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Friday, April 26, 2002 |
Dear Friends and wireless professionals,
I have some interesting news for you this week, but first my regular disclaimer:
This is my weekly newsletter about Wireless Data and Radio Paging. You are receiving this message because you have either communicated with me in the past about a wireless topic, or your address was included in another e-mail that I received. This is not a SPAM. If you have received this message in error, and you are not interested in these topics, please click here, then click on "send" and you will be promptly removed from the mailing list.
Wireless News |
Paging Trade Associations
Between Larry Gabriel and Ron Mercer, I have been convinced to join the AAPC.
Nobody knows more about the paging industry than these two guys. I sent in my
membership application yesterday. Please see Larry's comments about the AAPC
below:
Hello Brad,
I wanted to bring to your attention a new paging organization has been formed "AAPC" American Association of Paging Carriers is the formal name.
A website has been set up by the founding group, at www.pagingcarriers.com. Several companies that were members of PCIA formed the org and it now has received some press from a few publications during the last several days.
Anyway, I wanted to bring that up because the FCC is attempting to increase paging carriers USF contribution from .04 a pager per year to .25 per pager per month. This is an extreme increase and is potentially serious blow to small paging operators.
The AAPC has filed comments as a group to the commission to help persuade them from going ahead, I believe the group is asking for the FCC to tier the USF, making the advanced messaging customer subject to a higher tax vs the one way user.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Larry Gabriel, Jr.
www.gabrielwireless.com
561-999-0999
Ljgabriel@gabrielwireless.com
MORE ISSUES CONCERNING SOUTH KOREAN
PAGER DISTRIBUTION
Rumors and confusion continue to be rampant in the ReFLEX world. Among the latest:
A Korean lawsuit is anticipated pursuant to a recently circulated Nixxo/Hoseo
letter (as reported last week) which
assigned "exclusive" marketing rights for Hoseo paging products to
Nixxo. Seems that this announcement constitutes a direct violation of an earlier
agreement between Hoseo and a New York organization: Estel Corp. Stay tuned
for more details in the next edition!
NETWORK NEWS
Several international paging networks use the RTS Advantage as a gateway
to the Internet for paging traffic. With all due humility, I take credit for
inventing the sending of TNPP messages over the Internet. I talked Jay Moskowitz,
the (then) CTO and founder of RTS Wireless, into incorporating this feature
into his products. Our only misgiving at the time was thatback in those
dayssome people were saying that we were not supposed to conduct commercial
activities on the Internet! Wow, things have certainly changed. Anyway, Jay
asked his developers to encapsulate TNPP within TCP/IP and then the RTS Advantage
quickly became the standard solution for international networking. It allowed
small paging companies the opportunity to join large networks without having
to pay for a dedicated international data circuit. One of those systems crashed
recently and even though RTS doesn't exist as a stand-alone company any more,
I was able to locate some of the fellows that used to work there and they rescued
the system. Thank you guys! You know who you are.
TECHNO TALK
If you don't know what all these terms like TNPP and TCP/IP
mean, there are two items on my web site that you might enjoy reading:
BACK ISSUES
Copies of my previous wireless newsletters are located at: http://braddye.com/promos.html.
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Until next week |
PAGING |
Best regards to all, and have a great weekend, Brad Dye Wireless Data Consultant |