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WASHINGTON-Public utilities that want to enter the telecom industry had many of the barriers to such action removed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday. Commissioners voted unanimously to streamline …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission apparently has come up with a winning plan to expand its current rules regarding partitioning and spectrum disaggregation by commercial mobile services licensees. Many current personal …

WASHINGTON-Opinions are split when it comes to shortening the voluntary negotiation period between microwave incumbents and C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licensees. Several commenters on the proposed …

WASHINGTON-Despite congressional mandates that have put the Federal Communications Commission on a regulatory timeline, the commission should plan on a long, slow haul on its road to further develop 800 …

While some microwave incumbents are being unreasonable, others are negotiating fairly, reaching agreements and making plans to move their microwave links from the 2 GHz spectrum, according to telecom and …

WASHINGTON-Industry negotiations aimed at clearing fixed microwave licensees off the 2 GHz band that next-generation pocket telephone systems will soon occupy have begun with a bang. Personal Communications Industry Association …

Two industry associations have asked the Federal Communications Commission to modify the freeze placed on intercategory sharing in the 800 MHz band, suggesting it only apply to specialized mobile radio …

Recently, the Senate Commerce Committee approved “The Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995,” which included the following provision: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary*…*an electric, gas, …

Editor’s note: After only a little more than a year as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Reed Hundt has spearheaded some of the most dramatic changes ever for the …