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ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States—The U.S. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) announced plans to split its trade association and its standards development organizations into autonomous entities.As approved at TIA’s recent board of …

WASHINGTON-The White House, in the first official expression of wireless trade policy, said it supports technology neutrality but did not signal it planned to take as aggressive a stance as …

The commercial wireless division of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau allowed the Friends of the Earth and the Forest Conservation Council to withdraw a petition that claimed a tower being …

Heinz Corp. Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz’s projects for …

Highlighting the complex fashion in arriving at standards for the wireless industry, Paul Mankiewich, the chief technology officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., joked that the various standards organizations also have …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published “GEO-Mobile Radio (GMR) interface specifications,” specifications for a mobile satellite radio interface. New features include direct terminal-to-terminal calls that adapt and …

GroupServe GroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup’s first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million …

To the Editor: On the front page of your Christmas day issue was an article headlined “Judge largely dismisses RF health lawsuit.” The lawsuit asks for damages from brain cancer …

A federal district judge in Baltimore dismissed on Thursday a radio-frequency health lawsuit against Verizon Communications, formerly Bell Atlantic Corp., and SBC Communications Inc., and it told the plaintiff, Christopher …

ARLINGTON, Va.-First-quarter U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment topped $24.6 million, which represents an increase of 26 percent from the same period last year, according to statistics released by The …

WASHINGTON-The White House is expected shortly to release a belated report advocating the integration of wireless technologies into the nation’s Emergency Alert System, a policy that industry, federal regulators and …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association was invited by the Federal Communications Commission to study digital wiretap solutions for packet-mode technology and report on its findings. TIA sent out letters of invitation …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is joining other business sectors in backing President Clinton’s call for congressional passage this year of permanent Normal Trade Relations for China. With China’s application for …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, backed by telecom firms and other U.S. businesses, last week said it will launch an aggressive lobbying campaign to win congressional backing this year for China’s membership …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. telecommunications market, including services and equipment, grew by more than 11.4 percent in 1999, said the Telecommunications Industry Association on Friday. This increase resulted in $517.6 billion in …

WASHINGTON-As the Clinton administration scrambles to strike a deal on China membership in the World Trade Organization before the start of a global trade conference later this month in Seattle, …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is urging lawmakers and regulators to maintain the “hands off the ‘Net” approach. “The communications industry continues to boom … Deployment of broadband will be crucial …

WASHINGTON-Six House members last week sent a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging consideration of a bill recently passed by the House …

NEW ORLEANS-Standards bodies met with the International Telecommunication Union last week to prepare the detailed specifications of third-generation mobile-phone technology. The ITU is trying to find the best way to …

Five years after Congress approved a law designed to help law enforcement catch criminals, rules to implement the digital wiretap act have been decided. Now comes the difficult part-carrying out …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected privacy and industry concerns in approving six of nine additional capabilities to an industry interim technical standard implementing the digital wiretap act. The decision was …

ARLINGTON, Va.-U.S. factory sales of telecommunications products in the first half of the year rose to nearly $41.6 billion, an 18-percent increase from last year’s first-half sales of $35.2 billion, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week rejected a telecommunications industry proposal to use a product-line approach to make telecom products accessible to the estimated 54 million Americans with disabilities. The …

WASHINGTON-Admitting the disabilities provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are arcane, but saying the “impact is huge,” the Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to adopt rules allowing …