Options traders populating Sprint Nextel Corp. are trading roughly three calls on the wireless provider to each single put in action.

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Making a few forecasts about the information age, Capellas predicts that at least 60% of all calls will be made on wireless phones within five years and within 10 years, half of all retail sales will be made online.

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To combat them, the association is backing another bill, the Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act (S.1192), which calls for a five-year moratorium on new taxes on wireless service, at both the state and local level.

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In the early 1980s, for example, wireless carriers could put only a few thousand calls on each band.

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U.S. wireless carriers are working on a new way to deliver voice calls to make their networks more efficient.

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As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.

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He wants replay officials to have the power to overrule calls on the field in real time, and he wants every player connected with a wireless headset in his helmet.

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