| FRIDAY - MAY 25, 2007 - ISSUE NO. 263 |
Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging, My Heroes Of course I am very biased. Heartland Communications is an Illinois paging company. They are faithful supporters of this newsletter through advertising. They have even made use of my consulting services. They are heavily involved in telemetry over paging (with an electric utility company), which I think is way cool. They buy and sell paging infrastructure equipment. They repair and sell pagers. I know Heartland's president Lowell Todd, and their operations manager Rick Van Dyne—both nice guys. I haven't visited their company headquarters in Crystal Lake, Illinois — but I wouldn't be surprised if they have a lemonade stand out in front of their office and a lawn mowing business in the back. All the things they are doing are amazing and should be taken as an example by the rest of the paging and wireless messaging industry. LET'S DIVERSIFY! Congratulations Heartland Communications — keep up the good work! No Newsletter Next Week 163 Years Ago Yesterday . . . May 24, 1844
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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.)
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WiPath Consolidates its Emergency Alert Solutions Lineup May 22, 2007 WiPath Communications has been involved in the development and provision of emergency alerting systems since well before they were called emergency alerting systems and because of the increased interest in these types of systems over the last few years has put together a range of solutions under this banner suitable for a wide variety of community and campus alerting requirements. WiPath is involved in the provision of EAS systems for tsunami and extreme weather warning, on-campus emergency notification and community alerting and works with a wide variety of emergency services and information systems providers to provide suitable solutions for each environment. Just released is a range of text to voice solutions that integrate with its paging data receivers and IP based alarm concentrator products to provide the ability to input voice alerts into other systems such as public address and fire alarm systems in response to a text message. WiPath is currently working with a number of university and college campuses to implement these solutions to enable fast notification of emergency situations. This range of solutions provides the flexibility to choose the delivery method whether it be wireless, internet, wide or local area network and also provides a variety of alerting methods. On some campuses the voice to text solution is the primary alerting method whilst on others they will add or substitute small in-room, text only displays or larger LED signs for common areas and in the outdoors. Some of these options are briefly described on the following web page www.wipath.com/eas.html and we strongly encourage any enquiries from anyone interested in setting up a an emergency alerting system. About WiPath WiPath’s ability to combine different technologies and networks in flexible, systems-based solutions using very cost effective equipment is what sets it apart from practically every other company in the industry. George Rishfeld Vice President Marketing North America | ||||
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WiFi network in the works Saturday, May 12, 2007 CRYSTAL LAKE – It happens. You’re hooked up to the wireless Internet, about to hit “send” on that e-mail when - ah, man - the connection is lost. Well, not for much longer. Crystal Lake officials have reached an agreement with the Crystal Lake-based technology firm Heartland Communications to build a citywide wireless fidelity, or WiFi, network. The network, which already is under construction, will be built by installing wireless antennas on city buildings and structures, Heartland President Lowell Todd said. The company will pay for the construction of the network and, in exchange for the use of city facilities, Crystal Lake will get free wireless service and 5 percent of gross revenues. Residents can subscribe to the citywide network for $24.95 a month. The agreement has Mayor Aaron Shepley enthused. “What a tremendous thing for the city,” he said. “My understanding is we’re going to be the first city around that has this capacity,” he said. “I really do think this will be the start of a very drastic and positive change in the way people access technology in our community.” Aurora is in the throes of building its own city-wide wireless network. The system, which will be offered free of charge to residents, was designed to cover what Aurora’s technology consultant Tony Hylton called a technology gap. "We wanted to fulfill certain social obligations, including to ensure that we closed the digital divide and to ensure that our lower socio-economic communities had access to technology," Hylton said. Crystal Lake will have Heartland’s first municipal WiFi network, Todd said. The first phases of the project, which will surround the city’s downtown area, are expected to be completed and ready for business this summer. The network is required to be 80 percent built within 18 months. Wireless networks send data from place to place via radio waves, essentially allowing connection to Internet networks. Todd said it functioned at the same speed as a wired high-speed network. “There are a lot of products that are sold WiFi capable,” Todd said. “Just about everything you buy from Best Buy and Circuit City comes WiFi enabled.” Deputy City Manager George Koczwara said the agreement gave Crystal Lake a leading role in technology development. The concept is being discussed in many municipalities, he said. WiFi users in Crystal Lake can go to free “hot spots,” like Panera Bread on Route 14, or have access to a private network. Paul Anderson does both. “My first thought is, although that price is relatively inexpensive, I wouldn't [subscribe to] it,” Anderson said when told about the new network. As he spoke, he sat in Panera Bread, working on his WiFi-enabled laptop computer. For Anderson, a subscription to the new network would be redundant. “I've got my home, I've got places like this, I've got my office,” he said. “Part of the reason I’m here (in Panera) is for .... more pleasant scenery.” But fellow Panera customer Adriana Czerwiec said the new network would be a good thing. The Arlington Heights resident commutes to Crystal Lake to attend nursing school and stops in Panera to use the WiFi network a couple of times each week. “If I were a resident, that would be something I would be interested in,” she said of the WiFi system. “There’s a convenience factor.” |
Source: Northwest Herald McHenry County, Illinois
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Low End Theory Hit Me on My Pager, Now and Forever By Brendan I. Koerner I'm not talking here about those fancy Nextel two-ways, of the sort favored by teenagers whose high schools ban cellphones. Nor do I mean the broad-screened alphanumeric one-way of the mid-to-late 1990s, which laid the groundwork for the world's acceptance of SMS. The topic here is the humble "beeper," the boxy little gizmo bolted to many a hip during the Reagan years, and capable of nothing grander than displaying 10 to 12 digits worth of information. This is the gadget that Low End Theory demi-gods A Tribe Called Quest once glorified with the immortal rhetorical question: "Do you know the importance of a Skypager?" And it's a gadget that continues to sell in the era of the cheap Razr, for a trio of reasons that will be revealed after the jump. PLUS: An expert reader provides a quickie lesson on Spartan politics! The most obvious reason that the beeper persists, and the reason that most endears it to Low End Theory, is price: most any strip-mall wireless hut will toss in a free Motorola Bravo LX ("designed to meet the needs of the active professional") when you sign up for network activation. Heck, they probably won't even do a credit check, given that your monthly bill will doubtless top out at $10. So consumers cursed with particularly virulent strains of Short-Arms-Deep-Pockets Syndrome (SADPS), or those who got in But you're not only reachable on the street. You're also reachable in the bowels of your office building, or in that one weird nook in your apartment where Sprint PCS seems to flicker out. (Quick complaint from a onetime Sprint PCS customer: How can I be roaming in my own kitchen?) The fact of the matter is that many paging protocols tend to be more reliable than commercial cell coverage, and so they're pretty handy for folks in mission-critical positions. This surely isn't news to Gizmodo's vast audience of IT professionals, many of whom never abandoned the old-fashioned beeper (albeit only if their bosses were too cheap to upgrade to alphanumerics). Then, as fans of the first season of The Wire know all-too-well, there's the anonymity factor. Because of the aforementioned ease with which a beeper and its attendant service can be purchased, you can make it so that your personal info isn't connected to the beeper number—just pay in cash at your local cell hut, and you're good to go. No monthly roster of incoming numbers is kept, and there's not much threat of letting sensitive information slip on a one-line LCD screen. Hence pagers are a prime example of how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle tangentially applies to information security: the more sophisticated equipment comes, the more it can be exploited by eavesdroppers and other undesirables. Bug? Feature? All that's moot with the humble ol' beeper. I know I promised just three reasons, and that you're probably well bored by now. But let me throw one more out there, on the aesthetic vibe: the time to exploit the ironic retroness of the 1980s beeper has finally come, what with the impending release of the Miami Vice movie. You will totally be the life of the party if you stroll in somewhere with a cherry-colored Motorola LS550 strapped to your hip, believe me. Plus, if you rock it long enough, you can start swapping in this nifty pager cam from time to time—the perfect accessory for anyone whose perversion of choice is grainy belt shots. As Tribe so eloquently put it back in the day, "The 's' in Skypage really stands for sex." SPARTA WINS: Apologies for the relative brevity of this week's column but, as mentioned in the first graf, I'm dealing with a monster cold at the moment—feel like I've been operating underwater for the past 36 hours. So no low-end wrap-up in this space, just a quick classics lesson in reference to last week's Quasar column. Towards the end, I noted that "only ancient Sparta had a higher ratio of soldiers to citizens" than the Alamo city. A Low End Theory reader with a degree in ancient history—we're not all mech-eng nerds, yo—wrote in with a fascinating tidbit. Turns out that San Antonio really loses out on the citizen-to-soldiers sweepstakes, since the ratio in Sparta was 1:1; only fighting men could be full-fledged citizens. If you weren't willing to bludgeon an Athenian once in a while, you were either a serf/slave or a woman. Yes, I realize that this system doesn't exactly jibe with our current notions of individual liberty. Don't shoot the messenger. (Thanks, Ben) Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and a columnist for both The New York Times and Slate. His Low End Theory column appears every Thursday on Gizmodo. |
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Wireless in Crystal Lake Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Crystal Lake has struck a deal with Heartland Communications that will give city residents more options in selecting an Internet provider. Heartland is building a citywide wireless fidelity, or WiFi, network. Crystal Lake residents will be able to subscribe to the service. The monthly cost will be $24.95. In exchange for the use of city facilities, city government gets free wireless service and 5 percent of gross revenues. The agreement does not cost taxpayers anything. The company will pay for the construction of the network. And it provides city residents with another option in acquiring access to the Internet. Competition is good for consumers. It’s good to see Crystal Lake making decisions that encourage such competition. The agreement that Crystal Lake has with Heartland is non-exclusive. The agreement calls for the Heartland network to be 80 percent completed in about 18 months. The deal does not provide free access anywhere for residents, except for at the Crystal Lake library. There already is some wireless service available in Crystal Lake. But this project will provide the option of wireless Internet citywide. Providing access to such technology can only benefit Crystal Lake. Some municipalities – such as Aurora – have cut deals with WiFi providers that allow residents to have free access. However, those deals include pop-up advertising. Usually there is an option allowing residents to pay a fee if they want to avoid pop-up advertising. There is some question whether such arrangements are, in the long-term, economically viable. And such advertising can be obnoxious. Also, whether any tax dollars should be spent to provide Internet access is questionable. Some consider Internet access as important, necessary infrastructure. Others see it as a luxury. We like Crystal Lake’s approach. No tax dollars are being spent, but the city is working with a company to get the infrastructure into town. Once that happens, the market will determine what happens. |
Source: Northwest Herald McHenry County, Illinois
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Verizon Business Wins Contract With New York City to Provide State-of-the-Art Emergency Communications Services NEW YORK - Continuing a decades-long relationship with New York City, Verizon Business has begun work on implementing a new Enhanced 911 system designed to provide the city's police, fire and emergency medical personnel with state-of-the-art technology to help them locate and communicate with 911 callers. Verizon Business will provide the new system under a seven-year contract valued at as much as $195 million. (Media-Newswire.com) - NEW YORK - Continuing a decades-long relationship with New York City, Verizon Business has begun work on implementing a new Enhanced 911 system designed to provide the city's police, fire and emergency medical personnel with state-of-the-art technology to help them locate and communicate with 911 callers. Verizon Business will provide the new system under a seven-year contract valued at as much as $195 million. The agreement with the city has an option for two two-year extensions, including upgrades in network and equipment technology to ensure that the system remains state of the art. A key feature will enable New York City's Police Department ( NYPD ) and Fire Department ( FDNY ), and the FDNY's Emergency Medical Services division for the first time to share redundant, dual-dedicated switches to receive and process E-911 calls "Building on our experience in providing mission-critical communications services, Verizon Business is committed to assisting the city in protecting and serving the residents and visitors of the Big Apple,'' said Alex Coleman, group president for Verizon Business' government and education organization. "Once the city migrates to the new system, New Yorkers will know that their call for help will be handled by one of the most sophisticated, resilient and reliable E-911 systems available today." Verizon Business is overseeing implementation of a turnkey, fully managed E-911 service for the city that includes a new fiber-optic network, dedicated switches, routers, Centrex voice services and Ethernet Private Line data network services. Once the new system is operational, Verizon Business will provide network monitoring and technical support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Implementation of the first phase of the new E-911 system has begun and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. All operations are currently planned to be migrated to the new system in 2008. Verizon Business, with its predecessor companies, has provided 911 network services to New York City since 1968. Verizon Business is one of the largest providers of advanced data, Internet and voice communications services in the United States and around the world. Verizon Business offers local-to-global-to-local network capabilities coupled with a broad range of telecommunications products and services, including managed network services and systems integration, to all levels of government. Verizon Business' Government and Education organization offers state and local agencies and institutions of primary and higher education one-stop shopping for their communications or connectivity needs. The company has built the next-generation services that are helping to transform the way state and federal government customers — and their constituents — do business. About Verizon Business #### Media Contact: This story was released on 2007-05-23 |
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