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NewCore Wireless Promotes 3 Senior Employees

NewCore — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:43:41 +0000

NewCore Wireless announced today that it has promoted 3 senior employees over the past few weeks to fill higher level positions.

Paul Vershure, Chris Super and Stephanie Court have all provided excellent service during their tenures at NewCore Wireless and all have been rewarded with more responsibilities to help ensure partners and clients receive the highest quality service.

“Paul, Chris and Stephanie exemplify the leadership qualities that are characteristic of the NewCore Wireless culture of excellence,” said Albert Kangas, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of NewCore Wireless. “Their extensive experience, knowledge and commitment to the wireless industry truly deserves recognition. All 3 have developed a style of leadership that is frequently praised by both NewCore Wireless team members and our partners. Their industry experience gives them great insight into our partners’ needs.”

Paul Vershure – Executive Director of Site Development and Construction Services

Paul Vershure was promoted to Executive Director of Site Development and Construction Services. He has over 18 years of experience in the construction and site development industry, with the past 10 years in the wireless communication industry. Paul and his team are responsible for all aspects of site development; from land acquisition to tower construction to base station commissioning. Paul started his career at St. Cloud Wireless Holdings where he managed the initial build-out phase for a Sprint PCS Minnesota affiliate.

Chris Super

Chris Super was promoted to Director of Network Operations and IT. With over 10 years experience in the information technology industry, Chris focuses on the day-to-day operations of running a 24×7 network. He is also responsible for implementation of all non-voice services, including SMS, MMS, prepaid, HLR, SGSN, GGSN and data roaming. Before working at NewCore Wireless, Chris worked as a Systems/Network Administrator at various technology companies.

Stephanie Court – Director of Business Operations

Stephanie Court was promoted to Director of Business Operations. Stephanie has over 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is now responsible for all aspects of business operations; including Project Management, Contract Management, Regulatory Compliance and Customer Relations. Stephanie formerly served as Budget and Material Operations Manager at Northern PCS Services, where she oversaw the multi-million dollar capital and operational budgets of the Network Operations Department.

NewCore Wireless to Speak at OPASTCO Summer Convention

NewCore — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:28:43 +0000

St. Cloud, MN (PRWEB) July 16, 2012

NewCore Wireless, a leading provider of hosted switching and wireless carrier support services, announced today that it will participate in a panel discussion on July 17, 2012 at the OPASTCO Summer Convention and Tradeshow in Minneapolis, MN, sharing the company’s thought-leadership and expertise in the wireless industry. OPASTCO is a national trade association for rural local exchange carriers (LECs) and their affiliate telecommunications companies.
NewCore Wireless’ Albert Kangas, General Manager, will participate in a breakout session discussing what technical factors affect LTE 4G coverage. The panel will also discuss topics on how local exchange carriers can bring 4G coverage to rural communities, as well an overview of construction obligations for spectrum holders.
The OPASTCO Summer Convention and Tradeshow brings rural telecommunications companies together for discussion on important issues facing the telecommunications industry. Breakout sessions will cover various regulatory, technical, marketing and business topics of specific interest to the rural telephone companies. This three day conference will educate attendees on a multitude of opportunities and challenges in the wireline and wireless industry.
What: Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) Summer Convention and Tradeshow.

Where: Hyatt Regency 300 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN
When: 9:00am – 10:30am Tuesday, July 17, 2012

NewCore Wireless to Speak at Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) Summer 2012 Workshop

NewCore — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:15:00 +0000

NewCore Wireless, a leading provider of hosted switching and wireless carrier support services, announced today that it will participate in a panel discussion on July 15, 2012 at the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) Summer Workshop in Minneapolis, MN, sharing the company’s thought-leadership and expertise in the wireless industry. The RTG Summer Workshop is taking place as part of the OPASTCO Summer Convention and Tradeshow in Minneapolis, MN.

NewCore Wireless’ Cami Zimmer, Director of PR/Marketing, will participate in a breakout session discussing the importance of marketing. With an alleged impending spectrum crisis, growing data demands, intense competition for 4G customers and a vast universe of new wireless technologies hitting the market, the need for marketing is great. Panelists will discuss how to effectively market LTE/4G services, as well as other marketing guidelines.

The RTG Summer Workshop brings wireless leaders together for discussion on important issues facing the wireless industry. RTG’s breakout sessions will cover various regulatory, technical, financial, marketing and business topics of specific interest to the rural independent wireless provider. This all day meeting will educate attendees on a multitude of opportunities and challenges in the wireless industry.

What: Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) Summer Workshop

Where: Hyatt Regency 300 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN

When: 12:15pm Sunday, July 15, 2012

Rural carriers protest FCC telephone subsidy reform

NewCore — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:22:32 +0000

By Grant Gross July 6, 2012 in ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228882/Rural_carriers_protest_FCC_telephone_subsidy_reform?taxonomyId=171&pageNumber=1

A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said.

The FCC’s cap on payments to some rural carriers, part of the agency’s efforts to shift the focus of the giant Universal Service Fund (USF) from voice to broadband service, went into effect on Sunday. Members of the Rural Broadband Alliance, a trade group representing rural carriers, continue to push for the FCC to change the way it decides which carriers to cap.

Customers of the rural carriers will see new charges on their phone bills because of the caps, said Stephen Kraskin, the alliance’s legal counsel. “Some of our companies have started job cut backs, some have frozen planned investments and related jobs, some are not filling jobs, and others are cutting back,” he said in an email.

Law Agencies Seek More Data From Cell Carriers

NewCore — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:45:28 +0000

BY JULIAN E. BARNES

Cellphone carriers handled 1.3 million requests from law-enforcement agencies looking for information such as text messages, wire taps and the location of callers in 2011, according to a congressional inquiry.

The information shows how reliant law enforcement agencies have become on using cellphones to track suspects or investigate crimes. The information was provided by cellphone carriers under legal orders or in emergency situations.

Syniverse to Buy Mach for $694M, Expand its Global Reach

NewCore — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:04:52 +0000

Posted on RCR Wireless 04 July 2012 by Roberta Prescott

Tampa-based cellular phone systems company Syniverse announced it has reached an agreement to acquire its rival, Luxembourg-based Mach, for a cash consideration of approximately $693 million (€550 million). The move aims to expand Syniverse’s global reach and scale. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval.

In a statement, Jeff Gordon, president and CEO at Syniverse, said the acquisition will benefit both mobile users and the entire mobile ecosystem. Syniverse will have the added scale to provide mobile service providers (MSPs), such as mobile operators, Internet service providers, cable MSOs, emerging providers, enterprises and more, improved time-to-market and capabilities that deliver a high quality experience for end users.

AT&T and Sirius work to make spectrum available

NewCore — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:06:10 +0000

by Marguerite Reardon June 19, 2012 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57456244-38/at-t-and-sirius-work-to-make-spectrum-available/

AT&T is looking to put some of its unused spectrum to work in a move that could reshuffle the wireless spectrum deck.

On Friday, the carrier filed a joint proposal to the Federal Communications Commission with satellite radio provider Sirius. In the filing, the two companies proposed a solution to some longstanding interference concerns between AT&T’s unused WCS spectrum, which is in the 2.3 GHz band and Sirius’s satellite radio service. As part of this new proposal, AT&T agreed to give up about 10MHz of this Wireless Communication Services or WCS spectrum as a “guard band” to prevent interference with Sirius’s satellite transmission.

The proposal will also change the rules of spectrum in the 2.3GHz band, making it easier for AT&T to use this spectrum for its 4G LTE network. If the FCC goes along with the plan, it would be a huge boost for AT&T, which already owns a significant portion of the WCS spectrum. And it would help give the company near nationwide coverage.

But the move could hurt other spectrum holders that were hoping to capitalize on AT&T’s desperation for new spectrum. Namely satellite provider Dish Network and wholesale 4G wireless provider Clearwire could be hurt by this move, says Guggenheim Partners analyst Paul Gallant. In a research note today to investors, he said that if AT&T can use its 2.3MHz spectrum for LTE, it may not need to buy spectrum from Dish. And it may not need to partner with Clearwire, which has adopted a strategy of wholesaling access to other carriers.

“If AT&T wins approval for its joint proposal — and if it can acquire some of the other WCS licenses from parties that currently appear unlikely to build, for example NextWave, Dish and Clearwire could become less attractive spectrum targets for AT&T,” he said in his note.

In exchange for giving up a big chunk of spectrum for a guard band, AT&T is also asking the FCC for more lenient rules on the rest of the spectrum it plans to use to build its LTE network. AT&T also wants the FCC to extend the build-out requirements on this spectrum.

But even if the FCC adopts AT&T’s suggestions, it could still be three to five years before the spectrum is available for use, some analysts predict.

Still, the move would put AT&T on closer footing with Verizon Wireless, which has a large store of unused spectrum it plans to use for its 4G LTE network. Verizon already owns a significant nationwide chunk of 700MHz wireless spectrum as well as some Advanced Wireless Services spectrum it hasn’t used yet. It’s now trying to buy about 20 MHz of unused AWS spectrum from several cable companies to add to its coffers.

The spectrum in question was first auctioned off in 1997. But from the start there were interference issues between users of that spectrum and the neighboring satellite radio owners. In May 2010, the FCC suggested rules changes for the 2.3GHz WCS band. These changes would have made it possible for the spectrum to be used for wireless broadband services. And it would have protected against interference. But AT&T and others objected to the finer points of the FCC’s proposal at the time.

“Our concern, quite simply, was that the newly-adopted service rules did not permit the deployment of an efficient mobile broadband service in the band, something that AT&T deemed vital for the spectrum to be fully and effectively utilized,” Joan Marsh, AT&T’s vice president of regulatory affairs, said in a blog post yesterday.

Marsh admitted in her post that the problems the FCC was trying to solve are complex. And she explained that as technologies and companies’ priorities have changed, it’s now been able to strike a mutually beneficial deal with satellite radio license holders. But she said that there were still compromises made by parties to reach this agreement.

“To be sure, neither party to this proposal got everything it had asked for and perhaps wanted,” she said in the blog. “But both AT&T and Sirius XM are confident that they have developed a set of technical rules that will allow each service to flourish while ending the uncertainty that has plagued both bands for far too long. We are hopeful that the commission will agree.”

The FCC is likely to rule on the proposal by the end of the year.

NewCore Wireless Announces 3 Summer Sizzling Sales/Marketing Calls

NewCore — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:22:31 +0000

NewCore Wireless doesn’t want carriers to get lost in the maze of confusion in marketing wireless services and products. We will provide various marketing tips and ideas at 9am Central on the following days:

Tuesday, June 19
Tuesday, July 24
Tuesday, August 14

Cami Zimmer, Director of Sales/Marketing
NewCore Wireless
952-239-9822

cami.zimmer@newcorewireless.net

NewCore Wireless’ General Manager to Present at the 2012 AGL Regional Conference

NewCore — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:56:39 +0000

Industry Expert, Albert Kangas, to speak on Wireless Panel(PRWEB) June 14, 2012

NewCore Wireless, a leading provider of hosted switching and wireless carrier support services, announced today that Albert Kangas, NewCore Wireless’ General Manager, will participate as a presenter at the AGL Regional Conference on Friday, June 22, 2012 at the Overland Park Marriott in Overland Park, Kansas.The much-anticipated event, organized by AGL Magazine, will explore how mobile broadband is driving cell tower site investment, innovation and economic growth. The event brings together managers and employees of tower companies, wireless telecommunications carriers and vendors, as well as elected and appointed local and state government officials involved in approving telecom towers sites and distributed antenna systems (DAS). Industry influencers will discuss commercial, technical, legal, regulatory and financial trends and events related to site ownership, management, construction and operation.With extensive telecom industry experience, NewCore Wireless’ Albert Kangas will share his insights on distributed antennae systems (DAS), wireline switching resources, Wi-Fi and more.

WHO: Albert Kangas, NewCore Wireless’ General Manager

WHAT: Panel presentation titled “DAS, Small Cells and Wi-Fi Kick Capacity Up a Notch”

WHEN: Friday, June 22, 2012 at 10:00am Central

WHERE: Overland Park Marriott in Overland Park, Kansas

To register for the AGL Regional Conference, please visit http://agl-mag.com/events/.

The Department of Transportation’s New Communication System Helps Cars Avoid Crashes

NewCore — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:04:43 +0000

AP | By JOAN LOWY http://huff.to/MRgkiT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a safety demonstration, it was a heart-stopper: A Ford Taurus was seconds away from cruising through an intersection when suddenly a row of red lights pulsed on the lower windshield and a warning blared that another car was approaching fast on the cross street.

Braking quickly, the driver stopped just as the second car, previously unseen behind a large parked truck, barreled through a red light and across the Ford’s path.

The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that to talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions. Later this summer, the government is launching a yearlong, real-world test involving nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and buses using volunteer drivers in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The vehicles will be equipped to continuously communicate over wireless networks, exchanging information on location, direction and speed 10 times a second with other similarly equipped cars within about 1,000 feet. A computer analyzes the information and issues danger warnings to drivers, often before they can see the other vehicle.