The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
Vonage, one of the leading VoIP vendors in the U.S., has over 400, 000 paying customers, and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association estimates there are already more than 450, 000 cable VoIP subscribers.
Rules meant to preserve competition will prevent Telus from buying any newcomers' spectrum until early 2014, and Mobilicity left the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association just this week while accusing the industry group of being a puppet for bigger networks like Telus.
"Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory for consumers and maintains the momentum to advance broadband in the U.S. Classifying cable modem service as an interstate information service, as the FCC did, keeps this innovative service on the right deregulatory path, " said a statement from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the industry's principal trade association.
But things have since changed, with that figure rising to 13 in December 2003, 26 in December 2004, and 38 in June 2005, the most recent date for which figures are available from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, an industry body.
"The city cannot legislate courtesy and common sense, " said Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
Pretty much every adult aged 25 to 55 who wants a mobile phone--about 80%, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association--already has one.
Implementation of the original law was scuttled after the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (the lobbying arm of the wireless industry) sued the city.
Lynch has also been honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), and been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation's Hall of Fame.
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Over 170 million people subscribe to cellular service in the U.S., and nearly 80% of consumers between the ages of 25 and 54 have a mobile phone, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
Wireless messaging is going through a growth spurt in the U.S. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group, estimates that, in December, U.S. wireless carriers processed more than 1 billion messages, about four times as many as were sent in December 2001.
The proposal, which was leaked today, has been allegedly introduced by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association), a Brussels-based group representing such companies as Belgacom, SwissCom, Cyta, Eircom and Deutsche Telecom, and will be officially discussed at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December.
CTIA, the International Association for Wireless Telecommunications, declined the invitation to testify, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate from Ohio, who led the hearing, said.
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"SBC is talking out of both sides of its mouth, " says Jonathan Askin, vice president of law at the Association for Local Telecommunications Services, a CLEC trade group.
We created it seven years ago for WICT (Women in Cable Telecommunications), the premier association for women in the cable industry, and we conduct it for them a few times a year.
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"Our take is that the marketplace ought to be setting the standard, " says Bob Cohen, a spokesman for the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group for computer, telecommunications and high-tech companies.
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