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The promise and pitfalls of wireless local number portability.(Regulation)(Industry Overview)
New regulations promise more competition--if the carriers' resistance can be overcome. If all goes according to plan--and that's a big "if"--wireless local number portability LNP will finally become a reality in the 100 largest ma New regulations promise...
Tags: wireless, FCC, wireless carrier, wireless industry
Research articles 2003-09-01
Senate Dems offer wireless-friendly telecom-reform bill.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Senate Democrats last Thursday released their version of telecommunications reform that was much kinder to the independent wireless industry than the version released in early May and passed by the House Commer Byline: HEATHER...
Tags: U.S. Senate, wireless, wireless carrier, wireless industry
Research articles 2006-05-29
Landline operators' turn to protest Nov. 24 LNP date.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week threw in the towel and gave up fighting wireless local number portability. "This thing is moving forward. It is inevitable. We are ...
Tags: wireless, carrier, CTIA, FCC, wireless industry
Research articles 2003-11-17
States rights vs. federal rule.
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The mobile-phone industry increasingly finds itself like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, drawn into courts, public utility commissions and other bodies around the country to fight new state taxes, r ...
Tags: wireless, tax, CTIA, ETF, FCC, wireless industry
Research articles 2005-03-28
Process to streamline tower sitings back on track.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The Federal Communications Commission could adopt rules as early as this week that will help streamline the historic-preservation process wireless facilities must go through, an issue so controversial that the Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN...
Tags: wireless, wireless industry, FCC
Research articles 2004-03-08
FCC sides with wireless on Minn. subscriber notification.(News)
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Federal Communications Commission said a Minnesota law requiring mobile-phone carriers to give subscribers 60 days' written notice of some proposed contract changes is pre-empted by U.S. law, a finding at odds with a Byline:...
Tags: wireless, FCC, CTIA, regulation, wireless industry
Research articles 2004-11-29
Rome was not built in a day.
The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly--that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is more than a bit in the future and comes with a significant price tag attached. Still, The wireless industry...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Internet, wireless, wireless industry, wireless Internet
Research articles 2001-05-14
A look back at 2002. (News Events of 2002).
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 20 Editor's...
Tags: wireless, FCC, PCS, carrier, wireless industry
Research articles 2002-12-23
Senate telecom-reform bill debate slips to November.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The telecommunications-reform bill, which includes the all-important wireless pre-emption provision, will not be debated on the Senate floor this week so its only hope for passage is if it is part of the debate ...
Tags: wireless, TV, FCC, U.S. Senate, wireless industry
Research articles 2006-09-25
Policy breeds competition, competition breeds policy.
WASHINGTON--One word describes wireless telecom policy in the last 20 years: competition. "Wireless was competitive before competition was cool," said Brian Fontes, vice president of federal relations for Cingular Wireless Inc. and WASHINGTON--One word describes wireless telecom...
Tags: wireless, FCC, telecommunications, wireless industry, deregulation, spectrum
Research articles 2001-10-22
Initiative to examine how advertising works with wireless.(Brief Article)
The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising. But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on their wireless devices? And on which devices wil The wireless industry is hoping to...
Tags: advertisement, wireless, wireless device, wireless industry
Research articles 2000-11-06
Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA push pre-emption to Supreme Court.(Upfront)
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting states from regulating line-item charges on wireless Byline: JEFFREY SILVA...
Tags: wireless, T-Mobile, FCC, Sprint Nextel Corp., tax, wireless industry
Research articles 2007-03-05
Congress may address telecom tax, spectrum-cap bills.
Foreign ownership, China trade also up for debate WASHINGTON--With Congress back at work for a fall legislative session that will be cut short by the 2000 presidential election, several key bills of interest to the wireless industry remain in ...
Tags: wireless, wireless industry, FCC, U.S. Congress, tax, telecommunications
Research articles 2000-09-11
Organisations in the Wireless Industry Must Prepare for Radically Different Futures, Says Analysys
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom -- The wireless industry could evolve in very different ways over the next five to ten years, demanding robust planning by network operators, technology vendors, service providers and regulators, according to a new report, Scenarios for the Evolution of the Wireless Industry in Europe to 2010 and...
Tags: wireless, Wireless industry, Analysys
Research articles 2006-02-08
Wireless World Looming Large for Data.
NEW ORLEANS -- The wireless industry last week served up a vision of the future that could chill the soul of anyone heavily invested in wireline facilities -- except for the fact that there is utter confusion over how to get there. ...
Tags: wireless, phone, mobile, Leap Wireless International Inc., wireless industry
Research articles 1999-09-27
FCC allows Connecticut to create wireless area code.(news)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Connecticut won a two-year fight to implement a specific area code for wireless and certain other phone numbers, much to the chagrin of the wireless industry. The Federal Communications Commission said the...
Tags: FCC, wireless, wireless industry
Research articles 2003-06-09
3G hype will give way to faster speeds in '07.(CTIA WIRELESS 2006)
Byline: Kelly Hill The wireless industry has seen some major changes in the past few months, from Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s launch of the world's first HSDPA high-speed mobile data network to Sprint Nextel Corp.'s announcement to form a join ...
Tags: wireless, network, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp., wireless industry, 3G, CTIA
Research articles 2006-04-05
Industry remains competitive, penetration at 49.(News)
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Federal Communications Commission said the wireless industry remains highly competitive, but concerns were raised about the quality of data collected by the agency and whether rural consumers are missing out on the b Byline:...
Tags: mobile, wireless, FCC, wireless industry
Research articles 2003-06-30
Wireless industry sees 'phantom' traffic on network; Tells FCC it needs comprehensive solution to intercarrier compensation rules reformed.(News)
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER As telecom policy-makers try to reform the way service providers pay each other to carry traffic, the wireless industry is telling state and federal regulators that it too experiences "phantom'' traffic. Byline:...
Tags: wireless, wireless industry, CTIA, compensation, FCC, network
Research articles 2005-09-12
Parental and corporate control.(Opinion)
Byline: Tracy Ford The wireless industry has a way of hitting on all cylinders at the same time. Last week at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas, much talk revolved around filtering content. Indeed, carriers are...
Tags: carrier, cell phone, Disney Corp., wireless, wireless industry
Research articles 2006-04-10
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