Vertex Radio announces changes

December 29th, 2011

Vertex announced that effective January 1, 2012 they will transfer their LMR business to Motorola and focus on Amateur, Air-band and Marine radio equipment and revert to using the name of Yaesu Musen.  The announcement from them is available HERE.

MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL RADIO NETWORK

December 29th, 2011

South of the border, rampant lawlessness even involves the communications airwaves.  Associated Press writers uncovered details on how Mexican drug cartels utilize Land Mobile channels, unlicensed  naturally, and frequently with stolen or illegally obtained equipment.  The link to the AP Story is HERE.

LightSquared interference study leaked, contrary to their study

December 12th, 2011

Light Squared, a venture investment firm aquired a former Mobile Satellite license and intends to use the channels for a mostly teresterial based data service.  The problem is, a potential for harmful interference to GPS receivers on adjacent channels.   The issue has been brewing for a few years now and a newly leaked study indicates about 75% of the GPS receivers in the study were interfereed with, meanwhile LightSquared just recently told the FCC the opposite.  Other problems appear to be developing,  the Security and Exchange Commission is now looking at some of the firms investor policies and activities.   Bloomberg Business nNews has coverage on this latest development  HERE   and the link to a story from Wireless Week is HERE. 

FCC Commissioner Copps willing to resign

December 7th, 2011

Long time FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has said he is willing to step down as soon as a replacement can be named, prefferably by January 1 or sooner.  Copps, a Democrat, has held his position for the past ten years.  The FCC News Release is HERE and RCR Magazine covers the story if you click HERE.

Prominent Attorney expressed feelings about Narrowbanding Extension Bill.

November 23rd, 2011

A well known Washington DC area Attorney and contributor to Urgent Communications Magazine has come out with his feelings on the newly proposed House of Representatives bill to extend the Narrowbanding deadline by an additional two years.  Calling it a “Dangerous document that could do more harm than good”  Alan Tilles explains the dangers in his column that can be found by clicking to the magazine site  HERE.

Bill introduced to extend Narrowbanding deadline by two years

November 22nd, 2011

Representative Rothman of New Jersey introduced a bill to instruct the FCC to extend the January 1, 2013 deadline for Narrowbanding land mobile technology by two years. It was referred to the House Committee on Energy and COmmerce.

You can click HERE to see the short House Bill.

CHINA Firm not allowed to build Public Safety LTE radio gear

October 17th, 2011

The US government has baned China’s Huawei to build LTE networks for the US Public Safety community because of fears over national Security.  The US fears that the firm, whic mains close ties with the Chinese Red Army could build “Backdoor” chips and code into the Public Safety radio gear that would allow spying on US systems… story from fierce Witreless is HERE .

FCC CRACKING DOWN ON SELLERS OF SIGNAL JAMMERS

October 10th, 2011

The FCC has released an official Order and Citation against various mail order-internet sales firms for selling illegal signal jammers.  The devices, capable of interfering with, jamming or blocking WI-FI, Cellular, GPS and other legitimate signals are illegal to sell to unauthorized users.  The Orer listing the offending parties and their devices can be found HERE.

FCC Has Ideas for Deployable Aerial Emergency Communication System

September 28th, 2011

The FCC Staff has developed a whie paper which outlines a vision for a deployable aerial communication system to improve the abaility to communicate in times of an emergency.  You can read about the concept and find a link to the dcument by going HERE.

WANT A NARROWBAND WAIVER…HERE’S HOW !

July 13th, 2011

The FCC HAs released a Public Notice regarding the narrowband deadline and included guidance for submitting requests for Waiver of the Narrowband Deadline….  You will find the Public Notice at this link HERE.  Additional information including the most frequently asked questions regarding narrowbanding may be found at the FCC Web Site http://www.fcc.gov/narrowbanding  which is upated frequently.

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