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Welcome Back To The Wireless Messaging News Sorry This issue is being published on Monday, July 9, 2108 due to unforeseen circumstances. Apple today released iOS 11.4.1, the fifteenth update to the iOS 11 operating system that was first introduced in September 2017. iOS 11.4.1 comes more than a month after the release of iOS 11.4, a major update that introduced support for Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2. [Source and more info.] Another one here: While not a major update in any way, Apple is today releasing iOS 11.4.1, watchOS 4.3.2, and tvOS 11.4.1 to the public.
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GLENAYRE INFRASTRUCTUREI would like to recommend Easy Solutions for Support of all Glenayre Paging Equipment. This Texas company is owned and operated by Vaughan Bowden. I have known Vaughan for over 35 years. Without going into a long list of his experience and qualifications, let me just say that he was the V.P. of Engineering at PageNet which was—at that time—the largest paging company in the world. So Vaughan knows Paging. GTES is no longer offering support contracts. GTES was the original group from Vancouver that was setup to offer support to customers that wanted to continue with the legacy Glenayre support. Many U.S. customers chose not to use this service because of the price and the original requirement to upgrade to version 8.0 software (which required expensive hardware upgrades, etc.). Most contracts ended as of February 2018. If you are at all concerned about future support of Glenayre products, especially the “king of the hill” the GL3000 paging control terminal, I encourage you to talk to Vaughan about a service contract and please tell him about my recommendation. |
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JUL 8, 2018 @ 07:20 PM iPhone Exclusive: Apple's Massive, Cheap iPhone Confirmed
Ghostek is back again. The popular case maker worked with me on a Galaxy S9 design exclusive last year and we teamed up to deliver new iPhone schematics last month. Now it has supplied me with renders which show-off the best and worst features of Apple AAPL +1.39%’s exciting ‘budget iPhone X’. . . Once again tapping up its sources in Apple’s supply chain, Ghostek confirms Apple will indeed give fans the design they want, at the price they want, but not with all the features they want.
As the render shows, for approximately the same cost as an iPhone 8, Apple fans on a budget will be soon able to get the same bezel-less design as the iPhone X - complete with Face ID facial recognition. That’s the good news. The bad news is buyers won’t get the same dual camera as the iPhone X or even the slightly downgraded version in the iPhone 8 Plus. Instead, they will be restricted to a single rear camera. How confident is Ghostek in this information? It is being used to lock down the company’s update of its Atomic Slim cases.
Furthermore, we can add proportions to this render thanks to Apple’s finalised schematics. Coming in at 147.12 x 71.52 mm (5.79 x 2.81-inches), the budget iPhone X (which I predict to simply be called ‘iPhone’) is slightly larger than the original iPhone X and Apple will use this additional size to squeeze in a 6.1-inch display. This display does have compromises since it will be LCD not OLED and lack 3D Touch, but Apple will compensate users by including fast wired charging for free. Does the budget iPhone X get everything right? No, performance is already a concern, but with users expected to save approximately $300 for relatively minor concessions, I suspect it has the potential to outsell every iPhone before it. . . |
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Paging Transmitters 150/900 MHz The RFI High Performance Paging Transmitter is designed for use in campus, city, state and country-wide paging systems. Designed for use where reliable simulcast systems where RF signal overlap coverage is critical.
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PSA: If you’re experiencing excessive battery drain on iOS 11.4, it’s not just youChance Miller
A growing number of iPhone users have taken to Apple’s support forums to complain of excessive battery drain since updating to iOS 11.4. Over 33 pages of complaints have piled up on Apple’s site, with users reporting varying levels of battery drain with iOS 11.4. The primary issue seems to be standby battery life, with users reporting that their iPhone will drain an abnormal amount even when not being actively used. One user explains that this first started the day they updated to iOS 11.4:
Interestingly, one user says that the Settings app shows Personal Hotspot using nearly 50 percent of battery life, despite it never actually being turned on:
At this point, it’s unclear what exactly is causing this issue, but it certainly appears to be becoming rather widespread with Apple yet to acknowledge it. Some users report that iOS 12 resolves their issues, but that of course won’t be released until this fall.
Apple is also currently beta testing iOS 11.4.1, but it’s unclear at this point if that update resolves the issues. |
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Internet Protocol Terminal The IPT accepts Internet or serial messaging using various protocols and can easily convert them to different protocols, or send them out as paging messages. An ideal platform for hospitals, on-site paging applications, or converting legacy systems to modern protocols.
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Paging Data Receiver PDR-4 The PDR-4 is a multi-function paging data receiver that decodes paging messages and outputs them via the serial port, USB or Ethernet connectors. Designed for use with Prism-IPX ECHO software Message Logging Software to receive messages and log the information for proof of transmission over the air, and if the data was error free.
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Remote AB Switches ABX-1 switches are often used at remote transmitter sites to convert from old, outdated and unsupported controllers to the new modern Prism-IPX ipBSC base station controllers. Remotely switch to new controllers with GUI commands. ABX-1 ABX-3 switches are widely used for enabling or disabling remote equipment and switching I/O connections between redundant messaging systems. ABX-3 Common Features:
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In the Room Where It HappenedBy Jim Fryer, Managing Editor, Inside Towers
As an editor I have a soft spot in my heart every Independence Day for one Thomas Jefferson. The 33-year old delegate from Virginia was asked in the summer of 1776, to bang out a quick paper on, oh, Everything America Stands For based on pure conjecture. “And, yo, Tommy, we need it by Friday,” was likely the sum total of his instructions. So Jefferson secludes himself in the second-floor room of the two-room apartment pictured above (a ‘must see’ if you come for a visit) located in a building on the southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. He rolls up his sleeves . . . it was hot . . . fills up his inkwell, sends his manservant Bob (true!) down to the corner for a couple of cheese-steak hoagies with fried onions and goes to work. (That last part is still undocumented historically speaking, but his rough draft does show some unexplained grease stains.) A copy of that rough draft shows how he agonized over every word making it not just a legally viable document but one of the great works of prose in the English language.
He had a couple of very sympathetic and light-handed editors looking over that first draft, two guys named Franklin and Adams who knew The Kid had writing chops but the Continental Congress would likely tear it to pieces. Franklin, 70 at the time, knew what his young friend was up against, saying, “I have made it a rule whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draftsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body.” Old Ben sat next to young Tom while the Congress began taking its swings at the document on July 1, wisely cautioning him to let the process play itself out. Jefferson heeded the old man’s advice saying, “As to myself, I thought it a duty to be, on that occasion, a passive auditor of the opinions of others, more impartial judges than I could be, of its merits or demerits.” But he suffered in his silence while seeing his text, in his own words, “mangled.” Adams, known for his bluntness among his colleagues, called the debate “an idle Mispence of Time.” Five decades later, Jefferson would give Adams credit for his leadership saying, “he supported the Declaration with zeal and ability, fighting fearlessly for every word of it.” The most noted line that was left “on the cutting room floor” concerned slavery. “The CHRISTIAN (his emphasis) king of Great Britain, Jefferson wrote, was “determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.” As Franklin and Adams no doubt anticipated, yet left in with hopes . . . no one would notice? . . . the southern states would have an objection or two to the clause. Jefferson ‘read the room’ and stayed silent while it was stricken from the document. He later said: “The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under these censures, for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.” One can only wonder what the course of this nation would have been if the non-southern delegates, emboldened by a Virginian, no less, had followed their principles and kept that clause intact. The debate may have raged on for another week or two had it not been so hot in Philly that summer of ‘76. But to cool things off, the windows were opened and the delegates were promptly attacked by horseflies from a nearby stable. Congress quickly decided to vote, adjourn, and retreat to local taverns . . . otherwise we’d be wishing each other a happy July 8th or 13th. So, in the end, Jefferson had Franklin, Adams and horseflies to thank for preserving much of his efforts. And we thank him too. Happy 4th! |
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Selected portions [sometimes more — sometimes less] 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 of The Wireless Messaging News with kind permission from the firm. The firm's contact information is included at the end of this section of the newsletter.
Certain Parts of Form 481 Confidential by Default; Carriers May Still Request Confidentiality for OthersStarting this year, FCC Form 481 will only be filed with USAC. Information designated as confidential pursuant to FCC protective orders (i.e., rate-of-return carriers' detailed financial information) will reportedly be excluded from the data that is made public. Carriers should review this year’s filing to ensure that confidential information is adequately protected. If carriers believe applicable rules do not provide adequate protection, they may request that information and documentation filed be protected from public disclosure or inspection through the FCC’s standard confidentiality request rule. Carriers interested in requesting additional confidentiality should contact the firm for more information. BloostonLaw Contacts: Gerry Duffy and Sal Taillefer. HeadlinesOpposition Deadline for Mobility Fund Phase II Application SetOn June 28, the FCC issued a Public Notice establishing the filing requirements for oppositions and replies regarding an application for review filed by Verizon Communications Inc. (“Verizon”) in the FCC’s Mobility Fund Phase II proceeding. Oppositions are due July 13, and replies are due July 23. On June 21, 2018, Verizon filed an application for review of the FCC’s decision to use a 400-meter “buffer” radius to assess challenges to areas initially deemed ineligible for MF-II support. Verizon asks in its application for the FCC to modify this procedure by instead requiring the use of a 250-meter “buffer” radius. According to the Public Notice, Verizon timely filed its application for review and individually served its application on some, but not all, of the parties that had commented in this proceeding; however the Commission’s rules requires applications for review to be individually served on all parties in a proceeding. Rather than dismiss the application, the FCC extended the deadline for filing oppositions to Verizon’s application for review to July 13, 2018, and the deadline for filing replies to those oppositions to July 23, 2018. This would provide notice to those parties who did not receive service in the normal way, and would also provide all parties with sufficient time to review the technical issues raised in Verizon’s application. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast and Cary Mitchell. FCC Announces Form 396-C Filing Deadline, Supplementary Investigation QuestionsOn July 2, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing that the deadline for multichannel video program distributors (MVPDs) must file with the Commission an FCC Form 396-C, Multi Channel Video Programming Distributor EEO Program Annual Report, for employment units with six or more full-time employees. Due to the annual September 30 deadline falling on a Sunday, Form 396-C is due on Monday, October 1 this year. The Public Notice also identifies those MVPDs that must complete the Supplementary Investigation Sheet portion of the form. That list can be found here. BloostonLaw Contacts: Gerry Duffy. FCC Issues Second Mobility Fund Phase II Challenge Process Portal UpdateOn July 2, the FCC issued the second update about the Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) challenge process. As of June 30, 2018, a total of 80 entities have access to the Universal Service Administrator Company (USAC) MF-II Challenge Process Portal to participate in the MF-II challenge process. Of these entities, 37 are mobile service providers required to file Form 477 data; 13 are state government entities; 14 are local government entities; 12 are Tribal government entities; and four are other entities that have filed petitions requesting, and have each been granted, a waiver to participate. To date, challengers have submitted data including 399,390 speed tests. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast and Cary Mitchell. Public Safety Narrowband 700MHz Amendments Effective
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“Cell Tower in a Box” Could Connect The Unconnected
A cell-tower network in a box may be an affordable method for remote areas to obtain Internet access. GeekWire reports that Spencer Sevilla, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Washington’s School of Computer Science and Engineering and his team, are developing IslandCell, a cell-tower network in a box that’s the size of a backpack, weighs approximately 20 pounds and is built with commercial grade cell tower hardware. Sevilla received a $25,000 grant from Amazon Catalyst in 2017 for what he characterizes as affordable, flexible technology. “Internet access is so useful that it becomes a fundamental need,” said Sevilla. The idea is that rural communities in the U.S. and abroad can pool their resources to buy the LTE device, which allows them to set up their own mini cellular network reaching up to six miles. The hardware connects to the Internet through a satellite network or a fiber connection, if available, but can provide basic locally-hosted services even without an Internet connection, reports GeekWire. “We are empowering people to build these tools for themselves,” Sevilla said. “It’s a community ownership model.” Sevilla plans to travel to Indonesia this month to test the technology in the field. He’s still working out details, including step-by-step instructions to help people set up the equipment; He wants deployment to be as easy as installing WiFi systems, and he’s happy to be tackling an important issue for billions of people, reports GeekWire. “We’re here to make social change,” Sevilla said. July 9, 2018 |
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Hey Brad: Ran across this ham radio paging net in central Europe and thought you might find it interesting. Found it as a result of my recent acquisition of a ZUMspot (a DMR/DStar/P25/YSF/NXDN/POCSAG Raspberry PI based gateway). POCSAG continues to live in amateur radio. 73, Barry
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The Secret to Happiness Is Helping Others There is a Chinese saying that goes: “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others. |
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