BROWSING: CTIA

NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of Cellular Additions. On the basis of that law, the Riverdale, Ga., company has built...

Sorry Jay, the edge this week goes to your friends at CTIA again.That's right. Tom just hired himself some "tall timber" lobbying talent: Steven K. Berry, former chief counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ex-Bush administration lobbyist and now partner in the Holland &...

WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry's cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in mid-1999 without conducting either short-term or long-term animal exposure studies.Last week's revelation, which Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George...

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced Philips Consumer Communications' Trapeze Global System for Mobile communications 1900 MHz wireless mobile phone has been certified by the association.Philips' Trapeze, model TCD-718, was granted CTIA certification based on its successful compliance with stringent criteria, said CTIA. According...

PCIA vs. CTIA: An update on the battle for the heart, soul and wallets of the wireless telecom industry.The nod for last week goes to CTIA, somewhat by default.PCIA President Jay Kitchen may have inadvertently rubbed NextWave Telecom Inc., Pocket Communications Inc. and General Wireless...

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry cautioned federal regulators against adopting a number portability implementation plan until key competitive issues are addressed.While the wireless industry is represented on the North American Numbering Council, there is concern that procedures for putting number portability in place are based solely...

BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained to call the number to gain immediate access to someone who may or may not be able to help. Although...

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has informed Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) that decisions are nearing on key wireless petitions seeking relief from antenna siting moratoria and taxation through federal pre-emption of state and local regulations.In a May 14 letter to...

WASHINGTON-Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta, Ga., became the 100th school involved in the ClassLink program, which evolved from a challenge issued by U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the wireless industry at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's annual convention more than two years ago.The...

DENVER-CommNet Cellular Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Arnold C. Pohs has been elected chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the wireless industry's trade association."Throughout the past 14 years as the wireless industry has come into its own, Arnold Pohs has been one...

BOSTON-The New England Journal of Medicine published an article last week that says wireless phones can disrupt heart pacemakers but do not pose health risks-findings that are not new.Detecting interference between wireless phones and pacemakers has been established in a few different studies. Last...

WASHINGTON-Ed Jose, winner of this year's VITA*award for Crimestopper from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, couldn't be on hand to accept his award last week in Washington. He was testifying in the kidnapping case he helped solve, the case for which he won the...

WASHINGTON-In a January 1993 article, a year-and-a-half before joining the Federal Communications Commission, then-attorney Rachelle Chong laid out what has turned out to be a model defense of cellular phone-cancer lawsuits.Chong, in a paper titled "Zap, Crackle, Pop" delivered at a conference in Asia,...

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...

The applications for this year's VITA Awards are in and the winners will be honored during the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless Safety Week, May 19-25.Vita is the Latin word for life. The contest is divided into four categories: Highway Hero, Crimestopper, Lifesaver and Good...

WASHINGTON-Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom accused Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler of making false and misleading statements to Congress about the agency's role in implementing the 1994 digital wiretap law, and suggested the wireless industry's lack of cooperation with law enforcement is...

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...

The cellular industry joined Ellen and the Clinton administration last week, volunteering to come out as a consumer advocate.That's right, CTIA joined the fight against aggressive driving-this coming from the people who champion the car phones that irresponsible drivers cradle between head and shoulders...

WASHINGTON-Local government officials have lashed out at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt over letters he sent to them questioning antenna siting moratoria they have imposed."It is extremely disconcerting that a federal official charged with regulating the communications industry would attempt to interfere in...

WASHINGTON-Margaret Tutwiler was appointed senior vice president of public affairs and communications for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Her responsibilities at CTIA will include oversight of the group's communications and public affairs activities including the CTIA Foundation, CTIA's website and annual CTIA conventions.Tutwiler has held...

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...

NEW YORK-Amid an expanding arsenal of competing fraud detection and prevention options, just two radio frequency fingerprinting companies have staked out a potentially lucrative niche in the analog cellular arena.Cloning, the illegal interception and reuse of a legitimate cellular customer's electronic information, will cost...

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...

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...