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FRIDAY — JANUARY 10, 2014 — ISSUE NO. 588

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

EATING HUMBLE PIE

When I worked in marketing at Motorola's paging group, we used to obsessively discuss penetration rate. (The percentage of the population of a given country using pagers.) We spent a lot of time showing each other slides with optimistic forecasts of how wonderful the growth of paging was going to be. Here is an old graph that I found showing what we believed in the "glory days" of paging.


Click on the graph to enlarge.

WISHFUL THINKING DIDN'T MAKE IT HAPPEN

While paging continues to play a very important role in certain markets like healthcare, public safety, and other first responders, cellular phones have clearly taken over the majority of the world's wireless communication needs. Paging has returned to it's original user profile — what made it great before the fickle consumers made pagers COOL — but only for a while.

Unfortunately many people believe — without knowing the facts — that paging is NOT COOL anymore. Like NBC's satirical television sitcom that ran on NBC — 30 Rock — where the Alec Baldwin plays Jack Donaghy who is a disgusting loser, and a pager salesman. Like these awful quotes illustrate:

Liz: Okay, very funny. You bought a pager from Dennis. Will you take it off now, please?
Jack: Oh, I can't. I'm expecting a call from 1983.

Jenna: Does he still work at that beeper store? What is it, Beeper King?
Liz: He is the king now, the old Beeper King retired. Well, technically he shot himself. But Dennis took over, and now he's the only beeper salesman left in Manhattan.

Liz: . . . I don't want you here selling beepers.
Dennis: Why not? I mean, you work in a business. Businesspeople need beepers.
Liz: No, they need cellphones.
Dennis: Oh, yeah, for now. But the beeper's gonna be making a comeback. Technology's cyclical.
Liz: No, technology is not cyclical.

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TODAY'S REALITY

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PHONES TAKE OVER

There will be as many mobile phone subscriptions in the world as there are people, the U.N. predicts.

Source: Time Magazine, January 13, 2013, p. 30.

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Some messaging-service providers haven't given up. American Messaging continues to grow by aggressive sales, new product development, and acquisition. It's all about attitude, and they have the right attitude. Please see their press release immediately following.

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Gmail now lets you e-mail Google+ users, even if you don't know their address

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
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Google has deepened the integration between its Google+ social network and Gmail, adding a feature that auto-suggests Google+ contacts when Gmail users are typing in e-mail recipients. In other words, you can e-mail any of your Google+ contacts without knowing their e-mail address, and they can e-mail you as well.

The feature will be rolled out over the coming days to all Gmail users who also have Google+ profiles.

Gmail will auto-suggest Google+ users that the e-mail sender has added to his Circles on the social network. (Circles is the term Google uses for connections on Google+.) However, e-mail senders will not see the e-mail address of the Google+ contact being auto-suggested unless the contact responds to the message, and messages from Google+ users that aren't also in your own Circles will appear in your Gmail account's Social tab, rather than the Primary tab.

Google+ users are able to control who can contact them from Gmail in this way with four options. They can opt out entirely, so that they won't appear in Gmail auto-suggest. They can limit the feature to include only people they have added to their own Circles. They can make the scope broader by extending it to people with a second degree of Circles separation, meaning people you're not connected to but who are connected to someone in your Circles. The last option is to open up the feature to anyone on Google+.

The goal of this new feature is to make it easier for Google+ users to communicate via Gmail. Google says the feature will be rolling out over the next few days.

Google has said repeatedly that its intention is to integrate Google+ broadly and deeply with its other services, sites and web applications, so that it can act as a common, underlying social networking layer. Google has integrated Google+ with Gmail, Blogger, Apps, YouTube and other products to varying degrees already.

PCWorld senior writer Brad Chacos contributed to this report.

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American Messaging Services, LLC acquires Aquis Communications, Inc.

LEWISVILLE, TX — January 8, 2014 — American Messaging Services, LLC ("American Messaging") is pleased to announce it has acquired the operating assets of Aquis Communications, Inc. ("Aquis"), a subsidiary of ComSoft Corporation.

The transaction brings together two of the most respected critical messaging companies in the United States. J. Roy Pottle, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of American Messaging said "this transaction adds to our considerable presence in the eastern United States by adding over 60,000 subscribers and several very substantial customer relationships. The transaction also adds considerable network coverage in several states that will ultimately benefit existing and prospective customers alike."

Richard Gdovic, President and CEO of ComServe Corporation said, "Customers should know there will be little to no change in service as our primary goal is to make certain the acquisition has minimal impact on service delivery. American Messaging has an excellent reputation and is known for its singular focus on service."

From a technology perspective, American Messaging and its subsidiaries provide critical messaging services throughout the United States. Using proprietary and third party wireless messaging networks together with its suite of mobile and desktop applications it simultaneously delivers critical messages to pagers, smart phones, tablets and personal computers. It also constructs and operates dedicated messaging networks for individual customers that operate in conjunction with other third party networks, including its proprietary messaging networks, providing redundancy and more rapid message delivery. Message delivery and review is easily initiated, monitored and archived using the Company's mobile and desktop applications or through customer supporting software that is included as part of its overall service offering. Pottle closed by saying "We look forward to introducing these services to Aquis customers."

About Aquis

Headquartered in Yorktown, Virginia Aquis Communications is a subsidiary of ComSoft Corporation. Aquis has been servicing the healthcare, government, public safety, industrial and educational industries for over 30 years. Aquis Communications is a leading provider of critical communications systems, emergency management systems and telecom expense management.

About American Messaging

American Messaging is one of the largest critical messaging companies in the United States delivering more than 5 million critical messages per day. American Messaging provides service to approximately 900,000 customers, including more than 1,000 major healthcare and first responder clients across the United States.

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From BYOD to WYOD: How Wearables Will Transform Business

January 09, 2014
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wyod Over the past few years, organizations worldwide were forced to deal with an IT "problem" referred to as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). It started with smart phones, and now it's occurring with other devices as well.

Here's what happened: Most large organizations, as well as mid-size and even smaller ones, required their people to have a Blackberry. By combining a cell phone with a secure, enterprise level e-mail system, Blackberry changed how we use cell phones and took mobile working to a new level. Unlike the Blackberry, when the Apple iPhone came out, it transformed how we use our mobile phone by making it a handheld multimedia computer. As useful, inexpensive, and easy to install mobile apps took off, it didn't take long for employees at all levels to discover the power of this transformative tool. It soon became common to see people with two phones: the Blackberry because they had to, and the iPhone because they wanted to. As soon as Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and a host of others got into the smart phone business, and the smart tablet business, BYOD became unstoppable.

Because of the rapid rise of the BYOD trend, the vast majority of companies found themselves reacting and putting out fires. Before BYOD, IT could control the use of technology. They'd issue the device and it would be locked down with the corporate IT firewall. But with more and more employees bringing in their own devices, IT's efforts to keep a secure environment became almost impossible amongst the ever increasing number of devices they had little control over. In short, BYOD created a major IT problem, not just in the United States, but also in Europe and Asia.

Today, we have a new impending IT crisis, as well as an opportunity, that's very predictable. Soon we will all be dealing with WYOD (Wear Your Own Device). Consider this: It's estimated that one million wearable devices will ship by the end of 2014. It's also estimated that there will be 300 million shipped by 2018, and I think that number will be far greater. That's a lot of wearable devices. If people started bringing their own portable devices into the office and wrecking havoc on IT, you can bet it's going to start happening with wearable technology, such as Google Glass, smart watches, and other types of computing devices you can wear, including the screenless smart phone I've written about in the past.

Therefore, I'm suggesting, from an organizational standpoint that includes business, government, and education, that everyone develop a WYOD strategy immediately—now—before the predictable problem hits. So instead of putting out fires like we did when the BYOD crisis hit, we can turn the impending WYOD crisis into an opportunity. So let's develop guidelines right now and take what I call a "preactive" approach, which means we're taking pre-action to a future known event.

To start looking at WYOD as an opportunity rather than a crisis, let's start asking some new questions, such as: "How can we use smart watches with our sales team?" "How can we use Google Glass with all of our people who need to access data while standing up and moving around, like maintenance and customer service?" "How can we use the new wearable technologies to do things that we couldn't do before, to increase productivity and efficiency?" "What wearable technology purchasing guidelines should we send to our employees?"

Wearable devices are here and they'll only gain popularity as time goes on. Therefore, get ahead of the curve and harness the opportunities. As I always say, if it can be done, it will be done. The only question is, who will do it first? Now's your chance to harness the opportunities before your competitors do.

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DANIEL BURRUS is considered one of the world's leading technology forecasters and innovation experts, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous untapped opportunities. He is the author of six books including The New York Times best seller Flash Foresight.

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Published: 10 January, 2014

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service adopts two-way paging and dual-frequency alerters to improve the management of retained firefighters as well as to increase business resilience.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service selected PageOne's Responder two-way pager and dual-frequency alerters as part of a wider initiative to reduce the extent or exposure to risk, whilst also increasing business resilience.

It is envisaged that the new solution will improve Essex FRS's management of retained firefighters and officers by closing the loop on traditional broadcast messaging and extending coverage beyond local transmission range.

PageOne's Responder two-way pagers were selected following a trial of the service during a national strike in 2012. "We needed a contingency strategy and PageOne's solution offered us a resilient mechanism to communicate with, and manage our officers more effectively," said David Elwell, Communications Manager at Essex FRS.

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More recently Essex County FRS have integrated location and SMS fall back services via Connect — PageOne's cloud-based messaging solution.

Incorporating GPS and location capability enables the two-way Responder to deliver an accurate positioning of team members, visually represented on map. The addition of SMS fall back to the Responder provides further resilience to ensure message delivery.

Essex FRS intends to roll out more devices once a new command and control system is introduced. "PageOne's solution integrates seamlessly with our new command and control, so Responder messages can be sent from the system and responses integrated back into the same interface. This means control room staff can make much quicker decisions, once again positively impacting on our response times," said David.

Firefighters at Essex FRS Corringham retained station are already using dual-frequency alerters, and there are plans to trial PageOne's two-way Responder pagers with dual frequency scanning and SMS fall-back, providing triple resilience. "We have already leveraged the benefits of both technologies in isolation of one another, therefore we would naturally want to explore them working concurrently. This would add an even greater level of resilience to our critical communications strategy," concluded David.

Dual frequency scanning: the UK's first dual frequency scanning paging service was rolled out by PageOne in 2012 — click here to find out more.

To read about triple resilience alerting click here .

Read about Durham Fire and Rescue using triple resilience to manage retained firefighters in the November issue of British APCO Journal , page 22.

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How iBeacons could change the world forever

BY MATT MCFARLAND
January 7 at 10:00 am
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Retailers are likely to place iBeacons such as this one from Shopkick around their stores, in hopes of better connecting with and serving customers. (Courtesy of Shopkick)

Apps such as Google Maps and FourSquare have long used location data to try to improve the average person's mobile experience. But that could be just the tip of the location iceberg as Bluetooth's latest technology revolutionizes how people interact with everyday objects and places.

With iOS 7, Apple unveiled iBeacon, a feature that uses Bluetooth 4.0, a location based technology. This makes it possible for sensors to detect — within inches — how close a phone is. This is opening the door for groundbreaking services that could enhance the average person's life.

"This might be the next big technology,"said Radius Networks chief executive Marc Wallace. "I think there's a huge opportunity for developers to run with this and develop cool applications." In one early implementation, Radius Networks teamed with the Consumer Electronics Association to launch an iBeacon-powered scavenger hunt at CES this week.

"From an opportunity perspective, I'd say everything is in place, and this thing is poised to be huge. The real question is over the next year there's going to be a lot of experimentation, learning, etc.," said Rob Murphy, vice president of marketing at Swirl, which is working with retailers to capitalize on the potential of iBeacons. "There will be a bunch more success stories. I think there will be some failures along the way."

Just how might Bluetooth and iBeacons change your world? Here are nine possibilities, in no particular order:

This customer could be offered a coupon for an XBox. (Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

1. Get a coupon for 10 percent off a TV because you stood in the TV department.

Analysts agree that retail is where most consumers will first experience iBeacons. While officially the Apple protocol of Bluetooth, the word iBeacon is also used to refer to the Bluetooth-enabled sensors that retailers can place throughout their stores. If a customer downloads the store's app and chooses to share his or her location, a store can track within inches the location of a customer.

While this raises privacy concerns and may seem creepy to some customers, there's also potential for consumers to benefit from the exchange. Retailers can market offers to customers they know are interested in a specific service. And iBeacons could help a customer navigate a massive store to find the item they're looking for.

Homes may never be the same. (Matt McClain for The Washington Post)

2. Your home will automatically react to you.

Imagine approaching your front door and having it automatically unlock as you are a step away. Then head into your living room and the TV automatically turns on — to your favorite channel.

"That's where it's all headed. Everything starting to transmit and talk to each other," Wallace said. "The smart devices will know you're in there, and they're near each other." Wallace, who experiments with the technology at his own home, said he now receives an e-mail whenever his children walk through the front door.

3. Your phone will give you a tour of museums.

"If I'm going to the Louvre and I'm interested in a certain time period, it can draw a custom map for me to navigate the Louvre," said Suke Jawanda, the chief marketing officer at Bluetooth SIG. When a visitor arrives in front of an exhibit, extra information about the work of art could automatically be displayed on the visitor's smartphone.

"Ultimately you'll see self-tours where the app is adjusting itself based on where it knows where it is," Wallace said.

4. Organize neighborhood pick-up games for kids.

"What if all Nerf footballs were connected? If I'm on my block and I take the toy outside, and that triggers a neighborhood child to know I'm nearby, that I'm in progress to the park. Somehow their toy buzzes and they go outside and we play a game of pickup football," said Jen Quinlan, director of marketing at Mutual Mobile.

Fans such as this one at Nationals Park might not always have to search in their purse, pocket or smartphone for a ticket. (Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post)

5. Tickets that automatically load as you enter sporting events.

An iBeacon could identify that a fan is within feet of the turnstiles, and a related app will open on a user's phone. A prompt could then ask if the fan would like to view his or her ticket for the day's game. Fans wouldn't have to search in their e-mail for their tickets. "People are spending 30 seconds sitting at a turnstile looking for a ticket. It causes a logjam; it's a real problem," Wallace said.

6. Win something for visiting a car dealership.

Businesses have huge incentives to get customers in their stores and on their lots. Quinlan suggested that an auto dealership could do a raffle of sorts, in which one customer wins a prize by being the first person to come in range of a beacon that's hidden at random on the lot.

7. Toys that are aware of each other.

Imagine buying your children two Star Wars light sabers. Once the light sabers come within a few feet of each other, they could automatically light up.

8. Get a free cup of coffee or snack while pumping your gas.

For gas stations, customers become more valuable when they do more than buy gas. Thanks to an iBeacon the station could know when a customer is pumping gas. That's the perfect chance to offer a discount on a sandwich or drink. "It's value to you and value to the convenience store because you've now pulled them into the store to purchase something," Wallace said.

9. Be warned that your bike or car is no longer in the garage.

"Did your teenager just borrow your car and pull it out of driveway?" Quinlan asked. With an iBeacon in your car and an iBeacon in the garage, that information could be e-mailed or sent to you through an app or push notification.

Nest's smoke detector has shown the potential for a boring old object to be transformed into something that can change how we live with the latest technologies. This trend is likely to grow in 2014 as Bluetooth and iBeacon become more common. But it won't happen without consumers trusting businesses and choosing to download their apps and share their location data. Marketers will have to prove that less privacy is worth the payoff.

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Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, and/or the BloostonLaw Private Users Update — newsletters from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm's permission.

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ALERT:

January 10, 2014

FCC EXTENDS REVISED STUDY AREA BOUNDARY DATA SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Clients should be advised that late last night, the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau issued an Order extending the study area boundary reconciliation process approximately sixty days. The deadline to reconcile and file revised study area boundary data is now March 17, 2014.

When the Wireline Competition Bureau originally announced the publication of the online map displaying the study area boundaries submitted and certified by incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and certain state public utility commissions, the Public Notice also directed ILECs to review the online map, resolve any overlaps and voids with neighboring ILECs, and submit and certify revised boundary data no later than January 13, 2014.

In last night's Order extending the deadline, the Bureau recognized that the reconciliation process could be time consuming and may involve multiple discussions with neighboring carriers and state commissions. Accordingly, the Bureau found that a 60-day extension of the process would better enable parties to complete their consultations and revisions, and would ultimately result in more accurate and meaningful data.

A copy of the Order is here .

BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 17, No. 1 January 8, 2014

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BloostonLaw Seeks Supporters for 600 MHz Band Licensing Comments

As recently discussed in the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, the FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comment on a proposal by the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) to use Partial Economic Areas (PEAs) as the basis for licensing the 600 MHz spectrum made available in the Broadcast Television Incentive Auction, currently scheduled to take place in mid-2015. As part of this proceeding, the FCC is also seeking comment on a proposal from NTCA and RWA that calls for a bifurcated 600 MHz auction with licensing of the 600 MHz band on the basis of MSAs during the incentive auction, and a more traditional simultaneous multiple round auction for RSA licenses afterward. Comments on these 600 MHz licensing proposals are due by January 9, 2013, with reply comments due by January 23, 2013.

Upon review of the proposed PEA boundaries and after hearing feedback from some clients, we have come to the conclusion that use of PEAs for licensing the 600 MHz band would offer inadequate improvement over EA licensing for most of our clients, and especially those companies that provide service in the West and Midwestern states. Accordingly, we have circulated draft comments that urge the WTB to license at least a portion of the 600 MHz band on the basis of CMAs, consistent with CCA's primary proposal, and suggest that the approach proposed by NTCA/RWA may provide a workable way to get to CMAs.

The 600 MHz band could present a significant opportunity for our law firm's clients, but it is vital that smaller geographic areas be used for initial 600 MHz licensing or else small and rural carriers could be forced to bid against AT&T and Verizon and other publicly traded carriers for 600 MHz licenses that include metro areas. Please contact us by e-mail or telephone if you wish to participate.

FCC Releases New Data on Internet Access Services

On December 24, 2013, the Industry Analysis and Technology Division of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau released its latest Internet Access Services Report detailing internet access connections in the United States as of December 31, 2012. The report, which is based on bi-annual Form 477 data, tracks changes at the state and national level in the number of subscribers to internet access service in a variety of different combinations of speed tiers.

According to the report:

  • Internet connections overall are growing. The number of connections over 200 kbps in at least one direction increased by 14% year-over-year to nearly 262 million.
  • At year-end 2012, there were almost 65 million fixed and 64 million mobile connections with downstream speeds at or above 3 Mbps and upstream speeds at or above 768 kbps, as compared to 51 million fixed and 31 million mobile connections a year earlier.
  • The number of connections with downstream speeds of at least 10 Mbps increased by 35% over December 2011, to 60 million connections.
  • Growth is particularly high in mobile Internet subscriptions. The number of mobile subscriptions with speeds over 200 kbps in at least one direction grew to more than 169 million — up 19% from December 2011. The number of fixed-location connections at speeds over 200 kbps in at least one direction increased by 5% year-over-year to nearly 93 million.

It is important to note in considering these figures that the report uses census tract-level information to estimate the percentages of households located in census tracts, and that a provider that reports residential fixed-location connections of a particular speed in a particular census tract may not necessarily offer service at that speed everywhere in the census tract.

It is also important to note that this report does not reflect data collected as a result of the changes the FCC adopted to the Form 477 program in June of 2013. The FCC expects that the first filings of this new information will be due in September 2014 (representing data as of June 2014).

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EPA Requires Notifications for Small Boilers, Environmental Reports for Generators

Clients with their own boiler-equipped buildings should be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a January 20, 2014 Initial Notification deadline for area source boilers operated by small entities (i.e., those that were previously unregulated). An area source facility emits or has the potential to emit less than 10 tons per year of a single hazardous air pollutant (HAP), or less than 25 tons per year for any combination of HAPs. An example of a HAP includes mercury produced as a by-product of burning coal in a boiler.

Additionally, commencing on an as yet undetermined date in 2015, entities with 100 horsepower or larger emergency back-up generator engines that operate, or commit to operate, for more than 15 hours and up to 100 hours per year for emergency demand response will need to collect and submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (as well as the relevant state environmental authority, and in many cases county and/or municipal environmental authorities) an annual report including the generator's location and dates and times of operation.

With regard to boilers, the EPA is regulating area source boilers operated by small entities based on three components: 1) the size of the boiler, 2) the type of fuel burned in the boiler, and 3) whether the boiler is new or existing. These elements are defined as follows:

  • Boiler Size: Large area source boilers have a heat capacity equal to or greater than 10 MMBtu/hr. Small area source boilers have a heat capacity of less than 10MMBtu/hr.
  • Type of Fuel Burned: Most boilers covered by the rule are non-residential coal, oil or biomass (wood-fired) boilers existing prior to June 4, 2010.
  • New or Existing: An existing boiler covered by the rule commenced construction or reconstruction on or before June 10, 2010, while a new boiler covered by the rule commenced construction or reconstruction after June 4, 2010.

For both existing small boilers and existing large boilers, the Initial Notification must be filed with the EPA and the relevant state environmental agency by January 20, 2014. For both new small boilers and new large boilers, the Initial Notification must be filed with the EPA and the relevant state environmental authority within 120 days of the date of start-up. In many states, the notifications must also be filed with county and/or municipal environmental authorities.

In both cases, we suggest that our clients consult with their environmental consultants to determine whether they are covered by the new rules.

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AT&T Announces Sponsored Data Program

On Monday, January 6, AT&T announced a new program which allows websites and applications to foot the bill for consumers' data usage associated with accessing those websites and applications. Comparing the program to 1-800 phone numbers and free shipping, the press release stated that,"[w]ith the new Sponsored Data service, data charges resulting from eligible uses will be billed directly to the sponsoring company."

Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) criticized a new AT&T program, according to a report by The Hill, saying, "The announcement of a sponsored data program by AT&T puts it in the business of picking winners and losers on the Internet, threatening the open Internet, competition and consumer choice."

She continued, "On its face, the ability for consumers to access 'toll-free' content seems like long-awaited relief from frustrating data caps. But embedded in programs of this type are serious implications for fairness and competition in the mobile marketplace. And we must ask just how beneficial a program like this is to consumers who could ultimately foot the bill for the added cost of doing business."

S.D. PUC Vice Chairman to Serve as NARUC Telecommunications Committee Chair

NARUC issued a Press Release on January 2, 2014, announcing that South Dakota Public Utilities Commission's Vice Chairman, Chris Nelson, will serve as the Chair of NARUC's Committee on Telecommunications. Commissioner Nelson succeeds Vermont Commissioner John Burke, whose term recently expired. The Committee provides a venue for state commissioners to analyze trends in the telecommunications sector and share best regulatory practices. The Committee works closely with the FCC, NTIA, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the FBI; and passes resolutions on NARUC policy.

NARUC President Colette Honorable stated that Commissioner Nelson "is stepping up to serve his regulatory colleagues at a crucial time in the regulatory sector. He is quite literally stepping into the regulatory maelstrom as Congress is looking at FCC process reform and beginning the process of updating the federal Telecommunications Act. The FCC is poised to take up a number of significant issues in the near future, including competition, service quality, universal service reform, rural call completion problems, and several others. I am confident that his unique background and perspective will add an important element to our strong leadership team."

Since his appointment to the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission in January 2011, Commissioner Nelson (currently the Commission's Vice Chairman) has been very active on the NARUC Telecommunications Committee, most recently serving as a member of the NARUC Task Force on Federalism and Telecommunications. He was also recently nominated to serve on the FCC's Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service.

Genachowski Joins Carlyle Group

The Washington Post is reporting that former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has joined the Carlyle Group — a private equity firm based in Washington, DC. Mr. Genachowski will become the managing director of Carlyle's U.S. Buyout Fund, which is the company's "flagship" investment pool valued at over $13 billion.

Carlyle stated that Genachowski will be responsible for finding investments in the global technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Former Chairman Genachowski is not the first former FCC chairman to be hired by Carlyle. Following his term as chairman of the FCC from 1997 until 2001 under President Clinton, William E. Kennard was a managing director at Carlyle for several years.

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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.

Calendar At-A-Glance

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January

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Jan. 8 — Electronic filing deadline for Form 497 for carriers seeking support for the preceding month and wishing to receive reimbursement by month's end.

Jan. 8 — PRA Comments on Special Access Data Collection are due.
Jan. 9 — Comments are due on the proposal to license 600 MHz Band using "Partial Economic Areas."
Jan. 13 — Reply comments are due on intrastate inmate calling rates and practices.
Jan. 13 — Comments due on Changes to LNP Porting Process.
Jan. 15 — Annual Hearing Aid Compatibility Report is due.
Jan. 17 — Mock auction for Auction 96.
Jan. 20 — Notification deadline for area-source boilers operated by small entities.
Jan. 22 — Auction 96 begins.
Jan. 23 — Reply comments are due on the proposal to license 600 MHz Band using "Partial Economic Areas."
Jan. 27 — Comments on Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative request to include prepaid post-employment benefits in rate base are due.
Jan. 28 — Reply comments are due on Changes to LNP Porting Process.
Jan. 31 — FCC Form 555 (Annual Lifeline ETC Certification Form) is due.

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Feb. 1 — FCC Form 499-Q is due.
Feb. 1 — FCC Form 502 (Number Utilization and Forecast Report) is due.
Feb. 10 — Electronic filing deadline for Form 497 for carriers seeking support for the preceding month and wishing to receive reimbursement by month's end.
Feb. 14 — Inmate calling rules become effective.
Feb. 28 — PRA comments on Rural Call Completion are due.
Mar. 1 — Copyright Statement of Account Form for cable companies is due.

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Mar. 1 — Annual CPNI Certification is due.
Mar. 1 — FCC Form 477 (Local Competition & Broadband Reporting) is due.
Mar. 10 — Electronic filing deadline for Form 497 for carriers seeking support for the preceding month and wishing to receive reimbursement by month's end.
Mar. 31 — FCC Form 525 (Delayed Phase-down CETC Line Counts) is due.
Mar. 31 — FCC Form 508 (ICLS Projected Annual Common Line Requirement) is due.

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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ARRL Reply Comments Cite "Fundamental Misunderstanding" of "Symbol Rate" Petition

In reply comments filed on its "symbol rate" Petition for Rule Making ( RM-11708 ), the ARRL said comments opposed to its initiative reflect a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the petition's intent. The League's petition now tops the FCC's list of " Most Active Proceedings ." More than 800 comments were filed as of January 7, some of them posted after the December 23 cut-off date and most favoring the ARRL's proposal. The ARRL earlier filed comments with the FCC on its own Petition (plus Erratum ). RM-11708 proposes to drop the symbol rate limit in §97.307(f) of the FCC Amateur Service rules, substituting a maximum occupied bandwidth of 2.8 kHz for HF data emissions. The ARRL said those opposing the Petition do not, in general, challenge the removal of the symbol rate limit for data emissions in band segments where RTTY and data emissions are now permitted.

"Rather, they tend to view the proposal to establish a maximum occupied bandwidth of 2.8 kHz for data emissions in the medium-frequency (MF) and high-frequency (HF) bands where data emissions are permitted now as an enabling provision," the ARRL said. Instead, the League said, its Petition is intended to impose "a limitation on the maximum bandwidth of data emissions where none exists now." Given state-of-the-art data technologies, the League said, there is no necessary correlation between the symbol rate and the bandwidth of a data emission. The current symbol rate "acts only as a limit on the efficiency of data emissions in the HF bands as a practical matter, and as an artificial and arbitrary filter on the types of emissions that can be utilized by radio amateurs."

The ARRL said its suggested 2.8 kHz maximum bandwidth reflects a balanced approach that will permit all currently used data emissions, encourage experimentation with data emissions that the current symbol rate restriction prohibits, and preclude the use of wider-bandwidth data emissions that could usurp the limited RTTY/data sub-bands. Petition opponents, the ARRL went on to say, "offer no evidence" that the rule changes it proposes will lead to a situation where data transmissions overwhelm the sub-band and preclude narrow bandwidth emission communications.

"The Commission has properly chastised the Amateur Service for resisting deregulatory proposals that are designed to enable amateur experimenters to refine and adapt technologies," the League said in its reply comments. "ARRL is of the view that outdated Commission regulations that needlessly preclude experimentation with data technologies should not be preserved. Outdated regulations are not a viable alternative to cooperative sharing arrangements in the HF bands through voluntary band plans."

Some of those opposing its petition, the ARRL went on to say, expressed the belief that the proposed rule change would impose wider-bandwidth data emissions in spectrum where narrow-bandwidth modes such as CW and PSK31 now operate, to the detriment of the narrow-bandwidth modes. Other opponents contended that the Petition will benefit a few operators at the expense of the many now operating narrowband data, RTTY, and CW on the HF bands.

"It is illogical to argue on the one hand that the Petition is intended to benefit 'the few' who are data emission experimenters and users, and on the other hand to predict that the relief requested in the Petition would create a flood of 'wide-bandwidth' data emissions, swamping the band segments used for CW, RTTY, and narrow-bandwidth data emissions," the League pointed out. "If the concern is that the rule changes will encourage more radio amateurs to experiment with data emissions, that would be a positive outcome." The ARRL further asserted that the fear of interference from automatically controlled stations "is not a valid one."

Its Petition , the ARRL concluded, "is not a referendum on the value of MF or HF data emissions or data experimentation in those bands," but intended to encourage experimentation now restricted artificially by outdated rules. "It is instead a proposal to delete outdated limitations on Amateur Radio experimentation, which Commission policy supports, and which the basis and purpose of the Amateur Radio Service necessitates."

Source: ARRL

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Brad,

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