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SBC Communications Inc. has made the latest move in the battle for prepaid cellular customers in Chicago. In June, SBC, operating under the franchise name Cellular One, began offering its Chicago-area customers a prepaid card called the AccessCard. Last month, …

WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation’s capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded …

EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications for sites submitted before the moratorium was established, said City Planner Cathy Czerniak. “We didn’t want …

You can’t keep a good man down. The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler’s face. The New York Times and CNN wanted to know why the wireless telecom industry doesn’t want to …

NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996. In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and the wireless telecommunications industry are in a standoff over the implementation of the 1994 digital wiretap law, also known as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. In a reported 17-0 vote, members of a Telecommunications …

WASHINGTON-Any previous bets that the auction of the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses would not garner even $1 billion are off. As of Round 25, net revenues for the three blocks total $980.6 million, and the …

WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones. The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology …

An association that stresses its “technology-neutral” position has formed to give entrepreneurial-block spectrum licensees a platform for unity and fill the gap left by North American Wireless Inc. NAWI is believed to be defunct, although the company’s founder, James Valentine, …

FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is off the hook or should I say off the leash. John Dingell (D-Mich.), a hurricane-like force even when not House Commerce Committee chairman, struck his own amendment to ban Hundt from traveling 50 miles from …

WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission’s local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least delaying, commission rules that they view as being anti-states’ rights. …

CLIFTON, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has selected Gemini Industries Inc. to manage and supply the company’s Universal Accessory Program. Gemini will supply all of the accessories for cellular phones marketed by AT&T Wireless. The new cellular accessory line will be …

The Eugene, Ore., City Council has proposed a four-month moratorium on tower building for wireless phone services that has some operators sympathetic and others calling their attorneys. Eugene officials and citizens are concerned not only with aesthetics and health-related issues, …

A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or mobility impairments. Since 1992, Cellular One, in conjunction with handset …

WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade group’s aggressive wireless agenda clashed with the Midwest regional Bell telephone company’s business plans. “Over time …

States rights vs. federal rights. It’s an argument that is becoming more and more common in today’s wireless industry. It’s certainly not a new argument, and it’s certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, …

REDMOND, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium has been formed to champion Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access and IS-41 wireless intelligent network technologies. “The UWCC was designed as a cooperative decision-making business entity with the express goal of promoting …

With the fall and winter openings of personal communications services in New York City, the issue of network control will become highly visible. Nowhere else is there likely to be so complex and difficult an installation or one that will …

Sprint Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P. and RadioShack announced they are teaming up to provide one-stop shopping for all Sprint-branded products. The companies have developed a “store-within-a-store” concept, whereby 15 percent of all RadioShack store floor spaces will be dedicated to …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it. There are strong …

There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised. Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable & Wireless Inc., the U.S. arm of Britain’s Cable & …

WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the intensity of monitoring number and market changes twice a day. …

NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. 11 meeting with the Wall Street investment community. On the …

This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes. Industrial countries require quality and service features from …

Ameritech Cellular Services has joined several other carriers in deploying authentication technology to combat cloning fraud. Concurrently, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has extended authentication fraud protection into its eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets. Authentication is seamless to …