PCIA Washington Bulletin articles from April 2000

PCIA Washington Bulletin archives from April 2000

NUMBERING.
April 3, 2000... The FCC on March 17 adopted its long-awaited order addressing numbering issues and setting policies to reduce the need for new area codes. In establishing national standards for numbering, the FCC's rules included allocating numbers in...

FCC QUESTIONNAIRE.
April 3, 2000... The FCC on March 24 adopted a questionnaire from which it intends to gather information from carriers to determine the status of local telecommunications competition and the deployment of broadband services. PCIA in a December filing asked...

TOWERS & MIGRATORY BIRDS.
April 3, 2000... In a recent letter to Sheldon Moss, PCIA director of government relations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) responded favorably to PCIA's call for a voluntary and more collaborative approach to dealing with wildlife protection issues....

TOWERS & THE FAA.
April 3, 2000... In a public notice released March 16, the FCC informed antenna owners and licensees of recent changes in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight service station (FSS) procedures for reporting light outages on antennas. Under the new...

800 MHz RELOCATION.
April 3, 2000... It is unrealistic to expect incumbent SMR operators to pay for the cost of having to relocate their facilities to make way for incoming economic area (EA) licensees, PCIA told the FCC in a March 15 filing. Therefore, the commission should...

PCIA AT IWCE.
April 3, 2000... PCIA made a strong showing at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) in Las Vegas, presenting a mobile wireless and licensing seminar March 21-22, providing PCIA staff members to participate in key panel sessions, and answering...

PCIA's Government Relations Team Well-Suited to Lead Industry in Changing Global Environment.
April 3, 2000... PCIA's government relations (GR) team and our various stakeholders in business and government are poised for some eventful times in the coming months. When Jay Kitchen announced on March 9 that PCIA was recharging the organization, many people...

SPEAKER'S BUREAU.
April 3, 2000... In speaking before the member advisory committee of the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC) on March 24, PCIA Government Relations Director Sheldon Moss conveyed the crucial role that the tower and site management industry plays in...

CALEA DEADLINE.
April 17, 2000... By May 2, all telecommunications carriers must have in place a point of contact and other security procedures to meet CALEA's Section 105 systems security and integrity requirements and to be in accordance with the FCC's rules. On that same...

TIMELY DEPLOYMENT.
April 17, 2000... PCIA filed reply comments April 4 in response to the FCC's notice of inquiry to assess if the deployment of advanced telecommunications capabilities is being deployed in a timely and reasonable manner in accordance with Section 706 of the 1996...

800 MHz AUCTIONS.
April 17, 2000... PCIA asked the FCC to delay its auction of the 800 MHz General Category and the lower 80 SMR channels until the relocation of incumbent licensees is completed, or short of that, until after the involuntary negotiation period has ended Dec. 4....

VHF/UHF BORDER TALKS.
April 17, 2000... The Planning and Negotiations Division of the FCC's International Bureau has asked PCIA to solicit input from its paging members about the coordination of VHF/UHF paging channels across the U.S./Mexico border as the bureau prepares to negotiate...

INTERCONNECTION.
April 17, 2000... PCIA filed comments with the FCC March 31 asking the commission to protect and preserve wireless carriers' interconnection rights under Section 252(i) of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. PCIA, filing in support of MCI Worldcom's petition for...

NUMBERING.
April 17, 2000... On March 31, the FCC released its 140-plus page Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Number Resource Optimization proceeding, which it adopted on March 17. [See PCIA Washington Bulletin, April 3, 2000.] In...

H.R. 3489: The Wireless Telecommunications Sourcing and Privacy Act; A Fair, Simple Approach to Customer Billing.
April 17, 2000... On Nov. 18, 1999, Congressman Chip Pickering of Mississippi (R) introduced H.R. 3489 to amend the Communications Act of 1934. The purpose of the bill is to regulate interstate commerce in the use of mobile telecommunications and to strengthen...

FYI.
April 17, 2000... * Exporter Guides--"How to" guides created for small to medium-sized exporters; contains executive summaries of trade agreements. The U.S. Department of Commerce's Trade Compliance Center (TCC) has renovated its Web site, available at...