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FRIDAY — NOVEMBER 30, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 533

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I have recently received some notices that my e-mail address "brad@braddye.com" was reported as sending SPAM or unwanted messages.

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E-mail spoofing is a frustratingly-common phenomenon, against which very little can be done. E-mail technology allows anyone to easily modify the "From" address appearing on a message. Ill-intentioned individuals take advantage of this to set up automated systems that send messages messages commonly containing:

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  • fraudulent offers to participate in lucrative business deals;
  • attempts to obtain private information such as passwords or credit card numbers (this is called "phishing").

These messages appear to be sent from e-mail addresses which the perpetrators have either:

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  • assembled using programs that try thousands of different combinations of letters and numbers.

Please note that these messages are not sent through my e-mail system, so there's no way I can block them. It is generally easy to tell where the message "really" came from by examining the message's detailed header, though this may be misleading in cases where hackers have exploited another organization's poorly-secured e-mail server. The most common sign that someone has spoofed your address is that you receive a "delivery failure" notice for a message you didn't send.

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If you snapped up a Cyber Monday deal or two, congratulations: You helped to break online sales records.

Cyber Monday sales reached almost $2 billion, a 17 percent jump over last year, according to the Adobe Digital Index . The software maker tracks online traffic and sales for clients of its Digital Index division.

As expected, Cyber Monday beat Black Friday for online sales , with a 36 percent increase in revenues flowing into e-retail coffers. But Black Friday sales were no slouch—online tracker comScore reported that Black Friday e-revenue topped $1 billion for the first time this year.

Smartphone and tablet purchases accounted for 22 percent of all sales, a 100-percent increase over last year. Apple's iPad accounted for 7 percent of all online traffic on Monday.

And while mobile made up a larger share of sales this year compared to Cyber Monday 2011, more consumers bought deals from their smartphones and tablets on Black Friday than Monday, according to IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark . IBM also measured an even-larger Cyber Monday sales jump than Adobe—30 percent.

Biggest online shopping day ever
"Cyber Monday was not only the pinnacle of the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, but when the cash register closed, it officially became the biggest online shopping day ever," Jay Henderson, IBM Smarter Commerce's strategy director, said in a statement.

cyber monday Amazon reported Tuesday that Cyber Monday was the biggest day for Kindle sales in the product line's history. The online retailer offered a Cyber Monday deal on Kindle Fires, slashing the price from $159 to $129, which encouraged record-breaking sales.

Amazon didn't disclose exactly how many Kindles were sold, but did say sales of the device more than doubled from last year's Thanksgiving weekend.

Consumers were on the hunt for Cyber Monday tablet deals . Online shopping site PriceGrabber.com reported that some of the Kindle Fire's competitors ranked at the top of the Cyber Monday bestseller list. Dell's 32GB Latitude tablet, Samsung's 10-inch Galaxy Tab, Google's Nexus 7, and the iPad 2 were among the most popular products flying off virtual shelves yesterday.

If you somehow missed the buying blitz that took the U.S. by storm over the holiday weekend, you're in luck. Some retailers are extending their deals beyond Monday—Walmart is advertising Cyber Week discounts , and Amazon and Target also still offer Cyber Monday deals.

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Posted: Mon 6:59 PM, Nov 19, 2012A A Reporter: Hope Jensen Email
Updated: Mon 7:07 PM, Nov 19, 2012Back to News — Health

News 12 Special Assignment: Prayer pagers bringing hope to patients, families

News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, Nov. 19, 2012

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Every day people pray for their families, their friends and even people they don't know. Often times you can feel prayer, but it's not a tangible thing. You can't touch it, see it, hear it, but a local church has found a way for you to be able to do all those things. First Baptist Church of Augusta is using technology to show the power of prayer.

Three little beeps on a pager is all it takes to help make someone's day a little brighter.

"That thing vibrates, you just see them light up," said Len Collins with First Baptist Church of Augusta.

It's called a prayer pager. First Baptist Church of Augusta has a dozen of them and gives them out to those in need of prayer. Each time someone calls the pager number, it lets them know someone is praying for them.

"It's the most annoying thing that used to be around and we've taken it into a ministry," Collins said.

"Every time it beeps, it means somebody's praying for me," said Norma Strohmenger, who has had a prayer pager for almost six months.

"You really didn't know if anybody was praying for you after you left church," she explained. "This tells me yes."

She's basically confined to a bed or wheelchair and has been in and out of the hospital for months.

"I know that there are a lot of people at the church that will pray just because I'm in a wheelchair at the church, but this gives me proof that they're praying," she said.

Those prayers give her the strength to keep going.

"I've wanted to go on, pass on, because this pain is so bad, but every time I get a beep then it says, 'No, he's got something in mind for you'," she said.

For the person praying, sending that prayer is easy and takes less than minute. All you do is dial the pager number, make the call and then press the numbers 7-3-3, the number of letters in the words praying for you.

"We're doing what we're supposed to be doing as God's children and that's just being there by their side. It's our presence," Collins said.

Those simple beeps have helped families like the Hustons through the toughest times in their lives.

"You don't quite feel so isolated. You feel like you have this whole army behind you," said Jennifer Huston.

She and her husband, Steven, had a pager after the birth of their twins at just 25 weeks.

"It was four and a half months of roller coaster up and down," Mr. Huston said.

Bennett and Anna weighed around one pound each and had multiple surgeries.

"A lot of people wouldn't know how to respond to us," Mr. Huston said. "They'd say, 'I don't know what to do. I'm praying for you,' but that's a nice tangible way for them to be able to tell us that they are supporting us in prayer."

They kept a blog and gave out their pager number and soon prayers were coming from all over the world.

"At those times in our life when we needed the extra prayers, it seemed like they were automatically there," Mrs. Huston said. "You wouldn't have to ask for them, but the pager would just start buzzing, buzzing, buzzing."

That buzzing became even more crucial when Bennett lost his fight.

"It wasn't our own strength at all," Mrs. Huston said. "There's no way we had enough strength in our body to lose a child and go through all the struggles we went through and do it by ourselves."

Five years later, Anna is a beautiful, happy little girl that her parents truly believe is here as an answer to all the prayers.

"I have no question that everything that's happened is in God's plan," Mr. Huston said. "There's absolutely no doubt about that in my mind."

The church has 12 pagers and six are out right now. Collins says pagers are constantly coming in and out as situations change. They give the pager numbers out in church and also on the weekly bulletin sent to all the members.

Source: WRDW-TV AUGUSTA

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United States: SJ Of Noninfringement Of Global Paging System Patent Affirmed-In-Part And Reversed-In-Part

23 November 2012
Article by Ian Y. Liu

In Technology Patents LLC v. T-Mobile (UK) Ltd. , No. 11-1581 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 17, 2012), the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated and remanded-in-part the district court's SJ of noninfringement of U.S. Patent No. RE39,870 ("the '870 patent") by the software provider defendants. The Court also declined to reinstate Technology Patents LLC's ("TPL") claims against the domestic carrier and foreign carrier defendants.

TPL sued more than 100 domestic carriers, software providers, and foreign carriers for infringing the '870 patent, directed to a "global paging system utilizing a land-based packet-switched digital data network (e.g. the Internet) and a feature for permitting subscribers to remotely designate countries in which they are, or expect to be, located." Slip op. at 13. The district court dismissed the case against the foreign carriers for lack of personal jurisdiction and granted SJ of noninfringement by the domestic carriers and the software providers. TPL appealed.

"TPL's argument that the order need not be determined by the receiving user ignores a substantial amount of intrinsic evidence and the very purpose of the claimed invention." Slip op. at 21.

On appeal, the Federal Circuit first confirmed the district court's constructions of the three claim terms the Court deemed relevant to the SJ orders. First, the Court affirmed the district court's construction of "receiving user" to mean "a person or party." The Court disagreed with TPL's assertion that the term instead means "the combination of the person and the handset," stating that the text of the '870 patent makes clear that the term does not refer to a person-pager combination. Second, the Court affirmed the district court's construction of "initiates paging operations in another country in a predetermined order," disagreeing with TPL's argument that the ordered list need not be "created by the receiving user." "TPL's argument that the order need not be determined by the receiving user ignores a substantial amount of intrinsic evidence and the very purpose of the claimed invention," namely, allowing users to be paged only in countries that they selected. Id. at 21. Third, the Court affirmed the district court's construction of "designated" to mean that the receiving user designates a second country. Because the Court determined that the receiving user is a person, it held that the designation must be done by a person.

Regarding SJ, the Court held that the district court correctly found that TPL's theory of infringement failed with respect to three claim limitations: (1) the accused products do not enable a receiving user to designate a country, only to select a carrier; (2) the accused products do not enable the receiving user to create an ordered list; and (3) the accused products do not determine if the second country is currently designated by the receiving user. The Court thus affirmed SJ of noninfringement by the domestic carriers, and by the software providers as to claims containing one or more of the limitations.

The Court then turned to the claims asserted against the software providers that did not contain any of the three limitations. The Court disagreed with the district court's conclusion that these claims presented an issue of joint or divided infringement because they did not require performance by multiple actors. The Court thus vacated and remanded the SJ with respect to those claims, stating that "[o]n remand, the court should consider whether TPL has produced sufficient evidence to create a genuine dispute as to any material fact with respect to infringement of those claims." Id. at 36. "Moreover, unless the software providers are barred from raising the argument at the district court for some reason, the district court may also consider the software providers' argument that 'TPL has no evidence that Clickatell and Yahoo!'s users designate the country in which [the] receiving user [i.e., Cellular Customer] is to be paged,'" which was raised for the first time on appeal. Id. at 37 (alterations in original).

The Federal Circuit then held that it need not decide whether the district court was correct in dismissing the case against the foreign carriers for lack of personal jurisdiction, because its ruling sustaining the district court's decision in favor of the domestic carriers "doom[ed]" TPL's claim of infringement against the foreign carriers as well. Id. at 39.

Judges: Bryson (author), Prost, Reyna

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Last Month at the Federal Circuit - November 2012

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Editor's note: Slip Op. = A single judicial decision that is published as an individual paper following its issuance and in advance of its being incorporated into a volume of decisions. It is, unlike an unpublished opinion, ordinarily citable as precedent.

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Critical Response Systems Client Receives Award for Work on "Alarm Fatigue"

Critical Response Systems (CRS), a provider of leading-edge, mission-critical communication systems, announced today that one of its major hospital clients has received an award for work on "alarm fatigue" in hospitals.

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crs logo Critical Response Systems (CRS), a provider of leading-edge, mission-critical communication systems, announced today that one of its major hospital clients has received an award for work on "alarm fatigue" in hospitals. The award was presented by the ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of patient care.

Alarm fatigue is the result of the huge arsenal of patient monitors in hospitals that go off so often nurses become slower in their responses to the alarms. The frequency and variety of alarms demanding attention can be overwhelming, and it often becomes difficult to distinguish the urgency of an alarm, as all alarms tend to blend into the hospital's background noise. No hospital is completely immune to alarm fatigue problems that can hinder the quality of patient care and in some cases lead to fatalities.

Critical Response Systems' client uses the company's SPARKGAP™ System and the M1503 Pager . The SPARKGAP System provides a dedicated system for enterprise-wide critical alerting that works to reduce alarm fatigue by combining excellent performance with reliability, helping to ensure that all critical alert alarms are handled properly.

SPARKGAP is completely self-contained and does not rely on cellular towers, Internet coverage, external communication apps or email servers. Message recipients can reply instantly with just a touch of a button, confirming receipt and how they will react. Also, the SPARKGAP system is easily managed and administered from a central location. All system maintenance, address additions, encryption keys, pager settings, etc. are automatically programmed into pagers over the air.

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one2many Introduces LTE Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerts

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012 04:04 AM EST

one2many, the world's leading Cell Broadcast company, has today announced that it has successfully completed IOT for its LTE interface. The addition of SBc to its library of network interfaces enables mobile operators to extend Cell Broadcast services, like Emergency Alerts, to their next generation LTE networks.

Over 300 operators have committed to LTE, and the GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) expects to have 150 commercial LTE networks operating in 64 countries by end-2012. As LTE handsets become available in the market place, one2many's customers have requested LTE support on their multi RAN technology CBC platforms. Cell Broadcast, a one-to-many textual broadcast technology, is standardized and available on 2G, 3G and now LTE. In addition, CB is the only standardized wireless technology for Emergency Alerts.

Cell Broadcast is being introduced worldwide as a next generation wireless Emergency Alert service and will continue to play a crucial role in public safety, allowing governments to make vital public announcements to millions of citizens, within seconds, on a location-aware basis, without violating subscriber privacy or being affected by network congestion. Some of the Public Warning initiatives around the world are: EU-Alert, ETWS and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA — a part of CMAS) which was recently launched in the United States by the FCC and FEMA.

Maarten Mes, Managing Director of one2many, commented: "There is no better use of mobile technology than for Emergency Alerts. Our customers have requested and even demanded LTE support on our Cell Broadcast systems which are already in use on CDMA, GSM, 3G and WiFi networks. We are delighted to enable our customers to create a safer world for their subscribers."

one2many provides Cell Broadcast technology to telecoms operators across the world. Cell Broadcast technology delivers a non-intrusive, real-time service for the distribution of text-based messages to mobile handsets, specific to their current location. Cell Broadcast is capable of broadcasting one single message to reach all mobile handsets in an area as small as one radio cell and as big as an entire country. Sending a message to millions of handsets takes a matter of seconds, making the service ideal for applications such as public warning, location-based services and mobile social media.

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RIM sentiment improves — but still bearish

Broker upgrades for BlackBerry maker this month climb to five

November 29, 2012
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Wall Street's mood has notably improved toward Research In Motion Ltd. as five analysts have upgraded the stock over the last month, including a move by Goldman Sachs to a buy rating on Thursday.

The string of upgrades has helped U.S.-listed shares of RIM (US:RIMM) (CA:RIM) double from their low in late September, but the overall view of the investment community is still relatively bearish, as twice as many brokers rate the BlackBerry maker as a sell as those who currently carry a buy rating.

Also, RIM shares are now trading about 50% above the Street's median price target of $8. The stock jumped more than 7% above the $12 mark early Thursday following the Goldman upgrade, but later cooled — closing up 4% at $11.54.

The shares had hit an all-time low of $6.25 about two months ago, before the company gave a preview of its BlackBerry 10 operating system to developers — and reported that it managed to generate growth in its subscriber base for the August quarter.

"For the first time in 3 years, we think out-year Street estimates are too low," wrote Simona Jankowski of Goldman in her report upgrading RIM. She expects handset pricing to improve with the BlackBerry 10's launch early next year, as well as upside as the company fills depleted inventory channels with the new devices.

"We now assess a 30% chance of success for BB10 given positive early reviews, broad-based carrier support, attractive features, and interest by carriers and consumers in broadening the field beyond Android/iOS," she wrote.

This echoes a similar sentiment raised by other analysts in recent weeks. RIM's building BlackBerry 10 as a next-generation platform for its smartphones, which have suffered in the face of withering competition from Apple's (US:AAPL) iPhone and Android devices, mostly those made by Samsung (KR:005930). The platform and new handsets are expected to launch in the February-March time frame.

Even the brokers who have raised their views on RIM recently see the BlackBerry 10 as a long shot against strong competition. But the stock has been trading even below the company's estimated book value for months, leaving some to wonder whether it will still see upside even if the launch is unsuccessful. Read: RIM gets big bounce — and it's still cheap .

Earlier this week, analyst Steven Li of Raymond James wrote that he sees a valuation range of $7 to $17 for the shares, with the top end based on the notion that a positive launch of BB10 will help the company line up a sale or some other strategic deal. Read: RIM shares may have $17 top-end value

Jefferies & Co.'s Peter Misek upgraded RIM to a rating of hold last week, noting strong interest from carriers for BlackBerry 10, for which he's assigned a 20% to 30% "probability of success." He put his price target to $10 for the shares.

But most remain skeptical of RIM's chances in the brutally market. Ehud Gelblum of Morgan Stanley issued a note on Monday maintaining his underweight, or sell, rating on the shares, based on the view that BB10 "has a low chance of success." His price target is $7. Read: RIM's run finally gets clipped .

"Near term, we believe shares remain volatile as noise of strategic options and hype around BB10 continue," he wrote, pointing to a 53% gain for the stock over the last month.

Source: MarketWatch

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TDS Telecom Hit With $350,000 CPNI Payment To U.S. Treasury

BloostonLaw CPNI Manual Available to Clients

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau and TDS Telecom have entered into a consent decree that terminates the Bureau's investigation of TDS Telecom's compliance with Section 222(c)(1) of the Communications Act, which includes protections for the confidentiality of customer proprietary network information (CPNI). These Rules generally require customer approval before a carrier may use, disclose or permit access to CPNI. Last year, TDS Telecom "self-reported" failures in its CPNI opt-out mechanism to the FCC. This involved approximately 41,660 residential customers between January 7, 2008 and February 6, 2011, and thus the CPNI of 30,254 customers may have been used without authorization. As a result, TDS Telecom will make a $350,000 voluntary contribution to the U.S. Treasury.

The annual CPNI certification is due March 1. BloostonLaw is prepared to help our clients meet the requirements of this filing, which we expect will be strictly enforced (as noted with the TDS Telecom case). We are available to assist with the preparation of the filing, reviewing the filing to ensure that the required showings are made, filing the certification with the FCC, and obtaining a proof-of-filing copy for your records.

Note: If you file the CPNI Certification, you must also file the FCC Form 499-A "Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet" by April 1. And if you file a Form 499-A, the FCC will be looking for your CPNI Certification.

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FCC Won't Automatically OK Discontinuing Verizon's TDM And Frame Relay Services

The FCC has released a public notice advising Verizon that its applications to discontinue certain Time-division multiplexing (TDM) services will not be automatically granted on November 21. Verizon had filed two applications to discontinue certain domestic private line and frame relay telecommunications services in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (BloostonLaw Telecom Update, October 17). Verizon Select Services Inc. (VSSI), filed an application requesting authority to discontinue TDM-based interstate long distance private line services at DS-3 (44.736 Mbps) bandwidth and below (Private Line services). (WC Docket No. 12-298). These Private Line services are long distance point-to-point communications channels that offer voice, video and data services over non-switched, non-usage sensitive dedicated facilities. The Private Line services VSSI plans to discontinue include: Long Distance Private Line Service, Long Distance Private Line Service II, Direct Line Service, Digital Private Line Service II and Global Private Line Service.

MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business Services and Verizon Enterprise Solutions LLC (collectively Verizon Business), filed an application requesting authority to discontinue interstate frame relay service at speeds less than 200 kbps (Frame Relay service). (WC Docket No. 12-297). Verizon Business describes Frame Relay service as a public metropolitan and wide-area data service that utilizes packet switching technology and digital transmission facilities to provide a data delivery service primarily used by commercial customers.

The FCC states that normally the proposed discontinuances of service will be automatically granted "unless it is shown that customers or other end users would be unable to receive service or a reasonable substitute from another carrier, or that the public convenience and necessity would be otherwise adversely affected." However, "[w]here there is question as to whether a service has reasonable substitutes or whether the present or future public convenience and necessity will be adversely affected, the Commission will scrutinize the discontinuance application, consistent with its statutory obligations." The FCC concludes that the public interest will not be served by automatic grant of the VSSI and Verizon Business applications and, therefore, they will not be granted automatically.

The removal of the applications from the automatic grant process is not, however, a final determination on the merits of the discontinuance petitions. Accordingly, any parties who do not want these services to be discontinued should promptly file any information supporting their position with the FCC through the ex parte process.

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AT&T Wants To Discontinue Certain Services

AT&T Services Inc., seeks to discontinue Multi-service Optical Network (MON Ring) service, provided by its affiliates in the Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin service areas. (WC Docket No. 12-323). The affiliates involved are Illinois Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Illinois; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Indiana; Michigan Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Michigan; Nevada Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Nevada; The Ohio Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Ohio; Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California; The Southern New England Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Connecticut; Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Arkansas, AT&T Kansas, AT&T Missouri, AT&T Oklahoma and AT&T Texas; and Wisconsin Bell, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Wisconsin (AT&T Affiliates).

According to AT&T, "MON Ring service provides high volume optical transport utilizing multiplexing technology in a dedicated ring configuration." Further, "MON Ring service supplies dedicated capacity over a single pair of fibers in two directions that increases capacity without limiting customer-required data interfaces." AT&T seeks to discontinue this service such that it is not available for new customers effective December 1, due to low market demand. For existing customers, AT&T Affiliates will "no longer allow existing customers to renew term payment plans, enter into new term agreements, or add new MON Ring service nodes at new locations" and they will "no longer accept move, add or change orders of any type for existing MON Ring service effective December 1, 2016." The service will be discontinued entirely on September 30, 2017.

AT&T, on behalf of its affiliate BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Southeast also seeks to discontinue Wavelength Dedicated Ring Service (WDRS) in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. (WC Docket No. 12-322) According to AT&T, "WDRS provides high volume transparent and bit rate specific optical transport capabilities in a dedicated ring configuration." AT&T plans to discontinue the service because of low market demand. AT&T will no longer offer the service to new customers on or after December 1, subject to Commission authorization. For existing customers, effective December 1, AT&T "will no longer allow existing customers to renew term payment plans, enter into new term agreements, or add new WDRS nodes at new locations." AT&T will no longer accept move, add or change orders of any type for existing WDRS effective December 1, 2016. AT&T will discontinue the service entirely on September 30, 2017. AT&T claims that its Ultravailable Network Service is a substitute for WDRS.

In accordance with section 63.71(c) of the Commission's rules, the applications will be deemed to be granted automatically on December 10, 2012, unless the Commission notifies AT&T that the grant will not be automatically effective.

Comments objecting to the applications must be filed with the Commission on or before November 26, 2012.

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FCC Seeks Comment On LightSquared Request To Modify ATC Authorizations

Also Seeks L-Band Rule Changes

The FCC seeks comment on the request by LightSquared to modify the Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) authorization associated with its Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) L-Band licenses. LightSquared states that its proposed modification is intended to address concerns raised by the GPS industry and others and to allow LightSquared to proceed with deployment of its proposed broadband network.

LightSquared has a license for MSS operations specifying the 1525-1544 MHz and 1545-1559 MHz downlink bands and the 1626.5-1645.5 MHz and 1646.5-1660.5 MHz uplink bands. LightSquared also has a conditional authorization for ATC in the same frequency bands.

In its modification application, LightSquared proposes "permanently relinquishing" its "right to deploy terrestrial downlink operations at 1545-1555 MHz and permanently relocating those terrestrial operations instead to 1670-1680 MHz." LightSquared states that doing so will provide GPS receivers with an additional 10 MHz guardband from terrestrial services and will allow LightSquared to deploy its broadband network. LightSquared states that the 1670-1680 MHz band consists of "1670-1675 MHz, which LightSquared already has authority to use nationwide, and . . . 1675-1680 MHz, which LightSquared proposes to share with certain existing government users."

LightSquared's existing ATC authorization is for use of the 1526-1536 MHz downlink band. LightSquared contemporaneously filed a separate rulemaking petition to revise the rules for operations in this 10 MHz band. LightSquared states that it will voluntarily not deploy terrestrially in the 1526-1536 MHz band during the pendency of that rulemaking proceeding. LightSquared also indicates that it contemplates operating in the 1627.5-1637.5 MHz and 1646.7-1656.7 MHz uplink bands under the parameters of its current ATC authorization.

LightSquared argues that the proposed modifications to its ATC authorization will facilitate deployment of its terrestrial network while providing "GPS receivers an additional 10 MHz guardband from terrestrial services." LightSquared states that being able to deploy its mobile broadband network will provide substantial public interest benefits in the form of additional broadband capacity.

Petitions to deny or comments are due December 17. Responses or oppositions to comments are due January 4, 2013. Replies to such pleadings are due January 11, 2013. All filings should reference DA 12-1863, IB Docket No. 12-340, as well as the specific file numbers of the individual applications or other matters to which the filings pertain.

Separately, the FCC has requested comment on LightSquared's petition to develop operating parameters for terrestrial use of the 1526-1536 MHz portion of the L-Band that would be reflected in revised technical rules. Such rules would, for a transitional period, allow terrestrial use of the lower 10 megahertz of LightSquared's L-Band downlink spectrum at 1526-1536 MHz to ensure compatibility with GPS receivers. Comments in this RM-11683 proceeding are due 30 days after the FCC's November 16 Public Notice (that is, December 16).

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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison Proposes Alternative Cybersecurity Bill

With cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate, and President Obama considering issuing an executive order, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, last week spoke on the Senate floor regarding the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, S. 3414. Sen. Hutchison voted against efforts to end debate on the bill, expressing concern with the lack of debate as well as with the substance of the bill and detailed her cybersecurity bill, SECURE IT Act. Excerpts of her floor speech are set forth follow:

"This is unacceptable because though we have worked diligently with the sponsors of the cybersecurity bill on the floor, a number of ranking members of the relevant committees that have jurisdiction over cybersecurity have an alternative bill, the SECURE IT Act, that we would like to be able to put forward as an alternative or have an amendment process that would allow our approach to have a chance to prevail anyway.

"The SECURE IT Act offers the balanced approach that will significantly advance cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors.

"First, to facilitate sharing of cyber threat information between the private sector and government, allow the reporting to go to the defense agencies where the response can be direct, not filtered through Homeland Security.

"Secondly, it gives liability immunity for sharing among the industries that might be affected as well as the defensive actions that are taken. This is essential. Because you need antitrust immunity if you are going to share vital information on this issue so that you're not going to get sued for collaborating with a competitor. And it is in our country's interest and I think our private sector companies want the ability to secure all of our networks because we know that this is a real threat."

LAW & REGULATION

HOUSE PANEL SETS DEC. 12 HEARING ON BROADBAND SPECTRUM: Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced all five FCC commissioners will testify on "Keeping the New Broadband Spectrum Law on Track" on Wednesday, December 12. The subcommittee is continuing to exercise oversight over implementation of spectrum auctions, which will help meet soaring demand for wireless broadband services and fund a nationwide public safety network. The auctions were part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 and originated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee as Chairman Walden's Jumpstarting Opportunity with Broadband Spectrum (JOBS) Act. Chairman Walden stated, "Our subcommittee carefully crafted the legislation to create jobs by getting more spectrum into the pipeline to meet consumer demands for more mobile broadband, and to allocate a portion of auction proceeds toward build-out of a public safety broadband network, while ensuring broadcasters are treated fairly. I look forward to the testimony of all five FCC commissioners as we examine what the FCC can do to advance those goals, and what it should avoid."

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SENATE PANEL TO CONSIDER E-MAIL PRIVACY LAW: According to Wired and Gigalaw.com, recent intrusions by the FBI into e-mail correspondence between former CIA Director David Petraeus and his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, have raised questions and concerns about the government's ability to access private e-mails. The Senate Judiciary Committee has announced that it will be voting November 29 on whether to advance legislation that would require authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant to get access to all e-mail and other content stored in the cloud, just as a warrant is required to search a car or house.

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GROUP SAYS LTE NETWORKS ARE VULNERABLE TO JAMMING ATTACKS: The Wireless @ Virginia Tech research group has told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks. In comments on NTIA's proceeding on the "Development of the Nationwide Interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network," the research group said that if LTE technology is to be used for the air interface of the public safety network, "then we should consider the types of jamming attacks that could occur five or ten years from now. It is very possible for radio jamming to accompany a terrorist attack, for the purpose of preventing communications and increasing destruction. Likewise it is possible for criminal organizations to create mayhem among public safety personnel by jamming." In addition, the research group said, it is possible for a jammer to increase its effectiveness by employing a sophisticated strategy. This is especially likely when every technical aspect of the target signal is known. An example strategy would be to target specific control or synchronization signals, in order to increase the geographic range of the jammer and better avoid detection. The availability of low-cost and easy to use software-defined radios makes this threat even more realistic, the research group said. It added that its preliminary research has shown the extent to which LTE is vulnerable to jamming. It was shown that extremely effective attacks can be realized, using fairly low complexity. It would be in the interest of public safety to put forth an effort to find solutions to the described problem, and ultimately improve the wireless interface of Public Safety LTE, the research group said. For example, a laptop combined with an inexpensive, battery-operated software-defined radio unit—which might sell for as little as $650—could swiftly knock offline an LTE macrocell serving thousands of people. Further, LTE is particularly susceptible to jamming because its signal relies upon control instructions that make up less than 1 percent of the overall signal, and some of those instructions govern the essential time synchronization and frequency synchronization functions upon which LTE relies.

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BASIC SERVICE TIER ENCRYPTION RULES EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 10: The FCC's rules allowing cable operators to encrypt the basic service tier in all-digital cable systems if they comply with certain consumer-protection measures become effective on December 10, 2012. The FCC adopted the revised rules in its Report and Order in Basic Service Tier Encryption; Compatibility Between Cable Systems and Consumer Electronics Equipment (MB Docket No. 11-169; PP Docket No. 00-67).

DEADLINES

FEBRUARY 1: FCC FORM 502, NUMBER UTILIZATION AND FORECAST REPORT. Any wireless or wireline carrier (including paging companies) that have received number blocks—including 100, 1,000, or 10,000 number blocks—from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), a Pooling Administrator, or from another carrier, must file Form 502 by February 1. Carriers porting numbers for the purpose of transferring an established customer's service to another service provider must also report, but the carrier receiving numbers through porting does not. Resold services should also be treated like ported numbers, meaning the carrier transferring the resold service to another carrier is required to report those numbers but the carrier receiving such numbers should not report them. Reporting carriers are required to include their FCC Registration Number (FRN). Reporting carriers file utilization and forecast reports semiannually on or before February 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending December 31, and on or before August 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending June 30.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 42 November 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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FCC Sets Nov. 30 Open Meeting Agenda, Dec. 12 Tentative Agenda

The FCC will consider the following item at its Nov. 30 open meeting:

  • Expanding Nationwide Low Power Radio Opportunities Fifth Order on Reconsideration and Sixth Report and Order.

The FCC has tentatively scheduled the following items for its Dec 12 open meeting:

  • Enabling Spectrum Sharing and Small Cell Wireless Broadband Services in the 3.5 GHz Band: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to broaden its initiatives in unleashing broadband spectrum, promoting technological innovation, and encouraging investment via the creation of a shared access broadband service in the 3550-3650 MHz band for small cell use.
  • Facilitating the Deployment of Text-to-911 and Other Next Generation 911 Initiatives: The Commission will consider a Report, Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on developing the capability for Americans to contact 911 emergency services via text messaging. This would be a first step toward additional next generation services offering wider access to 911 responders.
  • Reforming Rural Health Care Support: The Commission will consider a Report and Order on reforming the FCC's universal service support programs for healthcare that would expand healthcare providers' access to broadband, especially in rural areas, while increasing overall efficiency and accountability in the programs.

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FCC Sets Comment Dates For Incentive Auction Of TV Band Spectrum

The FCC has set comment dates for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at repurposing broadcast television spectrum for mobile broadband use through the use of incentive auctions, as contemplated by Congress. Comments in this GN Docket No. 12-268 proceeding are due December 21, and replies are due February 19.

The proposed incentive auction will significantly increase the amount of spectrum available to existing commercial wireless service providers, and could result in new competitors entering the market, increasing the choice of service providers.

The idea of using incentive auctions was originally discussed in the National Broadband Plan as a market-based mechanism to reallocate spectrum for next-generation uses by offering broadcast television licensees financial incentives to relinquish all or part of their licensed spectrum. A portion of the proceeds from a subsequent auction of this spectrum would be used to compensate participating broadcasters, and the remainder would be deposited in the Public Safety Trust Fund (PSTF) to fund a national first responder network, state and local public safety grants, public safety research, and national deficit reduction. The Commission voted to approve the Incentive Auction NPRM (formally called "Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions"), and it seeks comment from the public and interested stakeholders.

Congress anticipated that the broadcast incentive auction would have three major elements: First, a "reverse auction" in which TV broadcast licensees would submit bids to voluntarily relinquish their spectrum rights in exchange for a share of later auction proceeds; second, a "repacking" of the remaining broadcasters into a smaller band segment, freeing up a contiguous portion of the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band for other uses; and third, a "forward auction" of initial licenses for flexible use of the newly available UHF spectrum.

The reverse auction proposal brings up three broad issues:

(1) bid submission,
(2) determination of which bids are accepted, and
(3) determination of payment amounts to winners.

The FCC seeks comment on all of these issues, for example, whether to collect sealed bids or use a multiple round bid collection format such as a descending clock auction.

Repacking involves reorganizing the broadcast television bands so that the television stations that remain on the air after the incentive auction occupy a smaller portion of the UHF band, subject to interference and other constraints imposed by the Spectrum Act and treaties with Canada and Mexico.

The forward auction will resemble competitive bidding procedures that the Commission has utilized in the past, but with some important differences. In particular, the FCC will not know in advance the amount of spectrum it can make available in the forward auction, or the specific frequencies in any given geographic location, until the reverse auction and repacking are completed. Accordingly, instead of a single band plan with identified frequencies, a set number of spectrum blocks and a uniform set of geographic area licenses, the auction design must provide a framework that is flexible enough to accommodate varying amounts of newly available spectrum in different locations.

LAW & REGULATION

FCC SEEKS COMMENT ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO FCC FORMS 499-A, 499-Q: The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has requested comment on its proposed changes to FCC Forms 499-A and 499-Q and the accompanying instructions, which, among other things, reflect the changes adopted in the Universal Service Fund/Intercarrier Compensation (USF/ICC) Order. (WC Docket No. 06-122). The proposed changes will affect the forms to be used in 2013 to report 2012 revenues and to report projected collected revenues on a quarterly basis in 2013. The proposed changes include information in connection with mergers, holding companies and affiliates. The proposed changes also include information in connection with the reporting of subscriber line charges and exchange access service revenues; special access; carrier's carrier revenues; and the access recovery charge. Comments on the proposed changes will be due 30 days after publication of the Public Notice in the Federal Register.

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FCC SETS COMMENT DATES FOR PROPOSED CHANGES TO RULES GOVERNING FOREIGN CARRIERS: The FCC has set a comment cycle for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to make changes to the criteria under which it considers applications and notifications from foreign carriers or affiliates of foreign carriers for entry into the U.S. market for international telecommunications services and facilities under Section 214 of Communications Act and Section 2 of the Cable Landing License Act (BloostonLaw Telecom Update, October 17). The Commission seeks to eliminate outdated or unnecessary rules, simplify rules that it may retain, reduce regulatory costs and burdens imposed on applicants, and improve transparency with respect to filing requirements of the Effective Competitive Opportunities (ECO) Test. It also seeks to promote competition to achieve greater decisional flexibility in evaluating applications and notifications, and continue to protect important interests related to national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, and trade policy. Comments in this IB Docket No. 12-299 proceeding are due December 26, and replies are due January 15.

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FCC GRANTS DISCONTINUANCE OF VERIZON PRIVATE LINE, FRAME RELAY SERVICES: On November 20, 2012, the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) released a public notice granting Verizon's applications to discontinue certain private line and frame relay services. The WCB had earlier decided that the discontinuance applications would not be automatically granted on November 21, 2012. (WC Docket No. 12-298 and WC Docket No. 12-297). Pursuant to the WCB's Public Notice, Verizon may discontinue interstate long distance private line services at DS-3 (44.736 Mbps) bandwidth and below and interstate frame relay service at speeds less than 200 kbps in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (See, BloostonLaw Telecom Update, October 17, 2012) According to the WCB, there is no basis in the record to conclude that grant of the applications "would result in an unreasonable degree of customer hardship." The WCB also concludes that grant of the applications will not adversely affect the public convenience and necessity. The WCB reached these conclusions after considering additional information provided by Verizon concerning the alternative services that will remain available to customers from Verizon and other providers and detailing the decline in revenues experienced by Verizon in connection with its retail Frame Relay and Private Line services. The WCB also noted that the Commission received no comments in opposition to Verizon's proposed discontinuances.

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TECHNOLOGICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON PSTN: The FCC's Technological Advisory Council (TAC) will meet on December 10, 2012 to make its final recommendations to the FCC on the transition of the legacy public switched telephone network. TAC also will make recommendations on wireless security, Machine to Machine evolution, multi-band devices, and receivers and spectrum and present suggestions for future work. The FCC describes TAC as "a group of leading technology experts," that "provides technical expertise to the Commission to identify important areas of innovation and develop informed technology policies supporting the United States' competitiveness in the global economy."

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SUPERSTORM SANDY: The FCC has announced plans to convene a series of field hearings in the coming months to examine new challenges to the nation's communications networks in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and help inform recommendations and action to improve network resiliency. The field hearings will focus on the unique challenges faced by communications service providers, state and local officials, emergency personnel, and consumers before, during and after Superstorm Sandy as well as other natural disasters. Beginning in early 2013, hearings will take place throughout the country in locations that have experienced major natural disasters, starting in New York. They will include businesses, public safety officials, engineering and academic experts, consumers and other stakeholders. The field hearings will inquire about a number of topics, based on the Commission's current assessment of the U.S. communications infrastructure post-Superstorm Sandy.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 43 November 28, 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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  • 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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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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Hark Technologies

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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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  • Frequency agile—only one receiver to stock
  • USB or RS-232 interface
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  • End-user programmable w/o requiring special hardware
  • 16 capcodes
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  • Eight contact closure version also available
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PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Report anticipates 326 million machine-to-machine connections worldwide by 2016

A new report by IMS Research forecasts that the number of mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) connections worldwide will treble in five years, from around 107 million connections in 2011 to 326 million connections by 2016. It says this growth is being driven by a number of factors, including government regulation, a desire for increased efficiency, declining costs and the availability of services that make it easier to develop M2M applications.

In addition, M2M is being seen as a growth opportunity by mobile network operators; not just from the connections and data traffic but by offering value-added services and partnering with application service providers.

Sam Lucero, senior principal analyst at IMS Research, said "Mobile operators are not simply providing managed connectivity services to the cellular M2M market but increasingly are 'connecting the dots' among M2M ecosystem players, including suppliers and developers - and this benefits the market as a whole. Examples of this proactive role by mobile operators range from establishing module supply programs to developing partnerships with platform vendors and solution suppliers to reduce overall complexity in the value chain."

IMS Research estimates that around 10% - 30% of the overall value generated by M2M services comes from managed connectivity, which is leading mobile operators to to increase their share of M2M revenue.

Source: thefonecast.com

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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From:Frank Dijker
Subject:Feedback from your article
Date:November 18, 2012 11:02:41 AM CST
To:Brad Dye

Brad,

I am still a proponent of paging but it just is not sexy talking about it.

Funny I had a conversation about alpha paging with an old paging guy and we got to talking about twitter and Facebook and all of the new IM media out there today. He nailed it spot on that these people are communicating in 160 character messages, something that paging did all those years back . . . and we thought we had the market cornered, and the market priced it that way. They charged a premium for alpha paging even when higher speeds were possible. It was quite a ride for most of them. Then PageNet and PageMart got into the act and then it was about market share. Alpha paging was sold as a personal communications tool.

Then came SMS, the first real affordable personal communications tool. It was the lost leader for the cellular companies to get a mobile phone into the public's hands and start squeezing airtime revenue from the unsuspecting public. In Canada it started with the Realtors, the early adopters of alpha paging. Why would they pay $ 45.00 per month for a pager when they could get messages on a device they could make and receive voice calls for $ 5.00 per month? Sadly in Canada the big players in cellular also had coast to coast paging . . . controlled by themselves. They were run by the wireless division so it was in their interest to convert traditional paging customers into new cellular customers.

Meanwhile paging companies were fighting amongst themselves as well as with cell companies. Lowering prices and trying to compete with each other. This divide and conquer strategy worked and more and more paging companies started closing their doors. It did not help that the big paging companies reaped record profits and invested none of it back into the business. Some of the paging companies saw the light and started building out some additional 900 Meg systems and could not fill them.

I know we tried to start a shared infrastructure system in Alberta but it met with a very big distrust and everyone went their own separate ways trying to milk the messaging industry for all it was worth.

Multipath developed a TNPP linked re-paging system where users could still retain their paging numbers and still get personal text messages on any device they were carrying and had some marketing success, but true to form most bigger paging companies did not understand the business.

I am in the messaging business. Paging is just one way to get the message out but not the only way.

Paging strengths are it is the most spectral efficient way of getting a message out. We all share 1 paging frequency and selectively activate when our particular code is received.

Its biggest strength is its common capcode paging. Where one message can cause tens of thousands of messages to be received at the same time.

I equate paging in the text world to commercial radio broadcasts in the voice world or using a browser in the Internet world. Commercial radio is not going away because they supply content to everyone and you decide whether or not you want to tune in . . . but you have to remember to tune in. A pager has the ability to have information spigots turned on or off at will and it will notify you of when something happens so you do not have to remember to tune in. It is a very cheap device to manufacture and is should be cheap to run.

The paging industry never grew up. They do not have to own the entire infrastructure but rather rent time on someone else's network that they can be a share participant in or not. They were all like little kids trying to play in their own sandbox.

We should all get together and adopt an ERMES type paging system and each operator could take care of their own part of the network or be a partial owner. Europe had it correct I think.

ITMS — It's The Message Stupid. Paging was in the messaging business not the paging business. We want to make sure that subscribers get the message. We have been creating software and hardware solutions that can deliver text messages to IM, Pagers, SMS, Email as well as faxes and can insist that people check to verify the successful receipt of the message regardless of what device they choose to use. Doing things like roll calling on SMS is a great thing.

Cellular companies are a network. They deliver text messages because they have to as it serves a need that was satisfied by paging companies all those years ago.

Paging got greedy and sadly I do not see it changing, despite all of my best efforts. There is a need for a nationwide personal communications system. Paging would fill that role as we need messaging expertise to control and coordinate the flow of information.

Frank Dijker
frank@dijker.com

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LEADERSHIP 11/28/2012 @ 1:25PM

Zig Ziglar: 10 Quotes That Can Change Your Life

ziglar Zig Ziglar died today at age 86. A World War II veteran, Zig Ziglar became the top sales person in several organizations before striking out on his own as a motivational speaker and trainer. With a Southern charm and lessons grounded in Christianity, Ziglar wrote over two dozen books and amassed a following of millions who were encouraged by his lessons for success.

Below are 10 quotes from Zig Ziglar that have the power to completely change the direction of one's life.

10) "Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

9) "You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want."

8 ) "People often say motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily."

7) "There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic."

6) "People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

5) "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

4) "If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

3) "A goal properly set is halfway reached."

2) "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

1) "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

Source: Forbes.com

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