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We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other “electronic” conveniences. The “e” phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or …

WASHINGTON-The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said injuries and fatalities from workers falling from wireless towers are occurring at a substantially greater rate than in other U.S. industries. …

FREMONT, Calif.-ePhones.com launched SmartPhones.com, a Web site designed to provide customers with an objective resource for Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones, the company said. SmartPhones.com features sections with links to wireless …

WASHINGTON-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), responding to Federal Communications Commission delays in processing 50,000 fixed wireless applications that were dismissed last year, has introduced legislation to compensate 900 …

One of the special sections in this issue includes a large carrier chart listing the cellular and PCS operators of the world. Take a look, and you’ll see the phenomenal …

When Congress passed Section 309(j) of the Communications Act and the government developed rules to implement this law, the goal was to increase diversity in telecommunications by providing opportunities for …

WASHINGTON-The future of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association has become clouded by the anticipated departure of Nextel Communications Inc., the nation’s top dispatch radio operator and a major underwriter of …

NEW YORK-The law firm of Abbey, Gardy & Squitieri L.L.P. announced a class-action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Uganda has one of the lowest penetration rates of telephone services in the world. As of July 1995, the Uganda Posts & Telecommunication Corp. (UPTC) had an installed …

Motorola Inc.’s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including a new voice pager. The next-generation …

WASHINGTON-A proposal from Western Wireless Corp. to receive universal-service support payments for providing telephone service to rural areas seems to have gotten a lukewarm response from the Federal Communications Commission. …

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission last week that since a majority of personal communications services customers in Louisiana said they use their PCS phone to make or receive …

NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other …

SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it plans to install its InfoVision system in South Korean mass transit, which will give passengers news, weather, traffic, sports and business information from an …

NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of …

WASHINGTON-In an effort to control paperwork and legal fees connected with compliance to certain Federal Communications Commission guidelines mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Personal Communications Industry Association …

WASHINGTON-This may be the last year San Francisco will serve as the venue for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s still-growing annual convention and exposition. Every square foot of the huge …

The idea of using laminated wood poles instead of steel for antenna towers made salesman Don Simon say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” “When the zoning people reject the …

WASHINGTON-Tempering her replies with the caveat that she was speaking only for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and not for the full Federal Communications Commission, bureau chief Michele Farquhar in a …

Sabre Communications Corp. introduced a new line of monopoles designed to support antenna loadings for cellular, personal communications services, enhanced specialized mobile radio and microwave applications. The monopoles extend 200 …

… “I hope that Chairman Hundt will read Shakespeare and understand that `discretion is the better part of valor.’ And if he doesn’t read Shakespeare, I hope that he reads …

WASHINGTON-In an amici curiae brief submitted by four members of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is taken to task for taking telecommunications law into its own hands in the currently …

NEW YORK-As Omnipoint Communications Inc. sprints toward the Nov. 14 commercial launch of its personal communications service in the New York City metropolitan area, two hurdles remain: Nynex and NIMBY. …

WASHINGTON-AirTouch Communications Inc. entered the interconnection-order fray by filing an emergency motion to modify the appeals-court stay of the order. The carrier believes some non-pricing issues essential to wireless carriers …

WASHINGTON-As expected, the Federal Communications Commission refused to stay its recently adopted order regarding local competition and interconnection by denying last week a joint petition filed Aug. 28 by GTE …