FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 3, 2004 - ISSUE NO. 128 | ||
Dear friends of Wireless Messaging and Paging, Well, I know this isn't a newsletter about computers, but the new Apple iMac is so cool, I couldn't resist. It looks like a flat-screen monitor—it's only two inches thick. With a wireless keyboard, a wireless mouse, and a wireless Internet connection, the only wire needed is the power cord. See it at the end of this page. I hope you "Windoze" users don't feel too bad—but then if you do—you can always buy one. It's better to switch than to fight. I got a telephone call yesterday from an old friend and colleague in Mexico. A coworker had sent him a copy of the newsletter. I was embarrassed at the oversight of not having his e-mail address in my database. That has since been corrected. If you would be so kind as to take a couple of minutes and let some of your friends and coworkers know about the newsletter, I would sure appreciate the favor. I think there are a lot more people out there who would like to receive this newsletter, if they only knew about it. An announcement from the FCC follows about several personnel changes on their staff. I hope that everyone, in Florida, in the path of Hurricane Frances will take extreme caution and follow the recommendations for evacuation and/or shelter. A market forecast follows that the world-wide sales of cellular handsets will reach 650 million units this year. Wow! Now, concerning the AAPC 2004 Fall Conference, "Answering the Challenges of Today & Tomorrow" to be held November 3-5 at the beautiful Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. I have two new items just received:
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A new issue of The Wireless Messaging Newsletter gets posted on the web each week. A notification goes out by e-mail to subscribers on most Fridays around noon Eastern US time. The notification message has a link to the actual newsletter on the Internet. That way it doesn't fill up your incoming e-mail account. There is no charge for subscription and there are no membership restrictions. Readers are a very select group of wireless industry professionals, and include the senior managers of many of the world's major paging and wireless data companies. There is an even mix of operations managers, marketing people, and engineers, so I try to include items of interest to all three groups. It's all about staying up-to-date with business trends and technology. I regularly get reader's comments, so this newsletter has become a community forum for the paging, and wireless data communities. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and opinions. Unless otherwise requested, all correspondence addressed to me is subject to publication in the newsletter and on my website. NOTE: This newsletter is best viewed at screen resolutions of 800x600 (good) or 1024x768 (better). Any current revision of web browser should work fine. Please notify me of any problems with viewing. This site is compliant with XHTML 1.0 transitional coding for easy access from wireless devices. (XML 1.0/ISO 8859-1.) Your help is needed. Help keep the newsletter going. Click on the PayPal button. |
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Nortel grants interop. approval to Glenayre’s messaging product Aug. 31, 2004 12:38 PM EST ATLANTA—Nortel Networks Ltd. has granted interoperability approval to a new mobile messaging product from Glenayre Technologies Inc. Glenayre’s Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE), which was designed to cost-effectively deploy and operate multiple applications on one platform, was approved for interoperability with Nortel’s GSM/GPRS wireless infrastructure. Approval was achieved using GSM 17 and MTX 12 CDMA infrastructure equipment. A former paging infrastructure company, Glenayre provides messaging solutions for wireless and wireline carriers, including Nextel Communications Inc., T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular Corp. and Alltel Corp. “Glenayre is excited to bring to market a flexible, scalable communications solution that delivers expanded messaging capabilities and allows carriers to remain competitive,” said Bruce Bales, president of Glenayre’s messaging business. “Versera ICE is a true next-generation system that allows service providers to retain subscribers, minimize total cost of ownership and increase revenues.” Source: RCR Wireless News Mobile phone sales soar to record levels Thursday, September 2, 2004 PARIS Global handset sales rose to record levels in the second quarter as Nokia clawed back some of its lost market share, according to private-sector figures released on Thursday. Gartner, a technology research firm, said 156 million new cellphones were sold worldwide in the second quarter, up from 153 million in the first quarter. The figure indicates that the industry could ship 10 percent more cellphones than projected at the start of 2004. The new data also show that Nokia, the world's largest maker of cellphones, halted a decline in its market position. The Finnish company posted a small gain in its global market share, to 29.7 percent from 28.9 percent in the first quarter, Gartner said. Worldwide sales in the second quarter were up 35 percent over the same period last year, making the April-to-June period the best second quarter on record, said Ben Wood, a Gartner analyst in London. "The surprise was that the market grew quarter on quarter," he said. "We were predicting that it would be flat or even lower." The growth was fueled by a "sensational performance" in Latin America and sales to U.S. and European consumers replacing older handsets with models with color displays and built-in cameras. For the year, 620 million to 650 million cellphones are likely to be sold globally, which is at least 10 percent more than Gartner had originally projected, Wood said. But Richard Windsor, an analyst at Nomura in London, said he was sticking with a forecast of 602 million units. "There are some worrying signs," Windsor said. "There are some rumblings from Asia that things are slowing down a bit, so I am not in the 'all excited' camp." In its report, Gartner said sales in the Asia-Pacific region showed a slight decrease over the first quarter of 2004. In China, the biggest mobile market, the government's efforts to control the economy weakened demand for electronics goods, according Gartner. In mature markets like Taiwan, Singapore and Australia, buyers delayed purchases in anticipation of further price reductions or increases in subsidies. Nonetheless, the Asian market, China in particular, represents a big growth opportunity for Western handset makers, Gartner and other analysts said. The market share of Chinese handset vendors has fallen from about 50 percent to 38 percent because they have not been able to make phones with built-in cameras with color displays and cannot compete with Western manufacturers in quality or on price, analysts said. "China is still the most important market on a global basis and remains critical for the top six handset manufacturers," Wood said. While Motorola's market share in China slipped in the second quarter, Nokia, which changed its distribution methods to include small distributors and retailers in rural areas, "is doing very well there," Wood said. India, he added, remains a huge potential market for Western suppliers. In Japan, NEC, Sharp and Panasonic remain the top vendors, but Motorola is breaking into the market and Nokia is expected to try and do so, Wood said. A sales increase of 20 percent in Latin America during the second quarter helped Nokia and Motorola, Wood said. Source: International Herald Tribune Ericsson Pulls Bluetooth 2 September 2004 Ericsson was the company that first invented Bluetooth, now it's the first company to cease developing and manufacturing Bluetooth chips. Ericsson is not cutting Bluetooth support and development altogether, however it will not create any new hardware, or even new intellectual property, based on the Bluetooth protocol. Ericsson will move its existing development and support staff into the Mobile Platforms unit, which designs and manufactures chipsets and reference platforms for handsets. This move shows that Ericsson still believes there is a place in the mobile phone for Bluetooth, however it feels that maintaining a separate design and semiconductor unit is not a profitable long-term business decision. This does not mean Ericsson thinks that Bluetooth is dead, simply that it is mature enough that it has become mainstream. Once a product reaches mainstream adoption, production typically shifts to high volume, low margin manufacturers. Now that the Bluetooth spec is stable and fast, development will be incremental at best. Since that was Ericsson's strength, it is ceding the market to players who are stronger at volume rather than innovation. Analysts and reporters have spent the last three years predicting Bluetooth's demise, no matter how many chipsets were shipped or devices were sold. It's no surprise then that some are declaring Ericsson's withdrawal as the beginning of the end for Bluetooth. But now that Bluetooth is genuinely popular, there is too large an installed base of users for Bluetooth to just disappear from the wireless scene. it's installed base is high enough that it's not going away anytime soon, Over time some or all of Bluetooth's functions may be taken over by newer protocols—ZigBee, UWB, NFC, and other acronyms we haven't even heard of yet—but Bluetooth still has quite a few years of life left in it. Source: Esato.com New Optical Clock Promises More Accuracy than Cesium. NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology] researchers have demonstrated a new kind of atomic clock that has the potential to be up to 1,000 times more accurate than today's best clock. The new clock is based on an energy transition in a single trapped mercury ion (a mercury atom that is missing one electron). Building a clock based on such a high-frequency transition was previously impractical because it requires both "capturing" the ion and holding it very still to get accurate readings, and having a mechanism that can "count" the ticks accurately at such a high frequency. The quality of a clock depends on its stability and accuracy—whether the clock provides a constant, unchanging output frequency, and how close the measured frequency is to the fundamental atomic resonance that provides the clock's "tick." One advantage of the new clock is that it ticks much faster. Today’s international time and frequency standards, such as NIST-F1, measure an atomic resonance of about 9 billion cycles per second. By contrast, the new NIST device monitors an optical frequency more than 100,000 times higher or about 1 quadrillion (US) cycles per second. Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology Cingular Wireless is Prepared for Hurricane Frances Carrier Executing Emergency Preparedness Plans as Hurricane Frances Approaches Florida Coast BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/—Hurricane Frances is fast approaching the Florida Coast and Cingular Wireless wants its customers to know it is prepared and ready to respond as needed to keep them in contact with those important to them. "Wireless devices have become a critical communications tool for staying in touch with colleagues and loved ones, especially during emergency situations," Rich Guidotti, vice president and general manager, Cingular Wireless-South Florida. "Cingular has over 20 years of experience in providing wireless communications during severe weather and we are committed to providing our customers with the wireless service they need, when they need it." Cingular's Hurricane Frances Preparations
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Brad, FYI—Looking for news? Don't know if you have seen this yet from the Yahoo! Private Wireless forum—This will affect our ability use of 900 SMR channels for ReFLEX—Time to lite 'em up at the FCC as the lawyer says! Fred Pakosta From the UTC . . . To all UTC members with 900 MHz PLMR systems: It has come to UTC's attention that, during the past few weeks, Nextel Communications under the name of ACI900, Inc. has been applying for virtually every available Business pool frequency, everywhere in the country, in the 896-901/935-940 MHz band. ACI 900 states in these hundreds of applications that the frequencies are needed for private, internal use, although this appears questionable. Commercial operators are not eligible for these frequencies. PCIA coordinated nearly all of the applications. UTC members using 900 MHz frequencies are encouraged to examine the applications filed to determine whether your systems may be impacted, in which case you may wish to file a Petition to Dismiss or Deny. Such petitions must be filed within 30 days of notice that the application has been filed with the FCC. UTC has compiled a spreadsheet of applications listed thus far on ULS, and will send you the file upon request (we do not include it here due to size; it may be blocked by some of your email systems). Attached to this message is a map generated by UTC Spectrum Services, showing the locations of the proposed base stations. We also have a larger file listing all requested frequencies on ULS, at this point totaling nearly 61,000. UTC will be following up with other coordinators and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau concerning this issue based on eligibility, need and other issues; however, action by multiple affected licensees is the most effective means of gaining the FCC's attention. We urge you to determine whether your system may be impacted by Nextel's actions and to take appropriate action quickly. We will provide additional information as it becomes available; in the meantime, please request the spreadsheet by contacting Legal/Regulatory Coordinator Caroline Bruenderman at:caroline.bruenderman@utc.org. Jill M. Lyon Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:25:46 EDT The applications haven't been granted yet, so now (not after the grant) is your opportunity to "light 'em up!" by filing Petitions to Deny at the FCC. Alan In a message dated 9/2/2004 1:18:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, zawada@ncsa.edu writes: Wow, they're at it again, huh? I went into ULS and looked at a couple of the applications in question. And if you didn't know that ACI 900 is owned by Nextel, looking at the address on the applications and looking up a few SEC documents would quickly confirm it. I wonder why they don't enter "Nextel Communications, Inc." as the Real Party of Interest (line #14)? Of course, I don't know what rules kick in to compel someone to fill that information in. I suspect there's little to force Nextel to disclose that information. It's interesting that these channels are not only for private, internal use, but also they are not being licensed for Interconnect use. Not to say that the licenses couldn't be modified later. . . Nextel usually works these deals in a multi-step manner. I'm no attorney, but I don't see how the FCC can stop Nextel from doing this. Can they prove that Nextel, um I mean ACI 900, doesn't have a need for these channels for private internal use? They don't enforce loading anymore, do they? What rules would stand in the way to keep Nextel from doing this? I'm afraid that the FCC threw industrial/business wireless under the bus a long time ago and this round of Nextel applications are pretty much a done deal. This will be viewed as just another step in moving spectrum out of the hands of those inefficient industrial users to get it into the hands of the commercial operators who will actually do something (they feel) is useful with the spectrum. *sigh* —zawada Friday, September 3, 2004; Page E05 Nextel Communications, the smallest of six nationwide U.S. wireless carriers, outspent bigger competitors on government lobbying in the first half of this year, when it was working to win access to airwaves valued at $4.86 billion. The Reston company spent $1.92 million, compared with $240,000 during the same period a year earlier, according to a report filed with Congress. Verizon Wireless, the biggest carrier, spent $1.3 million, partly in an attempt to derail Nextel's plan, which won approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The filings were provided to Bloomberg News by the companies. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57893-2004Sep2.html (free registration required) |
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Both the Advisor II pager and the LS355 pager are available in POCSAG, UHF or VHF models and ship with a one-year standard warranty. As part of the continued support of these pagers, Motorola offers a two-year Express Service Plus program. This feature provides hardware repair coverage for two years beyond the standard one-year warranty for a total of three years of pager repair coverage. Both pagers are available through Motorola Authorized Resellers. MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2003. | Complete Technical Services For The Ira Wiesenfeld, P.E.
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www.gtesinc.com GTES is the only Glenayre authorized software support provider to the paging industry. The GTES team consists of highly qualified and seasoned associates who were formerly a part of Glenayre's paging infrastructure support and engineering operations. We are poised and ready to "Partner" with you to ensure the viability of your network, reduce your long-term cost of ownership, and to provide future solutions for profitability. GTES will offer product sales, maintenance services, software development and product development to the wireless industry. GTES SUITE OF PRODUCTS GTES Partner Program Product Sales On-Site Services Software Development Product Training CALL US TODAY FOR YOUR SUPPORT NEEDS | Intelligent Paging & Mobile Data Hardware & Software Selective is a developer and manufacturer of highly innovative paging receiver/decoders and mobile data equipment. The PDT2000 Paging Data Terminal is THE MOST INTELLIGENT PAGING RECEIVER IN THE MARKET. The PDT2000 is a large display pager designed for desktop or in-vehicle mounting and is widely used by emergency services and in onsite paging systems for forklift dispatch etc. All of the following capabilities are standard features of the PDT2000 and of our other paging data receivers:
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PROXIM White Paper The Broadband Wireless Access Market: Evolution of the WiMAX standard. The hottest new white paper, a top download on the Proxim website, educates readers on broadband wireless access, the WiMAX standard, and how it impacts the marketplace. Source: Proxim (pdf) Madison, Wis., may provide wireless Internet for all September 2, 2004 MADISON, Wis.—City officials are looking into the possibility of bringing wireless Internet to Madison on a widespread basis, a spokeswoman for the mayor says. "We'd like to be out there with Philadelphia as being one of the first to do it," said Melanie Conklin of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's office. "What the mayor is envisioning, (is) something that is an amenity to the public." Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street appointed a committee last week to work out specifics of his city's plan. Wireless access is already is available in a few Madison locations, such as the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin campus. About a dozen Madison city staff members, including police and fire department officials, met last week to talk about the idea of citywide wireless access, known as a mesh network. Conklin said such a network could cost "many millions'' of dollars." " That would be an immense project," she said. "But it could also address some vital communications needs that city government itself has, such as police and fire, and communication among our streets division. There's some real potential there." Madison could pursue wireless access for the entire city or just for some areas, such as Downtown, the Dane County Regional Airport, and possibly, Madison Metro transfer points, Conklin said. " More than a dozen companies have come to us,'' she said. "A couple of them have actually put together proposals." But Conklin said there are still a lot of questions to answer. They include whether the city should bear the cost of installing the technology and offer the service at little or no cost to residents or whether it should contract with a company to shoulder most equipment expenses and charge people who want to log on, she said. " We've asked the city attorney's office to analyze the legal issues, and we're leaning towards heading forward with a request for information," Conklin said. The request would "lay out the goals the city wants to address and have people come to us with their creative ideas," she said. "It's certainly something we're going to approach with some caution because we don't want to invest in something that's going to become obsolete overnight," she said. Source: startribune.com Philadelphia is at forefront of wireless for all Sept. 2, 2004, 12:10AM PHILADELPHIA—For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city, probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers. Once complete, the network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can go, including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is rare. And the city would likely offer the service either for free or at costs far lower than the $35 to $60 a month charged by commercial providers, said the city's chief information officer, Dianah Neff. "If you're out on your front porch with a laptop, you could dial in, register at no charge and be able to access a high-speed connection," Neff said. "It's a technology whose time is here." The city of Houston has begun to look at the feasibility of working with wireless Internet providers to create a ubiquitous WiFi network. Corpus Christi has been experimenting with a system covering 20 square miles that would be used (for now) only by government employees. Source: The Houston Chronicle |
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