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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY IS SO MUCH FUN

This issue is coming out a day early. I have to go to St. Louis on Friday for a follow-up appointment at my doctor's office.

Did I tell you what “PT” stands for? I don't remember. Anyway, they told me it stands for “Physical Therapy” but that's not true. It really stands for “Pain and Torture.”

I asked the PT department head at the hospital how he was able to find so many pretty women therapists who are mean as witches. He seemed to think that it was a good thing.

My therapist is particularly good — she claims she has never been in the U.S. Marine Corps — but I am not so sure.

OK, I admit that I am a chicken when it comes to pain.

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Skype Users Spend 2 Billion Minutes a Day Connecting

Samantha Murphy
April 3, 2013

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Skype announced Wednesday users are spending more than two billion minutes a day connecting with one another via the video-chat platform — enough time to watch 16 million movies or travel to the moon and back 225,000 times.

Not only is this is a big milestone for Skype in particular, it also highlights just how much people have embraced communicating via a voice over IP (VoIP) service.

"Skype has been growing in its number of minutes at double digit rate for a steady time," Elisa Steele, corporate VP of marketing at Skype, told Mashable. "The number of mobile users continues to grow at a very strong rate too, not just from the desktop but other devices, as well."

The news comes more than a month after the company announced Skype is joining forces with Windows Live Messenger. The upgrade on Windows desktop, before rolling out to other platforms, will start on April 8.

"We know more users will come over from Messenger, and since the Skype experience provides multiple ways to communicate — not just via IM — we think we will come to try it out and then discover we have a lot of other features," Steele said. "That's what a lot of our users have done over the years."

In addition to video chat and instant messaging, Skype offers voice calling from desktops and mobile devices, as well as file sharing.

"Two billion minutes a day is a lot, but we're on track to see this adoption grow even more in the future," she added.

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April 03, 2013

Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Sue Apple over iMessage

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Mobile Telecommunications Technologies (MTEL), the company behind SkyTel, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple claiming that they've allegedly infringed upon seven of their patents. The patent infringement lawsuit concerns Apple's iMessage, Airport Express, Airport Extreme, Time Capsule and devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Background of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies (MTEL)

A pioneer in wireless communications, Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Corp. offers paging and messaging services to U.S. and international customers. Known to pager customers in the United States through its SkyTel subsidiary, Mobile Telecommunications (MTel) served customers in more than 19 countries during the mid-1990s through its SkyTel system, which transmitted messages to more than one million pagers in North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. During the first half of the 1990s, the company recorded robust financial growth, more than doubling its annual revenue volume, and increasing the number of paging units in service nearly tenfold. On September 19, 1995, Mtel made wireless communications history by launching the world's first two-way narrowband wireless messaging service dubbed "SkyTel 2-Way," enabling customers to respond to messages from their two-way messaging units.

Infringement of US Patent 5,809,428

According to the formal complaint, Apple has directly infringed and will continue to directly infringe claims of the 5,809,428 Patent by making, using, selling, offering for sell, and/or importing in the United States mobile devices using iOS and networks that provide Apple's iMessage communication service and other messaging services, including MMS text messaging services, XMPP-based messaging services and email services such as Google Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL, Microsoft Exchange, Hotmail and Apple's iCloud and other email and messaging solutions and apps provided by or through Apple or its App Store (collectively "Messaging Services"). The networks include one or more Messaging Service network operations centers provided by or through Apple.

Apple directly infringes and will continue to directly infringe claims of the '428 Patent by making, using, selling, offering for sell, and/or importing in the United States wireless mobile units compatible with Messaging Services that embody at one or more claim of the '428 Patent and/or practice the methods of the '428 Patent. Infringing mobile units with compatible Messaging Services include without limitation Apple-branded mobile phones, tablets and computers (e.g., all versions of Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch).

Infringement of Patents 5,590,403, 5,659,891 and 5,915,210

According to the formal complaint, Apple has directly infringed and will continue to directly infringe by making, using, selling, offering for sell, and/or importing in the United States devices, namely the Apple AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and Time Capsule (collectively "Dual Transmission Devices"), that embody the claims or practice the methods of the 5,590,403 Patent, the '891 Patent and the 5,915,210 Patent. Apple's accused products implement and use the Wi-Fi standard IEEE802.11n. Apple has infringed and will continue to infringe the '403 Patent, the 5,659,891Patent and the '210 Patent because of the "simultaneous dual-band 802.11n" feature advertised as part of the accused Dual Transmission Devices, among others.

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Other patents listed in MTEL's complaint before the court includes US patents 5,754,946 , 5,894,506 and 5,786,748 .

The patent infringement case presented in today's report was filed in the Texas Eastern District Court, Marshall Office, Harrison County. At present, no Judge has been assigned to the case.

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Nidhi Subbaraman, NBC News
April 4, 2013

Can you hear me now? Cellphone turns 40

Forty years ago, Martin Cooper, a VP at Motorola, made history by placing the very first cellphone call. Appropriately enough, he called his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs.

Thirty-three years later, a slightly more theatrical Steve Jobs dialed a Starbucks cafe in San Francisco to order 4,000 lattes, making the first public phone call from the very first iPhone while a hushed auditorium filled with journalists watched.

In between those prank calls, the cellphone morphed from a chunky plastic giant to a slender glass slab that doubles up as a computer and camera.

SLIDESHOW: See the cellphone's evolution over the years .

The granddaddy of all cellphones was the DynaTac 8000X — the phone Motorola's Cooper used to rib his rival. It went on sale in 1984 and cost almost $4,000. The DynaTak, short for Dynamic Total Area Coverage," had an LED display and took 10 hours to charge. You can still buy one on eBay.

The first flip phone was also Motorola's, called the MicroTac. When the company announced it in 1989, the AP described it as "about as thick as a fat wallet at the earpiece while tapering down to half the thickness of a deck of cards at the mouthpiece."

That famously annoying Nokia ringtone? The Nokia 2110 was the first to trill a digitized version of the Grand Vals tune, originally composed for a guitar in 1902.

Motorola's StarTac was the first clamshell phone and quickly became popular following it's 1996 launch. It was also the earliest camera phone, though it wasn't sold that way. Philippe Kahn hacked his StarTac, rigged it up to a Casio digital camera and his computer. When his daughter was born on June 11, 1997, he snapped a photo in the maternity ward, uploaded it to a website and emailed his friends the link.

The first commercial camera phones weren't sold until 2000, by J-phone (now SoftBank) in Japan. In the US, around 2002, Sony Ericsson's T68i with its clip-on camera and the Sanyo 5300 were among the earliest photo phones to go on sale.

Somewhere along the line, personal phones hit a weird patch. Nokia sold a " lipstick phone " that you had to pull apart to make calls. Motorola's early swivel phone, the V70 , looked like a magnifying glass. The top slab rotated 180 degrees outward to show off a keyboard. And then there was Nokia's 7600 , a square phone with tapered ends and buttons arranged around the edges of a central screen.

Which may have been why Motorola's slender, square Razr series, first launched in 2004, was such a runaway hit and sold 50 million phones in the first two years since its launch.

As personal smartphones grew through awkward adolescence, the chunkier but more powerful PDAs were being let loose into the wild. BlackBerry's 5810 , which went on sale in 2002, was the very first BlackBerry device to get a cellular connection. The Palm TreoW, also a pocket assistant, was the first phone to run a Windows mobile operating system. Together with Nokia's brick-y 9000 series, these phones started to smudge the line between computer and phone.

And then in 2007, the iPhone took everyone by surprise. "...an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator. Are you getting it?" a smug Steve Jobs asked the assembled crowd at Moscone Theater in San Francisco. "These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it, iPhone. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone… and here it is."

Since then, flat, skinny smartphones from Nokia and Samsung and HTC (which launched the first 4G phone , along with Sprint) have reconfigured our expectations of a smartphone, and of tablets and phablets. Today's smartphones are barely the same species as the first cordless DynaTak. But even more exciting innovations, like phones that maybe wrap around our wrist and read our feelings from our voice are right around the corner.

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FCC Announces Leftover Paging Channel Auction Procedures & Deadlines

The FCC has announced the procedures and minimum opening bid amounts for the upcoming auction of 5,905 licenses for lower and upper paging bands spectrum. This auction, which is designated as Auction 95, is scheduled to commence on July 16, 2013. The key deadline is for filing a "short form" application to participate in the auction, which is set for May 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM Eastern Time.

As we have previously indicated, Auction 95 will offer 5,905 paging licenses consisting of 4,902 licenses in the lower paging bands (35 MHz, 43 MHz, 152 and 158 MHz, 454 and 459 MHz) and 1,003 licenses in the upper paging bands (929 MHz and 931 MHz). These licenses can be used for paging, and in some cases, mobile dispatch, repeater, control link and other types of operations with appropriate waivers from the FCC. We have successfully helped several clients obtain paging channels and the appropriate rule waivers for internal dispatch operations in prior auctions.

Auction 95 will include licenses that remained unsold from a previous auction, licenses on which a winning bidder in a previous auction defaulted, and licenses for spectrum previously associated with licenses that canceled or terminated. In a few cases, the available license does not cover the entire geographic area due to an excluded area or previous partitioning. The relevant deadlines for this auction are as follows:

  • Auction Tutorial Available (via Internet): April 30, 2013
  • Short-Form Application (FCC Form 175) Filing Window Opens: April 30, 2013 at 12:00 noon ET
  • Short-Form Application (FCC Form 175) Filing Window Deadline: May 9, 2013, at 5:59 p.m. ET
  • Upfront Payments (via wire transfer): June 13, 2013, at 5:59 p.m. ET
  • Mock Auction: July 12, 2013
  • Auction Begins: July 16, 2013

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FCC Seeks to Revisit Radio frequency Exposure Limits and Policies

Almost ten years after the FCC initiated a proceeding to clarify technical and semantic issues in its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as they relate to the guidelines for human exposure to RF electromagnetic fields, the FCC last Friday released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to finally address these issues, along with a Notice of Inquiry ("NOI") to initiate a comprehensive review the Commission's RF exposure limits and policies ( FCC 13-39 ).

According to industry reports, the 200-page document has reportedly been under consideration since June of 2012, and it is only now seeing the light of day due to its technical complexity and heft. The Order clarifies evaluation procedures and references to determine compliance with the Commission's limits, including specific absorption rate (SAR) as a primary metric for compliance, consideration of the pinna (outer ear) as an extremity, and measurement of medical implant exposure.

The Further Notice portion of the item seeks comment on new proposals developed regarding compliance with guidelines for human exposure to RF electromagnetic fields. The Commission is proposing to broadly revise and harmonize its criteria for determining whether single or multiple fixed, mobile, or portable RF sources are subject to routine evaluation for compliance with the RF exposure limits or are exempted from such evaluations. It is also proposing to adopt specific new requirements for signs and barriers at fixed transmitter sites to ensure compliance with public and occupational exposure limits and to clarify the definition of transient exposure for non-workers exposed at levels up to occupational limits.

The Further Notice also seeks to streamline and harmonize procedures to achieve equal treatment of RF-emitting equipment based on their physical rather than service categories. Thus, the Commission is proposing to establish general exemptions from evaluation to determine compliance in place of existing service-specific "categorical exclusions."

In the NOI, the FCC asks whether its exposure limits remain appropriate in light of recent research and differing interpretations that have emerged. Since the Commission is not a health and safety agency, it has indicated it will defer to other organizations and agencies with respect to interpreting the biological research necessary to determine what levels of RF radiation exposure are safe. As such, the Commission invites health and safety agencies and the public to comment on the propriety of its current limits and whether additional precautions may be appropriate in some cases, for example with respect to children. The Commission also seeks comment from the public, expert organizations, and any federal agency with jurisdiction by law or expertise over the environmental impact of human exposure to RF energy regarding the potential environmental impacts, including any cumulative impacts, of the rule changes proposed in the Further Notice.

The FCC last evaluated RF exposure limits and policies in 1996, based on guidance from federal safety, health, and environmental agencies using recommendations published separately by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). Since that time, there has been significant research by a number of international organizations and the IEEE has revised its recommendations several times, The NCRP, on the other hand, continues to support its recommendation as used the the current FCC rules. Last summer, the US Government Accountability Office issued a report to Congress and recommended that the FCC update its current RF exposure limits and reevaluate current testing methodologies.

Comments on the FNPRM and NOI will be due 90 days after the item is published in the Federal Register, and Reply Comments will be due 150 days after publication. For small and rural wireless carriers, the key will be for the FCC to avoid imposing unreasonable compliance requirements that unduly complicate the implementation of wireless services. This is of particular concern because of the strict buildout deadlines the FCC has more recently imposed on licensees.

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Wireless Service Providers not Liable for Copyright Infringement

If you are a wireless carrier, can you be held liable for vicarious or contributory copyright infringement when your subscribers engage in copyright infringement over your network? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California answered that question in the negative in the circumstances presented in the case of Luvdarts LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, 9th Cir., No. 11-55497, decided March 25, 2013.

The plaintiffs were online providers of greeting cards and the defendants were the four nationwide cellular carriers. The online greeting cards included a note that the cards could be sent only once and were not entitled to be forwarded to others. However, there was nothing in the online content that prevented such copyright infringement; and apparently the prohibition on forwarding had been routinely ignored. The plaintiffs, whose case had been dismissed by a lower court, claimed on appeal that the wireless carriers were liable for the copyright infringement of their subscribers under the doctrines of vicarious and contributory infringement because the carriers knew of the infringement and had done nothing to prevent it.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court and dismissed the complaint. It said that vicarious liability requires that the carriers had the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity and, in addition, had a financial interest in the infringing activity. The court held that the carriers had neither. For contributory liability, the court said, the plaintiffs would have to show that the carriers not only knew of the infringement but had also induced or materially contributed to it. Here, the carriers did not have the technical capacity to supervise and prevent the infringing activity, nor did they have an obligation to do so, said the court. Moreover, the court said, even if they had a duty to develop the technical capacity to oversee and control the infringing activity, the plaintiffs had failed to show that the carriers could reasonably come up with such capacity at an acceptable cost.

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FCC Issues Tentative Agenda for April Open Meeting

The following items will be on the tentative agenda for the next open meeting, scheduled for Thursday, April 18, 2013:

Reducing Regulatory Burdens and Facilitating Investment by Streamlining Foreign Ownership Review: The Commission will consider a Second Report and Order to streamline the foreign ownership policies and procedures that apply to common carrier radio licensees and certain aeronautical radio licensees under section 310(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, significantly reducing regulatory burdens while ensuring the Commission continues to receive the necessary information to protect the public interest.

Promoting Innovation and Competition by Facilitating Direct Access to Numbers: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Inquiry on expanding direct access to telephone numbers to promote competition and innovation by IP-based providers, while protecting consumers and the reliability of phone calls. It will also consider an Order to allow a limited trial of direct access to numbers for VoIP providers.

Presentation on the Status of Alerts to Prevent Bill Shock: Pursuant to CTIA's revision to its Code of Conduct for Wireless Service, April 17, 2013 is the deadline by which the participating CTIA member wireless carriers must provide their subscribers with four specified types of alerts to allow consumers to avoid unexpected charges for wireless usage exceeding their plan limits, and for additional charges for international roaming. The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau will provide a status report of the participating carriers' compliance with this requirement.

The Open Meeting is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. The event will be shown live at http://www.fcc.gov/live .

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TAPD Announces Universal Service Webpage Transition

The Telecommunications Access Policy Division announced on March 29 that it has transitioned the universal service web pages from the "www.transition.fcc.gov" domain to "www.fcc.gov."

Although this means that the URLs for the various universal service web pages have been changed, the TAPD indicates that the old pages should automatically forward to the new ones in the near future, if not already.

Clients experiencing difficulty accessing the universal service web pages can check the Public Notice for a list of the new URLs.

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FCC Announces Showcase of Technology to Prevent Distracted Driving

The FCC has announced that it will showcase various technologies designed to prevent distracted driving. The exhibit will be held at the FCC's headquarters on Friday, April 19, 2013, from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM.

For 2010, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that distracted driving was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal collisions, with 3,092 persons killed and over 416,000 injured. In addition to the large wireless carriers (AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint/Nextel) exhibiting at the showcase, the FCC has indicated that the National Organization for Youth Safety, the National Safety Council, DRIVESMART VA, ICONO Systems, MobileLutions, American Traffic Safety Services Association and other stakeholders — such as technology companies and state and local governments — will be represented. Exhibitors will be demonstrating new technologies as well as providing consumer information on the dangers of texting while driving and other distracted driving behaviors.

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Calendar At-A-Glance

Apr. 8 — Electronic filing deadline for Form 497 for carriers seeking support for the preceding month and wishing to receive reimbursement by month's end.
Apr. 8 — Reply Comments on Revised E-Rate Forms are due.
Apr. 8 — Reply Comments on NECA Modification of Average Schedule Formulas are due.
Apr. 9 — Reply Comments for Next Generation 911; Text-to-911 (Other Sections) are due.
Apr. 12 — State Commissions must notify the FCC of their intent to file shapefile study area boundary maps on behalf of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs).
Apr. 12 — Reply Comments on Service Obligations and Challenge Procedures for CAF II are due.
Apr. 16 — Comments on Petition filed by a group of competitive carriers asking the FCC to Reverse Forbearance for Special Access are due.
Apr. 22 — Reply Comments for Interstate Inmate Calling Rate Proceeding are due.
Apr. 29 — State Commissions can begin submitting shapefiles on behalf of ILECs.
Apr. 29 — ILECs may begin submitting shapefiles on their own behalf.
Apr. 29 — Comments on Health Care Connect Fund Forms 460, 461, 462 and 463 are due.
May 1 — FCC Form 499-Q, Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet is due.
May 9 — Short Form Application to Participate in Auction 95 (Lower and Upper Paging Bands Spectrum) is due.
May 10 — Comments on Tribal Mobility Fund Phase 1 Auction Scheduled for October 24, 2013 are due.
May 13 — Comments on Options for Disposition of UHF T-Band (470-512 MHz) are due.
May 13 — Reply Comments on Health Care Connect Fund Forms 460, 461, 462 and 463 are due.
May 23 — final deadline for ILECs to have shapefiles submitted and certified.
May 24 — Reply Comments on Tribal Mobility Fund Phase I Auction are due.
May 31 — FCC Form 395, Employment Report, is due.
May 31 — Reply Comments on Petition filed by a group of competitive carriers asking the FCC to Reverse Forbearance for Special Access are due.
June 11 — Reply Comments on Options for Disposition of UHF T-Band (470-512 MHz) are due.
June 28 — deadline for State Commissions to submit and certify the data included in shapefiles.

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

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TeleCommunications Systems Unveils Cloud-Based SMS Service

By Rich Duprey
February 26, 201 3
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Short-message service specialist TeleCommunications Systems (NASDAQ: TSYS) has introduced its Cloud Messaging Service that delivers SMS messages simultaneously over 2G, 3G, and LTE networks as well as over a variety of protocols, such as e-mail, paging, website data, and secure messaging with acknowledgement.

The new high-volume Cloud Messaging Service can be used by a variety of industries, including manufacturing, health care, public safety, and educational institutions to support enhanced messaging, prepaid SMS, premium messaging events such as voting, and embedded promotions. The platform also complies with law enforcement requirements, number pooling, and wireless number portability.

Because it's a cloud-based service, carriers and enterprises are able to minimize capital expenditures on hardware and software, as well as reduce operating costs associated with continuous operation.

Jay Whitehurst, senior VP of TCS's commercial software group, said, "Leveraging TCS's extensive experience with comprehensive, end-to-end messaging solutions, our Cloud Messaging Platform offers a wide range of applications and functionalities that meet key business and budget requirements, while offering operators an opportunity to add value and increase average revenue per user."

TeleCommunications Systems powers one-third of all text message traffic in the U.S. and handles more than 700 billion messages annually.

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News | March 8, 2013

Aeroflex Announces The POCSAG Testing Option For The 3920 Series Radio Test Set

Aeroflex Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., announced recently the POCSAG testing option for the 3920 Series Digital Radio Test Set. With this option, the 3920 Series can now be used to verify the operation of POCSAG pagers and paging systems. This option adds the capability of both sending and decoding POCSAG encoded messages to the 3920 Series.

"The test engineer and field technician, with this new option on the 3920, have all the tools that they need to verify the operation of POCSAG paging transmitters and receivers," said Rob Barden, Director of Product Marketing for Aeroflex Wichita. "This option includes all of the capabilities that engineers and technicians expect in a POCSAG testing system."

With a full set of POCSAG receiver testing tools, the operation includes user control of the modulation deviation, bit rate and the message format. The user can select from a list of pre-defined messages to transmit or they can create their own custom defined messages. The pages can be sent to a user selected radio identification code (RIC) or to a sequence of RIC's. The user also has full control of the RF frequency and power level, so that receiver sensitivity testing can be performed on any POCSAG receiver.

This option also includes the capability of testing POCSAG transmitters. With the ability to decode the message and measure the modulation parameters, the POCSAG operation provides analysis and operation beyond what is normally included in a test system. The received messages are decoded and logged, with each entry in the log including the message, RIC, FSK deviation and bit rate.

Price and availability

The POCSAG option for the Aeroflex 3920 Series is a software upgrade that can be performed in the field. Expected delivery is April 2013. For more information about pricing, contact your local Aeroflex sales office by visiting or calling Aeroflex Sales at (800) 835-2352 or info-test@aeroflex.com .

About Aeroflex

Aeroflex Incorporated is a leading global provider of high performance microelectronic components and test and measurement equipment used by companies in the space, avionics, defense, commercial wireless communications, medical and other markets.

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

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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From:Waugaman, William
Subject: Free Paging Equipment
Date:March 29, 2013 4:54:17 PM CDT
To:Brad Dye

Brad:

I have two circa 2000 JTECH paging demo kits which I would like to find a good home for (rather than the landfill).

One is a 27 MHz restaurant kitchen encoder with a few pagers.

The other is a UHF encoder/Transmitter with a few Motorola LX pagers.

Both come in carry cases. Both still worked the last time I checked them.

Free to a good home. Just pay the shipping from Hilton Head, SC.

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LR Kimball
51 Evening Tide Way
Bluffton, SC 29910
321-266-2237
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Lunatic, Liar, or Lord?

C. S. Lewis was an Oxford medieval historian, popular writer, and Christian apologist. He used the argument outlined below in a series of BBC radio talks later published as the book Mere Christianity.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. . . Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.”

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