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FRIDAY — FEBRUARY 17, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 495

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Greetings from Southern Illinois.

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UPDATE ON LIGHTSQUARED

On Feb. 14, 2012 . the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sent a letter to the chairman of the FCC. Here is the opening paragraph:

On behalf of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), I want to update you on our findings regarding the impacts of the proposed LightSquared deployment of terrestrial operations on Global Positioning System (GPS) services. Since I last wrote you in July 2011, federal agencies have performed a substantial amount of testing and analysis. Based on NTIA's independent evaluation of the testing and analysis performed over the last several months, we conclude that LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband network will impact GPS services and that there is no practical way to mitigate the potential interference at this time. Furthermore, while GPS equipment developers may be able to mitigate these issues via new technology in the future, the time and money required for federal, commercial, and private sector users to replace technology in the field and the marketplace, on aircraft, and in integrated national security systems cannot support the scheduled deployment of terrestrial services proposed by LightSquared.

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(8 pages long — but very interesting, and not too technical — the letter is from Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, to Julius Genachowski, Chairman, FCC.)

That same day an FCC spokesperson issued the following statement:

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STATEMENT FROM FCC SPOKESPERSON TAMMY SUN ON LETTER FROM NTIA

ADDRESSING HARMFUL INTERFERENCE TESTING CONCLUSIONS

PERTAINING TO LIGHTSQUARED AND GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS

“To drive economic growth, job creation, and to promote competition, the FCC has been focused on freeing up spectrum for mobile broadband. This includes our efforts to remove regulatory barriers that preclude the use of spectrum for mobile services. To advance these goals, the Commission runs open processes — the success of which relies on the active, timely, and full participation of all stakeholders. “LightSquared’s proposal to provide ground-based mobile service offered the potential to unleash new spectrum for mobile broadband and enhance competition. The Commission clearly stated from the outset that harmful interference to GPS would not be permitted. This is why the Conditional Waiver Order issued by the Commission’s International Bureau prohibited LightSquared from beginning commercial operations unless harmful interference issues were resolved.

“NTIA, the federal agency that coordinates spectrum uses for the military and other federal government entities, has now concluded that there is no practical way to mitigate potential interference at this time. Consequently, the Commission will not lift the prohibition on LightSquared. The International Bureau of the Commission is proposing to (1) vacate the Conditional Waiver Order, and (2) suspend indefinitely LightSquared’s Ancillary Terrestrial Component authority to an extent consistent with the NTIA letter. A Public Notice seeking comment on NTIA’s conclusions and on these proposals will be released tomorrow.

“This proceeding has revealed challenges to maximizing the opportunities of mobile broadband for our economy. In particular, it has revealed challenges to removing regulatory barriers on spectrum that restrict use of that spectrum for mobile broadband. This includes receivers that pick up signals from spectrum uses in neighboring bands. There are very substantial costs to our economy and to consumers of preventing the use of this and other spectrum for mobile broadband. Congress, the FCC, other federal agencies, and private sector stakeholders must work together in a concerted effort to reduce regulatory barriers and free up spectrum for mobile broadband. Part of this effort should address receiver performance to help ensure the most efficient use of all spectrum to drive our economy and best serve American consumers.”

— FCC —

Source: FCC.gov

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FCC PUBLIC NOTICE

Then on Feb. 15, 2012 the FCC issued a PUBLIC NOTICE inviting comment on NTIA's letter and basically saying that their “tentative conclusions” were to not allow LightSquared to use the spectrum adjacent to the GPS downlink frequencies. Comments are due no later than March 1, 2012.

This Public Notice, in my humble opinion, is a beautifully-crafted-government “CYA” document.

DA 12-214
IB Docket No. 11-109

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I hope we can put this topic to rest now, but this is probably wishful thinking. There will be comments , then maybe further comments, and possible protests. For example, here is a footnote at the end of the Public Notice:

20 47 U.S.C. § 316. We note that in the event we decide — after evaluating the public comment received in response to this Public Notice — to modify LightSquared’s license as envisioned herein, our order of modification would not become final until after LightSquared has been given an additional period of time to protest, pursuant to the requirements of Section 316(a).

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If you are wondering what all this concern about possible interference to GPS receivers has to do with paging . . . well, all the high-precision-simulcast paging systems using FLEX and ReFLEX on 900 MHz are controlled by GPS. Without GPS they wouldn't work very well — maybe not at all.

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472-479 kHz. The worldwide amateur radio service has a new frequency band, 472 to 479 kHz.

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This presentation will provide an overview of the University of Texas campus alerting protocol. Discussion will include the university’s distribution and use of pagers and pager protocol for campus notification, the successes and weaknesses of the campus alerting system in an actual emergency, and the significance of pagers in emergency communications in today’s world of “smart phones.”

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Paging Survives Joplin Tornado

Feb 10, 2012

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Talking to Tom Jackson, President of Midwest Paging in Joplin, Missouri, you can't miss the edge of emotion as he describes what he saw and retells the stories of death and destruction following the horrid Joplin tornado. He was in the thick of things because his company provides paging services to the bulk of the emergency personnel, hospital and first responders who were responsible for coming to the aid and assistance of the citizens of Joplin when the massive tornado devastated their town last Spring.

For many people in this country right now, pagers seem like an archaic and out-of-date technology which should be replaced by smart phones that contain all the bells and whistles. However, Joplin is just one example of the absolute necessity for pagers and how they proved once again to be the most reliable and dependable messaging system for those on the front lines and caught in this monster tornado and other deadly natural disasters.

When the tornado hit Joplin, cell phone towers which cover approximately 2-4 miles per tower, were taken down. Estimates of the number of towers destroyed range from 13-20, which rendered cell service virtually useless and non-existent in the pit of the destruction. In contrast, Midwest Paging had two towers, one on top of the hospital and another tower several miles away. Unlike cell phone towers, paging towers can be located 25-30 miles away from the site they cover which provides the security of less terrestrial failure in these weather catastrophes. Even if the two closest towers to the hospital had been destroyed, the paging system would have remained functional from the remote transmitters.

In a situation like Joplin, or any natural disaster such as this, having that expanded coverage distance can mean the difference between service and no service, and life and death. It took approximately four to five days for cell phone service to be restored to the area, which is typical as cell towers are not easily constructed or replaced. With the paging tower, even if service had been completely lost, a tower could have been constructed within an extremely short period of time and service could have been restored by that evening and certainly by the next day. Tom was prepared with the necessary equipment under that scenario, which was not necessary due to the expansive coverage area and location of the other towers.

Understanding the devastation of the Joplin tornado is not something most of us can imagine until you begin listening to the heart-wrenching stories seen through the eyes of a person whose town was reduced to a war scene in minutes. Listening to the shaking of Tom's voice when describing a recent young high school graduate being pulled from a sun roof as his father desperately tried to hold him in and suffering injuries while doing so; or describing a mom lost and her car found with the roof ripped off, leaving behind three teenagers frantically searching the streets; or hearing about an entire hospital whose foundation was moved four inches and two floors ripped away and reduced from a 365 bed facility down to 30 beds set up in a tent hospital for months, allows a small glimmer of what the first responders and citizens of Joplin must have endured. It was a blessing for this town the high school graduation let out just 30 minutes before the storm hit or the death toll would have been more horrendous and incomprehensible then it already is as the most deadly tornado which killed 162 people.

The question to be asked here is why and how did the paging system stay functional? That answer is in the technology itself: the way pagers send signals and function as opposed to the way cell phone systems operate. Pagers operate off a radio signal which has higher power and larger coverage area of up to 60 miles, in comparison the network signal for cell phones is typically only 10 miles. This expansive coverage area allows for placement of transmitters well outside areas which can be affected by weather forces as was the case here in Joplin. It also allows for transmitter placement that can provide overlapping coverage and therefore has less potential for failure. Cell towers do not have the same ability for this expansive coverage even with intensive placement of the towers because each tower has such a small coverage area and each cell phone literally competes for the signals from these towers to make a cell phone function. This is the reason there are dropped calls, lack of coverage especially in rural areas or inside buildings, and overloading of networks. Pagers are not subject to these faulty reception issues and will work in areas where cell phones may not. In addition, the construction of a cell tower, should one be destroyed by wind or rain, is not an easy undertaking. In contrast, a paging tower can be erected quickly on the spot and be powered by portable generators in the event power loss occurs, which is expected in destructive weather.

The way paging messages are sent also differs from the way a cell phone text message is transmitted. When disasters such as this one occur, it's imperative to notify large groups or teams with critical and life-saving information. Pagers have the ability to assign a number to multiple different groups of individuals: code blue teams, hazmat teams or whatever other designation for emergency response is needed by a particular group. With these designations, one message is transmitted and disseminated to all members of that group regardless of the size. If sending that same message via text messaging, how many people are in the group will determine the number of messages needed to be sent out. For example, if the group consists of fifty people, with paging one message is sent to fifty people and with cell phones, fifty messages are sent out, one to each person. Thus, system overloads with cell phones is understandable.

According to Peggy Ball at the Joplin Hospital, it will be approximately two years before the new hospital is built as the old one has to be completely torn down. But she was grateful the hospital had a great disaster plan in place and all their years of training and practicing paid off under the most extreme circumstances and disaster they've ever faced. And, the paging system remained fully operational and communications were not disrupted in the middle of this ravaging storm.

Certainly cell phones and pagers have a cooperative roll in preparing for and working through natural disasters, but discounting the reliable and dependable technology of paging would be irresponsible and counter-productive to the front-line responders. This country has seen more then its share of natural disasters throughout the past few years and fine tuning the responses to these disasters in absolutely necessary. Using and expanding paging services so reliable and critical information is disseminated and placed into the hands of our first responders and emergency personnel will help save lives and make those responses smoother and safer for everyone.

Leslie Prichard is a freelance writer who consults with corporations in order to prepare articles and web content for their industry and specific needs. Leslie's work has been published throughout various media including websites and magazines. She has also won awards for her writing. In addition, Leslie has been a paralegal for twenty plus years and holds a B.A. degree from Texas Tech University. Leslie can be contacted via e-mail at onenoseybroad@gmail.com

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DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

by Grant Gross, IDG News Service Feb 14, 2012 7:00 am

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion, following the European Commission’s approval earlier Monday.

Google is still waiting for approvals from China, Israel and Taiwan before the deal is final. Canada’s investigation is also ongoing. The search giant still says it hopes the acquisition will close in “early 2012.”

The DOJ on Monday also approved bids by Apple, Microsoft and Research in Motion (RIM) to purchase some Nortel Networks patents, as well as Apple’s purchase of some Novell patents.

The DOJ’s Antitrust Division has “determined that each acquisition is unlikely to substantially lessen competition,” the agency said in a press release. The DOJ has closed its investigations into the three deals.

Google’s acquisition of Motorola is unlikely to cause major changes to the mobile industry, the DOJ said.

“The evidence shows that Motorola Mobility has had a long and aggressive history of seeking to capitalize on its intellectual property and has been engaged in extended disputes with Apple, Microsoft and others,” the DOJ said. “As Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is unlikely to materially alter that policy, the division concluded that transferring ownership of the patents would not substantially alter current market dynamics.”

Apple’s acquisition of Novell patents that are important to the open-source community is unlikely to change the market because Novell had committed to providing the patents with royalty-free licenses for use in Linux, the DOJ said.

The acquisition of mobile patents by Microsoft and RIM should not hurt competition because the two companies’ “low market shares in mobile platforms would likely make a strategy to harm rivals ... unprofitable,” the DOJ said.

Separately, the European Commission on Monday also approved the Google/Motorola deal.

Google announced its agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility, including 17,000 patents and 6,800 applications, in August. Many analysts saw the deal as an effort by Google to protect its Android operating system from patent claims by competitors.

Rockstar Bidco, a partnership including RIM, Microsoft and Apple, was formed to acquire Nortel patents in a June bankruptcy auction. The group paid $4.5 billion.

Apple proposed to buy 882 Novell patents from CPTN Holdings, a partnership including Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and EMC, after the DOJ in April reached an agreement that kept Microsoft from acquiring the patents. Novell is the distributor of the SUSE Linux OS. CPTN purchased the patents for $450 million.

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Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?

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Research In Motion board member Roger Martin offered the Globe and Mail a passionate, though rather odd, defense of of RIM’s actions in the long decline that led up to the departure of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsille. In the course of defending for ignoring advice he described “go bankrupt and fire our founders and bring in a moron,” Martin, dean of the University of Toronto business school, may have inadvertently put his finger on the real problem.

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“People were saying we can’t make powerful phones like Apple,” Martin told the Globe and Mail. ”Yes, we can, but we couldn’t believe consumers would put up with that kind of battery inefficiency and that kind of network inefficiency.”

Mike Lazaridis is an engineer to his very core. I met with him many times over the years and he would always bring the newest BlackBerry, often a product weeks or months away from release. He was always proudest of two features: its battery life and the way it kept network traffic–initially just email and later web data–to a minimum.

In the beginning, these were huge virtues for the BlackBerry. RIM had its origins in the paging business, where long battery life and minimal data use were paramount. The original BlackBerry 850 not only looked like a pager, it ran on the very low-bandwidth DataTAC paging network and probably used less data during its lifetime than an iPhone consumes in a few minutes.

As the BlackBerry evolved into a smartphone, Lazaridis’ obsession with battery life served it well. Its early competitors the Handspring (later Palm) Treo and Windows Mobile Phones had problems in both departments. At one time, the BlackBerry proxied browser ran rings around the competition in loading pages.

The problem is that as networks got much faster, BlackBerry’s data stinginess became more of a burden than an advantage. It’s easy to forget, but the iPhone was the first smartphone to offer anything resembling a PC browsing experience, and it didn’t really get good until the introduction of the iPhone 3G in 2008. But from then on, the BlackBerry was lost. People wanted full-featured web pages, they wanted them fast, and they didn’t care much about the data consumption, especially when they were doing a lot of their browsing on fast, unlimited Wi-Fi networks.

BlackBerrys still crush the competition on battery life, often able to go through a couple days of hard use without recharging. The difficulty is that the competition has gotten good enough . The demand is for a phone that will get you through a day’s use before you need to recharge. More is nice, but it doesn’t sell hardware.

I think it is likely that the BlackBerry engineering team, led by Lazaridis, fell in love with the wrong metrics. They were still concentrating on battery life and data consumption as the world became concerned with performance and app availability. Too much of a good thing can, indeed, be very bad for you.

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  • Data input speeds up to 38.4 Kbps
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  • Extremely reliable & secure
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Knowledgeable Tech Support 24/7

Contact Alan Carle Now!
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UCOM Paging

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Ira Wiesenfeld, P.E.

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Complete Technical Services For The Communications and Electronics Industries

Design • Installation • Maintenance • Training • Engineering • Licensing • Technical Assistance

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Ira Wiesenfeld, P.E.
Consulting Engineer
Registered Professional Engineer

Tel/Fax: 972-960-9336
Cell: 214-707-7711
Web: IWA-RADIO.com
7711 Scotia Dr.
Dallas, TX 75248-3112
E-mail: iwiesenfel@aol.com

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Ira Wiesenfeld, P.E.

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Hahntech-USA

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www.hahntechUSA.com

 

2-Way 4-Button Pager

  • ReFLEX™ v 2.7.5
  • DSP Technology
  • Industrial Grade

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E-mail: sales@hahntechUSA.com
Telephone: 011-82-31-735-7592

 

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Hahntech-USA

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Paging & Wireless Network Planners

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PAGING & WIRELESS
NETWORK PLANNERS LLC

WIRELESS SPECIALISTS

www.pagingplanners.com
rmercer@pagingplanners.com

R.H. (Ron) Mercer
Consultant
217 First Street South
East Northport, NY 11731
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Cellphone: 631-786-9359

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Paging & Wireless Network Planners

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WRC-12: Ole Garpestad LA2RR Interview

An ITU video has been released of an interview at WRC-12 with Ole Garpestad LA2RR, Vice-President, The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).

Subjects covered include ITU-R Sector Member IARU's interest in agenda item 1.23 at WRC-12 and an insight into the world of amateur radio.

The opinions expressed in ITU INTERVIEWS are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily represent those of the ITU.

Watch ITU INTERVIEWS @ WRC-12: Ole Garpestad, Vice-President, The International Amateur Radio Union.

Source: Southgate

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PRISM PAGING

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PRISM IP MESSAGE GATEWAY

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THE ULTIMATE IN COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE RADIO PAGING SYSTEMS
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  • VoIP telephone access — eliminate interconnect expense
  • Call from anywhere — Prism SIP Gateway allows calls from PSTN and PBX
  • All the Features for Paging, Voicemail, Text-to-Pager, Wireless and DECT phones
  • Prism Inet, the new IP interface for TAP, TNPP, SNPP, SMTP — Industry standard message input
  • Direct Connect to NurseCall, Assisted Living, Aged Care, Remote Monitoring, Access Control Systems
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DANIELS ELECTRONICS LAUNCHES P25 SIMULCAST SOLUTION

Victoria, BC, Canada — February 13, 2012 — Daniels Electronics Ltd., a leading global supplier of high reliability Land Mobile Radio (LMR) radio equipment, today announced the introduction of its new P25 Simulcast solution. Building on the P25 Voter announced last year, the P25 Simulcast solution allows a single P25 signal to be simultaneously broadcast using two or more geographically separated radio transmitters.

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For extended or improved coverage, multiple receivers can be installed on the same frequency. When the Subscriber Unit transmits, many (and possibly all) of the receivers may hear the transmission depending on the location of the Subscriber Unit. The voter will then determine and select the "best" received signal from all the signals received. The best signal is then rebroadcast simultaneously from the base station transmitters allowing improved talk-back capability between mobiles in the field. As shown in the diagram below for a 3 site simulcast voted system with multiple transmitters, each receiver receives the signal from the Subscriber Unit. These signals are then evaluated and compared, and the best possible representation of the signal received is passed to the Daniels P25 voter.

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The Daniels P25 Simulcast Voting System is based on the versatile and proven MT-4E conventional radio system. P25 Simulcast Voting requires no changes to existing MT-4E radios and is supported in all the P25 frequency bands (VHF, UHF, T-Band, 700 and 800 MHz). As shown in the diagram above, each Receiver site consists of a Daniels sub rack along with the Daniels Simulcast Voter. An industrial PC then receives all the voted received signals and sends the result to the transmitter sites.

About Daniels Electronics Ltd.

Daniels Electronics Ltd. is an international leader in the design, manufacture and service of specialized radio communications equipment based upon North American standards. For the past 60 years Daniels has provided customers in North America and internationally with highly reliable base stations, repeaters and paging equipment that is environmentally robust and operates in rugged and extreme temperature conditions where low current consumption is a key requirement. For more information about Daniels Electronics, visit www.danelec.com .

Contact:

Gerry Wight
Daniels Electronics Ltd.
(250) 382 – 8268
Gerry_Wight@danelec.com

Source: Daniels Electronics Ltd.

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WiPath Communications

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Intelligent Solutions for Paging & Wireless Data

WiPath manufactures a wide range of highly unique and innovative hardware and software solutions in paging and mobile data for:

  • Emergency Mass Alert & Messaging Emergency Services Communications Utilities Job Management Telemetry and Remote Switching Fire House Automation
  • Load Shedding and Electrical Services Control

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  • FLEX & POCSAG Built-in POCSAG encoder Huge capcode capacity Parallel, 2 serial ports, 4 relays
  • Message & system monitoring

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  • Variety of sizes Indoor/outdoor
  • Integrated paging receiver

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  • Highly programmable, off-air decoders Message Logging & remote control Multiple I/O combinations and capabilities
  • Network monitoring and alarm reporting

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  • Emergency Mass Alerting Remote telemetry switching & control Fire station automation PC interfacing and message management Paging software and customized solutions Message interception, filtering, redirection, printing & logging Cross band repeating, paging coverage infill, store and forward
  • Alarm interfaces, satellite linking, IP transmitters, on-site systems

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Mobile Data Terminals & Two Way Wireless  Solutions

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  • Fleet tracking, messaging, job processing, and field service management Automatic vehicle location (AVL), GPS
  • CDMA, GPRS, ReFLEX, conventional, and trunked radio interfaces

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Contact
Postal
Address:
WiPath Communications LLC
4845 Dumbbarton Court
Cumming, GA 30040
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Address:
4845 Dumbbarton Court
Cumming, GA 30040
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Phone: 770-844-6218
Fax: 770-844-6574
WiPath Communications

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Hark Technologies

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Wireless Communication Solutions

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USB Paging Encoder

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  • Single channel up to eight zones
  • Connects to Linux computer via USB
  • Programmable timeouts and batch sizes
  • Supports 2-tone, 5/6-tone, POCSAG 512/1200/2400, GOLAY
  • Supports Tone Only, Voice, Numeric, and Alphanumeric
  • PURC or direct connect
  • Pictured version mounts in 5.25" drive bay
  • Other mounting options available
  • Available as a daughter board for our embedded Internet Paging Terminal (IPT)

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Paging Data Receiver (PDR)

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  • Frequency agile - only one receiver to stock
  • USB or RS-232 interface
  • Two contact closures
  • End-user programmable w/o requiring special hardware
  • 16 capcodes
  • POCSAG
  • Eight contact closure version also available
  • Product customization available

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Other products

  • Please see our web site for other products including Internet Messaging Gateways, Unified Messaging Servers, test equipment, and Paging Terminals.
Contact
Hark Technologies
717 Old Trolley Rd Ste 6 #163
Summerville, SC 29485
Tel: 843-821-6888
Fax: 843-821-6894
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HARK—EXHIBITS AT THE
NASHVILLE CONFERENCE

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David George and Bill Noyes
of Hark Technologies.

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CRITICAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS

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Over 70% of first responders are volunteers.
Without an alert, interoperability means nothing.

Get the Alert.

M1501 Acknowledgent Pager

With the M1501 Acknowledgement Pager and a SPARKGAP wireless data system, you know when your volunteers have been alerted, when they’ve read the message, and how they’re going to respond – all in the first minutes of an event. Only the M1501 delivers what agencies need – reliable, rugged, secure alerting with acknowledgement.

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  • Secondary Features Supporting Public Safety and Healthcare

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CRITICAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS

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Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, a newsletter from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm's permission.

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FCC Acts Against Robocalls

The FCC, at today’s open meeting, adopted measures to protect consumers against autodialed or prerecorded calls, often referred to as “robocalls.”

Robocall Order:

In the Robocall Order, the FCC adopted rules, which:

  • Require telemarketers to obtain prior express written consent from the consumer, including by electronic means such as a website form, before placing a robocall to them;
  • Eliminate the “established business relationship” exemption to the requirement that telemarketing robocalls to residential wireline phones occur on-ly with prior express consent from the consumer;
  • Require telemarketers to provide an automated, interactive “opt-out” mechanism during each robocall so that consumers can immediately tell the telemarketer to stop calling; and,
  • Strictly limit the number of abandoned or “dead air” calls that telemarketers can make within each calling campaign.

The rules also ensure that informational calls, such as those related to school closings and flight changes, continue to be available to consumers who wish to receive them.

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WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES $346.78 MILLION BUDGET FOR FCC: The White House has submitted a budget to Congress that proposes fiscal year 2013 funding for the FCC at $346.78 million. The requested FY 2013 funding level would include: continuing efforts to accelerate broadband deployment throughout the nation; implementing the FCC’s reforms to the Universal Service Fund programs; improving the FCC’s information technology infrastructure and continuing to enhance the security of its systems; investing in the FCC’s technical and engineering capabilities to detect interference issues, plan for interoperability needs, and test new technologies; and studying participation in the communications industry.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 6 February 15, 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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UNTIL NEXT WEEK

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

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I just finished reading this book and highly recommend it to all of my friends.

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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World [Hardcover]

By: Cullen Murphy

Amazon Book Description:

Publication Date: January 17, 2012

“The Inquisition is a dark mark in the history of the Catholic Church. But it was not the first inquisition nor the last, as Cullen Murphy shows in this far-ranging, informed, and (dare one say?) witty account of its reach down to our own time, in worldly affairs more than ecclesiastical ones.” — Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, former editor, Commonweal.

The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826 — the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.

God’s Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews — and with burning at the stake — its targets were more numerous and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance and censorship and “scientific” interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, Murphy traces the Inquisition and its legacy.

With the combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis that characterized his acclaimed Are We Rome?, Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past, and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present.

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