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MPN has updated its chart of cellular carriers' deployment schedules for digital technology. Digital cellular service, and its enhanced features, are becoming more and more prevalent in urban markets - [...]

Demand for telecommunications services in South and Central America is attracting attention from wireless providers looking for new markets, particularly prepaid vendors, but industry analysts report that their ventures will [...]

To the wireless industry, Brookhaven, Pa.'s opposition to Bell Atlantic Mobile's [BEL] (BAM's) proposal for a radio antenna tower there reflects the type of conflict that the tower-siting guide recently [...]

You might say there's a good-news, bad-news scenario surrounding phase I of the FCC's E-911 mandate. The good news is that many states this year have enacted or are considering [...]

Developers of churn reduction programs are finding that before selling their products to wireless carriers, they must first convince them that reducing customers' 30 percent annual churn rate should be [...]

Only a handful of states were ready last week when the FCC's Phase I E-911 went into effect, but others are expected to follow suit within the next few months. [...]

On the other hand, a measure to eliminate 'the tax on talking' that CTIA also lobbied for didn't make it to the floor of either chamber, despite being proposed in [...]

Siemens Microelectronics Inc. (SMI) is entering the CDMA market with the introduction of a new transmitter, the PMB 5620, and receiver, the PMB 5640, for the IS-95 and JSTD-008 digital [...]

Predictions that states this year would jump on the legislation bandwagon to restrict the use of mobile phones while driving have not been borne out. However, it's likely those predictions [...]

The arrival on-retail shelves by the middle of next year of the first handsets made with IBM Corp.'s [IBM] silicon germanium chips will be just the first landmark the computer [...]

United States Cellular Corp. [USM] reported a 34 percent increase in service revenues, to $303.9 million, and a 47 percent increase in operating cash flow, to $114.5 million, during its [...]

Double-Time Battery Corp. owns the technology behind a device called the Power-Clip that it said effectively doubles a handset's battery capacity. In other battery news, Motorola Inc. [MOT] reported that [...]

A month after the FCC extended the deadline for wireless carriers and manufacturers to implement the technology changes needed to satisfy federal wiretap requirements, Congress passed legislation that expands law [...]

Analog Devices Inc. [ADI] expects that there is one way for its Embedded Speech Processing (ESP) wireless handset chipset with full-duplex technology to go and that is straight to number [...]

World Am Communications Inc. [WACI] has reached an agreement to purchase Wireless Telenet Inc., a reseller doing business as Florida Wireless (FW), in exchange for cash and shares of the [...]

Suspicions that Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. [VCELA] would be acquired by a major provider were confirmed last week when AT&T Corp. [T] said it will acquire the Greensboro, N.C.-based company [...]

While the wireless industry has pushed the FCC for an extension of the implementation deadline for transmitting 911 calls from users with speech or hearing disabilities through the use of [...]

Equifax Inc. [EFX] is adding to the wireless industry's artillery in its war on fraud with FraudScan, software designed to prevent fraudulent purchases of service. The software determines the credit [...]

FCC Chairman William Kennard said the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conference this week in Minneapolis will be important to the fate of North America's preferences for third-generation (3G) wireless technology. [...]

The problems wireless carriers encounter with regard to tower siting and network interference could largely be things of the past with the implementation of 'smart antenna' technology developed at Virginia [...]

UPS Worldwide Logistics (UPSWL) established a Wireless Industry Group to provide supply-chain management solutions for cellular equipment manufacturers, retailers and wireless network providers. The group's mission is to make it [...]

The telecommunications industry doesn't contend that the federal wiretap law passed in 1994 is poorly drafted legislation despite the impasse between the industry and the FBI over the limits of [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. - Speakers on a panel at PCS '98 here last week agreed that in the wireless business, answering the age-old question, 'does size really matter?' depends on the [...]

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] expects its Explorer II Portable Satphone, a 32-pound satellite telephone system with integrated services digital network capability, to be available for delivery at the end of [...]

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) agrees and disagrees with wireless carriers in its comments on the California Department of General Services' request that the FCC decide whether wireless carriers [...]

The FCC is giving the wireless industry nine additional months to implement local number portability (LNP) services and the industry is pressing for at least a two-year extension. 'It turns [...]

CTP Systems, a subsidiary of DSP Communications Inc. [DSP] has commenced delivery of its wireless telephone systems to Toshiba America Information Systems' [TSD] Telecommunication Systems Division. Toshiba will sell CTPhone [...]

Cellular One Group has announced an agreement with Quantum Communications Group Inc. in which Cellular One carriers in nearly 400 markets will offer customers Internet access through Quantum's 'Mir@ge' program. [...]

After California 911 system officials filed a request with the FCC for a declaratory ruling on whether wireless carriers in the state have immunity from liability, a California judge ruled [...]

The FCC and the wireless industry stressed last week that an agreement addressing the contentious issue of local community opposition to antenna tower siting requests is not a mandate. Rather, [...]

House Judiciary Committee leaders have asked FCC Chairman William Kennard to extend the wireless industry's deadline for complying with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), and industry leaders [...]

The FCC has granted extensions on implementing local number portability (LNP) to several wireline providers which also operate wireless networks. However, the orders don't affect the deadline for the companies' [...]

The key to making roaming service more attractive to wireless customers is allowing the customers to forget whether a call is on their home network or on a roaming connection, [...]

The smallest of the three wireless markets AT&T Wireless Services Inc. [T] is targeting with its Digital One Rate plan - people using strictly cellular service without subscribing to wireline [...]

A week after launching the proposal, the FBI retracted its request that Congress amend federal wiretap law to include the agency's list of technical capabilities that telecommunications carriers must provide, [...]

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Rural Cellular Corp. [RCCC] will increase its customer base to approximately 192,000 with the acquisition of the Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts cellular telephone licenses, operations and related [...]

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the body charged with steering the development of third-generation wireless technology toward a single global standard, officially received 15 proposals for radio transmission interfaces from [...]

It isn't the scenario wireless carriers envision when they provide cellular handsets and airtime to community groups, but wouldn't it be ironic if a neighborhood watch volunteer at some point [...]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) are opposing a proposal that the FCC adopt regulations for a 'strongest signal' wireless E-911 network. [...]

The wireless industry and public agencies following the FCC's deliberations over the Communications for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) must be saying that there are deadlines and then there [...]

The wireless industry may be approaching calmer seas with its requests to place radio antenna towers on National Park Service (NPS) property, similar to the smooth sailing the industry has [...]

SCC Communications Corp. accepted registrants for the 911 National Reference Center (NRC) at the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) '98 Conference in Cincinnati last week. The 911 NRC, a collaboration [...]

Intel Corp. [INTC] produces the flash memory technology used in more than half of the 120 million wireless devices that will be sold this year around the world and is [...]

The Department of Justice (DoJ) funding measure for fiscal years 1999-2001 passed by the House last week proposes answers that the wireless industry hopes to hear to its questions to [...]

It appears likely that the FCC will order an extension of the compliance date for the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) before it determines the standards the industry [...]

Callers to MCI Communication Corp.'s [MCIC] cellular customer service line mistakenly were told earlier this month that the carrier was not accepting new residential cellular subscribers before the company realized [...]

While major wireless providers' interest in calling party pays systems (CPP) varies, there is uniform concern about billing for CPP calls. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), therefore, is asking [...]

Wireless providers could be tempted to believe that they've achieved some level of sales expertise by the increase in the number of cellular subscribers in the United States. An industry [...]