| FRIDAY - JULY 13, 2007 - ISSUE NO. 269 |
Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging, I am very sorry to announce the passing of a friend and paging colleague — Brooks Marsden of GTES. He died on last Wednesday morning. Brooks was a nice guy and an asset to the paging industry. We will miss him. An obituary follows. Brooks was only 59 years old. I am finishing this issue of the newsletter in the early-morning hours on Friday since I must attend the funeral of my wife's cousin later today. She was a great lady — just 63 years old, but looked much younger. She was in her home watching TV last Friday night when an 18-year-old habitual criminal broke into her home, hit her over the head and then stabbed her. Neighbors came over and found her dead the next day. This is not the sort of thing you expect to happen in a peaceful little midwestern town like Springfield, Illinois. It was only the second homicide this year in our town. Unfortunately it was someone who was like a sister to my wife and a friend to me. Back to Business Well, Rex Lee at Nighthawk Systems must be really smart. He has sent me a letter about how the largely untapped opportunity of Telemetry Over Paging can revitalize our industry. Don't miss his Letter to the Editor at the end of this issue. Now on to more news and views . . . |
A new issue of The Wireless Messaging Newsletter gets posted on the web each week. A notification goes out by e-mail to subscribers on most Fridays around noon central US time. The notification message has a link to the actual newsletter on the Internet. That way it doesn't fill up your incoming e-mail account. There is no charge for subscription and there are no membership restrictions. Readers are a very select group of wireless industry professionals, and include the senior managers of many of the world's major Paging and Wireless Data companies. There is an even mix of operations managers, marketing people, and engineers—so I try to include items of interest to all three groups. It's all about staying up-to-date with business trends and technology. I regularly get reader's comments, so this newsletter has become a community forum for the Paging, and Wireless Data communities. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and opinions. Unless otherwise requested, all correspondence addressed to me is subject to publication in the newsletter and on my web site. I am very careful to protect the anonymity of those who request it. NOTE: This newsletter is best viewed at screen resolutions of 800x600 (good) or 1024x768 (better). Any current revision of web browser should work fine. Please notify me of any problems with viewing. This site is compliant with XHTML 1.0 transitional coding for easy access from wireless devices. (XML 1.0/ISO 8859-1.) Anyone wanting to help support The Wireless Messaging Newsletter can do so by clicking on the PayPal DONATE button above.  | |||||||||||
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OBITUARY Brooks Marsden Family-Placed Death Notice Mr. Phillips Brooks Marsden, III , age 59 of Alpharetta, died July 11, 2007. Mr. Marsden graduated form Andover High School in Andover, MA in 1966. He went on to attend and graduate from Ohio University in Athens, OH in 1970. He was a member of Alpharetta First United Methodist Church and had served as a volunteer with Alpharetta Fire Department. He enjoyed a successful career as an executive in the Communications industry. He was preceded in death by his father, Phillips Brooks Marsden, Jr. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Diane Faber Marsden of Alpharetta; daughters, Jennifer and Eric Bottorff of Red Lodge, MT. and Stephanie Marsden of Clemson, SC; son, Jonathan Cody Marsden of Littleton, CO; mother, Marjorie Marsden of North Andover, MA; sisters, Lynn Marsden-Atlass of Wynnewood, PA. And Daphne Marsden-Kelley and her husband Paul of Westford, MA; brother, David Marsden and his wife Honour Mack of Portland, ME; nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 12:00 PM at the Alpharetta First United Methodist Church. Dr. Don Martin officiating. The family request that contributions be made to the Alpharetta First United Methodist Church Building Fund, 69 N. Main St., Alpharetta, Ga. 30004 or to the NASCAR Foundation, One Wachovia Center, 301 South College St., Suite 3900, Charlotte, NC, 28202. The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 to 9 PM at Northside Chapel Funeral Directors and Crematory, Roswell/Alpharetta, 770/645-1414. www.northsidechapel.com |
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Brooks Marsden — Vice President, Sales — Sherloc GTES Location Service
Brooks Marsden joined GTES bringing with him over 20 years of experience in communications technology sales. Prior to joining GTES Brooks held a number of sales and management positions at Glenayre Electronics. His last position with Glenayre was as Vice President of Sales for the Americas. During his tenure at Glenayre Brooks led a select team that developed sales for campus two-way systems and location services.
Source: Sherloc — Management
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PAGING CARRIERS |
AAPC to send representatives to the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) Convention in August. APCO is the world’s largest organization dedicated to public safety communications, their members consist of emergency call centers, law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, fire departments, forestry services, and others who work with communications systems that safeguard the world’s citizens. AAPC will be sharing a booth with one of our vendor members, Critical Response Systems to help promote the benefits of utilizing paging technology to this targeted audience. AAPC working with you to advance your business and the paging industry!
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Cell phone ban for young drivers approved in Oregon July 10, 2007 A bill that would enable law enforcement in Oregon to pull over the state’s youngest drivers for using cell phones is headed to Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s desk. The House and Senate reached agreement on a bill – HB2872 – that would prohibit drivers under 18 from using any cell phone, pager or BlackBerry-type device while at the wheel. Police could only ticket offenders for chatting on the phone after pulling them over for another traffic offense. Senators had sought to allow for primary enforcement of the restriction. Opponents objected to that effort saying it could lead to racial profiling. Rep. Greg Macpherson, D-Lake Oswego, the bill’s author, said the intent of the legislation is to make sure new drivers stay off their cell phones. Violators would face up to $90 fines. At least a dozen states already ban or restrict young drivers from using cell phones. Currently, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York have the only statewide laws restricting hand-held cell phone use for all drivers. In 2008, California and Washington are slated to implement their own rule. No state prohibits hands-free usage for all drivers. |
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To: The Commission, en banc
COMMENTS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PAGING CARRIERS (AAPC), by its attorney, respectfully submits its comments to the Federal Communications Commission in response to the Commission’s Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) in the captioned proceeding, FCC 07-22, released April 2, 2007 and published at 72 Fed. Reg. 31782 (June 8, 2007). As its comments, AAPC respectfully states: The FNPRM follows promulgation by the Commission, in the same order, of stringent new regulations directed at carrier handling of individually identifiable Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), information that primarily includes customer call data and related service information. The new regulations are not, however, confined to call record details and similarly sensitive CPNI, but instead impose sweeping new requirements on all carriers that in large part are indiscriminately applicable to both sensitive and non-sensitive CPNI. In the FNPRM portion of the order, moreover, the Commission inquires whether it should go even further in its regulation of CPNI. More specifically, the Commission inquires whether it should extend a password protection regimen to non-call detail CPNI as well as call-detail CPNI; whether it should require audit trails for customer contacts and CPNI disclosure; whether it should regulate the physical safeguards employed by carriers when transferring or allowing access to CPNI by joint venture partners and independent contractors, such as requiring encryption, logs, etc.; whether it should regulate data retention practices of carriers; and whether the Commission should mandate carrier practices in erasing, or allowing customers to erase, personal information stored in mobile communications devices prior to discarding such devices. AAPC is the national trade association representing the interests of paging carriers throughout the United States. AAPC’s members include a majority of the nationwide paging operators licensed under Parts 22, 24 and 90 of the Commission’s rules; a representative cross-section of operators of regional and local paging systems licensed by the Commission; as well as equipment suppliers and other vendors to the carrier industry. Paging carriers are classified as Commercial Mobile Radio Service providers pursuant to Section 20.9 of the Commission’s rules and as telecommunications carriers pursuant to Section 3(44) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. §153(44). Paging carriers thus are subject to the CPNI regulations, notwithstanding that they do not record or store call record information. AAPC participated in the proceedings which resulted in the new CPNI regulations, requesting that any new or modified regulations adopted by the Commission to enhance the protection afforded for CPNI be appropriately tailored to address the underlying problems it identifies. AAPC further requested that the Commission not impose new reporting or other requirements on paging carriers or other groups that generally do not compile significant amounts of individually identifiable CPNI. Unfortunately, AAPC’s request was essentially ignored in the order adopting the new regulations, despite the fact that the order explicitly acknowledges at the outset that it “is directly responsive to the actions of data brokers, or pretexters, to obtain unauthorized access to CPNI.” (Order & FNPRM at ¶2). The only reported instances of unauthorized access to CPNI by data brokers or pretexters are for call record information, information that paging carriers simply do not have. Accordingly, AAPC respectfully submits that the short answer to the questions posed in the FNPRM is that the Commission should not adopt any new regulations at this time. Instead, at a minimum, the Commission should pause and assess the impact of its new regimen on the underlying problems before considering any additional regulations. The customer base of paging carriers at this point overwhelmingly consists of commercial enterprises rather than individuals; and the individually identifiable CPNI maintained by paging carriers, e.g., name, contact, address and telephone number, consists, with at most limited exception, of information that is readily and prominently displayed in the local Yellow Pages directory. Moreover, because the customers are commercial enterprises, their incentives are precisely the opposite of the Commission’s premise in adopting its CPNI regulations. That is, rather than desiring to keep the collected information private, as the CPNI regulations presume, commercial customers pay to advertise the information to the public. None of this supports adopting new or more sweeping CPNI regulations. Even to the limited extent paging carriers may collect sensitive CPNI, such as Social Security Numbers, their situation is no different than any other business that extends credit to customers; and they must likewise comply with the myriad state and federal regulations generally applicable to such activities. The fact that paging carriers happen to be engaged in telecommunications, rather than some other commercial endeavor, does not warrant separate or more stringent treatment of this limited segment of CPNI than is applicable to non-telecommunications businesses generally that collect like information from their customers. Similarly misguided and unnecessary, in AAPC’s view, would be new regulations applicable to erasing customer information stored on paging devices. One-way paging devices do not have significant customer information in storage, by virtue of the fact that they are receivers rather than generators of messages; and the messages themselves can be readily erased by the customer before disposing of the device. All such stored information is routinely erased in any event as part of the refurbishment process. Two-way pagers do have the capability of generating messages, and thus do have the capability of storing some information such as address book entries. Again, however, these entries typically are telephone numbers or email addresses that are publicized to others, in order to facilitate communications with the customer, rather than sensitive information that needs special protection. Like messages stored on one-way pagers, all such information can be readily erased by the customer and is routinely erased during refurbishment. Additional regulations in this area would be unwarranted. Finally, AAPC would remind the Commission that the impetus for this proceeding, as the order itself acknowledges, is to be “directly responsive to the actions of data brokers, or pretexters, to obtain unauthorized access to CPNI.” (Order & FNPRM at ¶2). Since paging carriers do not collect the type of sensitive information sought by data brokers, and thus have not been victimized by such entities, there is no justification for broadening the CPNI regulatory regimen as it applies to paging carriers.
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BloostonLaw Telecom Update Martin Apparently Supports Google’s Open Access Plan For 700 MHz Band Auction FCC Chairman Kevin Martin apparently has bought into Google’s “open access” concept for the upcoming 700 MHz auction. Open access—a euphemism for “wireless Carterfone”—essentially means that carriers would have less control over the handsets and handset features they provide to customers, and that they would not be able to block certain features from being used on their networks. After gleaning stories from Dow Jones, USA Today, and RCR, as well as reading Google’s most recent ex parte filing, we think it is possible that Chairman Martin is circulating a draft order that substantially backs Google’s proposals (BloostonLaw Telecom Update, May 23 and 30). According to the press reports, Martin is proposing that an open access requirement be attached to two 11 MHz blocks (probably the C-blocks, TV channels 60-61 and 65-66) that could be cobbled together into a national license. If so, the open access requirement would inhibit large wireless carriers such as AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless from aggressively pursuing that spectrum because they want to control the handsets they offer, according to Dow Jones. On the other hand, these carriers could take the “open access” or “wireless Carterfone” issue to court, if the FCC adopts such rules. At present, everything is uncertain. More specifically, according to Google, “open access” means:
Dow Jones also reports that Martin’s proposal effectively forecloses options for Frontline Wireless, which had hoped to combine some spectrum it acquired through the auction with some that will be controlled by public safety to build a broadband wireless network for use by both public safety and commercial operators (BloostonLaw Telecom Update, March 7). Despite Frontline’s high-powered backers—former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, former NTIA head Janice Obuchowski, and early wireless entrepreneur Haynes Griffin—the draft order apparently will not give Frontline what it wants. But the order will apparently fulfill part of Frontline's wish list by including a chunk of 10 megahertz of nationally licensed spectrum (probably the D block) that would sit adjacent to spectrum already earmarked for control by public safety, according to Dow Jones. The newswire said the rules state that whoever controls that spectrum will be obliged to work with public safety to provide the country's first responders with wireless broadband service. The licensee would be able to charge public safety entities for access to the network. But without a series of other conditions that Frontline had hoped would be attached to the spectrum, Martin, in effect, paved the way for one of the large incumbent providers of broadband service, most likely Verizon or AT&T, to take control of the spectrum, Dow Jones said. It added that the rest of the spectrum would be divided into small |
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