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WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association said it is taking steps this year to accommodate international participants at the Wireless 98 convention and exposition Feb. 23-25 in Atlanta. Last year about 10 percent of the 21,000 attendees were international, said …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to “appropriate industry standards bodies” this month and next in an effort to end the collect-call mentality under which wireless subscribers have had to function …

Growing up, my best friend in the whole world was named Wilma. She moved to Montana in eighth grade. I can still remember her phone number, 2-3476. (It wasn’t until several years later that our town was so populous that …

WASHINGTON-Wireline telecommunications carriers are gearing up to offer two phases of number portability this year, after successfully winning a time extension from the Federal Communications Commission. Some in the wireless industry would like the same to happen. Wireless number portability …

First, the nation’s capital gave you the Million Man March. Now, the Million-Dollar Question. It’s just a matter of time now before subpoenas go out to one or more of the Gore gang connected with the FCC Portals lease. The …

NEW YORK-Taxes generally may be one of life’s two certainties, but there is plenty of ambiguity surrounding the application of specific Internal Revenue Service code provisions to the commissions wireless carriers pay their retailers. Calling for clarity and equity, Thomas …

1997-It was the year that simultaneously showed the promise and the pain of new entrants into the wireless industry. PCS companies thrived and dived, one paging business declared bankruptcy, while others reached record-level subscriber figures. Cellular carriers showed us they …

As 1998 begins and a new century beckons, the wireless industry finds itself riding the wave of landmark free trade agreements that will open telecom and information technology markets and force countries to address the far-reaching implications of the Digital …

WASHINGTON-Comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission’s notice of proposed rule making on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act have one thing in common-moving the compliance date back two years, to Oct. 25, 2000. The Telecommunications Industry Association, the Cellular …

Wouldn’t it be nice to know if people are actually going to like the holiday gifts you so thoughtfully picked out especially for them? You ponder, prepare and then pray that your choices will be well received. Is the Federal …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have aligned to produce a guide to help federal land managers work with the wireless industry in placing antennas on government lands. Siting Wireless Antennas: An Introduction …

What, you haven’t had enough paparazzi already? Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods and the man who might have been father-in-law to the late Princess Di, is back in the news. He’s in court challenging a 70-foot mobile phone tower …

Reps. Tom Bliley (R-Va.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) apparently have had it with rope-a-dope delays by Franklin L. Haney. Haney, as you may recall, is the Tennessee investor-developer and pal of Al Gore who is suspected of paying $1 million …

More bad news for the wireless telecom industry on the RF front. The Communications Workers of America is throwing its full weight behind an appeal in the D.C. circuit to overturn the 1996 hybrid RF exposure standard. Organized labor, which …

WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on good corporate citizenship and uses the power of advertising to …

I wonder how many Americans fired up their cellular phones last Thursday morning to see if a call to 911 would go through. I know I did. If ABC’s Nov. 12 “Primetime Live” segment didn’t put the fear of God …

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, …

CTIA clarifies role in standardization Dear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) was presenting a specific commercial implementation …

WASHINGTON-As he winds down the cellular industry-funded cancer research project with little to show for the $28 million that will have been spent by mid-1999 when he leaves, Wireless Research Technology L.L.C.’s Dr. George Carlo is quietly ramping up a …

Could this be “the” year? The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold’s Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS ’97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …