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FRIDAY — MARCH 2, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 497

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Greetings from Southern Illinois. You probably already saw it on television, but the town of Harrisburg, Illinois — just 50 miles south of where I live — got hit by a major tornado. At least, six people were killed and more than 100 were injured. Much of the town was destroyed.

The National Weather Service listed the Harrisburg tornado as an EF4, the second-highest rating given to twisters based on damage. Scientists said it was 200 yards wide with winds up to 170 mph.

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Yet another storm system is expected to come through here Friday afternoon (today). [source]

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Ron Mercer

ron mercer At various times over the last 30 years Ron Mercer has been my friend, my boss, my co-worker, and my mentor. Ron is well-known in the paging industry, having been involved in various capacities, practically from the beginning. As a young engineer at Bell Canada, Ron designed, built, and patented the first dial-interconnected paging terminal. He is not “a one-trick pony.” That is to say, there is a lot more to Ron than being a expert engineer. He is a talented chef, specializing in Italian cuisine, an accomplished gardner, and he is a multilingual speaker of several different languages.

I have been encouraging Ron, of late, to write an article about one of the most interesting things that he did in his multifaceted career. That is when he worked at Bell Labs. Many of the world's greatest inventions came out of the research and development done at Bell Labs. There is a long list of famous scientists who worked there and an even longer list of the amazing technology that they developed. I came across a great video this week, the “Bell Labs Song.” I Highly recommended it. You will have to listen closely because it moves along at a rapid pace. It follows in the next frame. Meanwhile, Ron has promised an article ASAP. I can't wait.

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Hotel Reservations Deadline: Thursday, March 1
Austin , Texas, is a wonderful place to visit and the Hyatt Regency Austin provides the perfect location for guests to walk to downtown attractions or to relax along the shore of Lady Bird Lake.

Easily accessible by air, the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) was recently named the "best domestic" airport in the U.S. and has more than 150 daily commercial flights including 40 non-stop flights.

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NOTE: Whether you make your reservation online or by phone, be sure to mention the Critical Messaging Convention to receive the group rate of $167/night. The rate will increase by $100/night after March 1.

Convention Early Registration Deadline: Thursday, March 1

Register on or before March 1 and save $75.
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This year the Critical Messaging Association and the European Mobile Messaging Association have collaborated to develop an agenda focused on providing key information to help grow your business opportunities and increase your awareness of issues facing the industry.

Campus Emergency Notifications and Pager Protocol
David O. Cronk, Director, Emergency Preparedness, University of Texas at Austin

Using Paging Networks for Critical Messaging and Alerting: SkyAlert Earthquake Alerting System
Santiago Cantú, SkyTel Mexico

Leveraging Your Healthcare Accounts
Ted McNaught, Critical Alert Systems
James Higbe, Intego Software

Getting the Message Out
Karla McGowan, Marketing Communications & PR Expert

Upgrading Paging Technology to Meet Critical Messaging Demands
Illan Friedland, Beeper Communications Israel

Planning for Another Decade with Paging
Jan Kopegard, Ascom Sweden

Grow Your Business with Utilities - They Need More than Just a Message!
Dick Preston, MW Consulting Corporation

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Scott Forsythe, SelectPath-Contact Wireless Tom Harger, SelectPath-Contact Wireless
Alan Hills, MethodLink, LLC
Tom Jackson, Midwest Paging
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De la Vega Talks Trash at MWC But Keeps It Clean

By Monica Alleven
WirelessWEEK
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

BARCELONA — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega used his time on stage in a morning keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday to respond to skeptics who say the industry is facing a tough situation: saturation, slower growth and carriers that will be forced to adapt.

But he also got around to talking a little dirt — and trash. First, some context. He acknowledged that mobile connected devices (that are not phones) are growing exponentially and show no signs of slowing. But beyond those devices, the industry has an opportunity to connect things that are more out of the ordinary — such as things used in agriculture.

Industry efforts are under way in the U.S. to help in the area of farming, where some 80 percent of water is used for irrigation but farmers don't have accurate metrics on when and how much to irrigate. Now sensors can sense moisture levels at the root of plants to calculate the level of water and tell farmers when to irrigate. "I never thought I'd look at an open field and see revenue, but I do," he quipped.

Along those lines, a trash hauling company wanted to see if they could use sensors to determine when trash levels were full and only pick up trash at those times. "When you think about our future, think dirt, think trash," he said with an undeniable smile. "There's money in there."

Before that advice, however, he referred to those skeptics who say the growth in the wireless industry will slow and never recover and carriers will be left adapting to a new paradigm rather than being the ones who create it. Far from it. "The wireless industry has a history of innovation. We're not done. We've changed the world, but guess what? We're not done," he said.

Of course, spectrum needs to be made available for further investments to be made. Network advancements lead to innovative services, which spark new developments in devices, applications and content and that drives consumer consumption. "We have kept the cycle going and going through an incredible number of years," he said. "It's a reminder of how well the system works."

He had a warning about video, though. In the future, 2/3 of mobile traffic will be video, but the industry has made it difficult to make something as simple as a video call from one customer to another. His challenge to the industry is to work together and take Rich Communications Services (RCS) to the next level.

The industry also needs to enable innovation throughout the ecosystem, and one way AT&T is doing that is by embracing application developers and making it easier to work with carriers. Part of that is making sure developers know how to make apps that won't drain batteries or otherwise put undue strain on networks. AT&T operates foundries in Plano, Texas; Palo Alto, Calif.; and in Israel, where a lot of its innovation is occurring. De la Vega said he's headed to Israel after MWC to check out those facilities and see what's new. With any luck, they'll be knee deep in dirt.

Source: WirelessWEEK

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Bell Labs Top 10 Innovations

Bell Labs has been at the forefront of technology since 1925. Here are ten Bell Labs innovations that changed the world.

Data Networking
Since the transmission of the first facsimile in 1925, Bell Labs has explored ways to use networks to deliver more than just voice traffic. In the late 1940s, researchers demonstrated the first long-distance remote operation of a computer by connecting a teletypewriter in New Hampshire with a computer in New York. Throughout the '80s and '90s, Bell Labs worked to increase modem speeds and pioneered the first trial of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology. Today, DSL is becoming a popular way to transform regular copper phone lines into high-speed data connections, giving consumers faster access to the Internet.

The Transistor
Developed in 1947, as a replacement for bulky and inefficient vacuum tubes and mechanical relays, the transistor revolutionized the entire electronics world. The transistor sparked a new era of modern technical accomplishments from manned space flight and computers to portable radios and stereos. Today, billions of transistors are manufactured weekly.

Cellular Telephone Technology
In a paper in 1947 Bell Labs was the first to propose a cellular network. The primary innovation was the development of a network of small overlapping cell sites supported by a call switching infrastructure that tracks users as they moved through a network and pass their call from one site to another without dropping the connection. Bell Labs installed the first commercial cellular network in Chicago in the 1970s. Since then Bell Labs has continued to innovate in the wireless area, recently creating digital cellular telephone technology offering better sound quality, greater channel capacity, and lower cost.

Solar Cells
While there were theories and activities to harness the sun’s energy dating back to the 1800s, Bell Labs, in 1954, was the first to actually build a device that used the sun’s power to create practical amount of electricity.

Laser
The invention of the laser, which stands for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” can be dated to 1958 with the publication of a scientific paper by Bell Labs researchers. Lasers launched a new scientific field and opened the door to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes applications in medicine, communications, and consumer electronics.

Digital Transmission and Switching
In 1962, Bell Labs developed the first digitally multiplexed transmission of voice signals. This innovation not only created a more economical, robust and flexible network design for voice traffic, but also laid the groundwork for today's advanced network services such as 911, 800-numbers, call-waiting and caller-ID. In addition, digital networking was the foundation for the convergence of computing and communications.

Communications Satellites
Bell Labs was the pioneer in communications satellites. In 1962 it built and successfully launched the first orbiting communications satellite (Telstar I). Telstar was unique in that it had the ability to receive a signal, amplify it, and then transmitted it back to elsewhere on earth . . . which is, after all, the core of what a communications satellite does. This technology allowed telephones calls to be bounced from coast to coast and around the world. The satellite was powered by Bell Labs solar cells and transistors – two other Bell Labs pioneering inventions.

Touch-Tone Telephone
First introduced by Bell Labs in 1963, touch-tone replaced rotary dials. This ushered in a new generation of telephone services and capabilities including voice mail and telephone call center applications. In a recent survey of Americans, touch-tone dialing was named the most important business communications advance of the last century.

Unix Operating System and C Language
The Unix operating system and the C programming language, closely intertwined in both origin and impact, were created at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1972. Unix made large-scale networking of diverse computing systems — and the Internet — practical. The C language brought an unprecedented combination of efficiency and expressiveness to programming. Both made computing more "portable." Today, Unix is the operating system of most large Internet servers, as well as business and university systems; C and its descendants are the most widely used programming languages in the world.

Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
Bell Labs built the first single-chip digital signal processor in 1979. The DSP is the engine of today's multimedia revolution. DSP technology is in multimedia PCs and in the modems that connect computers to the Internet. It's in wireless phones, answering machines, and voice-mail; it's in video games talking toys, DVD players and digital cameras. And DSP chips are at the heart of a growing number of systems that talk to you in synthesized speech and recognize your spoken responses.

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Ericsson's Vestberg says mobile broadband is all about change

February 29, 2012 — 3:20pm ET
By Tammy Parker

BARCELONA, Spain—Hans Vestberg, CEO and president of Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), highlighted multiple examples of our increasingly connected society in his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress, but it was one of his guest speakers, Per Sundin, head of Universal Music Group in Sweden, who wowed the audience with his directive to "Embrace Change!"

First though, Vestberg told the audience that there are almost 1 billion mobile broadband users worldwide, and with 60% annual growth, that number will expand to 5 billion by 2016. Further, by 2020 there will be 50 billion connected devices, many of which will communicate automatically on behalf of their human owners.

"Our society will be changed. Our lives will be changed," Vestberg said.

He noted one example of how mobile broadband has permeated people's lives is this statistic: 40 percent of all smartphone owners use their handset before they even get out of bed in the morning.

The ongoing challenge to infrastructure providers is to improve and upgrade networks that were built for voice but are increasingly "used for something totally different," said Vestberg. He noted a study of U.S. smartphone users revealed that 74% of their smartphone interactions involve non-voice actions.

One of the first industries impacted by information and communication technology (ICT) was the music industry, which is why Sundin was invited to the stage.

Sundin said 2000 was the year of peak revenue for the music industry (other sources say 1999 was), but then came Napster, Kazaa, Pirate Bay and other digital music-sharing sites, which caused revenues from the sale of recorded music to plummet, particularly in Sweden, where extremely fast broadband services were widely deployed.

Speaking of music industry efforts to shut down music-sharing sites, Sundin said, "Instead of embracing change, we fought change."

In 2008, Universal Music joined a handful of other companies that handed over their music catalogs to Spotify, which delivers to computers and mobile phones free digital music to a point, at which it requires a subscription fee. "We joined the evolution," Sundin said, noting Spotify's revenues have been climbing. As an early advocate for digital music over the Internet, "I've changed from bad boy to poster boy for the music industry," Sundin said.

"We're going from a transaction business to a subscription business," said Sundin, and going from dollars to nickels and dimes. Nonetheless, the business model works, he said.

Sundin showed a chart that revealed the height of Spotify activity in Sweden is on the weekends, when people are home listing to music. However, the situation is reversed in the United States, where activity is heightened during the week because Americans apparently have much faster broadband connections at work and school rather than at home. That sort of information highlights the impact that fast broadband has on people's daily actions, he said.

Vestberg returned to the stage to tout Ericsson's deal with Akamai for the Mobile Cloud Accelerator, which Telkomsel in Indonesia recently deployed, getting 70 percent improvement in page loading time on the network. The MCA accelerates content delivery across the Internet and prioritizes premium content across the mobile network.

Vestberg predicted a major business opportunity lies in enabling enterprises to use such tools to change their businesses. He said collaboration and investment in the mobile broadband industry should be encouraged, "so the 5 billion mobile broadband users in the future are actually going to get superior performance."

Source: Fierce Broadband Wireless

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LightSquared CEO resigns amid revelations of company’s proximity to Obama White House

Published: 1:43 PM 02/28/2012

photo LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday amid revelations of his company’s political proximity — and his own closeness — to the White House and Obama administration officials.

The Daily Caller first reported one week ago on emails and documents that indicate political ties and numerous meetings between LightSquared and Obama administration officials as the company was undergoing regulatory review.

Ahuja’s resignation comes after Obama’s FCC suspended conditional approval of a waiver LightSquared needed to complete its high-speed broadband network. Until two weeks ago, the company’s final approval appeared imminent.

Ahuja, who had never donated to Democrats before and has not since, gave the maximum allowable $30,400 contribution to the Democratic National Committee on the same day his lawyers were trying to arrange a meeting for him at the White House with top Obama technology adviser Aneesh Chopra and other officials.

In emails between Ahuja’s lawyers and White House officials Ahuja wanted to meet with, his lawyers pointed out that he would attend an Obama fundraiser on or about the same day he wanted the meeting.

In a statement accompanying the company’s announcement of Ahuja’s resignation, he made no mention of those revelations.

“During my tenure at LightSquared, we all worked tirelessly to create the nation’s first open wireless broadband network and provide consumers with a new wireless broadband experience,” Ahuja said. “That work continues and I wish the company and its fine management team well as they work to achieve this important goal.”

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FCC SEEKS NOMINATIONS BY MARCH 7, 2012 FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD FOR FIRST RESPONDER INTEROPERABILITY

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  • Four members must represent “wireless providers.” Of these four, two members must represent “national wireless providers,” one must represent “regional wireless providers,” and one must represent “rural wireless providers.”
  • Three members must represent “equipment manufacturers.”
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spacer All nominees are advised that the Commission adheres to the President’s policy as announced in his memorandum “Lobbyists on Agency Boards and Commissions,” which prohibits federally registered lobbyists from serving on federal agencies’ advisory boards and committees. 6 Registered lobbyists are thus ineligible to serve on the Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability.

spacer Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than March 7, 2012. An abbreviated nomination period is necessary in this instance to ensure that the Commission meets its statutory deadline of March 23, 2012, for appointing voting members to the Interoperability Board.

spacer Nominations meeting the statutory requirements of the Spectrum Act and of this Public Notice should be sent to Jennifer A. Manner, Deputy Bureau Chief, Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, via e-mail at jennifer.manner@fcc.gov or via U.S. mail at 445 12th Street, SW, Room 7-C738, Washington, DC 20554. Due to the extensive security screening of incoming mail, delivery of mail sent to the Commission may be delayed and we encourage submission by e-mail.

spacer FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer A. Manner, Deputy Chief, Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418-3619 (voice) or jennifer.manner@fcc.gov (email).

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1 Pub. L. No. 112-96 (2012).

2 Id. § 6203(c)(1)(A). The Interoperability Board is not subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act. See id. § 6203(e).

3 Id. § 6203(b)(1)(A). The Act was signed into law on February 22, 2012.

4 Id. § 6203(b)(1)(A)(v).

5 Id. § 6203(b)(1)(A)(i)-(iv).

6 75 Fed. Reg. 35955 (June 23, 2010) (Presidential Documents).

Source: FCC.gov

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Why Throttle “Unlimited” Data Plans: Save Bandwidth or Drive Conversions to Tiered Data?

Feb. 17, 2012

As the national news media has reported, three of the Big Four wireless carriers are engaging in Unlimited Data Plan throttling, ostensibly as an effort to free up network bandwidth. Going from lightest to harshest, T-Mobile is very transparently throttling over 5GB of data used, which corresponds to a very small portion of users. Verizon Wireless and AT&T, on the other hand, are utilizing active throttling techniques aimed at the top 5% (in terms of the amount of data used) of unlimited customers. Verizon Wireless will reduce speeds as minimally as possible, for as little time as possible based on geographic network load. AT&T will heavily throttle back for the remainder of a billing cycle based, similarly, on geographic network load.

The question remains, however, why throttling is necessary at all. In other words, are the carriers throttling because of wild and crazy unlimited users hogging enormous bandwidth or are the carriers throttling as essentially a tactic to get grandfathered unlimited users to hurry up and switch to tiered data plans?

As you can see from the graph below, extracted from a sample of over 55,000 2011 cell bills, this does not appear to be an issue of data hogging. When we look at the Top 5% of data users, there is virtually no difference in data consumption between those on unlimited and those on tiered plans — and yet the unlimited consumers are the ones at risk of getting their service turned off. So it’s curious that anyone would think the throttling here represents a serious effort at alleviating network bandwidth issues. After all, Sprint gets by fine maintaining non-throttled unlimited data to its customers.

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Source: VALIDAS blog

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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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STUDY SAYS “DATA THROTTLING” DOES NOT ADDRESS HEAVY USE PROBLEM: A study by Validas, which analyzes wireless bills, concludes that the process of “data throttling,” or limiting Internet transfer speeds for high-use customers, doesn't really address the heavy data usage problem, according to the New York Times. Large companies, such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless, practice data throttling for customers with unlimited data plans, which amounts to about 5% of their respective subscribers. Validas found that the top 5% of Verizon Wireless’ data customers on unlimited plans used nearly the same amount of data as those on tiered plans. And for AT&T, the top 5% of its customers on unlimited data plans used only slightly more data than those on limited plans, the Times reported. Thus, there is virtually no difference in data consumption between those on unlimited plans and those on tiered plans, the Times said. The Times said that Validas raises the question of whether the carriers are throttling data simply because they want unlimited data customers to switch to limited, tiered plans.

On the other hand, Reuters reports that consumers’ in-creasing use of services like Facebook and YouTube on their smartphones is leaving many telecom carriers bearing the costs of ever-growing demands on their networks. While the Web service providers increase their “benefits” to consumers, telcos are unable to proceed beyond a monthly bill and maybe a handset upgrade, according to Reuters. More than half of Facebook's users already access the social network from a mobile device, Facebook said in its recent filing for a long-awaited initial public offering — and that proportion is expected to keep growing, according to Reuters. Telcos complain that Google, Netflix, etc., are getting a free ride on the network. The telcos are investing heavily to deploy next-generation 4G networks (at a total cost of some $800 billion over the next five years, according to Reuters). Carriers are complaining that their capacity is being strained by new Web services. Much will depend on the reception of Windows 8, which will be previewed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, and is the first time Microsoft will have released a single software platform for both desktop and mobile, in a drive for wider adoption, Reuters said. It added that Nokia is expected to launch a range of Windows phones including a cheaper version of its Lumia smartphone to compete with offerings from new ambitious Chinese rivals including Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo. Reuters added that several unknown Indian and Chinese companies are now gunning to make truly mass-market smartphones that go for $100-150 wholesale to the operator, as opposed to $600 for an iPhone or $300-400 for an Android phone.

In a related matter, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver in California, successfully sued AT&T in Small Claims Court for throttling data on his iPhone, and won a judgment of $850, according to the New York Times. The Small Claims Court judge in Simi Valley found that AT&T had choked data on Spaccarelli’s iPhone even though his contract promised unlimited downloading. Spaccarelli sued AT&T in Small Claims Court for $10,000 and the judge gave him $850 — a figure reportedly based on $85 a month for 10 months of Spaccarelli’s contract. The judge’s ruling was from the bench, and so there is no written decision. Small Claims Court decisions are not precedential; thus, the ruling does not apply to anyone else filing a similar claim. AT&T says it will appeal. The issue will be discussed further at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, the Times reported in a separate article.

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LIGHTSQUARED CEO RESIGNS: LightSquared has announced that Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his position as chief executive officer. This resignation comes in the wake of the FCC’s decision to seek comment on a suspension of LightSquared’s waiver to operate both satellite and terrestrial facilities, due to interference concerns highlighted in a recent letter from NTIA. Ahuja will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Doug Smith, currently chief network officer, and Marc Montagner, currently chief financial officer, will be named as interim co-chief operating officers, while the company completes the search for the new CEO. In addition, Philip A. Falcone, CEO and CIO of Harbinger Capital Partners, has been appointed to the company's board of directors. The CEO search is expected to be completed in the near future.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 8 February 29, 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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TECH TIP OF THE WEEK

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How-To: Splice Wire to NASA Standards

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Developed during the heyday of the telegraph, the Lineman’s splice is designed for connections that will be under tension. It is commonly claimed that, properly made, a Lineman’s splice is stronger than the wires of which it is composed. In any case, it is a time-proven method, and, coolest of all, one of NASA’s Required Workmanship Standards. To wit, in a NASA-approved Lineman’s splice:

  1. The conductors shall be pre-tinned.
  2. There shall be at least 3 turns around each conductor and the wraps shall be tight with no gaps between adjacent turns.
  3. The wraps shall not overlap and the ends of the wrap shall be trimmed flush prior to soldering to prevent protruding ends.
  4. Conductors shall not overlap the insulation of the other wire.

Though the Lineman’s splice was originally used without solder, today soldering is common. And NASA insists on it:

  1. Solder shall wet all elements of the connection.
  2. The solder shall fillet between connection elements over the complete periphery of the connection.

This material comes from page 84 of NASA-STD 8739.4, which is a great reference if you’re interested in best practices for interconnecting cables and wires.

Reference: NSA-STD 8739.4 (PDF)

Source: Makezine.com

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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From: Ken Cowan
Subject: Glenayre cabinets
Date: February 29, 2012 11:14:18 AM CST
To: Brad Dye

Brad:  I have several indoor Glenayre paging cabinets,  with Motorola paging base station #T5539A transmitters, available.  I'd like to find someone who may need them.

If you know of anyone, please forward my e-mail or my contact phone # 513-608-0171.

Thank you,

Ken Cowan
WireNet, Inc
250 E Kemper Rd
Loveland, OH 45140
E-MAIL: ken.cowan@wirenet.cc
PHONE: (513) 774-7759
FAX: (513) 774-7795

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Editor's note:

My policy on helping to sell equipment has always been as follows.

If you have any wireless equipment that you would like to buy or sell, please let me know. I don't charge individuals for listing something for sale. If a sale is made through this newsletter, I ask the seller to send me a 10% commission, much the same as the voluntary payments that are requested on the Internet for shareware. There is no cost to the buyer.

There is a charge for companies wanting to put their products in the newsletter and on my web site. There is no obligation for payment of a commission for this kind of basic advertising. I would be very pleased, however, to get involved in the sales process as a manufacturer representative — for quality wireless products and reputable companies.

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From: Glenn Boal
Subject: From the Paging Information Web Site
Date: February 27, 2012 6:26:25 PM CST
To: Brad Dye

Hello Brad,

I'm trying to locate someone who has the software program used to decipher TSR Wireless pager passwords. I have recently acquired about 200 Advisor Elite and Advisor CP1250's all password protected. TSR went out of business like most paging companies a long time ago and left many in the reseller/repair business with this problem. Most pager passwords for the old carriers are common knowledge for people in the industry, but it's not so for TSR pagers. I had a guy in Arizona that was able to get the passwords for me, but he isn't able to get them anymore. I'm hoping that you might know someone in the paging industry that can bring these paperweights back to life.

Thanks,

Glenn Boal

goblue98@bellsouth.net

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From: Abe W. Silos
Subject: Re: CMA Wireless Messaging News for Abe Silos
Date: February 24, 2012 1:25:57 PM CST
To: Brad Dye

Hi Brad:

I am doing a research paper on the FCC and radio and economic impact. Please look over the outline below and let me know if you have any resource books or articles that you would recommend.

Thank you for the newsletter.

Topic: Economics and FM Broadcasting in America

I. The FCC Regulation of FM broadcasting in the U.S.
— as related to Government/Consumer
II. The FCC Economic Influence on FM broadcasting in the U.S.
— as combined II
III. The Economic impact of FM broadcasting in the U.S.
— as it relates to Government/Consumer
IV. The Online presence of FM broadcasting in the U.S.
— as it relates to Government/Consumer
V. The Economic future of FM broadcasting in the U.S.
— Expected Future of FM and FCC in current economic Climate knowing the historic inter-connectedness of FCC (government) and FM broadcasting (consumer) and overall economic impact.

Abe W. Silos
Sales Manager
WMUU 94.5 FM
www.wmuu.com
Unique Towers & Communications
e-mail: asilos@bju.edu
cell: 864-325-6989

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Editor's note: If anyone can help my friend Abe with any background information on his topics, it will be sincerely appreciated.

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UNTIL NEXT WEEK

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

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Karma

“I am the owner of my karma.
I inherit my karma.
I am born of my karma.
I am related to my karma.
I live supported by my karma.
Whatever karma I create, whether good or evil, that I shall inherit.”

The Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya V.57 — Upajjhatthana Sutta

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The Bible

Galatians 6:7-8
King James Version (KJV)

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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Whatever you believe, if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what you have been getting. Nothing changes, if nothing changes. Insanity is believing that the same behaviour is going to produce different results.

The courage to change.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be miserable — either way, it takes the same amount of work.

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