[Hen] ITFS (currently EBS) licensing (resent in TEXT form)
Johnson, Bill
bjohnson at onenet.net
Sun Jan 15 13:30:46 CST 2006
To Whom may hold ITFS licenses;
Your school may hold ITFS licenses and you may not know it. I've had
several inquiries from such schools. Please take a min to read the
following;
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What is ITFS? (from www.itfs.org)
802.11b and g are 2.4GHz. ITFS is 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz
The Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) is a band of twenty
(20) microwave channels available to be licensed by the FCC to local
credit granting educational institutions. It was designed to serve as a
means for educational institutions to deliver live or pre-recorded video
instruction to multiple sites within school districts and to higher
education branch campuses. In recognition of the variety and quantity of
materials required to support instruction at numerous grade levels and
in a range of subjects, licensees were typically granted a group of four
channels. Its low capital and operating costs as compared to broadcast
television, technical quality that compared favorably with broadcast
television, and its multi-channel per licensees feature made ITFS an
extremely cost effective vehicle for the delivery of educational
materials. There are currently several hundred ITFS systems in operation
delivering schedules of live and pre-recorded instruction
The FCC initially authorized ITFS to operate using a one-way, analog,
line-of-sight technology. Typical installations included up to four
transmitters multiplexed through a single broadcast antenna with
directional receive antennas at each receive site. Receive site
installations included equipment to down convert the microwave channels
for viewing on standard television receivers. In typical installations,
the down converted ITFS signals were distributed to classrooms over
multi-channel closed circuit television systems.
In the late 1980's the FCC recognized that many ITFS licensees lacked
the technical expertise and/or the financial means to make effective use
of ITFS. Subsequently, the FCC authorized ITFS licensees to lease a
portion of their spectrum, designated as "Excess Capacity," for
commercial use. ITFS licensees were required to retain forty hours per
week per channel for instruction with the excess available for
commercial use in exchange for technical and financial support for their
instructional service. Using ITFS excess capacity and up to thirteen
channels in the companion commercial service, the Multi-Multipoint
Distribution Service (MMDS}, a number of telecommunications companies
built wireless cable systems. The number of available channels, however,
proved to be insufficient to compete effectively with the expanding
channel capacity of cable TV.
ITFS and MMDS licensees then sought FCC authorization to employ digital
compression technology, which would substantively increase the number of
program streams that could be carried on the channels of the combined
ITFS and MMDS spectrum.
In1998, the FCC approved the use of digital compression in ITFS. At the
time digital compression technology was expected to expand the number of
program steams by a ratio of 4 to 1 or more. The FCC also authorized
both cellular and two-way operations in the ITFS/MMDS services and the
potential for ITFS to be used for the distribution of data, as well as
video. In the same rule, the FCC reduced the capacity that educational
licensees were required to retain for instruction from forty hours per
week per channel to 5%
of channel capacity. In permitting two-way operations the FCC created
the first potential for a substantial use of instructional materials
that rely on interaction between the instructional program and learners.
The expanded programming capacity provided by digital compression
encouraged a number of commercial entities to create wireless
entertainment video systems. These systems found, however, that the
additional programming capability was not sufficient to overcome the
line-of-sight handicap and the associated higher cost for customer
installations. It was clear that while video distribution was a viable
educational service for ITFS, commercial video services could not be
widely successful in the ITFS/MMDS spectrum.
In 1999, telecommunication interests associated with the cell phone
industry sought o obtain FCC approval for the transfer of portions of
the ITFS spectrum from educational use to support a proposed 3G (Third
Generation) cell phone technology. In 2001, the FCC ruled to preserve
the ITFS spectrum for education and further modified the rules to
authorize the use of the spectrum in mobile operations and voice
communications.
For details see 2004 Presentations at http://itfs.org/index/articles
On July 28, the FCC released the full text of its Report and Order on
ITFS/MMDS. See:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-135A1.pdf (for
pdf format), or
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-135A1.doc (for
Word format).
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The State Regents holds 30 or so of these licenses since 1970 which were
used as part of our original TIS system. I have spoken to several
schools who were surprised to find that during the 1980s, some one from
their school agreed to sign an application for some company they had not
heard of before who promised to pay them monthly for use of a license
the FCC would grant to the school. Today, those have become much more
valuable because of the 802.11b and g hardware and the understanding of
what can be done with such spectrum.
Below is a list of Oklahoma Schools who hold ITFS licenses. The second
number from the left is the Call Letters. The 10 digit number to the
right is the FRN for the licensee. If your school is a Licensee, this is
your number. I hope this information is useful to some of you. More
info can be found on at the FCC's Universal License Search page at
http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/
I plan to attend the National ITFS Association's meeting in San Antonio
Feb 20. If you plan on being there, please let me know. info can be
found at www.itfs.org
If you would like to join a discussion group of Oklahoma ITFS licensees,
drop me a line.
Bill Johnson
Director of Network Operations - OneNet
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19 KGF21 OKLAHOMA STATE REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 0006129530 ED
Active 12/09/2014
27 WHR559 OKLAHOMA EDUCATIONAL TV AUTHORITIY 0005048400 ED Active
07/19/2009
28 WHR791 THE TRUST OF OKLAHOMA CITY UNIV. 0008248221 ED Active
02/13/2011
35 WLX251 THE TRUSTEES OF OKLAHOMA CITY UNIV. 0008248221 ED Active
02/13/2011
36 WLX350 NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOUNDATION,
INC. 0006686018 ED Active 09/25/2011
37 WLX397 PLATT COLLEGE 0007165202 ED Active 09/04/2011
38 WLX505 WETUMKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS I-005 0001705599 ED Active 03/31/2012
39 WLX553 HOLDENVILLE SCHOOL DISTIRCT 0006662514 ED Active 04/27/2012
40 WLX554 WEWOKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0006662480 ED Active 04/27/2012
41 WLX596 NOWATA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ED Active 07/13/2002
42 WLX605 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #286 0004335717 ED Active 07/24/2012
43 WLX611 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #332 0002335016 ED Active 07/29/2012
44 WLX628 KINGMAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #331 0007054208 ED Active
08/12/2012
45 WLX650 STRATFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL 0007093644 ED Active 09/16/2012
46 WLX672 Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc.
0006620348 ED Active 09/28/2012
47 WLX772 RUSH SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007098627 ED Active 01/28/2014
48 WLX812 ADA PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0001690148 ED Active 03/10/2013
49 WLX845 PERRY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0000710773 ED Active 04/30/2013
50 WLX849 YALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007109218 ED Active 04/30/2013
51 WLX858 TURNER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 0007921497 ED Active
05/05/2003
52 WLX859 ALEX PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007909393 ED Active 05/05/2013
53 WLX890 MORRISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007099187 ED Active 05/26/2013
54 WLX895 PAOLI PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007076334 ED Active 06/01/2013
55 WLX935 BYNG PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007054372 ED Active 07/23/2013
56 WLX947 ARNETT PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007113103 ED Active 08/20/2003
57 WLX952 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #511 0002330694 ED Active 09/21/2013
58 WLX965 SEILING PUBLIC SCHOOL 0001689348 ED Active 09/28/2013
59 WMH376 ESTA CALLAHAM, JOHN B. CALLAHAM AND ANGELA G. WHISENHUNT
BR Active 05/01/2011
68 WNC225 MOORELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL 0007947484 ED Active 02/14/2014
69 WNC227 RIPLEY SCHOOLS 0007940943 ED Active 03/07/2014
70 WNC262 ALLEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0006743850 ED Active 04/04/2014
71 WNC280 FRONTIER PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0001700194 ED Active 05/12/2014
72 WNC356 Independent School District No. 11 0011291176 ED Active
07/26/2014
73 WNC377 GORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0005783758 ED Active 08/02/2014
74 WNC383 CARL ALBERT STATE COLLEGE (SALLISAW CAMPUS) 0007098403 ED
Active 08/23/2014
75 WNC445 VAN BUREN PUBLIC SCHOOL 0006910996 ED Active 09/30/2014
76 WNC468 FORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0008339095 ED Active 10/20/2014
77 WNC497 Wilson Public Schools 0004548921 ED Active 11/22/2014
78 WNC498 EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 0006999742 ED Active 11/22/2014
79 WNC499 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY 0007055288 ED Active 11/08/2014
80 WNC500 DICKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007920044 ED Active 12/09/2014
81 WNC501 ARDMORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007075856 ED Active 12/09/2014
82 WNC511 DETROIT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 0007909666 ED Active
12/08/2014
83 WNC512 ROXTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 0007076078 ED Active
12/08/2014
84 WNC515 BROKEN ARROW PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007941008 ED Active 10/12/2014
85 WNC516 INDIAN CAPITAL AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL 0007043383
ED Active 12/22/2014
86 WNC517 ENID HIGH SCHOOL 0007912033 ED Active 12/23/2014
87 WNC520 WESTERN TECHNOLOGY CENTER 0007000441 ED Active 12/23/2014
88 WNC528 FT. GIBSON SCHOOLS 0007685712 ED Active 12/08/2014
89 WNC542 OKAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007024391 ED Active 02/10/2015
90 WNC544 MIAMI PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007282437 ED Active 02/10/2015
91 WNC545 MARLOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISD 0007007974 ED Active 03/17/2015
92 WNC549 OLUSTEE PUBLIC SCHOOL 0007093206 ED Active 03/09/2015
93 WNC555 WARNER PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007068158 ED Active 02/28/2015
94 WNC562 SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERITY 0005099510 ED Active
03/21/2015
95 WNC568 PHILLIPS UNIVERSITY 0008233256 ED Active 03/27/2005
96 WNC575 COMANCHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0008230914 ED Active 03/20/2015
97 WNC577 CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007165277 ED Active 03/20/2015
98 WNC578 WEATHERFORD HOSP AUTHORITY DBA SOUTHWEST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
0006999932 ED Active 03/20/2005
99 WNC579 WEATERFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007054588 ED Active 03/22/2015
100 WNC580 WESTERN TECHNICAL CENTER 0007000441 ED Active 03/22/2015
101 WNC595 Prairiland Consolidated Independent Schools 0007096431 ED
Active 04/19/2015
102 WNC596 CHISUM INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 0005143722 ED Active
04/19/2015
103 WNC598 SE Oklahoma State University 0007578693 ED Active
04/19/2015
104 WNC660 KIOWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007057201 ED Active 05/25/2015
105 WNC662 MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT 0007903537 ED Active 06/01/2015
106 WNC683 ST JOHNS PRIVATE SCHOOL 0007720576 ED Active 06/30/2015
107 WNC690 PAULS VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007903693 ED Active 07/05/2005
108 WNC696 EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 0006999742 ED Active 07/14/2015
109 WNC697 HASKELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 0007092505 ED Active 07/14/2005
110 WNC714 ALTUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, DISTRICT #18 0007043144 ED Active
09/23/2015
111 WNC722 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY 0007055288 ED Active 10/24/2015
112 WNC757 RED RIVER VO TECH SCHOOL 0006034011 ED Active 04/23/2006
113 WNC758 Southwestern Oklahoma State University 0005099510 ED Active
04/23/2006
114 WNC920 REDLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 0007909781 ED Active 08/19/2007
115 WNC921 THOMAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007941040 ED Active 08/19/2007
116 WNC922 ST. PETER & PAUL PRIVATE SCHOOLS 0007947427 ED Active
08/19/2007
117 WNC972 MCCURTAIN COUNTY HIGHER EDUC PROG ED Active 08/28/2007
118 WNC973 IDABEL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ED Active 08/28/2007
119 WNC974 BROKEN BOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS ED Active 07/18/2007
120 WNC977 STUART PUBLIC SCHOOLS 0007903586 ED Active 07/18/2007
121 WND522 EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY 0006999742 ED Active 08/30/2009
122 WND535 N. AMER CATH ED PROGRAM FOUND INC 0006686018 ED Active
01/05/2010
123 WND536 OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 0001689082 ED Active
02/09/2010
124 WND537 TRI-COUNTY AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL CENTER 0006965339 ED
Active 02/09/2010
125 WND678 Dewey Public Schools #I-7 0001690023 ED Active 02/28/2013
Bill Johnson
Director of Network Operations - OneNet
Director - Netrad Infrastructure for CASA
405-225-9444
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