WASHINGTON-He's baaack!Craig McCaw, founder of the cellular empire that AT&T Corp. bought for $11.5 billion, will bid for broadband personal communications services licenses Dec. 5.The wireless entrepreneur is one of 74 applicants seeking 99 licenses to operate next-generation pocket telephone systems across the country....
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association voted to combine its membership with the National Association of Business and Educational Radio, formally completing months of negotiations between the groups.The new organization will be known as the Personal Communications Industry Association. E.B. "Jay" Kitchen was named president...
Cellular carriers in California have asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the California Public Utilities Commission that asks for continued state regulation of cellular rates.The FCC planned to take control of rate regulation from states Aug. 10 under authority...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with federal regulators opposing Ameritech's new telephone numbering plan for Illinois.CTIA said the new area code plan is anticompetitive and discriminatory against wireless carriers and customers. Under the new area code plan, customers who order paging...
Accurate cellular subscriber churn rates continue to be elusive for most people to obtain except those really "in the know" at cellular service companies, which makes it difficult for analysts and consultants to confirm carrier reports that their churn rates are decreasing.BellSouth Cellular Corp....
Following is a laundry list of current and future cellular technologies: Circuit-switched networkThe most widespread option for transmitting cellular data is over the circuit-switched network, which is the existing analog cellular network, technically known as the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Services) network. The circuit-switched network...
ussell H. Fox, Esq. My intent, in writing an article in RCR, was to analyze the Federal Communications Commission's decision in the Docket No. 93-252 proceeding, which addresses the new rules governing commercial mobile radio service providers.The new rules, designed to achieve "regulatory parity"...
WASHINGTON-Construction of the Clinton administration's much ballyhooed information superhighway is likely to be delayed, following the death of telecommunications reform legislation in the 103rd Congress.Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., pulled the plug on his information superhighway bill late last month, blaming some...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. reported a 50 percent increase in net income for fiscal year 1994, ended June 30 for a record $15.1 million, or $1.20 per share.Fiscal 1994 results include eight months of operating results for California Microwave-Telecom Transmission Systems, which the company...
Small companies may have an easier go at starting personal communications services operations with minimal capital investment through proposals offered separately by the seven regional Bell operating companies."It's very unusual for all of these independent companies to do something together," said Robert Kyle, founder...
Nothing can replace the World Series, which was canceled last week along with the remainder of the major league baseball season after millionaire players and owners failed to agree who among them was neediest.Maybe Reed Hundt, a lawyer with antitrust expertise who now chairs...
The revolution in wireless communications, already well underway, will dramatically reshape the way we work, play, shop and travel. Which technologies survive and flourish depends not only upon their consumer acceptance in the marketplace, but also, on a more basic level, their ability to...
WASHINGTON-Congress will attempt to pass telecommunications reform and digital wiretap legislation this fall, and lawmakers also plan to put the Federal Communications Commission's auction program under the microscope before adjourning the 103rd session next month.With any luck, telecommunications reform legislation could hit the Senate...
