Not so fast.Senate communications subcommittee Chairman Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). has asked Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to put Clinton's nomination of Joel Klein to head the Justice Department's antitrust division on hold.Seems that Burns, who's become more active on telecom matters in recent...
E.F. Johnson Co. introduced its 9840 model UHF multimode mobile radio. Part of the company's 9800 Series radio platform, the 9840 operates in conventional, LTR trunking or talkaround modes. The UHF multimode mobile radio delivers up to 40 watts of RF power and includes...
WASHINGTON-An Illinois judge last week ruled that personal injury claims in product liability lawsuits against cellular telephone manufacturers can proceed, but dismissed conspiracy charges against the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, former CTIA spokesman Ron Nessen and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C.The ruling involves four cases...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and the University of Texas at Dallas will jointly develop curriculum for electrical engineers specifically for the wireless telecommunications industry.Stephen Gibbs, an Ericsson employee of seven years, will teach at the University's Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and...
WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and further undercut long-standing cellular industry claims about phone safety.The research results, which have been...
During the past several months, a series of articles has appeared in RCR addressing the important question of potential health effects from the use of wireless phones. Included have been discussions of the type of research being conducted, particularly the efforts being undertaken by...
WASHINGTON-As Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) examines replies due today from the Food and Drug Administration to questions on the agency's oversight of a cellular industry-financed cancer research program that has produced no bioeffects studies after four years and $17 million, the question of the...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week launched a congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the struggling cancer research program funded by the cellular telephone industry, a move that signals renewed congressional interest in the controversial issue.The probe by Markey, top...
Dear Editor: Any fair assessment of the "unraveling" of Wireless Technology Research's research program on health effects of radio frequency fields requires consideration of the goals it set out to reach.Unlike a chemical company with a new product, the wireless industry does not have to...
WASHINGTON-Generation X, a largely untapped wireless market today, will be one of the industry's most sought after groups, according to the Strategis Group.Less than 7 million of the 60 million people between the ages of 18 and 29 currently subscribe to wireless services, but...
Marketing may be everything.The technical properties of cellular and personal communications services-some similar, some different-balance out when vying for customers. How carriers decide to exploit technical advantages to win customers is another issue."PCS carriers are making a conscious decision to go after certain types...
WASHINGTON-A key hearing in Illinois state court early next month could determine whether a major case proceeds in which consumers claim cellular pocket phones cause brain cancer and accuse pocket phone companies of conspiring with the industry-funded bioeffects research group to cover up alleged...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), reacting to continuing thefts on the information superhighway, is expected this spring to sponsor comprehensive legislation that bolsters wireless privacy and security.The coming Tauzin bill will likely serve as a companion to narrower legislation introduced just more...
Laws won't stop traffic accidentsDear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while operating their cruisers, and motorbikes.Sure they will.The police drive their cars at extreme speeds in all...
NEW YORK-Electric power companies have seen the future and it is wireless.The Electric Power Research Institute, a 700-plus member organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently established a Wireless Solutions Office. EPRI, whose annual budget exceeds $500 million, manages science and technology research and...
WASHINGTON-The World Trade Organization telecom pact could put the United States at a disadvantage with major trading partners and should be subject to legislation, some lawmakers said last week.The accord, reached among 69 countries in Geneva last month and which becomes effective Jan. 1,...
One clear strategy in marketing wireless phones to consumers is keep it simple. The phone is not just a business tool but an easy, fun device that keeps you in touch and could save your life.But how simple is it?Industry is challenged when it...
When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George Carlo passionately replies that his critics-those in the wireless industry and in the scientific community-just...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry-funded cancer research will last longer and cost millions of dollars more than originally planned and the Food and Drug Administration will assume a bigger role in establishing the remaining scientific agenda, according to key individuals associated with the program.This week two significant...
Chesapeake Wireless Technologies Inc. relocated its headquarters to a new facility in Baltimore in order to accommodate the expansion of its service division, which provides basic cable assemblies used in cell site and mobile telephone switching office applications.The company said it expects the new...
This is the fifth and last installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent....
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt's flexible spectrum policy violates the law, according to a Catholic University communications law review article.Though published a year ago, the article by Tara Susan Becht, a Catholic University law graduate now in private practice in Washington, D.C., has...
Fear is a powerful emotion. It keeps people behind locked doors. It makes them give up their chance to find the love of their lives. It keeps them from pursuing their dreams and reaching their potential.When you consider the incredible impact fear has in...
What began as a Craig McCaw idea became a definitive project for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week when the company announced plans to deploy a proprietary fixed wireless technology that could effectively cut into local home telephone service.The idea of bypassing the Bell...
