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Welcome Back To The Wireless Messaging News Today's issue of the newsletter has been shortened due to the Thanksgiving holiday. I am pleased to welcome a new advertiser this week: Wex International Limited Shenzhen Wex Technology Co. Ltd. WEX specializes on developing products based on Wireless, RF, GPS/GPRS and Pager technology. Our R&D unit consisting of experienced Hardware, software and Mechanical engineers is fully equipped with all Test equipment, RF chamber, temperature test equipment, waterproof tester, ultrasonic plastic sealing equipment etc. Wex undertakes turnkey (OEM/ODM) assignments. Starting from the product conceptual stage based on customers ideas, specifications and requirements we develop the product. We undertake designs covering Hardware, Software/Firmware and Mechanical aspects of a product. We supply engineering samples for customers testing and approval. Thereafter we will manufacture the product and supply to our customers. We have experienced professionals heading the company. Our aim is to design and manufacture quality and niche products according to our customer needs and satisfaction. Our R&D is headed by Wong Cheung, expert in RF and wireless technology. His team is responsible for the design of various pagers and pager technology based products as well as GPS/GPRS based products. He has a total of over 19 years experience pager design and manufacturing companies in China. Sales and Marketing is headed by Eric Dilip Kumar who has a total of over 32 years experience in Electronics industry. First 15 years in product development and manufacturing and the past 18 years (based in Hong Kong) handling sales and marketing for pagers and wireless products all over the world. Manufacturing is headed by Xu Chu Lin who has over 12 years experience in heading a purchase and manufacturing in leading companies in China. We have successfully developed and manufactured several products to our customers in USA, Mexico, UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia. Shenzhen Wex Technology Co. Ltd. is now a ISO9001 certified company List of products developed and manufactured to date are listed below:
We are currently working on more high tech based products to be released [later]. One of them is:
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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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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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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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RURAL BROADBAND SPEEDS Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25MbpsFCC-funded rural broadband currently requires download speed of just 10Mbps. JON BRODKIN - 11/20/2018, 3:12 PM
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to raise the rural broadband standard from 10Mbps to 25Mbps in a move that would require faster Internet speeds in certain government-subsidized networks. The FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF) distributes more than $1.5 billion a year to AT&T, CenturyLink, and other carriers to bring broadband to sparsely populated areas. Carriers that use CAF money to build networks must provide speeds of at least 10Mbps for downloads and 1Mbps for uploads. The minimum speed requirement was last raised in December 2014. Today, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he's proposing raising that standard from 10Mbps/1Mbps to 25Mbps/3Mbps. "[W]'re recognizing that rural Americans need and deserve high-quality services by increasing the target speeds for subsidized deployments from 10/1 Mbps to 25/3 Mbps," Pai wrote in a blog post that describes agenda items for the FCC's December 12 meeting. "[T]he program should support high-quality services; rural Americans deserve services that are comparable to those in urban areas," Pai also wrote. CAF (also known as the "high-cost program") is part of the Universal Service Fund, which is paid for by Americans through fees on their phone bills. The new 25Mbps/3Mbps standard will apply to future projects but won't necessarily apply to broadband projects that are already receiving funding. For ongoing projects, the FCC will use incentives to try to raise speeds. More money will be offered to carriers that agree to upgrade speeds to 25Mbps/3Mbps, a senior FCC official said in a conference call with reporters. FCC will offer “guaranteed revenue stream” Pai also said that carriers accepting CAF money will have the option of receiving a guaranteed revenue stream for 10 years. Pai wrote:
To provide the guaranteed revenue stream, Pai's proposal would reverse scheduled budget cuts and adjust the program budget in future years, an FCC official said. Pai said his proposals will "stretch taxpayer dollars as far as possible" and make sure that subsidies are "sufficient to build out networks; after all, these are areas where the business case for private investment is lacking." FCC subsidies should also be more predictable than in previous years, because "building networks is a serious long-term proposition, not a one-time whim," Pai wrote. When Democrat Tom Wheeler was FCC chair, Pai supported the commission's 2014 decision to raise the speed benchmark from 4Mbps/1Mbps to 10Mbps/1Mbps but said that the FCC should have also provided carriers with more years of funding to account for the upgrade. Pai opposed Wheeler's 2015 decision to raise a nationwide broadband standard to 25Mbps/3Mbps. Pai said at the time that 25/3Mbps was too high and criticized the Wheeler-led majority for using different standards, namely the 25Mbps/3Mbps standard for judging nationwide broadband deployment progress and the lower standard in rural projects subsidized by the government. As chair, Pai in 2017 floated a proposal that would lower broadband standards, but he changed course after a backlash. Despite Pai's claim that repealing net neutrality rules and other regulations will spur broadband deployment, Charter and Verizon both said this year that they're reducing capital expenditures. Broadband lobby groups USTelecom and NTCA recently argued that Internet service is similar to utilities such as electricity and gas distribution. The lobby groups also said that the government should provide more money to private companies to close the rural broadband gap. They complained that "US broadband infrastructure has been financed largely by the private sector without assurance that such costs can be recovered through increased consumer rates." |
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Letter from the Editor A Dinner I’m Thankful ForBy Jim Fryer, Managing Editor, Inside Towers Having attended one dinner last week in Washington D.C. hosted by WIA, honoring the founders of our industry, it gave me some added thanks to add to the dinner I’ll be having with family and friends tomorrow.
Among the many gratitudes I have for how life, crazy and unpredictable as it is, has blessed me over my Steven Bernstein, former founder and CEO of SBA, talked about starting his company on credit cards and buying chunks of spectrum for the cost of a Butterball turkey (my metaphor, not his . . . I think I’m getting hungry). Steve Dodge, founder and former CEO of American Tower, described putting up a series of towers on spec along a highway corridor in Florida, more on faith than on profound insights on what the market would become. Both men prospered and both were, yes, thankful for the the robust business that followed them. Like so many in the room, I caught the same wave and am riding it today. With a new year at our doorstep that has a packed pipeline of demand, I am saving one thanks tomorrow for our healthy and happening wireless infrastructure market and the bright future ahead. *redacted Inside Towers will not publish on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23. Our next newsletter will publish on Monday, November 26. -ed |
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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.
BloostonLaw wishes our clients a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday. Our offices will be closed Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23. Holiday EditionDraft Proposed Rate-of-Return High Cost Support Order ExpectedChairman Pai and the Wireline Bureau are expected to circulate before Thanksgiving a draft of the Order to be considered at the FCC’s December Open Meeting regarding changes to the High Cost Support mechanisms for Rate-of-Return (RoR) carriers. The Order is expected to contain a number of significant changes, including: (a) three separate RoR budgets — for the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (ACAM) mechanisms, the cost-based RoR support [High Cost Loop Support (HCLS) and Connect America Fund — Broadband Loop Support (CAF-BLS)] mechanisms, and the Connect America Fund — Intercarrier Compensation (CAF-ICC) mechanism; (b) an optional offer to existing ACAM recipients that would increase their funding benchmark from $146.10 to $200 if they accept certain additional 25/3 build-out obligations; (c) a new second ACAM offer (with 25/3 build-out obligations) available to all RoR carriers that did not or were not eligible to elect ACAM support the first time it was offered; and (d) an increased support budget (based upon 2018 HCLS and CAF-BLS calculations without any budget control mechanism decreases, with future inflation adjustments) for cost-based RoR carriers (plus additional 25/3 build-out obligations). BloostonLaw Contacts: Ben Dickens and Gerry Duffy. FCC Eliminates Detailed Handset Accessibility Compliance (HAC) Reporting Requirement in Favor of Simpler CertificationOn November 15, the FCC adopted a Report and Order eliminating the requirement that digital commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers (including carriers that provide service using AWS-1 spectrum and resellers of cellular, broadband PCS and/or AWS services) file FCC Form 655, better known as the Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Report. Instead, service providers will be required to post on their web sites more up-to-date and accessible information about hearing aid-compatible wireless handsets. Under the new rules, service providers must also certify annually whether they are in compliance with FCC hearing aid-compatibility rules. We note, however, that the FCC did not eliminate the Form 655 filing requirement for handset manufacturers. Finally, the Report and Order established a streamlined transition process for the new web site and certification requirements. BloostonLaw contacts: John Prendergast, Cary Mitchell, and Sal Taillefer. FCC Approves Use of Galileo Navigation System in United StatesOn November 15, the FCC granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the FCC’s rules so that non-Federal devices in the United States may access specific signals transmitted from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) known as Galileo. According to a Press Release by the FCC, “consumers and industry in the United States will now be permitted to access certain satellite signals from the Galileo system to augment the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), and thus benefit from improved availability, reliability, and resiliency of these position, navigation, and timing services in the United States.” The Order finds that the Galileo GNSS is uniquely situated as a foreign GNSS system with respect to the U.S. GPS, since the two systems are interoperable and radio-frequency compatible pursuant to the 2004 European Union/United States Galileo-GPS Agreement. Specifically, the Order permits access to two of the Galileo system’s satellite signals — the E1 signal that is transmitted in the 1559-1591 MHz portion of the 1559-1610 MHz Radionavigation-Satellite Service (RNSS) frequency band and the E5 signal that is transmitted in the 1164-1219 MHz portion of the 1164-1215 MHz and 1215-1240 MHz RNSS bands. These are the same RNSS bands in which the U.S. GPS satellite signals operate. The Order does not grant access to the Galileo E6 signal, which is transmitted over the 1260-1300 MHz frequency band, since this band is not allocated for RNSS in the United States or used by the U.S. GPS to provide PNT services. The FCC noted that granting access to the Galileo E6 signal could constrain U.S. spectrum management in the future in spectrum above 1300 MHz, where potential allocation changes are under consideration. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast. FCC Updates Cable Subscriber Notice RulesOn November 15, the FCC adopted a Report and Order that allows cable operators to deliver notices to their customers via email. The FCC also adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on whether subscribers should have the option to receive notices through other electronic means such as texts or apps. Comment deadlines have not yet been established. The FCC’s rules require cable operators to provide certain written information to their subscribers about various service-related topics. In June 2017, the FCC issued a Declaratory Ruling clarifying that the annual notice that must be provided to subscribers can be sent via email, subject to certain consumer safeguards. The Report and Order expands upon this Declaratory Ruling by allowing cable operators and other pay TV companies to send additional general subscriber notices via email. The Order also allows cable operators to respond to certain consumer requests and billing dispute complaints by email if the consumer used email to file the complaint or asks for a response via email. In addition, the Order eliminates cable equipment compatibility notice requirements in light of technological advances and market changes in the cable industry. BloostonLaw Contacts: Gerry Duffy. FCC Proposes Additional Streamlining for Satellite RulesOn November 15, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at further simplifying and streamlining its rules governing satellite communications. Comment and reply comment deadlines have not yet been established. Building upon its 2016 Biennial Review, the FCC proposes to create a new unified license for space stations and earth stations operating in a geostationary orbit, fixed-satellite service network. The proposed unified network license would eliminate redundancies in the separate licensing processes for satellites and earth stations. The NPRM also seeks comment on other proposals, such as eliminating certain annual reporting requirements for satellite operators and aligning the build-out periods for some earth stations with the accompanying build-out periods for their communicating satellites. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast. Senate Introduces TRACED Act to Combat RobocallsOn November 16, U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the committee and author of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, announced the introduction of S. 3655, the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. As proposed, the TRACED Act:
“I’ve heard from countless South Dakotans who are tired of the abusive robocalls and scams that are constantly interrupting their daily lives,” said Thune. “The TRACED Act targets robocall scams and other intentional violations of telemarketing laws so that when authorities do catch violators, they can be held accountable. Existing civil penalty rules were designed to impose penalties on lawful telemarketers who make mistakes. This enforcement regime is totally inadequate for scam artists, and we need do more to separate enforcement of carelessness and other mistakes from more sinister actors.” BloostonLaw Contacts: Mary Sisak and Sal Taillefer. Comments on AM Revitalization FNPRM Due January 22On November 20, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing the comment and reply comment deadlines for its Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Revitalization of the AM Radio Service proceeding. Comments are due January 22 and reply comments are due February 19. In the FNPRM, the FCC sought comment on modifications to its prior proposals regarding protection to Class A stations, as well as whether its modified proposals would change commenters’ positions on other proposals in the proceeding. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast. Calendar At-a-GlanceNovember December January February
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Well, it seems that aliens have absconded with every possible printed or electronic copy of the schematics and wiring info on the Quintron/Glenayre power monitoring panels. But where there's a will, there's an Arduino. When all else fails, strip it down to just the metal frame and save the meter bezel, then build your own mousetrap. Check out what I did to the first one, and it's going to be done to the others as well... complete with demo video... Dan Gunter / KK4ICE
I've already started working the next generation of my power and SWR monitoring system to replace the old Glenayre/Quintron Power Monitor Panels. This version — which I managed to build between late yesterday and this morning — has live Internet-based IoT telemetry! Check it out if you'd like. Here's a link to the article describing the beta/prototype, which is fully functioning as we speak on one of our R.A. Communications transmitters, currently running here in my lab: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! |
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* years, I need to save one for the tower market. The D.C. dinner reminded me of how unformed the market was back in the primordial mist of the late ‘80’s and what it has become. It is a thing of wonder and worthy of thanks. 
