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Welcome Back ToThe Wireless Messaging NewsFrontier issues statement in wake of report that it's planning bankruptcy
CLARKSBURG — A Frontier official responded Tuesday to recent reports that the company is planning to file bankruptcy in March. Javier Mendoza, Frontier vice president of corporate communications and external affairs, said serving customers remains the No. 1 focus. “Frontier’s business and operations are solid, and serving our customers remains our top priority. As we have said publicly, Frontier is evaluating its capital structure with an eye to reducing debt so as to be able to better serve our customers. Our customers should expect no changes as we remain focused on providing connectivity services without interruption to our residential customers, institutions and businesses. We are proud to continue to offer well-paying jobs and benefits that contribute to the economic health of the communities we serve,” Mendoza said. Frontier, the provider of telecom services in 29 states, including West Virginia, has $356 million in debt payments due by March 15, and in September 2019, the company was reported to have $16 billion in debt. The company has struggled as the telecommunications industry has evolved. As of yet, Frontier has not officially declared bankruptcy. Much of its financial problems, according to ARS Technica, stem from loss of customers because of service issues. Frontier reported a loss of about 350,000 customers in a 12-month period ending in September 2019, as well as drop of about 2,000 employees. Marion County Commissioner Randy Elliot said he is aware that residents in Marion, as well as other counties, have been affected by the deteriorating service from Frontier. “Some counties are in worse shape with lines, (service) quality and integrity of equipment. ... I will make this clear: I don’t like the fact our citizens are paying for and not getting the quality of services of Internet and phone they are paying for,” he said. While he is unsure of what the company’s next steps will be at this time, Elliot said the issues need to be corrected sooner rather than later. “We need to do (ensure) citizens of West Virginia and neighboring counties are provided with the services they are paying for,” he said. If that means “holding Frontier’s feet to the fire,” he added, then that is what should be done and a more capable provider should be allowed the opportunity to correct it. [source] |
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Southern Illinois Internet provider Frontier Communications expected to declare bankruptcyGabriel Neely-Streit Jan 22, 2020 Updated Jan 22, 2020
CARBONDALE — Frontier Communications, an Internet service provider with significant presence in Southern Illinois, appears poised to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported last week, after a private meeting between Chief Executive Officer Bernie Han and some of Frontier’s major creditors. Frontier, which offers residential and business services across 29 states, has steadily lost customers over the last year, down about 8.2% in residential clients to 3.81 million and down about 9.7% in business clients, to 381,000 as of Sept 2019, according to technology news outlet Ars Technica. Company leaders have publicly acknowledged Frontier seeks to lessen its debt load, but have not confirmed bankruptcy reports. “Frontier is evaluating its capital structure with an eye to reducing debt and interest expense so as to be able to better serve our customers. Our customers should expect no changes as we remain focused on providing quality communications services,” said Javier Mendoza, Frontier’s vice president of corporate communications and external affairs. While most towns along Illinois 13, U.S. 51 and Interstate 57 may choose between Frontier and Mediacom for residential Internet service, much of rural Southern Illinois is only served by Frontier, according to BroadbandNow, a company that gathers Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration data to help consumers make informed decisions. Frontier declined to provide any information to The Southern Illinoisan about its Southern Illinois client base. Most rural Southern Illinois residents receive Internet speeds far below the national average for broadband Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet, which travels on copper phone lines, BroadbandNow has found. In Makanda, the average download speed is 7.9 Mbps, BroadbandNow speed tests show, meaning customers pay about $3.65 per megabit of download speed received. In Chicago, by comparison, the average download speed is 59.9 Mbps, and the average consumer cost per megabit is about $0.40. Nationwide, average download speed is 52.1 mbps. About 40% of Americans have access to only one Internet service provider, according to a study by the Institute for Local Self Reliance, featured by Vice News. |
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St. Louis Smart City Project Integrates Public-Safety ApplicationsFriday, January 17, 2020 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) conducted its final integration of smart city technologies this week in St. Louis in collaboration with the city, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the T-REX Innovation Center (T-REX). After an initial pilot kickoff in August, DHS S&T and its partners continued to work with the city to use Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) as an inter-operable framework, integrating commercial proprietary Internet of things (IoT) sensors for public-safety applications and assessing open standards. This final rollout event, which included a series of tabletop exercises and operational scenarios, demonstrated how the technologies could be leveraged by first responders, emergency managers and other city officials in real-life events, such as floods, fires or earthquakes. The intended outcomes of this smart city effort were to enhance overall public safety, streamline efficient, effective operations across all city departments and validate the SCIRA architecture for adoption by future smart city efforts. “With this experiment, and by bringing in a variety of city, federal and other stakeholders, we are aiming to get cities to prioritize their procurement and have a clear vision of their immediate operational needs and desired benefits in a realistic manner,” Norman Speicher, S&T program manager said. The demonstration took place at T-REX, a non-profit technology innovation and entrepreneur development center in downtown St. Louis. “The OGC team of participating global vendors is excited to engage in this exercise by contributing their state-of-the-art inter-operable products and documenting the interoperability testing in reusable deployment guides,” said Nadine Alameda, the CEO of OGC. “This collaborative exercise is the most effective way to validate the standards-based architecture and ensure other cities have a tested framework to acquire and deploy their own smart city technologies in a cost effective and future-proof way.” |
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South Carolina Sales Tax on Cloud Based Services Embed Burr & Forman South Carolina imposes sales tax on retail sales of tangible personal property. South Carolina generally does not impose a sales tax on intangible property, however, certain intangible property is deemed to be tangible personal property that is subject to sales tax. Deemed tangible personal property includes charges for communications. South Carolina defines charges for communications to include the proceeds accruing from the charges for the ways or means for the transmission of the voice or messages. The South Carolina Department of Revenue (DOR) takes the position charges for the ways or means of communication include charges for access to, or use of, a communication system. Examples of communication services that have been found to be taxable include telephone services, paging services, answering services, cable television services, streaming services, satellite television, satellite radio, e-mail services, and database access transmission services (e.g. legal research services, credit reporting services, and charges to access a website). In the context of cloud based services, DOR has issued guidance finding charges by an Application Service Provider are subject to sales tax as charges for the ways or means of for access to a communication system. An Application Service Provider is a company that provides customers access or use of software on the company’s website. An Application Service Provider is essentially equivalent to the more commonly used term Software as a Service (SaaS). The SaaS model allows a customer to access a company’s applications on the company’s infrastructure. DOR recently issued a private letter ruling, SC Private Letter Ruling #20-1, which determined that charges for cloud-based software that collects and stores customers’ billing and revenue data and provides inventory management and reporting analytics were subject to sales tax. The software was billed on a monthly subscription basis. While the software manipulated data, the company itself did not manipulate any of the data (there is a South Carolina sales tax exemption for data processing). This guidance is a relatively straight-forward extension of DOR’s position regarding Application Service Providers (i.e. SaaS). DOR has not issued specific guidance addressing Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The PaaS model allows a customer to utilize its software on a company’s cloud infrastructure in an environment provided by the company. The IaaS model allows a customer to utilize a company’s cloud infrastructure to run the customer’s software in a configuration determined by the customer. The taxability of charges for PaaS and IaaS services is unclear. If DOR were to assert the charges are for the ways or means of communication then South Carolina sales tax would apply to charges for the services. If the services were instead characterized as charges for software (which is generally not subject to sales tax if electronically delivered) then South Carolina sales tax should not apply. If the charges were considered to be the equivalent of charges for the use of tangible personal property (i.e. the underlying cloud hardware) then South Carolina sales tax would not apply unless the use of the hardware is sourced to South Carolina instead of the location of the hardware. Out-of-state cloud providers may not have been concerned with South Carolina sales tax in the past if they did not have a physical presence in South Carolina. Out-of-state cloud providers which are now obligated to collect South Carolina sales tax because they have economic nexus (generally sales of $100,000 or more in a year) must now grapple with the uncertain applicability of South Carolina sales tax to certain cloud based services. Depending on the circumstances, cloud providers and their customers may need to review their contractual relationships and so as not to trigger an unintended South Carolina sales tax obligation. |
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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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Dutch Limburg-Noord security region grants contract to pagersWednesday 22 January 2020 | 13:23 CET | News P2000 Alarm systems from Bergeijk in the Netherlands has won the pagers and monitoring tender for the Limburg-Noord security region, Connect.tv reported. Three parties signed up for the contract, which is worth about EUR 600,000. The winning party will have to deliver 800 alarm receivers with the ability to report back, 400 alarm receivers without that ability, 35 screens and a 10 programming sets. |
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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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Local fire departments awarded grants from the State Fire Commissioner’s Office
Posted: Jan 21, 2020 / 02:24 PM EST / Updated: Jan 21, 2020 / 02:24 PM EST The State Fire Commissioner’s Office will grant more than $144,000 to 12 area emergency departments. The grant money is used to maintain and improve facilities, as well as go towards equipment, training, and other costs associated to the departments. One of the departments selected was Millcreek’s West Ridge Fire Department. West Ridge received $14, 248.03. Fire Chief Jerry Derosa says the funding will go towards purchasing digital papers for active members, which costs about $500 per pager. Derosa says this will be a great time to help the department. Derosa adds, “Which will enable our members to hear both sides of dispatch as well as equipment going in route, canceled, officers going in route — which we do not have that capability now, that we don’t have with analog pagers.” Chief Derosa hopes to purchase 25 digital pagers. |
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Pennsylvania Torn American Flag Gets A Makeover From Crown
Outside a volunteer fire company in Towamensing Township, PA a cell tower had the residents up in arms. Not over the tower, but what’s attached to it: a ripped and tattered American flag. BRCTV reported the sight was displeasing to residents and a “slap in the face” to veterans. All eyes turned to tower owner Crown Castle to remedy the matter and, as of yesterday morning, a new “Old Glory” is flying over Towamensing. Crown brought in a special crane for the repair Thursday morning with due apologies to residents and assurances it will be monitored more closely in the future. The problem, according to Crown Castle Director of Public Relations Andrea Bradford, was that the tower was not an ideal structure for a flag and has sharp bolts on the pole that caused the unnaturally fast tearing. “We have tried rubber caps, which fell off,” Bradford told Inside Towers, "and then a rubber solution that still did not prevent the bolts from ripping the flag. We were certainly alarmed by the condition of the flag when we were notified and share our respect for it and feel it’s our patriotic duty to keep it in good condition,” she said. Until a more permanent solution is found to mitigate the bolt problem, Bradford said Crown will keep a closer eye on it. |
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Flurry of Last-Minute Proposals for Changes in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Auction OrderAt its January 30 Open Meeting, the FCC is scheduled to consider an order that would establish a pair of reverse auctions to award approximately $20.4 billion in High Cost Fund support over a ten-year term to deploy at least 25/3 Megabits per second (Mbps) broadband service predominately in areas where price cap carriers are currently receiving model-based support to construct 10/1 Mbps facilities under the CAF Phase II mechanism. A draft Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) order was circulated on January 9. It will adopt a nationwide, multi-round reverse auction very much like the CAF Phase II reverse auction that was conducted during the Summer of 2018 and that resulted in approximately two-thirds to three-fourths of the awarded support going to fixed wireless and satellite service providers. The draft order will auction off census block groups without 25/3 Mbps service (rather than smaller census blocks); and establishes four weighted speed tiers [25/3 Mbps (least favorable weight), 50/5 Mbps, 100/20 Mbps and 1 Gigabit/500 Mbps (most favorable weight)] and two weighted latency tiers [100 milliseconds or better (favored weight) and 750 milliseconds or better (disfavored weight)]. The FCC rejected advice to wait until improved broadband mapping could more accurately identify areas needing high cost support and until it could be determined whether the “winners” of the 2018 CAF Phase II reverse auction are actually able to deploy and deliver the broadband services that they promised with the reduced levels of high cost support they accepted. Much of the eleventh-hour lobbying entails efforts by wireline and wireless/satellite entities to reduce what they perceive to be unfavorable tilts of the auction playing field. The wireless carriers are opposing a provision that would stop the auction once the aggregate bid support was less than the designated total budget (known as the “clearing round”) and award each area to the competing bidder with the most favorable combined speed-latency rate. The wireless carriers claim that this would unduly favor fiber optic proposals for 100/20 Mbps and Gigabit services, while wireline carriers claim that fiber optic networks are more scalable and better able technically and economically to respond to changing broadband needs over the next 10 years. Wireline carriers have raised questions regarding the equity and value of the 50/5 Mbps speed tier that was added by the FCC at the behest of a heavily wireless coalition. Meanwhile, satellite service providers are seeking changes in the latency weights and other provisions relating to voice services. The other major area of last-minute contention is the irrevocable standby Letter of Credit that the draft order requires RDOF auction winners to provide. The FCC is convinced that it needs such Letters of Credit in order to recover high-cost support that it has distributed to RDOF auction “winners” that ultimately default on their broadband build-out obligations. Many entities, and particularly smaller ones, have complained that irrevocable Letters of Credit are extremely expensive, if available at all, and will eat up much of the high-cost support obtained during the RDOF auction. There are proposals circulating that would at least reduce the amount of the required Letter of Credit as the required broadband networks are deployed. The FCC will consider the RDOF order, possible with some revisions of the January 9 draft, at its January 30 Open Meeting. It is expected that the first of the two RDOF reverse auctions will be scheduled for later this year. We will keep you apprised of developments, and be available to assist clients that wish to participate in the RDOF auctions. BloostonLaw Contacts: Ben Dickens, Gerry Duffy and Sal Taillefer. HeadlinesSecond Round of ReConnect Grant/Loan Program Opens January 31On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture announced the availability of a second round of funding under the ReConnect Program. Applications for this new round of funding will be accepted beginning January 31, 2020. All applications will be due no later than March 16, 2020. The Broadband ReConnect Program furnishes loans and grants to provide funds for the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service in eligible rural areas. USDA will make up to $200 million for grants, up to $200 million for 50/50 grant/loan combinations, and up to $200 million for low-interest loans.
During the first round of funding, the application windows were open between April 23, 2019 and July 12, 2019. USDA received 146 applications requesting $1.4 billion in funding across all three ReConnect Program funding products: 100 percent loan, 100 percent grant, and loan-grant combinations. USDA is currently reviewing applications and announcing approved projects on a rolling basis. Carriers interested in applying for ReConnect funding should contact the firm for more information. BloostonLaw Contacts: Ben Dickens, Gerry Duffy and Sal Taillefer. Law and RegulationComments on Vertical Location Accuracy Due February 18On January 16, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing that its Fifth Report and Order and Fifth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (R&O and FNPRM, PS Docket No. 07-114) adopting rules for transmitting vertical, or “z-axis,” location information with indoor wireless 911 calls and seeking comment on narrowing the z-axis location accuracy metric was published in the Federal Register. Accordingly, the rules adopted in the R&O will take effect on March 16, 2020, with the exception of rules containing information collection requirements that must be approved by the OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Comments pertaining to the FNPRM must be filed on or before February 18, 2020, and reply comments must be filed on or before March 16, 2020. Specifically, the FCC adopted a 3-meter z-axis 911 location accuracy metric to be implemented by the April 2021 and 2023 vertical accuracy deadlines. Given the likelihood that vertical location technology will continue to improve, the FCC also sought comment on whether to establish a long-term timeline for migrating to a more stringent z-axis metric than 3 meters, and ultimately whether to require CMRS providers carriers to deliver floor level information in conjunction with wireless indoor 911 calls. The FCC also proposed to amend the rules to expand on the current options for demonstrating deployment of z-axis or dispatchable location capability. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast and Cary Mitchell. Comments on Removing Radiolocation/Amateur Allocations in the 3.3-3.55 GHz BandOn January 22, the FCC published in the Federal Register its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to remove the existing non-federal secondary radiolocation and amateur allocations in the 3.3-3.55 GHz band and to relocate incumbent non-federal operations out of the band, in order to prepare the band for possible expanded commercial wireless use. Interested parties may file comments on or before February 21, 2020; and reply comments on or before March 23, 2020. Specifically, the NPRM would eliminate the non-federal radiolocation services allocation in the 3.3-3.55 GHz band and the non-federal amateur allocation in the 3.3-3.5 GHz band. This NPRM also seeks comment on appropriate relocation options for incumbent non-federal users, either to the 3.1-3.3 GHz band or to other frequencies, on the transition mechanism and process for relocating existing non-federal users, and on potential relocation costs and considerations. The proposals in the NPRM are an initial step toward potential future shared use between federal operations and flexible use commercial services, consistent with the Commission's responsibilities specified in the MOBILE NOW Act to identify spectrum for new mobile and fixed wireless use and to work in consultation with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to evaluate the feasibility of allowing commercial wireless services to share use of spectrum between 3.1 and 3.55 GHz. BloostonLaw Contacts: John Prendergast and Cary Mitchell. IndustryFCC Updates CSRIC DatabaseOn January 15, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing that it has updated the Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) Best Practices database. At its December 10, 2019, quarterly meeting, CSRIC VII unanimously approved an update to the database that includes best practices from CSRIC VI (addressing communications network security, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery) and retires best practices that have become obsolete. When CSRIC recommends new best practices, the FCC updates the database accordingly, including the retiring of any older best practices that have been superseded. The CSRIC Best Practices database can be accessed on the FCC website at https://opendata.fcc.gov/Public-Safety/CSRIC-Best-Practices/qb45-rw2t/data. More information about CSRIC can be found at https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/advisory-committees/communications-security-reliability-and-interoperability-council-vii DeadlinesFEBRUARY 1: FCC FORM 499-Q, TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORTING WORKSHEET. All telecommunications common carriers that expect to contribute more than $10,000 to federal Universal Service Fund (USF) support mechanisms must file this quarterly form. The FCC has modified this form in light of its decision to establish interim measures for USF contribution assessments. The form contains revenue information from the prior quarter plus projections for the next quarter. Form 499-Q relates only to USF contributions. It does not relate to the cost recovery mechanisms for the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund, the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA), and the shared costs of local number portability (LNP), which are covered in the annual Form 499-A that is due April 1. BloostonLaw Contacts: Ben Dickens, Gerry Duffy, and Mary Sisak. FEBRUARY 1: FCC FORM 502, NUMBER UTILIZATION AND FORECAST REPORT. Any wireless or wireline carrier (including paging companies) that have received number blocks--including 100, 1,000, or 10,000 number blocks--from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA), a Pooling Administrator, or from another carrier, must file Form 502 by February 1. Carriers porting numbers for the purpose of transferring an established customer’s service to another service provider must also report, but the carrier receiving numbers through porting does not. Resold services should also be treated like ported numbers, meaning the carrier transferring the resold service to another carrier is required to report those numbers but the carrier receiving such numbers should not report them. Reporting carriers are required to include their FCC Registration Number (FRN). Reporting carriers file utilization and forecast reports semiannually on or before February 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending December 31, and on or before August 1 for the preceding six-month reporting period ending June 30. BloostonLaw Contacts: Ben Dickens, Gerry Duffy, and Mary Sisak. FEBRUARY 1: Live 911 Call Data Reports – Non-Nationwide Providers that do not provide coverage in any of the Test Cities must collect and report aggregate data based on the largest county within its footprint to APCO, NENA, and NASNA on the location technologies used for live 911 calls in those areas. Clients should obtain spreadsheets with their company’s compliance data from their E911 service provider (e.g., Intrado / West). BloostonLaw Contact: Cary Mitchell. MARCH 1: COPYRIGHT STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT FORM FOR CABLE COMPANIES. This form, plus royalty payment for the second half of calendar year 2019, is due March 1. The form covers the period July 1 to December 31, 2019, and is due to be mailed directly to cable TV operators by the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office. If you do not receive the form, please contact the firm. BloostonLaw Contact: Gerry Duffy. MARCH 1: CPNI ANNUAL CERTIFICATION. Carriers should modify (as necessary) and complete their “Annual Certification of CPNI Compliance” for 2020. The certification must be filed with the FCC by March 1. Note that the annual certification should include the following three required Exhibits: (a) a detailed Statement Explaining How The Company’s Operating Procedures Ensure Compliance With The FCC’S CPNI Rules to reflect the Company’s policies and information; (b) a Statement of Actions Taken Against Data Brokers; and (c) a Summary of Customer Complaints Regarding Unauthorized Release of CPNI. A company officer with personal knowledge that the company has established operating procedures adequate to ensure compliance with the rules must execute the Certification, place a copy of the Certification and accompanying Exhibits in the Company’s CPNI Compliance Records, and file the certification with the FCC in the correct fashion. Our clients can forward the original to BloostonLaw in time for the firm to make the filing with the FCC by March 1, if desired. BloostonLaw is prepared to help our clients meet this requirement, which we expect will be strictly enforced, by assisting with preparation of their certification filing; reviewing the filing to make sure that the required showings are made; filing the certification with the FCC, and obtaining a proof-of-filing copy for your records. Clients interested in obtaining BloostonLaw's CPNI compliance manual should contact the firm. BloostonLaw Contact: Gerry Duffy MARCH 1: FCC FORM 477, LOCAL COMPETITION & BROADBAND REPORTING FORM. This annual form is due March 1 and September 1 annually. The FCC requires facilities-based wired, terrestrial fixed wireless, and satellite broadband service providers to report on FCC Form 477 the number of broadband subscribers they have in each census tract they serve. The Census Bureau changed the boundaries of some census tracts as part of the 2010 Census. Specifically, three types of entities must file this form:
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