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FRIDAY — MARCH 23, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 500

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Well I have my ticket to Austin for the Critical Messaging Convention next week, and I just made reservations at the local "doggie motel" for my two dogs. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone. Why am I going?

  • To see many old friends
  • To make some new friends
  • To learn more about the wireless messaging business from the world's experts
  • To visit one of my favorite cities again
  • To sample some of that wonderful Texas BBQ

It's not too late to register, just click here — you won't be sorry.

Since I will be at the convention, there will be no newsletter next week.

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Did you notice, this is issue number 500? Wow, time flies when you are having fun.

Now on to more news and views.

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Thanks to our sponsors and vendors of the Critical Messaging Convention!

March 27-29, 2012 star Austin, Texas star Hyatt Regency Austin

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American Messaging
| www.americanmessaging.net
1720 Lakepointe Drive, Suite 100 | Lewisville, TX 75057 | 888-699-8977

American Messaging Services, LLC, is the second largest wireless messaging or paging company in the United States with reliable wireless networks providing coverage in 98 of the top 100 major metropolitan areas. Directly, and through subsidiaries, it provides traditional one- and two-way messaging, telemetry, immediate mass notification services, and downloadable software applications to almost 1.0 million subscribers nationwide.

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Critical Alert Systems | www.criticalalertsystems.com
100 Larrabee Road, Suite 150 | Westbrook, ME 04092 | 207-856-0078

Critical Alert System was founded in 2010 to acquire the assets of Northeast and UCOM Paging. Since then, we have acquired Teletouch Paging, Comserv Paging, and Intego Systems, Inc. Our mission is to provide a wide variety of Critical Messaging solutions primarily to the healthcare market. Centralized Nurse Call systems, agnostic middleware, hosted and server-based messaging gateways, mobile apps, and paging are part of our constantly expanding suite of products. We are actively pursuing investment opportunities and equity partnerships that expand our customer relationships and services portfolio and facilitate top line growth.

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Daniels Electronics | www.danelec.com
43 Erie Street | Victoria, BC V8V 1P8 Canada | 250-382-8268

Daniels Electronics Ltd., is a North American leader in the design and manufacture of customized radio communications systems and paging transmitters for public safety and other niche applications. For the past 60 years Daniels has provided customers in North America and internationally with highly reliable paging transmitters, base stations, and repeaters that are environmentally robust to operate in rugged and extreme temperature conditions for extended periods of time. Our products operate between 29-960 MHz and are available in a variety of Paging Transmitter, Base Station, and Repeater configurations for two-way voice and mobile data applications.

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Indiana Paging Network, Inc. | www.indianapaging.com
6745 W. Johnson Road | LaPorte, IN 46350 | 800-842-1950

Indiana Paging Network (IPN) has been providing paging coverage for over 37 years and is the largest independent paging carrier in the Midwest. We provide our Indiana and Chicagoland customers the most comprehensive coverage available. Our customer service is second to none; we can truly stand by our motto of “Our Signal is Just One of Our Strengths.” We are evolving to become a more complete message delivery service for our customers with the additions of our IPN Messaging Center, telephone answering service, and our EMACS, emergency mass notification system. We will continue to improve and provide additional products and services to stay at the forefront of the messaging industry.

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InfoRad, Inc. | www.inforad.com
635 East 185th Street | Cleveland, OH 44119 | 800-228-8998

InfoRad Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of messaging and alerting software and hardware technology solutions that communicate with smartphones, alphanumeric paging receivers, wireless LED sign boards, and other wireless receiver technologies. InfoRad products seamlessly combine wireless data, computer telephony, and Internet/ telco technologies to provide our customers a highly reliable and cost-effective communication solution with today’s wireless devices.

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Leavitt Communications | www.leavittcom.com
7508 N. Red Ledge Drive | Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 | 847-955-0511

Leavitt Communications, LLC is proud to support CMA. In Austin, we will introduce the MiniStatic Emergency Alerting Pager which is used in Israel for alerting citizens of imminent emergency. It is a cost-effective unit designed for an event requiring one to all messaging and is capable of displaying an alpha message and alerting with built in LEDs and buzzer. In addition, we support legacy Motorola products with parts, programming hardware and software, the Alphamate 250 (available new) and Alphamate II and Alphamate (available refurbished). We repair all models of Motorola pagers and Alphamates; sell refurbished Motorola numeric, alpha and voice pagers; and distribute Unication, Daviscomms, Motorola, U.S. Alert, and Apollo pagers.

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Microspace Communications | www.microspace.com
3100 Highwoods Boulevard | Raleigh, NC 27604 | 919-850-4500

Microspace Communications operates the world’s largest private satellite broadcast network for business and has been serving the needs of the wireless messaging industry since 1990. Microspace is dedicated to offering a variety of cost-effective, open systems simulcast network solutions that can be tailored to meet the needs of the carrier. Microspace supports all formats including analog Bell 202, voice, TNPP, and advance control (CNET, RFC, and C2000). Shared CNET control and Internet TNPP services are also available.

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Midwest Paging | www.midwestpaging.com
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Midwest Paging serves the state of Missouri as well as portions of Northern Arkansas, Eastern Kansas, and Western Illinois. Known as “The Most Respected Name in Missouri for Paging Communications,” Midwest Paging is dedicated to providing a large, almost seamless coverage area and we pride ourselves in the quality of Customer Service we provide our clients. We are happy to sponsor the CMA and their continued efforts to expand and improve the paging industry worldwide!

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11175 Cicero Drive, Suite 120 | Alpharetta, GA 30022 | 678-242-5290

Prism-IPX Systems (PIPX) designs powerful Message Management systems for paging, SMS, Smartphones, and other wireless technologies. PIPX products provide integrated wireless messaging for healthcare, energy, industrial, public safety, aged care/assisted living, and government markets. Equipped with remote and local direct VoIP interfaces, Prism-IPX Systems provide fast, reliable dispatch of critical alerts and messages to cellular/ DECT/SIP phones, pagers, e-mail, machine-to-machine, remote control devices, and LED display boards. See our newest products and services for SMS and Smartphones.

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unication Exhibitor
Unication USA, Inc. | www.unication.com
1901 E. Lamar Boulevard | Arlington, TX 76006 | 817-926-6771

Unication is a premier supplier of Critical Messaging and Communication equipment to the Global Marketplace. Unication is proud to announce two new product lines focused on the Public Safety and Industrial segments. The G1 is the first IP67 Submersible Voice Pager and the E3 is an IP64 Ruggedized Alpha Pager. Unication continues to invest and innovate to bring added value to the Worldwide Messaging Industry. Some of these innovative products include a Dual Frequency Alpha Pager, a Password Protected Alpha Pager, and a Wideband/Narrowband Auto-Migration Pager called the Legend+. Unication is committed to be your Quality and Value Leader in providing communications equipment and solutions to you and your customers.

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Premier Vendor prism ipx
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Silver Vendor

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Unication USA

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Bronze Vendors

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CMA Executive Director
441 N. Crestwood Drive
Wilmington, NC 28405
Tel: 866-301-2272
E-mail: info@criticalmessagingassociation.org
Web: www.criticalmessagingassociation.org
CMA Regulatory Affairs Office
Suite 250
2154 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007-2280
Tel: 202-223-3772
Fax: 202-315-3587

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ADVERTISERS SUPPORTING THE NEWSLETTER

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Advertiser Index

American Messaging
CMA — Critical Messaging Association
Daviscomms USA
Hahntech-USA
Hark Technologies
Ira Wiesenfeld & Associates
Ivycorp
Leavitt Communications
Preferred Wireless
Prism Paging
Ron Mercer — Paging & Wireless Network Planners LLC
PSSI — Product Support Services
TPL Systèmes
Critical Alert Systems d/b/a Northeast, UCOM & Teletouch Paging
VCP International
WiPath Communications

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RIM pushes HTML5 apps amid Canada user exodus

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2012
SlashGear

RIM has turned to courting HTML5-curious developers as a stopgap solution to slumping BlackBerry sales in Canada and elsewhere, arguing the case for universal web apps to counter coder apathy. BlackBerry marketshare in Canada – not RIM’s biggest single market, but meaningful as it is the firm’s home turf – has dipped below iPhone levels this week, hand in hand with decreasing levels of developer interest as BlackBerry 10‘s late 2012 launch looks unpalatably distant. That’s prompted a charm offensive by RIM code champions, pushing HTML5 development as preferable to native code.

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“Native will always be a couple of steps further [technically], but the web is absolutely competitive for the large majority of applications” BlackBerry Web Platform technical director Laurent Hasson told developers earlier this week at a London event, The Guardian reports. “An HTML5 application doesn’t mean you don’t have access to an app store, and it doesn’t mean you don’t have access to native APIs.”

If RIM can succeed in convincing app producers that there are significant advantages to HTML5 rather than native code, it could potentially stem the flow away from BlackBerry to iOS and Android. While Rovio’s snub of Windows Phone with Angry Birds Space has garnered more attention, BlackBerry users have also been left out of the new game. A web version would likely be platform-agnostic, however.

It’s an argument that may gain some traction, though the extent to which RIM is a motivator is unclear. Research by Appcelerator and IDC found 79-percent of developers questioned plan to use HTML5 in their apps this year, PC World reports, either dedicated HTML5 titles or hybrids using both native and HTML5 code.

RIM needs to work fast, though. The research found that developers “very interested” in creating BlackBerry apps have dipped from 38-percent to 16-percent in the course of a year, while those keen to code for the PlayBook tablet have more than halved, from 28-percent to 11-percent.

Source: SlashGear

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Myths about CMAS Dispelled

March 19, 2012

As the time quickly approaches when alerts through the long-awaited Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) will be reality, some misconceptions are circulating. In a two-part post with the AWARE Forum , Liz Trocki presented key facts in an effort to dispel myths stemming from misconceptions about the CMAS program.

Myth 1: CMAS is part of the Federal Government’s plan to install a tracking chip in our cell phones.

Fact: There is no “CMAS chip.” CMAS alerts will be distributed to the public through Cell Broadcast (CB) technology. CB technology allows a wireless carrier to send a single message to a specific cell tower (or towers). The towers then broadcast the message one way to cell phones within the area that are capable of receiving the message. An alerting authority will be able to initiate the broadcast, and the message will go to all phones within a geo-specific location, regardless of a user’s wireless carrier. The message originator has no way of identifying which phones in a given area have received the message. Note: not all cell phones in the U.S. can receive CMAS messages, but many can.

Myth 2: CMAS alerts are text messages — just like the text messages I already receive on my cell phone.

Fact: CMAS alerts will be disseminated using CB technology, which differs from the SMS technology used to send and receive text messages. SMS technology is a point-to-point technology where two users exchange texts one at a time. On the other hand, CB technology is a point-to-area technology where a single message is transmitted by a cell tower to all CB-capable cell phones within range of that tower. CMAS alerts will have a special tone or vibration cadence that’s different from the phone settings for incoming SMS text messages.

Myth 3: CMAS alerts will jam cell phone lines during emergency events.

Fact: Because CMAS relies on CB technology, it is not impacted by traffic loads and CMAS alert messages will not get hung up or delayed the way text and voice calls sometimes do.

CB technology operates differently from SMS and voice services and is not subject to the same traffic loads. Plus, CMAS alerts will not interrupt or disconnect a call in progress; devices will not display the text, tone, or cadence of a CMAS alert message until a previous call has ended.

Myth 4: I’ll be charged by my wireless carrier for CMAS alerts.

Fact: Section 602(b)(2)(C) of the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act prohibits wireless carriers who elect to transmit CMAS alert messages to “impose a separate or additional charge for such transmission or capability.” Additionally, as it is impossible for wireless carriers to identify the individual recipients of a CB message, it would impossible for them to charge for a CMAS alert.

Myth 5: Once CMAS is deployed in April 2012 all cell phones in the U.S. will be able to receive CMAS alerts.

Fact: Many of the newer phones shipped in the last year or so are programmed with CB technology, and only those phones programmed with CB technology can receive CMAS alerts. However, it will take time for CMAS-ready phones to saturate the market. Check with your wireless carrier to determine if your cell phone can receive CMAS/WEA alerts, and then check your phone to make sure the feature is enabled.

Myth 6: CMAS will provide all information I need during an emergency event and will take the place of all my previous sources of emergency information.

Fact: CMAS is just one more medium through which you can be alerted to an emergency event. CMAS alerts are limited to 90 text characters, which obviously limits the amount of information that can be transmitted. While Alerting Authorities will be trained in how to craft messages that are as informative as possible within space constraints, the primary purpose of CMAS is to simply provide the ability to alert our increasingly mobile population in the event of an emergency. Upon receipt of an alert or warning, it is likely that most users will seek further information or clarification from other sources, such as TV, radio, Internet, or SMS-based subscription services, (like county or campus-based alerting services).

Myth 7: CMAS alerts will all come from the Federal Government.

Fact: While a CMAS alert can be issued by the President of the U.S. in the case of a national emergency event, it is expected the majority of CMAS alerts will be issued by local/state emergency managers, local/state police, or the National Weather Service. The key benefit of CMAS is the ability to geo-target specific populations with information relevant to their own safety.

Myth 8: I will not know who is sending a CMAS alert.

Fact: To successfully issue a CMAS alert, a CMAS alert originator must complete a specific set of data fields. One of these required fields is the source of the CMAS alert. Only authorized federal, state, and local authorities will have access to CMAS for the purpose of originating alerts.

Myth 9: I need to download an application or opt-in to a service to receive CMAS alerts.

Fact: The CMAS specification requires that CMAS-capable phones automatically be opted in to receive CMAS messages. Users will ultimately be able to opt-out of receiving CMAS imminent threat or AMBER alerts on cell phones, but there will be no opt-out for receiving a Presidential alert. Because cell phones vary in configuration, the process of opting out of messages may vary from phone to phone.

Myth 10: I’ll be able to get a CMAS alert anywhere in the U.S. once CMAS is deployed in April 2012.

Fact: You will only receive a CMAS alert if your cell phone is located within a geographic area designated to receive a specific CMAS alert. It is also important to note that receiving an alert is dependent upon network coverage, in-building locations, and other “dead spots.” If your phone has no signal, or is turned off, the cell tower will not be able to broadcast the message to your phone.

Source: Emergency Management

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Based in Coppell, Texas, a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth, and located just five minutes north of the DFW Airport, PSSI receives, repairs and ships approximately 4,000 discrete units each day.

  • PSSI is ISO certified and has comprehensively integrated robust lean manufacturing processes and systems that enable us to deliver timely and benchmark quality results.
  • PSSI is certified for Levels III and IV repair by a wide variety of OEMs including, for example, Motorola, Nokia, Sony/Ericsson, Samsung, Stanley and LG.
  • PSSI ’s service center is a state-of-the-art facility, complete with multiple wireless test environments and board-level repair capabilities.
  • PSSI ’s state-of-the-art and proprietary Work-In-Process (WIP) systems, and its Material Planning and Warehouse Management systems, enable PSSI to track discrete units by employee, work center, lot, model, work order, location and process through the entire reverse logistics process. Access to this information can be provided to our customers so that they can track the real-time movement of their products.

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Andrew Affrunti, 1916-2012

Joined Motorola as a teen; stayed for 52 years

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By Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune reporter
March 8, 2012

In April 1934, Andrew Affrunti took a 14-cent streetcar ride from his Chicago home to the Galvin Manufacturing Co. at 847 W. Harrison St. to apply for a radio technician job.

Mr. Affrunti, then 17 years old, joined a line of hopefuls that wrapped around the building. All of them had read the same newspaper ad for the job. But Mr. Affrunti was the first one who could correctly answer a question about a superhetrodyne receiver. He won the job on the spot, launching a 50-year career with the company that in 1947 became Motorola.

When the company celebrated Mr. Affrunti's 50th service anniversary in 1984, Robert Galvin, the chief executive at the time and the son of Motorola founder Paul Galvin, told a reporter from ABC's WLS-TV-Ch. 7's "Eyewitness News" that Mr. Affrunti was a "loyal, all-purpose worker" who could "handle any assignment with zest and enthusiasm."

Mr. Affrunti, 95, the first Motorola employee to reach 50 years at the company, died of natural causes Saturday, Feb. 4., at Provena Pine View Care Center in St. Charles, said his daughter Audrey Etheridge. He was a resident of Arlington Heights.

Mr. Affrunti continued working for Motorola even after his official retirement in 1986.

"He loved it, he really did," Etheridge said. "It was a great joy to him knowing Bob Galvin."

Mr. Affrunti was born and grew up in Chicago. His parents were immigrants from Sicily and his father worked as a barber. Mr. Affrunti studied radio through a correspondence course and made his first radio by wrapping copper wire around an oatmeal box.

He had to drop out of school to take the Motorola job. But he was determined to help out his family, which was suffering through the Great Depression, and the radio technician position paid 40 cents an hour.

Mr. Affrunti ascended through various departments at the communications technology company, working on products such as two-way radios for motorcycles. In the early 1940s, he helped build a radar homing beacon that allowed fighter pilots to find their aircraft carriers without having to turn on their transmitters and give away their locations. Mr. Affrunti received two patents for his research and development work at Motorola in the 1950s.

Motorola also provided Mr. Affrunti, who raised his family in Morton Grove and later moved to Arlington Heights, with outlets beyond work. He played piano and was a member of the Galvin Choraleers and Motorola Glee Club.

His son, Andrew Affrunti Jr., worked at the company and married the daughter of a fellow employee. Mr. Affrunti's daughter Andrea also worked at Motorola, as a secretary.

In 2011, Motorola split into two independent companies, Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions and Libertyville-based Motorola Mobility. Mr. Affrunti's grandson, Michael Leonard, works at Motorola Solutions as a sales manager in the Washington area.

When Mr. Affrunti reached his 50th service anniversary in April 1984, Motorola feted him with a reception. The celebration also coincided with the publication of his 161-page book, "A Personal Journal: 50 Years at Motorola, Autobiography of Andy Affrunti."

The company presented him with a gold-plated radio pager, a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune from the day he started working at the company and a massive scrapbook documenting his five decades at Motorola — starting with the day he was hired as a 17-year-old radio technician.

"I feel like it was just yesterday," Affrunti told the "Eyewitness News" reporter.

In retirement, Mr. Affrunti devoted many years to caring for his wife of 63 years, Angeline, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She died in 2002.

He is survived by his three children and six grandchildren.

Services have been held.

Source: Chicago Tribune

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It's still here — the tried and true Motorola Alphamate 250. Now owned, supported, and available from Leavitt Communications. Call us for new or reconditioned units, parts, manuals, and repairs.

We also offer refurbished Alphamate 250’s, Alphamate IIs, the original Alphamate and new and refurbished pagers, pager repairs, pager parts and accessories. We are FULL SERVICE in Paging!

E-mail Phil Leavitt ( pcleavitt@leavittcom.com ) for pricing and delivery information or for a list of other available paging and two-way related equipment.

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LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users

Costs of using fast cellular networks push users to Wi-Fi

Matt Hamblen
March 23, 2012 (Computerworld)

The new iPad's LTE option, which allows access to fast 4G networks, has also shocked some customers who found they can eat up an entire month's worth of data watching just a couple hours of streaming video.

For a long time, analysts and even carriers have urged customers to download videos and other large files over Wi-Fi to avoid the high price of using a cellular connection .

But that hasn't stopped owners of the new iPad and some recent LTE Android-based smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from leveling renewed criticism at carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless for imposing high data fees.

In December, Computerworld illustrated the problem by downloading a single 128-minute HD movie over LTE to a Galaxy Nexus. The 3.7GB movie file took less than two hours to download .

The new iPad adds a whole new level of temptation, since it features a high-resolution 9.7-in "Retina" display with 3.1 million pixels, making it a great way to view everything from movies to online games to televised sports. A fast LTE network offers a consistent connection for streaming video and faster download capabilities than 3G networks.

Data price plans for tablet users start at $30 a month for 3GB of data on AT&T or 2GB on Verizon. Using that pricing model, a single HD movie download would cost $50 over Verizon (the $30 plan for 2GB, with two $10-per-GB overage charges) or $40 on AT&T.

As a result, some customers are asking: Why have a great new smartphone or tablet running over LTE if you can only watch video for such a short amount of time?

"People aren't going to stand around forever and just deal with limitations on data usage, and it's not incumbent on the user to monitor his own bandwidth consumption," wrote Erik Fecher in a comment on Computerworld . "It's completely the responsibility of the service provider to accommodate it."

The Wall Street Journal this week also found new iPad customers who quickly zipped through their respective data plans, with the issue generating similar comments .

Neither Verizon or AT&T wanted to comment about data usage costs. However Verizon did offer up a number of "tips" via email for consumers seeking "to manage their data allow allowance on...any mobile device."

The Verizon tips, not surprisingly, include using "Wi-Fi to help extend the life of your data plan" at home or elsewhere. "Checking email is not a huge use of data, but streaming video is, so you may want to use Wi-Fi when streaming video," Verison said.

The carrier also has a data calculator , and urges users to download a data widget for Verizon LTE tablets running Android. The widget is currently not available for the iPad.

The wireless industry clearly sees the need to protect their networks.

"Carriers need to keep the data usage rates fairly high to avoid being overwhelmed by the users of these these content-crazy devices," said Jack Gold, an analyst for J. Gold Associates. "So I wouldn't expect carriers to be making data more attractive anytime soon."

Rob Enderle, an analyst at Enderle Group, said the "core of the problem is under-capacity of networks.... If you are a carrier basically selling more [bandwidth] than you have, you aren't really motivated to reduce prices, because that would drive up demand and you already don't have enough."

Enderle, Gold and other analysts said many consumers already avoid buying LTE and 3G tablets to keep their costs low, resorting to Wi-Fi-only devices.

Just one in 10 tablets sold uses a cellular connection, analyst Chetan Sharma reported this week. Many tablet owners already have a smartphone and don't want to pay for both services, he noted.

The controversy has raised a number of possible scenarios for carriers. One approach would be to set up family and company group plans in which 3G or 4G wireless data use for a given month is shared across a group of people and their various devices.

"I do expect to see data sharing plans [from carriers] by the end of the year or early next year," Gold said.

Another approach would wrap the data costs of an online app, movie or sporting event into the overall cost of the app. Carriers could meter this data by using technology similar to 800 calling services where the vendor pays for the data. On-demand wireless video services are already emerging that include the cost of data.

Currently there's not a mechanism to allow an app provider to include the cost of data usage when selling an app, Enderle said. But Amazon's early e-reader devices — not the Kindle Fire — do allow users to download a book with the wireless download cost bundled with the book. "Eventually, some apps will have connectivity as part of the package," he predicted.

A third approach is emerging: cellular-to-Wi-Fi roaming technology, which would make it seamless for a tablet user on 3G or LTE to roam onto a Wi-Fi hotspot .

Carriers aren't expected to allow their customers to roam to Wi-Fi from cellular totally free, but it isn't clear how much they would charge, analysts said.

The Hotspot 2.0 technology initiative has begun a second round of testing smartphones, tablets and laptops with embedded software that handle secure and seamless cellular-to-Wi-Fi handoffs, said Niels Jonker, CTO of Boingo Wireless. Boingo runs hotspots in many airports and sits on the board of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, which is promoting the Hotspot 2.0 initiative.

Jonker said software updates for existing phones and software embedded in new phones will be available in the early part of 2013. "The time to mass adoption is pretty close, not five years off," he said.

The handoff from cellular to Wi-Fi with Hotspot 2.0 would work over smartphones and tablets and laptops and "would be fully automatic and part of a customer's plan," he said.

"The cellular carriers are very much into this, and are motivated," he added. "They understand full well that there's no way they can service a crowded place like a stadium of full of people taking and sending photos at once in any other way [than with Wi-Fi] and even LTE won't scale to do that for them."

Jonker said it is ironic how the large carriers describe LTE as offering so much more overall network capacity, but continue to testify to the Federal Communications Commission about their need for more spectrum. While Cisco has estimated there will be a 27-fold increase in wireless data growth in the next two years, LTE is expected to only add a five-fold increase over the prior wireless network capacity.

"We need a bigger solution such as Wi-Fi offloading, and there's not a carrier not on board with that," Jonker said.

As to whether Wi-Fi offloading could potentially cut into carrier revenues, Jonker said that the biggest economic consideration for carriers should be to "keep their users happy. And they can't build out their [cellular] networks cheaply enough to do that."

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T-Mobile announced Thursday that they will close two Texas call centers while consolidating operations from 24 to 17 facilities by the end of June.

The Texas call centers are in Frisco and Brownsville. The other five call centers are in Allentown, Pa.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Lenexa, Kan.; Thornton, Colo. and Redmond, Ore.

The Dallas Business Journal said the Frisco call center will result in the loss of more than 600 jobs.

The seven closures will result in 1,900 terminations out of the 3,300 people employed at the seven call centers. The remaining 1,400 can apply for positions at the other 17 call centers with relocation assistance.

The remaining call centers are located in: Oakland, Maine; Richmond, Va.; Nashville, Tenn.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Charleston, S.C.; Augusta, Ga.; Tampa, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Mission, Texas; Albuquerque, N.M. (two call centers); Salem, Ore.; Meridian, Idaho; Bellingham, Wash.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Wichita, Kan.; and Springfield, Mo.

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Report: Mobile Websites Need to Prepare for Outages

By Andrew Berg
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Keynote Systems' March Mobile News and Portal Index saw reliability of the Fox News mobile site drop 10.14 percent from February.

The company noticed that on March 19, Fox's mobile site went down (with the exception for some iPhone users on the West Coast) without warning and without instructions for end users. What mobile users saw was “'page unable to load.”

Hermand Ng, mobile performance evangelist for Keynote, says episodes like the one Fox experienced show a lack of preparation.

"In the last year, many companies have made the mistake of not preparing for routine maintenance or do not have practices in place to handle large amounts of traffic when unexpected news events arise (i.e. Bin Laden's Death)," Ng Said.

Ng adds that companies like CNN learned from events that affected mobile traffic and began re-directing visitors to the full site, or at least another location where they could find what they were looking for.

"When websites undergo routine maintenance, unexpected outages or higher mobile traffic than normal, the user experience becomes slow and sometimes non-existent," Ng said.

Keynote suggest websites that are undergoing routine maintenance create a placeholder message page that informs users when the site will be available again. In the event of a traffic spike, organizations can re-direct their mobile users to its standard website. Or, organizations can do a combination of the two and show a message page with any necessary information and a link to the standard website.

"In addition, if organizations want to pre-empt any unexpected mobile occurrences they can also pre-set limits where mobile users who are waiting for an extended period of time will automatically re-direct to an available page," Ng said, adding that communication is key.

"In cases like Fox News, sharing a website with any type of informative content is better than nothing," he said.

Overall, the average page load time in the News and Portal Index for March was 18.09 seconds, an increase of 1.96 seconds compared to February. Average Reliability was 96.90 percent, a slight decrease of .46 percentage points compared to the previous month.

Facebook had the fastest page load time of 4.01 seconds, while Microsoft's Bing had the highest reliability of 99.56 percent, pushing out Google from February. Facebook maintains the fastest speed on the news and portal index and has the lowest amount of Kbytes downloaded overall. However, Google’s site downloaded approximately 19 objects/second, while Facebook only downloaded 3 objects/second.

Keynote repeatedly tests the sites in the index hourly and around the clock from four locations over the four major U.S. wireless networks, emulating the browsers of four different devices: the iPhone 4 on AT&T, the HTC EVO (Android operating system) on Sprint, the Motorola Droid X (Android operating system) on Verizon wireless and the BlackBerry Curve on T-Mobile. Data is collected from San Francisco, New York, Dallas and Chicago and then aggregated to provide an overall monthly average in terms of both speed and reliability.

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With approximately six million cellular subscribers within the Unites States, Virgin Mobile is scrambling to fix data service for users across the nation.

As confirmed on the official Virgin Mobile Twitter feed , customers of the cellular provider within the United States have been unable to send any text messages or access data over a 3G connection for the past several hours. A representative for the company posted “We’re currently experiencing a national data & text messaging outage. Our engineers are working to resolve it. Thank you for your patience,” on the Twitter feed around 4 p.m. Pacific time. The company has made no indication when the problem will be fixed and customers that call the Virgin Mobile customer service line to complain about the outage will hear a recorded apology with a similar message.

virgin mobile Virgin Mobile customers on Twitter have reported problems with accessing the network since midday. Previously acting as a virtual operator of mobile networks, Virgin Mobile didn’t actually maintain a physical network within the United States prior to 2009. Instead, the company resold cellular bandwidth from Sprint Nextel and didn’t allow roaming on other networks.

After Sprint purchased the company during mid-2009, the two companies have merged and Sprint has utilized the Virgin Mobile brand name. Sprint customers haven’t experienced any network issues today and company representatives haven’t issued a public statement regarding the Virgin Mobile texting and data outage.

Sprint Prepaid corporate communications representative Jayne Wallace has mentioned that the outage isn’t related to the upcoming data throttling changes that will go into effect on March 23. Once a user downloads 2.5GB of data within a billing cycle, data speed is scaled down to 256Kbps on a 3G connection for the remainder of the cycle. When the customer enters a new billing cycle, they can take advantage of higher speeds until the 2.5GB cap is reached again. According to Virgin Mobile policy, customers can halt the slow data speeds by paying off a bill early. This data throttling policy was implemented on Virgin Mobile’s Broadband2Go plans during February 2011.

UPDATE: As of 8 A.M. Pacific time on March 21, a Virgin Mobile representative has updated the company’s official Twitter feed with the following message : “The current outage has been resolved. If you are still experiencing issues, try removing your battery and restarting your device.”

Source: Digital Trends

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FCC Sets May 15 as CMAS Opt Out Customer Notice Deadline

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) has initiated a 60-day period during which commercial mobile service (CMS) providers that have elected not to transmit Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) alerts, in whole or in part throughout their service areas, must comply with the customer notification requirements. Accordingly, affected CMS providers must provide the requisite notice to their customers no later than May 15, 2012. It was expected that the 60 day period would start upon commencement of CMAS service, but the notice takes a different approach that requires action by clients opting out of the CMAS program sooner than expected.

On April 7, 2012, CMS providers will begin to offer CMAS service to their customers. Because CMAS is a voluntary program, not all CMS providers currently intend to provide CMAS service or do not intend to provide CMAS service throughout their entire service areas. The FCC’s rules require that all CMS providers electing not to participate must provide clear and conspicuous notice to new subscribers of their non-election or partial election at the point of sale. The point of sale includes stores, kiosks, third party reseller locations, web sites, and any other venue through which the CMS provider markets and sells its devices and services. CMS providers must provide clear and conspicuous notice to existing subscribers of their non-election or partial election by means of an announcement amending the existing subscriber’s service agreement. In the case of prepaid customers, if a mailing address is available, the CMS provider must provide the required notification via U.S. mail. If no mailing address is available, the CMS provider must use any reasonable method at its disposal to alert the customer to a change in the terms and conditions of service and directing the subscriber to a voice-based notification or to a Web site providing the required notification. All CMS providers not serving all geographical areas within their service areas must provide notice of partial election to their subscribers. Notices must take into account the needs of people with disabilities.

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CONGRESSMAN ASKS FCC TO ALLOW LIGHTSQUARED TO PROCEED WITH ITS NETWORK: As initially reported in The Hill and other sources, U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss.) has asked the FCC to not block LightSquared's planned 4G network. In an Ex Parte letter, Nunnelee said that LightSquared’s "technology is too important to the 260 million Americans looking forward to the affordable access that only LightSquared can provide, to close the door at this point, and I urge you to do everything you can to find a solution.” Although the FCC granted LightSquared a conditional waiver for testing last year, recent testing has shown its network could interfere with GPS devices. After a review concluded there was no feasible way to fix the interference problem, the FCC said it would withdraw LightSquared's waiver and bar it from launching its network. “LightSquared has proven that there are practical, affordable solutions to the interference issues that have been presented in the past. Now, as the GPS industry continues [to attempt to bar] LightSquared from its own spectrum, it is a huge disappointment that the FCC appears to be siding with GPS and ignoring the fact that LightSquared has invested billions of dollars and done everything asked of them up to this point to resolve interference with GPS devices," Nunnelee wrote. He suggested that the FCC should find the interference problem.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 11 March 21, 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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TAPR Opens "Interest List" for Hermes SDR

03/19/2012

tapr Tucson Amateur Packet Radio ( TAPR ) announces the opening of the “interest list” for the openHPSDR Hermes single-board Software Defined Radio. The Hermes interest list is used by TAPR to determine the number of Hermes boards to manufacture in the pending initial production run this spring.

Hermes is a long-awaited addition to the openHPSDR project lineup, advancing through four prototypes while evolving from a USB-based to an Ethernet-based transceiver in about two years. Hermes is a Direct-Down Conversion receiver, a Direct-Up-Conversion 500 mW transmitter and a gigabit Ethernet interface all on one board. Also on board is an RF-quiet switch-mode power supply, which allows Hermes to run from a single 13.8 Vdc source.

More information can be found on the Hermes Wiki . Amateurs can add their names to the interest list here (look under the Projects – TAPR-HPSDR tab after logging in).

Source: ARRL

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From: Michael Lyons mlyons@indianapaging.com
Subject: PTC Meeting
Date: March 22, 2012 12:07:58 AM CDT
To: ptc@regionalcarriers.com

Currently we have a very light agenda for our meeting.

Tentative agenda:

1) Sub Committee Updates

star TAP revision — Vaughan Bowden (30 min.)

2) New business — Topics 

star 2-Way Protocols (update) — Michael Lyons (15 min.)

star TETRA – Jim Nelson (15 Min)

star CMAS (update) — Michael Lyons

3) Next Meeting

If you have any additional items of interest for the agenda, please send them to me as soon as possible.

Michael Lyons mlyons@indianapaging.com

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From: Kevin Faris kfaris@atsbeeper.com
Subject: CMAS
Date: March 20, 2012 3:54:31 PM CDT
To: Brad Dye

Brad,

Do you know of any paging companies that are planning on providing CMAS services to one-way pagers?  Do you know of any hardware for that purpose?

Thanks,

Kevin Faris
ATS “The Beeper People”
Omaha, NE

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