While many cities across the nation have been caught off guard by the number of towers wireless providers want to construct, the city of Greensboro, N.C., forecasted the onslaught nearly two-and-a-half years ago.After the A- and B-block auction of personal communications services licenses was...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is preparing to mount a fierce lobbying campaign to support renewing most-favored-nation trade status for China.The debate on China MFN, which has become a ritual this time every year, takes on added significance in light of allegations being probed by the...
Ericsson Inc. won a victory of sorts recently when the interim standard for the common air interface of Project 25 was taken off IS status and sent back to committee."They tried to jam through this standard without giving consideration to our comments," said Steve...
A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association is sponsoring the first China-America Telecommunications Conference April 20-24 in Dalian, China. The U.S. Department of Commerce is co-sponsoring the event.The Commerce department and TIA said the conference will facilitate dialogue between U.S. telecommunications companies and the Chinese Ministry...
Editor's Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association and the Telecommunications Industry Association announced an affiliation and intent to merge, creating a joint membership exceeding 1,000 companies."MMTA's focus on computer telephony integration and businesses in the communications and computing delivery channel, coupled with TIA's proven strengths in public...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission in response to the FCC's Notice of Inquiry regarding Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Section 225 deals with readily accessible telecommunications equipment, customer premises equipment and services for disabled...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and the wireless telecommunications industry are in a standoff over the implementation of the 1994 digital wiretap law, also known as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.In a reported 17-0 vote, members of a Telecommunications Industry Association ad hoc engineering...
Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association.However, the trade surplus of telecom equipment sales was $2 billion for the first half of the...
ARLINGTON, Va.-United States exports of telecommunications equipment grew to $16.3 billion in 1995, an increase of 26 percent from 1994, reported the Telecommunications Industry Association.The top two export markets for the year were Canada at $1.9 billion, up 22 percent, and Japan at $1.8...
Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but it could set consumers up for chaos and confusion, said longtime wireless architect Jesse Russell.The AT&T Bell Laboratories engineer is...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Interim Standard-634, an open network interface standard, has been approved by the engineering committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association. The standard provides an open interface between the mobile switching center and the radio base station subsystem in a cellular network.It is the...
