Received: from ns1.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa23026; 6 Jul 95 17:08 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA10005 for telecomlist-outbound; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:35:24 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA09997; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:35:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:35:22 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507061235.HAA09997@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #301 TELECOM Digest Thu, 6 Jul 95 07:35:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 301 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Apple NII Public Band Petition to FCC- NEEDS SUPPORT! (Monty Solomon) Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business (Paul Robinson) N+I Conference Assessment Team (Ole J. Jacobsen) N+I BOFs (Ole J. Jacobsen) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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A suggested donation of twenty dollars per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above. All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 23:04:37 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Apple NII Public Band Petition to FCC- NEEDS SUPPORT! Reply-To: monty@roscom.COM FYI Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:56:00 -0700 Originator: cpsr-announce@cpsr.org From: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren) Subject: Apple NII Public Band Petition to FCC- NEEDS SUPPORT! The following is informal and hastily put together but represents a serious opportunity for innovative public access to the airwaves. Please read and consider submitting comments to the FCC. -al ====================================================================== GovAccess.154-CRUCIAL!!!: Free, high-speed regional telecomm! This is one of the most important public policy items I have ever posted! This can be a *real* Declaration of Independence for the 21st Century. This is one of the most important battles that citizens, community organizations, educators, local government officials and newspapers (if they plan to continue to exist beyond newsprint) will fight in this decade, against government-granted monopolies and regulation-protected cartels! I have been trying to find time to write about this ever since Dewayne Hendricks told me about it about a month ago. Bill Frezza's done it; done it well; and Interactive Age has just published it. [below] Folks, if we, the People, can successfully lobby-the-hell outa Congress, the White House and the FCC -- *right now*! -- "mere" American citizens and otherwise-deadmeat consumers can bypass the upcoming monopolistic regional telecommunications and cable cartels and their for-certain gouge'em-deep rate increases that will occur as soon as the current secret-deal Telecommunications Deform Act passes and next year's elections are safely behind the Washington Beltway's deal-makers. IF WE ACT NOW -- and persevere -- we can have the economical, technological viable option of completely bypassing local-loop telecomm monopolies of the telcos, cable operators and other big-bucks telecomm giants. FREE voice and data communications for residential, educational, business, community, city, county, rural *and* mobile voice and data-communications. ALL OF US can have FREE metropolitan-area voice, data and compressed-video communications -- point-to-point, and for that matter, point-to-multipoint (i.e., everyone becomes a broadcaster, but only to those whom they permit to receive!). But we *must* act now -- because the TELECOM GIANTS *DON'T* WANT THIS! ONLY massive public pressure can overcome their massive lobbying megabucks. The idea is simple: Have the FCC declare a tiny portion of what was once *understood* to be the public's broadcast spectrum to be -- in fact -- PUBLIC SPECTRUM (a range of frequencies available for free public use). The formal petition has ALREADY BEEN FILED with the FCC. The rule-making PROCESS HAS ALREADY BEGUN; public comments have already been solicited. Open that public spectrum to FREE use by EVERYONE, subject to NO restrictions at all except (1) broadcast power that will limit range to, typically, about 15 to 30 miles, and (2) require use of a given frequency for only a very brief time -- seconds or even milliseconds (assumes use of well-developed, nonproprietary "spread spectrum" techniques, where an ongoing communication takes place on one frequency for tiny time, then moves to another frequency, then another and so on; the most efficient use and sharing of broadcast spectrum that is possible!). 24-megabits per second - that's 3 megabytes per second! NO phone bills! NO corporate owners! NO wires -- just a teeny weeny antenna. At most. NO fees -- just a one-time purchase of cheap home, office, car or beltloop transcievers, and whatever you wish to plug into them ... phones, data modems, video cameras, temperature monitors, etc. NO operator licensing -- just type-licensed transceivers, exactly the same as police, cabbie and CB-band radios. NO eves-droppers -- since the spreading algorithms can be infinately and dynamically varied (and communications can be further scrambled, to boot). NO censorship needed -- since content is *inherently* "scrambled". METROPOLITAN area range (far beyond a single cell-phone site). REAL content competition -- not the fake "competition" of government-created, government-licensed, government-protected conduit and content corporate cartels. Pollution-free, environmentally-sound, wire-free regional electronic public parks. WRITE AND FAX *NOW* - to the FCC *and* to your Congress-critters and the Clinton White House that has been so busy selling the public's spectrum to the few who can afford it. Or ... obediently wait and watch the cartels raise our rates. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& What Do We Want? Nonproprietary, Free Bandwidth! When Do We Want It? Now! Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 15:47:10 -0700 To: jwarren@well.com From: Bill Frezza (via RadioMail) If you want to repost it [the following] be my guest. But if you do, please preface it with a note that it is from the July 3rd issue of Interactive Age Magazine and at the end add the following: COPYRIGHT CMP PUBLICATIONS JULY 1995. Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 14:14:23 -0700 To: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren) >From "Interactive Age" July 3, 1995 Where the I-way meets the skyway By Bill Frezza [via dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)] The visionaries at Apple Computer Inc. are at it again, pushing the envelope of technology, regulatory policy and business development. While Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates focuses on the here and now of elbowing into the online business, Apple has fast-forwarded to a kinder, gentler future where free spirits wirelessly surf the Web and the unstructured, self-organizing chaos of the Internet is extended to the rigid disposition of the airwaves. Weaving together the politically popular themes of international competitiveness, enhanced educational opportunities, free market solutions for the info have-nots, health-care reform, quality leisure time and hard core mobile computing, Apple's recent petition to the FCC for an unlicensed "NII band" is this summer's best read. Check it out at http://www.apple.com/documents/fcc.html [Better still, use http://www.warpspeed.com/ , explained below. --jim] [Or use http://www.cpsr.org/home -- al] What they're asking for is simple enough: 300 megahertz of prime real estate up at 5 gigahertz, enough to accommodate high density 24-megabit-per-second connections in a fluid mix of local and wide area networking. This amounts to about $40 billion worth of spectrum, if you go by the size of the checks the phone companies wrote for Personal Communications Services (PCS) frequencies. And, oh yeah, they don't want it for themselves. They want it made available free to all comers, subject only to interference -- reducing technical standards. No auctions, no license fees, no regulations on what it's used for, and no airtime charges. Does this renew your faith in chutzpa or what? It's certainly a different model than either the newfangled auction approach or the tired old lobbyist-take-all system. Think of it as spectrum homesteading, a uniquely American experiment in don't-fence-me-in, anti-industrial policy. Before you scoff, remember that Apple has been down this path before. It first petitioned the FCC for Data-PCS frequencies for nomadic computing back in 1991. This resulted in the allocation of a juicy 20 MHz slice smack in the middle of the aforementioned PCS bands. Unfortunately for the PC industry, defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory when the entrenched telephony interests shanghaied the band in pursuit of a home for cordless PBXs. (A chagrined FCC later tossed the computer folks some crumbs at 2.4 GHz). The petition proposes spectrum sharing by fixed and mobile users on a completely ad-hoc basis. This "spectrum etiquette" is a brilliant blend of good science and free market ingenuity. Spectrum etiquette imposes no centralized control and assumes no traffic prioritization. Rather, it is a low level media access scheme similar to the rules we follow for private conversations at crowded cocktail parties. You can speak French, German, or Chinese -- whatever you please -- as long as you exclude bozos that stand up on chairs and give loud and long-winded speeches. Beyond that, anything goes. But beware of the lobbyist-loaded coterie that frustrated Apple's plans last time. Flying under the WINForum banner, the telephony interests are angling for the same spectrum with a rival petition. Their technical approach, however, asserts the primacy of circuit-switched voice, necessitating a hierarchical architecture with choke points and centralized control. Haven't they hogged enough bandwidth? They call their system SUPERNet. I think SUCKERNet fits a lot better. The Europeans developing HIPERLAN didn't buy their jive, so now they're trying to peddle it here. And they may succeed unless the Washington-averse PC industry files supporting comments before July 25. [---IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM!---] Drop a letter or postcard referencing petition RM-8653 to: Office of the Secretary Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Washington DC 20554 or send e-mail to jlovette@apple.com and offer your help. Apple's decision to position this as the NII band is perhaps their best hope, part of a savvy constituency shopping game. But posturing aside, if this dream comes true what we'll really get is an entrepreneurs band. Not the kind of fake entrepreneurs with half a billion dollar war chests, or some bogus designated entity front organization. But real entrepreneurs that hock their cars, quit their day jobs and go for the glory. The kind of people that founded Apple and created the PC industry in the first place. So good luck intrepid infobahn warriors. May your vision become our reality. I can barely squirt 8 kilobits per second out of my antenna today. With 24 mbps to horse around with and no physical connections to trace, who knows what mischief we can cause? Bill Frezza is president at Wireless Computing Associates and co-founder of the online forum DigitaLiberty. You can reach him at frezza@radiomail.net . &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Feedback with Speed that Only the Net Can Provide - COMMENT DEADLINE IS JULY 10! [Dewayne Hendricks has been deeply involved in wireless datacomm for years, and has spent several years trudging around Washington's endless bureaucratic circles and serving on various industry committees, that eventually got pre-empted by the telecom giants. He's walked the walk; it's time for thousands of us to join him! --jim] Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP ! CIS: 75210,10 AppleLink: D6547 Warp Speed Imagineering ! Internet: dewayne@warpspeed.com 43730 Vista Del Mar ! Packet Radio: WA8DZP @ K3MC.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM Fremont, CA 94539-3204 ! AOL: HENDRICKS Fax: (510) 770-9854 ! WWW: http://www.warpspeed.com/ Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner/editor (jwarren@well.com) Advocate & columnist, MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/<# upon request> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 12:51:19 -0500 From: Paul Robinson Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA Subject: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers/ Problems in Business In the previous issue of TELECOM Digest I mentioned my own idea about a way to advertise the new 888 area code. Maybe there already is a good system there. Or maybe nobody is going to bother, it's just going to be treated as another area code and nothing special will be done. It doesn't matter to me one way or another, I don't make any money selling 800 (or 888) numbers (or rather, not yet.) But those companies who sell these numbers, who have to pay LEC per-minute rates for misdialed calls should be thinking about how much money that misdialed and uncompleted long distance numbers are going to cost them when customers start demanding credit for incoming wrong numbers because two different companies with the identical seven digit number, one in 888 and the other in 800 get calls for the other. Makes me wonder how much of the 888 area code is going to be taken up by companies with 800 numbers buying the identical number in the 888 area code to keep someone else from piggybacking on their number. (National Car rental uses 1-800-CAR-RENT. Maybe one of the tinier car rental companies decides to buy 1-888-227-7368, which is the same number, and uses that, saying "After you check National - Or Alamo, Avis, Budget, Hertz, dial the same number but dial 888 instead of 800, and check our rates." So they get identical numbers for all the major car companies, and start a price war. The rental car business has been too complacent lately, either they're all colluding to hold prices at about the same level, or they're all too comfortable to bother stealing customers by changing prices. (Offering incentive tie-ins to airlines and such doesn't cost anything.) Even Coke and Pepsi do on-and-off price cuts (but not both during the same week, of course!) to try to woo the cost-consious shoppers that week away from their favorite brands. It's also how they keep companies like RC and Jolt from getting too large, by stealing market share. Nothing wrong with that, it's part and parcel of fighting in a competitive market. Thinking about it, the only thing that differentiates a successful business from an unsuccessful one is the successful one looks at its business, thinks up new ideas to make itself more valuable to its customers, and implements those ideas. Maybe they don't all work, but as long as you're right 51% of the time and make more than you lose, you'll win over the long term. As long as you keep thinking. Watch your competitors, emulate their successes and improve upon them, avoid their failures, and think up new ideas that they will soon steal from you. I don't watch football or other sports, but whoever set up the games on the Fox Network does. Keeping the clock on screen at all times and always displaying the score were two long-overdue improvements to the game. But they aren't "Great" ideas, just "good" ones. The change is simply a minor improvement. But that minor improvement adds value to the game for the viewer. Which leads to increased viewing, more exposure for the customer's advertisements, and higher ad rates for the network and stations, a win-win situation for everyone. My mother watches professional football games all the time. When I come by her and see a game is on, I know I'm going to get a running commentary of who is incompetent, who is good, and why the team is good or bad. But the one thing I noticed is she'd ask me to watch for her and tell me the score. Always, she'd be complaining because she'd be out making something to eat, and kept pestering me for the score, which I could not give her because it wasn't on for minutes and minutes. CBS ran NFL football for 35 years or so, and got complacent thinking they would always have it. FOX came up with more money, because they needed the viewers. And when they got the games, they improved over the tried-and-true formula, and now, if other networks try to get football back, I'm fairly confident they will have to implement these changes. Possibly adding them to other sports games. Or maybe I'm wrong and it doesn't mean that much to viewers. But I'll bet if they don't, people will start complaining "Why aren't you showing the clock and the score like Fox does on its games?" Complaints because a known good idea isn't being used by a competitor. Think about this: our biggest problem is not foreign (or domestic) competition, inner cities, overregulation, balance of payments, loss of industrial jobs or any of that. It's something much more and much less than those minor problems. In fact, let's stop Japan bashing, the Japanese can't touch us in the one thing that we can do better than anyone else. Europe, Asia, Mexico, Korea, will never catch up with us if we exploit our one strength that will allow us to beat them long before they can figure out what is going on. Beat them? Hell, we can turn them into hollowed-out shells if we really wanted to! Use our strengths, let them work on the stuff we're weak in, and make them try to compete on their weaknesses, which means they will chronically fail every time. But we're not doing that. We -- meaning the United States and the private companies that sell products and services -- are being crucified by the rest of the world, because we are failing to use our greatest strength, and trying to use our weaknesses to fight them, where our weaknesses are their strengths, and as a result, they're running us into the ground. Our biggest problem is people not thinking, and the lack of good ideas. Oh, let's not forget, we also need the will to implement those ideas. Hell, forget good ideas, companies aren't doing much with ideas at all, not even at least trying ones that might be bad, so they can see what doesn't work. They're not even trying much of anything, mostly coasting along on past successes. Ideas and their implementation are what made this country, (who ever heard of a 'limited government' that's a crazy idea!) And they are what made it into a great nation. ("Who in their right mind would have the government spend $7 million [in the 1800s] to buy Alaska from Russia? it's nothing but frozen wasteland! It is and always will be worthless. That's [Secretary of State] 'Seward's Folly'") ("It's impossible to fly a heavier-than air machine, Mr. Wright, every scientist knows this.") ("What good is a machine that sends pictures by facsimile over the telephone, the mail is good enough and cheaper!") ("Why would anyone want to use a photocopier, when carbon paper is already out?") etc. But these are (now) great ideas, they don't happen every day. Great ideas are like Grand Slam Home Runs in baseball, very rare. Or they are the "good" ideas that succeeed beyond our wildest dreams. (Nobody expected {Forrest Gump} to do ANYTHING like the revenues it did produce.) Good ideas, which are ordinary stuff, are the grist that the mill of day-to-day living needs to function. "Let's cut out sending checks after a shipment, if we order from a known company, issue the purchase order and the check at the same time, we can take the 2% discount for prompt payment, and it might save us some money." It did; I think Sears saved millions in unneeded paperwork and clerks to check invoices against purchase orders; if you pay purchase orders when issued, someone can't send you a fraudulent invoice against a purchase order that wasn't paid. IBM would need 40,000 more employees just to handle intra-company mail if they didn't have their company-wide E-Mail system. Fax machines and E-Mail are the nails in the coffin that is killing off the courier business for local delivery, which means companies in that line of work need to look into new ways to operate, e.g. start looking at documents like checks that can't be faxed (but then electronic payments are cheap, too), or packages which require delivery, including merchandise and things too bulky to tie up a phone line. But then if the other side needs a copy any way, why not just send the 100 or 200 page contract if it's an untimed call, just send it after 5 to their laser fax machine, all they have to do is send back the last page, they can fax a notarized copy (thus the notary can testify who signed it if needed,) and then mail the original with signature. The other side also mails a notarized original with their signature, so each has a copy of the signature page with an affidavit from the other. Or maybe not even notarized if they have the original. All you need is to show there is an agreement, the papers should show this if nobody is going to claim forgery, and if I understand correctly, most contract problems are over disagreements in terms, not over whether the parties actually agreed to the contract. Our lack of ideas and inability to implement them in order to do things, are what causes all the other problems. When we figure out ideas, we can use them to fix things. But we can't fix anything without ideas and methods to implement them. Great ideas come along maybe once in ten years, those are not easy to find. But it's the plain 'good' idea, like the concept of making popcorn that could be cooked in a microwave, that not only sold millions of dollars of popcorn at a mere 50-75c a bag, but sold hundreds of thousands of microwave ovens, too! A brand new market in addition to the regular popcorn market, that doesn't reduce sales of one at the expense of the other, but actually increased the 'size of the pie'. (Now the biggest use of microwave ovens is to boil water, for instant coffee and tea. How long before someone figures a way to put a water dispenser inside, to fill a cup with the exact amount of water, e.g. punch in the number of ounces of water, press the 'make hot water' key, and out comes water which it then microwaves to 140 degrees F! Anyone noticed if companies that make Microwave ovens have started ordering incoming water-pipe connections for an appliance? Or maybe they think it's too mundane. Well, maybe a company that sells an extra 20,000 units and charges $30 more for the 10c additional parts won't mind the extra $600K in profit and 20,000 units that sold above and beyond normal sales. Or offers it free and sells 50,000 more units, by stealing market share from a competitor. Or maybe it doesn't add to sales, but it actually creates a new niche in the marketplace? Think about what I've been saying next time some large company like Smith-Corona goes into Chapter 11 because they didn't think about new ideas to move into when their market changed, and typewriters were no longer selling against computers and laser printers, and word processors were overpriced against computers that did much more and did it better. They did not think about the change in the market - even places that sell typewriters saw it more than 5-10 years ago when they started selling computers as well as typewriters, calculators, and word processors. I saw it happening when I lived in California. If a small store can see the picture years ago, why can't an otherwise large company do the same, unless it's the same thing: inertia, fear of change, lack of ideas, and complacency? A small store has to make sales, they live from day-to-day on what they sell. If you want to know how good your product is, ask your sales force what their customers (the stores they stock) are buying. Have them ask the owners, what are they seeing in sales. Chances are, your salespeople know, but the people who run the company are sitting in the dark. Maybe in this case, the salespeople don't care, they just sell typewriters along with everything else, *because THEY know that this is a dying market, and can't expect to live on these commissions alone*. Have your sales department even checked on what the salesmen know about the customers? (Or if they deal direct with stores, do they know what the customers know.) Nobody wants to fix problems, they just want to complain and ignore them until things fall apart. The ones that do notice things, clean up in the marketplace. When was the last time anyone bought a typewriter new from IBM? (Or maybe they still sell the Selectric, but I don't think so.) They aren't stupid enough to remain with a dying industry. Even IBM got caught napping with the PC, after they essentially created the whole market from scratch. Then they were too little, too late in exploiting the entire market. Now, they have to compete on price same as everyone else, since now, quality differences are known to the public to be essentially nil between the large PC makers. Michael Dell was a college student who became a multimillionaire by making computers for people part time, and eventually creating a large company. But he's not safe, everyone from Acer to Zeos would love to eat his lunch. So our biggest problem, "Above all else..." (TM), is the lack of ideas and the will to implement them. Those who have ideas and implement them, will succeed. The hungry upstart will overtake the complacent big guy in the market; the small company doesn't have the assets, resources and capital, but they've got the drive, the guts to take risks, and use brainpower to compensate for a lack of cash. In the long run, it's ideas that win, because not everyone is hungry enough to want to take risks against the chance of huge rewards. Most will remain complacent and stay with the status quo, it's 'good enough'. Those who say that 'good enough' is the enemy of 'great', and thus will think up ideas to do better, will win in the long term. Look at telephony. Where are the new phone service ideas coming from? Has anyone implemented "take and takeback" for small businesses, where you receive an incoming 800 call, and want to transfer it to an associate who is on a car phone, so the called party can hit a code to have the 800 carrier take back the call, allow the called party to transfer the call to another number, and then that number is called, as a conversation between the called party and the new number, or use the code again to put it on a three-way, or the called party hangs up to transfer the call, it remains in the carrier's system, billed to the owner of the 800 number, but the called party's local number is free. The called party could "dump" the call, meaning if the third party doesn't answer or they get a machine, they leave a message and do not return to the original number, or they can "handoff" the call, in which case, if the number doesn't answer, it comes back to the original called party, perhaps staying "on hold" if their line is busy. If they use "three way," they are using two outgoing circuits, so an additional per-minute rate can be imposed on that part of the call. Yes, you can get this in your own PBX or pay lots more for centrex service. But for a single-line business, is this available, perhaps for $10 or $15 a month over the regular 800 rate? (The carrier shouldn't care, the customer is being billed for the time spent while the call is being transferred and the distant party answers.) If it is, you won't get it from AT&T, MCI or Sprint, they probably don't see enough money in that. But some smaller company which wants the business can. Or make it so that the call can come into a PC which can send signals (perhaps using the A B C and D keys on a phone) to activate all sorts of services. And a large company could still use this service, too. Just because you have PBX service doesn't mean you want to tie up your own lines for both an incoming and outgoing call; the phone company sells circuits for 16c a minute or less in huge volumes, use theirs and don't waste your own. Let them take the extra equipment overhead, and pay them the ridiculously low rate instead of buying extra local phone lines. Since this is all done in software, since you could implement the concept with a PC with a programmable voice card, putting it on a switch shouldn't be that much more difficult. It's all automatic, with voice prompts, so it doesn't require manual handling, which means once the software upgrade cost has been paid for, the feature costs *nothing* to make available. There's no higher profit rate (infinite) than to sell something that's free and charge for it! You don't make money in any business by selling stuff or doing things for a customer. You make money by fulfilling the customer's needs and charging them for it. You figure out how to fulfil those needs by figuring out, with what resources you have, what you can acquire, and from new ideas to use those resources, create a means to serve the customer, and make money at the same time. Do it right, and you can not only bleed the customer white by what you're charging, the poor guy will thank you for the money he's saving! (And he is, too!) Another win-win situation. Making money. It's all in thinking up new ideas and ways to implement them. It always has been, it always will be. Or fail to have and use them, mean you start to stagnate and prepare to die or go out of business. Failure to think has been, and always will be, the one crime which nature punishes with the Death Penalty, to a person, or to a company. And no amount of legislation will ever repeal that law of nature. Copyright 1996, Tansin A. Darcos & Company. Among other things, "Above All else...We shall go on..." we sell and service "_And continue!" ideas. Dial 1-800-TDARCOS if you are looking for ideas for something, ideas and implementation, implementation of other people's ideas, including new products and services your company might be able to sell, contact us. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jul 95 12:10:40 PDT From: Ole J. Jacobsen Subject: N+I Conference Assessment Team Please distribute as widely as possible: Call for Volunteers: The NetWorld+Interop Conference Assessment Team (CAT) Interop Company is seeking student volunteers to serve as quality control monitors for NetWorld+Interop 95, to be held in Atlanta September 25-29, 1995. (Conference September 27-29). This is a unique opportunity for students to attend the industry's premier networking conference and tradeshow, while helping us improve the quality and consistency of the conference. As a CAT member you will receive: * Complimentary conference registration for all three conference days; * Complimentary conference notes; * Complimentary lunch all three conference days; As a CAT member you will be asked to: * Monitor preassigned conference sessions by submitting written reports and acting as the "eyes and ears" of the conference organizers. We will provide you with a basic evaluation form to aid the preparation of the reports. (You will be free to attend any conference session and the NetWorld+Interop exhibition when you are not assigned CAT duty, but you will be strongly encouraged to complete evaluation forms for any session you attend.) * Provide an accurate count of the number of people attending the sessions you are assigned to. ("Clickers" will be provided!) Successful CAT candidates will be students currently enrolled in a computer science or electrical engineering course at undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate level. Applicants should have some understanding of (and interest in) computer networking issues. All applications must be received by August 15, 1995, but note that this program is popular, and operates on a first-come-first-served basis. Previous CAT members are encouraged to apply again! Please note that Interop Company cannot cover any travel or accommodation costs associated with the CAT program, however as a CAT member you will be eligible for the standard conference discount rate at a number of Atlanta hotels. Note also, that the CAT program is *separate from* the network volunteers program organized by Interop. Participation in both is possible, but not recommended (you won't get any sleep for a week!) To apply, send e-mail to: ole@interop.com with a *brief* biography and relevant contact information. Don't forget to send a POSTAL address as we need to send you a NetWorld+Interop program. Please include your postal address at the *end of your message* in the following plain form: John Applicant Flymore University 1234 Main Street Sometown, MN 98765 Only ONE applicant per message please! ****PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THIS MESSAGE IN YOUR REPLY!!**** Ole J Jacobsen, Editor & Publisher, ConneXions--The Interoperability Report, Interop Company, a division of SOFTBANK Expos, 303 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, CA 94404-1138, USA. Ph: +1 (415) 578-6988 Fax: +1 (415) 525-0194. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jul 95 12:11:17 PDT From: Ole J. Jacobsen Subject: N+I BOFs NetWorld+Interop 95 Atlanta: BOFs Following a long tradition, we will once again offer the opportunity for interested parties to meet and discuss topics of mutual interest in Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions. The venue is NetWorld+Interop 95 Atlanta. This time, BOFs will be held Wednesday and Thursday nights, September 27th and 28th, from 7:30pm until 9:30pm. All BOFs will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center. BOFs provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss networking issues in an informal, after hours, atmosphere. BOFs have become a forum for users to meet with other users and with implementation experts. These sessions are not intended for formal presentations, and certainly NOT for vendor product presentations, but rather as a forum for discussions of "unsolved problems." BOFs are open to all Networld+Interop attendees, including Exhibition attendees, and no special registration is necessary. Examples of some BOF topics from previous Interop events include: o Network Device Performance Testing o Internet information tools (WWW, Gopher, WAIS, Archie....) o Internet Firewalls and Hackers o SNMP Testing o Fast Ethernet Standards o Networked multimedia systems o Resource Reservations Protocols o Using Facsimile Devices around the World as Remote Printers o The Internet and K-12 schools To suggest a topic for a BOF at NetWorld+Interop 95 Atlanta please send a 50 word abstract along with the name and e-mail of a contact person (BOF moderator) to Ole Jacobsen (ole@interop.com) as soon as possible. Space is limited, first come, first served. For your information, the following is a sample BOF description: Internet Firewalls and Hackers In the wake of recent well-publicized hacking attacks, interest has grown in the hacker's methods and the tools used to exclude them. The use of firewalls and one-time password schemes can foil most common hacking schemes. This BOF will be an informal interactive discussion of hacking techniques, and the various tools and approaches commonly used to implement a denial-of-hacker service. It will undoubtedly include war stories and firewall designs and philosophy. Ole J Jacobsen, Editor & Publisher, ConneXions--The Interoperability Report, Interop Company, a division of SOFTBANK Expos, 303 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, CA 94404-1138, USA. Ph: +1 (415) 578-6988 Fax: +1 (415) 525-0194. ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #301 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa26389; 6 Jul 95 23:52 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27137 for telecomlist-outbound; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:13:09 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27129; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:13:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:13:07 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507062213.RAA27129@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #302 TELECOM Digest Thu, 6 Jul 95 17:13:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 302 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Book Review: "Using Email Effectively" by Lamb/Peek (Rob Slade) DSP and Telecom Speaker Invited (gao@io.org) Testing Access to +44 7010 From Outside UK (R.N. King) Warning! Fake Version of PKZIP Will Delete Your Hard Drive (jdl@umd.edu) 314 Stays in St. Louis; 573 to Outstate MO (Wally Bloss) Pager Phone Numbers (Steve Kass) Quantum Non-Leap? (Dr. Rich Artym) Conference: Computer Telephony, July 24-26, Chicago (icm@intermarket.com) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu * The Digest is edited, published and compilation-copyrighted by Patrick Townson of Skokie, Illinois USA. You can reach us by postal mail, fax or phone at: 9457-D Niles Center Road Skokie, IL USA 60076 Phone: 500-677-1616 Fax: 708-329-0572 ** Article submission address only: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu ** Our archives are located at lcs.mit.edu and are available by using anonymous ftp. The archives can also be accessed using our email information service. For a copy of a helpful file explaining how to use the information service, just ask. ************************************************************************* * TELECOM Digest is partially funded by a grant from the * * International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland * * under the aegis of its Telecom Information Exchange Services (TIES) * * project. Views expressed herein should not be construed as represent-* * ing views of the ITU. * ************************************************************************* In addition, TELECOM Digest receives a grant from Microsoft to assist with publication expenses. Editorial content in the Digest is totally independent, and does not necessarily represent the views of Microsoft. ------------------------------------------------------------ Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of twenty dollars per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above. All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 14:54:05 EST From: Rob Slade Subject: Book Review: "Using Email Effectively" by Lamb/Peek BKUEMLEF.RVW 950510 "Using Email Effectively", Linda Lamb/Jerry Peek, 1995, 1-56592-103-8, U$14.95 %A Linda Lamb %A Jerry Peek %C 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472 %D 1995 %G 1-56592-103-8 %I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. %O U$14.95 800-998-9938 707-829-0515 fax: 707-829-0104 nuts@ora.com %P 146 %T "Using Email Effectively" This is about email at its most generic: in-house, Internet or BBS, it doesn't matter. Specific examples are given from mail, mush, MH, Elm, Pine, Z-mail, Endora and cc:Mail, but most of the material is conceptual, and not keystroke-dependent. Contents include basic operations, netiquette, productivity tips, organizing mail, network addressing, mailing lists, customizations, extra touches (signatures, smileys, etc.) and non-text files. The book is short, and therefore easy to read. While it is difficult to suggest that they should be added, I did notice that items which might be helpful (such as the preparation of messages with word processors, or the injunction against commercial broadcasts) are either missing or only minimally covered. An interesting and useful feature is the inclusion of marginal anecdotes and comments, mostly by other O'Reilly staff. Since communication is personal, and email usage even more so, this adds very important balance to the work. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKUEMLEF.RVW 950510. Distribution permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest. Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "Kill all: God will know his own." Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | - originally spoken by Papal Research into Rob.Slade@f733.n153.z12/ | Legate Bishop Arnald-Amalric User .fidonet.org | of Citeaux, at the siege of Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Beziers, 1209 AD ------------------------------ From: gao@io.org (GAO) Subject: DSP and Telecom Speaker Invited Date: 6 Jul 1995 12:17:33 -0400 Organization: Internex Online (Data: 363-3783/Telnet: io.org) Dear Netters, We are looking for about two more high profile speakers for: "Conference on DSPs in Telecom" at Canadian High Technology Show Organized By the IEEE and GAO Research & Consulting Ltd. Enclosed is a list of planned topics. We have candidate speakers for topics 1 to 4. We are looking for speakers for the last two topics/ "DSP-Based Telecom Systems (Applications). One could be an overview or a discussion of several related systems One could be focused on one system" The candidate speakers must have extensive experiences in DSPs and telecom, and must be managers of reputable companies. If you would like to recommend somebody or yourself, please feel free to contact us. You are also welcome to suggest speakers for topics 1 to 4. We are looking for the best ones for the best interests of our audiences. Best regards, Frank Gao, Ph.D. GAO Research & Consulting Ltd. Tel: (416) 292-0038, Fax: (416) 292-2364, Email: gao@io.org WWW: http://www.io.org/~gao "Conference on DSPs in Telecom" at Canadian High Technology Show Organized By the IEEE and GAO Research & Consulting Ltd. Location: International Centre, Toronto Date: September 19, 1995, all day Planned Topics Topic 1: An Overview of DSPs and Support from One Major DSP Vendor Topic 2: An Overview of DSPs and Support from Another Major DSP Vendor Topic 3: Digital Signal Processing in Digital Telephony and Data Communication Abstract: The markets for digital telephony and data communication are rapidly expanding. This talk presents an overview of the digital signal processing functions required by digital telephony, data communications, discusses implementation issues, and finally analyzes some commercially available products for digital signal processors. Topic 4: Speech Processing and Its Applications in Telecom Abstract: This talk presents the principles of speech processing functions such as speech recognition, text to speech conversion, speech enhancement, speech coding and speech recognition. Applications in telecom will also be discussed. Two Topics on DSP-Based Telecom Systems (Applications) One could be an overview or a discussion of several related systems One could be focused on one system This is a tentative agenda. For more or updated info, please contact: Dr. Frank Gao GAO Research & Consulting Ltd. Unit 204, 55 Nugget Avenue Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1S 3L1 Tel: (416) 292-0038, Fax: (416) 292-2364, Email: gao@io.org WWW: http://www.io.org/~gao ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 08:48:28 +0100 From: flextel@gold.net (700 Telecommunications) Subject: Testing Access to +44 7010 From Outside UK Telecom Readers: We are looking for some assistance. Why not help us? We want to conduct a test of access to our UK 07- numbers for life from carriers outside the UK. (We know that access is working from BT, Mercury and other UK carriers, so UK callers need not participate). You can join the test by calling +44 701 0 701 112 at any time of day or night after July 5th 1995. Your normal international rates will apply and your call should take less than a minute, if you are quick. First of all, call +44 7010 7011 12 --- e.g. from the USA you might dial (10xxx) 011-44-7010-7011-12. If you succesfully reach a live operator, simply tell him or her that you want to log a message in the form: "701 OK from at ." The operator will read back your message. Please use the interna- tional standard format when quoting your telephone number to the operator. e.g. +1 212 555 1212 or +49 190 123456). If you don't wish to leave your name and full number, you don't have to. Just substitute the letters 'abcd', 'xxxx' or something similar for the last our digits of your number, but please do let us know the country-code and area code you are calling from at the very least. If you are calling from a country where there is more than one carrier, please also include the name of the carrier you used in your test message. We are particularly interested in the results you get when using smaller carriers. When the results are known, we may post a summary of how the test went, if that would be of interest to readers. Your test message would go something like: "701 OK from +1 212 555-1212 USING MCI 10222" or "701 OK from +1 613 555-1212 on Bell Cellular" NOTE: IF YOUR CALL TO +44 7010 7011 12 DOES NOT COMPLETE (AND PARTICULARLY IF YOU RECEIVE A LOCAL INTERCEPT ASKING YOU TO INSERT A '1' AFTER THE 44, please do the following. (1) Retry the call, but instead use the following number +44 956 701 112. If _this_ call completes, then please ask the operator to log a message as follows: "701 NOGOOD FROM +1 212 555-1212 VIA (N.B. In the very exceptional circumstance that a call to +44 956 701 112 also does not complete, then please send us email to flextel@gold.net, giving us as much information as possible about the circumstances of your attempt.) (2) Report a fault to your LOCAL carrier that calls to +44 7010 7011 12 are not completing, and they should update their routing and fix it. Note: 7010 is a new area code in the UK which was introduced on 07/June/1995. It is NOT 01701, no matter what your local carrier might think! [If do you try to dial +44 1 7010 7011 12 or even +44 1 956 7011 12, it will not work. If does, tell us immediately!. You should get a message telling you o omit the '1' after the '44'] Please note that this test will cease on the 10th July 1995. After that time we will probably route the test number to a non-working number. R N King (flextel@gold.net) FleXtel Dept, 700-TEL For full details on FleXtel telephone numbers for life in the UK see our World Wide Web pages at http://www.gold.net/users/cw78. If you link to our pages, tell us! We'll link to yours. 700 Telecommunications. tel: +44 7010 700-TEL fax:+44 7010 700-FAX [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I attempted this at 1630 GMT this date via MCI and ATT -- both failed. In the case of ATT (my one-plus carrier), the ATT operator tried in a very nice way to help me but kept failing to get through. MCI likewise failed. We have since talked on the phone in more details about the test. It appears all the USA carriers are claiming a '1' is needed after the '44', and once you give them the digit '1' then they don't like that either! PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:03:53 -0400 (GMT-0400) From: Jonathan Subject: Warning! Fake Version of PKZIP Will Delete Your Hard Drive I received the following in the mail. I do not know whether or not it is credible. It could be a false alarm, but I am sending it to you just in case. Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 22:06:03 -0230 (NDT) From: Jeannie Howse To: et al. Subject: NOTICE: Fake version of PKZIP will delete your hard drive. (fwd) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 21:03:41 -0300 (ADT) From:staff@ra.isisnet.com Subject: NOTICE: Fake version of PKZIP will delete your hard drive. Greetings everyone, FYI: The following is from Patrick Weeks, Product Support, PKWARE, Inc.: "Some joker out there is distributing a file called PKZ300B.EXE and PKZ300B.ZIP. This is NOT a version of PKZIP and it will try to erase your hard drive if you use it. The most recent version of PKZIP is 2.04G. Please tell all your friends and favorite BBS stops about this hack." ------------------------------ Please tell all your friends, family and neighbors about this one. The isis Staff [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That is something. Take a well known piece of software *and name your virus by the same name*. Then download it to all your favorite BBSs and other networks as an 'updated version of the program'. Eager users everywhere download the revision and try to run it in place of their existing version only to see thier hard drive get wiped out. I've offered so many people a special place to sit in Hell I do hope there is still a little room left to create another special place for the person who thought this one up. PKZIP is great stuff ... if -- it now appears -- you can tell the real one from the fake one. I wonder if other well known software packages will be messed with in this way? PAT] ------------------------------ From: wbloss@delphi.com Subject: 314 Stays in St Louis, 573 to Outstate MO Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 08:11:58 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) The Mo Public Service Commission voted 4 to 0 to divide the 314 area code and NOT overlay. St Louis and suburbs (how far out was not in the newspaper article) will retain 314, about 1,000,000 people. Rural Eastern Mo will move to 573, permissivly 1/1/96, mandated 7/1/96. Cities getting 573 would include the State Capital Jefferson City, Columbia, Mexico, Fulton, Cape Girardeau (Rush's home town :-9) and Hannibal. Two month of lobbying by SW Bell in favor or of overlays were to no avail, the idea of dialing an area code to reach a neighbor was very unpopular. AN interesting point made included the fact that 7 digits numbers are not in danger of running out, but NXX prefixes are. In other words many small towns only use 700 to 1500 of the 10,000 numbers (or so) in a NXX, and there was some discussion given to prefix sharing (!). Wally Bloss WB0BAV A Human St Joe MO ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 13:59:36 EDT From: SKASS@drew.edu Subject: Pager Phone Numbers I bought a pager a couple of weeks ago, and I have two questions about the pager's phone numbers. I have two numbers, 201-905-XXXX and 917-424-XXXX, for the pager, both of which work fine. But ... First question: Some phones in Manhattan (NYNEX ones are all I use) won't complete a call to the 917 number. I get an almost incomprehensible message over loud static saying to hang up and deposit 25c (which I have done), and no matter what I do, the phone neither takes my money nor connects to the paging service. These phones do take coins for calls in the 212 area code. Is this yet another aspect of the war on drugs, like the phones that disconnect when too many tones go over the lines? I can complete the call using a (non-RBOC) calling card, but I haven't done all the possible experiments. Second question: The 201-905 number is, according to the pager service, "toll-free" within my LATA, though the phone book lists it as a Newark prefix. I guess Bell Atlantic can figure this out for billing purposes, but my business can't. I get billed 14c per call when I use my personal authorization code at work. Since even "local" calls from business lines cost something, how much is my workplace being charged for these calls, which they resell to me at 14c a pop? In fact, if anyone can give an overview of this "LATA-wide" exchange, I'd be interested. It seems like it would be a useful kind of phone number to have, just in general. Can individuals get them? What to they cost to the owner of the number? How are they billed from outside the LATA? Steve Kass/ Drew University/ skass@drew.edu ------------------------------ From: Dr. Rich Artym Subject: Quantum Non-Leap? Date: Thu, 06 Jul 95 22:07:05 GMT Organization: Galacta Institute for Computer Rights Reply-To: rich@galacta.demon.co.uk When fibre finally made it out of the research labs and became standard technology for PTTs, it seemed quite clear that the increase in line capacity of three or four orders of magnitude that it would bring would mean that the raw cost of bandwidth on fibred links would fall, and that as more and more of the network went over to fibre, this change would start to be felt at consumer level. Nobody ever expected PTTs to reduce their end-user prices by three or four orders of magnitude of course, as there are many other factors in the equation to consider. Indeed, I'd guess that nobody expected any significant fall in average household telecomms bills at all. What a lot of people DID expect, however, was that vastly more bandwidth would become available to the end consumer at more-or-less unchanging per-minute price levels. This hasn't happened. Why? Since the customer has not benefited by orders of magnitude from the change to fibre, neither through quantum price reductions nor quantum increased bandwidth, who has reaped the benefits from the quantum leap in carrying capacity? Some suggest that the PTTs are transfixed with a cost-per-voice-line mentality, and so can't increase bandwidth delivered to the data end user without reducing their charges to the voice-line customer, which is a complete no-no and hence a show-stopper for the data brigade that want fast digital links. (ISDN is badly hampered by this pricing philosophy.) Others suggest that the PTTs see bandwidth availability as a way to get them into the entertainment market, and fast data as just a red herring, or bandwidth as a weapon for pressure politics (that's BT for you). Anyway, that's how it seems from the ground level, very disappointing. If anyone has any grounds for optimism in this area, I suspect that many wearily-waiting consumers would be most interested to hear the details. Dr. Rich Artym ================ PGP public key available Internet: rich@galacta.demon.co.uk DNS 158.152.156.137 rich@mail.g7exm[.uk].ampr.org DNS 44.131.164.1 NTS/BBS : g7exm@gb7msw.#33.gbr.eu Fun : Unix, X, TCP/IP, OSI, kernel, O-O, C++, Soft/Eng NTS # More fun: Regional IP Coordinator Hertfordshire + N.London ------------------------------ From: ICM Conferences Subject: Conference: Computer Telephony, July 24-26, Chicago Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 19:04:29 -0700 Organization: DigiLink Network Services COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS July 24 & 25, 1995 Post-Conference Workshop July 26,1995 The Executive Plaza Hotel Chicago, Illinois ICM Conferences, Inc. (http://www.intermarket.com/infowatch/icm/), in association with Enterprise Communications, announces an unprecedented event featuring the companies who successfully implemented a CTI application and the providers of the technology that made it possible. The experiences of these key contributors will serve as the foundation of information presented at this exclusive executive conference, including: * Designing and Implementing a CTI System * Using CTI to meet and surpass your business objectives * Cutting Costs and Improving Customer Service * Plus...Experience the Latest Products, Services, and Technologies You should attend this event if you are involved in: o Call center, customer service center, or telemarketing management o Telecom, datacom, and MIS/ DP management o Catalog, mail order and database marketing o Service Bureaus and messaging services o Reservations and operator service centers o Carrier and CO-ACD, centers and product/services o VARS, VADS and systems integration o Software applications development o Computer and switch manufacturing o Voice and call processing systems manufacturing and sales Content and Theme: In today's competitive business environment customers are demanding and getting better customer service than ever before. That's because businesses are taking advantage of voice/ data solutions to help create better relationships with their customers. Companies with CTI are making themselves easier to do business with and becoming more competitive as a result. After extensive research, ICM has prepared a program identifying the pressing problems facing companies implementing CTI and packed their experiences into a two-day event: o Focus on which CTI applications can be used to reduce costs and improve customer service within your organization. o Examine how to redesign and prepare your organization for your CTI application. o Determine the way in which CTI can be used for your existing market channels. o Utilize an ACD for centralizing call answering, queing, and processing. o Develop an effective outbound CTI system for your business objectives. o Assess the different technologies for integrating IVR with the ACD and your database. Post Conference Workshop, July 26, 1995 This comprehensive workshop will allow you a hands-on oppportunity to work through actual examples of designing and implementing a CTI system. It also covers the practical issues associated with CTI system planning, design and operation, application program creation, software expense, availability, access, training and maintenance. The data has been divided into five key sessions including an improved understanding of basic CTI components, an in-depth examination of CTI on a business, application and technology level and a case study of an organization that has implemented its own CTI development. If you would like more detailed information, including a list of speakers, sent to you automatically via fax, you can make an Online Inquiry at http://www.intermarket.com/infowatch/icm/oninq.html. If you do not have WWW access, or if you have specific questions, you can contact ICM Conferences, Inc. directly at icm@intermarket.com, or (312) 540-3016. International Communications for Management Conferences, Inc. (ICM) ICM Conference Guide: http://www.intermarket.com/infowatch/icm/ ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #302 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa11605; 7 Jul 95 18:51 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA11096 for telecomlist-outbound; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:03:13 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA11088; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:03:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 11:03:11 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507071603.LAA11088@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #303 TELECOM Digest Fri, 7 Jul 95 11:03:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 303 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson LATA-Wide Numbers (was Re: Pager Phone Numbers) (Fred R. Goldstein) Re: Pager Phone Numbers (James E. Bellaire) Re: Pager Phone Numbers (Jim Holmes) Your Personal Weatherman by Phone (Alex van Es) Washington Post Report on 800 Number Shortage (TELECOM Digest Editor) International Phone Number Formats? (Karsten Self) Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers/ Problems in Business (David Fiedler) Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers/ Problems in Business (Steve Bunning) Modem Simulators - Do They Exist? (Brian Goetz) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu * The Digest is edited, published and compilation-copyrighted by Patrick Townson of Skokie, Illinois USA. You can reach us by postal mail, fax or phone at: 9457-D Niles Center Road Skokie, IL USA 60076 Phone: 500-677-1616 Fax: 708-329-0572 ** Article submission address only: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu ** Our archives are located at lcs.mit.edu and are available by using anonymous ftp. The archives can also be accessed using our email information service. For a copy of a helpful file explaining how to use the information service, just ask. ************************************************************************* * TELECOM Digest is partially funded by a grant from the * * International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland * * under the aegis of its Telecom Information Exchange Services (TIES) * * project. Views expressed herein should not be construed as represent-* * ing views of the ITU. * ************************************************************************* In addition, TELECOM Digest receives a grant from Microsoft to assist with publication expenses. Editorial content in the Digest is totally independent, and does not necessarily represent the views of Microsoft. ------------------------------------------------------------ Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of twenty dollars per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above. All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fgoldstein@bbn.com (Fred R. Goldstein) Subject: LATA-Wide Numbers (was Re: Pager Phone Numbers) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 10:16:39 ELT Organization: BBN Planet Corp. In article SKASS@drew.edu writes: > In fact, if anyone can give an overview of this "LATA-wide" exchange, > I'd be interested. It seems like it would be a useful kind of phone > number to have, just in general. Can individuals get them? What to > they cost to the owner of the number? How are they billed from > outside the LATA? I can't speak for BA/New Jersey Bell, but I've seen the NYNEX/MA offering. They have a service called "Feature Group 2A" which provides for one-rate calling around the entire LATA. The basic idea is that you must get a T1 circuit (at least one) into each of the NYNEX toll centers in the LATA (we have five in LATA 128, Eastern Mass.). A prefix is set up in either NPA (we have two, 508 and 617) which is not charged to callers. Usage is charged at about three cents per minute (I don't recall the exact rate) for both incoming and outgoing calls. Fairly hefty minimums apply, since this is a bunch of T1s. So the owner of the FG2A can call anywhere in the LATA for about 3c/min, or take calls for the same price. While this is generally available, I suspect its primary user is NYNEX Mobile, for its cellular access. Cellular One charges wireline usage on top of its airtime, based on local or toll usage charges to its POPs, but NYNEX Mobile has flat calling rates to anywhere in the LATA. Fred R. Goldstein k1io fgoldstein@bbn.com Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., Cambridge MA USA +1 617 873 3850 Opinions are mine alone; sharing requires permission. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 06:27:47 -0500 From: bellaire@tk.com (James E. Bellaire) Subject: Re: Pager Phone Numbers In TD302 SKASS@drew.edu (Steve Kass) wrote about his pager numbers. He mentioned the 'toll free' number he has in the 201-905 exchange. 'Toll Free' by the old 1-800 definition is 'no long distance charges'. We have several LATA wide 'Toll Free' exchanges here in Michigan, for pagers and cell phones, where the caller pays 'for a local call' instead of 'long distance' charges. If your business pays a metered per call rate on local calls they will (most likely) pay the SAME local rate on this 'toll free' exchange. In my small town all business lines pay 10c per local call, metered home lines pay 4c. Calls to Michigan's 'toll free' exchanges are charged the metered rate. Every time a person borrows a business phone for a 'local' call in this town it costs the business 10c. Now you know why we install payphones and hide the business phones out of reach! An interesting exception is in Indiana. GTE Mobilnet and Sprint Cellular phone numbers are literally free calls from most Telco payphones. (I haven't tested any of the other company's prefixes.) The local cellular numbers can be dialed WITHOUT COIN from phones in GTE, Ameritech, and United Telephone teritories throughout Indiana. Roamers access is also available, just in case the number you want is usually 'long distance'. This did not work from all the phones I called from, but did work from MOST. (I checked phones in Eastern and Central Indiana. BTW You can bet no private payphone I tried honored the 'free' calls, and you'll win.) I assume that GTE Mobilnet and Sprint Cellular (and any other company offering these 'LATA wide toll-free numbers') are paying the long distance portion of the call. Then they just add it to the rate base for using your cellular phone / pagers. There is no such thing as a free call. You must pay monthly telephone service, after paying to have the line installed and buying the instrument. James E. Bellaire (JEB6) bellaire@tk.com Twin Kings Communications - Sturgis, MI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:47:08 -0400 From: holmesj@pluto.crd.ge.com (Jim Holmes) Subject: Re: Pager Phone Numbers SKASS@drew.edu writes: > Second question: The 201-905 number is, according to the pager > service, "toll-free" within my LATA, though the phone book lists it as > a Newark prefix. I guess Bell Atlantic can figure this out for > billing purposes, but my business can't. I get billed 14c per call > when I use my personal authorization code at work. Since even "local" > calls from business lines cost something, how much is my workplace > being charged for these calls, which they resell to me at 14c a pop? > In fact, if anyone can give an overview of this "LATA-wide" exchange, > I'd be interested. It seems like it would be a useful kind of phone > number to have, just in general. Can individuals get them? What to > they cost to the owner of the number? How are they billed from > outside the LATA? This type of service is known as 2A or 3A (Depending on where you are and how it's tarrifed). This service was designed for Paging companies when the 800 (SMS) database come online. The number IS toll-free LATA wide and billed just like a normal number from that CO. The service is sold to RCC's (Paging) by the exchange. An individual cannot "buy" one from telco but a creative RCC can put whatever enhanced services they want on it as long as the number is tied to a pager in one way or another. One of the services I had laid out at my former company, was time-of-day routing (9-5 voicemail/pager, 5-10 home, 10-9 ansering service, etc.) We never did implament this but it is a valid use for 2A/3A numbers. Jim Holmes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:33:08 +0200 From: alex@worldaccess.nl (Alex van Es) Subject: Your Personal Weatherman by Phone For a long time the number to dial for the weather in the Netherlands was 06-8003. Dialing this number will give you a recording, updated every few hours telling you the latest weather. Despite the fact that the Netherlands is a tiny country, the recording was never really accurate. Starting July 6th there is a new service now in the Netherlands, making it possible to speak to someone at the MET office and he or she is able to tell you what kind of weather you can expect in your town. The odd thing about this new service is that it works via the nationwide SCOPE card access number (06-0101) making this service only available for the owners of the SCOPE card (a dutch telecom issued calling card). Costs for calling the weather are almost US $3,00 a minute. More services like this can soon be expected (e.g. legal aid en medical aid by phone). Rates can go up to US $6,00 a minute. Alex@Worldaccess.NL, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Phone:+31-55-421184 Pager:+31-6-59333551 (CT-2 Greenpoint) ------------------------------ From: TELECOM Digest Editor Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:56:59 -0400 Subject: Washington Post Report on 800 Number Shortage FYI, a recent report in the {Washington Post} which should be of interest to Digest readers. Several folks forwarded this to me over the past couple of days. PAT ===================== Popularity Takes Toll on 800 Numbers As Supply Dwindles, Phone Companies Turn to New 888 Prefix. The Washington Post, July 05, 1995, FINAL Edition By: Mike Mills, Washington Post Staff Writer Section: A SECTION, p. A01 Story Type: News National "For more information, just dial toll-free 1-888-...." Wait a minute. Toll-free 1-888? Right now you may not think of 888 as the designation for toll-free calls, but early next year, you will. To cope with a rapidly depleting reserve of available toll-free 800 numbers, caused by increasing demand from businesses, pagers, modems and faxes, North American phone companies will add the new prefix 888 to designate toll-free calls starting next April. The change will cause grief for retailers, who must convince themselves and their customers that 888 is just as useful a service as 800, which will continue to exist. It also poses a problem for phone companies, which face the task of upgrading tens of thousands of switches to accept the 888 area code. When the 888 numbers are exhausted, the industry plans to add 877, then 866 and so on. "Everybody's going to be affected by this," said Daniel Briere, president of TeleChoice Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm in Verona, N.J. "No one goes through the week without placing an 800 call." Sensing the end is near for new 800 numbers, a panic of sorts ensued last month when the nation's largest long-distance and local phone companies with access to the database of available 800 numbers began to stockpile unused number combinations. Those companies together typically reserve roughly 30,000 new 800 numbers every week from the database, but in one week in early June they requested 113,000 numbers. At that rate, the 800-number pool might have dried up by the end of this month, so the industry called in federal regulators to guard the cache of roughly 900,000 remaining 800 numbers. The Federal Communications Commission immediately put tight limits on how many 800 numbers could be requested. Now, FCC officials say, the dwindling supply should hold out until next April. Few marketing devices have been as successful as the toll-free 800 number, which was introduced by AT&T Corp. in 1967 and adopted by competitors after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984. Their use has exploded since May 1993, when the FCC ordered carriers to make 800 numbers "portable," meaning businesses could keep their numbers even when they switched phone companies. Just as people instantly recognize 911 as the digits to dial for emergencies, so they know that 800 numbers signify freedom from toll charges. This year roughly $135 billion in goods and services will be sold over 800 numbers, according to Briere (whose own toll-free number is 1-800-DANNYBR). Businesses spend nearly $10 billion annually to maintain 800 lines, according to the FCC. People use 800 numbers to book reservations, buy merchandise or call to complain about a product. Politicians use them to raise funds. Parents acquire 800 numbers so their kids can call them any time. Toll-free numbers are so common in business that it's unusual for a consumer-reliant company not to have one. Walt Disney Co., for example, doesn't offer an 800 number for reservations to its theme parks -- its customers foot the bill when dialing 1-407-WDISNEY. The switch to 888 poses the most serious problem for businesses whose identities are often reflected in their 800 numbers. American Express, for example, has 1-800-THE-CARD. Teleway Inc. of Westbury, N.Y., operates 1-800-FLOWERS. Those companies and others next year might be trumped by competitors who reserve those same numbers with an 888 area code. But retailers worry that 888 numbers will lack the instant recognition of an 800 number. In a study he plans to release next week, Briere found that even when consumers are told there is no difference between an 888 number and an 800 number, they will purchase Mother's Day flowers from the business with the 800 number even if it costs them more. "Think about people who will be forced to launch services on 888 numbers," Briere said. "They may have to charge less for their services simply because they don't have an 800 number." Retailers or consumers who want an 800 number typically call their local or long-distance telephone companies, which are among the 138 so-called responsible organizations that have access to the North American database of 800 numbers. The database is operated by a unit of Bellcore, the research group owned by the regional Bell companies, known as Database Service Management Inc. Of the 7.7 million usable combinations of numbers with the 800 prefix, about 6.3 million are being used as working phone numbers, while another 500,000 are either reserved, assigned, disconnected or otherwise unavailable. That means roughly 90 percent of the possible 800 numbers are spoken for. The database operated on the honor system with no enforceable rules against hoarding 800 numbers -- that is, until last month's panic when companies pulled 113,000 numbers from the kitty. On July 1, the FCC began limiting each company to a small portion of numbers every week, based on its share of the 800-services market. Canadian companies that partake of the 800 reserve are not beholden to the FCC, and presumably still operate on the honor system. "We're going to check the cupboards and the closets to see if there are 800 numbers tucked away that we can make available for new use," said Kathleen Wallman, chief of the FCC Common Carrier Bureau. "If we didn't get in there, there would be no more numbers to talk about." MCI Communications Corp., based in the District, led the raid on the 800-number treasury by pulling about 75,000 numbers out of circulation the week of June 5. MCI officials said they have a customer for every one of those numbers, and deny allegations by competitors that they were stockpiling. Most of MCI's numbers went to paging companies, MCI officials said. MCI is offering paging service through PageNet, a company that promotes personal 800 numbers for paging customers. Personal 800 numbers give paging companies a marketing advantage: Most paging companies put hundreds of customers on a single 800 number, and require their callers to punch in a multi-digit personal identification number to reach their party. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 13:53:03 CST From: Karsten Self Subject: International Phone Number Formats? Pat Townsend: I received your name through the SAS-L mail list. My company has recently begun international operations, and is facing the problem of accomodating international phone numbers in our databases (eg: numbers not fitting the (xxx) xxx-xxxx format). Do you know of a source listing all (or prevelent) international phone number formats and/or protocols? Thank you. Karsten M. Self selfka@hccompare.com 916.374.3844 Analytic Consulting Dept / HealthCare COMPARE Corp 750 Riverpoint Drive, West Sacramento, CA USA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You might want to take a look at the 'country.codes' files in the Telecom Archives and see if those are of value for your work. We have a very comprehensive and complete list of country codes and city codes there. The archives is located at lcs.mit.edu and is accessible using anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu. When connected, login anonymous, using your name@site as password, then 'cd telecom-archives'. Carl Moore and David Leibold are the persons responsible for this collection of files. PAT] ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 11:51:57 PDT From: David Fiedler Organization: "InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons" Reply-To: david@infopro.com I expect certain people will take advantage of the consumer confusion -- remember the 1-800-OPERATER business? -- and base their telemarketing operations in the 818 area code so as to deliberately confuse the public into thinking they're toll-free as well. The confusion would be, of course, between the new, less familiar 888 and the 818 code, which sounds similar but is not as widely known. I believe there's an 808 code, too, which would be even better for this sort of operation. David Fiedler Internet:david@infopro.com Phone:916/677-5870 FAX:916/677-5873 USMail:InfoPro Systems/Advanced Media Productions, PO Box 220, Rescue, CA 95672 Music/flying/cool links! Start at http://spider.lloyd.com/~dragon/david.html Bronx H.S. of Science Alumni Mailing List: bronx-science-request@infopro.com [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There is an 808 area code, and it would be ideal for scams like you suggest. It is located on Midway Island, where the weather is always pleasant and where, while not totally out of reach of any angry consumer, few people would bother to push things too hard because of the relative obscurity of the place. To add to the confusion most folks who know *something* about the phone system would assume that an 808 number had to be in Hawaii (most are, but not all.) PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 15:08:15 -0400 From: bunning@acec.com (Steve Bunning) Subject: Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business Recently Paul Robinson wrote: > ... Makes me wonder how much of the 888 area code is going to be > taken up by companies with 800 numbers buying the identical number in > the 888 area code to keep someone else from piggybacking on their > number. ... I've always assumed that any company with a "good" 800 vanity number such as 1-800-FLOWERS or 1-800-THE CARD would try to be first in line to get the equivalent 888 number. If you look at the cost, it's insignificant. Less than $200 per year over and above what they are already paying for the 800 number. Carriers may even start offering "2 for 1" deals where they will carry the 800 and 888 equivalent for a reduced price. Perhaps we should give anyone with an 800 number a first right of refusal for the 888 number. I see two problems. First, it immediately would use up a lot of the 888 numbers. It's anyone's guess how many, but I would bet almost all companies with a nationally advertised 800 number would pick up the 888 number if they could. This somewhat defeats the purpose of the alternate, using up many of the numbers as mere place holders, not carrying significant traffic. Second, it would prevent some companies who want a good vanity number from getting one. The nudists at 1-888-VIE BARE (a.k.a. THE CARD) or the telepaths at 1-888-FLOW ESP (a.k.a. FLOWERS) would forever be grandfathered out of numbers they want. It's bad enough being relegated to a second class 888 number or a third class 866 number, but having one that spells nothing is worse. If we don't give the current 800 number holders first right of refusal, there is going to be an incredible stampede for these numbers. IXCs could try to grab all of the 888 equivalents on behalf of their current customers and then try to sell these customers on purchasing the numbers after the fact. There is no real cost for an IXC to reserve an 888 number and then abandon it, so why not? Less scrupulous carriers or companies could try to get the 888 equivalents of popular numbers and then contact the 800 number holders to have them ransom the numbers. Handling the reservations for the 888 numbers under first-come first-served rules will likely be a nightmare. I know, maybe we should have a lottery or an auction! :-) It's beginning to sound a lot like spectrum allocation all over again. In any case, it should make for an interesting year. Steve Bunning | American Computer and Elec. Corp.| 301 258-9850 (voice) Product Manager | 209 Perry Parkway | 301 921-0434 (fax) TEL*COMM Division| Gaithersburg, MD USA 20877 | bunning@acec.com ------------------------------ From: brian@Quiotix.COM (Brian Goetz) Subject: Modem Simulators - Do They Exist? Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 13:27:40 -0700 Organization: Quiotix Corporation We are testing our dialup remote access software, so we have several computers in our lab calling each other up repeatedly via modem. I know there exist telephone line simulators which we can use in this situation, so we don't have to tie up two phone lines. Is there any device which does this one better, and simulates not only the phone line, but the modems at either end? Such a device would have two serial ports, and would look (to the attached systems) like modems; e.g., when you sent ATDT xxx into one port, it would establish the connection (to the other port) and light up the ring indicator signal on the other side, etc. Not only would this be more convenient than a phone line simulator (because we don't need the two modems, and call setup would be faster) but it should be *cheaper* than a phone line simulator too, since it doesn't need any of the phone analog circuitry. Does anyone know if such a device exists, and if so, who makes them or sells them? If not, can anybody tell us who makes the cheapest, bare-bones phone line simulators that would be adequate for use by modems for in-house testing purposes? Thanks, Brian Goetz Quiotix Corporation brian@quiotix.com Tel: 415-324-0535 Fax: 415-324-8032 ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #303 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa12252; 7 Jul 95 20:05 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA14212 for telecomlist-outbound; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:52:19 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA14204; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:52:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 12:52:17 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507071752.MAA14204@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #304 TELECOM Digest Fri, 7 Jul 95 12:52:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 304 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson ATT FAX/Mail (Darren Alex Griffiths) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Judith Oppenheimer) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Danny Burstein) 1-888 Advertising (James E. Bellaire) ISDN/In-Band Conversion Equipment (Marcelle Kors) Re: Running Out of "800" Numbers (Martin Kooij) What do Small Consumers Think of Long-Distance Competition? (M. Shames) Re: Writing a Network Performance Application (Marthin Laubscher) Telegraphy: What is This Phenomena? (Matthew A. Earley) Let's Discuss Real Time Conferencing CAD (Clinton S. Gallagher) Bell Canada Local Measured Service (Ron Kawchuk) Help Identify Mystery Hardware (Motorola Codex 2205?) (Bill Bradford) How do Digital Cordless Phones Work? (Gordon Mitchell) Last Laugh! When 888 Equals 800 (Will Middelaer) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dag@ossi.com (Darren Alex Griffiths) Subject: ATT FAX/Mail Date: 5 Jul 1995 22:56:55 GMT Organization: Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions, Inc. I just called AT&T to get more information on their Fax/Mail service. Basically this is a service that allows people to send you a fax via a fax mailbox, they call up a number and send the fax as normal, when you are ready to receive the fax you call the same number, enter a PIN and the number of a fax machine and the fax is forwarded to you. As I understand it you are charged for this service on a per-page basis, with perhaps a low (<$10) monthly fee. Unfortunately AT&T has discontinued the service, and I was hoping someone out there could point me in the direction of another provider. I know I could do this with computers and fax modems, and I have plenty of both, however I'm more interested in purchasing the service than setting it up myself. Thanks for any help, Alex Griffiths Senior Software Engineer Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions, Inc. Internet: dag@ossi.com 408-456-7815 (office, but I'm never there, send email) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think MCI also offers fax mailbox service. Ameritech offers fax mailbox as well through local distributors in the Chicago area. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Judith Oppenheimer Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 21:36:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Patrick, consumer education *is* on the FCC's 888 Implementation agenda. Obviously, consumers will need to understand that 888 is as toll free as 800. Beyond that, Paul Robinson's suggestions don't even begin to address the problem that marketers using existing 800 numbers will have. American Express has no way at all to insure that it will get 1-888-THE CARD. If Visa gets it, what is American Express to do? It won't be any comfort that the consumer will know that both are free. And before you tell me you have trouble weeping for the problems of the Fortune 500, what about the consumer trying to call American Express, and getting Visa instead? Nobody knows how much, or even whether, trademark protection will help, but it won't help at all if the lucky winner of 1-888-THE CARD uses it to market a somewhat different product. Actually, Paul's suggestions could promote the confusion. > "Remember 888 is the same as 800. And it's coming soon. It will work the > same way." > (Logo below, "888=800. Remember that...") Rather than distinguish between 800 and 888, this copy assumes that 800 THE CARD and 888 THE CARD *will* both ring to American Express. The whole problem is that that assumption is entirely unwarranted. Finally, participation and solutions from ALL sectors is encouraged, and I think with some finetuning (including appropriate legal counsel), Paul may be able to help some advertisers get on the right track. But, there's not a marketer, major or minor, who doesn't need to put it's efforts where the real problem is -- obtaining their comparable 888 numbers -- either via FCC rulemaking, "luck" of the draw -- or secondary market acquisition. Anything less would be foolish, and negligent, business. Judith Oppenheimer Interactive CallBrand(TM) email: Producer@pipeline.com phone: 212 684-7210, fax: 212 684-2714 Bridging the Gap Between Telecom & Marketing ------------------------------ From: dannyb@panix.com (danny burstein) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 6 Jul 1995 21:39:03 -0400 In Paul Robinson writes: > One of the hosts made the most reasonable solution right off the top > of his head, he said "Why don't they just have a national advertising > campaign, like they do for any other new product, something like > '888=800'." > I thought that that was a good idea. Oh, you youngsters. How history repeats itself. Way back when, back before divestiture, back before the "1 plus" dialing, in fact, back before the movie Star Wars, there was in fact a major advertising campaign to promote the (then) new 800 service. But it wasn't by The Phone Comany . Rather, it was a major hotel chain. They made a -very- big deal of their new nationwide reservations, TOLL FREE, phone number, and incorporated the number into their advertising slogan. Thus not only promoting their chain, but also popularizing the idea of the 800 area code. (Now before our Esteemed Moderator points out that 800 is really a service code, not an area code, permit me to remind him that the three digits in 800-nnx-**** did, in fact, designate the area where the phone line ended). Oh, which phone number? hmm, MElrose five, five-three hundred? Nope. How about PEnnsylvania six, five thousand? Nope. Actually it was the Sheraton Hotel Chain with their catchy and rythmic "8-0-0, 3-2-5, 3-5,3-5" jingle. Say, whatever happened to Dita Beard anyway? dannyb@panix.com (or dburstein@mcimail.com) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And is anyone here old enough to remember when 800 began replacing 'Enterprise' and 'Zenith' numbers on a large- scale basis? Starting sometime in the early sixties, AT&T began promoting 800 in a serious way telling people in television and print advertising that 800 'allows you to place your own toll free calls automatically, without requiring the assistance of an operator ...' PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 06:27:52 -0500 From: bellaire@tk.com (James E. Bellaire) Subject: 1-888 Advertising Most TV and radio ads I have heard with an 800 number say 'call TOLL FREE'. Print ads sometimes have the words 'TOLL FREE' next to the number. Some ads say 'this is a free call'. Even though 1-800 has been 'toll free' for years MOST advertisers are still making the point of saying it one more time. If you assume that it takes one second out of a thirty second ad to say 'toll free' then businesses are alredy giving 1/30th of their on air time to telling callers that 1-800 is toll free. People will learn that 1-888 is toll free as soon as the companies using it make it abundantly clear in their ads. As we discused before, a lot of 1-800 numbers are unadvertised, intended for private use. Lots of execs have them so they don't have to carry quarters on the road. I have one because it's cheaper than a calling card rate (and less digits to dial). I wonder who will advertise the first 1-888 number, or when. I think a Shakespearian festival should get 1-888-THE-BARD, just to tick Amex off. :) There will have to be a push to get PBX maintainers to set 1-888 as 'free' in their dialing tables as soon as it goes into effect. But other than that, a massive advertising campaign seems a little overblown. Of course if you want to pay me to run it I'll take your money. (I am NOT a fool!) Maybe we can convince AT&T and MCI to stop running their mudslinging ads against each other and devote their money to promoting 888. Especially the ads that have fine print that says 'refers to 1st plan' when that plan has been obsolete for a year. An election year is coming in the USA, mabye the LD companies should leave a little mud for the polititians to sling. Sprint and WilTel seem to be able to keep their ads simple and clean. AT&T and MCI could learn. Just a thot. Phone Trivia: In my NPA-NXX listings I found 82 local exchanges using 888 as NXX. There were none using 800 as NXX. (The listing does not include the 1-800 NPA.) James E. Bellaire (JEB6) bellaire@tk.com Twin Kings Communications - Sturgis, MI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 05:01:50 -0400 From: Marcelle Kors Subject: ISDN/In-Band Conversion Equipment I am looking for assistance on the following application. We would receive voice calls from the carrier with DNIS/ANI on ISDN-PRI D channel. We would then need to retransmit with DNIS/ANI sent in-band. Transmission medium would be end-to-end fiber. Our network consists of the following equipment: - Sonet - Newbridge - DDM Multiplexers - SLC 2000 - DACS - QFLC's Does anyone know of vendors selling equipment that will convert the DNIS from ISDN-PRI to inband? Any help would be greatly appreciated! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 13:03:38 GMT From: M.Kooij@research.ptt.nl (Kooij M.) Subject: Re: Running Out of "800" Numbers Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands Hi, Following the mentioned discussion it might be interesting to know that in the Netherlands all phone numbers will become ten digits long(!). martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz (Martin Kealey) writes: > We've heard previously the arguments about "7 digits" being a natural > size number for humans to memorize, and I'm not convinced. In all > likelyhood, the true "natural length" is probably about three or four > digits, and longer numbers are memorized sequences of shorter chunks; > why else would you need punctuation? And ask people in say, Tokyo or > France, whether they regard eight digits as "normal" ... In the Netherlands phone numbers could vary in length. (For those outside the Netherlands these are the phone numbers to be dialed after country code 31.) Format: 0 - area code - local number. Beginning October 10, 1995, all local numbers will be exactly ten digits long. This includes the first zero (needed to call out of the area) so nine digits are to be remembered. Area codes will be two or three digits, so a local number means remembering six or seven digits. Inside the area one can call the local number without area code. Outside the area one has to dial the zero and then area code and then local number. This scheme does not (yet) incorporate the special tariffed numbers beginning with 06-xxxx. here the number of digits after 06 cany vary from four (06-8008, directory info) to eight digits. Mobile phones have 06-5x xx xx xx (thus also eight digits after 06). There is an intention to move to another numbering space for special tariffed numbers separating premium rate from freephone (probably 0800/0900). Of course, we do not have any letters engraved on most of our phones, so we don't use alpha dialing. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well Martin, if we let these telcos get away > with eight digit numbers, next thing you know they are going to be wanting > ten digit numbers and trying to tell us those are the 'natural length' to > remember. PAT] So you see, truth is more spectacular that imagination. Of course, we never claimed that ten (or six, seven, eight or nine) is "natural" to remember. I personally remember no more than three or four. (We have five digit internal numbering plan in the company :-)). Greetings to all reader of comp.dcom.telecom and don't forget to ask your Dutch friend for their new phone number after 10-10-1995. (mine is already ten digits and these will stay the same). Martin Kooij @ KPN Research, location Neher Laboratories. mail: P.O. Box 421. 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands tel : +31 70 33 25441 email:M.Kooij@research.ptt.nl ------------------------------ From: mshames@powergrid.electriciti.com (Michael Shames) Subject: What do Small Consumers Think of Long-Distance Competition? Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 17:09:47 GMT Organization: UCAN Has anyone come across a compelling and credible survey (formal or informal) about residential and small business consumers' opinion about long-distance phone service? Anecdotally, we get lots of complaints by consumers about the confusion in the marketplace and feelings that "telephone bills have gotten higher" even though l-d rates are lower. I'm wondering whether anyone has seen any surveys that address this question or shed some light it? By the way, anecdotal feedback is welcome too. We know that large customers can benefit mightily from l-d services and prices post-deregulation. But what about the little guy? Michael Shames mshames@electriciti.com UCAN 1717 Kettner Blvd. Suite 105 San Diego, CA 92101 (v) 619-696-6966 (f) 619-696-7477 ------------------------------ From: laubsc_m@is.co.za (Marthin Laubscher) Subject: Re: Writing a Network Performance Application Date: 6 Jul 1995 12:44:06 GMT Organization: MTN Operations Reply-To: laubsc_m@mtn.co.za In article , juls@pixie.co.za (Julia Jackson) says: > We are two fourth year Electrical Engineering students who need to write > an application which will communicate with an Ethernet card to obtain > the following information online: > size, number and destination addresses of all frames sent on an Ethernet > LAN, so that we can build an application which measures network > performance. > Thus far, a number of approaches have been suggested: > 1. Write a Windows application, and write the TCP/IP layers ourselves. > 2. Write a Windows application by interfacing with Winsock. > 3. Write a DOS application, with assembler code to capture frames and > place them in a buffer. We recently looked into sniffer hardware doing much the same thing, and an interesting comment was mde by one of the techies that's been involved with sniffers since Noah plans were being drawn. Apparently the original sniffers needed purpose built hardware but recently the software can run on most PC platforms provided you select a network card that supports diagnostic level programming. This comment viewed together with the fact that under Windows NT, MS provides a network monitoring function (also given the fact that your network card supports it) with less capability that what you're talking about, but still on the right track. To me this sure sounds like the task you face can be approached at a fairly high level (relatively speaking) provided you select network card from the more modern breed and study it carefully. I doubt whether Winsock will allow all you require, as it is designed to shield your app from the ethernet internals, and a DOS TSR comes with more problems of its own than what you will solve by using it. My suggestion is to pitch your efforts at a specific NIC and determine how the diagnostic interfaces operate, then look at whether the same type of access is supported by other card and what common ground you can find. When it comes to writing the software, do the same, and go directly for one specific interface while keeping the more generic information in mind, get it to work and then only try to build more generic software if your project still requires it. Remember that the best assembler is 'C'. By the way, I hope that if you are going to market this, that you build something that does siginicantly more that what you are describing. Similar products are already available. (Why don't you rather concentrate on something new and useful like a transparent layer between Ethernet and TCP/IP that does better scheduling and congestion control to enlarge the effective portion of Ethernet without affecting existing applications?) Best of luck. You might want to keep me posted. Marthin Laubscher laubsc_m@mtn.co.za ------------------------------ From: mearley@acsu.buffalo.edu (Matthew A Earley) Subject: Telegraphy: What is This Phenomena? Date: 7 Jul 1995 15:05:24 GMT Organization: UB I've heard mention of the term "telegraphy" more than a few times recently. Using the gopher servers I've only managed to come up with one reference to G.442 from 1988. The title is "Radio-relay system design objectives for noise at the far end of a hypothetical reference circuit with reference to TELEGRAPHY transmission." This still does not answer my question, what is telegraphy? If anybody could fill me in on what is going on today in the area of telegraphy I would greatly appreciate it. Matthew A. Earley University at Buffalo ------------------------------ From: clinton@execpc.com (Clinton S. Gallagher) Subject: Let's Discuss Real Time Conferencing CAD Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 08:06:23 GMT Organization: inter@ctive Technologies, incorporated Now here is a challenge ... It's being called 'interactive data exchange' or white-boarding and I want to discuss how best to do it with anyone who has tried it with CAD. The issue is not to convert the CAD files from their vector format into bitmapped rasters as they then look like ick which you know if you've tried this. Remote access has been tried using POTS, Timbuktu and a CAD viewer but that was molassess as one would expect. Clinton S. Gallagher, Architectural & Information Systems Consultant inter@ctive Technologies incorporated, Milwaukee, WI TEL (414) 774-1562 FAX (414) 453-5497 NET clinton@execpc.com URL http://www.execpc.com/~clinton ------------------------------ From: kawchuk@io.org (Ron Kawchuk) Subject: Bell Canada Local Measured Service Date: Fri, 07 Jul 95 12:29:37 GMT Organization: HALT Dear Internet user, BELL CANADA WANTS TO PUT A METER ON BUSINESS LINES AND CHARGE FOR LOCAL CALLS. On June 1, 1995 Bell Canada applied to the Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for permission to begin charging businesses for every minute they use local services. Calls that are now free will cost from 1.5 to 5.5 cents per minute. Bell estimates that the average monthly cost will be $61.69, but heavy users will pay much more -- actually an unlimited amount by the year 2001! If you work for, or run a business, every voice, fax and data call will cost more -- affecting relationships with your customers, suppliers and employees. You may have to make considerable changes to verify and track local telephone use. And flat predictable prices for local service will end. If you are a consumer, it seems reasonable to EXPECT COSTS TO INCREASE ON EVERY CANADIAN ITEM PRODUCED BY BUSINESSES affected by these radical changes. This could seriously erode Canada's ability to compete in a fiercely hostile global market. HALT is a non-profit organization made up of a growing number of businesses large and small who believe that when people become aware of this application to the CRTC, they will want to fight it. We're here to lead the charge. But WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW SINCE BELL'S APPLICATION IS ABOUT TO BE REVIEWED. What can you do about it ? Bell's application is to be reviewed by the CRTC in the coming days. By phoning, faxing or writing to the CRTC about this issue right now, you will combine your important voice with those of others who are very concerned about this issue. Why should the CRTC listen to you ? The CRTC, in its mandate, describes its responsibility as follows: " An important role of the CRTC is to promote universally available, high-quality and affordable telecommunications services. It's our duty to ensure that any increases or decreases in rates are just and reasonable and that there is no unjust discrimination between users. As well, we keep track of telephone company expenditures to protect phone subscribers from excessive costs." Here's how you can help. The CRTC values your opinion and concern. You can affect their decision. So fill out, sign and fax , mail or E-mail the attached letter, but do so right now since this application is to be reviewed in the coming days. To E-Mail send your message to kawchuk@io.org. We will get it to the CRTC. The CRTC's web site is at http://www.crtc.gc.ca. The CRTC's fax number: (819) 953-3756 or (819) 994-0218 -- CRTC phone number (819) 997-0272. If you would like to know more about HALT or about the impact of Bell's application may have on your organization, please call us at (416) 481-2585 in Toronto or 1 800 626-HALT. Thank you. To: Secretary General, CRTC Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N2 Fax (819) 953-3756 or (819) 994-0218 From: _-------------------------------------------------------- I am strongly opposed to Business Measured Local Service as proposed by Bell Canada Tariff notice No. 5506. I urge the CRTC to listen to the views of the people it serves. Please reject this filing and any other similar filing by Bell Canada in the future. Thank you. Signed: ----------------------------------------------------- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here in the USA most large cities have had measured service for businesses for many years. I cannot remember a time in Chicago when businesses did not have metered service. PAT] ------------------------------ From: mrbill@ionet.net (Bill Bradford) Subject: Help Identify Mystery Hardware (Motorola Codex 2205?) Date: 7 Jul 1995 09:43:45 GMT Organization: Internet Oklahoma I need help identifying a piece of hardware I picked up at a local computer junk shop; it looked interesting, and it was REAL cheap: Labeled "Mystery Modem" on the price tag Standard modem-size enclosure (about like an old Hayes 300), gray plastic. Front: In white: "codex 2205" Under that, small print, black: "Motorola" (and logo) LEDS: MR/RI, TR, RS, CS, CD, RD, TD, TM Rotary Switch: ST, DL, AL, DATA, TALK, TTP, RTP POWER LED Back Panel: Two (looks like RJ45 jacks, 8-wire modular) jacks, one labeled TELSET and one TELCO. DTE (looks to be standard RS232) 1/2 fuse Power switch / power cable Bottom of Unit: (on sticker) CODEX MOTOROLA corporation Made in U.S.A. Mansfield, Mass 02048 ASSY NO: 52085088 DATE CODE: 9029 SERIAL NO: 016355 MODEL: 25896 M FCC REG: AK396F 15683 DM N RINGER EQUIV: 0.5B FCC ID: THIS UNIT COMPLIES WITH FCC PART 68 Just WHAT have I got here? Some kind of leased-line modem, or network hardware? Looks pretty identical to a regular modem, 'cept for the extra LEDs, rotary switch, and 8-wire connectors in the back. Please reply to mrbill@ionet.net if possible. BTW - is this worth anything? Anybody interested in it? Or should I just throw it in the junk pile? ------------------------------ From: gordonlm@u.washington.edu (Gordon Mitchell) Subject: How Do Digital Cordless Phones Work? Date: 7 Jul 1995 16:22:13 GMT Organization: University of Washington How do digital cordless phones do their thing? Do they transmit raw (stright CVSD) digitized speech using a modem? Is the digital signal encrypted also for security? When changing channels is it just a different RF frequency or does the digital processing change? How do the two ends stay synchronized, especially when there is a momentary loss of signal? Gordon Mitchell (206) 481-5577 g.mitchell@ieee.org ------------------------------ From: wsmiddel@forbin.syr.edu Subject: Last Laugh! When 888 Equals 800 Date: 7 Jul 1995 17:01:24 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse If anyone is listening, I have another idea to add to the list of potential ads for the new 888 service. Scene: A classroom full of 3rd graders. The teacher is asking different students to go to the board and add lists of numbers. We see one child successfully add 350 to 400 and get 750, then it is little Billy's turn. 400 + 400 ------------- Under which Billy writes 888. When called on it by the teacher, Billy responds with "But 888 equals 800!". (Sort of a Rolaids spells relief kind of thing. Will Middelaer wsmiddel@mailbox.syr.edu ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #304 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa22755; 11 Jul 95 7:50 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03722 for telecomlist-outbound; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 23:53:28 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03712; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 23:53:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 23:53:25 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507110453.XAA03712@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #305 TELECOM Digest Mon, 10 Jul 95 22:52:02 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 305 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Erez Levav) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Jeremy Rogers) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Bob Goudreau) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Dave O'Shea) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Jan Joris Vereijken) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Mark Brader) Where *Are* the 800 Numbers? FCC Auditing Carriers (Judith Oppenheimer) Re: 800=888 (Ron Bean) Re: 800/888 = Toll Free (Brian Vita) Re: Running out of 800 numbers (Larry Rachman) Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers/ Problems in Business (Steven Lichter) Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business (Jeff Karpinski) Re: ISDN In Band Conversion Equipment (Chris Gettings) Re: ISDN/In-Band Conversion Equipment (Chip Sharp) Re: Pager Phone Numbers (Bradley Ward Allen) Is 1-800 Still Completely Toll-Free? (Doug Williams) Re: Rural Telephone Coops Make a Difference (Jack Hamilton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Erez Levav Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 10 Jul 1995 13:09:02 GMT Organization: Cooperative Human Link Center @ Fox-Chase Cancer Center Judith Oppenheimer wrote: > Rather than distinguish between 800 and 888, this copy assumes that > 800 THE CARD and 888 THE CARD *will* both ring to American Express. > The whole problem is that that assumption is entirely unwarranted. > Anything less would be foolish, and negligent, business. Maybe I'v been misled, but I thought that the 888 prefix was needed because there are not enough 800 numbers available. If we now give that has a 800 number the same 888 number, what did we gain? Erez Levav Fox Chase Cancer Center E_Levav@fccc.edu 7701 Burholme Avenue (215) 728-3160 Philadelphia, PA 19111 ATT: 0-700-2xpress 0-700-2101010 (FAX) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We would in effect gain nothing, but the prima donnas in the American corporate world who are all so much better than the rest of you peasants will have gotten their way, and that is what counts, isn't it? PAT] ------------------------------ From: jeremy@aea.orgn.uk (Jeremy Rogers) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Reply-To: jeremy@aea.orgn.uk Organization: AEA Technology Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:17:30 GMT In article 2@eecs.nwu.edu, Judith Oppenheimer writes: > Patrick, consumer education *is* on the FCC's 888 Implementation > agenda. Obviously, consumers will need to understand that 888 is as > toll free as 800. > Beyond that, Paul Robinson's suggestions don't even begin to address > the problem that marketers using existing 800 numbers will have. > American Express has no way at all to insure that it will get > 1-888-THE CARD. If Visa gets it, what is American Express to do? It > won't be any comfort that the consumer will know that both are free. This sort of think happens here in the UK where we have two main codes for free numbers (0800 and 0500) and two codes for "pay only local rates" (0345 and 0645). When my bank first offered a local-rate number I just dialed 0345 365 365 without really reading the number properly. This tuned out to connected to a different bank -- mine was on 0645 365 365. Jez Rogers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 11:07:35 -0400 From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Judith Oppenheimer writes: > American Express has no way at all to insure that it will get > 1-888-THE CARD. If Visa gets it, what is American Express to do? It > won't be any comfort that the consumer will know that both are free. > And before you tell me you have trouble weeping for the problems of > the Fortune 500, what about the consumer trying to call American > Express, and getting Visa instead? It seems to me that examples like this are getting it exactly backwards. The companies that currently have the 800 numbers are the incumbents, with all the advantages that implies (easier for customers to remember, no hassles with 888-impaired PBXs, etc.) It's the guys who get the corresponding number in the new 888 space that have the uphill struggle, not the incumbents. I think it far more likely that people would mistakenly call 1-800-THE-CARD and get AmEx (when they really wanted Visa at 1-888-THE-CARD) than make the mistake in the other direction. Maybe this means that AmEx will have to pay for a lot of wrong number calls, but they could also use it to their advantage by trying to cream off business that was originally intended for AmEx. And just think how much money 1-800-FLOWERS would make if someone were foolish enough to establish a competing flower delivery business at 1-888-FLOWERS! At any rate, I still feel that the whole idea of 800 incumbents having any sort of special veto over the corresponding numbers in 888 is preposterous. Walt Disney Co. heavily advertises its 1-407-WDISNEY number; should Disney be able to prevent 934-7639 from being used in any other area code? Of course not, so why should "area code" 800 be any different? Bob Goudreau Data General Corporation goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com 62 Alexander Drive +1 919 248 6231 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Because American Express says so, and that's all that really matters. It's just like Mike Royko at the {Chicago Tribune} who feels that since his direct dial centrex number at the newspaper (312-whatever) has the same last seven digits as one of AT&T's more commonly used 800-whatever numbers, they should change their number so he won't have to bother with the calls. PAT] ------------------------------ From: dos@panix.com (Dave O'Shea) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 9 Jul 1995 19:50:35 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And is anyone here old enough to remember > when 800 began replacing 'Enterprise' and 'Zenith' numbers on a large- > scale basis? Starting sometime in the early sixties, AT&T began promoting > 800 in a serious way telling people in television and print advertising > that 800 'allows you to place your own toll free calls automatically, > without requiring the assistance of an operator ...' PAT] And on a related note, when did the "ENterprise" number toll-free syste get phased out? I recall seeing active listings as recently as a few years ago in the NY metro area. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It is not "ENterprise" it is "Enterprise" and I think most telcos quit making them available back in the early 1980's sometime, although subscribers who had them were grandfathered and can have them still today if desired. I think its one of those things where when you disconnect your service or move, you lose Enterprise if you still have it. Padgett Peterson sent a note questioning 'Zenith'. He said he had never heard of those. My belief is that Zenith was the GTE version of Enterprise, which was mostly an AT&T thing. I said that once before and someone wrote to say they were served by AT&T in the old days and their toll-free number was Zenith ... so I don't know what the rule was, if indeed any existed. To answer Padgett's question, Zenith was simply another name for Enterprise used by some telcos; I believe by and large the GTE companies. The way it worked was if a company had a toll-free number in those days it would be listed in the appropriate directory (for the communities from which calls would be accepted) as 'Enterprise xxxx'. If you wanted to call it, you dialed the operator and asked for the number. The operator used a flip chart to get the translation for the more common ones (for example, American Express had **and still has** an Enterprise number) and for the less common ones she would consult the Rate and Route Bureau. She then dialed the (translated) number and did not ask the other end if they would accept a collect call. It was automatically assumed they would accept a collect call by virtue of their Enterprise code number. PAT] ------------------------------ From: janjoris@win.tue.nl (Jan Joris Vereijken) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 8 Jul 1995 14:22:34 +0200 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Reply-To: janjoris@acm.org (Jan Joris Vereijken) Judith Oppenheimer wrote: > Rather than distinguish between 800 and 888, this copy assumes that > 800 THE CARD and 888 THE CARD *will* both ring to American Express. > The whole problem is that that assumption is entirely unwarranted. I don't want to suggest in any way that alpha-dailing is a bad idea, but it amuses me to no end that it gets Coporate America trapped in such a maze of dialing-plan horrors ... We here in Europe, in general, have *no* letters on our phones, and *no* assumptions on the length or format of phone numbers. Therefore, basically, "any number goes". We seldom need area code splits, and Coporate Europe doesn't have any vanity-number investment to protect. Furthermore, we don't spend money to educate the public about which calls are free, premium, local, long-distance, or whatever. Basically, the public is utterly clueless on these topics, especially when it concerns numbers in another county (which, in Europe, is often not farther than 100 miles away). I really wouldn't know which system is best, yours or ours. What I do notice is that both you and we are converging to a system that so complicated, that the man in the street understands diddly-squad of the issues involved. They just order a plan they can only pray suits their calling pattern, and then hope for the best. For example, in my country, you have to scan the first *SIX* digits of a phone number to know the tariff; for some prefixes the 6th digit can mean the difference between a toll-free call or the ugliest premium call imaginable. Now let's take, for argument's sake, my parents's knowledge of the tariff structure. They know six digit calls are local, and don't cost too much. Furthermore, they know that when they call me they pay such a steep rate that they should watch their watch. And that sums up all they know. Any other numbers, including the ones that are actually free, they susspect of ripping them off big time. And I can't blame them! I think the USA is going in that direction too. If you don't believe me, ask your mother what she thinks a call to a 1-500 number costs ... Just my 2c. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 20:50:36 -0400 From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada > Beyond that, Paul Robinson's suggestions don't even begin to address > the problem that marketers using existing 800 numbers will have. > American Express has no way at all to insure that it will get > 1-888-THE CARD. If Visa gets it, what is American Express to do? It > won't be any comfort that the consumer will know that both are free. The following seems obvious to me, but I haven't seen it said in either this thread or the one about the coming international toll-free numbers. (Our newsfeed's been flaky lately, so maybe I've just missed it.) -> If American Express is using 1-800-THE-CARD, then they should be able to trademark the use of THE-CARD as part of a toll-free telephone number. I expect that existing trademark law would cover this; if not, now is the time to change it. -> This does not give them rights to 1-888-843-2273, but it does mean that anyone *else* who has 1-888-843-2273 would *not* be allowed to advertise it as 1-888-THE-CARD. They could use all numbers, or choose an obviously unrelated alternative letter interpretation like 1-888-VIE-BASE. -> The same goes for 011-800-843-2273 or 011-800-1-843-2273 or any other similar number, when international toll-free calling is available. Mark Brader, msb@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto C unions never strike! ------------------------------ From: Judith Oppenheimer Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:41:58 -0400 Subject: Where *Are* the 800 Numbers? FCC Auditing Carriers ... FCC Common Carrier Bureau Chief Kathleen Wallman confirmed that the FCC is doing an audit of 800 number assignments to determine whether carriers had been warehousing numbers. The Commission recently placed limits on how many 800 numbers each carrier could obtain per week. However, there have been rumors that some carriers were warehousing numbers before FCC imposed limitations. Bureau Chief Wallman said the audit will be completed "in a few weeks." Judith Oppenheimer Interactive CallBrand(TM) email: Producer@pipeline.com phone: 212 684-7210, fax: 212 684-2714 (Check out http://www.cortex.net. Lots of useful marketing recommendations, including an inspired endorsement of ICB.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 19:26 CDT From: madnix.uucp!zaphod@nicmad.nicolet.com (Ron Bean) Subject: Re: 800=888 Maybe the solution is to reserve the 800 prefix for *Business-Voice Lines Only*, and move all the toll-free fax lines, pagers, modems, personal-800 etc to the new 888 prefix. Businesses would then be able to take the same number in both prefixes, and actually *use* them, instead of just tying up the number space, and non-techie consumers wouldn't have to deal with it at all. Unfortunately, this would require changing a *lot* of existing phone numbers, so it's probably too late. I've often thought that area code splits should have been handled this way also. For example, in Chicago 312 would have been for voice only, and all the fax machines, modems, etc would have been moved to 708. Again, many people could have used the same number in both area codes (this would be an overlay rather than a split). And again, it's too late. Another problem with this idea is that The Phone Company would try to charge more for the non-voice lines (just out of habit), whereas now you don't have to tell them what you want the number for. madnix!zaphod@nicmad.nicolet.com (Ron Bean) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Why do you feel that private users of 800 numbers should be the subscribers forced to change? Is it so that American Express won't have to deal with it? I do not feel that anyone who has an 800 number presently should have to give it up or change it. Let corporate America deal with it the best they can. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jul 1995 20:53:38 GMT From: Brian Vita Subject: 800/888 = Toll Free > Most TV and radio ads I have heard with an 800 number say 'call TOLL > FREE'. Print ads sometimes have the words 'TOLL FREE' next to the > number. Some ads say 'this is a free call'. Even though 1-800 has > been 'toll free' for years MOST advertisers are still making the point > of saying it one more time. Unfortunately just as consumers were just getting the hang of "800" numbers being free, the whores of the industry started coming out with the "800" numbers that charged *you* through a back door (usually with rates up your back door). Even some supposedly reputable companies (we won't mention Microwave Communications, Inc. here) go on the bandwagon and started charging for these calls. I hope that the rules governing the "888" service code specifically prevent these abuses. Brian Vita CSS, Inc. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Integratel will always find a way to stick those charges to you, regardless of the area code used. Remember that 800 sex number published here early in June? Guess how much Integratel wants for *one minute* of that? How about *ninety three dollars, seventy cents* ? Actually, ten seconds was more like it. I hung up *immediatly* when I heard the very brief mention of $39 per minute. Only thing is, they lie. They billed me $93.70, despite the fact that I have billed number screening *from their database* on my line. If you are not on the Integratel billed number screening database, by all means get yourself listed to avoid things like this. You can reach them at 800-736-7500. And if you, like myself, dialed that number and hung up immediatly when hearing there would be a charge for it, then there will probably be a charge on your phone bill also. If you see a charge on your bill, then do as I did: call Integratel, let them know what scum they are, and tell them flatly payment is refused. I told the rep I spoke with that if it appeared again on my bill next month my next call would be to their corporate attorney. I then called up Ameritech and told them they are scum also for dealing with a company like Integratel and how great it will be to see true competition in the Chicago area. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 09:58:59 EDT From: larry.rachman@peri.com (Larry Rachman) Subject: Re: Running out of 800 numbers How about migrating residential/personal 800 numbers to 888 and leaving 800 for the 'public' business numbers? This would reduce the number of wrong numbers personal users get, eliminate the incentive for existing businesses to capture the corresponding 888 numbers, and generally make it easier for people to know what was going on. Yeah, I realize that this would pose a minor inconvenience for current personal 800 users (of which I am one), but these users generally don't have anywhere near the expense of stationary, advertising, etc. that businesses do. Besides, there is ample precedent for yanking people's phone numbers out from under them. Perhaps there is something wrong with this deceptively simple approach. If there is, I'm sure some other TELECOM readers will gleefully point it out to me. LR [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: How about moving American Express to 888 so all the toll-free numbers they are hogging can be freed up for use by other subscribers? And I fail to see what the 'expense of stationary and advertising' has to do with anything. And yes, there is ample precedent for yanking people's phone number so begin by yanking Amex's 800 numbers. PAT] ------------------------------ From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter) Subject: Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers/ Problems in Business Date: 10 Jul 1995 13:19:36 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Paul: The same could be said for the numbers that are the same in a different area code, but this is paid for by the caller. What do you want them to do, make different numbers in each area code? That would be great, just have one area code for the whole world and 4,000 digits in each phone number. ------------------------------ From: jkarp@nexus.interealm.com (Jeff Karpinski) Subject: Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 13:07:55 GMT Organization: ICG/MagNET (303) 745-9205 Recently Paul Robinson wrote: > ... Makes me wonder how much of the 888 area code is going to be > taken up by companies with 800 numbers buying the identical number in > the 888 area code to keep someone else from piggybacking on their > number. ... Pardon my ignorance, as I've just been lurking here, but why not do away with the 800 area code completely? Just transfer all existing 800 numbers to 888, and open up 887, 886, etc for new ones. Everyone's switches, PBXs, etc. have got to be reprogrammed anyway, and this way everyone's on the same "new number recognition" playing field. Of course a company could still buy up 888/123-4567, 887/123-4567, etc., but I don't think that's as likely as with 800 in the mix. JKarp. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:57:20 -0600 From: gettings@tcel.com (Chris Gettings) Subject: Re: ISDN In Band Conversion Equipment I have used two devices to do exactly what you need. Both devices are built on a 486 Intel computer in an industrial rack mount chassis w/48v DC power supply. They both use circuit boards manufactured by DianaTel and Dialogic. They connect to a 23B+D PRI ISDN circuit provided by telco and convert the out of band D Channel signalling to in band MF/DTMF 4 wire E&M wink start signalling. They each have 96 ports. That is where the similarity ends. The first is manufactured by Eastern Independant Telecom in Brockville, Ontario and is called the Bit Boss. I purchased five or six of them ($49,439) each from EIT and spent six months trying to make them work. Their engineers were on site for most of the six months and could never get them to stay up under heavy traffic loads. They would start dropping digits, individual ports would lock up, new calls to the Bit Boss would get hung and never be converted into DTMF, and calls would be dropped. The EIT engineers never did figure it out, I replaced them with machines built by ACCI in Camp Hill Pennsylvania called Convert ITRs. The Convert ITR is much more sophisticated than the Bit Boss. It uses the Unix operating system instead of the Bit Boss's DOS. I think that this is the root of the problem with the Bit Boss. DOS is not a true multi-tasking O/S, the Bit Boss S/W was using a stack to try to create a multi-tasking thread. When the traffic demands became large the O/S just could not keep up. This combined with DOS memory constraints to crash the machine. It was kind of a joke except for the money I was loosing. When the complaints started the official repair procedure recommended by EIT was a hard reboot of the Bit Boss! They even installed some special PC software which allows you to reboot a DOS PC via a modem! The Convert ITR has the true multi-tasking UNIX O/S so it allocates a process to monitor each channel and respond to signals. I was also dissatisfied with the EIT approach to the problems. To this day they deny that the problem is in their equipment. After buying the equipment and having so many problems I learned about other customers they had for the systems who were also upset. These include some large Canadian carriers, Fonorola, Sprint, and STN. EIT would always point at the customer, or Bell, or the phase of the moon when making excuses. The ACCI Convert ITR ($46,732) had two failures in 8 months of heavy use. One was in the initial days of installation, and was resolved by changing some of the DTMF timing parameters. The other was many months down the road, I don't really remember what it turned out to be, but ACCI fixed it right away. I am now beginning a new development project with ACCI on an unrelated system; obviously, I am endorsing their systems and engineers. They have some pretty impressive customers, having installed call centers for Lotus, SouthWestern Bell and other heavy hitters. Also, I happen to have four or five of both the Bit Boss and the Convert ITR systems that I am not using & would sell. You don't want the Bit Boss but you could save some money on hardware if you wanted my Convert ITRs. You would need to pay ACCI some kind of a re-licence fee for the software if you wanted support. The manuals are o.k. but I don't think anyone would be wise trying to implement these kinds of systems in a production environment without manufacturer's technical support. Their own engineers spent a couple of days installing and configuring them. E-mail me or call me directly (703) 827-2795 if you want to buy my used boxes, ACCI is at 215-540-9377. The president is Ted Sak, & Tom Falcone is a really good engineer there. ****Chris Gettings**** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 12:50:26 EDT From: hhs@teleoscom.com (Chip Sharp X-6424) Subject: Re: ISDN/In-Band Conversion Equipment > From: Marcelle Kors > I am looking for assistance on the following application. We would > receive voice calls from the carrier with DNIS/ANI on ISDN-PRI D > channel. We would then need to retransmit with DNIS/ANI sent in-band. > Transmission medium would be end-to-end fiber. ....stuff deleted... > Does anyone know of vendors selling equipment that will convert the > DNIS from ISDN-PRI to inband? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Teleos Communications, Inc. provides equipment that converts from ISDN D-channel Called Party Number to DTMF over T1 w/Robbed Bit Signaling. If you wish to deliver ANI in-band using Robbed Bit Signaling you would need to support MF signaling on your equipment. What type of "in-band signaling" are you looking for (e.g., MF, DTMF, A/B bit)? What framing format do you need (e.g., T1/ESF)? Hascall H. ("Chip") Sharp Teleos Communications, Inc. Sr. Systems Engineer 2 Meridian Road Eatontown, NJ 07724 USA voice: +1 908 544 6424 fax: +1 908 544 9890 email: hhs@teleoscom.com ------------------------------ From: ulmo@panix.com (Bradley Ward Allen) Subject: Re: Pager Phone Numbers Date: 10 Jul 1995 22:47:32 -0400 Organization: URL:http://www.armory.com/~ulmo/ (see rivers.html for PGP key) Some prefixes have different billing properties than others. I've gotten 917 beeper numbers that are long distance calls from Chelsea (near Midtown Manhattan, 212 area code), and requested a non-long distance # from the same pager company and gotten it. Also sometimes calls from parts of NYC to other parts of NYC are long distance on a payphone. I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I know that different prefixes do evaluate to different areas, even with 917, and do bill differently. I think my Cellular One number is someplace in Brooklyn (where I'm almost never at). In Pacific Bell, it is up to the "owner" of a prefix how it behaves; there is an option to have all calls in the service area (in California these can be quite large, covering hours upon hours of driving distance) local to the prefix; many cellular and beeper companies subscribe to this (without even telling their clients; apparently the cost-benefit for this feature must be good enough without even advertising it!). I had it with both my LA Cellular and Page Time pager in Los Angeles. However, the actual phone number evaluates to a certain area, once again, and the payphones use a *different database* for billing which is calculated purely on milage charts (the same system the operators use); plans were under way to integrate it so that operator quotes and payphone charging were in line with tarrifs, but it was a way off; all this from Bob Duff at Pacific Bell in March of 1994. In effect, calls made from a Pacific Bell residential or business phone line would bill properly. Asking the operator or using a payphone would be equal to each other but not what you would otherwise be billed. Calling my cellular phone from any payphone in my neighborhood cost fifty cents. Somehow the pager company realized the benefit of making the "location" of its prefix closer to my area. Remember that fire that burned in Downtown LA Pac Bell switching office? Lucky me! Both my cellular and pager are in that downtown office and I couldn't complete *any* calls in or out that day! What the heck, because the *location* of the cellular was in the database as something way, way, way south of me or downtown, thus the strange payphone behavoir. Anybody besides me notice the fact that there are more trunk busies in Southern California than Northern California? ------------------------------ From: dougw@highz.as.arizona.edu (Doug Williams) Subject: Is 1-800 Still Completely Toll-Free Date: 10 Jul 1995 18:28:06 GMT Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ In article bellaire@tk.com (James E. Bellaire) writes: > Most TV and radio ads I have heard with an 800 number say 'call TOLL > FREE'. Print ads sometimes have the words 'TOLL FREE' next to the > number. Some ads say 'this is a free call'. Even though 1-800 has > been 'toll free' for years MOST advertisers are still making the point > of saying it one more time. I hate to bring up what was a large discussion from a few years back, but what was the final disposition of the TeleSlime that advertised 1-800 numbers that immediately transfered you to a 1-900 number, effectively defeating any blocking that may have been in place on the phone. I remember there being a long discussion about 1-800 having always been toll free on one side, but the right of the number owners being able to charge for the service that was rendered after the call was completed (I think this started with a TelePsychic whom Digest readers called often from payphones, but I may be wrong). The above quote points out how advertisers have been careful in the past to state the toll-freeness of the calls. If there is a large advertising campaign, will this detail be glossed over? doug [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: See my note earlier in this issue. The Integratel people are at it again, with $93 per minute charges billed through your friendly local telco, even if you hang up as soon as they announce there will be a charge. PAT] ------------------------------ From: jfh@acm.org (Jack Hamilton) Subject: Re: Rural Telephone Coops Make a Difference Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:21:20 GMT Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access dean@primenet.com (Dean Hughson) wrote: > Here I am living 12 miles from a town of 886 and I > have a dialup -- all I can say is thanks to telephone coops. There have been rumors that Pacific Telephone plans to go into the ISP business. I called to ask when the service might be available in Sacramento, and was told that it would be a while -- they want to start with the larger areas. According to , the Sacramento PMSA (not including Yolo county) had a 1990 population of 1,340,000. Different phone companies obviously have different philosophies. Jack Hamilton jfh@acm.org Sacramento, California USA kd6ttl 1992 BMW K75RTA co-moderator, sci.med.aids PGP Fingerprint: B90D 0207 6A05 ADAF 12C1 ECF4 7C4A 39E1 ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #305 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa29108; 11 Jul 95 17:38 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA08008 for telecomlist-outbound; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 07:52:23 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA08000; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 07:52:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 07:52:21 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507111252.HAA08000@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #306 TELECOM Digest Tue, 11 Jul 95 07:52:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 306 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson California Cry Babies (Greg Monti) AeRie - New Applied Rural Telecom Web Site (Brian Geoghegan) Re: Quantum Non-Leap? 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 23:44:01 PDT From: Greg Monti Subject: California Cry Babies Forwarded FYI to the Digest: California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 5301 San Francisco, CA 94102 CONTACT: Dianne Dienstein June 7, 1995 CPUC - 50 415-703-2423 CPUC APPEALS FCC CALLER ID DECISION The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today appealed the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Caller ID decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco claiming it puts the privacy of millions of Californians at risk. A phone customer who purchases Caller ID service is able to see the phone number of whoever is calling on a small screen attached or built in to the phone -- unless the caller blocks disclosure of the number. The CPUC's existing Caller ID rules satisfy the state constitutional right of privacy by protecting Californians who pay an extra monthly charge for unlisted phone numbers to ensure their privacy and safety. They include police agencies and undercover police officers, victims of domestic violence and operators of shelters for such victims, single women, the elderly and children, people who wish to keep their names, addresses and telephone numbers from the mailing lists and databases of telemarketers and direct mail marketers, people who are fearful of technology, the developmentally disabled, people who wish to choose those to whom they give their private phone numbers and people who simply wish to be left alone. California has the highest number of unlisted subscribers in the U.S. In the state's ten largest cities, more than 60 percent of phone subscribers have chosen to have unlisted numbers. The CPUC authorized and encouraged California phone companies to offer the service in 1992, but with blocking options to protect all Californians. The phone companies, however, withheld the service and instead urged the FCC to reduce CPUC-established privacy protections. While the recent FCC decision upheld most CPUC protections, it overruled one the CPUC deems extremely important for Caller ID -- the automatic blocking default for unlisted subscribers. The CPUC rules required any company with the capability of offering Caller ID to allow customers with unlisted phone numbers to automatically have disclosure of their number blocked unless they requested otherwise. Customers could override the blocking to reveal their number for a call by dialing *82 before the number they call. The CPUC rules also required phone companies to allow any customers dissatisfied with their initial blocking option one free change of blocking option. The phone companies argued to the FCC that the CPUC requirement of automatic number blocking for unlisted subscribers who don't contact the phone company to request blocking would make offering Caller ID not profitable. CPUC staff estimates that once Caller ID is offered, Pacific Bell -- California's largest local phone company -- stands to make tens of millions of dollars per year initially from the service, with its profits increasing over time. The FCC ruled that customers with unlisted numbers who do not contact the phone company to request that their number be blocked on all calls must dial *67 before each call they make to block disclosure. The CPUC is appealing the FCC decision because the CPUC believes no matter how comprehensive a consumer education program, many Californians with unlisted phone numbers will not find out how to protect their privacy under Caller ID, and their number will be disclosed without their knowledge or consent each time they make a phone call. The privacy of as many as three million Californians with unlisted numbers could be jeopardized. CPUC studies suggest that even with the CPUC's customer education requirements, more than 30 percent of California telephone subscribers won't receive notice about Caller ID or know their number is being disclosed or what they must do to prevent disclosure. Worse, some California phone companies are arguing that these customer notice and education requirements should be reduced. Customers with unlisted numbers who fail to receive notice will continue to pay extra for an unlisted number not realizing that with Caller ID, it no longer protects their privacy. ---------------- This is not my opinion, just posted by: Greg Monti Arlington, Virginia, USA gmonti@cais.com ------------------------------ From: Brian Geoghegan Subject: AeRie - New Applied Rural Telecom Web Site Date: 10 Jul 1995 16:24:03 GMT Organization: SuperNet Inc. (303)-296-8202 Denver Colorado The Colorado Advanced Technology Institute (CATI) is proud to announce the creation of AeRie, the Applied Rural Telecommunications online clearinghouse. AeRie contains resources and case studies designed to assist rural communities world-wide harness the potential uses of telecommunications for economic development. AeRie features the following: * Homepages for 12 economic development telecom projects in rural Colorado, including mission statements, project descriptions, and progress reports. * A Resource Guide containing examples of how rural communities throughout the world are using telecom, as well as listings of online resources relating to various rural economic development sectors, including distance learning, telemedicine, regional marketing, agriculture, and many more. * Case Studies for exemplary rural telecom projects throughout the United States (under development) * Project Evaluation guide (also under development) to help guide the design and implementation of rural telecom efforts. We welcome your visit to the AeRie homepage at the following URL: http://www.yampa.com/aerie The AeRie Resource Guide can be pointed to directly at URL: http://www.yampa.com/aerie/resource/resource.html You are invited to contact us regarding information about your efforts or rural telecom resources that we can list in AeRie. Please help us get the word out by asking that your favorite rural/economic development web page(s) add a link to AeRie. Please repost this announcement as appropriate. Thanks for your help! Brian Geoghegan AeRie Resource Guide - Consultant to CATI bgeogheg@csn.net ------------------------------ From: dos@panix.com (Dave O'Shea) Subject: Re: Quantum Non-Leap? Date: 10 Jul 1995 22:55:29 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Dr. Rich Artym (rartym@galacta.demon.co.uk) wrote: > When fibre finally made it out of the research labs and became > standard technology for PTTs, it seemed quite clear that the increase > in line capacity of three or four orders of magnitude that it would > bring would mean that the raw cost of bandwidth on fibred links would > fall, and that as more and more of the network went over to fibre, > this change would start to be felt at consumer level. > This hasn't happened. Why? Since the customer has not benefited by > orders of magnitude from the change to fibre, neither through quantum > price reductions nor quantum increased bandwidth, who has reaped the > benefits from the quantum leap in carrying capacity? That's a good question. A quick look at the balance sheets of the major carriers show that, while profitable, they're not simply shoveling gobs of money under the matresses, and with the exception of AT&T, few are engaged in serious research. [Market studies don't count as research]. The answers may be different over on the other side of the Atlantic, but I think here in the US, a few things have happened: 1. Increasing overhead (labor, regulatory waste) 2. Reduced revenues from some services (equipment rental, Centrex, etc.) Another item is that there simply is little demand for bandwidth. I've been a major thorn in the sides of both LDDS and Southwestern Bell because I can't make a decent connection with a modem -- and neither company is willing to support any speed that can't be run on an acoustic coupler! Until the last year or so, the maximum speed tha even a modem user was interested in was limited by how fast he can read -- and for most people, 2400 is a comfortable pace. With the advent of easy-to-use SLIP connections and "Internet in a box"-type kits, and bandwidth-gobbling packages like Netscape, that's changing. Looking at another model, the average houshold has had several hundred gigabits of data flowing into it -- in the form of broadcast and cable TV, and radio. My little RCA DSS box can handle several hundred channels of high-quality video, each overlaid with CD-quality stereo. Up until now, there has been no desire on the part of the average comsumer to make any of that bandwidth available for two-way use. I'm going to put my money on the Cable TV companies to be the ones to bring massive two-way bandwith to the residential doorstep. Why? Local Bell companies simply have no interest in providing better service; they are guaranteed a profit in most states, and cutting into their pricey leased-circuit business doesn't interest them. Long-distance carriers are too busy duking it out with each other, desparately hoping to snag a couple extra percent of AT&T's business. AT&T? MCI and SPRINT could offer per-minute rates at 50% off AT&T's, and lots of people still wouldn't switch. Those who do often seem to find that the small-to-nonexistent savings aren't worth the Burger King mentailty that pervades the second-tier carriers. The cable companies, on the other hand, have had an epiphany over the last 18 months, when they realized that they don't have a lock on residential service, and will have to compete with alternative broadcast and satellite services. You can bet that the repesctive CEOs of Time Warner, Cox, and TCI have gone through a tanker of Maalox while watching RCA sell a million dishes in the blink of an eye. (That time-warner has auched Primestar in such short order indicates at least a bit of interest) Your average residential-grade coax cable can handle several hundred megabits of BIDIRECTIONAL data using commonplace technologies. A cheap equivalent of a data switch or router at the curb, and you've got one hellacious network running up to that stupid-looking box on top of your TV. Providing dial tone, at a minimum, is a trivial accomplishment compared to the local RBOC running even ISDN over glorified doorbell wire. > Some suggest that the PTTs are transfixed with a cost-per-voice-line > mentality, and so can't increase bandwidth delivered to the data end user > without reducing their charges to the voice-line customer, which is a > complete no-no and hence a show-stopper for the data brigade that want > fast digital links. (ISDN is badly hampered by this pricing philosophy.) I think this is pretty close. Your average RBOC is raking in some serious dough with all those T1's (Well, E1 for you) and offering the same capacity for a fraction of the price is not something that Joe in marketing wants to suggest to The Boss. > Others suggest that the PTTs see bandwidth availability as a way to get > them into the entertainment market, and fast data as just a red herring, > or bandwidth as a weapon for pressure politics (that's BT for you). I think that most of the local carriers are simply praying that governments will mandate profits for them as an "essential service", thus saving them the drudgery of competing head-to-head. > Anyway, that's how it seems from the ground level, very disappointing. > If anyone has any grounds for optimism in this area, I suspect that many > wearily-waiting consumers would be most interested to hear the details. The bandwidth is out there. It's just that nobody has figured out a way to create enough demand for it to justify the capital expenditures that the new infrastructure would require. Someone will change that. As much as I loathe the cable operators, I think it's going to be them. ------------------------------ From: asoodek@interaccess.com (Andrew L. Soodek) Subject: Questions About the Internet/Telephone Companies Link Date: 10 Jul 1995 17:38:23 GMT Organization: The VenCom Group I am performing research on the future development of the Internet, and I am perplexed by a few things. The telephone companies contribute to the 'net by supplying the lines over which the information is transferred. In the past, the telephone companies have been able to determine how much they can charge for long distance, or even local service, based on per minute usage. Now, I pay my service provider a flat fee, and I could potentially communicate with someone overseaes for hours, without incurring the high costs associated with standard telecommunications. What are the incentives for the telephone companies to offer up their transmission lines, when they could alternately charge for the link via long distance service? As a related question, I'm interested in finding out exactly how routing on the Internet is handled. Are there currently, or have there been in the past, incentives for the phone companies to offer up their lines for Internet transmission? If so, how is it determined that this posting will reach its destination by travelling via Ameritech, AT&T or MCI's wires? It seems that the telephone companies would want to keep their phone lines free for their per minute, paying cutomers, and yet, they supply the lines for full scale multimedia file transmission. Therefore, it seems that Internet users and access providers depend on the telephone companies. (Is there a source on the Internet that can supply me with information regarding what happens to a file when it sent out over the Internet? i.e. Digitalization, encryption, transmission, routing, receiving, decryption, etc.) Lastly, I am trying to understand why MCI is offering the varied types of services they do (online mall, etc.), while other telephone companies may offer detailed information aabout their executives (Ameritech), while still others offer a telephone directory. I know that each company controls its own content, but is there any organization attempting to standardize the types of information broadcasted over the net? What does the future hold? As a Research Analyst (Librarian), I can tell you that its nice to be able to get free press releases from the phone companies, but I can't expect for that to continue forever. Eventually, Internet content providers will realize that they are giving away the store, or at least, they will realize that they are giving away valuable information that people would be willing to pay good money for. (The headhunters love it when the phone companies tell you about their upper level management.) I realize that until now, the government has played an integral role developing the infrastructure to build the Internet, but they certainly had help from the phone companies. In addition, as the impending privatisation occurs, the phone companies will be called upon to step up their contributions to the existing infrastructures. I'm somewhat of a novice with the technicalities of the Internet, so I would appreciate any help that anyone could offer me. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ From: fli@ee.pdx.edu (Fu Li) Subject: Short Course on Image Compression: 9/13-9/15 Portland, Oregon Date: 10 Jul 1995 16:31:30 -0700 Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Digital Image and Multimedia Compression: Fundamentals and International Standards Wednesday, September 13 - Friday, September 15, 1995 For more information, please see our WWW homepage at http://www.ee.pdx.edu/short_courses/image_compression/ Seats are very limited, early registration is encouraged! About the Course: Digital cameras and Photo CD digital negatives, digital television broadcast and movies stored on CDROM that can be played back on reasonably priced multimedia PCs, are already a reality. Due to the huge amounts of data associated with digital images and video, their efficient storage and transmission poses a challenging problem. Consequently, image and video compression plays an enabling role for almost all consumer, commercial and scientific applications. Digital image and video compression is a current focus of both research and international standardization. The recently developed standards such as JPEG, JBIG, H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 reflect the state of the art algorithms and are important in facilitating interoperability among various imaging systems as well as wide-spread, cost-effective deployment of the technology. This course provides the audience with the necessary foundation: the principles of information theory, motion estimation, and motion compensated preprocessing. A detailed discussion of compression algorithms for both still images and video is presented on the basis of this foundation, enabling a solid understanding of the state of the art, standards and future directions. Upon completion of the course, the students will be equipped with the necessary background in information theory, motion estimation and compensation, and a solid understanding of the basic principles and standards of digital image and video compression. Presenters: Majid Rabbani and M. Ibrahim Sezan Image Processing Laboratory Eastman Kodak Company Organizers: Fu Li and Rolf Schaumann Portland State University With Cooperation by Oregon Center for Advanced Technology Education The course starts with a broad set of product and application examples that establish the need for image compression in various digital imaging systems. This is followed by a brief description of the existing and emerging standards in the field of digital image and video compression and their scopes and functionalities. Next, the three main components of compression schemes, namely, transformation or decomposition, quantization, and symbol modeling and encoding are presented. The topic of symbol encoding is next studied in greater detail. In particular, the concept of a Markov source model and its entropy are presented, and the various coding strategies such as Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, and LZW coding are studied and their relative merits and shortcomings are compared. The first day is concluded with a detailed study of lossless image compression schemes which include bit- plane encoding, lossless DPCM used in the JPEG lossless standard, and the Rice algorithm. Finally, a description of the current ITU-T (formerly CCITT) facsimile standards and the emerging JBIG standard is provided. The second day contains a detailed description of lossy compression techniques for still-images which also form the basis for video compression schemes such as MPEG and H.261. First a brief description of various quantization strategies such as the uniform scalar quantizer, the Lloyd-Max nonuniform scalar quantizer, the entropy-constrained scalar quantizer, vector quantization (VQ), and the emerging technique of trellis-coded quantization (TCQ) is provided and their relative performances are compared. This is followed by an analysis of transform image coding schemes with a particular emphasis on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). The baseline, extended, and enhanced modes of the JPEG international standard for the compression of continuous-tone still color images are studied in detail. This is followed by a study of wavelet and subband coding schemes and their performance merits compared to DCT. The basic notions of fractal image compression are also reviewed. Finally, progressive image transmission techniques and various strategies for constructing image hierarchies are discussed. Topics include the S-transform, Knowlton's technique, the Laplacian pyramid and the Kodak Photo-CD image pyramid. This concludes the second day. The third day is devoted to video compression. Interframe motion information is a fundamental component of video compression since it facilitates the utilization of temporal redundancies that naturally exist in video sequences. Further, it plays an important role in designing efficient pre-compression algorithms, such as noise filtering. Noise suppression via pre-filtering greatly increases the efficiency of subsequent compression and is often one of the differentiating factors used in evaluating a complete compression system. We develop a unifying framework for fundamentals of motion estimation and present an overview of motion estimation algorithms within this framework. Next, we discuss motion-adaptive algorithms for preprocessing of video. Following a brief overview of different approaches to filtering of image sequences, we describe two recently developed spatiotemporal filters for motion-adaptive noise suppression. We next provide a detailed discussion of both the fundamental and working principles of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video compression standards. We also present a brief overview of H.261 standard and point out its similarities and differences with MPEG-1. An overview of available silicon, software, and hardware implementations of the standards is also furnished. A summary of emerging MPEG-4 activities, aimed at developing compression standards that are amenable to content-based access and manipulation of audiovisual information, is followed by an overview of standardization efforts for digital standard television and high-definition television (HDTV) in US. Bulletized Course Outline Introduction Product examples Statistical redundancy and perceptual irrelevancy Lossless vs. lossy compression Standards: JPEG, MPEG, H.261, etc. Compression basics: transformation, quantization, symbol coding Symbol Encoding Markov modeling and entropy Huffman coding Arithmetic coding LZW coding Lossless Compression Techniques Bit-plane coding DPCM Rice algorithm Facsimile standards (ITU-T Group III and IV, JBIG) Quantization Strategies Uniform scalar Nonuniform scalar (Lloyd-Max) Entropy-constrained Vector quantization (VQ) Trellis-coded quantization (TCQ) Lossy Compression Schemes Predictive coding (DPCM) Discrete cosine Transform (JPEG Baseline, extended, and enhanced modes) Wavelet and subband coding Fractals Image Hierarchies and Progressive Transmission Variable-amplitude hierarchies (bit-plane encoding, etc.) Variable-resolution hierarchies (Knowlton's technique, S-transform, etc.) Photo-CD compression Introduction to Video Compression Motivation for video compression Interframe and Intraframe approaches to video compression Motion estimation Fundamental principles of motion estimation Overview of algorithms (block matching, hierarchical block matching, etc.) Noise Suppression Motion-detection based approaches Motion-compensated approaches Adaptive, motion-compensated spatiotemporal filters Scratch detection and removal Video Compression Standards The MPEG-1 Standard Summary of the H.261 Standard The MPEG-2 Standard The future: MPEG-4 activities Examples of silicon, hardware board and software implementations Overview of Advanced Television Advanced TV and HDTV Brief history of HDTV standardization in US Outline of The Grand Alliance System Instructors' bios: Majid Rabbani received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He joined the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories in 1983, where he is currently a research associate and the head of the image compression Technology Area within the Imaging Science Division. He is also involved in many educational activities among which are teaching graduate courses at the RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) EE department, satellite courses for NTU (National Technological University), and short courses for MIT, RIT and various technical Societies. Dr. Rabbani is the recipient of the 1988 Kodak C. E. K. Mees Award and the co-recipient of the 1990 Emmy Engineering Award (for image compression research) in recognition of the Still-Video Tranceiver System. He directed the efforts of the Los Alamos team in charge of the digital enhancement of the Rodney King beating video tape and subsequently testified as an expert witness for the case in 1993. His current research interests span the various aspects of digital signal and image processing where he has published over 40 technical articles and holds 10 patents. From 1990-1994 he was the Editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging. He is a Fellow of SPIE, and a senior member of IEEE. He is the coauthor of the book Digital Image Compression Techniques published by SPIE Press in 1991 and the editor of the SPIE Milestone Series on Image Coding and Compression , published in 1992. M. Ibrahim Sezan received the B.S degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1980, with the highest honors. He received the M.S degree in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively. Since 1984, he is with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Presently, he leads the Motion and Video Technology Area in the Imaging Research and Advanced Development Laboratories. He also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Rochester. Dr. Sezan was the co-recipient of the A. B. Du Mont award at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984. During 1988-1992, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. From 1992 to 1994 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He contributed to the books Image Recovery: Theory and Application (Academic Press, 1987), Mathematics in Signal Processing (Oxford 1987), Handbook of Signal Processing (Marcell Dekker, 1988), Digital Image Restoration (Springer Verlag, 1991), Real-Time Optical Information Processing (Academic Press, 1994) and edited Selected Papers in Digital Image Restoration (SPIE Milestone Series, 1992). He is the co-editor of the book Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing (Kluwer, 1993). His research interests include video analysis, processing and compression, image restoration and enhancement, and digital image and video libraries. Dr. Sezan is an active participant in the MPEG standards; he actively publishes and teaches in the area of image and video processing. ************************************************* Registration Information Dates: Wednesday, September 13 - Friday, September 15, 1995 Times: Regular sessions will begin at 8:30 AM and end at 5:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 8:00 AM daily and at breaks. Lunch periods are from 12:00 to 1:30. Location: Classes will be held at Portland State University (PSU), located in downtown Portland. Detailed information will be sent to registrants. Fees: Early Registration: $895. Registration form and payment must be postmarked BY August 17. Late Registration: $995. Registration form and payment postmarked AFTER August 17. All registration materials must be received BY August 31. Fees include lecture, course materials, refreshments and a Certificate of Completion. A 15% discount will be granted when six or more people from the same company register for the course. Refund: A full refund will be given for cancellations received by phone at PSU, (503) 725-3806, prior to August 31. No refund will be made for a cancellation notice received after August 31, or for non-attendance. A substitute may attend in place of the registered participant. Accomodations: For reservations made before 8/27/95, special rates for participants are arranged with: Airlines-Carlson Travel :(800) 624-4865 \ \ 5% Airline Discount (Credit Card Only) \ \ Ask for Renee Days Inn City Center :(800) 899-0248 \ \ $59 Single, $64 Double, $69 Double-Double Red Lion, Portland Center :(503) 221-0450 \ \ $95 Single, $110. Double Mention Digital Imaging when making reservations. Both hotels are a pleasant ten minute walk to PSU. Buses and MAX trains in the downtown area are free, so it should not be necessary to rent a car. Other nearby hotels: The Benson: (503) 228-2000 Heathman Hotel: (503) 241-4100 Hilton Hotel: (503) 226-1611 Mallory Hotel: (503) 223-6311 Marriott Hotel: (503) 226-7600 Excursions: Spousal/Companion activities will be arranged depending on interest. ***************************************************** WORKSHOP REGISTRATION Digital Image and Multimedia Compression: Fundamentals and International Standards September 13 - 15, 1995 Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Name: _____________________________________________________ Company: __________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________ City/State/Zip: ___________________________________________ Email address: _________________ Work Phone: ____________________ Payment Options: $895 if postmarked BY August 17, 1995 $760 per person for six or more registrations from one company $995 if postmarked AFTER August 17, 1995 $845 per person for six or more registrations from one company Enclosed is a check made payable to Portland State University - E.E. Dept. Please charge the registration fee to my credit card: Visa MC --------- --------- Account # ________________________________________ Exp. Date _________ Signature: ____________________________________________________________ I would like to receive information on the Spousal/Companion activities. MAIL OR FAX FORM to: Portland State University Department of Electrical Engineering Digital Image and Multimedia Compression P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 FAX: (503)725-3807 Phone: (503)725-3806 Email: laura@ee.pdx.edu All registration materials must be received by August 31, 1995 For more information, please see our WWW homepage at: http://www.ee.pdx.edu/short_courses/image_compression/ ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #306 ****************************** Received: from ns1.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa12922; 12 Jul 95 10:35 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA27573 for telecomlist-outbound; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:38:07 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA27565; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:38:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:38:05 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507120538.AAA27565@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #307 TELECOM Digest Wed, 12 Jul 95 00:38:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 307 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Bomb Explosion in North Carolina Telco Offices! (TELECOM Digest Editor) Atlanta Area Code Split (Toby Nixon) Of Shortages and Toe Shoes ... (aka 800/888) (Judith Oppenheimer) Urgent Situation at OTR (William Pfieffer via Sander J. Rabinowitz) The Net and The Telco (James E. Bellaire) Re: Running Out of 800 Numbers (Larry Rachman) Opinions Sought: Busy vs Dialtone (Susan Spence) Sprint/Call-Net 1Q Results (Dave Leibold) Harrassment Calls (Fred Atkinson) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available to qualified organizations and individual readers. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Bomb Explosion in North Carolina Telco Offices! Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:00:00 CDT A bomb sent in a brown paper package exploded at the headquarters of a long distance company in Raleigh, NC on Monday, seriously injuring the woman who opened the package and causing injuries to workers around here and damage to the company's office. The package, addressed to BTI, a long distance company with about thirty offices throughout the southern and southeastern United States, arrived by US Mail shortly before noon on Monday. Tracy Bullis, a BTI employee, opened the package which caused it to explode. The blast was sufficiently strong to be felt throughout the nine-story building that is headquarters for BTI in Raleigh. In the immediate panic following the explosion, the building was evacuated and other minor injuries occurred as hundreds of people in the building tried to run down the stairs, pushing past each other to escape. BTI officials said they had no idea why anyone would send them a bomb. Executive vice president Kim Chapman, spokesperson for the firm said, "I cannot understand why anyone would want to do harm or damage to our company and our employees." Ms. Bullis, 35, a seven-year employee of BTI and the manager of a department which coordinates the lease and purchase of transmission lines and facilities from other telcos is in serious medical condition as a result of the explosion. The Federal Bureau of Investigation responded by opening an investigation into the incident on Monday afternoon. The first thought of everyone was that this was the work of the Unabomber, a serial bomber blamed for three deaths and 23 injuries since 1978. His targets are usually high- tech companies and universities. FBI officials said however this was not Unabomber's work. FBI spokesperson George Grotz said, "this is not the Unabomber. Our investigation is continuing however; we are working with local authorities in Raleigh." He indicated that at this time, the FBI had no leads in the case; no suspects in mind. BTI does not solicit residential customers as such; almost all their customers are business accounts. Other injured employees, including Judith Collins Harrison, 38, of Wake Forest, NC were treated in local area hospitals according to Fire Department personnel and other emergency workers on the scene Monday afternoon. Physical damage to the building appears to have been limited to the immediate area of the explosion although the blast was felt for some distance around. With Unabomber still running loose and apparently at least one copycat inspired to try his 'skills' in the same way, this is a good time to remind EVERYONE -- especially persons employed in 'high tech' companies -- to be very, very careful about packages which arrive in the mail or show up on your doorstep or at your desk unsolicited. PAT ------------------------------ From: Toby Nixon Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 13:46:51 PDT Subject: Atlanta area code split The following info appears in Bellcore Letter IL-95/06-008: Title: NANP-Split of 404 (Georgia) Numbering Plan Area (NPA) Distribution: Unrestricted Abstract: This IL provides industry notification of the impending split of the 404 NPA. Content: We have been advised by BellSouth Telecommunications that increased demand for telephone numbers and other telecommunications needs in the Atlanta area of Georgia necessitates the splitting of the existing 404 NPA and the simultaneous introduction of a new 770 NPA. The Atlanta exchange area, which includes most of the area inside the Interstate 285 beltway, will retain the 404 NPA. With a few exceptions, the remaining part of the current 404 NPA will change to the new 770 area code. The split of the 404 NPA, and the beginning of the permissive dialing period, is scheduled for 12:01 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 1, 1995. During the permissive dialing period, either 404 or 770 will be acceptable in a dialed number terminating in the new 770 NPA. The permissive dialing period will end at 12:01 AM EST on Friday, December 1, 1995. After the permissive period, calls dialed with incorrect NPA codes, as defined in the NPA split information published in the Local Exchange Routing Guide (LERG), will be routed to intercept. Changes to the local exchange routing information will be incorporated into the LERG and the NPA NXX Activity Guide (NNAG). Central offices in the area to be served by the 770 NPA will be modified on a progressive basis to transmit "770" in the calling number Automatic Number Identification (ANI) between August 1, 1995 and November 1, 1995. BellSouth will convert all pertinent records to 770 the weekend of July 28, 1995. This includes customer service records and associated NPA information in other systems. After July 30, 1995, all inquiries must refer to the correct NPA code. The attached map illustrates the 440 and 770 NPA configuration after the split. A listing of the communities and exchange prefixes to be included in each area code after the split is also attached. Test calls to verify routing to the new 770 NPA can be made by calling 1-770-666-9999, effective July 1, 1995. A recorded announcement will ndicate that the test call has been successfully completed. The following dialing procedures will exist for the 404 and 770 NPAs in Georgia: * All intra-NPA "local" calls (generally calls that do not incur a charge) will be dialed on a seven digit basis with no prefix; i.e., NXX+XXXX (seven digits). Permissive ten digit dialing will be allowed for these calls, i.e., NPA + NNX + XXXX (ten digits). * All inter-NPA "local" calls will be dialed on a ten digit basis and no prefix; i.e., NPA + NXX + XXXX (ten digits). * All inter-NPA direct dialed "toll" calls (generally calls that incur an additional charge) will be dialed with a prefix "1" and then ten digits; i.e., 1 + NPA + NXX + XXXX (1 + ten digits). Note: there is no toll calling within or between the 404 and 770 NPAs. * All operator assisted calls (both intra and inter NPA) including credit card, collect, and third party calls will be dialed with either a "0" or a "10XXX + 0" prefix and ten digits; i.e., 0 + NPA + NXX + XXXX, or 10XXX + 0 + NPA + NXX + XXXX. Questions concerning NPA relief project coordination should be directed to Jay Murphy, BellSouth Telecommunications, on (404) 391-3370. General questions concerning the split and dialing procedures may be directed to Stan Washer, BellSouth Telecommunications, on (205) 977-2668. Copies of this letter are being forwarded to achieve the widest possible industry distribution and may be reproduced for further distribution as needed. Questions concerning the contents of this letter may be referred to Jim Deak, Bellcore, at (908) 699-6612, or by fax on (908) 336-3293. (signed) J. N. Deak North American Numbering Plan Administration (Map appears, showing COs in 404 and 770) (Table appears, showing wire centers in 404 and in 770). Wiring Centers remaining in 404 are: Adamsville - 505, 691, 696, 699 Ben Hill - 344, 346, 349, 629 Buckhead - 201, 202, 210, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219, 226, 231, 233, 234, 237, 238, 239, 240, 261, 262, 264, 266, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 281, 285, 290, 291, 293, 295, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 364, 365, 372, 374, 375, 376, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 408, 444, 488, 520, 550, 556, 557, 558, 561, 580, 617, 625, 626, 630, 660, 680, 683, 694, 695, 697, 731, 754, 771, 788, 789, 790, 791, 797, 805, 812, 814, 816, 826, 831, 841, 842, 846, 848, 861, 862, 863, 902 Buckhead Remote - 398 Columbia Drive - 284, 286, 288, 289 Courtland St - 215, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 230, 265, 302, 330, 331, 332, 335, 380, 420, 506, 515, 517, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 529, 581, 582, 572, 577, 581, 584, 586, 588, 589, 614, 616, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 681, 688, 727, 730, 818, 827, 865, 880 Courtland St Olympics - 547, 548 East Lake - 341, 360, 370, 371, 373, 377, 378, 383, 566, 687, 999 East Point - 209, 305, 530, 559, 669, 714, 715, 761, 762, 763, 765, 766, 767, 768, 910 East Point Olympics - 543 Forest Park - 361, 362, 363, 366, 608 Gresham - 212, 241, 243, 244 Hollywood Road - 792, 794, 799 Indian Creek - 292, 294, 296, 297, 298, 299, 501, 508 Lakewood - 622, 524, 627, 635 Peachtree Place - 206, 249, 280, 282, 283, 342, 347, 415, 533, 560, 570, 571, 598, 607, 619, 650, 676, 686, 690, 703, 712, 716, 724, 726, 733, 810, 815, 817, 833, 837, 853, 864, 866, 870, 871, 872, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 877, 881, 885, 888, 892, 894, 896, 897, 898, 899 Peachtree Pl Olympics - 542, 546 Sandy Springs - 250, 252, 255, 256, 257, 303, 705, 843, 845, 847, 851 SS-Abernathy Remote - 573 Toco Hills - 235, 248, 315, 320, 321, 325, 329, 633, 634, 636, 638, 679, 728, 778, 982 Woodland - 350, 351, 352, 355, 605, 609 West End - 752, 753, 755, 756, 758 ------------------------------ From: Judith Oppenheimer Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 17:02:35 -0400 Subject: ... Of Shortages and Toe Shoes ... (aka 800/888) Erez Levav wrote: > Maybe I'v been misled, but I thought that the 888 prefix was >needed > because there are not enough 800 numbers available. Yes, Erez, you've been mislead. 888 was borne out of a shortsighted, non-malicious but negligent nonetheless, carrier-created facade of a shortage. That the bulk of numbers are coded unavailable in the SMS database *does not* mean that they are "unavailable." It only means they are unavailable for assignment to marketers for applicable 800 service. Where many of them reside is in the carrier stables awaiting birth of new carrier products and line extensions, or misapplied to existing non-800-brand applications as pagers (used for toll-free utility), and, according to savvy engineers and certain-high-level-primary-carrier- execs-in-the-know, 500 service (used for portable routing utility.) Beyond the false shortage assumptions, no one's rantings and ravings, including my good friend Patrick's, alter the fact that neither residential nor pager toll-free use require the marketing utility of the *800* brand of toll-free, and hense could be moved -- with little cost or disruption to caller or recipient -- to other toll-free NPA's. To ignore these facts, or dismiss the value of marketing and brand utility of *800* toll-free, is just silly, and absurd. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We would in effect gain nothing, but the > prima donnas in the American corporate world who are all so much better > than the rest of you peasants will have gotten their way, and that is > what counts, isn't it? PAT] Patrick, speak for yourself. On the other side of every marketing campaign, small or large, is a slew of satisfied customers. As consumers -- not peasants, thank you -- we are all entitled to find Coke in our bottles of Coke -- and American Express behind THE CARD. If that makes us "prima donnas", then hand me my toe shoes and let's dance! Judith Oppenheimer, Interactive CallBrand(TM) email: Producer@pipeline.com phone: +1 212 684-7210, fax: +1 212 684-2714 Bridging the Gap Between Telecom & Marketing: Strategic Leadership, Competitive Intelligence [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: > we are all entitled to find Coke in our bottles of Coke -- and American > Express being THE CARD ... Assuredly. However if you send someone to the store to get you a bottle of Coke, and through their own carelessness and failure to pay attention to what they were doing they came back with a bottle containing the juice of prunes, by your reasoning you would blame the Prune Juice Company for having a bottle shaped the same as Coke bottles, and a liquid of the same general color. You'd say the Prune Juice Company should be required to change the size and shape of their bottles and perhaps add some coloring to the liquid to make it look different so there would not be this sort of consumer confusion in the future. You'd say -- I think -- that consumers ought to be able to get by with just a casual glance at the product or service; that no two ought to look 'enough alike' that any confusion would result when an unsophisticated person 'aimed' in the general direction of what they wanted but came up with something else instead. Unsophisticated persons -- and Lord knows there are enough of them in the world -- may assume that 888-THE-CARD is the same as 800-THE-CARD or (any area code)-THE-CARD or (use no area code at all)-THE-CARD, but you know better and I know better and I hope quite a few other people know better or will learn quickly once a campaign gets under way to educate people. How far do you think others should be imposed upon in order to assure that the common denominator here -- the American public; by and large I'll grant you an ignorant bunch -- doesn't get home with a bottle of prune juice instead of Coke just because they 'always assumed' that something in a glass bottle with a cap on the top and a dark colored liquid inside was always going to be Coke? You say this would never happen; people know that you have to read the label on the container -- at least the key words or phrases -- if you don't want to come home with whipped cream instead of Gillette Shaving Lather or Folger's Coffee Crystals instead of Nestle's Ice Tea Crystals or Purina Dog Chow instead of Post's Grape Nuts cereal. You can't go exclusively by what the product looks like or how it is packaged. Why do you assume the public won't figure out that 888 does not get you the same thing as 800 or 011-800, especially when you can trademark the pertinent part of it all. i.e. 'FLOWERS' or 'THE CARD'. McDonald's does not worry about other fast food chains selling hamburgers, they simply concern themselves with any food chain selling a food product known as "Mc(anything)" or "Mac (anything)." Now if someone puts their liquid product in a red container with the 'Coke' logo on the side of the can, then Goddess help them when the lawyers get finished chewing them up and spitting them out. If someone tries to operate a flower service by phone called FLOWERS, then by by golly get after them also. But how far in this 'identity crisis' do you want to take things ... all the way through sizes and shapes and phone numbers that 'sort of' look like other numbers, etc? PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 21:26 EST From: Sander J. Rabinowitz <0003829147@mcimail.com> Subject: Urgent Situation at OTR FYI. /Sandy/ Date: Tue Jul 11, 1995 7:02 pm EST From: AIRWAVES MEDIA PUBLISHING EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: rrb@clm.aiss.uiuc.edu TO: Sander J. Rabinowitz / MCI ID: 382-9147 Subject: Urgent Situation at OTR Greetings Readers: A situation has presented itsself that requires me to post this specific request to this list, something I do not like to do, but the situation is such that it is required. As many of you know, OTR is funded by my personal funds, and the occasional donation by the readership. I operate OTR via connectivity that I pay for, and do not charge for the service. Well the fact is that those funds have been running very close to the bone, but none-the-less, everything gets paid, somehow. Well last week I had to replace the clutch in my pickup truck, which cost nearly $300 and put my bank account near zero. That would still be OK, except that last night, my main hard drive also bit the dust, for which I have no funds till the beginning of the month to pay to repair it (I would just replace it, but can't afford to lose the data on it, whatever cash I make is dependant upon that data (I make web pages for people and I have 2 projects near completion. Anyway, to make a long story short, the repair cost for this drive is $200 and without it I cannot even boot up my home PC (I am posting this on a terminal at the public library). My point being if any of you out there were considering a donation to the OTR, this is the time to do so. If you cannot do so, not to worry, things will eventually work out, but if you can afford to send anything, please do. Make any check out to: William Pfeiffer and send to PO Box 8746 Springfield Mo 65801. I appreciate the few people who have already send assistance in the past and I would not send this if the crash had not happened right after the darned clutch. ============================ [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Poor Bill ... I knew him for years when he lived here in Chicago; it was I who got him started in the 'life' ... I started him out with an old terminal he used to call BBS lines; I taught him the basic elements of operating a computer; I taught him the basics on how to publish a newsletter -- and he publishes a damn good one. He and I differ in some ways; for one, I am a little more bald-faced than Bill. I just sit here and ask for money; Usenet customs of how it is all supposed to be free and the Moderator is just expected to put out and shut up and all that be damned! But Bill is still embarassed to ask for help. At this time of crisis for him, do what you can. If you are getting his e-journal, you know it is good and worthwhile. In fact if you were going to send a donation here this month and you can't afford both of us, then send it to him this time instead at the address shown above. I'll survive; I always have until now. Thanks. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:34:31 -0500 From: bellaire@tk.com (James E. Bellaire) Subject: The Net and The Telco In TD306 asoodek@interaccess.com (Andrew L. Soodek) asked "Questions About the Internet/Telephone Companies Link" The telephone companies _in general_ have nothing to do with the net except leasing lines to organizations who wish to link their computers together. This network grew from a few research facilities into the national network. Its too complicated to get into here in detail, I don't really want to suffer the wrath of a million corrections, but I'll try. Your mail and posts sent to your local provider is forwarded through a higher level provider until it finds a system that can send it to a provider who serves the destination of your message. For example, your post to TELECOM Digest went from interaccess.com in Chicago to the University of Chicago then to either Northwestern University, where The Digest is published from IF there is a direct connection or via Argonne National Laboratories, which is your local backbone site. The actual path that a message takes depends on how many options there are available. Obviously if there is only one path, that's the path your message will take. If there is more than one path, then your message is sent out on whichever channel is available at the microsecond the system receives it. There are a whole bunch of routing rules and priority levels that are best left to the techies. Once again, the short answer is that your message is sent on lines leased from telephone companies. They get a dollar per month figure that makes them care less about your usage. They get paid even if all the computers are turned off! The future of course is changing this as local phone companies and the long distance carriers get into the delivery markets. Even cable companies want to get into the internet business. That is a subject that you will find a lot of talk about here. As for the basics of the internet, try reading a book (those paper things that research was done from before the net was available from home). A good pair is 'The Internet for Dummies' Volumes 1 and 2. Its a good read, once you get past the title. Or browse over to http://ds.internic.net/ds/rfc-index.html for a lot of technical articles explaining the rules of how to make a computer work on the net. I've read most of them and am glad that I don't have to worry about a single one. My software takes care of it all for me. Happy netting! James E. Bellaire (JEB6) bellaire@tk.com Twin Kings Communications - Sturgis, MI [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do you think sometime soon we should get into a discussion of the difference between the 'Internet' (with an upper case 'I') and the 'internet' (with a lower case 'i')? They are two different things, you know. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 14:00:56 EDT From: larry.rachman@peri.com (Larry Rachman) Subject: Re: Running out of 800 numbers Not to continue flogging a dead horse, but in response to our Esteemed Moderator's comment of: > ...so begin by yanking Amex's 800 numbers. PAT] Perhaps I was a bit hasty in giving tacit approval to the telco goon squads breaking down our doors and ripping our 800 numbers out of our phones. Clearly, if anyone can be construed to have a *right* to a particular phone number, the most likely candidate would be the individual or corporation currently paying the bill for it. ... But, there may be advantages to all parties involved to segregate personal toll-free numbers from public ones. IMHO, it has the potential to reduce (although admittedly not eliminate) wrong numbers, and there may be other advantages as well (TELECOM readers, please help me out here!) Suppose we declare it customary (but not mandatory) for personal toll-frees to be 888, not 800. Anyone with an existing 800 is welcome to keep it. Personally, I'd be glad to swap my 800 for an 888, especially if my carrier makes it a freebie, but if you (global) don't want to, no problem. Keep it, maybe some business will offer to *buy* it from you. Carriers could offer 888s first to new private users, but they could get on the 800 waiting list (there's bound to be one sooner or later) if they'd like. Businesses could go whichever way they think is better for marketing. Exceptions could run in both directions. My friend with the 800 number that spells out his name would surely want to keep it, and hotels offering direct toll free calls to guest suites would probably buy a block of 888s, not 800s. Just about everyone would be happy. (One thing I'm assuming here is that there are/will be far more private toll- free numbers than public ones. Can anyone confirm that the trend is going in that direction). While I realize that it is historically traditional for Area Codes to specify *areas*, the creation of 800 and 900 numbers has placed a few cracks in that structure. If we can inplicitely pass the user some additional information through those first three digits, why not encouage it? LR [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: After we turn off Amex's 800 numbers, then I think we should turn off all of Ameritech's internal 800 numbers (for the business office, etc) until they shape up and fly right. Despite the fact that their business office hours are 7 am to 7 pm five days per week and have been for some time, all their literature including the monthly phone bill continues to claim they can be reached 24 hours daily. And about half the time when you call them at 800-244-4444, your first dialing attempt results in a recording that 'due to telephone company facilities trouble, your call cannot be completed at this time ... try again later.' About half the time you get a fast busy reorder. When you do get through, you wade through a LONG voicemail menu of options -- doesn't everyone have touch tone these days for an extra fee? -- only to be told by the computer after it considers the number of calls ahead of you that 'estimated time on hold is ... (here it pauses and thinks about it) ... greater than ten minutes." I waited on hold twenty minutes for them today. Then Integratel can have their 800 numbers pulled also. Calls to 800-736- 7500 often result in a voicemail message saying 'we are overloaded with calls right now (and unspoken) with calls from people like you complaining about our sleaze clients' so please hang up and call us another time. This, followed by a disconnect. Period. End of discussion. PAT] ------------------------------ From: sues@tdc.dircon.co.uk (Susan Spence) Subject: Opinions Sought: Busy vs Dialtone Date: 11 Jul 1995 23:37:28 GMT Organization: The Direct Connection The company I work for sells ISDN products, and we have a BRI device which can connect up to four analogue telephones + X.25/pad over a serial port. Currently, when both B channels are in use, any attempt to make a phone call results in a busy indication. The device provides the usual 999 emergency override (it drops one call to provide a line if both channels are busy when someone dials 999). I believe that this is correct behavior. However, a (big) potential customer has expressed a desire for the device to provide a dialtone in the situation described above. Their reasoning is that customers may be confused by the busy signal and not understand that a 999 call will complete. On the other hand, I can't see that giving users a dialing tone when no line is available to them is anything like the right thing to do. Has anyone else out there been faced with this question? I'd welcome any interesting ideas. It would be very difficult to alter the operation of our kit to accomodate this request, which seems very ill-advised at best. My feeling is that a sticker or plaque above the phone explaining that 999 calls always work would be a nice cheap solution. Thanks in advance, sue sues@dircon.co.uk ------------------------------ From: Dave.Leibold@superctl.tor250.org (Dave Leibold) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 01:52:10 -0400 Subject: Sprint/Call-Net 1Q Results [This is somewhat old news, but the following press release contains material that should remain of interest - content is Call-Net's (Sprint's) via CNW] CALL-NET ENTERPRISES INC. REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER, MARCH 31, 1995 TORONTO, May 23 /CNW/ - Call-Net Enterprises Inc., today reported revenues of $86.0 million, a 142% increase over the same period last year and a 36% increase over the previous quarter. Commenting on these results, Juri Koor, Chairman and CEO of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. stated: "The company is continuing its rapid but orderly growth plan". Total minutes billed to customers in the first quarter of 1995 increased by 125% to 310 million compared to the same period last year and by 26% versus the previous quarter. The first quarter gross margin was 29.1%, an increase of 2% over the previous quarter. Cash used in operations during the quarter (defined as income before depreciation, amortization, interest and taxes) decreased to $11.7 million from $23.7 million used in the previous quarter, while $2 million was generated in the same period last year. The net loss in the current quarter decreased to $20.9 million, or $0.53 per share, compared with $32.6 million or $0.92 per share for the previous quarter. The company continues to maintain a strong balance sheet, with $120 million of cash on hand, and over $116 million of working capital. At the end of the quarter, shareholders' equity was $183 million, and long term debt was $146 million, resulting in a debt to equity ratio of 0.80:1. Sprint Canada announced its Hybrid Carrier Strategy in the fall of last year. In the first quarter of 1995, the company successfully completed its Montreal/Ottawa/Toronto fibre build on time and on budget. The decommissioning of leased circuits took place early in the second quarter, allowing for the capture of significant leased line savings. Two other significant projects also commenced during the first quarter. The Business Service group, as well as our national network and computer centers relocated to our new offices at 2550 Victoria Park, providing the company with the latest in technological support for our sales and customer service groups. The company has also completed installation of new switching equipment in Vancouver. In early January, David Parkes was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Sprint Canada Inc. Mr. Parkes has over ten years experience in senior executive positions in the telecommunications industry in Canada, plus substantial experience in other service and retail companies. Under his guidance, Sprint Canada Inc. is looking forward to continued market share growth, the result of the expansion of our addressable market through geographic expansion and new product roll-out over the next 12 months. Sprint Canada Inc., the wholly-owned operating subsidiary of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. is one of Canada's leading long distance telecommunications companies, offering voice and data services nationwide. With headquarters in Toronto, Sprint Canada operates 12 regional sales offices and employs more than 800 Canadians across the country. The Common Shares and Class B Non-Voting Shares of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. trade on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges under the symbols CN and CN.B respectively. The Class B Non-Voting shares trade in NASDAQ under the symbol CNEBF. For further information: please contact Patrick Pichette, (416) 496-4925 of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. Other Contacts: Juri Koor, (416) 496-4922; David Parkes, (416) 496-4986. Fidonet : Dave Leibold 1:250/730 Internet: Dave.Leibold@superctl.tor250.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 12:03:58 EST From: Atkinson, Fred Subject: Harrassment Calls Since I established my new phone number (at my new residence) early this year, I have had a well-known long distance carrier call me three times wanting to sell me service. Because my experiences with this carrier has been very poor, I explained why I would not subscribe and politely asked them not to call again. Last night, I received the third call from that carrier. I expressed my outrage that my instruction for them not to call me again had not been obeyed. Additionally, I called their customer service, demanded a supervisor and read her the riot act about it. She said she was putting my numbers (home and cellular) on a 'no call' list claiming that once this was done, they would no longer annoy me with their calls. Additionally, she offered to give me information on how I could keep the other carriers from calling me (do away with the competition, I guess) but I declined as the others have respected my wishes on that matter (so far). Can anyone advise me as to what formal action I can take against them if they continue to harrass me with their telemarketers? I have heard some rumors about getting financial compensation. While I have no desire for the money, making them shell it out could be incentive to make them stop calling me. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Fred [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There is a national group headquartered here in northern Illinois called 'Private Citizen' run by a fellow who used to work for some lawyers. His group sends out warning notices to telemarketers with lists of names of people who do not wish to be disturbed with calls. Those that persist get sued. I understand they have been somewhat successful in collecting damages from offending telemarketers. Unfortunatly I cannot remember their address/phone. PAT] ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #307 ****************************** Received: from ns1.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa14037; 12 Jul 95 11:58 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA02961 for telecomlist-outbound; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:47:11 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA02915; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:47:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:47:06 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507120647.BAA02915@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #308 TELECOM Digest Wed, 12 Jul 95 01:47:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 308 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson New Calling Card at 17.9 Cents per Minute (Scott Gordon) Portable Dialing Directory Design (Frank da Cruz) Book Review: "Everybody's Guide to the Internet" by Gaffin (Rob Slade) Private Line Number 6 Online (Tom Farley) Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business (Eric Bennett) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Barry F Margolius) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (Garrett A. Wollman) Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report (David Breneman) Misdialing 1-888 or 1-800 (Seth B. Rothenberg) Re: 800=888 (Linc Madison) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and America On Line. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GORDONSBBS@delphi.com Subject: New Calling Card at 17.9 Cents per Minute Date: 11 Jul 1995 08:10:13 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My main reason for sending this message out was to call your attention to the 17.9 cent per minute rate with six second billing, no surcharge, etc. If all that is true, this seems like it might be a good calling card. Plus which, the guy who sent this in is in Winnetka, the village just north of me. I recognized the 'Alpine-6' exchange immediatly! See what you think. PAT] SBBS Software & Consulting, Inc. (hereinafter "SBBS") has recently announced a non-debit calling card, "VoiceNet" with a per minute rate o $0.179 per minute. This card includes the following features: * The Card Is FREE! * $0.179 Per Minute - Both Interstate and Intrastate * No Surcharges, Pre-payment, Membership Fees, Monthly Fees, or Minimum Monthly Billing * Six (6) Second Incremental Billing With A Six (6) Minimum * Personal Cards Conveniently Billed To Credit Cards * Corporate Accounts Have Option Of Being Billed Monthly Or Charging To Credit Card * Fully Itemized Billing, Sub-Divided By Card Holder * No Need To Hang Up To Make Multiple Calls Agent Features: * No Charge To Become An Agent Or To Sign Up/Sub-contract Other Agencies. * 8% Residual * Monthly Commissions Directly Deposited Into Authorized Bank Account For Easy & Accurate Receipt Of Payments. * Ability To Setup Unlimited Sub-Agents (Commissions Paid Directly To Sub-Agents From Carrier) * Fully Detailed Commission Reports Of Activate Commissionable Accounts & Sub-Agents Accounts On A Monthly Basis. * No Membership Or Accounting Fees. * Full Central-Office Support & Ability To Purchase Color, Postage Paid Brochures At Below Wholesale Rates. (1000 Postage Paid Brochures For $50) SBBS is currently accepting Agent Applications. If you are interested participating in the "VoiceNet" program, please contact Scott Gordon at (708) 256-4600 or via e-mail at SGORDON@SBBS.NET. (Revised July 11, 1995 * 179card) Scott Gordon - Internet ID: GORDONSBBS@DELPHI.COM *** E-Mail SBBS@SBBS.NET For Current SBBS Wireless Promotions *** ------------------------------ From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) Subject: Portable Dialing Directory Design Date: 11 Jul 1995 01:10:42 GMT Organization: Columbia University Let me begin by explaining that I'm the principle author of C-Kermit communications software; I am working on improving its modem and dialing support and need some guidance and opinions from people who know more about telephony than I do. For a dialing directory to be "portable", it should work no matter where you are calling from: the local calling area (a local call), a different calling area (a long-distance call), another country (an international call), etc, and from a phone that is directly on the telephone system as well as from a hotel room or office where you must dial a special code to get an "outside line", and also irrespective of your long-distance carrier (in countries like the USA, where you have a choice), and also whether or not you are billing the call to the calling phone or to a calling-card or credit-card number, all this independently of any particular features or limitations of the modem (e.g. maximum command or phone-number length) or the telephone system (e.g. availability of Touch Tone (tm) dialing). It seems to me that given the diverse formats for telephone numbers all over the world, the diversity of calling procedures (e.g. when using different long-distance dialing methods in the USA, such as "1" vs "10-xxx" vs "1-800-xxx-yyyy" and then answering a bunch of questions), that there is no way to have a dialing directory feature that is simple enough for most people to understand, at least not without building a gigantic knowledge base into the software that is guaranteed to be obsolete the moment the software is released due to the constantly changing telephony landscape, or else without launching a lengthy inquisition of the user each time a number is to be dialed. Here is what we have so far in the working copy of C-Kermit: 1. The DIAL command, e.g. "dial foo". If "foo" is found in the dialing directory, it is replaced by the associated number; otherwise it is dialed literally (a feature that allows the user to totally bypass the dialing directory). 2. The DIAL METHOD, Tone, pulse, or unspecified. Kermit uses its knowledge of the particular modem to dial using the specified method. Perfectly straightforward. 3. The DIAL PREFIX. This is used for specifying a code to be dialed in order to get an outside line, e.g. when dialing from a PBX or hotel room. In other words, this is a prefix to be ADDED to the beginning of the phone number that is extracted from the dialing directory. 4. The DIAL LOCAL-AREA-CODE. This is a prefix to be REMOVED from the beginning of a phone number from the dialing directory, if the number begins with this prefix. This lets you include area codes in all numbers and have them stripped automatically when it is a local call, but kept on when you are travelling and it is a long-distance call. (The DIAL PREFIX is added after this step, unconditionally.) Rationale: In the USA, at least, one normally may not dial a local call as if it were a long-distance call (doing so results in an error tone or message). Thus, the "country" and area codes (e.g. "1-212") must be stripped before dialing a number in the same area code, but must be included when dialing the same number from a different area code. But ... in some area codes, such as Westchester Country in New York State, one may (must) use a short number (no "1" or area code) for calls in one's own town, but a long-distance form (1 914 xxx-xxxx) for calls in the same area code but outside of one's own town. Another difficulty we face is that to dial a long-distance number in the USA, we start with "1", but to dial the same number from outside the USA, we might have to dial (say) "001". Similarly, area codes in countries like Germany and England might start with "0", but when dialing them from the USA, leading zeroes must be omitted. (Perhaps this is just a different way of saying that the long-distance dialing prefix in Germany or England is "0"). Now, without redesigning Kermit's dialing directory to be some kind of WIN.INI- or NET.CFG-style monstrosity, or invent a programming language for writing dialing directories (since dialing is no longer simply the entry of a number, but a procedure that varies with the context), and without imbedding within the Kermit code any knowledge about any particular dialing system or telephone-number format (which, if it were done, would wind up favoring some countries or carriers over others), the question is: how much can we accomplish using Kermit's current dialing-directory format and dialing facilities? If a person always dials from the same place, then each number can be entered in the dialing directory in exactly the way the person dials it: local, long-distance, tie-line, internal PBX number, etc. That is what we had before, and it works for most people. But to meet the needs of those who travel around with their dialing directories, or for that matter to construct dialing directories which themselves are portable, e.g. to be shipped to people in diverse locations throughout the world, what is the least amount of complexity and "knowledge" we can get away with? Let's assume (and, in fact, recommend) that all entries in a portable dialing directory be in a uniform format: 1. Numbers within the country where one normally dials from are entered in the long-distance-dialing format for one's own country, and this applies also to numbers that are normally dialed locally, for example 1-212-765-4321 for a USA number dialed from within the USA. 2. Numbers outside the country from which one normally dials are entered prefixed by the code for international dialing, e.g. 011 in the USA, and then the country code, e.g. 49 for Germany. Now let's assume (this is entirely fictitious): 1. I work in Manhattan, New York City (USA), area "212". 2. I live in White Plains, New York State (USA), area "914". 3. I sometimes travel to Hannover, Germany, bringing a laptop. The object of the game is to have only one dialing directory that works in all situations. Let's assume my dialing directory is as follows. Please bear in mind that I don't understand non-North-American phone numbers very well, since as far as I can tell, and unlike North American phone numbers, most of them seem to have variable-length fields -- for example, in Germany, the area code for Frankfurt seems to be 69, for Hannover 511, and for Marburg 6421, and then length of the part after the area code seems to vary also. So here is the text of a short sample dialing directory (ignoring the other items a dialing directory might contain, because we are concentrating only on the phone numbers, and bearing in mind that a real dialing directory might be much longer, and might contain entries from many countries and areas within countries): OFFICE 1-212-765-4321 INTERNET 1-212-555-1234 HOME 1-914-987-6543 NYACK 1-914-876-5432 HANNOVER 011-49-511-54-32-1 HANNOVER2 011-49-511-65-43-2 MARBUG 011-49-6431-76-54-3 FRANKFURT 011-49-69-87-65-4 Given all this, then: 1. At work I "set dial local-area-code 1-212". This will strip "1-212" from any numbers in my dialing directory before dialing the phone. All other numbers are dialed exactly as they are recorded. Thus if I "dial internet" from my office, it is dialed as "555-1234", but if I "dial nyack", it is dialed as "1-914-876-5432", and if I "dial hannover" it is dialed as "011-49-511-54-32-1". 2. At home I "set dial local-area-code 1-914". This will strip "1-914" from any numbers in my dialing directory before dialing the phone. Thus if I "dial nyack", it is dialed as "876-5432", which, unfortunately, won't work, because Nyack is outside of the White Plains local calling area, EVEN THOUGH IT IS IN THE SAME AREA CODE ( which means we need to incorporate the notion of a "local-area-code-stripping-override mechanism" of some sort on a per-call basis )-: 3. When in Hannover with my laptop, I "set dial local-area-code 011-49-511". This allows me to make local calls in Hannover; for example, to HANNOVER2. But now if I want to make a long-distance call within Germany, I must change to "set dial local-area-code 011-49" and I must also (I think) "set dial prefix 0", because when dialing long distance WITHIN Germany, the area code needs a single "0" on the front (right?). Now I can "dial marburg" or "dial frankfurt". But, if I want to "dial office" from Germany, then I must "set dial prefix 00" so that "1 212" will become "001 212" (assuming that is the way one dials the USA from Germany). 4. Paragraph (3) assumes I am in the branch office in Hannover, which is connected directly to the Bundesfernsprechersystem (???). But in the evening I go to my hotel, and from there I must dial "77" to get an outside line. In this case, all of paragraph (3) applies, except I must also "set dial prefix 77" for local calls, "set dial prefix 770" for long-distance calls within Germany, and "set dial prefix 7700" for international calls. Now all of this is quite complex already. Is there a chance in the world that anybody will remember these points or use these features? Is there any way to make them simpler? If so, it is not obvious to me. One idea that suggests itself is to separate the notions of: 1. Prefix for long distance calls within the country I am in. 2. Prefix for calling outside the country I am in. 3. The area code of the area I am in. 4. Country code of the country I am in. 5. Country code for dialing in to each country from outside. 6. Area codes within any given country. Each entry in a portable dialing directory would contain items 5 and 6, whereas the user would have to "set" items 1 through 4 in order to dial at all. Which does not strike me as a simplification. Now let's add to all this the complication arising when one has a choice among several long-distance carriers and/or billing methods. It seems to me that the entire notion of a dialing directory begins to break down, since there is no longer a standard format for a telephone number, nor a standard procedure for dialing it. In some cases, the procedure strains the capabilities of most modems and software -- for example, by engaging in a voice dialog in which one waits for a spoken question and then, only after the question has been asked, one enter a DTMF or other response. Unless I am mistaken (which is quite possible) there is no simple and portable abstraction for a complete calling sequence, which may consist of: . prefix to get an outside line (maybe) . dialing prefix (local, long-distance, international, tie-line, etc) . long-distance-carrier access code (or not) . credit- or calling-card account number (or not) . country code (or not) . area code (or not) . the phone number itself . who knows what else -- an extension, a call-processing dialog, etc. The order of these items might vary, the procedure for making the transition from one to the next might vary, and so on. And, obviously, sensitive items such as calling-card numbers must NOT be entered in the dialing directory, but must be indicated by placeholders to substituted (or not!) at dial-time. So ... given all the above, what can reasonably be expected of a dialing directory, and what kinds of simplifying assumptions or techniques can we use not only to implement it, but to make it easy to understand and therefore to use? I'm looking for ideas, opinions, and detailed information about dialing methods used in all parts of the world. Any information you send will be much appreciated and, hopefully, will end up making life easier (or harder) for modem users everywhere (or nowhere). Thanks! Frank ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:06:49 EST From: Rob Slade Subject: Book Review: "Everybody's Guide to the Internet" by Gaffin BKEVBINT.RVW 950509 %A Adam Gaffin adamg@world.std.com %C 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 %D 1994 %G 0-262-57105-6 %I The MIT Press/Electronic Frontier Foundation %O U$14.95 curtin@mit.edu ask@eff.org %P 211 %T "Everybody's Guide to the Internet" "Everybody's Guide to the Internet", Adam Gaffin, 1994, 0-262-57105-6, U$14.95 Along with "Zen and the Art of the Internet" (cf. BKZENINT.RVW), Gaffin's "Big Dummie's Guide to the Internet" is a major online resource and net introduction. Because of trademark restrictions, the printed version does not use the "Dummie" name. In print, it shares with "Zen" small size and a "fast track" style. The original "Dummie's" appellation is ironically appropriate. Gaffin does not address the concepts of the Internet, but concentrates on the specific tools and applications, almost at a keystroke level. This makes it particularly appropriate for field-independent types who have no interest in the background, and just want to know which button to press. Unfortunately, this also presents a problem if the user is not on a UNIX shell system, as is used for many examples. The introductory chapters run over the basics of modems and providers without too much detail. Again, this restricts certain discussions. Gaffin, for example, states that a familiarity with the production of text files is essential, but doesn't say why, and doesn't talk about the related problem of text uploads. A quick and basic introduction, particularly suited to those who want to know how and *not* why. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKEVBINT.RVW 950509. Distribution permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest. Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca Research into Rob.Slade@f733.n153.z1/ User .fidonet.org Security Canada V7K 2G6 ------------------------------ From: Tom Farley Subject: Private Line Number 6 Online Date: Sat, 8 Jul 95 13:56:06 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) The text of _private line_ number 6 (Vol. 2, no. 3) is now on line at the ETEXT archive at Michigan. This issue features three pieces of legislation that affect telephony. They are: 1) the text of the Digital Telephony Bill; 2) the text of 18 U.S.C. 1029, the statute prohibiting cloning; and 3) the text of 47 CFR 22.919 , the regulation prohibiting cloning, as supplied by Robert Keller. (The text of 47 CFR 22.919 is exclusive to the e-zine version of _private line_.) Other articles include Cellular Phone Basics, Part 2, An Interview With Damien Thorn as well as the index to the first volume of _private line_. The hardcopy version of number 6 is now a back issue and costs $5.00. It is much, much easier to follow than the ASCII version since it contains some twenty spot illustrations, charts and diagrams. _private line_ is a hardcopy, alternative publication about the telephone system. Text of all back issues are on line. Gopher or FTP to: etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Zines/PrivateLine. A sample of the current issue is $4.00. That is number 7. It has an article on outside plant basics with over 30 photographs. It also includes a long discussion of debit cards, a step by step switch illustration and some interesting letters. Subscriptions are $27.00 for six issues per year. My address is: private line 5150 Fair Oaks Blvd. #101-348 Carmichael, CA 95608 CA USA Corrections and comments are always welcome. Submissions are also encouraged. My fax number is (916) 978-0810 and my e-mail address is privateline@delphi.com Thank you! Let me know if you are interested in getting the electronic version of _private line_ via e-mail. I'm not set up to do this but I will make it happen if there's enough interest. Let me know, too, the size of file you are permitted to get through your service provider. Tom Farley [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I get this magazine and it is good reading. Tom puts a lot of work into it. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 05:22:03 -0400 From: Eric Bennett Subject: Re: Using 888 to 'Steal' Customers / Problems in Business Organization: Horn Point Env. Lab, Cambridge MD, USA In article , Steve Bunning wrote: > Perhaps we should give anyone with an 800 number a first right of > refusal for the 888 number. Perhaps we should ignore requests for specific 800 numbers and allocate them AT RANDOM. If someone wants a specific number, they can wait until it's allocated then try to convince the number holder to give it up. The numbers should not have an inherent value. Are companies going to start demanding an address on "888 Elm Rd." because they invested advertising bucks in "888 Elm St." ?!? If random assignment seems too wasteful, assign them IN SERIES. > It's anyone's guess how many, but I would bet almost all companies > with a nationally advertised 800 number would pick up the 888 number > if they could. Let them pick it up from whoever eventually gets it. Allow a limited form of trade where two parties who agree to trade numbers can do so (subject to technical limitations). If one party pays the other to get them to agree, fine. Since AmEx thinks 1-888-THE-CARD is so valuable, they will probably be willing to do a lot to convince whoever gets it to give it up. > Second, it would prevent some companies who want a good vanity number > from getting one. The nudists at 1-888-VIE BARE (a.k.a. THE CARD) or > the telepaths at 1-888-FLOW ESP (a.k.a. FLOWERS) would forever be > grandfathered out of numbers they want. It's bad enough being > relegated to a second class 888 number or a third class 866 number, > but having one that spells nothing is worse. Tough. Spelling out the numbers is a perversion of what the numbers are for, namely routing telephone calls. If you want to call by name, try 1-800-555-1212- speak_name- listen_for_number- hang_up-dial_number The "value of a number" in a given context is not inherent but created solely by the people who have the number and those who want it. Allowing holders to trade numbers fairly (irrespective of provider or of pending requests for the number) allows free market forces to determine that value without broadening a number assignment into a property right. > If we don't give the current 800 number holders first right of > refusal, there is going to be an incredible stampede for these > numbers. No stampede if you can't get the numbers you want right away. Less effort than first-come first-served too, since 800 number holders will first need to deal with the 888 number holder, who can then contact their IXC. > IXCs could try to grab all of the 888 equivalents on behalf > of their current customers and then try to sell these customers on > purchasing the numbers after the fact. There is no real cost for an > IXC to reserve an 888 number and then abandon it, so why not? Change the reservation procedure so an IXC reserves a certain number of numbers, but doesn't get the number itself until they have a party pending assignment. > Less scrupulous carriers or companies could try to get the 888 > equivalents of popular numbers and then contact the 800 number holders > to have them ransom the numbers. Random assignment makes it a combination of luck and cash. Maybe the holders of 1-888-843-2273 don't want to pay for long distance calls from ten bazilion people who want credit cards. Maybe the American Shakespere Society loves having 1-888-THE-BARD and would never give it up. Let them decide. Eric B. ------------------------------ From: bfm@panix.com (Barry F Margolius) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:03:34 GMT Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Erez Levav wrote: > Judith Oppenheimer wrote: >> Rather than distinguish between 800 and 888, this copy assumes that >> 800 THE CARD and 888 THE CARD *will* both ring to American Express. >> The whole problem is that that assumption is entirely unwarranted. >> Anything less would be foolish, and negligent, business. > Maybe I'v been misled, but I thought that the 888 prefix was needed > because there are not enough 800 numbers available. If we now give > that has a 800 number the same 888 number, what did we gain? > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We would in effect gain nothing, but the > prima donnas in the American corporate world who are all so much better > than the rest of you peasants will have gotten their way, and that is > what counts, isn't it? PAT] Pat, I see you're anxious to get your digs in against corporate America, and perhaps deservedly so, but we would gain considerably, even if the corporate big shots get their way. Surely a huge percentage of the 800 number owners will not want to duplicate their number on the 888 side. In fact, a great many 800 numbers don't even spell anything useful, so why duplicate them. Additionally, much has been made of the increasing popularity of personal 800 numbers, and I don't think many individuals would want to pay for having their number duplicated across the 800-888 barrier. Seems fair to me to allow owners of existing 800 numbers to reserve the same number in 888-space if they want. Perhaps the tarriffs should be designed to discourage doing this frivolously. barry ------------------------------ From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 11 Jul 1995 15:56:48 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science In article , Dave O'Shea wrote: > And on a related note, when did the "ENterprise" number toll-free > syste get phased out? I recall seeing active listings as recently as a > few years ago in the NY metro area. To this day, the Boston phone book lists: W M U R T V 1819 Elm Manchester NH From Telephones Served By The Boston Central Exchange No Charge To Calling Party Ask Operator For..................Enterprise-1555 I don't know how many calls WMUR (not even a Boston station!) actually gets on this number. I suspect they may keep it just to be the last people with an "Enterprise" number in Boston. Garrett A. Wollman wollman@lcs.mit.edu Opinions not those of MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA ------------------------------ From: david.breneman@mccaw.com (David Breneman) Subject: Re: Dial 1-888 For Toll-Free - First Report Date: 11 Jul 1995 19:46:05 GMT Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. In article dos@panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes: > And on a related note, when did the "ENterprise" number toll-free > syste get phased out? I recall seeing active listings as recently as a > few years ago in the NY metro area. And the Editor said (with deletions...) > Padgett Peterson sent a note questioning 'Zenith'. He said he had never > heard of those. My belief is that Zenith was the GTE version of Enterprise, > which was mostly an AT&T thing. I said that once before and someone wrote > to say they were served by AT&T in the old days and their toll-free number > was Zenith ... so I don't know what the rule was, if indeed any existed. > To answer Padgett's question, Zenith was simply another name for Enterprise > used by some telcos; I believe by and large the GTE companies. - Well, *I* for one had *never* heard of Enterprise until I read about it here about a year or so ago. Alhough my phone company at the time was Island Empire (now PTI), we were surrounded on all sides by Pacific Northwest Bell, and everyone used Zenith numbers for toll-free calls. I would suggest that the difference is probably based more on geographic area than service provider. Of course, people east of the Rockies tend to think that *their* experience is the norm for the US as a whole, and people east of the Mississippi tend to think they *are* the US as a whole. :-) David Breneman Unix System Administrator Mail: david.breneman@mccaw.com IS - Operations (soon to be ~@attws.com) McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. Phone: +1-206-803-7362 ------------------------------ From: rothen+@pitt.edu (Seth B Rothenberg) Subject: Misdialing 1-888 or 1-800 Date: 11 Jul 1995 19:03:19 GMT Organization: University of Pittsburgh And then there's the story about the man working the night desk at the FBI office. They got a low of wrong numbers, because it was similar to the pizza joint. One night he answered "FBI." When the caller hesitated, he said "You meant to call Dominoes ..." The caller exclaimed "Wow, you guys really DO know everything!" ------------------------------ From: lincmad@netcom.com (Linc Madison) Subject: Re: 800=888 Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 06:23:24 GMT Ron Bean (madnix.uucp!zaphod@nicmad.nicolet.com) wrote: > Maybe the solution is to reserve the 800 prefix for *Business-Voice > Lines Only*, and move all the toll-free fax lines, pagers, modems, > personal-800 etc to the new 888 prefix. ... > I've often thought that area code splits should have been handled > this way also. For example, in Chicago 312 would have been for voice > only, and all the fax machines, modems, etc would have been moved to > 708. Again, many people could have used the same number in both area > codes (this would be an overlay rather than a split). And again, it's > too late. There is a fundamental flaw with this plan: what is a "voice" line and what is a "fax" line? What about a home office, where the same number and the same line are used for both voice and fax? Then you have situations like my recent move. I got a single phone line installed, but then decided to take the plunge and get a dedicated modem line. However, the second number they assigned was much more "catchy" than the first one, so I wound up making the new number my "voice" line and the original number the "modem" line, except that, of course, I have a two-line phone now, so I give out the "modem" number to people like credit card companies so that I can turn off the ringer on that line and not be bothered. Are you confused yet? Even in a traditional office building, you often have situations where you may move a fax machine to a different location and plug it into a different phone jack. Also, what about Centrex/PBX situations? In my office, I dial 3-9208 to send a fax to a certain department in a different building. I can't do that if that number is in a different area code, unless the entire range of our reserved DID block is reserved in both area codes, which defeats the entire purpose. This scheme is very much reminiscent of OfTel's original plans for the U.K. renumbering -- all of the 01XXX area codes were to be for voice lines only; various other things like modems and faxes were to be on some other branch of the numbering tree. I haven't heard anything about this part of the scheme lately, though; have they finally dropped it? (The U.K. doesn't have the problem of cellphones being "discriminatorily" placed in overlay area codes, since all cellphones are in a set of about ten special area codes just for cellphones, plus another ten or so for "premium" services (i.e., recorded sex messages), all randomly scattered through the numbering space. Linc Madison * San Francisco, California * LincMad@Netcom.com [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well there was a brief discussion about ten years ago or so which called for putting all computers nationally in an 'area code' similar to 300 or 400 ... something like that. The 'area code' would be national in scope like 800, and the prefix or exchange would designate the community or local geographic area. Those numbers could all connect to each other, but would be unable to connect to any voice lines. Likewise, the rest of the area codes -- the 'regular' ones -- would be able to call each other just like now, but would be restricted from reaching 'area code 300' or whatever number it was that the computers would be assigned. When you ordered phone service, you could ask for a regular line or a 'computer line'; if you wanted to communicate with other computers of course, you'd need one of that type of line. It would have worked out similar to Western Union's TWX 'area codes' of 610, 710, 810 and 910 from the old days. 'Regular phones' could not dial those area codes. There were two ideas in mind: one, voice subscribers were getting a large number of 'wrong number' calls where it was a computer or fax on the other end squeaking/hissing at them -- or dead silence if the modem on the caller's end was waiting for your (non-existent) modem to respond; and two, there were special pricing considerations with telco making a bundle on the essence of a national computer network. The one time I saw proposed rates for this, I thought they were pretty good, at a few cents per minute. It would have operated a lot like Sprint/Telenet's nationwide switched network with just a lot of computers talking to each other. Computer owners would simply dial seven digit numbers for anywhere in the USA when they were calling a BBS, public access site, whatever. Only seven digits because after all, they would all be in the same 'area code'. One or two of the prefixes within that special area code would be used for automatic reverse charge calls (i.e. 800 service, but as a sub- set within the area code for the computer network) and a couple of the prefixes would be used for premium extra charge services (possibly 976 would be used for that purpose within the special area code.) The interesting part was the proposal that no one inside that special area code be allowed to call out of it, and no one outside of it be allowed to call into it. There would even be 555-1212 capability, via modem of course, just as Western Union offered 'manual operator position' services to TWX subscribers who dialed zero and directory assistance services via 555-1212 from their TWX machines. After reading about it a couple times back in 1985-86 or so, that was the last I saw of it. I thought it sounded like a good idea at the time, and I still do. I guess it went nowhere since the telcos could never get together on it regards the cut for their piece of the action, etc. Comments? PAT] ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #308 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa26053; 14 Jul 95 18:59 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA21455 for telecomlist-outbound; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 07:58:09 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA21447; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 07:58:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 07:58:07 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507141258.HAA21447@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest V15 #309 TELECOM Digest Fri, 14 Jul 95 07:58:00 CDT Volume 15 : Issue 309 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Sprint, DoJ Enter Consent Decree (Steve Geimann) Expansion of International Telephone Numbers (Ben Heckscher) Atlanta Automated 411 (Andrew B. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Geimann@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:04:32 -0400 Subject: Sprint, DoJ Enter Consent Decree DECREE SETS RESTRICTIONS FOR SPRINT VENTURE By STEVE GEIMANN Senior Editor, Communications Daily WASHINGTON -- Sprint and Justice Dept. entered 2-stage consent decree Thurs. sharply limiting services offered by Deutsche Telekom (DT)-France Telecom (FT) joint venture from France and Germany until competition begins in both nations. Sprint said decree won't hinder venture, known as Phoenix and awaiting FCC and European Commission approval. DoJ said agreement protects consumers from monopolistic actions by French and German companies and encourages acceleration of competition in both countries. "Customers can expect to see a continued steep decline in the cost of international correspondent services," said Steven Sunshine, asst. attorney gen., Antitrust Div. Decree "in many ways" followed MCI-British Telecom agreement for their Concert joint venture, Sunshine said, with exception that U.K market is considerably more open than France and Germany. Sprint agreement subjects joint venture to 2 sets of restrictions, first through competition in French and German markets and 2nd continuing for 5 years after competition in basic services is introduced in both countries. It doesn't cover services provided to other nations, even with existing monopolies. "Sprint and the joint venture can't provide services that are legally restricted to FT and DT," he said. DoJ said that under decree, Sprint and joint venture: (1) Can't own, control or provide services until competitors enter German and French markets. (2) Must publish rates, terms and conditions by which they gain access to FT and DT networks, and other generally unpublished information. (3) Are barred from obtaining more favorable access to FT and DT networks. (4) Are prohibited from gaining confidential information provided by other carriers to FT and DT in normal course of business. In complaint, DoJ said DT and FT "have an increased incentive" to discriminate in favor of Sprint and deny operating agreements to other U.S. carriers. Sprint called decree "fair and reasonable" and "entirely consistent with the planned operational arrangements of the global venture." Richard Devlin, exec. vp-law and external affairs, said consent decree should facilitate FCC and other approvals. John Hoffman, senior vp-external affairs, who attended DoJ briefing, told us: "We did not form the joint venture for the purpose of discriminating." Company signed definitive agreement with European partners June 22 and deal will close when approvals are complete. Sunshine didn't comment on current concerns of European Competition Comr. Karel van Miert, who has said FT-DT alliance called Atlas is anticompetitive. He also said Jan. 1, 1998, date for liberalizing European markets won't trigger start of Phase 2, which requires competition, not simply liberalized laws. He said talk with Sprint and its partners was "fruitful, professional and productive" and only difficulties occurred in Phase 1 portion in trying to work out antimonopoly protections while giving joint venture access to global markets. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 13:22 EST From: Ben Heckscher <0003094996@mcimail.com> Subject: Expansion of International Telephone Numbers Sent FYI to the Digest: Source: ITU Operational Bulletin No. 596 - 15.V.1995, pages 5-8 Title : Expanded International Dialing Time "T"* Purpose: We are concerned that the world community may be insufficiently aware and prepared for Time "T". To this end, the following information is provided. The purpose of this information bulletin is to increase the awareness of the world community of ITU-T Recommendations E.164 and E.165 that describe the expansion of international telephone numbers from twelve (12) to a maximum of fifteen (15) digits in length. In order to retain existing International Direct Distance Dialing (IDDD), capability to accommodate these longer numbers is required in all switches, networks and customer provided equipment by Time "T", that has been designated as "31 December 1996 at 23 hours 59 minutes, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)". This change in the he international numbering plan Recommendation may impact switching equipment, operational support systems, customer premise equipment, correspondence material, billing systems, etc. This change may require financial considerations for hardware and/or software modifications required to accommodate this change at Time "T". It should be noted that the Time "T" Recommendation places no obligation to expand or modify the national numbering plan beyond its current digit format. Administrations, users, providers and manufacturers need to be aware of the information in this bulletin if: - they provide or users require international direct distance dialing; - they perform screening, routing, or billing function for international calls; - they use a telephone number for correspondence, referencing customers, etc. to or from a country which is considering the expansion of their national numbering plan beyond twelve (12) digits. Discussion ITU-T Recommendation E.164 was developed to facilitate the introduction and expansion of new public services and to expand the capacity of the Public Switched Network Numbering Plan. The new maximum number length is fifteen (15) digits. ITU-T Recommendation E.165 stipulates that the new format will become effective at Time "T". After Time "T", countries will have the option of expanding their numbering plans to the full fifteen (15) digits. [Note - Expansion beyond fourteen (14) digits will restrict interworking from Public Switched Packet Data Networks that have not implemented the Numbering Plan Identifier (NPI)]. Any interconnection planned with countries who have expanded their numbering plans will require the expanded capabilities. It should be noted that although a country may have no intention of expanding its national numbering plan any time in the foreseeable future, this fact does not mean that the recommendation to recognize a new maximum number length of fifteen (15) digits can be ignored. Especially, if any country indicates its intention to expand beyond the current twelve (12) digit limitation including country code, the ability to process internationally direct dialed calls could be impacted. In October 1993 German representatives announced the intention to expand the German numbering plan beyond the current E.164 maximum length of twelve (12) digits. While the fifteen (15) digit number plan alone may not, at first sight, impact the ability to receive and forward calls internationally, when coupled with the existing national dialing plan prefixes and carrier selection, switching equipment and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) addressing thresholds may be exceeded. Additionally, at Time "T" the number of digits, of the E.164 number, to be analyzed by the originating country, as specified in ITU-T Recommendation E.164, will change. The national destination code (NDC) increases the potential requirement for digit analysis because it provides for a combination of either a trunk code (TC) and/or a network identification function. Careful consideration should be given to the preparation of national destination code (NDC) assignments. On international calls the digit analysis performed at the originating country need not be more than the country code and: - four digits of the national (significant) number N(S)N in the case of a country with a three-digit code; - five digits of the N(S)N in the case of a country with a two-digit country code; - six digits of the N(S)N in the case of a country with a one-digit country code. Although the potential for seven-digit analysis exists, it is not required for every call. The terminating country will inform the originating country which of the seven dialed digits of the E.164 number will indicate when seven-digit analysis is required. Some administrations will be able to implement the charging arrangements with seven-digit analysis at the same time as the associated routing. Others may not be able to implement the charging arrangements at the same time, bilateral arrangements should be established between these administrations, if needed. Time "T" also impacts numbering plan interworking solutions between public networks using different numbering plans (e.g. calls routed between the public telephone network using an E.164 numbering plan and a public data network using the X.121 numbering plan). Specifically, the numbering plan interworking solutions documented in ITU-T Recommendation E.166, "Numbering Plan interworking in the ISDN Era", are separated into short-term (prior to Time "T") and long-term (post Time "T") solutions. Prior to Time "T" escape codes1) are considered the short-term method for interworking between public networks using different numbering plans. With the advent of Time "T" it is stated that Numbering Plan Identifier/Type of Number (NPI/TON) feature as defined in ITU-T Recommendation Q.931 be used for interworking between different numbering plans in public networks, and that the short-term escape code method be deleted when interworking from the public telephone networks/ISDNs. Based on individual evolution plans, some administrations may have already implemented NPI/TON interworking solutions. Summary As Time "T" approaches, administrations, users, network providers and manufacturers need to be aware of the options and steps that may be taken. The following issues should be clearly understood in determining the appropriate action to be taken to accommodate the changes that may occur at Time "T": - Time "T" is when the capability to handle fifteen (15) digit numbering plans should be implemented. This capability refers to the E.164 networks. - Time "T" is designated as 31 December 1996, 23 hours 59 minutes, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). - The existing national numbering plan may continue to use the current format it uses today. Check with the national plan administrator to determine the impacts of Time "T" on the national numbering plan, if any. - Full dialing plan capabilities must be considered when determining the impacts. - On international calls the digit analysis, of the E.164 number, performed at the originating country has increased to a maximum of seven digits (including the country code). Some administrations will be able to implement the charging arrangements with seven-digit analysis at the same time as the associated routing. Others may not be able to implement the charging arrangements at the same time, bilateral arrangements should be established between those administrations, if needed. - Modifications required to accommodate the use of NPI/TON (Numbering Plan Identifier/Type of Number feature as defined in ITU-T Recommendation (Q.931) for interworking between different numbering plans in public networks. Note - Based on individual evolution plans, some administrations may have already implemented NPI/TON interworking solutions. - Modifications to software and hardware which allows International Direct Distance Dialing (IDDD) must be considered. This includes but is not restricted to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and customer support systems. - Administrations and operators should be aware of the necessary expansion of national support systems. 1) Escape code: "An escape code is an indicator consisting of one ore more digits which is defined in a given numbering plan and is used to indicate that the digits that follow are from a specific numbering plan which is different from the given numbering plan. For example, escape codes are currently used with the X.121 numbering plan to interwork with E.164 (ISDN) and F.69 (Telex) numbering plans. An escape code can be carried forward through the originating network and can be carried across internetwork and international boundaries. Therefore, the digits used for escape codes should be standardized." Reference: ITU-T Recommendation E.160 "Definitions Relating to National and International Numbering plans". References Note 1 - The Recommendations below, as well as those referred to in the Bulletin above, are shown as "ITU-T" Recommendations. Note 2 - Recommendations referenced in this information Bulletin are available from the ITU Sales Section (Fax: +41 22 730 5194). [1] ITU-T Recommendation F.69 - "Plan for Telex Destination Codes". [2] Draft ITU-T Recommendation E.162 - "Capability for Seven-Digit Analysis of International E.164 Numbers at Time "T" (see Annex 2). [3] ITU-T Recommendation E.164 - "Numbering Plan for the ISDN Era". [4] ITU-T Recommendation E.165 - "Timetable for Coordinated Implementation of the he Full Capability of the Numbering Plan for the ISDN Era" (see Annex 1). [5] ITU-T Recommendation E.166 - "Numbering Plan for interworking in the ISDN Era". [6] ITU-T Recommendation Q.931 - "ISDN User-Network Interface Layer 3 Specification for Basic Call Control". [7] ITU-T Recommendation X.121 - "International Numbering Plan for Public Data Networks. Information For further information on this subject, in the first instance contact the national or integrated numbering plan administrators. Alternately, the X.5/2 - Numbering Rapporteur Group (of ITU-T Study Group 2) has a number of Time "T" awareness coordinators. At present they are: A. Gaechter Bellcore, United States Fax: +1 201 740 6860 S. Isaksen Televerket, Norway Fax: +47 22 20 00 75 A. Holmes BT, United Kingdom Fax: +44 171 248 1636 C. Handley US WEST, United States Fax: +1 303 965 2785 P. Reptis Telstra, Australia Fax: +61 3 670 2562 A. Sekiguchi MPT, Japan Fax: +81 3 3509 8292 R. Hurek Deutsche Telekom, Germany Fax: +49 228 181 8976 Z. Tar Conseiller, TSB Fax: +41 22 730 5853 * See TSB circular 128 of 28 February 1995 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:18:42 -0400 From: ahawtho@emory.edu (Andrew B. Hawthorn) Subject: Atlanta Automated 411 Atlanta has recently added an automated directory assistance system and I was curious if anyone knew how it works. When a person dials 411, they are connected to a recorded female voice that says "What city please?" The caller responds and the voice asks "What listing?" The caller replies. Sometimes when I have called after giving the listing information there is a ring, and I am connected with a live operator who says "hold for the number" or "hold for ABC Company." Sometimes there is no ring and I can hear someone typing on the computer then I am connected with the voice which reads the number. Recently I a friend told me that he gave the automated voice his information, there was one ring, a live operator said "how do you spell that, sir?" and then connected him with the voice which reads the number. Does the directory information system attempt to locate the information and then make as many matches as possible followed by a transfer to an operator who finds the exact match? Does the system play back the recorded voice to the live operator? How did the live operator know that my friend calling was male before she was connected with him? I'm curious as to how this system works and where the telephone company is going with it. Do they plan to eliminate directory assistance operators and put audio recognition computer to work instead? Thanks, Andrew Hawthorn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:54:28 EST From: Rob Slade Subject: Book Review: "Best of the Net" by Godin BKBSTNET.RVW 950504 "Best of the Net", Seth Godin, 1995, 1-56884-313-5, U$22.99/C$32.99/UK#21.99 %A Seth Godin seth@sgp.com %C 155 Bovet Road, Suite 310, San Mateo, CA 94402 %D 1995 %G 1-56884-313-5 %I IDG Books %O U$22.99/C$32.99/UK#21.99 415-312-0650 fax: 415-286-2740 kaday@aol.com %P 430 %T "Best of the Net" Gee, it's rather gratifying to find your name in the acknowledgements section, even if you had nothing to do with the book, can't find any contribution you made, and can't, in fact, find your name mentioned thereafter. (Judging by my friends in the list, I think our names were copied from the VIRUS-L FAQ.) The book is supposedly made up of recommendations from "a group of Internet experts" and "numbers of motivated, involved, smart people". But, as they say in the academic papers, the study was flawed. Godin sent out a request for people to send him stuff, so the study sample "self selected" for people who had nothing better to do. Quick reality check. Do we have RISKS? No. Oak? No. Net-happenings? No. alt.best.of.internet or usenet? No. RTFM? Yes (once). The Vatican exhibit? No. rec.humor.funny? No (well, maybe fair comment). News of the Weird? Yes. This Is True? No. What we do have, here, are two hundred "topics", all two pages long. Each has a few (very few) net references, mostly newsgroups. (A lot of the other "references" are "veronica".) Some references are long out of date (and the computer virus citations are awful). There are random pieces of information-- extracts from newsgroup postings or FAQ listings, and often a picture from somewhere. These have no proper citations at all. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKBSTNET.RVW 950504. Distribution permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest. Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | Omne ignotum pro magnifico. Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | - Anything little known Research into Rob.Slade@f733.n153.z1/ | is assumed to be User .fidonet.org | wonderful. Security Canada V7K 2G6 | - Tacitus ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #309 ****************************** Received: from delta.eecs.nwu.edu by MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU id aa13656; 19 Jul 95 3:15 EDT Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA29348 for telecomlist-outbound; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 23:03:01 -0500 Received: by delta.eecs.nwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA29340; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 23:02:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 23:02:56 -0500 From: TELECOM Digest (Patrick Townson) Message-Id: <199507180402.XAA29340@delta.eecs.nwu.edu> To: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu Subject: TELECOM Digest Subject/Author Index, July, 1995 This file is the author/subject index for the first six months (approximatly, up to issue 300) of Volume 15 of the Digest for 1995. You use this by grepping for the subject or author name, as per the instructions in the lines below marked HELP-: which themselves can be grepped as desired using that keyword. Earlier indexes covering the period April, 1989 through December, 1994 are available in the Telecom Archives. This file is *not* intended to be read in its entirity, unless you sit down, for example and normally 'read' the dictionary or 'read' large indexes in the back of books, etc. The subjects are arranged in alpha order, with 'Re:' ignored. Where two or more subjects are identical, then the sort continues by author's *first* name followed by last name. If you want to dump this to a printer for permanent reference, please note there are 3857 lines including this introduction. Earlier indexes, in clusters of three years each, contain upwards of 20,000 + lines each. HELP-: HELP-: TELECOM Digest Accelerated Index: Volume 15, Issues 1-300, 7-95 HELP-: ---------------------------------------------------------------- HELP-: HELP-: Effecient use of this file depends heavily on your understanding HELP-: of the Unix 'grep' command. It is suggested you use 'grep -i' HELP-: since the '-i' argument ignores upper/lower case distinctions. HELP-: HELP-: This file contains the subject headers for 1995 - Volume 15 (up to HELP-: issue 300). See other indexes in the Archives for 1989-1994 issues. HELP-: It is gradually being expanded to include digests prior to HELP-: volume 9, but the technical problems are pervasive, to say the HELP-: least. Reliability is NOT guarenteed prior to April, 1989, or HELP-: about issue 400 of volume 9, due to a change in the way the HELP-: Digest was produced. HELP-: HELP-: The file can be searched in several ways, always using 'grep -i' HELP-: as the command followed by the search string in quotes and the HELP-: desired file name for the output (or to the screen or your printer HELP-: if desired. The index file is sorted alphabetically by subject, HELP-: with 'Re' ignored in the sorting where it appears. Where two or HELP-: identical subject strings appear (for example, the original HELP-: message followed by one or more REplies) then the sort continues HELP-: by the *full name* of the author. For example, if two identical HELP-: messages appear with one from John Higdon and the other from Adam HELP-: Jones, then the one from Adam Jones will appear first since 'Adam' HELP-: sorts prior to 'John'. Since there were some discrepancies in HELP-: how names were listed, it is suggested you 'grep -i [lastname] HELP-: rather than [first last] since occassionally the first name was HELP-: only an initial. If you want to see all the subject headers in HELP-: a given group of files, then 'grep -i [vol/from-to]'. Issues of HELP-: TELECOM Digest are packed in the archives usually in groups of HELP-: fifty, with the breaks occurring at the start of the first and HELP-: fifty-first issues; i.e. 101-150, 151-200 ... 801-850, etc. To HELP-: see all the subject headers in Volume 15, Issues 101-150 for HELP-: example, you would 'grep -i "15/101-150"'. Check out the man HELP-: page for grep (man grep) on your site to learn many sophisticated HELP-: techniques for searching the entries below. HELP-: HELP-: After finding the desired subjects or authors, you would note HELP-: the archives file location (the numbers on the left are the volume HELP-: and issue numbers, packaged in groups of fifty issues). Then using HELP-: anonymous ftp or an email/ftp server you would go to the Telecom HELP-: Archives at lcs.mit.edu and pull the desired file. With that file HELP-: at hand, you would then grep -i [results from here] to find the HELP-: specific issue and location within the issue. HELP-: HELP-: Remember this important point: The more specific your search, HELP-: the less likely you are to get a 'hit' ... yet the more liberal HELP-: your search parameters, the more likely you are to get a flood HELP-: of lines on your screen or printer. As you get aquainted with HELP-: this index, you'll learn how to best approach it and/or configure HELP-: your search keys. Should you wish to dump this index to your HELP-: printer, it is 3836 lines long. HELP-: HELP-: Index updated July 17, 1995 by Patrick Townson. Notes about HELP-: corrections, omissions and inconsistencies should be directed HELP-: to my attention at telecom@eecs.nwu.edu. HELP-: 15/151-200: 100VG AnyLAN (Phil Ho) 15/001-050: 101xxxx: Not Yet (Paul Robinson) 15/001-050: Re: 101xxxx: Not Yet (Wally Ritchie) 15/201-250: 10224 - Thanks MCI!! (Les Reeves) 15/251-300: Re: 10224 - Thanks MCI!! (Les Reeves) 15/001-050: 10-XXX Codes (Eric Paulak) 15/001-050: Re: 10-XXX Codes (Lizanne Hurst) 15/001-050: Re: 19 Inch Network Relay Rack (Evan Gamblin) 15/001-050: Re: 19 Inch Network Relay Rack (Mike Morris) 15/001-050: Re: 19 Inch Network Relay Rack (Robert Hazen) 15/001-050: Re: 19 Inch Network Relay Rack (Scott Falke) 15/001-050: 1-900 = $100,000 Fraud (James Bellaire) 15/201-250: 1-900-555-1212 (Jeff Smyth) 15/201-250: Re: 1-900-555-1212 (Lou Jahn) 15/151-200: 1995 Area Code Update (Steve Grandi) 15/151-200: Re: 203/860 Line Determined (Gerry Belanger) 15/151-200: 203/860 Line Determined (Scott D. Fybush) 15/151-200: Re: 203/860 Line Determined (Scott D. Fybush) 15/051-100: 205/334 Area Code Split (Jerry Pruett) 15/001-050: Re: 206 to 360 Experience (Carl Moore) 15/001-050: 206 to 360 Experience (Ron Parker) 15/001-050: 21 LEC's Violate Comm Act, Ordered To Pay Damages (Alan Boritz) 15/051-100: 256Kbps Overseas Circuits at 56Kpbs Costs (routers@halcyon.com) 15/101-150: Re: 256Kbps Overseas Circuits at 56Kpbs Costs (Tom Coradeschi) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Alan Shen) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (David Hayes) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (David Sacerdote) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Eric Nelson) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (James Carlson) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (John Combs) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (John Dearing) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (John Lundgren) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Juan C. Amaya) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Ken Culbert) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Marc A. Randolph) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Paul Robinson) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Scott Lorditch) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Stephen Palm) 15/051-100: Re: 28.8k bps Modem (Steve Midgley) 15/051-100: 28.8k bps Modem (Victor Hu) 15/101-150: 3 School Teachers Charged in Net Child Porn Ring (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/201-250: 334 Prefix Next Door to 334 Area Code (Carl Moore) 15/001-050: 360 Degrees of Jumping the Gun (Paul Robinson) 15/001-050: Re: 360 NPA in Partial Service (Don Skidmore) 15/201-250: Re: 404 Area Code Split; New Code 770 (Lee Winson) 15/201-250: Re: 404 Area Code Split; New Code 770 (Linc Madison) 15/201-250: 404 Area Code Split; New Code 770 (Rick Dennis) 15/201-250: Re: 404 Area Code Split; New Code 770 (Stan Brown) 15/101-150: 500 NPA Expansion? (Jeff Spidle) 15/001-050: Re: 500 Number Assignments (bkron@netcom.com) 15/001-050: Re: 500 Number Assignments (Carter Thomasson) 15/151-200: 500 Number Not Working (Chris Michael) 15/151-200: Re: 500 Number Not Working (Chris Michael) 15/051-100: 500 Numbers - Where to Find Information (goober@mars.superlink.net) 15/051-100: Re: 500 Numbers and CID (John Lundgren) 15/051-100: 500 Numbers and CID (Mark Stieger) 15/001-050: Re: '500' Numbers Finally Available (Dave Levenson) 15/151-200: 500 Numbers Will Remain Blocked (Robert A. Voss) 15/101-150: 500 Place-A-Call Working (David L. Oehring) 15/101-150: Re: 500 Place-A-Call Working (Stan Schwartz) 15/101-150: Re: 500 Place-A-Call Working (Stan Schwartz) 15/151-200: 500 Prefixes Currently Assigned (Allan J. Langfield) 15/151-200: 500 Service and Federal Telecom System (mstandrew@aol.com) 15/051-100: 500 Service Comments (Jeff Buckingham) 15/101-150: 500 Service in Canada (Evan Champion) 15/151-200: 500-FINGERS (Carl Moore) 15/051-100: 503 NPA Split? (Dan McDonald) 15/201-250: Re: 555 Goes Public (Greg Monti) 15/201-250: 555 Prefix Goes Public (Greg Monti) 15/151-200: 602 / 520 Area Code Problems (John Shaver) 15/001-050: 630 Area Code and New Dialing Patterns (Mitch Weiss) 15/101-150: 64 Kbps HDLC PCMCIA Interface (Milo S. Medin) 15/051-100: 700 Problems = 500 Problems (Doug Reuben) 15/051-100: Re: 700 Problems = 500 Problems (Phil Ritter) 15/101-150: 708/630/815 Split (was Re: New NPA in Colorado) (Carl Moore) 15/051-100: Re: 7/8ths Heliax Sources Needed (Jack Daniel) 15/051-100: Re: 7/8ths Heliax Sources Needed (Mark Fletcher) 15/051-100: 7/8ths Heliax Sources Needed (Michael P. Deignan) 15/251-300: Re: 800 1 and 800 0 - Why Not? (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/051-100: 800 and Caller ID (Comments) (Glenn Foote) 15/251-300: 800 Article in July 3 Business Week (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/101-150: Re: 800 Directory Listings Wanted (Carl Moore) 15/101-150: Re: 800 Directory Listings Wanted (Fred Goodwin) 15/101-150: Re: 800 Directory Listings Wanted (Gerry Brown) 15/101-150: 800 Directory Listings Wanted (jps0723@aol.com) 15/101-150: Re: 800 Directory Listings Wanted (stanford@algorhythms.com) 15/251-300: 800 FCC Order, and 888 Implementation (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/101-150: 800 Numbers - Media and Real Estate Rebuttal (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/001-050: 800 Numbers and Caller ID? (Glenn Foote) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers and Caller ID (Glenn Foote) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers and Caller ID (Jonathan Bradshaw) 15/151-200: 800 Numbers, and FLOWERS Again (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/151-200: 800 Numbers, and FLOWERS Again (Mel Beckman) 15/251-300: 800 Numbers and Smaller Carriers (Jeff Buckingham) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Ari Wuolle) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Clive Feather) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Colum Mylod) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Joe J. Harrison) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (John R. Covert) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Julian Thornhill) 15/051-100: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Kimmo Ketolainen) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Marko Ruokonen) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Mitch Greer) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Paul Havinden) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers from Overseas (Paul Robinson) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Peter Campbell Smith) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Phil Ritter) 15/001-050: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Robert Hall) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Robert Hall) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Tony Harminc) 15/001-050: Re: 800 Numbers From Overseas (Tor-Einar Jarnbjo) 15/001-050: 800 Numbers, How Important? (Paul Harts) 15/101-150: 800 Numbers: Media, and Real Estate (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/001-050: 800 Numbers/Letters Overseas (Richard Jay Solomon) 15/251-300: 800 Service - Out of Numbers? (mitchr@ibm.net) 15/151-200: Re: 800 Service and FLOWERS (John Rice) 15/151-200: Re: 800 Service and FLOWERS (Mel Beckman) 15/151-200: Re: 800 Service and ISDN Costs (Tom D. Fellrath) 15/151-200: Re: 800 Service Costs and ISDN Rates (andrewm486@aol.com) 15/151-200: 800 Service Costs and ISDN Rates (Arthur Greenwald) 15/151-200: Re: 800 Service Costs and ISDN Rates (Joe Scotti) 15/151-200: 800 "Trademark" Rights (Jerry Leichter) 15/151-200: Re: 800 "Trademark" Rights (Jim Wenzel) 15/051-100: 800 Vanity Number Lists (Graeme W. Smith) 15/251-300: Re: 800-1XX, 800-0XX (Mark Cuccia) 15/051-100: 800-MY-ANI-IS and Car Phone Redialers (Tom Ward) 15/101-150: Re: 900 Providing Advice Sought (hihosteveo@aol.com) 15/051-100: Re: 900 Providing Advice Sought (Joe Sulmar) 15/001-050: 900 Providing Advice Sought (ronnie@space.mit.edu) 15/051-100: 911 Access in Jeopardy (Jim Conran) 15/251-300: Re: 911 From Cellphones in CA (Andrew C. Green) 15/251-300: 911 From Cellphones in CA (Marty Brenneis) 15/251-300: Re: 911 From Cellphones in CA (Robert Levandowski) 15/001-050: 911 Providers: Watch For 912 Calls (Scot E. Wilcoxon) 15/201-250: 911 Tariff in Illinois (Brian Krupicka) 15/001-050: 91x (was: 911 Providers: Watch For 912 Calls) (Carl Moore) 15/051-100: 976 Look-Alike Exchanges (Henry Becker) 15/001-050: A Call From Guess Where (David Farber via Stanton McCandlish) 15/101-150: A Fortune 500 Network Services VP Speaks re 800 (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/151-200: A New Rock Around the World Web Site (Marcus Downing) 15/051-100: A Problem With 205/334 DA (Scott D. Fybush) 15/201-250: Re: A Question About Hunting and Call Waiting (Kevin Prichard) 15/201-250: Re: A Question About Priorities (Chris Hardaker) 15/251-300: Re: A Question About Priorities (Matt Barton) 15/201-250: Re: A Question About Priorities (Scot Desort) 15/201-250: A Question About Priorities (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Bob Niland) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Elizabeth Cashman) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Gary Novoseilski) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Louis Judice) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Mike Pollock) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (Mitch Weiss) 15/051-100: A Strange Man Calls Me About 500 (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/101-150: Re: A Strange Man Calls Me Ahout 500 (phrantic@uwyo.edu) 15/101-150: A Tip When Working With Electricity (Bob Mueller) 15/101-150: Re: A Tip When Working With Electricity (Paul Houle) 15/251-300: Re: A Tour of Your Phone (Mike Parker) 15/251-300: A Tour of Your Phone (Netsurfer Digest via Arthur P. Bebak) 15/101-150: About 36XX Numbers in France (Romain Fournols) 15/001-050: Re: About the GIF Incident and Substitutes (Dik T. Winter) 15/001-050: About the GIF Incident and Substitutes (Paul Robinson) 15/251-300: AC 303: What Number Should I Use to Get Number of This Phone? (Dawn Adler) 15/051-100: ACC Reports Increase in Billable Minutes (Dave Leibold) 15/051-100: Access to "500" Numbers (Richard Cox) 15/151-200: ACD, IVR, CTI Using TAPI (George Porter) 15/051-100: ACD/Call Router Information Needed (T.J. Oconnell) 15/101-150: ACLU Cyber-Liberties Alert: Axe the Exon Bill! (ACLU Information) 15/151-200: ACM's Intn'l Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking '95 (Victor Bahl) 15/001-050: Acronym for "Information Superhighway" (Humor Listserv via Bill Edwards) 15/001-050: Re: Acronym for "Information Superhighway" (Mark Brader) 15/151-200: Re: ADCPM and CO's (Les Reeves) 15/101-150: ADCPM and CO's (Steven Bergman) 15/001-050: Address Wanted For French Telecom (Stephen Warner) 15/001-050: Re: Address Wanted For KPN (Hendrik Rood) 15/001-050: Re: Address Wanted For KPN (Jean B. Sarrazin) 15/001-050: Address Wanted For KPN (Stephen Warner) 15/151-200: Administrivia: Getting Back on Track (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/151-200: Administrivia: Hickory Dickory Dock and Other Notes (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/201-250: Administrivia: Issue Number Correction (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/051-100: Re: Adoption of New Technologies (J.P. Wollersheim) 15/051-100: Adoption of New Technologies (Seth Baum) 15/051-100: Adoption of Technology Products (sb@interamp.com) 15/051-100: ADSI Terminals (was How I Fooled Caller ID) (Tony Harminc) 15/201-250: Advice Needed About Answering Service (Brian D. Petro) 15/201-250: Re: Advice Needed About Answering Service (Gary Breuckman) 15/201-250: Re: Advice Needed About Answering Service (Greg Habstritt) 15/201-250: Advice Wanted on VoiceFX Voice Board (Alex van Es) 15/201-250: Alabama 334 Backup Plan (Greg Monti) 15/151-200: Alarm Reporting Black Box (D.E. Jennings) 15/001-050: Alert! USWest Cellular in 360/206 (Alan Shen) 15/251-300: Algorithm For Parsing Phone Numbers? (Kate Weber Brown) 15/251-300: Re: Algorithm For Parsing Phone Numbers (Linc Madison) 15/251-300: Re: ALI From Centrex With Many Locations (Mike Wilcox) 15/251-300: Re: ALI From Centrex With Many Locations (Paul Cook) 15/251-300: ALI From Centrex With Many Locations (Tom Steegmann) 15/251-300: Re: ALI From Centrex With Many Locations (Tom Steegmann) 15/201-250: All Those Questions From Belgian Students (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) 15/151-200: Allnet Financial Stability (Bill Engel) 15/051-100: Alpha Paging via PC (Kevin Kadow) 15/251-300: Alphanumeric Paging Software (David R. Coelho) 15/051-100: Re: Always Busy 800 Number? (bkron@netcom.com) 15/001-050: Always Busy 800 Number? (mre2b@virginia.edu) 15/001-050: Re: Always Busy 800 Number? (Peter M. Weiss) 15/051-100: American Literature on Multimedia (Toyoaki Kondo) 15/151-200: American Roaming Network (Ching-Cheng Chai) 15/201-250: Ameritech and 10XXX (Mustafa Soysal) 15/101-150: Ameritech Announces TT Charge Reduction in Confusing Way (Bradley Bittorf) 15/201-250: Ameritech: Bloodthirsty Bandits (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/201-250: Ameritech Rant (Kevin A. Mitchell) 15/201-250: Re: Ameritech Rant (smokey@bah.com) 15/001-050: Aministrivia: Sendmail Let's Me Down (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/251-300: An Open Letter to PageAmerica (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/101-150: Analog Interface Parameters (Eli Cohen) 15/101-150: Analog Interface Parameters (Eli Cohen) 15/101-150: Re: Analog Interface Parameters (John Lundgren) 15/051-100: Re: Ancient Party Lines (David Breneman) 15/001-050: Ancient Party Lines (Scott Falke) 15/001-050: Re: Ancient Party Lines (Scott Falke) 15/101-150: Re: And the Grammy For Poor Planning Goes to ... (Bob Wilkins) 15/101-150: And the Grammy For Poor Planning Goes to ... (Scott D. Fybush) 15/001-050: Re: ANI Information in Realtime (Dave Levenson) 15/001-050: Re: ANI Information in Realtime (Doug Reuben) 15/001-050: ANI Information in Realtime (Eric Essman) 15/001-050: ANI on an Airphone and More (Ry Jones) 15/251-300: ANI vs CALLER ID (Greg Tompkins) 15/251-300: Re: ANI vs Caller-ID (Jeffrey Rhodes) 15/001-050: Annoucement of Citizen Service Forum (Pete Goss) 15/201-250: Announcement: Nautilus 0.9.0 Now Available (Bill Dorsey) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Benjamin P. Carter) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Benjamin P. Carter) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Bradley Ward Allen) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Bruce Roberts) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Bruce Roberts) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Heath Roberts) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (James E. Bellaire) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (James H. Haynes) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (John David Galt) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (John Lundgren) 15/201-250: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Randall Rathbun) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Calls: Can We Deal With Them? (Steve Cogorno) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (gnuz@rjones.oz.net) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (Jens von der Heide) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (John Nagle) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (Steve Cogorno) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (stufroed@acs.eku.edu) 15/201-250: Annoying Feature on Payphones Here (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/201-250: Re: Annoying Feature on Payphones (Rob Hjort) 15/101-150: Anon Servers, Child Porn and Scientologists (Clive D.W. Feather) 15/101-150: Anon Servers, Child Porn and Scientologists (Johan Helsingius) 15/051-100: Another A&T 500 Service Mixup (Matthew Spaethe) 15/151-200: Another Fraud Question (Andrew C. Green) 15/051-100: Another Look at the 'Old Days' (Dale Neiburg) 15/051-100: Re: Another Look at the 'Old Days' (Steve Cogorno) 15/001-050: ANSI Terminal Communications (David O. Laney) 15/051-100: Re: ANSI Terminal Communications (Timothy D. Shoppa) 15/051-100: ANSI,ITU Information Needed (Edgar Murillo Montero) 15/101-150: Answering Machine Calls For You! (James E. Bellaire) 15/251-300: Answers to Your 800 Warehousing Questions (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/051-100: Re: Antenna For Cellular Phone in Bangkok (Alan Shen) 15/001-050: Antenna For Cellular Phone in Bangkok (Roland Peter Sauermann) 15/251-300: Any Experience With African Telecom (Tanzania)? (John Palmer) 15/251-300: Re: Any Experience With African Telecom (Tanzania)? (Peter J. Kerrigan) 15/251-300: Any Payphone Trend Experts Out There? 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Downs) 15/101-150: Last Call: IJCAI'95 Workshop on Executable Temporal Logics (Mehmet Orgun) 15/101-150: Last Laugh - Technology Notes (James Bellaire) 15/251-300: Last Laugh! Are You Perverted? (Matthew Iuculano) 15/251-300: Last Laugh! Big Brother is Watching You (Special Agent Mike Long, FBI) 15/101-150: Last Laugh! Burned Out Newspapercreatures (Daryl Gibson) 15/051-100: Last Laugh! Career Opportunities With the RBOCs (David McCord) 15/151-200: Last Laugh! Great Moments in Radio History (Nigel Allen) 15/101-150: Last Laugh! Re: How I Fooled Caller-ID (Gordon L. Burditt) 15/001-050: Last Laugh! IBM Buys Episcopal Church (John Shaver) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Anton Sherwood) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (B.Z. Lederman) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Carl Moore) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Dave Johnson) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (David Breneman) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (David K. Bryant) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Gordon S. Hlavenka) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Heidi Serverian) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Larry Kollar) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Patton M Turner) 15/251-300: Re: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (Robert Virzi) 15/201-250: Last Laugh! Mike and Terry's Lawnmower Service (stanford@algorhythms.com) 15/101-150: Last Laugh! Nick Cheats on His Wife (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/001-050: Last Laugh: Speaking About Who is Boss (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/151-200: Last Laugh! Techie SOs Unite! (Shirley Clawson via John Shaver) 15/151-200: Re: Last Laugh! Technology Notes (John J. Butz) 15/151-200: Re: Last Laugh! Technology Notes (Tom Blog) 15/051-100: Last Laugh! Telecom and Pasta (Paul A. Migliorelli) 15/101-150: Last Laugh! The Unintentional Date/Chat Line (David Leibold) 15/101-150: LATA Maps Wanted (Phillip Schuman) 15/101-150: Latencies on T-1, 56kb, etc. (Kevin Wang) 15/251-300: Latest ITU-T (CCITT) Country Code List (Mark Cuccia) 15/051-100: Laws For Cell Phone Sales in CA (B_Phlat) 15/001-050: Re: LD ISDN Service (Ed Goldgehn) 15/001-050: LD ISDN Service (John Schmerold) 15/051-100: Re: LD ISDN Service (Martin Carroll) 15/151-200: LD Marketers Association (Sharon Ziebert) 15/051-100: Re: LD Provider Juggling (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/051-100: LD Provider Juggling (Justin T. Leavens) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees Charges (Jerry Harder) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (amer310@aol.com) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Ed Goldgehn) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Ed Goldgehn) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Fred R. Goldstein) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Fred R. Goldstein) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (G. Straughn) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (John Combs) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (John Levine) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (John Lundgren) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/101-150: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Lars Poulsen) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Michael D. Sullivan) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Mike Boyd) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Patton M. Turner) 15/051-100: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Pete Norloff) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (Roger Atkinson) 15/051-100: Re: LD Termination Fees to RBOCs (rta) 15/251-300: LDDS Cost Information and Quality Query (eric@tyrell.net) 15/251-300: Re: LDDS Cost Information and Quality Query (Steve Fram) 15/151-200: Leap Year (was Re: That Time Again) (Carl Moore) 15/101-150: Leased Line Options Outside U.S.A (Hemant Shah) 15/251-300: Least Cost Routing Question (Masoud Loghmani) 15/251-300: Lecturer in Information Engineering - Massey Univ, New Zealand (J.Y. 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(Julio Frondeur) 15/051-100: U.S. 800 Subscribers and Freephone Issue (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/051-100: Re: U.S. 800 Subscribers and Freephone Issue (Linc Madison) 15/151-200: U.S. 800 Users Alert (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/151-200: Re: U.S. 800 Users Alert (Colin Smale) 15/151-200: Re: U.S. 800 Users Alert (Judith Oppenheimer) 15/151-200: Re: U.S. 800 Users Alert (Stuart McRae) 15/251-300: US Area Code Changes - Test Numbers (Ben Heckscher) 15/001-050: US Contact: American Management System, Systemetic Inc. (Mr. Wah Chan) 15/201-250: Re: U.S. Federal Suggestion Box in Cyberspace (Bradley Ward Allen) 15/201-250: U.S. Federal Suggestion Box in Cyberspace (Donald E. Kimberlin) 15/201-250: Re: U.S. Federal Suggestion Box in Cyberspace (Wally Ritchie) 15/201-250: US Leased Line Tariff Studies and Information? 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Glover) 15/101-150: Wanted: Software to link Caller-ID With ProPhone Database (Paul Cascio) 15/101-150: Wanted: Sources for Network Reliability Statistics (Glenn Russell) 15/251-300: Wanted: Telex Modem (Richard Clark) 15/201-250: Wanted to Buy: D/121-A Boards (Joan Summa) 15/001-050: Wanted to Buy: Tekalek 221-C E-1 Test Set (pkt@ix.netcom.com) 15/101-150: Wanted to Buy: Used PBX and Telephones (Ray Siegel) 15/101-150: Wanted: Used AT&T Business Telephone Systems (Alex Capo) 15/051-100: Wanted: Used Business Telephone Systems and T1 (David M. Russell) 15/151-200: Wanted: Used Business Telephone Systems (Integrity Telecommunications) 15/251-300: Wanted: USRobotics V.34 28,800 V.Everything Dual Standard Modem (Brad Yi) 15/001-050: Wanted: We Buy and SellL Used Telephone Systems and Parts (David Russell) 15/201-250: Warning About 500 Number Charges (Eric Wagner) 15/201-250: Warning Lights Available? 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Bellaire) 15/201-250: Re: We Will Find the People Who Did This (Ken Stox) 15/201-250: Re: We Will Find the People Who Did This (Steve McKinty) 15/201-250: We Will Find the People Who Did This (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/101-150: Weird "Prime Number" and Other Messages 800 Number (Douglas Reuben) 15/101-150: Re: Weird "Prime Number" and Other Messages 800 Number (Mark Brader) 15/101-150: Re: Weird "Prime Number" and Other Messages 800 Number (Moritz Farbstein) 15/101-150: Re: Weird "Prime Number" and Other Messages 800 Number (Stanley Ulbrych) 15/201-250: What are Secure and Insecure http Links? (Jan-Adriaan de Lijster) 15/101-150: What Are You Doing in the Falkland Islands? (Paul Robinson) 15/201-250: What Does F.A.T. Stand For? and PCS-A Winners (Steve Samler) 15/251-300: What Does Mike Harris Election in Ontario Mean For Telecom? (Nigel Allen) 15/051-100: What is a Channel Bank? (William Wood) 15/101-150: Re: What is a Digital PBX? (Fred R. Goldstein) 15/101-150: What is a Digital PBX? (Matt Noah) 15/101-150: Re: What is a Digital PBX? (Richard Parkinson) 15/101-150: Re: What is a Digital PBX? (Travis Russell) 15/051-100: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Al Varney) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Butch Lcroan) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Ed Goldgehn) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (James Carlson) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Joseph H Allen) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Matthew P. Downs) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Wally Ritchie) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line? (Wally Ritchie) 15/001-050: Re: What is a T1 Line (William Wood) 15/201-250: What is an R-Modem? (Bob Collins) 15/051-100: What is an STD Coupler? (Richard Palmer) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Bill Brasuell) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Brian Bebeau) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Greg Habstritt) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (John Brandte) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Mike Boyd) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Sharon Prey) 15/101-150: What is DMS-100? (Stanley Tahara) 15/101-150: Re: What is DMS-100? (Steve Bauer) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (Al Varney) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (Chip Sharp) 15/101-150: What is ESF and D4? (davethez@netcom.com) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (Dr. R. Levine) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (Michael Jennings) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (Mike Schomburg) 15/101-150: Re: What is ESF and D4? (William Wood) 15/151-200: What is Future of Fiber/Coax in the Home? (shining@aol.com) 15/251-300: What is: Infotron Supermux 632 (Scott A. McMullan) 15/151-200: Re: What is Loop Start? (Fran S. Menzel) 15/151-200: Re: What is Loop Start? (Jay Davis III) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (John Nagle) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Martin McCormick) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Matt Noah) 15/101-150: What is Loop Start? (Paul Garfield) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (R.J. Welsh) 15/151-200: Re: What is Loop Start? (Scot M. Desort) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Sharon Prey) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Tony Zuccarino) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Travis Russell) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (Wally Ritchie) 15/101-150: Re: What is Loop Start? (William Wood) 15/151-200: What is "Steller III"? (scooby@.ibm.net) 15/151-200: Re: What is TELEGO Service? (Anthony Campbell) 15/151-200: Re: What is TELEGO Service? (Linc Madison) 15/201-250: Re: What is TELEGO Service? (Scott Townley) 15/151-200: What is TELEGO Service? (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) 15/201-250: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Eric Tholome) 15/251-300: Re: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Gareth J. Evans) 15/251-300: Re: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Gerald Serviss) 15/251-300: Re: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Jamie Mason) 15/251-300: Re: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Raymond Charles Jender) 15/251-300: Re: What is the Exact Meaning of POTS? (Tony Waddell) 15/151-200: What is the Status on Video Telephones? (Joe Konecny) 15/001-050: What Magazines do You Read? (Patrick Sukhu) 15/151-200: What Telecom Degrees Are Best Today? (Msgt. Paul Berens) 15/051-100: What to Look For in Choosing an LD Carrier? (Steve Chinatti) 15/151-200: What to Use to Connect Home Network Doing X? (Johannes Sayre) 15/251-300: What Would You Like to See on a WWW Site? (Paul Beit) 15/251-300: What's CAPI? Especially 'API' (Byung Wan Suh) 15/251-300: Re: What's CAPI? Especially 'API' (James Carlson) 15/201-250: Re: What's R2 Signalling on Switch? (Glenn Shirley) 15/201-250: Re: What's R2 Signalling on Switch? (Wally Ritchie) 15/201-250: What's R2 Signalling on Switch? (Yee-Lee Shyong) 15/051-100: What's the Current Status of LEOS? (Donald R. Newcomb) 15/201-250: What's Wrong With Telecom Books? (Tom Farley) 15/151-200: Re: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (Bruce McGuffin) 15/151-200: Re: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (Carl Moore) 15/151-200: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (Donald E. Kimberlin) 15/151-200: Re: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (Gary D. Shapiro) 15/151-200: Re: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (John J. Butz) 15/151-200: Re: When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! (Walter Lee Davidson) 15/051-100: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Brent Laminack) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (chazworth@aol.com) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Fred R. Goldstein) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Jack Pestaner) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Jeff Box) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Lars Poulsen) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (Mat Watkins) 15/051-100: Re: When Will PBXs Go Away? (pp000413@.interramp.com) 15/051-100: Where are the CTI Environments? (Scott Sanbeg) 15/001-050: Where Can I Buy Telephones (franci.visnovic@uni-mb.si) 15/051-100: Where Can I Find a Telecom Group in Chicago? (logicarsch@aol.com) 15/001-050: Where Does ISDN Fit In? (Daniel Ritsma) 15/001-050: Re: Where Does ISDN Fit In? (John Dearing) 15/001-050: Re: Where Does ISDN Fit In? (synchro@access1.digex.net) 15/001-050: Where is PicturePhone II Now? (David Gingold) 15/051-100: Re: Where is PicturePhone II Now? (Ed Ellers) 15/001-050: Re: Where is PicturePhone II Now? (synchro@access3.digex.net) 15/001-050: Re: Where is PicturePhone II Now? (Wally Ritchie) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Complain About Unsolicited Fax Ad? (Mel Beckman) 15/151-200: Where to Complain About Unsolicited Fax Ad? (Nick Sayer) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Complain About Unsolicited Fax Ad? (Nick Sayer) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Complain About Unsolicited Fax Ad? (wayneld@aol.com) 15/051-100: Re: Where to Find Nice-Looking Phones? (Alan Boritz) 15/051-100: Re: Where to Find Nice-Looking Phones? (Bill Garfield) 15/001-050: Re: Where to Find Nice-Looking Phones? (ophidian59@aol.com) 15/001-050: Where to Find Nice-Looking Phones? (Philip Borenstein) 15/051-100: Re: Where to Find Nice-Looking Phones? (Wes Leatherock) 15/051-100: Re: Where to Find tpage? (John R. MacLeod) 15/051-100: Where to Find tpage? (Rob Etzel) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Get Area Code Map? (Charles Sauls) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Get Area Code Map? (Clifton T. Sharp) 15/151-200: Where to Get Area Code Map? (Dawn Adler) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Get Area Code Map? (Mark Fletcher) 15/151-200: Re: Where to Get Area Code Map? (Zachary Schrag) 15/001-050: Re: Where to Get Text of the ECPA? (John A. Thomas) 15/001-050: Where to Get Text of the ECPA? (Wilson Mohr) 15/051-100: Re: Where to Get Text of the ECPA? (Wilson Mohr) 15/051-100: WheRe: T1 Information/FAQ? (bruce268@delphi.com) 15/051-100: Re: WheRe: T1 Information/FAQ? (John Lundgren) 15/051-100: Which Countries Have Competition (For FAQ Update)? (Dave Leibold) 15/051-100: Re: Which Countries Have Competition (for FAQ Update)? (Eric Tholome) 15/151-200: White Pages on the Internet? (Karen Brady) 15/101-150: White Pages on the Internet (Karen M. Brady) 15/051-100: Re: Who Are the Telephone Pioneers of America? (bkron@netcom.com) 15/051-100: Re: Who Are the Telephone Pioneers of America? (John Skalko) 15/051-100: Who Are the Telephone Pioneers of America? (Jonathan Prince) 15/101-150: Re: Who Belongs to 10732 Five-Digit Access Code? (David Breneman) 15/051-100: Re: Who Belongs to 10732 Five-Digit Access Code? (goodmans@delphi.com) 15/051-100: Re: Who Belongs to 10732 Five-Digit Access Code? (Peter M. Weiss) 15/051-100: Who Belongs to 10732 Five-Digit Access Code? (Thomas Grant Edwards) 15/101-150: Re: Who Belongs to 10732 Five-Digit Access Code? (Walter Turberville) 15/151-200: Who is SS7? (Bill Engel) 15/151-200: Re: Who is SS7? (Clifford Baldwin) 15/101-150: Who Makes T-Coder or Other 2 to 1 T1 mux? (David Friedman) 15/151-200: Who Owns Bahama Telephone Network? (wilhelm@cais3.cais.com) 15/051-100: Wholesale Debit Card Providers (Bill Vanvliet) 15/101-150: Who's the B Cell Carrier in Ithaca NY? (John Levine) 15/101-150: Re: Who's the B Cell Carrier in Ithaca NY? (John Levine) 15/151-200: Re: Who's the B Cell Carrier in Ithaca NY? (Peter A. Morenus, Jr.) 15/151-200: Re: Who's the B Cell Carrier in Ithaca NY? (Robert Levandowski) 15/101-150: Why Does AT&T Immediatly Supervise on 0-500? (Doug Reuben) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Z-MODEM Work? (Antonio Sousa) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Z-MODEM Work? (Christian Weisgerber) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Zmodem Work? (Chuck A. Forsberg) 15/151-200: Why Doesn't Zmodem Work? (David Burns) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Z-MODEM Work? (John Rice) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Z-MODEM Work? (Jon Firor) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Z-MODEM Work? (Lorence Mlodzinski) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Zmodem Work? (Melvin Klassen) 15/151-200: Re: Why Doesn't Zmodem Work? (Robert Levandowski) 15/201-250: Why SNMP? or Why Not? (Suresh Kalkunte) 15/201-250: Re: Will a T1 Improve the Quality of our Modem Lines? (Jeff Box) 15/151-200: Will a T1 Improve the Quality of Our Modem Lines? (Ken Mayer) 15/201-250: Re: Will a T1 Improve the Quality of our Modem Lines? (synchro@digex.net) 15/201-250: Re: Will a T1 Improve the Quality of our Modem Lines? (Wally Ritchie) 15/251-300: Will Cable Commpanies Dominate Internet Access Market? (Michael Wilshire) 15/251-300: Re: Will Cable Companies Dominate Internet Access Market? (Clifton Sharp) 15/251-300: Re: Will Cable Companies Dominate Internet Access Market? (Joel Upchurch) 15/251-300: Re: Will Cable Companies Dominate Internet Access Market? (John Higdon) 15/251-300: Re: Will Cable Companies Dominate Internet Access Market? (Mike McKinney) 15/251-300: Re: Will Cable Companies Dominate Internet Access Market? (Tom Horsley) 15/051-100: WilTel's New Telecom Atlas (Leslie Smith) 15/051-100: Windows TAPI/TSPI Sources Wanted (M. G. Petersen) 15/101-150: Winsock Problem (Greg Polimis) 15/051-100: Wireless and Mobile Computing Presentation (David Scott Lewis) 15/001-050: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (Bob Goudreau) 15/051-100: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (David E.A. Wilson) 15/001-050: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (James M. Roden) 15/001-050: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (John Nagle) 15/001-050: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (Linc Madison) 15/001-050: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (Liron Lightwood) 15/001-050: Re: Wireless CO's Challenge New NPAs? (Phil Ritter) 15/151-200: Wireless, Extra Phone Outlets (Morten Haugen) 15/051-100: Wireless Lan FAQ For Campus Networks (Jim Williams) 15/101-150: Wireless LAN's (A.D. Brinkerink) 15/101-150: Wireless Modems (Mukesh Sharma) 15/151-200: Re: Wireless Modems? (now FreeWave Tech Modems) (John Foust) 15/051-100: Wireless Networks (Marie-Louise Kok) 15/101-150: Re: Wireless RF Manufacturers (Eric Nelson) 15/051-100: Wireless RF Manufacturers (jdi@access.digex.net) 15/101-150: Wireless Telephone Seminar (aleksndr@aol.com) 15/201-250: Wireless Telephone Seminar (Alexander Resources) 15/101-150: Wireless Telephone Seminar (Jerome Kaufman) 15/151-200: Wireless Telephone Systems Seminar (Alexander Resources) 15/251-300: Workshop on Digital Image/Video/Audio Coding (Michael Fuller) 15/201-250: World Cellular Report (Steve Geimann) 15/051-100: Worldwide Area Code Listing Available via ftp (Paul Robinson) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Aryeh M. Friedman) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Benjamin P. Carter) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Bruce Roberts) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Clarence Dold) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (John Lundgren) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Mark Nichols) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Olcay Cirit) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Rich Greenberg) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Stephen P. Sorkin) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Steven H. Lichter) 15/001-050: Re: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (Ted Hadley) 15/001-050: Would You Believe More Rain on the Way? (TELECOM Digest Editor) 15/251-300: Writing a Network Performance Application (Julia Jackson) 15/151-200: Re: X25 and TCP/IP (Ed Goldgehn) 15/151-200: Re: X25 and TCP/IP (James Knowles) 15/151-200: Re: X25 and TCP/IP (Lars Poulsen) 15/151-200: X25 and TCP/IP (Marios Scottis) 15/251-300: X.25 Equipment Help Wanted (Michael Vakulenko) 15/151-200: X.25 Level 2 Information Wanted (Popa Madalin) 15/101-150: X.25 over ISDN - Addressing (Azriel Heuman) 15/101-150: Re: X.25 Over ISDN - Addressing (Bob Stone) 15/151-200: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Again) (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Again) (Steve Cogorno) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices: Global Information Wanted (Andy Lochridge) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (John Combs) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Matthew P. Downs) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Michael Shields) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Sam Spens Clason) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Steve Cogorno) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Steve McKinty) 15/151-200: Re: X.25/ISDN Prices; Global Information Wanted (Tony Harminc) 15/151-200: Xylogics Annex 4000 Cabling (Bob Izenberg) 15/101-150: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Benjamin P. Carter) 15/101-150: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Benjamin P. Carter) 15/151-200: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO. (Carl B. Page) 15/101-150: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Danny Burstein) 15/101-150: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Fred Goodwin) 15/101-150: Re: yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Gary Novosielski) 15/151-200: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local CO (Gary Novosielski) 15/101-150: Re: Yes, Yung'uns. CNID -is- Logged at Your Local