Wireless Technology

WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications …

Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and …

Even in this new era of commoditized wireless competition, sometimes it pays to enter the market by trying to set the bar a little higher. Irvine, Calif.-based Comarco Wireless Technologies …

SEPTEMBER 9-10 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Wyndham Bristol Hotel, Washington, D.C. (800) 327-8412. 9-10 A Practical Introduction to Wireless …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The combined total of cellular and personal communications services devices will be in the hundreds of millions by 2000, said Allied Business Intelligence Inc. in its report, “The …

WASHINGTON-Only weeks after luring Alex Mandl away from AT&T Corp. for a reported $20 million in a much celebrated coup, Associated Communications L.L.C. now finds itself mired in controversy over …

WASHINGTON-In a highly unusual case involving improper lobbying by the lawmaker who may oversee the telecommunications industry one day, the Federal Communications Commission threw out two Louisiana rural cellular licenses …

The paging industry is celebrating the Federal Communication Commission’s recent ruling on interconnection rates-for the most part. The new regulations are expected to save paging carriers money, but new state …

AUGUST 19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012. 19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The Microelectronics Society. Regal Harvest …

AUGUST 13-14 Wireless Interconnection ’96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE. 13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by the New York Society …

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Dennis Foster, president and chief executive officer of 360

I wonder if Judge Loretta Preska has ever been to a professional basketball game. Preska ruled in favor of the NBA in its lawsuit against Motorola Inc., ordering Motorola and …

The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka’s new role as president and chief executive …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced a new awards program to recognize innovative work in the field of wireless applications technology. Winners of the first annual APPYs will be announced …

WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to …

U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry. The Skokie, Ill.-based company’s Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC Card modem technology with its …

WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions failed to promote brain cancer in …

WASHINGTON-Wireless services still haven’t figured into the unserved, underserved, high-cost and rural area matrix in a significant manner when it comes to universal service. Meeting at the Federal Communications Commission …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s board of directors authorized $6.7 million for the current fiscal year 1997 for a five-year study of possible health risks associated with the use of …

I have the distinction of being born and raised in Williston, N.D., which has the distinction of being won by the man with the fewest bidding options in the recent …

Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say. System operators …

WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping …

SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics is entering the wireless data communications infrastructure market with its new Wireless Access System for the company’s Total Control Enterprise Network Hub high-speed access platform. The platform …

Dear Editor: Your article in Monday’s RCR is a great disappointment in which you misled your readers. Somehow you have turned a story about differences in opinion between CTIA and …