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The Federal Communications Commission boasts that its new wireless emergency-alert proposal will help fulfill its statutory charter to promote the safety of life and property, but the agency’s head conceded …

Airadigm Communications’ Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation’s first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the community of Appleton. “Together with CellCast …

Airadigm Communications’ Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation’s first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the community of Appleton.“Together with CellCast Technologies …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is quietly reassessing long-held resistance to a cell-broadcast technology that’s getting a serious look by the Department of Homeland Security and increasingly embraced in Europe, Asia and …

The story “Mobile emergency alert plans advance” in the July 17 issue should have referred to the Appleton, Wis., mobile-phone carrier as Airadigm Communications Inc.

WASHINGTON—Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking member of the House telecom and Internet subcommittee, today said the government should consider requiring mobile phone carriers and other communications service providers to provide …

The global war on terrorism and natural disasters here and abroad are forcing policymakers to rethink-and redesign-public warning systems that take advantage of wireless and other technologies used by billions …

WASHINGTON-Morgan O’Brien, the industry pioneer who built Nextel Communications Inc. into a multibillion-dollar national wireless force, is joining a start-up firm seeking to leverage a patented geographic location-based technology for …

HOUSTON-Westlin Corp. and CellCast L.L.C. formed a joint venture that calls for the companies to deploy a cell broadcast emergency alert system focused on the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Cell …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission extended emergency alert rules to digital media technologies, while soliciting additional comment on how the government can integrate wireless technologies into a next-generation public warning network. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today extended emergency alert rules to digital media technologies, while soliciting additional comment on how the government can integrate wireless technologies into a next-generation public warning …

WASHINGTON-A leading expert has offered the White House and Congress recommendations to overhaul the nation’s emergency-alert system, based on eight years of research on the subject. The challenge requires a …

WASHINGTON-Key Republican and Democratic senators officially unveiled legislation overhauling the nation’s half-century-old emergency warning system by tapping into wireless and other digital technologies to alert citizens in real time to …

WASHINGTON-A revised, $250 million emergency alert system bill set to be introduced would give the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-not the Department of Homeland Security-the lead in modernizing the nation’s …

WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic senators said they are close to introducing legislation to overhaul the nation’s emergency-alert system to take advantage of cell phones, the Internet and other widely used …

WASHINGTON-Three nationwide GSM carriers will participate in a digital emergency alert pilot that officially kicked off last week, but questions remain about whether the Bush administration-sponsored project can secure support …

WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said Aug. 8 that the 15 licenses owned by Airadigm Communications Inc., a bankrupt PCS C- and F-block licensee in Iowa and Wisconsin, did not …

WASHINGTON-Enforcement of government rules, including telecommunications rules, should be efficient and fair and have the consent of the governed, said FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Furchtgott-Roth was the keynote speaker at …

WASHINGTON-The lack of transparency in the processes at the Federal Communications Commission is exemplified by the litigation strategy and auction scheduling in the personal communications services C-block, said FCC Commissioner …

The Federal Communications Commission received comments from wireless operators over its tentative decision to allow large carriers to bid in the re-auction of C- and F-block personal communications services spectrum. …

WASHINGTON-Heavy lobbying by NextWave Telecom Inc. to have Congress stop the Federal Communications Commission from taking back NextWave’s 90 personal communications services licenses failed Thursday when the congressional leadership agreed …

WASHINGTON-Some see the eventual fate of license winners in the 1996 personal communications services C-block auctions as one of strategy and planning; others see it as the Federal Communications Commission …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to issue a public notice that will include in the July 26 scheduled re-auction of personal communications services C- and F-block licenses …

The wireless industry had only just begun to discuss the idea of purchase leaseback arrangements last year when SpectraSite Communications Inc. forged the first such deal. The company in August …