said Fred Day, ITA's executive director...
Senate lawmakers kept the heat on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week insofar as implementing the 1996 Telecom Act. Hundt didn't let lawmakers force him into a corner, and artfully dodged questions that Commerce Committee members wanted him to answer their way. Sen. Slade...
WASHINGTON-The industry group largely responsible for securing regulatory relief during the paging freeze has demanded that the Personal Communications Industry Association cease charging frequency coordination fees under interim paging rules.The Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry, a collection of nearly 200 local and regional...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. appointed Patrick C. FitzPatrick vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMSC, FitzPatrick was senior vice president and CFO of PRC Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Black & Decker Corp.Paging Network Inc. has appointed William J. Dixon...
WASHINGTON-Opinions are split when it comes to shortening the voluntary negotiation period between microwave incumbents and C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licensees. Several commenters on the proposed Federal Communications Commission amendment also would allow reimbursing incumbents to relocate links on their...
The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul.The question is why?As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not clear whether sweeping changes are being made to accommodate the federal government and large paging companies that have paid hundreds...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Personal Communications Industry Association has elected William L. Collins III chairman of its board of directors. Collins is president and chief executive officer of Metrocall."Bill Collins is a dynamic executive leading a dynamic company," said PCIA President Jay Kitchen.
WASHINGTON-Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief Ralph Haller, characterized by former Federal Communications Commission colleague James McKinney as "just a simple country boy from the wheat fields of Kansas," accepted this year's Eugene C. Bowler Award at a May 15 dinner at the National Building...
WASHINGTON-"Auctions have revolutionized the way governments will distribute valuable resources and assets," said Jerry Vaughan, deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. "This will transfer to the states and then will go international.""Sometimes auctions create an artificial scarcity," countered Washington, D.C.-based...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
APRIL28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870.30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Local and regional paging operators lambasted the Federal Communications Commission for declining to completely lift the three-month-old paging application freeze last week, and vowed to redouble lobbying efforts in hopes of getting legislation or persuading the agency to reconsider its action."This battle just started,"...
If only Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect accused of blowing up those he believes responsible for polluting America with high technology, had gotten out of his wooden shack in Montana, he would have discovered good people doing good things with technology.The Personal Communications Industry...
NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing "Go" means collecting a lot more than $200.Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new federal telecommunications law which, "sets explicit national (tower) siting standards resulting from a negotiated rulemaking...
The arrival of spring weather in the nation's capital seemed to coincide with the conclusion of a week filled with grief from the tragic deaths of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, department aides, business executives and two Croatian nationals, all passengers in the U.S. Air...
APRIL14-16 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Grand Kempinski, Dallas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.16-18 Universal Wireless Communications International Conference, Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Center, Singapore. Call Gwen Carlson at (619) 535-9500 ext. 2071.17-18 Building the PCS Market,...
WASHINGTON-Congress late last week was expected to introduce legislation to force the Federal Communications Commission to lift the two-month-old paging application freeze, a source told RCR.The legislation likely will take the form of an amendment by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry is at a crossroads.Either the ever-popular mobile phone used by more than 35 million people today will remain forever a nice little extra for business people and safety-conscious citizens or it will evolve into something much bigger and revolutionary: the telephone...
