PCIA Washington Bulletin articles from August 1999

PCIA Washington Bulletin archives from August 1999

3G.(third-generation telecommunications standards)
August 9, 1999... PCIA and a number of wireless service providers, manufacturers and other associations sent a letter to the FCC outlining the United States' goals for the International Telecommunications Union-2000 (IMT-2000) at the upcoming World Radio...

LAND MOBILE.(land mobile radio services)
August 9, 1999... PCIA filed comments with the FCC arguing that Part 90 land mobile services have become the most populous and successful radio services, and are, on a per-license basis, the most efficient and effective of all the services regulated by the FCC....

PCIA CLEARINGHOUSE.(Personal Communications Industry of America)
August 9, 1999... PCIA President Jay Kitchen announced two important developments related to the PCIA Microwave Clearinghouse at a press conference Aug. 3. First, the clearinghouse has identified more than $100 million in cost-sharing opportunities and...

CALLING PARTY PAYS.(telecommunications industry)
August 9, 1999... PCIA has hired the Strategis Group to study calling party pays (CPP) in several European and South American countries, including a comparison of networks or intercarrier relationships that may explain the success or failure of CPP in those...

NUMBERING.(telephone numbers management)
August 9, 1999... In comments filed July 30, PCIA urged the FCC to implement a uniform national numbering system that emphasizes rate center consolidation and 10-digit dialing to resolve the continuing and widespread threat of number exhaust in the United...

TRUTH-IN-BILLING.(wireless telecommunications)
August 9, 1999... The FCC was correct in drawing a distinction between wireless and wireline carriers when it adopted its truth-in-billing rules, and in fact, should take the matter a step further and forbear from applying to wireless carriers any regulations...

UNIVERSAL SERVICE.(telephone)
August 9, 1999... On July 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a decision regarding the FCC's universal service rules. The court both upheld and overturned some of the commission's universal service findings. The court upheld the FCC's...

Wireless Day Revisited.
August 9, 1999... The FCC's vaunted June "Wireless Day" has come and gone, and the fight is on. Much of the wireless industry is supporting or opposing the suggestion that calling party pays will continue the significant trend toward wireline substitution by...

BROADBAND WIRELESS.(regulations)
August 9, 1999... Brent Weingardt, PCIA's vice president of government relations, discussed the regulatory challenges facing fixed broadband and LMDS carriers, including PCIA's own Wireless Broadband Alliance members, at the Broadband Wireless '99 & LMDS...

E911.
August 23, 1999... In a report to the FCC on the status of Phase I wireless E911 implementation, PCIA identified barriers faced by wireless carriers, and offered solutions to overcoming those obstacles. In Phase I, the wireless carrier must provide the cell...

CPNI.
August 23, 1999... On Aug. 16, the FCC adopted an order simplifying the rules for use of customer proprietary network information (CPNI) by carriers. Specifically, the order reduced restrictions on the use of CPNI by telephone companies to market equipment to...

PAGING AUCTIONS.
August 23, 1999... The FCC on Aug. 13 granted an extension for the paging service auction to Feb. 24, 2000, from the original start date of Dec. 7, 1999. PCIA had urged the FCC to move the auction to a later date because of Y2K and leap year 2000 concerns. ...

TRIBAL LANDS.
August 23, 1999... PCIA filed reply comments Aug. 6 supporting a petition by Smith Bagley Inc. to provide service in parts of Arizona and New Mexico that include federally reserved lands for Native Americans. By granting the petition, the FCC would...

TOWERS.
August 23, 1999... Sheldon Moss, PCLA director of government relations, told a group of government, scientific and environmental representatives that the wireless industry just recently became aware of the growing concern about migrating songbirds colliding with...

PCIA Hires Two New VPs.
August 23, 1999... Two new staff members joined PCIA Aug. 16: Soo Peer is the new vice president of member services, and Steve Lane joined the association as vice president of human resources. Peer comes to PCIA with more than 12 years experience in the areas...

NUMBERING.
August 23, 1999... PCIA once again urged the FCC to refrain from granting additional authority to a single state to implement number conservation measures, emphasizing that any such action on the commission's part could undermine its goal of establishing a...

Network Reliability: Looking Beyond Y2K.
August 23, 1999... With less than 140 days to go to the end of this W millennium, Y2K readiness is on just about everyone's mind, not to mention their hard drives. From the perspective of the FCC and the National Communications System (a high-level White...

FCC of the FUTURE.
August 23, 1999... The FCC on Aug. 12 delivered to Congress its five-year strategic plan, calling for a "faster, flatter and more functional agency" in the 21st century. Included in its new structure is the proposed consolidation of its bureaus into five...