FRIDAY - AUGUST 20, 2004 - ISSUE NO. 126 | ||
Dear friends of Wireless Messaging and Paging,
I am deeply saddened to report that Bill Clody, a dear friend and esteemed colleague in the Paging business, passed away last week. I worked with Bill in the 80's at BBL Industries in the Atlanta area. Bill had a heart of gold and was loved and respected by all who knew him. His obituary follows. I must have received over a dozen messages telling me about the Citygear CTF-175 Pager by Cybertree. About half of them pointed out that it was being advertised on my own web site. The ad was two years old, and I have since removed it. This reminds me of the joke about getting old:
By the way, the next time you talk to one of our advertisers, please mention that you saw their ad in the newsletter. Now for the big new this week: AT&T Wireless (soon to merge with Cingular) is getting into the Paging Business. Not just a little bit! This looks like a major offensive. Take a look at their information about "enterprise paging" in the following wireless news section. This news came in thanks to Brian Gilmore and Aaron Osgood. See Brian's comments below in the READER'S COMMENTS section. Now on to the Wireless Messaging news and views. | Promoting Wireless Messaging, Telemetry, and Paging.
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One Device, One Invoice, One Provider Receive unlimited pages for one flat rate of just $9.99 a month per end-user. That means no overage charges. Replies and messages that originate from end-users' devices are charged at the standard, applicable text-messaging rates. Flexible Implementation Options Our bulk provision process allows easy set-up of your end users. Our self-provisioning website allows individual end users to sign up for the service independently. It also allows you to personally evaluate the benefits of this feature before adding it to your end users' accounts using the bulk provisioning method. Source: AT&T Wireless | |||
"He was very encouraging to them," Mrs. Johnson added. "He felt that if the children had one area in which they could excel, they would do well in life. Several swimmers on his team won state competitions. Several went to college on swimming scholarships, including my son Chris. Bill was extremely dedicated and had a real impact on the children's lives." "Bill bragged on those kids like they were his own," recalled Meg Rooney of Lilburn, the treasurer of the Gwinnett County Swim League. "They brought him a lot of joy." William F. Clody, 60, of Suwanee died Thursday of a heart attack at WellStar Kennestone Hospital. The funeral is at 1:30 p.m. today at Wages and Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel, Lawrenceville. Soon after graduating from North Carolina State University in 1975 with a business degree, Mr. Clody moved to Atlanta, where he found work in the computer industry. "He was a computer whiz," said his son, Andrew Clody of Kennesaw. "He was in the forefront of computer engineering, involved with telecommunications companies, paging systems, cellular phones, things like that." "Bill was amazing," said his brother-in-law, Dr. Kenneth Carroll of Norcross. "He built his own computers, and if someone was having computer trouble, he could fix it. There was a time when we were getting pornographic pop-ups, and Bill solved the problem over the phone." Fascinated by genealogy, Mr. Clody managed the Walker County section of the online GAGenWeb Project, part of the USGenWeb Project. "He traveled to Tennessee and North Carolina and compiled quite a family tree, going back some 200 years," Dr. Carroll said. Mr. Clody also built his own model trains and helped his son Andrew refurbish a classic Ford Mustang, Dr. Carroll said. "He was a well-rounded person, up to date on everything, even medicine. He knew how to smooth things over and please people. He would listen quietly to a conversation, then could summarize everything that was said and tell you what you should do. Bill was a big man, but gentle as he could be, a gentle bear." His wife, Emily Clody, died in 2002. Survivors include two other sons, Patrick Clody of Suwanee and Michael Clody of Raleigh. Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [free registration required] Sprint Picks BlackBerry For Business August 16, 2004 Sprint is gearing up to begin offering Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail platform to its business customers. The platform will launch on select devices later this year, Sprint says. The carrier selected the wireless e-mail platform, in part, because its BlackBerry Enterprise Server software integrates with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino. RIM has said support for Novell GroupWise is expected sometime this year, as well. Sprint's vice president of enterprise marketing, Tim Donahue, believes the addition of the BlackBerry platform will enable Sprint to provide an "attractive wireless offering" that will enable it to better serve its enterprise customers, including government, financial and legal services. The carrier has not yet announced an official availability date, and as such has held off on releasing pricing information. At the end of June, RIM posted fiscal first-quarter revenue of $269.6 million, up 28 percent from $210.6 million in the fourth quarter. During the quarter, the number of BlackBerry subscribers increased by roughly 270,000 from the previous quarter to bring the total number of customers to about 1.34 million. Source: Wireless Week Cingular set for early clearance Fri Aug 13, 6:00 AM ET Cingular Wireless LLC is expected to win government clearance for its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. within the next two months, which is much faster than investors initially expected. Sources said the Justice Department (news - web sites) investigation into the deal is in its final stages and should be wrapped up by Sept. 25. The Federal Communication Commission would then conclude its probe in October. Cingular had predicted clearance late in the fourth quarter, and many analysts expected it to occur in 2005. "Our investigation is ongoing, and I won't comment on the timetable," a Justice Department spokeswoman said. Officials for Cingular did not return a call for comment. One source involved in the transaction said the government will not require Cingular to divest significant wireless spectrum assets, though it appears the company will be required to make some targeted sales in narrow geographic markets. Most of these are rural areas where the companies are not fully utilizing the spectrum. Regardless, the required divestitures will not come close to giving Cingular the right to back out of the deal. The merger agreement requires the company to sell spectrum and customers worth up to $8.25 billion. That equates to dumping 10 million of the 22 million AT&T Wireless customers that Cingular is gaining in the transaction. Sources said Cingular has been working overtime to secure government acceptance of the merger prior to the November elections. Cingular fears that a change in presidential administrations could significantly delay the deal, since a new assistant attorney general and FCC (news - web sites) chairman would require time to get up to speed on the transaction. "The thinking of the parties is to get this done before the election," one of the sources said. "This sets the tone for what is happening." Cingular's confidence in winning government approval for the deal only grew Wednesday when the Justice Department asked a federal judge to amend the 2000 consent decree that gave BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. permission to create the wireless carrier. That 2000 decree required Cingular to divest spectrum in California and Indiana. It also barred the company from ever repurchasing the spectrum, which was bought by AT&T Wireless. The Justice Department told the court that it saw no reason to keep that repurchase restriction in place because the market has changed dramatically in four years. It said there are more wireless carriers now offering service in Los Angeles and Indianapolis, many of which use newer spectrum. In a statement Assistant Attorney General R. Hewitt Pate warned that the government's motion does not mean that the antitrust division will clear Cingular-AT&T Wireless. Yet sources said much of the analysis in the order indicates that the Justice Department is analyzing the markets in a way that favors the companies. For instance, it notes that the combined Cingular-AT&T Wireless would have at least 20% less market share if they merged than BellSouth and SBC had in Los Angeles and Indianapolis prior to the creation of Cingular. The sources said it was significant that the government did not expand the scope of its analysis to include wireline systems owned by BellSouth or SBC. Not only would combining wireline and wireless carriers in a single market make modifying the 2000 order impossible, it also would have increased the amount of spectrum Cingular would have to divest to buy AT&T Wireless. "The Justice Department really tipped their hand," one investor said. "This does say something about how they will look at the deal." Atlanta-based Cingular agreed in February to acquire Redmond, Wash.-based AT&T Wireless for $15 in cash per share. Source: Yahoo! News MetroPCS withdraws IPO Aug. 13, 2004 1:02 PM EST Following a previously announced delay in its planned initial public offering due to accounting issues, regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw the IPO that was expected to commence during the third quarter. The IPO registration was originally filed March 23 but was amended numerous times before MetroPCS announced late last month that it was delaying the offering so the company could review certain accounting issues that the carrier reported late last week, including an $845,000 understatement of revenues and $503,000 in net income for the first quarter of this year. MetroPCS is not new to financial uncertainty as its previous incarnation as General Wireless Inc. was one of the first companies to file for bankruptcy protection following its participation in the Federal Communications Commission’s initial auction of PCS licenses. GWI eventually emerged from bankruptcy protection having reduced its debt to the FCC from more than $1 billion to $166 million. Source: RCR Wireless News Mounties Probe Nortel August 17, 2004 Canadian authorities will begin a criminal investigation into financial accounting woes at Nortel Networks , the company said today. "These matters have been the subject of an ongoing review by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police," the Toronto company said in a statement. "Nortel Networks will continue to cooperate fully with the RCMP in connection with the investigation." Accounting problems having been dogging the company for months. In April, Nortel's board of directors fired president and CEO Frank Dunn over questions about its books. They also dismissed CFO Douglas Beatty and controller Michael Gollogly, both of whom had been on month-long paid leaves. Asked if authorities are focusing their investigation on former Nortel executives or if the scope is broader, Nortel spokeswoman Tina Warren said the "RCMP has not provided details about their timeline or the nature of their investigation." In addition to the criminal probe in Canada, the U.S. Attorney's Office's investigation of the company's accounting is ongoing, and the company faces class-action lawsuits from investors. In related news, Nortel said it will release preliminary financial results for the first half of the year. It previously delayed earnings reports while an audit team pored over past results. In the midst of all this distraction, Nortel has notched some lucrative contracts. Just last week it confirmed that it has received a letter-of-intent from a state-owned telecom in India. Under that contract, Nortel will supply equipment to expand the carrier's GSM (define) network in the eastern and southern sections of the South Asian country. Closer to home, Nortel has seen increased demand for softswitches (define), which allow service providers to offer Voice over IP (define) and other services. It recently expanded a deal with cable operator Charter Communications to provide softswitch equipment. Source: InternetNews.com Global Cellular Data Forecasts (2004 - 2009) Author: Phil Taylor Summary Source: Strategy Analytics | |||
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From: Brian Gilmore < Brad: It looks like one of the first wireless telephone carriers to roll out a robust buffet of enterprise and TAS/call center type wireless text messaging input options (TAP, SNPP, WCTP) is AT&T Wireless. See http://www.attwireless.com/midtolarge/solutions/email/entpaging.jhtml or www.enterprisepaging.com. This appears to be a very new offering and we have not evaluated it fully, but if their WCTP is being done over HTTPS (SSL) then the Internet hop may be well secured and thus, unlike SMTP or SNPP, suitable for HIPAA applications. As for OTA security, we also have not yet analyzed that. Note that they are not giving this capability away as a freebie—it'll cost the individual user an extra $9.95/month. AT&T Wireless seems to be well on their way to smart implementation with both bulk provisioning for TAS/call centers and a self provisioning website for end users. Their web form also looks like they are upping the ante on support, as you can identify yourself as the end user or an IT professional, and as an AT&T customer or not an AT&T customer. This makes sense when a call center tech is troubleshooting a problem on behalf of a client who is the AT&T customer and end user. That suggests the possibility of a more intelligent approach to helping support different types of people seeking support. If AT&T Wireless is smart, inquiries from IT professionals will be routed to technical personnel qualified to efficiently resolve problems instead of front line customer service reps. I think the most significant thing about this offering is AT&T Wireless understands they add value by upgrading simple SMS on a wireless phone to an offering more competitive with paging service—AND THEY CHARGE A PREMIUM FEE for that added value. That tells you something about how AT&T Wireless sees their current bundled (free) SMS offerings relative to real paging service and what they think the market will bear. This new service offering heralds an opportunity for both paging carriers and wireless telephone carriers. There are REAL differences - numerous pros and cons—when SMS and paging services are compared objectively. It is up to the paging industry to keep the competition intense as wireless telephone carriers offer more competitive alternatives and as AT&T Wireless narrows the price gap with a rate hike for their new offering. Thanks to ATSI member Aaron Osgood of Streamline Solutions (http://www.streamline-solutions.net) for bringing this AT&T Wireless announcement to my attention. Aaron can be reached on 207-781-5561 or at AOsgood@streamline-solutions.net. |
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FCC TAKES ACTION TO PROTECT WIRELESS SUBSCRIBERS FROM SPAM Washington, DC—The Commission has taken action to protect consumers from receiving unsolicited commercial messages on their wireless phones and pagers. The action implements the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act or Act). The Commission adopted a general prohibition on sending commercial messages to any address referencing an Internet domain associated with wireless subscriber messaging services. To assist the senders of such messages in identifying those subscribers, the Commission required that commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers submit those domain names to the Commission for inclusion in a list that will be made publicly available. No individual subscriber addresses will be collected or included on this list. It also clarified the delineation between these new rules implementing the CAN-SPAM Act, and the existing rules concerning messages sent to wireless telephone numbers under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Specifically, the Commission has taken the following actions:
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SCOTT D. DELACOURT NAMED DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF OF THE Washington, DC—John Muleta, Chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has announced that Scott D. Delacourt will become a Deputy Bureau Chief. In his new position, Delacourt will oversee matters before the Bureau’s Broadband Division and before the Bureau’s Spectrum & Competition Policy Division. “As Chief of Staff, Scott has provided valuable leadership and counsel during an eventful year for the Bureau—including a reorganization and an active policy agenda,” said Muleta. “I am pleased to have someone of his talents to address the challenges of this new portfolio.” Most recently, Delacourt served as Chief of Staff and Associate Bureau Chief of the Wireless Bureau. In that role, he was responsible for providing staffing and support for the Bureau Chief, long range agenda planning, and Bureau management. Prior to assuming that position, Delacourt served as Senior Counsel in the Office of General Counsel, where he advised the Chairman’s Office on wireless and international matters. His tenure in the General Counsel’s Office followed prior service in the Wireless Bureau, as Legal Advisor to former Bureau Chief Tom Sugrue. Prior to joining the Commission, Delacourt was an attorney with the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he specialized in communications law issues, including wireless, Internet, common carrier, and appellate matters. In addition, he is a Trustee of the FCBA Foundation, where he serves as the Secretary. Delacourt received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Georgetown University. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. - FCC - |
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Paging Training Course Specially designed course for sales, marketing, and administration personnel. Engineers will only be admitted with a note signed by their mothers, promising that they will just listen and not disrupt the class. (This is supposed to be funny!) This is a one-day training course on paging that can be conducted at your place of business. Please take a look at the course outline to see if you think this might be beneficial in your employees: Paging training course outline. I would be happy to customize the content to meet your specific requirements. Although it touches on several "technical" topics, it is definitely not a technical course. I used to teach the sales and marketing people at Motorola Paging and they appreciated an atmosphere where they could ask technical questions without being made to feel like a dummy and without getting a long convoluted overly-technical answer that left them more confused than before. A good learning environment is one that is non-threatening. Let me know if you would like to receive a quotation, or if you would like to have any additional information. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PAGING TECHNICIAN Mark Hood mehood@cox.net Telephone: 757-588-0537 Paging Field Engineer/Electronic technician in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Download resumé here. |
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Intel group pitches broadband WLAN, opposes WWise August 17, 2004 (8:55 AM EDT) SUNNYVALE, Calif. —TGn Sync, a coalition of more than a dozen companies that includes Intel Corp. Cisco and Nokia among its members, has submitted a proposal for a next-generation wireless LAN standard to the IEEE 802.11 Task Group N (TGn). As a result the great and the good of electronics and semiconductor industries are now drawn up in two conflicting camps. The WWise consortium, including Broadcom Corp., Conexant Systems Inc., STMicroelectronics NV and Texas Instruments Inc. announced their submission of a proposed broadband wireless standard achieving up to 540-Mbit/s last Thursday (Aug. 17). The rival TGn Sync coalition is proposing a method using two antennas to deliver data rates up to 243-Mbit/s that it claims could scale to over 600 Mbit/s. In the TGn Sync camp are: Agere Systems Inc., Atheros Communications Inc. Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Nokia Corp., Nortel Networks Corp., Royal Philips Electronics N.V., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. The proposal also uses adaptive radio techniques to ensure that wireless products can adjust to the planned expansion of unlicensed and licensed spectrum in China, Japan, South Korea, North America, the European Union (EU), and other regions. The TGn Sync proposal will be presented at the next IEEE 802.11 meeting from September 13-17 in Berlin. The first draft of the 802.11n specification is scheduled to be completed in mid-2005 with its final ratification expected in late 2006 to early 2007. Source: EETimes Dear ZigBee™ Alliance Members and Friends, Learn more about ZigBee at the Short Range Wireless Conference, October 06-07, 2004, in Denver, Colorado. On October 07, 2004 (9:30 a.m. in the Grand Mesa F Ballroom), ZigBee Alliance Member, Jon Adams (Freescale Semiconductor), will deliver the Keynote Presentation, Designing with ZigBee in Home, Industrial and Commercial Applications This presentation will explain how to use ZigBee to solve your customers' needs. You'll dive deep into the technical details of ZigBee, starting with the flexible, robust and reliable IEEE 802.15.4 wireless short-range standard; moving into ZigBee's native mesh networking and data/network security methods; and then cover the ZigBee device object and application profiles. Discover what applications are planned in the building automation, home control and industrial automation markets. You'll also receive a brief overview of the ZigBee Alliance and find out what testing and certification services they offer, so you can quickly and successfully get your ZigBee-enabled products to market. Also, on October 07, 2004 (10:45 a.m. in Wind Star B), ZigBee Alliance Member, Tod Riedel (Millennial Net) will deliver his presentation, Wireless Sensor Networks: Where Technologies Meet and Applications Are Endless Lacking an efficient means to enable communication between non-computer devices—like motion-detection sensors used on the battlefield or thermometers gauging the temperature of food products or pharmaceuticals in transitwireless sensing networking and ZigBee technology has seized on a market need and opportunity. This presentation will discuss the challenges and benefits of using wireless, mesh networking for remote applications and as a short-range wireless technology. Karen C. Naungayan |
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