GPS inventor Getting dead at 91 

Dr. Ivan A. Getting, president-emeritus of The Aerospace Corporation and the company's founding president, died Saturday night, Oct. 11, at his home in...

Path to paradise or highway to hell? 

LYNNETTE LUNA

Jim Haynie is making some noise in an attempt to keep noise from invading his constituents' favorite pastimes. Haynie, president of the National Association...

Satellite spectrum policy costs billions 

By Bill McCarthy

A former chief economist for the Federal Communications Commission insists that consumers are losing billions of dollars each year due to spectrum policies...

Number portability 

LYNNETTE LUNA

After a three-year delay and numerous court battles to stop it, wireless number portability is set to become a reality on Nov. 24. For those mobile operators...

Software Defined Radio: The interoperability solution? 

by John Powell

With local and state public safety first responder agencies spread across 10 discreet RF bands, lack of interoperability is the significant problem most...

Mid-October spectrum bonanza 

DOUG MOHNEY

Meeting in open session Oct. 16, the Federal Communications Commission issued rules opening up spectrum for third-generation (3G) mobile phone services...

dbSpectra rolls out radio combiner 

dbSpectra has introduced the DBS-HC114 450 MHz Trunked Mobile Radio Combiner and Multicoupler. This product can be used as a console radio combiner or...

Going to Disneyland 

Bill McCarthy Editor bmccarthy@primediabusiness.com www.iwce-mrt.com

Spectrum is not a thing, and interference is a myth. Few comments will set off those with an interest in spectrum policy like those words. Spectrum policy...

Cooperstown musings 

Alan Tilles

I was recently in Cooperstown, N.Y., playing baseball on the Abner Doubleday Field. While I was there, I was out of range of my cell provider (although...

Reaching Broadband Nirvana 

By Kathleen Abernathy

Editor's note: The following is a controversial speech given by FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy at the United Power Line Council Annual Conference...

Exposition program takes shape 

Editor's Note: In an effort to keep readers up to date on the upcoming IWCE conference, we will periodically publish scheduled sessions. Unfortunately,...

Expert tips for wireless gear 

Wireless HacksRob FlickengerO'Reilly & Associates, $24.95 According to Rob Flickenger, author of the new Wireless Hacks, wireless networking is simply...

E911 question for VoIP looms 

By Doug Mohney

Dialing and reaching emergency help is almost taken for granted on both old-fashioned wire lines and cellular wireless phones. Great pains have been taken...

Data above voice systems 

By Marcello Praca Gomes Da Silva

In the last 20 years, long-haul transmission networks were upgraded to transport digital signals due to the huge growth of the information technology...

MAXRAD unfurls new parabolic line 

Antenna manufacturer MAXRAD Inc. announced the addition of a new series of parabolic grid antennas to their successful WISPerformance line of affordable...