NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As fourth-generation network rollouts begin, the wireless industry’s value chain has viable buildout opportunities that should keep the sector healthy, as long as various segments work in harmony.“4G wireless will be the game changer that we all expect and hope it...
4G Unwired 4G Unwired has introduced SkyView Microwave, microwave engineering software that provides the ability to design microwave and broadband networks in 3D directly in Google Earth with accurate and repeatable results. View line of sight worldwide from any angle, produce complete link...
The tower industry gets its turn on the trade show spotlight this week as PCIA’s 2009 Wireless Infrastructure Show is set to kick off at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. The event’s festivities start on Monday, Sept. 21 with the...
As president and CEO of PCIA – the Wireless Infrastructure Association, Michael Fitch is charged with overseeing the group's mission of supporting the infrastructure necessary to make wireless communications and information available at all times and in all places. While the task may seem...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
The billions of dollars set aside in the government's stimulus bill to promote broadband access across the country may help create thousands of new jobs - and wireless firms are already evaluating the legislation for potential opportunities.The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
The House gave President Obama a big victory with approval of an economic stimulus bill with $6 billion in broadband grants for wireless carriers and other service providers, setting the stage for Senate debate next week on a costlier companion measure that includes more...
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DELAY in ruling on backup power reporting requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission could suggest it sees merit in mobile phone industry arguments that compliance obligations imposed on carriers and accompanying costs are far greater than what telecom regulators projected....
The cell-phone and tower industries urged the Bush administration to reject backup-power reporting requirements, arguing the Federal Communications Commission grossly underestimated time, operational and financial burdens placed on wireless providers.Indeed, wireless providers argue information collection guidelines associated with the eight-hour cell site backup-power mandate...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The wireless industry is crowded with associations so it's imperative for those looking to succeed to find their niche.It appears PCIA has. PCIA, which was once a powerhouse for industry lobbying, has reinvented itself as the "Wireless Infrastructure Association," focused on...
BY DAN MEYERHOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show last week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the market segment. While exuberance from the tower company...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite thunderstorms on Wall Street, as well as outside the convention itself, participants at the PCIA's 2008 Wireless Infrastructure Show this week in Hollywood, Fla., were forecasting sunny skies for the market segment. While exuberance from the tower company executives would...
On the surface, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to reverse a three-judge panel and hand San Diego County a surprise victory over Sprint Nextel Corp. is just another in a series of conflicting court rulings on antenna siting. But legal wrangling...
As several tropical storms threatened various sections of the nation, the Federal Communications Commission took action to prompt Bush administration and court review of a backup power rule maligned by the wireless and tower sectors.The FCC on Thursday sent the backup power rule -...
Conservationists called for a freeze on all tower registrations and re-registrations until the Federal Communications Commission complies with environmental statutes at issue in a court ruling earlier this year, likely signaling no let-up in a long-running feud over how to protect migratory birds from...
A dispute has erupted over whether a federal appeals court should delay ruling on the wireless industry's challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's backup power rule until Bush administration budget officials complete their review of controversial guidelines designed to respond to communications failures from...
A profound -- but predictably understandable -- policy shift has been evolving since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and horrific hurricanes four years later. Public safety, organically ingrained in and the higher calling component of the Communications Act, already had sacred cow status before...
The mobile-phone industry told a U.S. appeals court the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its statutory powers in mandating the eight-hour backup power rule for cell sites as part of an otherwise legally flawed rulemaking."By promulgating a sweeping mandate far beyond its regulatory authority without...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin last week said the agency will re-examine the pole-attachment regulatory regime as part of a broader, ongoing effort to promote the deployment of broadband communications, a policy direction that will give the tower and cellphone sectors the chance...
THE MOBILE-PHONE AND TOWER SECTORS could take a significant financial hit as a result of a new Federal Communications Commission mandate requiring backup power sources at key facilities.The FCC rule, which industry sources claim could cost wireless carriers hundreds of millions of dollars to...
With the wireless sector the most competitive in the telecom industry, it is hard to imagine that company executives can simultaneously beat each other's brains out in the marketplace and work in harmony on issues of common interest. But they do for the most...
ORLANDO-The Federal Aviation Administration could prove pivotal in bridging a compromise between conservationists and the wireless industry over how to reduce the number of migratory birds killed from nighttime collisions with communications towers.James Patterson, project manager at the FAA Technical Center, confirmed that agency...
In a city that prides itself on the blood sport of politics, good guys are supposed to come in last. Often they do. It's just business, nothing personal, you understand. Dog-eat-dog. The jungle. Dogged Darwinism. Smash-mouth democracy at its finest. Bring it on! JAY...
