by Matthew Lasar Nov 3 2006 - 10:01pm
If you are passionate about FCC related issues, we'd love to give you a blog on this site. Here's all you have to do:
- First, create a user account.
- Second, the system will email you a password and ask you to click a link to your account.
- When you go to your account and log in with your password, you'll see a link that says "Request a blog." Go there, think up a good title for your blog and a short description of what you want to blog about. Submit the form and an administrator will get back to you soon.
- After that, don't forget to click the "edit" tab and change your password to something a little more rememberable (but not too rememberable; preferably something with letters and numbers).
- Once you get an email telling you that you've received a blog, log in with your user name and password again.
- You'll see your user name on the left sidebar. A couple of items down you'll see "my blog." Click that link.
- Now you'll see a page with your user name and a link that says "post a new blog entry." Click it and get to work! Enter a title for the entry and some text. When you are done you can preview the blog and then, by clicking "submit," post it on line.
- Later you can also go back to the blog and edit it if you like.
- Once you are finished, go back to the left hand side bar and click "log out" to exit the system.
A few general caveats:
- Hate speech trollers will be cheerfully deleted.
- It's cool if you've got a Web site you want to pimp, but no one line posts please; share some content with this site.
- Keep the focus on media regulatoin policies. There's all kinds of sites for dish on the latest technology, Bill Gates' dad, Carly Fiorina's new book, etc etc etc. This is a site about the politics of government telecom regulation. Your writing doesn't have to be about the FCC, but it does have to be about the relationship between media and government policy.Â
Thanks for your interest in lasarletter.net! Questions or support issues, email us .
George Lowry May 15 2007 - 11:30am
(From Nick Ruark's Yahoo Group Spectrum_Matters)
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The latest proposals from the FCC impacting Private LMR rules
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NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING AND ORDER
WP Docket No. 07-100
Adopted: May 9, 2007
Released: May 14, 2007
Comment Date: [60 days after publication in the Federal Register]
Reply Comment Date: [90 days after publication in the Federal Register]
1. By this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order, we initiate a
proceeding to propose miscellaneous rule changes to Part 90 of the
Commission's Rules, and to related rules in other rule parts. In
addition, we seek comment regarding particular changes to the rules
governing the 4.9 GHz band and the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service
which shares spectrum with Part 90 operations. We also solicit
comment on other potential Part 90 rule changes, including suggestions
to revise or eliminate provisions that are duplicative, outmoded or
otherwise unnecessary. Finally, we take this opportunity to make
certain minor editorial amendments to Part 90 to correct errors or
omissions of publication, eliminate duplicative language, or conform
them with other rule sections. This proceeding is part of our
continuing effort to provide clear and concise rules that facilitate
new wireless technologies, devices and services, and are easy for the
public to understand.
2. Part 90 contains the rules for both the Private Land Mobile Radio
(PLMR) Services and certain Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS).
PLMR licensees generally do not provide for-profit communications
services. Some examples of PLMR licensees are public safety agencies,
businesses that use radio only for their internal operations,
utilities, transportation entities, and medical service providers.
CMRS licensees, by comparison, do provide for-profit communications
services, such as paging and Specialized Mobile Radio services that
offer customers communications that are interconnected to the public
switched network.
A. Miscellaneous Proposals 3
1. Frequency Coordination and Related Matters 3
2. Paging on Public Safety VHF Frequencies 4
3. Cross-Banding 7
4. Mobile Repeaters 8
5. Expired Licenses 9
6. Multiple Licensing 10
7. Transit Systems and Toll Roads 12
8. Industrial/Business Pool Eligibility 14
9. Disturbance of AM Broadcast Station Antenna Patterns 15
10. FB8T Station Class 16
11. Reorganization of Part 90 17
B. 4.9 GHz Band 19
C. Wireless Medical Telemetry Service Issues
Full text here:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-85A1.doc
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-85A1.pdf
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