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Mislock, the chief of the national security section of the field office here, said on Friday when asked about that figure in a discussion with reporters. "We have an extremely high number of espionage allegations." The Russian intelligence agencies in Washington, Mr. Mislock said, are the "largest in the world." "And it's not just the Russians," he added. "The threat comes from throughout the world. "Some people in Government who should have known better assumed this would die with the end of the cold war." Mr. Mislock handles both counterespionage and counterterrorism cases in Washington and northern Virginia and terrorism cases against Americans in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Growing instances of domestic terrorism, like the Oklahoma City bombing, prompted the bureau to assign more agents to counterterrorism, he said. A year ago, F.B.I. headquarters had one section of agents dealing with terrorism. Now, one section deals with domestic terrorism and another section with international terrorism. For a terrorism analysis section, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is hiring academicians and borrowing experts from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. "The domestic threat has become more of a concern than previously," Mr. Mislock said. "And the international threat has stayed very high." ---------- Financial Times, February 5, 1997, p. 5. Japan eyes market for cheap mobile phone By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo Japanese telecoms equipment makers are developing portable phones which combine the low costs of the personal handyphone system (PHS), developed in Japan, with the greater coverage of digital phones using the European GSM standard. The move is part of an effort by Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to promote PHS in developing countries where investment in telecoms infrastructure is gathering pace. The ministry has been working on this with equipment manufacturers such as NEC and Fujitsu and telecoms operators, including NTT and DDI. The Japanese telecoms authorities and manufacturers have a strong desire to make PHS a world standard but "the biggest problem is that GSM is everywhere", points out Mr Eric Gan. industry analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo. GSM is used in 80 countries, so if the PHS could be made compatible or "piggy back" GSM phones. it could open up these markets. In spite of its high level of technological expertise in the industry, Japan has so far failed to develop its telecoms technologies into worldwide standards, mostly because of poor marketing. The telecoms ministry, which wants to ensure that it does not repeat that mistake with PHS, has been promoting the standard from an early stage. This time, Japan has a distinct advantage over the PDC standard being developed in the US and the European DECT standard because unlike those systems PHS is already in wide use. In Japan there are more than 5m PHS subscribers, says Mr Gan. The system is being adopted in Thailand and in part of China, where the government recently allocated a radio spectrum for PHS. It is also being used on trial in Singapore, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Since it uses base stations covering a shorter radius than those for cellular phones, the PHS system is significantly cheaper to install and PHS calls cost one-third to one-fifth the cost of cellular phone calls. However, the biggest obstacle to greater PHS acceptance, particularly in Asia, is the widespread GSM standard. Japanese manufacturers believe compatibility with the European standard would enhance the appeal of PHS in such countries as China where GSM dominates. "GSM is a de facto standard for mobile phones that is used widely in many countries. By developing a handset that uses PHS for shortdistance calls and GSM for longer distances, we are hoping to make PHS a world standard as well," said a representative of Matsushita Communication Industrial, a leading maker of PHS terminals. The product being developed is likely to be a single handset which can be used more cheaply as a PHS phone where a PHS network exists and a GSM cellular phone outside the PHS network's coverage. The combined PHS/GSM handset would be aimed at overseas markets that already use GSM and where investment in telecoms is increasing. They would not be introduced in Japan. ---------- 2-5-97. Wireless Data News: FCC Bandwidth Forum Panelist Says Wireless Is Potential 'Wild Card' in Planning for Future Broadband Access Telecommunications experts do not know which medium will be the most important pathway to the Internet in coming years. There are inherent problems connected with new cable television systems, local telephone networks and satellite technologies. "I think there will be some good [wireless] solutions. We and others are working on it," said Stagg Newman of Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), during the FCC Bandwidth Forum, a day-long commission-sponsored meeting held late last month to explore possible ways to establish broadband connections to homes and businesses. "I think it's really the wild card and it may open up Internet access." Internet access as consumers know it today -- 28.8 kilobits per second throughput over public switched telephone network (PSTN) lines, requiring several seconds or sometimes minutes to display a single photograph -- will have to be replaced with higher-speed service -- multiple megabits per second (Mbps) -- in order for the Internet to continue growing at its current rapid pace. Most experts and policy makers at the forum accepted that as fact. ...The High-Band Approach A few years ago, many believed cable television systems held the best position for providing broadband Internet access to businesses and eventually the mass market. More than 60 percent of U.S. households have cable TV and its next-generation fiber infrastructure already is based on broadband technologies that could outpace the performance of advanced twisted pair and fiber optic technologies developed for the telcos, such as integrated service digital networks (ISDN), asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and asymmetrical digital subscriber lines (ADSL). But the cable scenario has failed to materialize. A few communities have access to high-speed cable modems, but a large majority of cable TV systems do not have the two-way, addressable fiber infrastructure to support such service, and it may be many years before that infrastructure is installed. In recent weeks, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the largest U.S. multiple cable TV system owner and once a leader in the drive for cable-based telephony and broadband services, has pulled back from those projects and refocused on its efforts on its primary business. The telephone companies have ADSL and other broadband technologies, but wireline Internet communications often must pass through the PSTN, which, as many forum panelists mentioned, was not designed for the current era of high-speed data communications. Most wireless Internet access methods also must fight through the PSTN bottleneck and at the same time overcome inherent radio frequency problems. "This is a digital signal. Digital signals are fragile," Newman said. "For a person on one side of the street, there is a beautiful signal. For a person on the other side of the street, there is no signal." To offer backbone wireless Internet service, it must be a line- of-sight transmission and "you have to keep your distances short, which means, depending on the terrain in the region of the country you're in, somewhere between a mile and a quarter or a mile to a half to a little bit longer out West," said Doug Morgan, vice president-marketing, for WinStar Wireless Inc.. WinStar offers data transmission at up to 45 Mbps over the 38 GHz band for backhaul applications and Internet access for some businesses. It hopes to extend its service to the mass market one day. Wireless approaches have advantages as well. "If you look at the cost of an access provider to go into a building today, it is from $40,000 to $100,000, depending on what city you're in. I can understand, if you're Bell Atlantic, saying, 'I don't want to spend $100,000 to go into a building,'" Morgan said. "We put a 12-inch dish on the roof and a couple of small radios inside, and we have access to the building." In addition, Newman said that some future high-band wireless services operating in conjunction with wireline systems, such as local multipoint distribution service (LMDS), could transmit over longer distances. Although none of the panelists mentioned them, unlicensed wireless approaches also offer the possibility of broadband service to the home. A number of RF equipment manufacturers are exploring the possibility of transmitting data over 5 GHz of high-band (59-64 GHz) unlicensed frequencies (WDN, Jan. 8). "The critical issue is the mass market. That is where tremendous [capital expenditures] will have to be spent. That is where you have to dig up the streets or find access to spectrum," Newman said. "Frequently it is not the technology costs, but digging up streets, that drives construction costs." ...The New Universal Service Newman was the first panelist to use the term that became a general theme for the forum: "IP [Internet protocol] dialtone." Internet access eventually will be as much a part of the universal service concept in the United States as the dialtone on a POTS telephone is today, he said. The term implies a great deal of expenditure and infrastructure deployment by private industry in coming years, much of it perhaps mandated by the government. The FCC already is considering new Universal Service Fund regulations to pay for discounted Internet access to schools, libraries and hospitals. Those rules likely will require wireless carriers to contribute to the fund to pay for universal Internet access. Internet service providers (ISPs) will not be able to reach many rural areas on their own driven only by market incentives, said Glee Harrah Cady, manager-public policy, for Netcom On-Line Communications Services Inc., San Jose, Calif., an ISP with 230 access points nationwide. She described Netcom's efforts to serve a small town in Wyoming where a number of residents had requested service. The company was not able to comply due to the cost of setting T1 lines and other distance-related expenses. Netcom offers a national "800" number for Internet access outside of its service areas, but it is expensive and users must pay by the minute. Peter Harter, global policy counsel for Netscape Communications Corp., suggested "separating access from services." Many consumers will want the bundled services that ISPs will provide, but many schools need nothing more than basic transport control protocol/IP links. "When you drill holes in schools, you can have asbestos problems, so you can talk about wireless LANs," Harter said. Such systems, as they exist today, could not support broadband service but could support basic Internet access. Cady said the choice may come down to the need for broad service vs. broadband service. If broad service is the goal, it would be relatively simple to install computers with 286 processors in schools and provide them with 12 kbps data service. "When can I get an x-ray from an outlying agency on the Rosewood Sioux Reservation to the Mayo Clinic?," she asked. "I wish I had a magic answer." ----- See the full FCC Broadband Forum report: http://jya.com/fcc970123.htm (322K) Also, see "How Do We Wire the Ever-Changing Office?," which compares requirements for power, wireline and wireless systems for buildings: http://jya.com/howwire.htm ---------- 2-5-97. Wireless Data News: GTE Wireless Launches Long-Anticipated CS-CDPD Service; Other Cellular Carriers Continue to Reject Hybrid Approach Sand Diego -- Often over the last two years it has seemed like GTE Wireless was completely on its own in its determination to create a packet data service on circuit-switched cellular channels, extending the security, Internet access and other network functions of the cellular digital packet data (CDPD) standard. As of Monday (Feb. 3), its Circuit-Switched (CS)-CDPD system is commercially available to customers in its cellular markets. The CDPD carrier began publicizing CS-CDPD two years ago and by the following summer of 1995, the CDPD Forum had approved its inclusion in the CDPD standard specifications. Since then, other CDPD carriers' reactions to the technology have ranged from cautious observance to outright rejection. GTE has been able to gain support from some infrastructure and end-user device companies, which has made its mission seem less lonely. The companies now are working together to recruit customers for large-scale CS-CDPD trials. Comcast Cellular Communications is the only other cellular carrier that now supports CS-CDPD. Executives from the other major CDPD carriers, such as Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile (BANM), Ameritech Cellular Services and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., many of whom were attending the CDPD Forum's winter membership meeting here last week, still tend to spurn the hybrid approach. The common complaint: CS- CDPD is not "real CDPD." ...Coverage Conundrum CS-CDPD technology allows packet data subscribers who travel outside of pure CDPD service range to continue operating CDPD applications wherever cellular voice service is available. "When you look at it from the end-user's perspective, your customers want the same footprint as voice...We believe if you can market to the entire customer base right away, you can manage to load more customers on the network," said Beverly Bach, product line manager-wireless data, Lucent Technologies Inc., one of the two infrastructure companies supporting CS-CDPD. The other, Hughes Network Systems, played a major part in CS-CDPD development and field testing. Circuitry within the wireless device senses when the field strength of CDPD signals is fading and when transition to circuit- switched service is necessary. The circuit-switched signals are routed through a modem pool to a CDPD access point. Customers traveling to the fringes of GTE CDPD service areas will contact a modem pool through a local line. Those phone numbers are loaded on to CS-CDPD-compatible end-user devices. If a CDPD customer roams to an area where no local line to a modem pool exists, the phone automatically dials GTE's national modem pool, which can be accessed through a toll-free number. New circuit-switched uplink protocols make possible two- or three-second transitions between CDPD and circuit-switched airlinks. That lag time will seem nearly imperceptible to the end user, CS-CDPD supporters say. CS-CDPD's critics tend to be unimpressed, saying that network response still is noticeably slower when compared to pure CDPD links. At the same time, circuit-switched links are more expensive, billed by the minute. Most rival CDPD carriers appear to believe that the coverage problems CS-CDPD solves apply to GTE in a way that does not apply to them. Although all the major carriers have finished CDPD interconnection agreements and are in the process of establishing the physical links between their markets, most current CDPD sales efforts are focused on regional, vertical customers rather than national customers. (The total number of CDPD customers nationwide is about 10,000 or less.) BANM, for example, has the geographical advantage of having several East Coast CDPD markets bunched together, forming a nearly unbroken CDPD footprint from Maine to the Carolinas. CS-CDPD is not needed to serve its regional customers. GTE's markets are scattered throughout the country. AT&T's markets are scattered as well, but many are among the most populated U.S. cities. GTE's markets, on the other hand, tend to be smaller cities where it is less cost-effective to match the CDPD footprint to the voice footprint. Even in San Diego, one of GTE's larger markets, the carrier deployed a mobile AMPS/CDPD cell to support packet data demonstrations during the CDPD Forum meeting. The meeting was held at the Hotel del Coronodo on Coronodo Island, just a few minutes drive from downtown San Diego. ...Long-Term Considerations In spite of some carriers' confidence in their regional footprints, industry analysts at a CDPD Forum roundtable session agreed that lack of coverage is one of the greatest barriers to market acceptance of CDPD. Even purely regional customers sometimes need to roam outside of the fringe coverage areas. The first company scheduled to use CS-CDPD in the field following the commercial launch is Cal Pak Delivery of Hayward, Calif., a trucking company that operates mainly in the San Francisco area, within GTE's CDPD coverage area, but also does significant business in the Sacramento area, outside of the footprint. Working with TranSettlements Networks Services of Atlanta, which specializes in providing communications solutions to the trucking industry, Cal Pak drivers have been using CS-CDPD-enhanced PAL phones from Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. (PCSI). "We are just now moving out of the beta phase and into production release" of the CS-CDPD/PAL Phone option, said TranSettlements CEO Emory Winship. Unless CS-CDPD is successful, however, cellular carriers may never be able to land any national contracts until CDPD functions are available on digital cellular and broadband personal communications services. That goal could take several years to achieve. In the intervening years, CDPD's national coverage likely will continue to have some important holes, including such major markets as Los Angeles, Atlanta and New Orleans. A GTE spokeswoman said that the company is very confident of its chances of winning a contract with the U.S. Postal Service, similar to a national circuit-switched data service AT&T now provides the United Parcel Service. Several rival wireless data technology providers are bidding on the contract, which could do much to enhance the credibility of CDPD as well as CS-CDPD, should GTE prevail. GTE is fortunate that the Post Office contract is being bid almost simultaneously with CS-CDPD's commercial launch and the rollout of smart phones based on Unwired Planet's UP.Link Internet access platform. The carrier will be able to offer national voice and data access all on the same device and all charged on the same bill. Besides PCSI's PAL phone, which is now available, Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. plans to offer a CS-CDPD version of its MobileAccess phones by late 1997. In addition, Sierra Wireless Inc., Richmond, British Columbia, offers CS-CDPD connectivity with its AirCard, a combination CDPD/circuit-switched Type II PC Card introduced late last year for under $500. It also plans to install CS-CDPD firmware in its line of external modems. (GTE, 800/483-6626, http://www.datalife.gtem.com/.) ----------