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Verizon Wireless Introduces VZ Navigator

Posted: 31-Jan-2006 [Source: Verizon Wireless]

[VZ Navigator provides access to LBS including mapping, audible turn-by-turn navigation and the ability to find over 14 million points of interest.]

Bedminster, NJ—Verizon Wireless announced the availability of VZ Navigator™, a new tool for customers that gives them access to a wide array of Location Based Services (LBS) options, including mapping, audible turn-by-turn navigation and the ability to find over 14 million points of interest.

Initially available on the new Motorola V325, VZ Navigator is perfect for road warriors who are constantly on-the-go, allowing them to see a map of their current location or an address in the U.S., locate places such as restaurants, gas stations, banks and other points-of-interest relative to their location, plus hear turn-by-turn navigation with audible voice directions to an address in the U.S. VZ Navigator will help Verizon Wireless customers get to where they are going, easily and efficiently.

Location Based Services are enabled by the enhancements Verizon Wireless has made to its award-winning wireless network that allow the company to offer products using Global Positioning System (GPS) data and navigational information. Using GPS and Verizon Wireless network, VZ Navigator securely communicates valuable location information to customers across the wireless network based on the day of week, time of day and other privacy settings that they establish and manage right from their handsets.

VZ Navigator is initially available on the Motorola V325, a Get It Now-enabled flip phone, also introduced today, offering Verizon Wireless customers the latest in technology and style. The Motorola V325 features a chic brushed metal and soft touch finish, integrated camera with self portrait and color effects, high resolution color display, 30 megabytes of storage and outstanding call performance. The Motorola V325 is available for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year customer agreement.

With VZ Navigator, customers get all the features of an advanced navigation system on their mobile phone at a fraction of the price of other GPS devices and systems. VZ Navigator is available in the getGOING shopping aisle of the Get It Now virtual store beginning today for $9.99 for unlimited monthly access, or $2.99 for 24-hour use. Customers can download the application directly to their Motorola V325.

Download charges for Get It Now applications vary and airtime charges apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications. Customers need a Get It Now-enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.

Source: MobileTechNews

Verizon re-launches unit combining MCI, wireless operations

By Loring Wirbel
EE Times
Jan 24, 2006

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Verizon Communications Inc. has re-launched its combined MCI and Verizon operations for business and government as Verizon Business.

The re-launch includes elements of Verizon Wireless relevant to data and Internet Protocol services. The company’s main operations will remain in Basking Ridge, N.J., though executives said they expect significant development and marketing operations to continue at former MCI sites in Virginia and Colorado.

John Killian, president of Verizon Business, said that while MCI’s network presence in more than 75 nations had expanded Verizon’s scope, the business community’s perception of Verizon as a “glorified RBOC,” or regional Bell operating company, had proved tough to shake. Verizon Business will expand on existing initiatives at MCI for emphasizing aggregated-traffic capabilities over IP, such as a global multiprotocol label switching network.

As an example of the way Verizon Wireless applications will fit with the merged Verizon/MCI, Verizon Business has launched an enhanced Enterprise Mobility package, which pairs Verizon’s EV-DO (evolution data optimized) broadband wireless capability with MCI’s remote-access platform. Chief marketing officer Ed McGuinness said future 3G capabilities in the wireless network, including high-speed downlink packet access, would provide even more capability to the MCI remote-access suite.

Verizon Business has also launched an IP Virtual Private Network Broadband Service and Secure Gateway Service, using technology from all three operations under the Verizon umbrella.

Source: CommsDesign

Wireless Takes Stage on Capitol Hill

By Mark Rockwell
February 2, 2006

WASHINGTON—The wheels of the federal government turned for the wireless industry yesterday, as it moved to ease spectrum concerns while whipping up concern about wireless security.

While a Congressional hearing drew industry and government heavyweights to testify on how laws concerning wireless customer information should be protected, Congress was moving to approve a budget bill measure that contained hard dates for broadcasters to leave the 700 MHz spectrum band. After broadcasters clear the spectrum by Feb. 18, 2009, it eventually will be sold off to commercial wireless providers and provided to emergency service providers. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted the spectrum could bring in $12 billion from bidders.

The wireless industry immediately applauded the move. "This is a significant public policy victory, as there is little doubt it will make our nation more secure and technologically advanced. I applaud Congress for passing this bill and encourage the President to sign it into law," stated CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent.

Meanwhile, at the House Commerce Committee's hearing on wireless phone bill "pretexting" concerns, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said his agency was opening up a rulemaking procedure aimed at setting a single date on which all telecommunications carriers would file a certification that they meet customer proprietary network information (CPNI) protection rules.

He added that a 1999 federal court ruling that made it more difficult for telecommunications consumers to keep their information out of the public eye should be re-examined. He also recommended Congress approve a law that specifically makes fraudulently accessing a wireless customer's bill illegal. It's currently a vague area, as no law specifically mentions the practice as being illegal.

He also asked that the FCC's enforcement rules concerning carrier protection for CPNI be strengthened. The FCC already has proposed $100,000 fines for Alltel and AT&T for not having certification on file showing they meet the commission's CPNI requirements.

The FCC asked carriers to provide that certification by Feb. 6. Verizon Wireless late yesterday clarified its position in providing the sensitive CPNI certification document to the public. Companies are required by the FCC to make the certification public, but Verizon Wireless had asked the commission to clarify exactly how that should be done. The company now says it will make it available to those who visit its offices in Warren, N.J.

Source: Wireless Week

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Study: Mobile phones, pagers big benefit to hospitals

Tuesday January 31, 2006 10:52 AM EST—By: Dave White
Via: Cellular-News

A recent study by the Yale School of Medicine has concluded that the use of mobile communication devices in hospitals is a huge benefit to medical care and a minimal source of electromagnetic interference.

The study, which pooled responses from 4,018 anesthesiologists, found that 65 percent of those surveyed used the pager and that 17 percent used the mobile phone as their primary mode of communications. That adds up to a huge majority of doctors using mobile communication, which they save reduces their error rate and improves the overall medical care they can give their patients.

One concern with using mobile phones and pagers has been the electromagnetic field that such devices create around themselves when they are in use and how that field might interfere with the function of medical machines. But Keith Ruskin, M.D., associate professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery and the senior author of the study, says that improvement in cellular technology have vastly reduced that danger.

"The new digital cell phones used much higher power and operate at a different frequency," Ruskin said. "The small risks of electromagnetic interference between mobile telephones and medical devices should be weighed against the potential benefits of improved communication."

Source: MobileMag

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THE FCC INDEPENDENT PANEL REVIEWING THE IMPACT OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

As reported last week, the Hurricane Katrina Independent Panel had their first meeting at the FCC in Washington, DC. I watched (almost) the whole thing on their Real Audio™ feed on the Internet. It is still available for viewing on the FCC web site. If you have a broadband connection to the Internet, the RealPlayer application and four or five hours to spare click here.

The Independent Panel’s Objectives and Scope of Its Activity
The purpose of the Independent Panel is to review the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the telecommunications and media infrastructure in the areas affected by the hurricane. Specifically, the Independent Panel will study the impact of Hurricane Katrina on all sectors of the telecommunications and media industries, including public safety communications. The Independent Panel will also review the sufficiency and effectiveness of the recovery effort with respect to this infrastructure. The Independent Panel will then make recommendations to the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission” or “FCC”) by June 15, 2006 regarding ways to improve disaster preparedness, network reliability, and communication among first responders such as police, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel.

The FCC even has a special web site for this panel. Three "Informal Working Groups" have been set up:

IWG-1: Infrastructure Resiliency

1. Review how and why certain portions of the communications network failed;
2. Identify which portions of the communications network continued to work and withstood the hurricane and why;
3. Examine how communications technology can be made less vulnerable to failing; and
4. Study what steps can be taken, pre-event, to strengthen the communications infrastructure.

Chair Marion Scott Vice President of Operations CenturyTel

Vice Chair Steve Dean Fire Chief Mobile, Alabama Fire Department

IWG-2: Recovery Coordination and Procedures

1. Examine ways to increase the speed with which communications can be restored post event;
2. Review whether communications technology could have been used more effectively during the recovery period, including issues relating to consumer education and post-event deployment of communications technology;
3. Review the intra-industry procedures that communications providers use to coordinate recovery efforts;
4. Review the industry-government procedures that private communications firms and federal, state and local governments use to coordinate recovery efforts;
5. Study ways that private industry can obtain faster and more efficient access to impacted areas;
6. Review the security and protection procedures utilized by private communications industry members when they send their first responders to impacted areas; and
7. Review how well emergency communications services including Telecommunications Service Priority, Government Emergency Telecommunications Service, and Wireless Priority Access performed during Katrina and the extent to which emergency responders used these services.

Chair Steve Davis Senior Vice President, Engineering Clear Channel

Vice Chair Lt. Colonel Joseph Booth Deputy Superintendent Louisiana State Police

IWG-3: Emergency Communications

1. Identify means for ensuring or enabling rapid deployment of interoperable communications in the wake of an event like Hurricane Katrina that can be implemented in the short term;
2. Identify any coordination that needs to occur among public safety entities to facilitate implementation of such a system in the wake of a disaster;
3. Review Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf Coasts Region's 911 and E-911 systems;
4. Review the impact of public safety answering points (PSAPs) and the procedures used to re-route emergency calls;
5. Examine whether and how the communications network could have provided greater 911 connectivity for private citizens; and
6. Review of the adequacy of emergency communications to the public before, during and after the hurricane, and the best ways to alert and inform the public about emergencies in the future.

Chair Steve Delahousey* Vice President of Operations American Medical Response

Vice Chair Jim Jacot Vice President Cingular

* Mr. Steve Delahousey, chair of the Emergency Communications Working Group is the only one that I head say anything about Paging. He said, during his presentation, that "Text Paging" worked in the Katrina-affected areas when other communications systems did not. He may be a sympathetic ally.

There are two major communications issues at the FCC right now.

• This Katrina Panel's charter is to make recommendations regarding ways to improve disaster preparedness, network reliability, and communication among first responders such as police, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel.
• The other issue, while similar, is EAS. The FCC has a special EAS web site here — this is the first thing you will see there:

Welcome to the Emergency Alert System (EAS) page. The EAS system was established by the FCC in November of 1994 with the approval of Part 11 EAS rules. The EAS replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) as a tool the President and others may use to warn the public about emergency situations.

I have been harping on these two topics since the Hurricane Katrina disaster took place, as all regular readers know. I was very disappointed when I couldn't find one single representative of the Paging Industry on the Katrina Independent Panel. Many others were surprised as well, and several people told me not to give up on the promotion of Paging's potential role in both of these important issues. Of course there is much more to these issues than just hurricanes. All of these scenarios are unpleasant to think about—but we must think about them—and plan for them. This is the reality of the times we live in.

• Tsunami Alerts
• Terrorism Alerts
• Tornado Alerts
• School Shootings
• Earthquake Alerts
• Forest Fire Alerts
• Refinery Fire Alerts
• Chemical Spill Alerts
• Airplane crashes
• Hurricane Alerts
• Evacuation Coordination (after the event)

We have always thought of "Emergency Alerting" as what must be done before the event to warn everyone in the risk area. Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 taught us that after a major catastrophe there is a great unfilled need to inform the victims about recovery and evacuation efforts. For example, before a hurricane, everyone sits in the comfort of their homes or offices watching the event unfold on television or listening on their radios, but after the event nothing works. No electricity, no water, no telephone—no nothing. So here are some features that further support paging and other wireless text messaging:

• Must be powered by replaceable (not rechargeable) batteries
  (after a storm there is frequently no electric power to recharge cell phones)
• Must be portable and "un-tethered" to take it along during evacuation for example
• Text is more accurate than voice
• Text is saved in the device and can be reviewed at will—great for seniors whose memory may not be so good
• Hearing impaired? No problem—use text!
• Vision impaired? No problem—use a pager with a vibrator alert. We need a device that that can synthesize voice from text for the vision impaired as well.
• Group call is a major advantage of paging technology
• Multiple language groups can be easily supported—Spanish or Chinese—no problem. There are pagers to support ALL of the world's major languages and character sets or ideograms.

A Short Review: Why Paging Is Better Than Other Wireless Technologies?

• Because of "group call" a feature of Paging that allows us to alert almost an unlimited number of people with one single radio transmission (to a common capcode). For example, with Paging a message can be sent to a million people in the time it takes to make two or three telephone calls.
• Because of "simulcasting" a feature of Paging that allows the same radio message to be broadcast over multiple transmitters simultaneously — (simultaneous + broadcast = simulcast) meaning that a radio Paging signal generally has much better penetration into, under, and around buildings and is less likely to be blocked by obstructions since it will be coming to the Pager from several different directions.
• Because of the fact that Paging systems cost a fraction of other technologies like cell phone systems, and the pager itself costs much less than a cell phone.
• Because Paging transmitters can be individually controlled over satellite links and they do not need a physical land line running back to the control point (like the fiber-optic networks used in cellular systems).
• Because Paging is a mature technology. It has been refined and perfected over many years and it works very well. It is here today and available to be used RIGHT NOW.

Following are the three messages that I have sent to the FCC on these topics: