The village of Schaumburg, Ill., and the city of Half Moon Bay, Calif., allege the U.S. Postal Service is overstepping its legal bounds for building tower sites on post office …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CITIES FIGHT POST OFFICE OVER SITES >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">WHEN TELECOM PACS COME CALLING, FIRMS LET $$ TALK >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">DISCIPLINES MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR SUCCESS >
Editor: I look to RCR for timely and appropriate information on the state of the industry. As senior real estate and construction manager for BellSouth International’s foreign cellular projects, I …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">D.C. NOTES >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CTIA BALKS AT TAX ATTEMPTS ON WIRELESS >
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling the growing trend “a profound moral …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">BUSINESS AND FINANCE: PAGING MANUFACTURER AIMS TO CUT BUILDOUT COSTS WITH REPEATER >
A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs. The P450 by AML Communications Inc. has a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FCC REFUSES TO STAY INTERCONNECTION, PARTIES DON’T MEET CRITERIA >
WASHINGTON-As expected, the Federal Communications Commission refused to stay its recently adopted order regarding local competition and interconnection by denying last week a joint petition filed Aug. 28 by GTE …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">U.S. HOUSE VOTES TO DECLINE REAU THORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR OPIC >
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">BABY BELLS CHALLENGING FCC IN TERCONNECT ORDER WIRELESS FIRM ARGUES PRICES WITH TWO LECS >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">NATURAL PHENOMENA AID WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN THE DESERT >
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August. Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-“Lawrence of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">HOUSE CONTINUES PURSUIT OF BILL TO DOWNSIZE FCC >
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee voted last week to downsize the Federal Communications Commission and remove travel restrictions on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. The bill now goes to the Commerce Committee, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">SIRF TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE WIDESPREAD USE OF GPS PRODUCTS >
The ability to press a button to locate your child, find your car in a crowded parking lot or retrieve your lost dog may soon be a reality, said Sunnyvale, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CONTROLLING YOUR WIRELESS ENTERPRISE >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">LOOKING AT THE LEGAL SIDE OF TOWER SITE COLLOCATION >
Collocation is the latest trend to sweep the industry for the acquisition of wireless communications sites. There are several incentives for carriers to enter into collocation agreements. The ability to …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">GEOTEK SIGNS HYUNDAI AGREEMENT TO STRENGTHEN KOREAN POSITION >
The equipment arm of Geotek Communications Inc. has signed a supply contract with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. designed to strengthen the New Jersey-based company’s position in Korea. Hyundai will …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">SYSTEM COSTS, NOT CAPACITY, SHOULD DRIVE PCS BUILDOUT CHOICES >
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">TARGET MARKETING TO SPECIAL GROUPS CAN BE A WIN-WIN SITUATION >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CDMA MAY ENTER CHINA AS GSM NETWORK FILLS UP >
CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China. Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">BUSINESS BRIEFS >
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as part of a property swap agreement …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">MOTOROLA’S MEMOS IS DESIGNED TO EXPAND MESSAGING MARKET >
Motorola Inc. unveiled a new open messaging software platform called Memos that is adaptable to all networks but optimized for the unique environment of wireless. “Motorola believes the establishment of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">THE CASE FOR BUILDING CDMA-BASED WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP NETWORKS >
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CELLPORT LABS REDESIGNS UNIVERSAL CAR KIT FOR PCS >
CellPort Labs Inc. is redesigning and enhancing its universal car kit for both cellular and personal communications services applications. Car kits provide power and hands-free talking capability for portable handsets, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">CHILE HOT TO ISSUE PCS PERMITS AFTER SPECTRUM LAWSUIT DISMISSED >
The Chilean supreme court recently dismissed a lawsuit regarding spectrum regulations, which means the government is on track to issue three personal communications services licenses. Isabel Valenzuela, commercial specialist at …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">TELESP CELULAR TO INSTALL BRAZIL DIGITAL NETWORK BY YEAR-END 1997 >
Telesp Celular, the cellular division of the telephone operating company for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, announced plans to install a digital network by December 1997 to eliminate capacity …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">BELGACOM CUTS RATES AS MOBISTAR SERVICE STARTS >
A week after Mobistar launched Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Belgium, sole incumbent Belgacom Mobile cut its cellular rates between 30 percent and 34 percent. However, Mobistar’s …