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A Review of Selected Activities in the Office of Telecommunications, Department of Commerce (1978) / Chapter Skim
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OT Involvement in Significant Technologies
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... OT INVOLVEMENT IN SIGNIFICANT TECHNOLOGIES l The OT report "Lowering Barriers to Telecommunications Growth" concentrates on four significant telecommunications technologies and their applications -- direct satellite communications, land mobile radio, fiber optic systems, and broadband communications. The panel found that the OT report has provided a stimulus toward a broader discussion of several important telecommunications issues.
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... In addition, DSC systems would be particularly useful for public service uses, where the participants are now unaggregated, in remote locations with low population density. Potential public service uses of DSC include health care delivery, education lessons, electronic mail, search and rescue operations, environmental data collection, and weather reporting and disaster warning services.
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... The OT/ITS effort to integrate and coordinate, both geographically and organizationally, those diverse communications satellite requirements of public service institutions, the panel observes, should not only be continued, but augmented. One aspect of this effort might include the development by OT/ITS of relatively low-cost ground stations -- the requirements for which are driven by user needs -- designed as part of the total space/ground system for maximum cost-effectiveness of the DSC system.
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... in spectrum allocation, measurement of spectrum efficiency, and examination of spectrum sharing possibilities; study of the 900 MHz interference problem along the Mexican and Canadian borders; and support to federal agencies preparing for international meetings dealing with land mobile communications. Fiber Optics Fiber optic technology has made significant advances in the past few years.
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... The integration of such research into a laboratory that has achieved international recognition for excellence in the field of terrestrial propagation will require careful attention to program content. Achieving this goal will broaden OT/ITS competence across other technologies that are used in telecommunications and, in addition, enrich OT/ITS intellectual exchange.
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... operators now offer broadband services. In addition, a number of non-entertainment services to the home appear promising for broadband communications, according to the OT report, "Lowering Barriers to Telecommunications Growth," including education, information access, shopping services, transportation reservations, banking, sensing systems, and services for the handicapped and disadvantaged.
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