PCIA Washington Bulletin articles from June 2000

PCIA Washington Bulletin archives from June 2000

CALEA STANDARDS.
June 12, 2000... Balancing public safety concerns with industry realities, PCIA has modified its technical standards for advanced messaging and ancillary services, enabling paging carriers to be compliant with the requirements of CALEA. PCIA took the lead...

C/F-BLOCK REAUCTION.
June 12, 2000... On June 1, the FCC announced that it planned to modify the rules for the C-and F-block reauction. The commission is seeking comments on a variety of issues, including whether to reconfigure each 30 MiHz C-block license into three 10 MHz...

UNIVERSAL SERVICE.
June 12, 2000... PCIA sent a letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard on May 31 encouraging the commission to provide clear guidance to state commissions regarding eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) designations for federal universal support. The...

RF COMPLIANCE.
June 12, 2000... The FCC and its State and Local Government Advisory Committee (LSGAC) have released A Local Government Official's Guide to Transmitting Antenna RF Emission Safety: Rules, Procedures and Practical Guidelines to help localities understand RF...

RECIPROCAL COMPENSATION.
June 12, 2000... PCIA submitted comments to the FCC on June 1 supporting Sprint PCS' request for clarification concerning reciprocal compensation for CMRS providers. In its request, Sprint asked the commission to confirm and/or clarify the specific categories...

PCIA GLOBALXCHANGE.
June 12, 2000... PCIA GlobalXChange, formerly the Personal Communications Showcase, will be held Sept. 26-29 at Chicago 's McCormick Place and will bring together a global audience of wireless, Internet and computing professionals who are enabling the...

Section 508: A New Mandate with Tremendous Implications.
June 12, 2000... On May 30, PCIA filed comments with the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing accessibility standards for electronic and information technology covered...

PAGING INTERCONNECTION.
June 26, 2000... The FCC issued a major decision June 21 upholding its previous directives and ordering that telephone companies may not charge paging carriers for: (1) delivery of the telephone companies' own traffic; (2) facilities used to deliver that...

ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES.
June 26, 2000... Jay Kitchen issued the following statement on the June 16 passage, by the Senate, of the Millennium Digital Commerce Act, which is its version of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act: "This new legislation presents...

NUMBERING.
June 26, 2000... On June 9, PCIA flied reply comments with the FCC on the numbering resource optimization (NRO) proceeding. In its replies, PCIA said that the commission should reject calls for imposition of state-by-state utilization rates. Specifically, the...

MEDICAL TELEMETRY.
June 26, 2000... The FCC has released the text of its order creating a new wireless medical telemetry (medtel) service. The order allocates 14 MHz of spectrum in the 608-614 MHz, 1395-1400 MHz, and 1429-1432 MHz bands for use by medtel equipment. The new...

PCIA GLOBALXCHANGE.
June 26, 2000... John Pleasants, president and CEO of Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, joins an already impressive lineup of convergence leaders who will appear as keynote speakers at PCIA GlobalXChange. Pleasants will discuss the evolving wireless Internet...

Internet Security In A Wireless World.
June 26, 2000... Today's wireless carriers are increasingly looking at the Internet as a great way to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Many of today's wireless devices--handsets, pagers, and personal digital assistants--provide the opportunity to...

PCIA IN THE NEWS.
June 26, 2000... In addition to PCIA's typical press coverage in telecommunications trade publications such as Communications Daily, Telecommunications Reports, RCR and Wireless Week, association spokespeople are also frequently sought out by a wide variety of...

PCIA RESOURCE.
June 26, 2000... The PCIA Resource (formerly known as the NABER Resource) is back for the first time since 1994. This latest edition serves as a complete licensing source for Parts 17 and 90, and includes instructions for Form 601. The PCIA Resource costs $40...