April 5, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Los Angeles International has finished installing wireless Internet. Operated by T-Mobile, the service will be available at all public areas of the airports. Cost: $9.99 a day, or $6 for the first hour and 10 cents a minute thereafter. LAX would be one of the largest Wi-Fi-covered buildings in the world, with about 3.8 million square feet of coverage space, the airport says.”

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April 5, 2007 by kb3ljm.

The FCC has affirmed a $10,000 fine it had proposed levying on a Florida construction company. In a Forfeiture Order (NoF) released April 2, the Commission said it was fining Parker Construction Inc of Panama City, Florida, for “willful and repeated violation” of the Communications Act of 1934 for operating radio transmitting equipment on 2 meters without a license. Responding to a complaint of apparently unlicensed radio activity, agents from the FCC’s Tampa Office using mobile direction-finding equipment tracked the source of the transmissions. Parker’s owner admitted the company had been using Amateur Radio transceivers for about three years to talk with crew members. Agents found an Amateur Radio handheld transceiver set to 145.02 MHz. Responding to the FCC’s January 2007 Notice of Apparent Liability in the case, Parker requested a reduction claiming it did not know that Amateur Radio Service radios required a license, that it had stopped using them and had obtained the proper radio license. The FCC turned down the request, saying corrective action taken to come into compliance with the rules “does not nullify or mitigate any prior forfeitures or violations.”http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7351

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