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TELECOM Digest Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 55
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Don't Forget to Claim Phone Excise Tax Refund, Says IRS (Leonard Wiener)
National Geographic Offers Super Roaming Service (James Q. Pearce)
Cisco IP Phones Have a Huge Security Risk (Cisco Security Department)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
Apple, Cisco Reach Terms Over iPhone Name (USTelecom dailyLead)
Re: Verizon to Discontinue Analog Cell Service (Rick Merrill)
Re: A Couple Points From Recent Discussions (Lisa Hancock)
Re: Party Line Dialing (T)
Re: Party Line Dialing (Lisa Hancock)
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:38:36 -0600
From: Leonard Wiener, AP NewsWire <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Don't Forget to Claim Phone Excise Tax Refund, Says IRS
Phone Excise Tax Gives the IRS a Headache
By Leonard Wiener
As if the IRS doesn't already have its hands full beginning to process
2006 tax returns and implement deductions authorized by Congress late
last year, now comes a new headache policing the issuance of rebates
of up to $60 in telephone excise tax to almost all tax filers.
Last month, the IRS advised that many early tax filers were failing to
claim the rebate or claiming it incorrectly. At one point, the agency
said about a third of filers who appeared to qualify for the rebate
weren't taking it.
Now the focus has shifted to people claiming way too much -- either
accidentally or as part of a scam.
In addition to probing individual returns, IRS agents armed with
search warrants have seized records and computers at tax preparation
firms in Texas, Georgia, California, Florida, and Louisiana where
abuse is suspected. The IRS says other tax preparers across the
country who are preparing questionable rebate claims "are receiving
visits from IRS revenue agents."
The excise tax rebate results from the Treasury Department's
concession last year that it erroneously collected a 3 percent levy on
long-distance calls. The government is refunding some of that tax.
People who accept a standard amount of $30 to $60 -- based on the
number of personal and dependent exemptions claimed on the 2006 tax
return -- won't have to dig up past bills or even show they called
long distance.
Self-employed people and business filers must follow somewhat more
complex rules, and anyone can try to document and claim a bigger
refund of the actual tax paid on land-line and cellphone calls during
the 41-month period of March 2003 through July 2006.
A special line on the 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ tax forms is used to
claim the refund, and tax form instructions have the details. Tax
preparation software can handle this, and tax preparers are also
primed to get you the rebate.
People who aren't required to file a return, including many retirees
and others on limited incomes, can file Form 1040EZ-T just to get the
excise tax refund.
Businesses and filers claiming actual tax paid need Form 8913.
IRS guidance with links to more detailed information is available online.
The trouble, according to the IRS, is that some filers are asking for
thousands of dollars back -- what seems to be many times more than
would be legitimate. Some requests appear to be for entire phone bills
rather than just the excise tax.
IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, targeting errant tax preparation firms,
said there have been blatant and serious instances of abuse. "We've
sent in criminal investigators to pursue the matter accordingly."
IRS spokesman Terry Lemons says this is the biggest refund program ever
for the agency. But what for taxpayers may seem like found money -- and
without question worth claiming -- has turned into an unexpected pain in
the tax form for the IRS.
Copyright 2007, Associated Press.
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:41:23 -0600
From: James Quintana Pearce <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: National Geographic Offers Super Roaming Service Telephone
Posted by James Quintana Pearce
National Geographic will start selling a the travelphone and plan next
month ... there's no content involved, just the ability to use the
phone in over 100 countries, reports CNet. Outgoing calls will cost
90c per minute, which is pretty steep but stops you having to worry
about getting a mobile when you're travelling -- and there is no
contract. It also draws on NG's image as a globetrotting company
(Lonely Planet is the only other one that springs to my mind).
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:43:53 -0600
From: Cisco Security Derpartment <cisco@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Cisco IP Phones Have a Huge Security Risk
Cisco IP Phones Default Account Grants Remote Access and Subsequent
Privilege Escalation
SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1017681
SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017681
CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1063 (Links to External Site)
Updated: Feb 22 2007
Original Entry Date: Feb 21 2007
Impact: Root access via local system, User access via network
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
Advisory: Cisco Security Advisory
Version(s): 8.0(4)SR1 and prior; models 7906G, 7911G, 7941G, 7961G,
7970G, and 7971G
Description: A vulnerability was reported in Cisco IP Phones. A remote
user can access a default account on the target device. The user can
then obtain elevated privileges on the target device.
A remote user can access the target device via SSH and use a
hard-coded default user account and password to gain access to the
target device. Once access has been obtained, the user can invoke
commands to elevate their privileges and gain full administrative
access.
The default user account can not be disabled or removed and the
password cannot be change. The SSH server cannot be disabled.
The following models are affected:
7906G, 7911G, 7941G, 7961G, 7970G, and 7971G
The following models are not affected:
7902G, 7905, 7905G, 7910, 7912, 7912G, 7920, 7921G, 7940, 7960, and 7985.
Cisco has assigned Cisco Bug ID CSCsg34758 to the remote access
vulnerability and Cisco Bug IDs CSCsg34789 and CSCsg42627 to the
privilege escalation vulnerability.
Cisco discovered these vulnerabilities.
Impact: A remote user can gain access to the target device and then
gain elevated privileges on the target device.
Solution: The vendor has issued fixed firmware (8.0(4)SR2, 8.2(1)),
available at:
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ip-7900ser
The Cisco advisory is available at:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070221-phone.shtml
Vendor URL: www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070221-phone.shtml
(Links to External Site)
Cause: Access control error
Reported By: Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
<psirt@cisco.com>
Message History: None.
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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communicationsdirect@communicationsdirect>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:13:55 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Apple, Cisco Reach Terms Over iPhone Name
USTelecom dailyLead
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:23:24 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Verizon to Discontinue Analog Cell Service
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> Verizon announced it will discontinue cellular analog service next
> February 2008.
> Has any of the other cellular carriers made such an announcement?
Haven't they DONE it already?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, they have not, at least not
entirely. I still see a few of the older phones around town here, and
my one pre-paid cell phone still operates also. PAT]
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: A Couple Points From Recent Discussions
Date: 22 Feb 2007 10:42:28 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
On Feb 21, 8:48 pm, Bill Hendley <wh3...@swbell.net> wrote:
> Not all Centrex systems required consoles.
Actually, you did not need anything special for the attendant's
console or even an attendant for the later Centrex generation, since
Centrex II was an automated system. You could (and I believe some
indeed did) have a plain telephone set as the general listed number,
and simply transfer calls via hookswitch flash. Actually, you didn't
need to have a general listed number at all. It depended on what
level of customer service you wished to provide. There were
organizations that were satellite offices and if you didn't know the
listed number for a particular person, you probably didn't want to
call the satellite office in the first place. IMHO, good business
requires that an attendant be available to assist callers who may have
lost a number as well as internal needs.
In old time dial PBXs, while many extensions were disabled from
dialing 9 for an outside line, I believe any extension could dial 0
for the PBX attendant. Presumably an executive could get an outside
call placed or in an emergency the attedant would connect to the
police, fire, and/or rescue.
However in modern systems, there may be no attendant at all, and
disabled phones merely give a fast busy if one attempts to dial 9 or
0. The usefulness of such phones in an emergency seems rather
questionable.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But in small towns like ours, as
> generally economically depressed as our town, and losing in
> population, jobs, etc, the city fathers look at Walmart and think
> it means a Savior has come to rescue the place.
This is a good point. For _some_ places, a Walmart is good because it
is better than the alternatives, which are nothing.
Also, from the customer's point of view, whether we like them or not,
the big chains do offer more hours, products, and lower prices.
I tried to support the independently owned drugstores in my town until
they closed. But I must admit the chain (CVS) is more convenient for
me since it is open much longer hours than the private drugstores
could be. It also has a much greater selection of sundry items than
the private stores. However, prices are the same, the CVS is not a
discount store.
What bothers me now is that the big drugstore chains are merging
together among themselves. So while we'd have a little competition
from say CVS, Thrift/Eckert, and RiteAid, the numbers are declining
due to buy outs. To me that is anti trust and should not be allowed.
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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Party Line Dialing, was Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:45:40 -0500
In article <telecom26.51.7@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
says ...
> However, in some 1950s Bell System publications, they said one of the
> limiting factors in giving more private lines (demand exceed supply)
> was that central offices didn't have the capacity. Party service was
> a way to keep down calling volume until they could expand. In many
> cases that meant a new building which of course was expensive and time
> consuming. (I know of city Bell Telephone buildings where it is
> obviously some upper stories were added.)
In the case of the CO in Providence, RI they just built onto the back of
it. See here:
http://tinyurl.com/yqshjd
> I do wonder if any outside auditors checked to see if the Bell System
> was indeed adding capacity as demand required in the 1950s. Could
> Bell have bought gear from Automatic Electric? Hired more installers?
> I will note that in the 1950s the military was expanding and Bell had
> military contracts for both basic phone systems and advanced radar and
> other systems. Other companies at the time did so as well, and this
> was respected by the public. Companies in that era ran ads (similar
> to that of WW II) "Defense needs come first -- please be patient". (It
> wasn't until the later 1960s that some would question Bell System
> defense projects.)
Bell made very good money on defense contracts.
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Party Line Dialing
Date: 22 Feb 2007 10:53:09 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Lisa Hancock:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Skokie did it with 'emminent domain',
> which was the same thing here when Walmart had their eyes set on the
> West Main Street property they eventually took over. Apparently the
> theory of emminent domain can be liberally interpreted. At one point,
> there had to be some _specific government use_ for property in order
> for the government to condemn it and obtain it. Not so any longer; the
> fact that some corporation merely _claims_ that their acquisition of
> a piece of property will 'eventually' benefit the city or town is a
> good enough reason.
The Supreme Court recently upheld liberal interpretations of eminent
domain. "Benefit" could simply mean the new commercial use will kick
in more taxes than the prior use. So there could be a perfectly nice
and well kept modest neighborhood in place, but if some developer
wants to put in a shopping mall, the existing people are "S.O.L."
Interestingly, there are several exhibits in NYC on the works of
master builder Robert Moses, who figuratavely or literally bulldozed
anyone or anything in the way of his projects. But at least his
projects were of public use, such as highways, parks, education,
public housing, and hospitals. (The relative merits of his projects
and methods is under debate). If one has any interest in public works
or urban planning they should read the stuff on the various websites
of the museums.
See: www.mcny.org
In the South Bronx of NYC, where much of it is now a wasteland, I
wonder how NY Telephone handled the situation. Do they have old
exchange buildings with mostly empty space or unused gear reflecting
the loss of subscribers? Do exchanges serving the wasteland have lots
of empty numbers? Sometimes one new development project -- which there
are -- can eat up lots of lines for Centrex and other modern stuff.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: South Bronx, in New York City is the
rough equivilent of Lawndale, a Chicago inner-city neighborhood, which
is telephonically served by 'Chicago-Kedzie', a west side central
office. Lawndale was in the midst of the 1968 riots in Chicago, and
to this day, there are still blocks and blocks of vacant lots and
much wasteland, never repaired or rebuilt following the fires,
etc. The Lawndale community, in the 1920's, used to be majority
white and mostly Jewish, given the number of buildings in the area
which formerly were synagogues, and similar.
The Jews grew very fearful of circumstances around there in the
1950's; by and large they all relocated to the north side Rogers Park
neighborhood or many of them to Skokie. Lawndale was the supplementary
'downtown Chicago' with all the department stores having branch stores
there (much like 63rd/Englewood on the south side); about a dozen
large movie theatres; all the synagogues of course, and several
restaurants. As the Jews and other white people moved out, middle
class blacks moved in. Soon, the neighborhood got even too rough for
middle class blacks and they mostly moved away, leaving (or making
room for) the lowest class black residents. Then came the riots and
fires of April and August, 1968. Of course City of Chicago promised to
rebuild the entire area and make it a 'showcase' once again. The
stores which had not been burned out in the riots quickly saw the
handwriting on the wall, took the hint, and split. Please tell me
whatever happened after the riots in South Central Los Angeles in the
1990's? I know that El Lay promised it would all be rebuilt, nicer
than ever before. Did that really happen, or was it just another
example of a 'Walmart promise', like Chicago?
Chicago-Kedzie CO always had plenty of armed guards around the place,
so the riots did not cause them anything other than a nuisance. At
that point in time -- 1968 -- Kedzie still had a large Traffic Depart-
ment operating room on the second and third floor of the building, and
on the three worst nights of the riots, the _only way_ they could get
operators to come to work (and back home safely at the end of the
evening shift) was by sending _everyone_ in a cab. As a matter of
fact, I was working overnight at Amoco/Diners Credit Card at the time
and took a cab downtown myself.
All the way downtown from my home in Hyde Park, the taxicab radio
dispatcher was like a radio evangelist, with his constant pleadings to
drivers: "Kedzie Bell! Kedzie Bell! I want at least twenty _more_ cabs
for Kedzie Bell! Drive down the alley and park at the loading dock;
the security officers will give you each two or three passengers. Each
operator will have Yellow Cab scrip as payment. Don't ask for money!
Just take the scrip and turn it in to your garage cashier. Kedzie
Bell!" (then, after a pause as someone was talking to him, he starts
again; "um, no, Kedzie Bell, not Kenwood Bell! Kenwood Bell lets out
at midnight; but now we have to get Kedzie Bell; they let out at 11:30
pm. Don't ask me again for a passenger's name! I do not know their
names! Security officers at Kedzie will load your cabs. Three or four
riders each cab; mark down the fare on the scrip and add fifty cents
each rider for your tip. Pull up in the alley by the loading dock;
report to the security officers! I need a commitment from twenty more
drivers at Kedzie Bell!" By the time I had arrived at work at the
credit card office, the dispatcher had changed his tune, now he was
asking for cabs at Kenwood Bell, but with the same terms and deals.
Telco later said it cost the company about a hundred thousand dollars
to get operators to work and home after work those two or three nights
of the riots. The last time I was in the area, in 1999, entire blocks
were still sitting totally empty, except for here and there a
combination cut-rate liquor store and Illinois State Lottery
agent. Kedzie Bell totally automated all their operator positions to
TSPS out of some remote point, somewhere. No more operators there at
all. Kenwood followed shortly behind them. What is El Lay South
Central like these days? PAT]
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