PCIA Washington Bulletin back issues from November 1999:
SCENIC TRAILS ACCORD.
Nov 01, 1999 ... PCIA took part in the landmark signing of the National Scenic Trails Resolution on Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C. Mary McDermott, PCIA's senior vice president and government relations chief of staff, participated in the signing ceremony on behalf of PCIA. The resolution also was ...
MESSAGING.
Nov 01, 1999 ... PCIA filed reply comments Oct. 19 with the FCC regarding the licensing of multiple address systems (MAS) in the 900 MHz bands. In its filing, PCIA noted that its messaging carrier members require continued access to spectrum in the MAS bands. This will ensure that paging networks across ...
CPP.
Nov 01, 1999 ... In reply comments filed Oct. 18, PCIA told the FCC that, if properly implemented, calling party pays (CPP) will enhance competition between landline and wireless telephony carriers. However, for CPP to succeed, the commission must remove several impediments to ensure the viability of the ...
911 EMERGENCY.
Nov 01, 1999 ... President Bill Clinton last week signed into law the 1999 Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act, establishing 911 as the universal emergency assistance number. Under this new law, wireless carriers have the same liability protection as that of their wireline counterparts. ...
FCC REFORM.
Nov 01, 1999 ... On Oct. 26, the House Telecommunications Subcommittee held a hearing on FCC reform for the new millennium. FCC Chairman William Kennard testified, as did the four commissioners. Kennard discussed the FCC's strategic plan for the 21st century, which the chairman unveiled in ...
NEW FCC BUREAUS.
Nov 01, 1999 ... In testimony before the House Telecommunications Subcommittee Oct. 26 on the FCC's five-year strategic plan, Chairman William Kennard announced the creation of two new bureaus within the commission, the Enforcement Bureau and the Consumer Information Bureau. The Enforcement ...
FCC INFO REQUEST.
Nov 01, 1999 ... The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology on Oct. 20 issued a long-awaited public notice seeking information from licensees of low-power medical telemetry (medtel) devices in the 450-460 MHz band. The FCC is gathering the information in conjunction with its rulemaking to establish a ...
The Road Ahead to WRC-2000.
Nov 01, 1999; ... The next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) is scheduled for May 2000 in Istanbul. One of the most important issues to be addressed at the WRC will be spectrum for IMT-2000 (third generation wireless) services. For the past several years, PCIA has been actively involved ...
BLM SITE INITIATIVE.
Nov 01, 1999 ... The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) extended to Nov. 12 its deadline to respond to a proposed rule that would increase processing and monitoring fees for all BLM rights-of-way, including communications sites. Comments originally were due Oct. 13. This rule proposal comes almost ...
E911 COST-RECOVERY.
Nov 15, 1999 ... PCIA sent an ex parte letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard and the four commissioners asking them to dismiss a request from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) to eliminate the commission's requirement that a cost-recovery plan be in place ...
SERVICING TRIBAL LANDS.
Nov 15, 1999 ... Relaxing some technical and regulatory constraints to entice wireless carriers to provide service to remote tribal lands may be marginally helpful in enabling carriers to economically justify providing service to these high-cost areas, PCIA told the FCC in comments filed Nov. 9. ...
BLM SITE INITIATIVE.
Nov 15, 1999 ... In comments filed last week with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), PCIA questioned the fairness of the approach the agency is taking in increasing administrative fees on permit holders of communications facilities. PCIA also voiced concern about BLM's proposal to raise the financial ...
CALEA WORK ONGOING.
Nov 15, 1999 ... Compliance with the 1994 CALEA statute continues to be a significant priority for PCIA's paging and messaging members. Although the industry completed its standards for traditional and advanced paging last year, and for ancillary paging in March 1999, members of the PCIA Paging ...
INTERCONNECTION.
Nov 15, 1999 ... At the end of October, U S West announced that it had reached an interconnection agreement in eight states with AirTouch Paging. The eight states are Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and ...
E-COMMERCE SEMINAR.
Nov 15, 1999 ... As business opportunities and challenges emerge with the rise of wireless Internet commerce, PCIA, in partnership with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, one of the world's leading law firms in the developing field of e-commerce, will present a primer on the basics of doing business over the ...
Building Access Among PCIA Priorities as Congress Nears Recess.
Nov 15, 1999; ... As legislators prepare to wrap up the first session of the 106th Congress, building access has become one of PCIA's main legislative priorities. As most of you are aware, the issue of access to multi-tenant buildings for fixed broadband providers is a significant problem. While ...
PCIA UNIVERSITY AT IWCE.
Nov 15, 1999 ... PCIA will host a mobile wireless seminar March 21-22, 2000, during the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) in Las Vegas. The one-and-a-half-day workshop -- PCIA University -- will feature a mobile wireless curriculum, including a licensing seminar, and will provide attendees ...
E911 RULING.
Nov 29, 1999 ... At its Nov.18 open meeting, the FCC adopted rules regarding enhanced 911 (E911) services for wireless users. Among its decisions, the commission eliminated its ruling that a cost-recovery mechanism must be in place before carriers are obligated to provide E911 service. Under the ...
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT.
Nov 29, 1999 ... The FCC at a recent open meeting outlined several spectrum management initiatives for the new millennium. At the Nov. 18 meeting, the commission issued a policy statement that included guiding principles for spectrum management, including allowing flexibility in allocations; ...
PROPOSED AUCTION.
Nov 29, 1999 ... As Congress and the White House completed work on the FY 2000 budget, proposals were made to re-auction Nextwave Telecom's C-block licenses for inclusion in an omnibus appropriations package. Both the White House, and some members of Congress, were pushing for the auction ...
PAGING SET FOR Y2K.
Nov 29, 1999 ... Customers can rest assured that come Jan. 1,2000, their paging products and services will continue to serve them uninterrupted, thanks to a year's worth of work that the PCIA Y2K Paging Task Force undertook to ensure a smooth transition into the new millennium. Since November ...
MESSAGING STANDARD.
Nov 29, 1999 ... PCIA's Paging Technical Committee (PTC) adopted a recently developed protocol enabling two-way messaging devices to access the Internet. The committee recommended that the protocol--the Wireless Communication Transport Protocol (WCTP)--immediately be implemented for advanced messaging ...
TTY FORUM REPORT.
Nov 29, 1999 ... The TTY Forum filed a status report with the FCC Nov.12 detailing the forum's ongoing efforts to find viable solutions for TTY access to 911 service over digital wireless systems. The report summarized every TTY test submitted to the forum and made recommendations to the commission on the ...
TAKING TIME TO SAY `THANKS'.
Nov 29, 1999; ... The start of the holiday season, the imminent arrival of Y2K and a number of significant personal events in the last six months have caused me to be much more reflective this year than in the past. I've learned that in the press of everyday events, all too often we forget to say "thank ...
TTY FORUM MEETING.
Nov 29, 1999 ... At its most recent meeting, held Nov. 18 in Baltimore, Md., the TTY Forum discussed several issues and developments related to their work in finding solutions to ensure TTY access to 911 service over digital wireless systems. Todd Lantor, PCIA director of government relations, co-chairs ...