Wireless industry leaders will gather in Las Vegas for the 2014 Wireless Hall of Fame celebration, scheduled for the Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 9. The reception and dinner event has received strong sponsorship support from leading industry companies including Bandwidth level corporate sponsors AT&T Mobility, Ericsson, Mobilitie, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone, … Read More about Industry Sponsors Provide Broad Support for 2014 Wireless Hall of Fame Dinner

May 23, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the inception of CTIA, originally incorporated under the name Cellular Communications Industry Association. Its purpose was to encourage public acceptance of cellular mobile communication, improve mobile service to the public, gather industry statistics, work with government agencies by providing non-proprietary information on the industry, keep its members … Read More about CTIA Turns 30

Cellular phone service hit the 30th anniversary mark in Indianapolis on February 2.  The February 1984 launch made Indianapolis the third U.S. market to introduce the new mobile service, behind only Chicago in October 1983, and Washington/Baltimore in December 1983.  Developmental systems had been authorized in both those markets in 1977, providing those operators some … Read More about 30 Years of Wireless in Indianapolis

Following the introduction of cellular service in Chicago in October 1983 and Washington/Baltimore in December 1983, the deployment of cellular systems picked up speed in 1984.  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continued to wrestle with volumes of data from the top 90 markets, repeating cycles of pleadings and petitions, and revised licensing procedures in the … Read More about Viewing 1984 from 2014

On December 4, 2013 the Wireless History Foundation hosted a reception for the cellular community of the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. Held at the Willard Hotel, the reception was attended by approximately 100 business men and women from the wireless industry, including Wireless Hall of Fame members Brian Fontes, Morgan O’Brien, Wayne Schelle, and … Read More about Wireless Reception in Washington DC