Report No. CIB 98-22   COMPLIANCE & INFORMATION ACTION       November 10, 1998


       FCC FIELD STAFF PROVIDES TRAINING TO USTTI STUDENTS 


     The Federal Communications Commission announced today it has begun another two-
week tuition-free training course for telecommunications officials from developing countries. 

     Officials from Bhutan, Hong Kong, Latvia, and Panama are attending the course,
entitled, "Radio Spectrum Monitoring, Techniques and Procedures," which is being conducted
at the FCC's Compliance and Information Bureau  Columbia, MD., Training Center. 

     This international training program is conducted with the United States
Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), a government program that provides
assistance to developing nations.

      The training course includes radio spectrum monitoring; compliance techniques and
procedures such as fixed monitoring, mobile monitoring, remote monitoring, fixed HF
direction-finding, mobile direction-finding, off-air signal identification and measurement
techniques; interference resolution; and regulatory compliance and investigation techniques
utilized by the FCC.  The students are provided classroom and hands-on measurements
instruction by CIB engineers and technical specialists who conduct FCC regulatory compliance
work.

     Highlights of the course include utilization of the FCC's 14 site, remote-controlled,
state-of-the-art high frequency direction finders, operation of the FCC's modern mobile digital
direction finder, field trips to local attractions such as the National Security Agency
Cryptology Museum and a special presentation by the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration concerning worldwide interference issues and the use of 
search -and-rescue satellites.









     The FCC also offers a USTTI one-week course at Columbia in the area of "Radio
Spectrum Monitoring and Measuring" which includes an overview of compliance techniques. 
The course is provided yearly to 16 or more visiting foreign spectrum managers.  CIB has
hosted over 250 participants from various countries since the inception of USTTI in 1983. 
Within the past year, training facilitators at Columbia have trained 26 students from the
countries of Columbia, Cyprus, Guatemala, Israel, Jordan, Moldavia, Palestine, Russia,
Slovenia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Taiwan.   

     FCC Chairman William E. Kennard serves on the USTTI Board of Directors, which is
composed of communications leaders from the U.S. private sector and the federal government. 
This cooperative effort serves to ensure that the USTTI provides a maximum training
opportunity through its diverse, comprehensive array of tuition-free curriculum for women and
men who manage the communications systems within developing countries.

                             - FCC - 

     

     News Media contact:  David H. Fiske at (202) 418-0500.
     Compliance and Information Bureau contact:  Charles Magin at (301) 725-3474.