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FRIDAY — SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 523

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Greetings from Southern Illinois.

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The new Apple iPhone 5 was announced, as expected, on Wednesday of this week. You probably won't be surprised to learn that it is “Thinner, Lighter, Faster, and Taller.” It has smaller volume, but a larger screen, and much faster processor with lots of cool new features.

You can check your upgrade eligibility directly from Apple's website: Choose your carrier, enter in a few details, and find out how much it'll cost you to upgrade to the iPhone 5. (I have to wait until February when my cost will drop by $450—on Verizon.)

All the details follow below. There is a news article from Macworld and an official video featuring Jony Ive, the creative genius behind most of Apple's innovative products. If you click on the link to the Apple web site, you won't have to sit through the commercial on YouTube.

“Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE (born February 1967) is a British designer and the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. He is the lead designer and conceptual mind behind many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. ” [ source ]

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DEAN MERCER deceased at age 50

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Ron Mercer's son Dean Mercer passed away at his home on September 9th around noon in California. Dean would have been 51 next month. He had a long battle with colon/rectal cancer. Dean worked in various capacities in the Paging industry (Radio Relay, All City Paging, Metrocall, and others).

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Dean is in the center of the photo, his brother Darrin is on the far right, his father Ron on his left and the rest are his children.

Arrangements are being made for a memorial service. He will be cremated. Ron flew from New York to California and arrived at Dean's bedside less than 24 hours before he passed away. I am planning a full obituary in a future issue of the newsletter. I knew Dean and liked him very much. He and Ron had a very close father/son relationship. They both shared a love of baseball and hockey.

Dean was a regular reader of the newsletter. Dean's brother Darrin, who lives in Florida, was also with him when he passed away.

Ron has returned to New York but will go back to California for the memorial service. I sent some food to the home, since I believed that would be more helpful than flowers. If you would like to do something here is the address:

The Mercer Family
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Apple introduces the iPhone 5

by Lex Friedman
Macworld.com
Sep 12, 2012 12:50 pm

As was widely expected, Apple on Wednesday unveiled the iPhone 5, the newest entrant into its smartphone lineup. The iPhone 5 sports a taller screen, a new dock connector port, LTE support, and other refinements. Apple will start taking pre-orders on Friday, and the phone will start shipping on Sept. 21, and it starts at $199.

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Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, took the wraps off the new iPhone for press gathered at the company's San Francisco event, calling the device "the most beautiful product we've ever made, bar none." The iPhone 5 is made entirely of glass and aluminum, Schiller said, adding that the "exacting level of standards" exhibited by the phone is Apple's best hardware engineering to date.

It's the thinnest and lightest iPhone, at 7.6mm thin, and 112 grams. Schiller said those measurements make it the world's thinnest smartphone. The iPhone 5 is also volumetrically smaller than the iPhone 4S.

The Screen

iphone5 tall The iPhone 5 keeps the Retina display moniker, but it's taller than the screens on iPhones that preceded it. The display offers 326 pixels per inch, with a 4-inch screen and 1136 x 640 resolution.

There's now a fifth row of icons on the taller home screen, and all of Apple's native apps, along with the iWork and iLife suites, have been updated on the iPhone 5 to take advantage of the larger display.

The Calendar app in landscape shows five days instead of three on the iPhone 5, for example.

Apps that aren't updated don't stretch or scale, Schiller said. Rather, such apps will display letterboxed on the iPhone, with black borders surrounding the centered app.

Schiller showed off apps from CNN and OpenTable, each of which had been updated for the taller iPhone display, adding in new content. In OpenTable's case, Schiller said, the developers added some of the iPad app's interface element, since the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen afforded more space for such niceties.

The iPhone 5 offers 44 percent more color saturation than the iPhone 4S, Schiller said, and because the touch sensors are integrated right into the display, it's 30 percent thinner, with sharper imagery, and less glare in sunlight.

Ultrafast Wireless

iphone5 large New to the iPhone 5 is LTE, HSPA+, and DC-HSDPA support. That's on top of the GPRS, EDGE, EV-DO, and HSPA that the iPhone 4S offered. Schiller said that with LTE, the iPhone 5 can achieve a "theoretical maximum downlink of up to 100Mbps."

Schiller explained that the iPhone 5 uses one baseband chip for voice and data and a single radio chip. The new phone also improves upon the iPhone 4S's dynamic antenna, Schiller said, improving its ability to automatically switch to different networks as appropriate.

LTE partners for the iPhone 5 include Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon in the U.S, and Rogers, Fido, Bell, Telus, and more in Canada. Schiller said there are "plenty" of LTE partners in Asia, Australia, the UK, and Germany, with lots of DC-HSDPA support in Europe as well.

The iPhone 5 also gains better Wi-Fi, with support for 802.11 a/b/g/n. The 802.11n standard is 2.4GHz and dual channel 5GHz, up to 150 Mbps, Schiller said.

A6 Processor

The processor in the iPhone 5 is the brand new Apple A6, which is twice as fast at CPU and graphics processing compared to the A5 that drove the iPhone 4S, Schiller said. It's also 22 percent smaller than its predecessor, freeing up more space inside the iPhone, and making it more energy efficient to boot. Schiller said that everything—launching apps, viewing attachments, loading music—would be twice as fast as before.

Schiller invited EA to show off what the A6 chip meant for them; EA debuted Real Racing 3, which included real-time reflections, functional rear view mirrors, and "console quality" graphics, according to EA Studios's Rob Murray. (The game will hit the App Store later this year.)

The Battery

Schiller explained that Apple wanted "to match the battery life of the 4S in a thinner and lighter design" for the iPhone 5. The company ended up exceeding that battery life; the iPhone 5 will offer eight hours of 3G talk time and browsing and LTE browsing, ten hours of Wi-Fi browsing, ten hours of video, 40 hours of music, and 225 hours of standby time.

The Camera

The iPhone 5's camera sports an eight megapixel sensor, 3264 by 2448 pixel images. It's backside illuminated, with a hybrid IR filter, five-element lens, and a fast f/2.4 aperture. And the camera is 25 percent smaller than the iPhone 4S's camera. The camera also includes a dynamic low-light mode, which can sense low light and combine elements for two f-stops greater.

iphone camera The camera also includes, for the first time on an iPhone, a sapphire lens cover, which Schiller said would protect the lens and make images cleaner and sharper.

The A6 chip includes a new image signal processor, with spatial noise reduction and filtering to improve photographs. And the camera's now 40 percent faster, too.

Also new in the iPhone 5's camera arsenal is Panorama. You hold the iPhone vertically and sweep your scene; the app tells you at what speed to move. "Even if you're not perfectly stable," or if movement artifacts are introduced, Schiller said, the software can compensate in the final image.

Video performance is improved, too. The iPhone 5 offers 1080p HD video, improved video stabilization, face detection for up to ten faces, and can take photos while you're recording video. The front-facing camera is now a FaceTime HD 720p HD camera with backside illumination, a significant improvement over the iPhone 4S's VGA-quality front-facing camera.

Audio

The iPhone 5 includes three separate microphones, Schiller said: One on the front, one on the back, and one on the bottom. They improve noise cancellation and voice recognition.

The speaker gets improved, too. It now includes five magnets in its transducer, with better frequency response and better sound—while being 20 percent smaller than the speaker in the iPhone 4S. The earpiece is now noise-canceling, too, Schiller said.

With some carriers, the iPhone 5 will support wideband audio. In a typical cell phone call, the frequency of data in your voice is compressed around the midrange, Schiler said. But that doesn't sounded entirely natural. Wideband audio fills up more of the frequency spectrum to make your voice sound more normal. Schiller said 20 carriers will support the technology at launch, and didn't mention any U.S. carriers that would.

Lightning: The New Dock Connector port

connector Throw away your old dock connector cables. Or, at least, go pick up some adapters. The iPhone 5 abandons the familiar 30-pin dock connector port, which first appeared with the original iPod in 2003. In its place is a smaller port, which Apple calls Lightning.

The 8-signal Lightning connector is all-digital, with an adaptive interface and improved durability. It's reversible (meaning you can orient it either way, like a MagSafe adapter), and it's 80 percent smaller than the connector it replaces.

Schiller announced that Apple would offer a 30-pin-to-Lightning connector, but didn't mention pricing.

Nitty Gritty

The iPhone 5 will come in an all black model, and a white model with a bright silver aluminum finish.

The iPhone 5 will be available September 21 in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, with pre-orders starting on September 14. It costs $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB—the same pricing as the iPhone 4S that preceded it. The iPhone 4S drops to $99; and the iPhone 4 is now the free, entry-level iPhone. All those prices require two-year commitments.

The iPhone 5 will be available in 20 more countries a week later, and in 100 countries over 240 carrier partners by year's end, which Schiller called "the fastest phone rollout ever."

Updated at 1:54 p.m. ET and 2:03 p.m. ET with more details.

Source: Macworld

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Remembering Jake

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September 11th marked another anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Steven D. Jacoby was on American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport near Washington D.C. to Los Angeles. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants, and two pilots. It was crashed into the Pentagon about 9:45 AM ET on 9/11/01. Jacoby was en route from Washington, DC to participate in the Personal Communication Industry Association* (PCIA) conference and exhibition in Los Angeles, which was canceled because of the loss of life and destruction associated with the attacks on the Pentagon and the New York World Trade Center. “Jake” as we knew him, was the COO at Metrocall Paging for seven years. At Metrocall he was a respected leader and loved by all. Jake was also involved with numerous charities. He was only 43 years old. We’ll never forget you Jake.

* Former Paging trade association.

Source: Information for this piece was contributed by several friends and colleagues of Steven Jacoby. “A man is known by his friends” . . . and he had many.

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More Background Info:

American Airlines Flight 77 was a passenger flight which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. They deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., killing all 59 people on board plus the hijackers, as well as 125 people in the building. The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

Less than 35 minutes into the flight, the hijackers stormed the cockpit and forced the passengers, crew, and pilots to the rear of the aircraft. Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight. Unknown to the hijackers, passengers aboard were able to make telephone calls to loved ones and relay information on the hijacking.

The aircraft crashed into the western side of the Pentagon at 09:37 EDT. Dozens of people witnessed the crash and news sources began reporting on the incident within minutes. The impact severely damaged an area of the Pentagon and caused a large fire. At 10:10 AM, a portion of the Pentagon collapsed; firefighters spent days trying to fully extinguish the blaze. The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas on August 15, 2002.

The 184 victims of the attack are memorialized in the Pentagon Memorial adjacent to the Pentagon. The 1.93-acre (7,800 m2 ) park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 (age 71) to 1998 (age 3).

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iPhone 5 vs. the competition: It stacks up pretty well (chart)

By Daniel Ionescu
Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:51 AM

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The iPhone 5 might not be a big departure visually from the previous generation, but Apple is packing a punch with its new smartphone.

The iPhone 5 arrives September 21 and its immediate rival will be the Galaxy S III , which Samsung claims to have sold 20 million units of so far. But that's not all; Motorola and Nokia will also launch new flagship phones later in the year, the Lumia 920 and the Droid RAZR HD .

Here's an overview of how they all stack up:

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For the first time (since the original iPhone), Apple has increased the iPhone's display size from 3.5 to 4 inches, making the phone taller, but just as wide — visually, this means an extra row of icons on the home screen. Technically, the resolution went up to 1136 by 640 pixels, or 326 ppi pixel density, which is only bested by Nokia's Lumia 920 display, which has 332 ppi on a 4.5-inch screen. The Galaxy S III has the largest screen at 4.8 inches, but the lowest pixel density at 306 ppi.

Apple added 4G LTE wireless capabilities to the iPhone 5, but the phone is still lighter and thinner than its rivals. The iPhone 5 is the thinnest of the bunch at 0.3 inches thick; the Galaxy S III is a hair thicker at 0.34 inches thick; and the Lumia 920 is bulkier at 0.42 inches thick.

Eight megapixels seems to be the magic number this season for phone cameras. The iPhone 5 maintains the same number of megapixels as its predecessor, but with improved internals. The Galaxy S III and the Droid Razr HD also sport 8MP cameras. Nokia is bringing its new PureView camera technology , but until the phone ships, it will be hard to tel l which one takes the best photos, as each manufacturer boasts about custom improvements in the camera technology and software.

Apple didn't say what battery it packed inside the iPhone 5, or give any details about the processor beyond the fact that the new A6 dual-core chip is "twice as fast" as what's on the iPhone 4S. Apple doesn't usually say how much RAM it puts in, though later teardowns of the iPhone 5 should give us more info. It's safe to assume that the iPhone 5 has at least 1GB of RAM, like its competitors.

With the addition of 4G and a bigger display, the iPhone 5 has no major shortcomings compared to its rivals. The iPhone 5 doesn't have built-in NFC technology, but that's not a dealbreaker, since NFC adoption is still pretty low. The iPhone 5 also has no expandable storage, but that's never held the iPhone back. It seems as though the iPhone 5 would fail a spec-sheet tick test only if you're looking for a screen that's larger than 4 inches.

Source: TechHive

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When the biggest Moto stars aren't its new Razr phones

Before Motorola introduced its new Razr phones last week, cell phone pioneer Martin Cooper and an original Motorola Dynatac made a brief appearance.

by Kent German September 10, 2012 5:07 PM PDT

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Martin Cooper and his Motorola Dynatac.
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commentary At Motorola's "On Display" press event in New York City last week, most eyes centered on the company's new Razr phones. Yet, there were also a couple of tech celebrities in the audience, both of whom drew their own share of attention.

A man

One of those luminaries was a person, a former Motorola vice president and division manager named Martin Cooper. Seated in the front row, but not banging away on a laptop, you knew he wasn't part of the journalist and blogger throng. Instead, with his dark suit, conservative red tie, and French cuffs, he looked more like a Wall Street analyst about to write a report on Moto's earnings.

When introduced, he stood and waved to the audience, his broad smile beaming through a carefully cropped white mustache and beard. And in the biggest surprise of all, the bloggers actually stopped for a moment, looked up, and offered much more respect than they did for the band that had tried to engage them in a singalong a few minutes earlier.

He wasn't holding a new Razr M or Razr Maxx HD in his hand, but it was entirely appropriate that Moto brought its former employee to the Herald Square venue for the big show. For it was almost 40 years years ago, on April 2, 1973, that Cooper made the first public cell phone call from a spot just 18 blocks up Sixth Avenue. His audience at the time was small, but mobile history was undoubtedly made.
Though Cooper, now 83, wasn't the only person who played a role in making the cell phone as we know it, he was a prime force. His chief rival was Joel S. Engel, head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs and the recipient of Cooper's first call (I guess he wanted to rub in his win). Bell Labs developed technology to create the car phone, but Cooper thought of taking the mobile phone out of your car and putting it in your pocket.

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The Dynatac: Hello? It's 1983 calling.
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And a machine

The trouble was, of course, that the first commercially available cell phone wouldn't fit in your average purse, let alone a pocket. That would have been Dynatac 8000x, the first commercially available cell phone (so not a car phone). Not only did Cooper's team develop it, but also he used the prototype to make his first call.

Think of Gordon Gekko's phone and you'll get the basic idea. The "brick phone" weighed 2.5 pounds, and measured about 11 inches high, 1.5 inches wide, and 4 inches deep. It had a real antenna (those actually lasted a long time), a tiny display, and a simple power switch. The only controls where the numeric keys and the Talk and End controls.

After Motorola lobbied the Feds to allocate spectrum for private cellular use, the FCC approved the Dynatac in 1983. When it went on sale in 1984, the Dynatac cost $3,995, or about $9,189 in today's dollars. The monthly service fee was $50, so about what you might pay today for a basic plan, but voice calls cost 40 cents a minute at peak hours and 24 cents a minute at off-peak times. Talk time battery life was just 20 minutes, and, no, the Dynatac didn't do anything else.

That brings me to the other star of the event, an early Dynatac model. Cooper was happy to show it when I asked. In fact, I got the impression that it's his favorite party trick. Though it lacked the antenna and display of the commercial models, it clearly showed how far we've come from the Midtown street corner in 1973. The phone was beyond bulky, but it also reminded me that not matter how much you cram in a phone, in the end it's really about making calls.

Cooper shared almost the same sentiment as he was walking out the door. We talked for only a few minutes, but the phone reviewer in me had to ask what he thought of the day's events. "You can talk all you want about how these things are mobile computers. But the only thing that matters is the user experience," he said while shaking the Dynatac in his hand. "That should always be the goal."

Wise words, indeed.

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Ownership Changes May Require FCC Approval

We want to remind our clients that many types of reorganizations and other transactions require prior FCC approval; and given the frequent need to implement such transactions by the end of the year, companies engaging in such transactions should immediately determine whether they must file an application for FCC approval, and obtain a grant, before closing on a year-end deal. Transactions requiring prior FCC approval include ( but are not limited to ):

  • Any sale of a company that holds FCC licenses;
  • Any sale, transfer or lease of an FCC license;
  • A change in the form of organization from a corporation to an LLC, or vice versa, even though such changes are not regarded as a change in entity under state law.
  • Any transfer of stock that results in a shareholder attaining a 50% or greater ownership level, or a shareholder relinquishing a 50% or greater ownership level;
  • Any transfer of stock, partnership or LLC interests that would have a cumulative effect on 50% or more of the ownership.
  • The creation of a holding company or trust to hold the stock of an FCC license holder;
  • The distribution of stock to family members, if there are changes to the control levels discussed above;
  • The creation of new classes of stockholders that affect the control structure of an FCC license holder.
  • Certain minority ownership changes can require FCC approval (e.g., transfer of a minority stock interest, giving the recipient extraordinary voting rights or powers through officer or board position).

Fortunately, transactions involving many types of licenses can often be approved on an expedited basis. But this is not always the case, especially if microwave licenses are involved. Also, in some instances Section 214 authority is required, especially in the case of wireless and other telephony services.

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Genachowski Bows To Political Pressure on USF Contribution Mechanism

After media criticism that the FCC's universal service contribution reform proceeding would "tax" the Internet, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has stated that he will not consider including broadband connections in the contribution base of the Universal Service Fund (USF), even though the new Connect America Fund (CAF) will subsidize broadband networks.

The FCC's pending rulemaking seeks to revise the universal service contribution system by expanding the types of services that would pay into the program and by modifying how contributions are assessed. Among others things, the rulemaking asked whether broadband providers should contribute to USF and whether contributions should be assessed on revenues, the number of connections, phone numbers, or a hybrid system, rather than revenue from interstate phone calls.

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AT&T Seeks Sunset Of The PSTN

AT&T SEEKS SUNSET OF THE PSTN: In recent ex parte filings, AT&T argues that the FCC should sunset all TDM services by a date certain. According to AT&T, failure to establish a sunset date will lead to "foot dragging that will needlessly prolong the transition and deprive consumers and service providers of the efficiency and other benefits of transitioning to broadband." AT&T argues that after the sunset date, carriers would not be required to establish or maintain TDM-based services/networks, and purchasers of such services (including circuit-switched and dedicated transmission services) would have to switch to IP or other packet-based services. AT&T compares this request to the analog sunset for both CMRS services and broadcast TV.

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FAA SEEKS COMMENT ON ALLOWING USE OF CELLPHONES ON AIRPLANES: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has requested comment on its study on the impact of the use of cell phones for voice communications in scheduled passenger air transportation. The FAA was directed to conduct this study by the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, which requires the agency to report the results of its study to Congress by November 10. Currently, air carriers do not allow the use of cell phones on their airplanes in flight in U.S. airspace, because FCC regulations prohibit the use of certain classes of cell phones while airborne. The FAA supports this airborne restriction because of the potential for cell phone interference to aircraft systems and equipment. Nevertheless, the FAA study included:

(1) A review of foreign government and air carrier policies on the use of cell phones during flight;
(2) A review of the extent to which passengers use cell phones for voice communications during flight; and
(3) A summary of any impacts of cell phone use during flight on safety, the quality of the flight experience of passengers, and flight attendants.

The FAA seeks comment in the following general areas:

  • Information from aircraft operators that may not have been provided in the responses from the national aviation authorities;
  • Flight attendant and pilot experience with cell phone use on aircraft equipped with on-board cell phone base stations; and
  • Passenger experience on aircraft equipped with on-board cell phone base stations.

The agency also invites comments relating to the economic, environmental, energy, or federalism impacts that might result from changes in current policy. The most helpful comments should reference a specific area of concern, explain the reason for any recommended change, and include supporting data. Comments in this FR Doc. 2012-21826 proceeding are due November 5.

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FCC LAUNCHES "MEASURING MOBILE AMERICA" PROGRAM: The FCC has announced the launch of Measuring Mobile America, a nationwide mobile broad-band performance measurement program. The program will expand the FCC's broadband measurement program to test mobile performance data. The FCC said it will work with wireless carriers, the public interest and research community, and other stakeholders to deliver consumers detailed information about mobile broadband performance. On September 21, 2012, the FCC will hold an open meeting to discuss the new program. The FCC has received commitments to cooperate in this program from major industry players, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, and CTIA—the Wireless Association. With the launch of this open meeting, the FCC looks forward to the participation of other critical stakeholders, including the public research community.

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WHITE HOUSE CIRCULATES DRAFT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER ON CYBERSECURITY: The White House is circulating a draft of an executive order aimed at protecting the country from cyber-attacks, according to The Hill. It reported that the draft has been sent to "relevant federal agencies." Congress has been deadlocked on such legislation. The Hill noted that the draft executive order would establish a voluntary program where companies operating critical infrastructure would elect to meet cybersecurity best practices and standards crafted, in part, by the government. This is a concept included in Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-Conn.) proposed bill that was recently blocked by Senate Republicans, who saw it as a "backdoor to new regulations," according to The Hill. It said that the draft has undergone multiple revisions, and is only five pages. A new draft is supposed to be circulated next week.

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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.

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REPORT SAYS CYBERCRIME IS ON THE RISE: A Symantech security report notes that U.S. consumers lost $20.7 billion to cybercrime over the past 12 months, with 71 million Americans falling victim to online scams, according to CNET. The report also states that worldwide losses resulting from cybercrime including malware attacks and phishing hit $110 billion between July 2011 and the end of July 2012. On average, each victim experienced $197 in direct financial loss. In the United States, the average loss was $290, according to CNET. According to the report, an estimated 556 million adults across the world had first-hand experience of cybercrime over the period — more than the entire population of the European Union. The figure equates to nearly half of all adults online (46 percent), and is up from 45 percent a year ago. CNET said that there has been an increase in cybercrime that takes advantage of social networks and mobile technology, according to the report, with 21 percent of online adults reporting having fallen prey to social or mobile crime. The study also found that 15 percent of Web users have had their social-networking account infiltrated, and 1 in 10 have been victims of fake links or scams through a social network. Over 13,000 participants across 24 countries were interviewed for the Symatech report.

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MOBILE PHONE USERS TURN OFF CERTAIN APPS BECAUSE OF PRIVACY CONCERNS: The Washington Post reports that a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey reveals that approximately six in 10 mobile phone users do not download certain applications because of privacy concerns. And in many cases, they have uninstalled apps that collected too much personal information about them. The Post said users made those decisions when they learned how much personal information they would share by using the apps. The findings, in a survey of 2,254 adults, show that "many cell phone users take steps to manage, control or protect the personal data on their mobile devices," according to the report. According to the Post, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has complained that companies do a poor job of explaining their privacy policy in multi-page legal disclosures that are hard to read and filled with jargon that many ordinary consumers don't understand. The FTC has also praised recent voluntary efforts by companies, including Web browser providers, to offer consumers a Do Not Track choice to avoid having their personal information collected online. Consumers seem less concerned about their location being tracked, with only one in five cell phone owners saying they have turned off location tracking features, the Post said.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 32 September 12, 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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SPECTRUM SHARING BECOMING MORE PREVALENT IN U.S., EUROPE

Europe is making a push for increased spectrum sharing—a move that has attracted the attention of xG Technology.

Sarasota, Florida, September 13, 2012—In recent months, many U.S. government agencies and regulators—including the FCC—have endorsed spectrum sharing among companies in the wireless industry. Now, the same kinds of endorsements are being made throughout Europe. The European Commission is moving toward enabling spectrum sharing, and has even suggested that new regulatory approaches be taken not only with new spectrum holders, but even with current licensees. These developments have attracted the attention, and the affirmation, of xG Technology, an innovative wireless company best known for its cognitive xMax radio.

xG Technology has responded to the news from Europe with a statement to the press. "We are very encouraged to see that spectrum sharing is not just gaining endorsements from U.S. regulators and experts, but has now won the endorsement of the European Commission as well," says xG Technology's Director and CEO of MB Technology Holdings (the parent company of xG), George Schmitt. "As the Commission notes, 'sharing spectrum will lead to greater mobile network capacity,' which is in agreement with the same conclusion reached by the FCC and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recent report on spectrum sharing. However, the European Commission's vision is even more encompassing since all spectrum is included in the sharing proposal."

Schmitt continues with his support for the European Commission's decision. "xG Technology also supports the Commission's push for more unlicensed spectrum, which by definition is a shared spectrum resource," he says. "This, coupled with its recommendation that innovators be allowed to share mobile carriers licensed spectrum, demonstrates the forward-looking and insightful policy perspective needed to address the looming global spectrum crisis."

Continues Schmitt, "As one of the innovators the Commission is contemplating in its recommendation, xG Technology is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this initiative since our xMax cognitive radio technology was designed from the ground up to operate and thrive in shared spectrum bands. Using a combination of Dynamic Spectrum Access and advanced MIMO-based Interference Mitigation technology, xMax can deliver robust mobile broadband connectivity using crowded frequencies and noisy spectrum bands that would cause other radio systems to fail to operate."

Concluding his remarks, Schmitt says, "xG looks forward to these recommendations being rapidly adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, and the opportunity to demonstrate that xMax can deliver on the promise of significantly higher bandwidth from shared spectrum bands."

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xG Technology is one of the world's premier developers of innovative wireless communication technologies. The company's patented intellectual property portfolio includes a wide array of applications, including smart wireless networks that can help address the looming global spectrum shortage. xG Technology is the firm behind xMax, the first carrier-class cognitive ( i.e. smart) radio network. xMax's standards-based IP architecture reduces network deployment, management and operational expenses while also simplifying the delivery of fixed and mobile services. Based in the United States, xG has over 60 U.S. and more than 140 international patents and pending patent applications. For more information, please visit www.xgtechnology.com .

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xG receives $3.28 million order for xMax broadband network equipment and services

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SOLiD DAS Equipment Solution Selected by Transit Wireless to Deliver Wireless Coverage Throughout New York City Subway System

Published: September 13, 2012

SOLiD to enable cellular and other wireless services for passengers and transit employees at underground stations within the largest rapid transit rail system in the U.S.

ROSEBURG, ORE. — SOLiD has been selected by Transit Wireless to support a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) to provide wireless coverage and capacity throughout the New York City Subway System including underground stations, mezzanines and corridors. Once completed, the wireless network will enable the use of cellular phones, tablets, pagers or two-way radios anywhere within the system for passengers and transit employees as well as emergency and public safety personnel who also rely upon commercial wireless devices in addition to public-safety radios. The multi-year project includes 277 stations, 30 of which are scheduled to go live by the end of 2012.

The New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit rail system in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world. It is also one of the oldest. Combined, the scale and harsh, subterranean environment make the project uniquely challenging.

Proven in other high-traffic subway systems including the Seoul Metro, SOLiD wireless solutions are optimized for reliability and scalability as well as ease of deployment and cost efficiency. The DAS network is engineered to address both current and near-term future wireless requirements and technologies. Plus, SOLiD's research and development process is optimized for quick-turn productization to address any unique project needs. Lastly, the small footprint, rugged components and modular design enables simplified installation and maintenance.

"Transit Wireless is building one of the most expansive Distributed Antenna System (DAS) networks in the world," said Transit Wireless CEO, William A. Bayne, Jr. "SOLiD's extensive subway experience in Korea and ability to rapidly customize products and applications make the company ideally-suited to support our mission to enable state-of-the-art wireless coverage to all underground subway stations in New York City."

The wireless network will incorporate SOLiD's ALLIANCE "neutral-host" DAS which supports multiple wireless operators and wireless services using a single infrastructure. Sophisticated system management and monitoring software will ensure optimized and reliable connectivity for wireless users.

"We are grateful to be awarded the responsibility to enable wireless communication services for commuters, visitors, transit employees and public safety officers throughout a transit system as iconic as the New York City Subway," said Seth Buechley, President of SOLiD. "We look forward to leveraging SOLiD's innovative DAS and Optical Network portfolio to meet both current and future wireless needs of Transit Wireless and the New York City Transit Authority."

The initial 30 DAS rollout includes major stations such as Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle. Work is presently commencing.

About SOLiD

SOLiD is the U.S. operating arm of SOLiD, Inc., a publicly-traded global telecom manufacturer established in 1998 and headquartered in Korea. SOLiD enables reliable coverage and capacity for wireless and wireline telecommunications providers with innovative, patented and robust fiber technology solutions. SOLiD's distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions ensure dependable coverage within buildings, campuses and venues with support for commercial wireless, public safety radio, private 2-way radio, and paging using just one strand of fiber. SOLiD's fiber multiplexing solutions, based on patented INFINITY ™ tunable laser technology, increase existing fiber capacity more than 16x and reduce CAPEX and OPEX. With innovation as part of its DNA, SOLiD is applying its technology to solve not only today's challenges but leading the development of next-generation solutions. SOLiD's global customer reach includes major wireless operators, Tier-1 and facilities-based carriers as well as leading hospitals, world-class hotels and resorts, Fortune 500 corporate campuses, international airports, professional sports venues, metropolitan subways and other marquee customer sites. SOLiD is available on the GSA Schedule.

About Transit Wireless

Transit Wireless was formed specifically to respond to the Metropolitan Transit Authority's requirement to provide a shared wireless infrastructure to enable commercial wireless services for the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) riders within 277 underground subway stations, and related opportunities. Transit Wireless owns and operates the subway station wireless communications network and acts as a neutral host for extending a variety of wireless carrier services to New York City subway riders. Major wireless carriers have already signed on to be partners on the Transit Wireless Network. In addition there is interest for several applications from public/private wireless providers. Broadcast Australia, a leader in underground wireless networks, acquired a controlling interest in Transit Wireless in 2010.

Source: heraldonline

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From: Michael Mann mmann4tsr@yahoo.com
To: Brad Dye
Re: Creation vs faith...

I have never had a problem reconciling the two points of view. Evolution is right in front of us and is provable by science. Faith is provable through logic. This is my thought; At one point there was nothing, and then there was something. Whatever made that happen is what I refer to as God. I think of it in the same way as a parent raising a child. You do the best you can to prepare them for their future and then you let them go, I think that's what God/Allah/Jehovah/Vishnu/etc. did at the instant of the Big Bang.

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From: Brad Dye
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Re: Creation vs faith...

Thanks for your comments Michael. I know this was “off topic” but I can't fill a weekly newsletter with just wireless messaging and paging information. Sometimes I get more reader response from the off topic items — like my tomato garden — that one got a lot of responses.

Best regards,

Brad Dye

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