LOS ANGELES—The Personal Communications Industry Association's annual trade show, which should have begun today, has been cancelled. There are no plans to reschedule.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—In preparation for next week's GlobalXChange 2001 show, the Personal Communications Industry Association is announcing keynote speakers and discussion leaders.Author and consultant Don Tapscott is slated to give a keynote address at the tradeshow. Tapscott has authored or co-authored seven books on applying...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Personal Communications Industry Association has appointed Harold Salters to head PCIA's governmental relation department as senior director of government relations. Salters, who joined PCIA in June 1999, represents the trade organizations on the North American Numbering Council (NANC), the Network Reliability and...
WASHINGTON-In another blow to the struggling trade association, Rob Hoggarth, senior vice president of government relations for the Personal Communications Industry Association, is leaving PCIA in the near future to work in the government relations office of NTT Communications, several sources have told...
The cellular industry was barely 10 years old when competitors started knocking on the door. In the early 1990s, Nextel Communications Inc. was amassing specialized mobile radio licenses and formulating a digital plan to make it a serious threat to cellular carriers. Meanwhile,...
The Personal Communications Industry Association announced ten new companies plan to join its Global Initiative program for help in assessing and managing m-convergence opportunities. The program provides marketing, regulatory and technical business tools through various products and services, PCIA said. "Organizations need to know...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association continued its march toward re-invention last week by holding a press briefing intended to show that the trade group is still relevant."Whatever we were doing two years ago, we aren't doing it anymore. Whatever we were doing a year...
WASHINGTON-A noted privacy advocate said he is optimistic that legislation can be passed that would limit the government's access to wireless location information, but other experts agreed that general privacy legislation isn't likely to pass this year.General privacy legislation "is not ready for prime...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time around, they are wrapping it inside their coverage of the dot-com deathwatch. However, industry professionals and trade press know the...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Executives of Motorola Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association sparred over the future of paging and device-makers' support for it at last week's Southeastern Communications Association "Wireless Messaging 2001" conference held here."Although we have seen some decline this year, early on...
The cellular industry's inception in the United States is made up of thousands of stories of business leaders, technology gurus and ordinary people each pursuing for one reason or another an unproven and unpredictable industry made possible by the federal government's free gift of...
It's going to be a hot summer. First off, there is "this summer's hotly anticipated film release, Tomb Raider," featuring Angelina Jolie and L.M. Ericsson. Jolie plays cyber heroine Lara Croft. "The perfect modern heroine, Lara has brains, beauty, stamina and courage. Living in...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week said he only partially agreed with an exhortation by the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union that the United States is falling behind in the global race for third-generation wireless."Parts of it I agree with...
WASHINGTON-Medical records need to be in the same electronic format before medicine can go wireless, according to a panel of transplant experts at last week's Life-Reach Summit sponsored by the PCIA Foundation.The United Network of Organ Sharing requires transplant centers to use a specific...
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. Instead of earth-shattering technology, Dwyer's contribution involves both...
Navigating the September trade-show scene is going to be a challenge for the wireless industry.The two major trade associations are sponsoring shows the same week targeting the same audience. Initially, it just looked like exhibitors and attendees would have some trouble figuring out the...
WASHINGTON-For the second time in 13 months, the Personal Communications Industry Association is reinventing its trade show."This redefined strategy is designed to fully incorporate PCIA's role as a global m-convergence organization providing marketing, technical and regulatory leadership within the emerging m-convergence industry," said PCIA...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will begin examining the relationship between wireline and wireless carriers and which regulators-federal or state-have jurisdiction over interconnection.It is a "question of our jurisdictional basis for addressing the intercarrier compensation rules that we should use for wireless interconnection," said Jane...
Advanced Technology Workshop on Ceramic Technologies for MicrowaveMarch 26-27 IMAPS/CII. Adam's Mark Hotel, Denver. www.imaps.org/forms/ceramic2001regist.htm.3rd Annual Tower Investment SymposiumMarch 26-27 Shorecliff Communications. New York City. www.scievents.com.The 3G Wireless Seminar: Promises and RealitiesMarch 26-27 Alexander Resources. Phoenix. (972) 818-8226.CRM FocusMarch 26-28 IIR. World Trade Center, Boston....
CTIA Wireless 2001March 20-22 CTIA. Sands Expo and Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. (202) 785-2842.InterISPMarch 21-23 Interisp. Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami. www.netispexpo.com.Developing An Effective Strategy For NextGeneration Broadband Access NetworksMarch 21-23 The Institute for International Research. Marriott at Metro Center, Washington, DC. www.iir-ny.com.Asia/Pacific Business...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-American Express, MasterCard International and PacketVideo have recently joined the Personal Communications Industry Association's Global Initiative. PCIA's program provides members with information, products and services to help them understand how mobile technologies will affect consumers and the marketplace. Companies from various industries are...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation "favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures."The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on regulations recently promulgated...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week called on the Federal Communications Commission to institute a bill-and-keep mechanism for reciprocal compensation.Reciprocal compensation is the money carriers pay each other to carry each other's traffic."In light of the fact that the already has...
