WASHINGTON--The Senate last week approved legislation allowing mobile-phone carriers to participate in a modernized emergency alert system, vastly improving chances for final passage of the measure in the waning weeks of the 109th Congress. The legislation is championed by Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.), who...
WASHINGTON—The Senate unanimously approved an amendment to integrate mobile phones and other wireless devices into the emergency alert system, but passage of the port security bill to which it is attached suddenly has become uncertain because of election-year differences between Republicans and Democrats. The...
WASHINGTON—The Telecommunications Industry Association looked inside and chose Grant Seiffert to succeed Matthew Flanigan as president beginning Jan.1. Seiffert has worked his way up the TIA organization ladder after leaving Capitol Hill in 1996. He is currently executive vice president of the organization.Flanigan announced...
WASHINGTON—The Telecommunications Industry Association looked inside and chose Grant Seiffert to succeed Matthew Flanigan as president beginning Jan.1, 2007. Seiffert has worked his way up the TIA organization ladder after leaving Capitol Hill in 1996. He is currently executive vice president of the organization.Flanigan...
WASHINGTON-China suddenly faces serious time, economic and political pressures to issue third-generation wireless licenses in a way that showcases its homegrown TD-SCDMA standard for the 2008 summer games in Beijing, with Bush administration and wireless industry officials closely monitoring the situation in hopes of...
WASHINGTON-The telecom industry gathered last week in Las Vegas for a convention sponsored by the United States Telecommunications Association. Next week, many of the same people will visit Sin City again to attend CTIA's annual gathering. Against the backdrop of major telecom carriers consolidating...
FREMONT, Calif.-The Flo Forum ratified technical specifications for devices, transmitters and test applications based on Qualcomm Inc.'s Flo technology standard for mobile TV. The group said the new specifications are companion documents to the previously ratified Flo Air Interface Specification submitted to the TIA...
FREMONT, Calif.—The Flo Forum ratified technical specifications for devices, transmitters and test applications based on Qualcomm Inc.’s Flo technology standard for mobile TV. The group said the new specifications are companion documents to the previously ratified Flo Air Interface Specification submitted to the TIA...
WASHINGTON-Sales of wireless service and equipment helped boost telecom industry spending 8.9 percent to an estimated $856.9 billion last year, the Telecommunications Industry Association said. "The statistics in our new report reveal the telecom industry is expanding once again. The U.S. market is back...
WASHINGTON—Sales of wireless service and equipment helped boost telecom industry spending 8.9 percent to an estimated $856.9 billion last year, the Telecommunications Industry Association said. "The statistics in our new report reveal the telecom industry is expanding once again. The U.S. market is back...
WASHINGTON-Wireless and other telecom manufacturers urged the Bush administration to establish a national information and communications technology policy framework that encourages marketplace competition and stimulates investment. The Telecommunications Industry Association recommended, among other things, that such a framework embrace a "light-touch deregulatory approach" and...
WASHINGTON-Jack Abramoff ordered the wireless firm that won the House in-building wireless infrastructure contract to make payments totaling $50,000 to a tax-exempt group created by the fallen lobbyist instead of charging the company lobbying lawmakers. The revelation was made public as part of Abramoff's...
The first public airing of Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary MediaFlo technology for mobile TV is taking place as the Flo Forum submitted its specification proposal for the Flo air interface between towers and devices to the Telecommunications Industry Association subcommittee TR-47. The Flo Forum, led...
FREMONT, Calif.-The first public airing of Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary MediaFlo technology for mobile TV is taking place as the Flo Forum submitted its specification proposal for the Flo air interface between towers and devices to the Telecommunications Industry Association subcommittee TR-47. The Flo Forum,...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association blasted the lapse of the research and development tax credit, which helps fund the R&D budgets of U.S. telecom and high-tech equipment manufacturers. The credit expired in December.The tax break is one of the most-favored tax breaks of the high-tech...
WASHINGTON-The federal judge who a month ago dismissed a class-action lawsuit claiming the nation's top mobile-phone operators violated antitrust laws by tying handset sales to the purchase of wireless service from carriers has agreed to allow a similar lawsuit explicitly alleging industrywide conspiracy to...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it will create a committee to establish technological standards for terrestrial broadcasts and wireless multimedia services. The committee will be charged with developing and maintaining standards for terrestrial mobile multimedia multicast interfaces as well as components, systems, networks...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it will create a committee to establish technological standards for terrestrial broadcasts and wireless multimedia services.The committee will be charged with developing and maintaining standards for terrestrial mobile multimedia multicast interfaces as well as components, systems, networks and...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association's board of directors established a division to focus on increasing federal funding for communications technology research."The board unanimously agreed on the importance of increasing federal funding for communications research and created this new division to advocate research as key...
WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake today stopped cold the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' legal efforts to shut down IFAST Ltd., the Maryland-based firm that assigns codes enabling foreigners to operate their cell phones in this country.ATIS, an industry standards group that used to...
WASHINGTON- The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' fight to shut down and reclaim assets of a U.S. firm that assigns codes so foreigners can operate their mobile phones in the U.S. moved into the court room last week, putting into full view the inner...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association's board of directors elected eight new members at its meeting April 11 in Cambridge, Md.New board members are Michael Thurk, group vice president-enterprise at Avaya; Charlie Fox, general manager of Tyco; Carlos Munoz, chief executive officer of Cam Communications...
WASHINGTON-A nasty legal fight has broken out over control of the U.S.-based roaming group that assigns codes enabling foreign travelers to use their mobile phones in the United States. The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions has sued Edward Hall and others in Maryland federal...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is supporting a Dec. 31, 2006, date for the transition to digital TV. "Converting to DTV will clear valuable spectrum for other important uses, such as advanced wireless services with both commercial and public-safety applications," said TIA. TIA told Rep....
