WASHINGTON-State regulators Tuesday urged the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association to coordinate CTIA's soon-to-be-released voluntary consumer code of conduct with wireless best practices resolutions passed last month at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Conference in Denver."That the industry has worked to formulate...
To the Editor:The proposition of delivering wireless priority service to high-paying consumers-as outlined in RCR Wireless News on Aug. 11 and again on Aug.18-is illegal. Wireless Priority Service is a Department of Homeland Security initiative that supports National Security and Emergency Preparedness users during...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Monday announced as expected that former Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.) will replace Thomas Wheeler as president and chief executive officer effective in November."After an exhaustive search, it became clear that Steve Largent was the right person for...
WASHINGTON-The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a pro-market think tank, released a study last week that it claims shows the proposed California Telecommunication Users Bill of Rights will cost consumers and only benefit lawyers. "Plaintiff and class-action lawyers-not consumers-would be the ultimate beneficiaries of...
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a $300 million consumer advertising campaign that coincided with the introduction of a staggering 158 new products, from new digital cameras to advanced printers."To put it in perspective, we are introducing today almost as many products as there are...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association expects to unveil its consumer code of conduct Sept. 9."The wireless industry will unveil its voluntary consumer code, designed to help ensure that wireless carriers remain the best informed, most knowledgeable telecommunication consumers," according to the association.The news...
Verizon Wireless provided details on its highly anticipated Push to Talk service set to officially launch Aug. 18. As RCR Wireless News reported yesterday, the service allows customers to communicate across the carrier's nationwide CDMA2000 1x network using the same phone number for both...
WASHINGTON-Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Largent (R-Okla.) confirmed to RCR Wireless News that he is the leading candidate to replace Thomas Wheeler, president and chief executive officer of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association."I am a candidate," said Largent Wednesday from Oklahoma. "I am in...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
As the wireless industry aims to work together to exploit data initiatives and conserve cash through network sharing, it continues to play hard ball whenever it has the chance. The competition is the enemy, after all. It must be frustrating to "work" with them....
A number of New York area sub-dealers said they received notice last week from T-Mobile USA Inc. telling the dealers that if they began selling wireless products or services from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., T-Mobile USA would terminate their sub-dealer contracts. The dealers said T-Mobile...
Pictures of a possible Motorola Inc. smart phone using Microsoft Corp.'s operating system surfaced on an enthusiast Web site, further stoking industry rumors that Motorola has sided with the software giant.The photos, posted on smart-phone enthusiast Web site www.modaco.com, coincided with a rash of...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
In what is expected to be the first W-CDMA launch in North America, AT&T Wireless has announced agreements with Nortel Networks Ltd. and L.M. Ericsson to supply equipment for the launch. Although the companies did not disclose the dollar amounts, a source puts the...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week sent Congress legislation to fold the agency housing the president's key telecom adviser into a new Technology and Telecommunications Administration, prompting reactions from key lawmakers ranging from cautious neutrality to outright opposition.Under the draft bill, a new undersecretary of...
NEC to re-enter U.S. phone marketNEC Corp. plans to re-enter the U.S. mobile phone market through an exclusive phone deal with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The carrier will begin offering NEC's high-end 515 phone starting July 28.As RCR Wireless News reported in May,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless entered the camera phone race with a new picture-messaging service and advanced phone from LG Mobile Phones.The move was expected, as RCR Wireless News reported on the forthcoming phone earlier this month.Verizon introduced the new LG VX6000 with an integrated digital...
WASHINGTON-A bill to ban driver use of handheld cell phones in California unexpectedly died in the state legislature after a Senate amendment so watered down the measure as to prompt the bill's chief sponsor to seek its defeat.The Assembly in May passed legislation to...
WASHINGTON-When the House Commerce Committee takes up anti-spam legislation next week, language will be included to combat wireless spam, Rep. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told RCR Wireless News following a hearing on spam Wednesday.Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman, had hinted that the bill he co-sponsors...
Verizon Wireless entered the camera phone race with a new picture-messaging service and advanced phone from LG Mobile Phones.The move was expected, as RCR Wireless News reported on the forthcoming phone last week.Verizon introduced the new LG VX6000 with an integrated digital camera, which...
Approaching its 95th birthday, the Radio Club of America continues to be a source of inspiration and education to its members, whose ongoing contributions make this living history of radio communications possible.The club was founded, the story goes, by a group of teenage members...
Albany, N.Y.-The New York State Assembly has passed a bill requiring the recycling of wireless phones.The state Legislature unanimously passed the bill 147-0. The measure would require manufacturers and retailers that offer take-back programs to provide an outlet for consumers to recycle wireless phones....
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to cut about 1,000 jobs, or approximately 3 percent of its current work force, this year as part of the carrier's plans to consolidate its national operations into its Redmond, Wash., and New York/New Jersey-area headquarters.According to...
