Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) plans to offer a bill mandating a federal standard for interoperable public-safety communications if one cannot be achieved voluntarily. But emerging technological solutions appear to be altering the broader debate over first-responder spectrum and...
It's been calling for more federal leadership, additional professional funding, radio communications/systems interoperability, enhanced 911 capabilities for next-generation networks/services and a host of other future initiatives. Now, the Federal Communications Commission has given the American public- safety, law-enforcement and emergency-user community some new spectrum and ...
Abstract: Building on attempts during the 1980s to establish principles of Open Network Architecture ONA, unbundling obligations became a cornerstone of the framework for local competition devised by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Several of the regulations developed by the Federal Communications Commission FCC, including the impairment test to assess...
The Federal Communications Commission FCC has granted licenses for half of the Narrowband Personal Communications Systems PCS spectrum to Space Data Corporation. The new licenses allow Space Data to provide nationwide coverage in the 900 MHz band. Space Data was the successful bidder in the FCC...
This paper is concerned with the processes through which technological standards are developed, and how these provide platforms for the expansion and development of new markets. The case we investigate is that of third generation mobile communications. This is of interest not just in itself but also because the process...
Every few years, the FCC proposes to further relax the technical rules governing unlicensed spread spectrum. That time has come again. Spread spectrum explained Spread spectrum system disperses a radio signal over a wide swath of frequencies --...
PRINCETON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 29, 1998-- VHF Mobile Radio System Exceeds FCC Mandate For Spectrum Efficiency; A Cost-Effective Solution To Growing Spectrum Congestion Worldwide Intek Global Corporation (NASDAQ:IGLC), a growing international vendor of spectrum-efficient wireless technology, products and services, today announced it has received official FCC approval to market the first...
The FCC last week set Dec. 5 as the first they of the broadband personal communications service PCS auctions. The broadband auctions, which will be for 99 regional licenses in 51 major trading areas MTAs, will follow the auctioning of national narrowband PCS licenses last July and the regional/local narrowband...
PCS industry officials and FCC staff members convened here this week to discuss ways to improve the auction process. The meeting, which was organized by the Personal Communications Industry Association PCIA, was billed as a "debriefing" of the nationwide narrowband PCS auction held last month. PCS Task Force...
The FOG tackled a wide range of agenda items at an open meeting last week here, adopting a Third Report and Order in the competitive bidding proceeding regarding narrowband personal communication services PCS auctions, as well as proposing further Part 22 rule revisions governing public mobile services. As promised...
Land-mobile communications is an important tool used to make business more efficient, more effective and, hopefully, more profitable. For others, land-mobile communications is itself a business--a livelihood. My primary objective, as the person in the FCC responsible for private lnd-mobile communications, has been to do as much as...
FORT WORTH, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--August 16, 1995--Motorola's Advanced Messaging Systems Division AMSD today announced it has received Type approval from the Federal Communications Commission FCC for Tangotm. Tango is the first two-way pager to receive FCC Type approval. Motorola's FCC Type approval of fixed-base receivers and transmitters combined...
FCC begins auctioning PCS, WDS licenses today; billions to be collected over five years The FCC today will embark on what its chairman, Reed Hundt, calls the biggest auction of public assets in U.S. history. It...
WASHINGTON--The Industrial Telecommunications Association has bowed to pressure from the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and will support a firm five-year nationwide migration to narrowband equipment. "The Wireless Telecommunica WASHINGTON--The Industrial Telecommunications Association has bowed to pressure from...
FORT WORTH, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--May 25, 1995--Motorola's Advanced Messaging Systems Division AMSD today announced it has received the first approval from the Federal Communications Commission FCC to provide fixed-base transmitters for Part 24 applications, to be deployed on the recently allocated Narrowband PCS spectrum for advanced messaging. Part 24 applications...
Bidding in the second narrowband auction totaled more than $380 million last week. On the block are 30 two-way regional licenses. The spectrum will allow winning bidders to set up networks of ... Bidding in the second narrowband auction totaled more than $380 million...
The following is an excerpt of remarks that commissioner Michael K Powell of the Federal Communications Commission delivered June 15 before the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Communications Bar Association: There are several lenses through whi The following is...
Network Can Now Be Used for New Recovery Products and Services that Enhance Public Safety, Health and Welfare, and National Security WESTWOOD, Mass., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LoJack Corporation , the leading global provider of recovery systems for stolen mobile assets, today announced that the Federal Communications...
In the news release, "CX2 Technologies, Inc.Restructures Debt and Redeems Certain Outstanding Shares," issued earliertoday by CX2 Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: CXTO), we are advised by thecompany that the contact phone number should read "561-347-9235" ratherthan "561-349-9219" as originally issued. Complete corrected text follows. CX2 Technologies, Inc. Restructures Debt and...
CX2 Technologies, Inc. (CX2) (OTCBB: CXTO)is the nation's sole designer and manufacturer of wireless fixed, mobileand remote with embedded GPS with AVL software digital data communicationsolutions for FCC licensed 220-222 MHz narrowband communications. CX2'scommon stock began trading on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board theOTCBB in January of 2008, and the...
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