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SAN FRANCISCO-Ortel Corp. has introduced a Code Division Multiple Access repeater, the first to meet the industry standard for CDMA, said the company.Ortel also announced its MirrorCell Select 4-Channel and MirrorCell Max 2-Channel High Power Repeater for Global System for Mobile communications networks.The CDMA...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, bowing to congressional and wireless industry pressure, scaled back a budget-driven proposal to raise $3 billion this year from the sale of flexible 2.3 GHz wireless licenses.The FCC decided against auctioning a nationwide license, opting instead to sell two 10...

This is the fourth 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. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results...

WASHINGTON-Just as Dustin Hoffman was told to consider plastics as a way to fortune in the movie "The Graduate," attendees at the Federal Communications Commission's "FCC Auctions '97" seminar Feb. 19 were told to consider spectrum. With several sales of frequencies scheduled for this...

KELOWNA, British Columbia-Globus Cellular & User Protection Ltd. said it will investigate the specific absorption rate levels of cellular phone and antenna products available in North America.SAR measures the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissue. The Globus testing facility will be used to...

The laws of physics cannot be persuaded by politics, pricing or PR. And some economic principles are equally unyielding.Hence, economics and engineering considerations are both important to a sound U.S. spectrum policy.The Federal Communications Commission last week voted to auction spectrum at 2.3 GHz...

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. signed agreements to acquire 47 additional 38 GHz licenses and associated business operations. The licenses open new markets for the company as well as expanding its presence in markets including Fort Worth, Texas, Tampa, Fla., Portland, Ore., and Columbus, Ohio.WinStar...

WASHINGTON-The formal memorandum opinion and order regarding the award of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.'s long-awaited personal communications services licenses creates more questions than answers about the licensee's foreign capitalization and its equity vs. debt.The order, written by the commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, tasked with...

The separate statement by embattled FCC Commissioner Rachelle Chong on the 2.3 GHz (auction it till it hertz) ruling last week helps explain why President Clinton should reappoint her for a second term.Chong, expressing her support of the agency's decision not to apply the...

NEW YORK-Qualcomm Financial Trust I, wholly owned by Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, plans to sell a $450 million issue of convertible preferred stock due 2012 to help finance the parent company's expansion.In an announcement Feb. 18, Moody's Investors Service Inc., New York, assigned a...

WASHINGTON-Future auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission will be run by a standard laundry list of rules instead of a new set of rules formulated auction by auction.The FCC last Thursday adopted competitive bidding rules. The panel also adopted a plan for consolidating...

WASHINGTON-Formulating future spectrum policy not only is a hot topic for those who must handle the regulatory and legislative aspects of parceling out channels, those that need more frequencies and those that want to hold onto what they've got also are making their opinions...

WASHINGTON-Now that most of the spectrum earmarked for auction has been sold by the Federal Communications Commission, the question of spectrum management for the future is on the front burner both at that agency and in Congress.Will future management policy be measured by the...

WASHINGTON-Following the conclusion of last year's C-block personal communications services auction and of its 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction, several winners that made their required down payments defaulted in one way or another on their second payments.Those second payments would have brought winners'...

Having problems?Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to fill the GOP vacancy at Federal Communications Commission with Michael Powell, chief of staff in the Justice Department's antitrust division and son of retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell. But Senate...

WASHINGTON-Despite carrier and Federal Communications Commission efforts to mitigate the situation, there still is plenty of confusion regarding wireless tower siting out in the suburbs. Many jurisdictions and their constituents either don't understand new federal rules that mandate "no blocking" rules or they don't...

Wireless segments post strong growthFRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The cellular, personal communications services and paging industries had strong growth in 1996, according to a study conducted by IDC/Link Resources. Cellular growth was higher than in most sectors. However, the company said there are signs the market's expansion...

Washington-The wireless telecom industry opposes funding proposals for the Clinton administration's plan to link all schools and libraries to the Internet by 2000, a component of a sweeping $51 billion education package in the five-year balanced budget plan that the president calls his top...

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced last week it will hold an Asia-Pacific wireless trade show in Singapore every two years beginning next January.Wireless Showcase Asia will premier at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in January 1998. PCIA expects 3,000 to 4,000...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-ConectUS Wireless Communications filed a trademark infringement suit Thursday against Greenville, S.C.-based Conxus Communications Inc., which changed its name from PCS Development Corp. in October."Their new name is confusingly similar to ours," said ConectUS President Dennis Scully. "We have been using the...

WASHINGTON-The Environmental Protection Agency has given the Federal Communications Commission's new radiofrequency radiation standard a clean bill of health, an endorsement sought by the wireless industry after a government scientist suggested that even under stricter exposure guidelines consumers may still face potential health risks...

CORAL GABLES, Fla.-When it comes to customer service, Barry Winkle aspires to have the role of the lonely Maytag repairman.Winkle is executive vice president of marketing for Pocket Communications Inc., Washington, D.C., which plans a full-scale commercial launch of it personal communications services network...

Ronald Grawert has claimed the seat that some predicted might never get filled. He is MobileMedia Corp.'s new chief executive officer, effective immediately.New Jersey-based MobileMedia also brought on board Joseph Bondi, managing director of the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal, as chairman of restructuring.Grawert...

What is the real motivation behind the reluctance of the Federal Communications Commission to make a decision about what to do with the specialized mobile radio industry? Is it greed? Power? Or are they just caught in a quandary as to how to protect...