VoIP providers ask court for 911 stayBy: By Donny Jackson Four voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers yesterday announced they filed an emergency request with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a partial stay of the FCC’s E-911 order that requires VoIP providers to provide E-911 service to all customers by Nov. 28... Transition Administrator releases funding policiesBy: By Donny Jackson The Transition Administrator (TA) team supervising the 800 MHz rebanding effort today released new policies regarding funding for internal labor and distinguishing between “hard” and “transactional” costs associated with reconfiguration of the frequency band... Justice Department OKs major telecom mergersThe U.S. Department of Justice yesterday approved the MCI-Verizon Communications and AT&T-SBC Communications mergers with relatively few conditions... House panel approves 700 MHz billBy: By Donny Jackson House Commerce Committee members yesterday voted 33-17 to approve legislation that calls for the digital-television transition to be completed by the end of 2008... Senate panel OKs 2009 transition for 700 MHzBy: By Donny Jackson Senate Commerce Committee members today passed a bill that calls for television broadcasters to stop transmitting analog signals in the 700 MHz band by April 7, 2009... McCain: "Embarrassed" by DTV transition delayBy: By Doug Mohney Senator John. McCain (R-Ariz.) expressed his frustration that Congress hasn't moved fast enough in moving television broadcasters out of 700 MHz spectrum... Draft Senate bill calls for April 2009 release date for 700 MHz spectrumBy: By Donny Jackson Draft legislation out of the Senate Commerce Committee calls for television broadcasters to release their analog spectrum in the 700 MHz band in April 2009, with 24 MHz going to public safety and the rest being divided among commercial operators participating in a January 2008 auction... AT&T offers plan for nomadic VoIP 911By: By Donny Jackson AT&T has submitted a proposal known as Heartbeat to the FCC that the company said is designed to help ensure that even nomadic customers of its CallVantage voice-over-IP service have updated address information when making 911 calls... Radio IP secures patentRadio IP Software this week announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for its suite of middleware technology as a gateway for wireless networking... Mobile satellite vendor wins federal contractMobile satellite and radio communications vendor Thrane & Thrane announced it has been awarded a five-year General Services Administration contract... Stevens: 700 MHz bill coming on Oct. 19, public-safety funds includedBy: By Donny Jackson Powerful Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, yesterday said he will introduce a bill on Oct. 19 calling for 700 MHz spectrum to be cleared by 2009 and for proceeds from the auction of other airwaves in the band to be used for 911 system upgrades and interoperability... Senate panel postpones afternoon interoperability sessionBy: By Donny Jackson A Senate Commerce Committee hearing on interoperable public-safety communications scheduled for this afternoon was postponed... Stevens: Interoperability funding tied to 700 MHzBy: By Donny Jackson First responders’ ability to communicate interoperably in the future may depend largely on the outcome of a 700 MHz bill scheduled to be considered next week, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said today... Senate committee calls for new emergency-communication fundsBy: By Donny Jackson The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members yesterday approved a bill that would provide $400 million in state grants during fiscal year 2006 to improve the resilience and compatibility of first-responder communications systems... Senate panel focuses on power-grid impact on communicationsBy: By Donny Jackson In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the Senate Commerce Committee expressed concern about power, security, spectrum availability and network reliability during a hearing today on “Communications in a Disaster"... |
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