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Analyst Angle: Solutions for the Broadband World
In the last column I talked about setting the goals and defining mobile broadband. While we are still a ways away in defining what constitutes broadband, another key debate has emerged in the past few weeks and that is how do we go about the solving the increased capacity problem.
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American Tower Q3 profit meets Street view
Wireless-tower operator American Tower Corp (AMT.N) posted better-than-expected quarterly revenue but profit came in line with Wall Street expectations as expenses rose.
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AT&T vs. Verizon: There's a lawyer for that
AT&T's beef isn't over the wording of the "There's a Map for That" slogan. Instead the company claims that Verizon is misleading customers into thinking that AT&T subscribers are not able to use their phones in areas where the carrier does not offer 3G wireless coverage.
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Tackling sociopolitical issues in hard times: McKinsey Global Survey results
The financial crisis has increased the public's expectations of business's role in society. Most companies have maintained or increased their efforts to address sociopolitical issues, and many have already derived better-than-expected benefits from doing so.
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Why I Am Concerned about Cell Phones
The Biointiative Report came out in 2007 and sent shock waves through parts of the research community. The product of Cindy Sage, an experienced environmental consultant, and David Carpenter, a distinguished researcher and former dean of public health at State University of New York, this report by more than two dozen expert scientists provided a concise overview of studies ranging from experimental work in cell cultures and animals to the evolving and contradictory efforts of epidemiologists.
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News focus on electromagnetic radiation, phone masts
In the UK are now using 70m mobile phones - more than one phone per man, woman and child - but the jury remains out on the long-term damage they may be causing.
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Court says cities have the right to bar telecommunications towers
In Palos Verdes Estates, where the first home builders 80 years ago had to pass muster before an "art jury," it came as little surprise when city fathers nixed wireless telecommunications contraptions that would clash with the community's carefully nurtured ambience and obstruct ocean vistas.
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MetroPCS May Be Pushed to Combine, Battery Says
MetroPCS Communications Inc., the pay-as-you-go mobile carrier, will have to grow either through acquisitions or by selling itself as larger rivals threaten to poach customers, said Matthew Niehaus, at Battery Ventures.
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AT&T and astroturf: is
As the FCC prepares to lay down tougher net neutrality rules, hundreds of nonprofit groups are filing comments urging the agency to go slow on the policy. Is telco funding behind this push? Ars investigates the murky world of lobbying.
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Verizon Profit Exceeds Estimates on Wireless Gains
Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, reported third-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates after cutting workers and adding mobile-phone customers.
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Wireless employment down slightly, still robust
Employment in the wireless industry is still healthy, despite the downturn in the overall economy. Indeed, the number of people wireless carriers directly employ declined about 2.4% in the last year. At a time when the national unemployment rate is trending upward at 9.8%, the wireless industry remains fairly unscathed.
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New York City will monitor all cell site antenna RF levels
New York City's recent introduction of legislation that would require the Department of Buildings to monitor the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by cell site antennas would help legislators to turn down proposed cell sites, according to the bill's sponsor, Councilman Vincent Gentile.
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US CTO Reaches Out to Telcos
The Obama administration wants to forge partnerships with service providers to support a bevy of ambitious technology initiatives, Aneesh Chopra, the nation's CTO, said during his keynote this morning.
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AT&T sees dual wireless network future
To accommodate consumers' rapidly changing expectations, mobile operators will need to adopt a dual approach employing wide-ranging and shorter-ranging wireless networks together, according to John Stankey, AT&T's president and chief executive officer of operations.
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AT&T Profit Tops Estimates on IPhone Customers, TV
AT&T Inc., the biggest U.S. phone company, reported third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates after adding iPhone and television customers.Net income amounted to 54 cents a share, beating the 50- cent average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales fell 1.6 percent to $30.9 billion, Dallas-based AT&T said today in a statement.
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Verizon Cracks Telcos' United Front on Net Neutrality
The big development was a joint statement by Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt expressing their commitment to the idea "that the Internet remains an unrestricted and open platform" and pledging to work together to find common ground on the issue.
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Sprint Nextel to acquire iPCS
Sprint Nextel Corp. amputated a source of legal and operational frustration this morning announcing plans to acquire network affiliate iPCS Inc. for $831 million. The deal puts to an end a smattering of legal challenges posed by iPCS that could have forced the industry's No. 3 operator to turn over its operations in markets served by the affiliate.
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Communications: An Industry That's Working
Activist advocates for consumers or patient guardians of vital sectors: The correct role of the regulator has always been a matter of debate for the state and federal officials who oversee industries from electricity and communications to banking.
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Maine Bill to Mandate Cell-Phone Warning Labels
Early next year, Maine Rep. Andrea Boland plans to introduce a bill that would require all cell phones and their packaging to carry a warning label, advising children and pregnant women to keep the device away from their heads and bodies.
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Cell tower built without proper permit
The sudden appearance of a new cellphone tower near Lake Vermilion's Frazer Bay was not just a shocker to local residents' it was a surprise as well to members of the Greenwood Township Planning Commission, which has oversight over such projects.
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Baca POA considers a cell tower—Improved communication at what cost?
The Baca Grande Property Owners Association held a public comment meeting on whether to respond to a proposal from Commnet Wireless to pursue a lease and install a cell phone tower on POA property near the Kit Carson Rod & Gun Club and Camper Village. The POA Board said it was their first discussion, and someone commented that one would need a PhD to grasp the information so we’d have to trust Comnet and the FCC. That, as it turns out, could be misguided trust. We would all benefit from accurate information on the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) standards, the impact of radio frequency radiation (RF), how EMR impacts property values and our safety. Most of all, there is newer technology that can make unnecessary the radiation from cell towers.
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Radiation: A silent killer among us
Notice to all parents: Since there exists no official agency empowered to regulate, monitor or enforce the public's exposure to dangerous microwave radiation, and our Federal Communications Commission has allowed the telecommunications industry to dictate the laws since 1996 and abdicated its duty to protect the citizens, the wireless industry is saturating our environment with deadly microwaves 24-7. As new toys are invented, the relay transformers on existing cell phone towers are increasing and thousands more are being built.
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De la Vega on the defensive: U.S. wireless industry is competitive
Immediately following FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's keynote address at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference today, AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega took the stage and defended the U.S. wireless industry's competitive positioning, saying that the U.S. indeed is a competitive market with 173 wireless carriers and one of the the lowest airtime price-per-minute ratios of any country in the world. In the U.S. wireless airtime is "60 percent lower than average," he said.
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CTIA keynote: Genachowski promises to address spectrum shortage, tower siting
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out a plan to address two of the wireless industry's major policy complaints during a kickoff keynote appearance here at the opening of the CTIA IT & Entertainment show. The chairman's address essentially represented an olive branch to an industry that has been buffeted by the FCC over a variety of issues, including industry competitiveness, handset exclusivity deals and net neutrality regulations.
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Verizon realigns wireline business and corporate structure
With Verizon's current President and COO Denny Strigl fleeing the coop after 41 years in the telecom industry, the ILEC has decided not to hire a replacement but instead combine its residential and business units while shuffling the corporate deck.
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