WASHINGTON-Whether written in upper or lower case, the acronym cdma2000 should always include the trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association, according to a letter the organization sent out to standards participants.The letter, dated March 27, said the TIA has received certificates of registration from...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Spending on all transport services will increase by 6.1 percent this year, to $345.3 billion, with the greatest growth in wireless and high-speed Internet access, the Telecommunications Industry Association said in its new "2003 Telecommunications and Market Review Forecast.""In the next year, we...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association on Monday told the Federal Communications Commission that the decline in wireless capital spending has been volatile and is indicative of a growing problem with severe impacts for the U.S. economy."Capital spending in the wireless segment of the telecommunications industry...
ARLINGTON, Va.—The Telecommunications Industry Association has released a third-quarter supplement to its 2001 Multimedia Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. The supplement explores policies, technologies and market drivers for domestic and international communications markets and outlines how slow growth in the first three quarters of...
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 directors meeting, the association will spin off its standards development activities into a separate...
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 previous administration in responding to the Korean government's manipulation of the licensing process...
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 built by SBA Towers Inc. violated the National Environmental Protection Act. The petition is...
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 Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
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 had difficulty figuring out a standard on where to meet. Until recently, that is,...
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 enhance GSM radio interface coverage and a full set of circuit mode services for voice,...
GroupServeGroupServe 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 GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
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 mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
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 supposedly caused by cellular telephone use. The news that a federal district judge essentially dismissed...
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 J. Newman, that he had until Jan. 16 to refile his claim of fraud...
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 Telecommunications Industry Association.U.S. exports of telecom equipment during the first quarter totaled nearly $6.2...
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 Congress have not aggressively pushed despite the fact that millions of mobile phones today...
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 on Feb. 25 to organizations that have the capability to provide packet-mode communications expertise for...
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 membership in the World Trade Organization looking increasingly favorable, U.S. telecom firms want to ensure...
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 in the World Trade Organization."This agreement is a good deal for America," said President...
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 revenues, TIA added.TIA, which represents telecom manufacturers, said spending on telecom equipment grew by...
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, it appears that major telecom concessions made here in April by Chinese Prime Minister...
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 for this growth to continue," said TIA President Matthew J. Flanigan, speaking Tuesday with reporters...
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 that would change the digital wiretap grandfather date from Jan. 1, 1995, to June...
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 work with all standards bodies developing 3G specifications. This follows a recent ITU meeting in...
