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March 31, 2010
Volume 4, Issue 5 | |
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The real work will start soon ...
 It's out. It's released, all 376 plus pages of it, on March 17th. The Commission has satisfied its congressional obligations in the $787 billion economic stimulus package by releasing its National Broadband Plan. The objectives are far-reaching and you can tell that the Commission is proud of its work to date. Visit the FCC's web site and you will find that they are promoting the plan with unbounded enthusiasm. Marketing is something that I'm just not quite used to from the Commission. It seems out of place to me, but maybe I'm just old fashioned and would rather they stick to developing, not selling, national telecom policy. MORE |
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FCC Releases its National Broadband Plan
According to the FCC, the National Broadband Plan and the associated great infrastructure challenge of the 21st century will be as meaningful to the United States as was the development of the railways in the 1860s, the electrical grid in the 1930s, and the interstate highway system of the 1950s. MORE |
FCC Launches its Spectrum Dashboard
While just at the beta level, the Commission's Spectrum Dashboard is intended to allow users to more easily review how spectrum bands are allocated and used and also allows users to identify license holders in specific areas. MORE |
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Part 90 Rule Changes Adopted
Consistent with the recommendations of EWA, the LMCC and most others within the industry, the FCC determined that a reduction in authorized bandwidth does not require frequency coordination; agreed that state and local government entities could use I/B pool spectrum for commercial activities such as operating golf courses, but not for public safety operations; and decided against allowing Wireless Medical Telemetry Service operations on a secondary basis in portions of the 1427-1432 MHz band where non-medical users have primary status. MORE |
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Wireless Microphones Not a Good Idea at T-Band
The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) recently urged the FCC to prohibit the manufacture and use of wireless microphones intended for unlicensed use on TV channel 14-20 spectrum. MORE |
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Motorola Requests Interpretation of Waiver of FCC Rule 90.267
Motorola has filed a Request for Declaratory ruling asking that the Commission confirm that the standard 5 MHz separation between paired channels in the 450-470 MHz band does not apply to systems authorized pursuant to the low power pools in Rule Section 90.267. MORE |
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FCC Seeks Input on Public Safety 700 MHz Recommendations
The FCC is interested in receiving comments from those public safety entities that filed waiver requests seeking to deploy systems early within public safety's 700 MHz broadband spectrum allocation. MORE |
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EWA Board Member Interviewed by Mission Critical Magazine
EWA Board member Paul Anderson, Communications Manager of Delta Airlines, recently shared his strategic views with Mission Critical on his company's efforts to combine over 50,000 wireless and radio communications devices into one communications network. MORE |
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CalAmp To Lease SpaceData 900 MHz Spectrum
CalAmp, a leading provider of wireless products and services, agreed to lease 100 kHz of spectrum nationally in the 901.9-902 MHz band to allow for CalAmp's wireless products to transmit at higher power and minimize line-of-site and noise issues that unlicensed 900 MHz spectrum creates. MORE |
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"Is ... no longer doing so"
Lubbock Aero, Lubbock, Texas, was found liable for a forfeiture in the amount of $10,000 for operating on 123.300 MHz without an authorization which could have been the source of interference to aviation support stations. In response to an FCC letter of inquiry, Lubbock Aero admitted that it operated on frequency 123.300 MHz, but added that it "is ... no longer doing so." MORE |
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Promote Licensing Compliance
EWA has reported in the past that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has been issuing Notice of Violations to service organizations in reference to FCC rule Section 90.427(b), which states that "no person shall program into a transmitter frequencies for which the licensee using the transmitter is not authorized." EWA recently sent out a sample Customer Radio Programming Release form to radio dealers which may be adapted for their purposes if they are unsure whether the equipment they are programming is properly licensed or not. You may request a copy of this sample form by contacting Louise Hippolyte at louise@enterprisewireless.org. |
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ENTERPRISE WIRELESS SOLUTIONS CENTER ® |
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EWA Holds Killer Apps Super Session at IWCE
The week-long IWCE event recently held in Las Vegas was punctuated on closing day by a special two-hour "Super Session", Killer Apps in Wireless, moderated by EWA's Eric Hill. Technologies included wireless IP video surveillance (presented by Mobilcomm); field worker and enterprise mobility management (NetMotion Wireless); security apps over mesh networks (Firetide); new paging innovations (Prism Systems International); and radio over IP (Alcatel-Lucent). | |
EWA Promoting Launch of Wireless Solutions Center
Throughout the recent Motorola Channel Partner Expo and IWCE events in Las Vegas, EWA was widely promoting the Enterprise Wireless Solutions Center® launch, forthcoming this May. The solutions center is a new on-line service from EWA, providing sales leads for participating dealer and vendor members. MORE |
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Car-Comm Inc. - Premier Member
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Clark Radio Electronics
Blackfoot, ID
Comprehensive Communications Consultant
Stafford, VA
Comsource Inc.
Rochester Hills, MI
Intrinsic Solutions - Premier Member
Rochester, MN
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative
Radio Communications Specialist Inc.
Ozark, Missouri
TASC Systems, Inc.
British Columbia, Canada
Telecommunications Properties, Inc.
Dallas, TX
Whitewater Wireless, Inc. - Premier Member
Rochester, MN
WPCS International Hartford, Inc.
Windsor, CT
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