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  FCC: Wireless Services: Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service: Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service
BETRS is a fixed radio service where a multiplexed, digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas.
Regulation of this service currently resides in Part 1 and Part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Subtitle 47, on Telecommunications and may be researched or ordered through the Government Printing Office.
The Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service is a fixed radio service where a multiplexed, digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas.
wireless.fcc.gov /services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=basic_exchange   (398 words)

  
  Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service or BETRS is a fixed radio service where a multiplexed, digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas.
In the U.S., this service may operate in the paired 152/158 and 454/459 MHz bands and on 10 channel blocks in the 816-820/861-865 MHz bands.
BETRS may be licensed only to state-certified carriers in the area where the service is provided and is considered a part of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) by state regulators.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basic_Exchange_Telephone_Radio_Service   (197 words)

  
 Consolidated Telephone v. Western Wireless Corporation, 2001 ND 209, 637 N.W.2d 699
These fixed services are used to provide disaster relief, temporary communications for news reporters and expeditions, and temporary communications in remote areas and cannot be used in a mobile mode.
As the Commission noted in the BETRS proceeding, this service was intended to be an extension of intrastate basic exchange telephone service.
Consolidated argues that Western's wireless residential service nevertheless is not a CMRS under federal law because the statutory phrase, "ordinarily does move," contained in the definition of "mobile station" under 47 U.S.C. § 153(28), has been wholly ignored by the Commission in its analysis of this case.
www.ndcourts.com /court/opinions/20010146.htm   (3767 words)

  
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Cellular radio technology was also developed to counter the limitations associated with conventional mobile radio service.
Consequently, REA telephone borrowers economically implemented two-way dial mobile telephone service through an unattended telephone exchange using a system that was the forerunner to Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS).
The telephone handset is mounted on the dashboard or console, while the antenna is mounted on the roof, trunk, or rear window.
www.usda.gov /rus/telecom/publications/html/1751h705.htm   (10569 words)

  
 Universal Service Around the Nation
Given the complexity of rate structures in some states, the variations in telephone service across the states, and the fact that half of the states don't have a definition for basic service, the rate information should be viewed with caution.
In summary, basic telephone service, for those states that have defined it, typically is a single party voice grade touch tone line with access to emergency services, directory assistance, operator services, long distance services, and a white page listing.
Basic service is typically provided using twisted pair copper wire into the house with a mixture of fiber and copper in the infrastructure, although some remote areas require wireless technologies.
www.researchedge.com /uss/univ_nation.html   (3379 words)

  
 Glossary of Terms
Basic Trading Area (BTA) A geographic area, usually consisting of a group of adjacent counties, used by the FCC to define the coverage areas of spectrum they are auctioning.
Cellular radio Technology employing low power radio transmission as an alternative to local wired telephone service; users may be stationary or mobile - in the latter case, they are passed, under the control of a central site, from one cell’s transmitter to an adjoining one.
Telephone terminology describing the location of a switch operated by an interexchange carrier at which the IXC relays calls to or from the local exchange carrier’s network.
www.utcg.com /glossary.htm   (3968 words)

  
 TITLE II: CONSUMER PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR TELEPHONE COMPETITION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Telephone companies shall protect a customer's proprietary network information, usage, billing, payment and other personal information from disclosure unless the disclosure has been authorized by the customer in writing or the disclosure is necessary to provide services requested by the customer, collect the customer's amount due or respond to a lawful process.
A telephone company may also state its policy concerning the cancellation of optional services for the failure to pay the monthly charges in full for basic local exchange services and shall have an affirmative duty to inform customers that optional services can be canceled without charge.
Disconnection of service can be used as a method of collection, except that a telephone company shall not threaten to disconnect or disconnect basic local exchange service for nonpayment of long distance services, unregulated services, or other optional services.
www.atg.wa.gov /utility/10_97report/title2.html   (4214 words)

  
 10/27/95 U.S. Forest Service--Notice; adoption of final policy
In response to the comments received by the Forest Service and the discontinuation of the ADI rankings, the BLM based its proposed schedule (59 FR 35596, July 12, 1994) for television broadcast on the latest U.S. census figures for populations of the principal community (city, cities, metropolitan area, county, or counties) served by the transmitter.
While PCS service is not yet available, a similar service using mocrocells is provided now in rural, sparsely populated areas as an addition to wireline and cellular telephone service.
To eliminate confusion, the respondent suggested that when microwave and mobile radio uses are present in the same facility as ancillary uses, the fee should be based on the private mobile use if the microwave ends at the facility and is used for the control of the mobile facility.
www.blm.gov /nhp/news/regulatory/2800/fr_55089.html   (15140 words)

  
 FCC: Wireless Services: Rural Radiotelephone Service: Rural Radiotelephone Service
Rural Radiotelephone Service is a fixed radio service where a wireless technology is used to provide telephone service to subscribers in remote areas.
Conventional Rural radiotelephone service is generally considered by state regulators to be a separate service that is interconnected to the public switched telephone network.
Regulation of this service currently resides in Part 1 and 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Subtitle 47, on Telecommunications and may be researched or ordered through the Government Printing Office.
wireless.fcc.gov /services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=rural   (327 words)

  
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Local exchange service delivered by radio link may be provided using architectures consisting of mobile, fixed, or a combination of those components.
Specific kinds of PCS services and devices cited in the PCS Second Report and Order were expected to include advanced forms of cellular telephone service, advanced digital cordless telephone service, portable facsimile services, wireless PBX services, and wireless local area network (LAN) services, among others.
We note that wireless local telephone service may not be the only technically and economically viable fixed service that could be accommodated on spectrum allocated to CMRS providers.
www.fcc.gov /ftp/Bureaus/Wireless/Notices/fcc96017.txt   (4860 words)

  
 Telephone Service
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Plain old telephone service - Plain old telephone service, or POTS, is the standard, analog telephone service that remains the basic form of residental and small business telephone service nearly everywhere in the world, and was the only basic telephone service known to most people until the introduction of mobile...
Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service - The Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service or BETRS is a fixed radio service where a multiplexed, digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas.
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 Glossary of Terms (A-J)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This service bills the originator of a call to a wireless device rather than the receiver and is more common in other countries than in the United States.
A wireless telephone network that connects radio frequencies from a mobile phone to a system of multiple cell sites, each consisting of an antenna and a base station, to a mobile telephone switching office, and ultimately to the public wireline telephone system.
Analog telephones and fax machines are used over ISDN lines, but their signals are converted into digital by the ISDN modem.
www.cingular.com /learn/basics/AJ.jsp   (4635 words)

  
 Digital radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While traditional radio broadcasters are trying to "go digital", major US automobile manufacturers are exploring digital satellite radio from orbit on a subscription basis.
XM Satellite Radio has a constellation of three satellites, two of which were launched in the spring of 2001, with one following later in 2005.
Low-cost DAB radio receivers are now available from various Japanese manufacturers, and WorldSpace has worked with Thomson Broadcast to introduce a village communications center known as a Telekiosk to bring communications services to rural areas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_radio   (1444 words)

  
 Wireless Systems
While the radio channel is divided into separate codes, different protocols are used on the radio channels to give high priority for voice information and high-integrity to the transmission of data information.
You will discover the fundamentals of wireless technologies and their terminology are described along with how the radio frequency spectrum is divided, the basics of radio frequency transmission and modulation, antennas and radio networks.
The fundamentals of radio and television broadcast systems are covered along with how they are converting from analog to digital systems and why in just a few years service to existing radios and telephones will stop.
www.althosbooks.com /wisycepc3gwi.html   (1739 words)

  
 65 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES - REGULATORY
To provide support from the Fund to local exchange carriers (LECs) that provide local exchange service in areas served by rural incumbent local exchange carriers and that are unable otherwise to meet their allowed intrastate revenue requirement from retail local exchange, other telephone services, and access revenues.
  “Incumbent local exchange carrier” or “ILEC” means a local exchange carrier or its successor that provided local exchange service in a defined service territory in Maine on February 8, 1996 or that is designated as an ILEC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 251(h)(2).
In the case of mobile telecommunications and paging services, the points of origination and termination of the communication shall be assumed to be the antenna locations at which the carrier acquires and passes on the end user’s signal, unless the actual location of the end user can be determined.
www.state.me.us /mpuc/doing_business/rules/part_2/ch-288.htm   (3168 words)

  
 United Utilities v. APUC (3/28/97), 935 P 2d 811   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
INTRODUCTION This appeal arises from a decision by the Alaska Public Utilities Commission (APUC) to grant the application of Summit Telephone Co. (Summit) and to deny the application of United Utilities, Inc. (United) to provide telephone service to the communities of Coldfoot and Wiseman.
Summit proposed to handle traffic between the two communities by Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service, to be replaced within five years by buried cable.
CONCLUSION The APUC had a reasonable basis for denying United's application and granting Summit's application to provide telephone service to the communities of Coldfoot and Wiseman, and its decision was supported by substantial evidence in the record.
www.touchngo.com /sp/html/sp-4797.htm   (1848 words)

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