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Steve Crowley helps organizations succeed in R&D activities, strategy planning and execution, business transactions, patent portfolio management, and regulatory proceedings. He often accomplishes this by joining a company’s team and working with the members to develop and execute tactics in support of an existing strategy. In this work, Steve draws on his skills and experience in engineering, business, and writing. Steve’s consulting experience of over 20 years in over 400 projects includes 3G, 4G, unlicensed, satellite, public safety, and machine-to-machine communications. He also has experience in core networks, smart grid, cognitive radio, biomedical telemetry, device performance measurement, and domestic and international broadcasting. Clients have included manufacturers, service providers, government agencies, entrepreneurs, and law firms. Steve has led or participated in many industry and government activities dealing with standardization and technology assessment, including those associated with APCO, 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802, CTIA, TIA, and the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee. He has published many articles on technology in industry and popular publications and contributed a chapter to a book on due-diligence review of broadcast stations. He has spoken before industry groups on subjects such as digital audio broadcasting, human exposure to radio-frequency energy, and new business opportunities in technology. Before entering the engineering field, his interest in speech and writing led Steve to study journalism and work briefly as a broadcast journalist. Today, he strives for clear, coherent, and concise communication, especially during a project. Sometimes, he finds, facilitating a project is mostly a matter of helping those with good knowledge, clear vision, and strong feeling convey that knowledge, vision, and feeling to others. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is the co-inventor of several wireless communications technologies, each of which has been awarded a United States patent. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia.
FCC to move on 5 GHz, but no faster nor further than NTIA
At its February 20 meeting, the FCC will likely adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as a first step toward increasing the amount of spectrum available in the 5 GHz [...]
A crucial engineering fact I’m not hearing from municipal TV white space proponents
Here it is: At 600 MHz, interference travels farther than it does at higher frequencies, all else equal. The corollary to this, which you hear much more often from white [...]
Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC
This summarizes a selection from 215 applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during October, November, and December 2011. These are related to AM broadcasting, FM broadcasting, [...]
Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC
This summarizes a selection from 173 applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during August and September 2011. These are related to long-range low-frequency radar, amateur radio, [...]
Filling the Spectrum Pipeline
In my last post I looked at how the U.S. is behind some other countries in having new mobile broadband spectrum in the pipeline, according to a tally prepared by [...]
CTIA’s International Case for More Spectrum
In a recent blog post, CTIA compares some measures of the U.S. wireless industry to those in nine other countries. The purpose is two-fold; to show the U.S. is a [...]
Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC
This summarizes a selection of applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during June and July 2011. These are related to AM broadcasting, cognitive radio, land vehicle [...]
FCC Gets Some Consensus in Wireless Booster Proceeding
Comments are in on the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in WT Docket No. 10-4 to create new technical, operational, and coordination rules for wireless signal boosters in various services. [...]
Experimental Radio Applications at the FCC
This summarizes a selection of applications for the Experimental Radio Service received by the FCC during April and May 2011. These are related to TV white space, electromagnetic compatibility testing, [...]
Spectrum, Data, Capacity, and PR
A couple of days ago the Mobile Future coalition posted a short video on YouTube advocating the allocation of more spectrum to mobile broadband. As evidence of the need, it [...]
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