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The rats flee the ship?, are Hutchison getting out of Britain, after all the harm they have done?
United Kingdom Created: 8 Dec 2005
3 and Ericsson sign managed services agreement

3UK and Ericsson announced they have entered into an exclusive managed services partnership. Under the agreement, Ericsson will be responsible
for the management of the 3 network and its IT infrastructure in the UK.

This is the largest managed services partnership contract signed by Ericsson to date and one of the largest ever signed in the industry.

Under the new partnership, 3 will retain ownership of the network and IT assets, as well as responsibility for the strategic direction of the network and
IT infrastructure. Ericsson will be responsible for the management, operation and performance of that network and IT infrastructure.
A supply of equipment, additional technology and related services, is also part of the future relationship.

The innovative seven-year partnership is the first agreement of its type in the UK. The agreement ensures Ericsson will operate the network to the highest standards, while enabling 3 to manage and control its cost base, thereby enhancing the company's platform for growth.

Ericsson has managed services partnerships already in place with 3 in Australia and Italy, where it manages 3's multi-vendor networks and service delivery environments and in Sweden where it manages 3's messaging platform. This new contract delivers further synergies for both parties.

Bob Fuller, CEO of 3 UK said: "We are very pleased to be announcing this innovative partnership with Ericsson. This is an important step in the implementation
of our strategy and means we can focus on our core business of providing a convergence of communications, entertainment and information to our customers."

He added: "Ericsson is a managed service specialist and a long-term and trusted partner for 3. This agreement is not just the most efficient way to own and manage infrastructure of this kind, but also the way to deliver the best possible service to our growing customer base. We are delighted that Ericsson will be bringing its extensive management expertise to the 3 network."

Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, said: "We are very proud to be entrusted with the responsibility for the ongoing management of 3's multi-vendor network in the UK. This further strengthens our partnership with Hutchison Whampoa Group. The partnership also means that Ericsson has
reached another significant milestone - with this agreement, we will now manage networks that in total serve more than 50 million subscribers worldwide."

As well as taking charge of the management, maintenance and expansion of 3's network and IT infrastructure, Ericsson will be responsible for the ongoing
radio network rollout, the maintenance of the existing 6,300 radio sites and the management of the core network and operations centre.

Over one thousand 3 employees from the network and IT functions will be transferred to Ericsson. Ericsson will benefit from one of the most experienced
3G technical teams in the world and the focus will be on developing and growing the roles that are transferring.
December 6, 2005
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Source: 3G Newsroom

Vodafone and 3 ignore call to switch off
Ireland Created: 7 Dec 2005
Vodafone, Ireland’s biggest mobile phone operator, and 3 Ireland, the newest entrant to the market, have refused a government request to switch off a
telephone mast near two Dublin schools until a report into the health effects of electromagnetic radiation is completed.
Tom Parlon, the minister in charge of the Office of Public Works, announced in October that he had asked telecoms companies to switch off their transmitters
at Ardee House in Rathmines pending the findings of an interdepartmental report.
This followed pressure from local residents.

Ardee House is owned by the government and is home to the Central Statistics Office.
It is located within yards of the St Mary’s and St Louis national and secondary schools in Rathmines. In spite of assurances from government ministers to
locals, 3 Ireland and Vodafone have turned down the request saying they are operating within government guidelines.
3 Ireland said the company received a letter from the OPW suggesting that it would be helpful if it turned off the mast.
The company added: “Upon further reflection, we have responded to the OPW and believe it is not reasonable to switch off the installation at this time.
The reason is that we are operating within all the international and Irish Government guidelines and we have a contract with the OPW.”
3 Ireland said it had made it clear to the OPW that it was aware of local anxiety and had made an offer that their “community relations” team could be made available to local people to “allay their fears”. To date, 3 Ireland said it had not received a reply from the OPW.
Commenting on the dispute, Vodafone said: “The OPW did write to us and we responded to them saying the site is in keeping with the planning laws and guidelines for base stations. We didn’t think it was a good idea to take it off the air.
“We are having ongoing discussions with the Department of the Environment and the OPW. If a review starts, we will have discussions with the relevant departments but any review of laws and guidelines would take quite a while.”
In a letter to Eoin Ryan an MEP for Dublin, dated October 25, Minister Parlon said: “OPW are also asking the operators of equipment installed on Ardee house, where this is a matter of concern to an adjacent school, to switch off their transmitters pending the committee’s report. The OPW is aware of a continued level
of unease among the public over such installations being sited in the vicinity of schools for young children." A spokesman at the OPW said discussions were
still ongoing. “We have a licence contract with them (the companies). They are abiding by guidelines and their licence agreements comply fully with all the
health and safety and electromagnetic rules”.
The OPW placed a hold on the granting of further installation licences where masts had been planned near nurseries and schools.
Campaigners claim that people living close to masts can experience ill-health, particularly headaches, nausea and muscle pains.
There are now over 5,000 dedicated mobile phone sites in the republic and this may double in the next decade.
The government earns up to €500,000 a year by allowing transmitters on public buildings.
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Source: Jaime Deasy

Is this the reason WHY?
United Kingdom Created: 4 Dec 2005
Is this the reason WHY?
The British Government demands that UMTS systems be rolled out to 80% capacity before end of 2006.
All of a sudden the news are overflowing with microwave weapons to deter terrorists, pirates and “Crowds”.
Mobile phone records are to be kept for 2 years to catch terrorists who blabber on the phone.
The White House is to be shielded from microwave attack!

What is Happening??

Graphic presentation of the microwave structures of UMTS and Tetra telecommunications microwaves
And the Acoustic Sound Weapon microwaves are uncannily similar.
If you ask me they are exactly the same.
And, they work on the same frequencies.

So, will somebody ask the question in Parliament:
Is the Government installing a “Crowd Control” weapon rather than just a telecommunications system?
And is that the reason why the telecommunications companies get unlimited support from the Government, against the citizens, and are allowed to ride rough shod over the population, and totally disregard anyones Human Rights?

Just remember, that everyone who reports illness from UMTS & Tetra complains about sound/noise.
Which is an Acoustic Element.


Acoustic Systems Enter Homeland Security Market, who to control? Terrorists or citizens?
USA Created: 2 Dec 2005
Acoustic Systems Enter Homeland Security Market

The use of amplifiers in homeland defense is going far beyond the simple bullhorns and bugle-shaped speakers mounted on towers.
From public address systems to directed warnings to trespassers, the science of sound is being developed and marketed for homeland security applications.
American Technology Corp., of Topsham, Md., makes systems that can direct tightly focused acoustic beams at specific targets.
Its Long Range Acoustic Device can project intelligible voice communication as far away as 500 meters.
The unit uses the same concept as other phased array systems, aiming many small sound waves to converge into a single beam.
The beam neatly projects away from the flat, 33-inch diameter speaker, with few or none of the wavelets audible to the users.
LRAD is currently used on Navy ships, an application developed in response to the small boat terrorist attack on the USS Cole.
“If you can’t talk to them, you can’t determine intent, and you have to put a boat in the water,” said A.J. Ballard, director of force protection systems at ATC.
LRAD is also used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing a communication system for vehicles approaching checkpoints.
Ballard noted that his system was being shipped to the Army 3rd Infantry Division to be used at checkpoints when soldiers accidentally shot and killed an
Italian intelligence agent escorting an alleged hostage from Iraq. “LRAD was still on its way over,” he said.
“If you read the reports, they say those soldiers were screaming at the car, trying to be heard.” The 3rd ID now has 150 LRADs deployed.
In late April, ATC reported a $690,000 order from the Army 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
The system has attracted customers beyond the military. LRAD is employed by large cruise ships, including the Queen Mary and all Princess cruise liners,
to chase off harmless boaters and determine the intent of others breaching minimum standoff distances, Ballard said.
Border control officers also field speakers, as did the New York Police Department during the Republican National Convention.
ATC personnel are quick to point out that their systems have been designed beneath pain thresholds, and are not non-lethal weapons.
Domestic use is the next hot market, officials said. In June, ATC unveiled a system optimized for homeland security operations, roughly half the size and
weight of LRAD.
The Medium Range Acoustic Detector has less range, but its portability and ability to be mounted on various platforms opens the system to police boats, helicopters, border patrol vehicles and infrastructure security perimeters. “We’re just now getting into municipalities,” said Kenneth Winter, ATC’s director of systems engineering.
By incorporating a video camera in a remotely controlled, pan-tilt speaker, harmless intruders can be chased off without resorting to deploying a security guard. Flashlights and laser “dazzlers” can also be mounted.
Public address systems are moving beyond whooping tornado alarms. Acoustic Technology Inc., of Boston, is developing wireless emergency warning systems that can be controlled by mouse click at either central or mobile control stations. ATI has configured public address systems for the naval base at Groton, Conn., and McGuire Air Force Base, N.J.
The move to wireless is critical, as warning systems must work independent of cables or monitoring facilities that could be destroyed in a fire or explosion.
ATI also makes solar-powered systems.
With the correct software, automated announcements can be integrated. Rather than simple tones, recorded instructions can be given.
When a public address alert is triggered, a host of automatic contact mobile phone and pager numbers can be dialed.
The company also offers modeling programs to help customers configure tower arrays to reach the entire area in need of coverage.
This is vital for complying with government safety regulations at places with sensitive infrastructure, as well as for communities with homeland security or
natural disaster concerns.
National Guard Tries to Rehab its Drug War Mission
National Guard officials said they are willing to step up efforts on the U.S. government’s “war on drugs,” even though the effort has faded from many radar screens during the chaos and fury of the “global war on terror.”
“The Department of Defense’s number-one priority is terrorism, so we have to adjust and gear counter-drug operations toward that priority,” said Air Force Col. Earl Bell, chief of the Guard’s counter-drug programs.
Bell’s division plans to become more involved in anti-narcotics missions and coordinate federal and local law enforcement efforts.
Among the priorities is to fuse intelligence between the military and other agencies, and launch pilot projects at federally designated “high intensity drug
trafficking areas,” including the southwest U.S. border.
“The Guard has to become a catalyst for synchronized operations and cooperation,” said Army Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau.
“An unprecedented collaboration between agencies at the local, state and federal level will build a support authority capable of being proactive, not reactive,
to the war on drugs.”
About 2,500 soldiers and airmen are now involved in the Guard’s counter-drug program, which was formed in 1990. Operations range from providing air support for police raids to visiting elementary schools.
Military efforts overseas have overshadowed these operations, officials said. Funding has been on a steep decline in recent years and more than 1,300
positions have been cut since 1999. “Previously, the Guard has waited for a call to action and dutifully fulfilled those requests,” said Bell. “Now we may need
to emphasize exactly what we can offer other agencies and work together more.”
Department of Defense officials have repeatedly defended the military’s role in counter-narcotics missions by linking drug money with international terrorist networks.
“Narco-terrorism is truly a threat to our security at home,” said Blum. “The National Guard will be an important player in this fight against it.”
Radiation Detectors Fall Short of Standards
Most portable radiation detectors perform well enough to meet new federal standards, but others provide inaccurate readings for some types of radiation, according to recent government tests.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology evaluated 31 commercially available detectors used by first responders and security personnel to test for radioactivity. Those threats have different signatures, and therefore require detectors that are flexible.
“If you have a wide energy range, you are able to determine exposure more accurately for a wide range of radioactive materials,” Leticia Pibida, a physicist at NIST who authored the report, told National Defense.
The experiment used carefully calibrated NIST machines to calculate the value of radioactive material, and then compared results from the commercial machines
to see how closely the data meshed.
Researchers compared the devices’ exposure rate readings to NIST measurements for different energy and intensity levels.
The responses of the majority of the detectors agreed with NIST-measured values, within acceptable uncertainties, during tests with gamma rays, the report found.
However, low energy X-rays measurements were not up to par. Readings by 14 detectors were 40 to 100 percent below the value of NIST testing equipment. “The deviations were much larger than those stated in manufacturers’ specifications,” Pibida noted in her report.
The equipment was being tested to see if it met requirements established by the American National Standards Institute, adopted by the Department of Homeland Security in 2004.
“Most of the instrumentation that exists in the market today has been designed for … occupational monitoring and laboratory use where, generally, the radionucleotide to be detected or measured is known,” she wrote. “[In a lab,] corrections to the instrument’s reading could be made, if necessary.”
But the first responders who use portable units cannot be bothered with delicate calibrations even if they were trained to do so, Pibida said, since the type of radiation they are looking for is unknown.
The radiation detectors of the future will have to be able to operate under a wide range of environments and energies. For now, Pibida suggests greater transparency from suppliers.
“Manufacturers need to do a better job of characterizing their instruments and providing users with better information about their detector’s response and performance,” read Pibida’s paper, contained the May issue of the journal Health Physics.
Results and recommendations will be furnished to the Department of Homeland Security for its use in setting up a program for certifying detectors.
Response Units Get Command Vehicles, With a Catch
National Guard will receive adequate funds in the short term to respond to domestic weapons of mass destruction attacks, but some long-term resources
appear to be lacking, said Col. Camille Nichols, project manager responsible for buying gear for the Guard’s Civil Support Teams.
The teams were formed by the Guard to provide a quick reaction force to respond to domestic attacks with biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear weapons. When certification is complete, every state, as well as Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, will have a civil support
team. California, as directed by Congress, will have two.
Among the teams’ pressing needs are command-and-control vehicles that can establish field communications with local and federal responders while in a hazardous environment. A network of satellite communications, encrypted phones and handheld radiofrequency gear will link the vehicle to the outside world.
Nichols warned that research, development and testing funds for these mobile command centers will drop to zero after 2006. She also cited figures showing
that the $54 million allocated in 2006 for the vehicles is eliminated by 2008.
“It scares people,” she told the audience of a recent defense industry conference. “There’s a lot of zeros.”
Aside from the long-term support of the command vehicles, the Civil Support teams are getting adequate support, Nichols said.
The office will be spending $4 million to $5 million a year to upgrade the equipment, she said. Priority items include individual protection gear that can filter out
all agents, mobile analysis tools and new gear that would allow suited teams to work in “hot zones” for long periods.
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Source: Security Beat. By Joe Pappalardo

Focused Sound 'Laser' for Crowd Control
USA Created: 2 Dec 2005
Focused Sound 'Laser' for Crowd Control

Crowd control is a constant challenge to law enforcement -- how to stop potential troublemakers without endangering those who are simply in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Rubber bullets can kill, tear gas drifts with the wind.

Several police departments across America are planning to try a new device that uses focused sound, turned way up.
These so-called non-lethal acoustic devices are already in use by U.S. forces in Iraq -- and some are already in place in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.

These devices are more than just fancy speakers. California-based HPV Technologies recently demonstrated a "magnetic acoustic device" or MAD that can broadcast a targeted beam of sound for a more than mile. At close range, the sound from these devices can be terrifying and painful.

The same devices can also be used as public address systems, projecting instructions or warnings at lower settings -- and at higher settings, forcing crowds
to disperse. The sonic devices could prove less deadly than so-called "non-lethal" weapons such as Tazers and pepper spray guns that have actually caused some fatalities.

That's not to say that sonic weapons can't do harm.
Earlier this year in Jerusalem, the Israeli Army used a device nicknamed "The Scream" to scatter protest groups.
The Scream sends out noise at frequencies that affect the inner ear, creating dizziness and nausea.
The device can also cause hearing damage.
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White House and Pentagon to get protective infrasound "overcoat"
USA Created: 2 Dec 2005
White House and Pentagon to get protective infrasound "overcoat"

Well-placed sources in Washington report that the U.S. Budget for 2006 will contain outlays of some USD 4,200 million for the protection of the nation's important strategic sites with infrasound fields.
The decision on infrasound protection was taken after the successful quelling of the Los Angeles AIDS riots during the summer.
L.A. police riot squads used portable infrasound generators on the rioters and looters, and brought the disturbance to a relatively peaceful end within
an hour. On the strength of these field-trials, such key sites as the White House complex, the Pentagon, the most important foreign legations, and the UN Headquarters in New York will all be equipped with a chain of generators.
Infrasound is known as a very powerful stunning and paralysing agent, and carries the added advantage of not being lethal in use.
The principle is based on very low sounds at frequencies well below the 20 hertz threshold of normal human hearing.
At high volumes, however, these sound waves cause the hearer to lose all sense of time and place, and also provoke intense nausea.
If the intensity of sound is sufficient, any person struck by the infrasound waves also loses control of his bowels, and will become completely incontinent. After the recent incident in Los Angeles, which was suffering a heatwave at the time, the L.A. Police Department noted that the device
was extremely effective in operation, but that the stench left behind was enough to turn one's stomach.
The aim in shielding important strategic buildings with an infrasound "overcoat" is to prevent - without bloodshed - possible attacks by terrorist
groups or crowds of rioters.
The United States Army began the development of battlefield infrasound equipment some ten years ago, and reportedly infrasound was also tested
in the seige of the headquarters of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas in 1993. Installation of the first generator networks around buildings in
the capital and New York is expected to get under way next spring.
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Mobile Mast firm 3, as poisonous to work for, as to be a neighbor to?? “Two (senior executives) Exit 3!
Ireland Created: 1 Dec 2005
Two Exit 3!
To lose one senior executive may be regarded as a misfortune, but for two to leave looks like carelessness for mobile group 3.

Commercial director Stephen Pilkington quit shortly after 3´s Irish operation launched and Gareth Jones, chief operating officer in Britain is leaving at the end of the year.

A new Irish boss has been appointed.
Source: Daily mail "City & Finance" 01-12-05. page 79

Call to free up land for phone masts
United Kingdom Created: 1 Dec 2005
Call to free up land for phone masts

Members of Telford & Wrekin Council are demanding that the borough releases land for mobile phone masts to prevent them from being sited near homes,
schools and hospitals.

A comprehensive and up-to-date register of all phone mast sites could also be made available to the public, if a motion due to be put forward at next
week’s council meeting gets the support of councillors.

The motion is being proposed by Councillor Arnold England, and also calls for the council and the borough’s MPs to lobby the government to give local
authorities more power over where phone masts are built.

Councillor England says a forum should be created to liaise with the mobile phone companies and consider developments on health issues.

Telford anti-phone mast campaigner, Bev Walker, said that she hoped the council would support the proposal.
Source: Shropshire Star 23.11.05

Villagers in phone mast fury
United Kingdom Created: 1 Dec 2005
Villagers in phone mast fury

Crowds of villagers who protested against a mobile phone mast near their homes in Sheriff Hutton have vowed to continue fighting until it has gone.
More than 130 residents showed up at the weekend with placards and signs to express their anger at phone company Orange for erecting the 15- metre
high mast in Dasket Hill without prior warning.
And they have held Ryedale District Council (RDC) to account too, for administrative errors which allowed the mast to be built.
At a meeting on Monday, the Sheriff Hutton Protest Group demanded answers from Gary Housden, RDC's development control manager.
Apologising, he said that a letter sent by RDC to the parish council in January, informing it of the mast application and asking for a response, failed to arrive.
When RDC got in touch to ask why the response was taking so long, this failure came to light and a second letter was issued.

The parish council responded promptly to say it was opposed to the mast, but the delay had brought the decision "perilously close" to its 56-day deadline for lodging an objection by law.
Then, due to an error in the way the council's computer was programmed, the expiry date of the application notice was incorrectly calculated by a day,
meaning that RDC was one day late in issuing a response to Orange's request. "It sticks in my throat that this has happened, but it has happened," said Mr Housden. "There were two mistakes from an administrative point of view. One mistake we could have lived with, but it took it to the wire and went over by
a day, but that is not representative of the development control work of this council."
He is now taking legal advice as to whether the council has any enforcement power over Orange thanks to two technicalities.

The first is that Orange did not place notification of plans on the site, as is its responsibility, and the second is that the plans said the mast would be a
moss green colour, and it is currently galvanized steel.
If it has no power, the council will approach Orange to discuss moving the mast, possibly even offering a financial incentive.
But the meeting heard that North Yorkshire County Council's highways authority had already been in touch with Orange to offer another grass verge
away from the village, and it declined. The highways authority has to let it build on verges, like other service providers such as gas and electric companies.
Penny Bean, chairman of the parish council, said there were landowners willing to accommodate the mast, adding: "But then Orange would have to pay rent."
Now residents are looking further afield for support in lobbying Orange to remove the mast.
They are planning to write to the chief executive of the company until they get a response.
Ryedale's MP, John Greenway, has also promised to write to the company
He said: "I've come to the conclusion, having been given all the facts, that that the district and county councils should ask Orange to move it and I'm
prepared to support them by writing to Orange direct myself.
"Given the real hostility, I think the responsible thing for Orange to do now would be to agree for the mast to be moved."

After the meeting, a member of the protest group, Linda Murphy, who lives 85 metres away from the mast in Cornborough Road, said:
"We've decided that we really need to take the fight to Orange because we really don't have very much faith that the council can do much for us.
``By consensus, we really want to name and shame Orange and we are going to hold further meetings about how to go about that."
Orange spokesperson Duncan McGraw said: "As far as Orange is concerned, we've not had contact (about suggestions of where to move the mast)
either from the council or residents, but we would look at any suggestion by the public and council and assess them on their merits."
Source: by Claire MetcalfeRyedale Gazette and Herald Yorkshire

Phone mast victory
United Kingdom Created: 1 Dec 2005
Phone mast victory

Residents are celebrating last week's unanimous decision by councillors to reject an application to erect a phone mast in Grange Park.

A demonstration this month by 250 residents, supported by Enfield Southgate MP David Burrowes, opposed proposals by phone company Orange to site
the mast in Cranleigh Gardens.

Following a recommendation by Enfield Council's planning officer to approve the application, the Grange Park residents took their fight to the planning
committee meeting last Tuesday.

A restrained protest was held outside the Civic Centre before around 70 people observed councillors debate the proposal.

Authorities are not obliged under Government guidelines to take health concerns into consideration as long as emissions from proposed masts meet international guidelines.

Residents enjoyed strong support in the Civic Centre with Cllr Terry Neville, Cllr Pamela Adams and Cllr Martin Prescott objecting to the mast on environmental grounds.

Orange declined to send a representative to the meeting leaving the floor free for Grange Park resident Anthony Fogg to speak for five minutes on the protestors' behalf.

Councillors voted unanimously to reject the application.

A council spokeswoman said: "The reason for turning down this application is that the siting of the proposed mast would not only add to the existing street furniture clutter, but would also be detrimental to the visual look of the locality."

David Law, chairman of Grange Park Mast Action 05, said: "We are absolutely delighted with the result. The fact there was a unanimous vote in our favour is a clear vindication of the justness of our cause.

"We are aware that the case could go to appeal, but with such a resounding victory, the spirit and will of the community is now stronger than ever."
Source: By Kate Southern this is Local London 25.11.05

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