<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> 800MHz Rebanding Resource
Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A.
The Legal Resource Team:      

The telecommunications law group at Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy, & Ecker includes a team of lawyers and FCC licensing specialists with over 50 years of combined private radio experience. The firm's attorneys have extensive experience in rebanding, having negotiated hundreds of system relocation agreements. Further, the firm was intimately involved in the drafting of the 800 MHz Consensus Plan, which led to the 800 MHz Rebanding Order. Read more about the firm's experience in rebanding here.

    
  Alan Tilles, is a partner in the law firm and serves as the head of the firm's Telecommunications Department. He has over 20 years of experience in the land mobile industry, and serves as counsel to PCIA, ARINC, the City of Denver, and numerous SMR operators, public safety and private radio licensees. In 2004, Mr. Tilles received the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Presidential Award for his work on the 800 MHz Rebanding matter. He is also a regular columnist for MRT Magazine.    
    Laura Smith is Of Counsel to the law firm. She has over 10 years of experience in land mobile radio. Ms. Smith served for more than seven years at the FCC. Subsequent to her employment at the FCC, she served for six years at the Industrial Telecommunications Association (ITA, now EWA) first as Executive Director, and then as President and CEO. In 2004, Ms. Smith received the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Presidential Award for her work on the 800 MHz Rebanding matter.    
  Rebekah Bina graduated cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 2004 with a certificate in National Security Law.  She also holds a Master's Degree in Media Management from Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising/Public Relations from The Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications.  During law school, Ms. Bina was a legal clerk with the National Association of Broadcasters, where she worked on a variety of FCC pleadings and policy issues including media ownership, broadcast interference, labor compensation, must-carry and retranmission consent, and advised association members regarding on-air promotion of contests, gambling, lotteries, alcohol and tobacco products.    
  Melanie Keegan is an associate in both the Telecommunications Group and the Real Estate Practice Group. Her practice focuses on 800 MHz rebanding matters as well as the drafting and negotiation of land acquisition contracts. A graduate of St. Johns University School of Law, Ms. Keegan brings her knowledge of the intracacies of real estate contracts to the equally challenging area of rebanding agreements. Ms. Keegan is responsible for rebanding contract review, Transition Administrator contact and rebanding process coordination.    
The Engineering And Equipment Resource Team:      
  Pericle Communciations Company

Pericle Communications Company is a consulting engineering firm specializing in wireless communications. The company provides consulting engineering services to public safety agencies, airports, local governments, and to the cellular, PCS, broadcast, aviation, and utility industries. Pericle's skills include project management for new facilities, radio frequency interference solutions, propagation modeling and prediction, drive test measurements, indoor wireless system design, preparing requests for proposal (RFP), and radio frequency safety.

 

    
  IWCE The International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) is North America's largest, annual wireless communications technologies show — dedicated to dealers, public safety professionals and end users of wireless communications equipment including transportation and utilities. With the largest exhibit floor, topical cutting edge conference program, round table discussions, the new SDR forum, keynote presentations, and exciting special events, IWCE 2006 is a "must attend" event. If you are looking for relevant business or technology updates or information, you'll find them at IWCE 2006 - you don't want to miss out on this opportunity.
    
  Televate Televate, LLC is a wireless solutions company providing a broad array of professional and enterprise services for both private sector and homeland security and public safety interests.

Televate's public safety and government service offerings range from turnkey network deployment to customized application development. Televate has extensive experience with police, fire, emergency medical, emergency management, and various federal law enforcement agencies. Televate's breadth of public safety support extends from public policy definition impacting communications design, operations and management to the comprehensive design, implementation and operations of private voice and data networks. Televate's team has comprehensive experience throughout the entire Public Safety Communications Center operations environment including local, regional and national voice and data network interoperability.

    
  Trott Communications Group Trott Communications Group has been providing independent engineering services to a broad range of clients since 1978. Trott offers every service necessary for wireless communications, from nationwide networks to single-user systems. Services include system design, field-testing, RFE Compliance, due diligence, strategic planning studies, feasibility studies and site engineering.
    
  Hutton Hutton Communications, Inc. headquartered in Dallas Texas, is a distributor of commercial wireless communications and related equipment. Hutton serves cellular and radio communications dealers, wireless communications carriers and self-maintained end users of communications systems. In addition, Hutton provides its customers with power systems solutions for emergency backup, alternative energy sources, or out-of-grid power requirements. With multiple sales and warehouse facilities, Hutton provides local sales support and fast delivery to your location.    
  Arinc ARINC Incorporated is the world leader in transportation communications and systems engineering. The company develops and operates communications and information processing systems and provides systems engineering and integration solutions to five key industries: airports, aviation, defense, government, and surface transportation. Founded to provide reliable and efficient radio communications for the airlines, ARINC is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. Our North American customer base is supported by more than 450 local maintenance and implementation support facilities with a staff of FCC licensed employees. Globally, ARINC operates key regional offices in London and Singapore, with over 3,000 employees worldwide. ARINC is ISO 9001:2001 Certified.