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Week of October 8, 2007 • Volume 8, Issue 15

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CMSAAC Makes Official Recommendations to FCC
Last week, the Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee voted to make its official recommendations to the FCC on emergency alerts for wireless carriers, which should allow the FCC to issue its notice of proposed rulemaking on the matter in short order. The group recommended an opt-in text-message-based system that would be in place by late 2008. More >>

TIA Urges Technical White Spaces Policy at FCC
TIA President Grant Seiffert this week commended the FCC for its efforts to introduce new low-power devices in the vacant portions of broadcast television spectrum bands, known as “white spaces.” In a letter to the FCC, Seiffert also urged the commission, as an “expert agency,” to make its white spaces ruling based on “robust testing and sound technical analysis.” More >>

30th Meeting of ISO/TC204 Begins in October in Qingdao, China
More than 120 participants from over 20 countries will gather in Qingdao, China, October 15-19, for the 30th meeting of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 204 for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); ISO/TC204. More >>

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Grant Seiffert, President, TIA

The Right Way to Regulate
By TIA President
Grant Seiffert

There is a defining line between superfluous bureaucracy and effective governance, especially in an industry like telecommunications. Often the difference is as simple as bringing all players to the table on an issue and allowing them to work out a commonsense solution.

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Quintrex Data Systems

Quintrex Data Systems Corp. developed its first billing and rating software in 1979 for an independent telephone company. When deregulation occurred in the early 1980s, the U.S. independent telecommunications industry exploded with new ideas, technologies and growth.

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