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WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced Loea Corp.’s president and chief executive officer, Louis Slaughter, will be a featured general session speaker on Jan. 13, the opening day of the Ninth …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau on Friday said it wanted to evaluate test results by the Wireless Consumers Alliance that claimed that none of the 33 mobile phones tested by the …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International urged federal regulators to set rules by early year for fixed wireless broadband service in upper millimeter wave spectrum that promises gigabit- per-second speeds. “I …

WASHINGTON-Wireless Communications Association International is hosting two high-profile panels at its annual conference in Boston next week that will assess the implications for the wireless communications industry of homeland security …

WASHINGTON-A Richardson, Texas, inventor says he has developed a way to allow public safety answering points to call back non-initialized phones that make 911 calls. The statement comes as the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that could lead to the eventual end of analog cellular service, a move that could hurt telematics and other security businesses. However, the commission …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Endwave Corp., the Wireless Communications Association and several wireless broadband industry leaders said they have formed the WCA Engineering Task Force for Spectrum Policy Above 40 GHz, which will …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association has elected seven new members to its board of directors. They are: Jai P. Bhagat, chairman and chief executive officer of Air2Lan Inc; David B. …

WASHINGTON-Privacy advocates and the wireless industry urged the Federal Communications Commission recently to initiate a rulemaking designed to create wireless location privacy rules, while a wireless consumer group and a …

WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the …

WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone …

SAN JOSE, California, United States-Top executives from several multichannel multipoint distribution services (MMDS) operators throughout Latin America announced the creation of Latin American Networking (LaNet), an alliance formed to advance …

WASHINGTON-A California appeals court on Thursday told a lower court it must deny a petition from two California mobile-phone carriers that claimed they could not be sued in state court …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) this week plans to re-introduce legislation that sets mobile-phone service standards and directs the Federal Communications Commission to monitor complaints of dropped calls, busy signals, dead …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Top executives from several multichannel multipoint distribution services operators throughout Latin America helped kick off the Wireless Communications Association International’s 7th Annual Technical Symposium last Wednesday by announcing …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week proposed earmarking a slew of spectrum bands for third-generation mobile-phone systems, while rejecting a petition to set aside some 3G-designated frequencies for mobile satellite …

WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission set to rule shortly on whether building owners should be forced to open their doors to upstart telecom carriers, lobbying between fixed broadband wireless carriers …

WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the industry are reading the ruling differently. …

WASHINGTON-The high-flying mobile-phone industry-poised to pick up its 100 millionth subscriber this week-could soon find itself in the throes of a major consumer backlash. Complaints about mobile-phone service-including dropped calls, …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission ruling on liability could be issued within weeks, with the completion of a staff proposal that is expected to steer clear of specific litigation issues and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected shortly to rule on Motorola Inc.’s 911 call processing-telematics waiver request, a filing that attracted industry support and sharp criticism from consumer and public-safety …

WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry knew from the start it faced an uphill battle to convince the U.S. government to embrace a multiband spectrum harmonization approach for third-generation technology at next …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced its membership of local multipoint distribution services and other millimeter wave licensees has reached 71. The WCA reported that millimeter wave licensee members include the …

WASHINGTON-The `consensus’ reached by a government-industry panel on a third-generation mobile phone position that the Clinton administration can take to the World Radiocommunication Conference this spring underscores the complexities faced …

WASHINGTON-At the same time the wireless industry was telling Congress and the Federal Communications Commission that it could not deploy enhanced 911 without liability protection, it was developing and implementing …