To help combat the problem--which, according to the Cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association, could be costing as much as $1.5 million per day in lost revenues--the cellular industry this year agreed to standardize an antifraud system called "authentication," a process by which information is exchanged between a cellular phone and network to confirm the identity of the phone.
According to the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and its subsidiary, the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association (MMTA), in its jointly produced market review and forecast for 2000, the overall U.S.
The Cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has filed a petition before the FCC urging the agency to preempt local ordinances establishing siting and zoning moratoria over cellular towers in communities.
Nearly 50,000 calls a day are made to 911 and other emergency numbers, which is almost 18 million calls annually, according to the Cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association.
Project 25 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard for digital two-way radios developed in a joint standards effort between the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, International Inc (APCO), the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD) and numerous federal sponsor agencies.
* The
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) published a new telecom systems bulletin (TSB), "Project 25 FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) Common Air Interface Conformance Test-Addendum 1," TSB102.BAAB-A-1, which provides FDMA revisions on modulation fidelity and data receiver tests.
The cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has filed a petition with the FCC urging th urgent preemption of state and local tax authority, including excise, usage, property, utility, and other taxes and assessments on the telecommunications industry.
The carriers have introduced to law enforcement agencies around the state a 20-minute video called Cellular Telephone Fraud: The Cloned Phone Threat to Public Safety in Florida, produced by the Cellular
Telecommunications Industry Association's Fraud Task Force.
The specifications, which were developed together with the US
Telecommunications Industry Association and evolved largely from the GSM standard, include many new features such as direct terminal-to-terminal calls that adapt and enhance the GSM radio interface to make it operate efficiently over geostationary satellites.
The Market Review and Forecast, a joint publication by the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association (MMTA), reports that more than half of the 1998 total was accounted for by servers ($19.5 billion), Ethernet switches ($5.4 billion), and network and systems management equipment ($3.9 billion).