TELECOM Digest     Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:39:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 60

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Students Pressured to Stop Illegal Downloads (Yinka Adegoke, Reuters)
    RIAA Opposes 'Fair Use' Bill (Grant Gross, IDG News)
    Cordless Phone Does Not Ring (sanjay.gaikwad@gmail.com)
    CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
    AT&T Calls For VDSL Interoperability Standards (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: BBS: The Documentary (Steven Lichter)
    Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Neal McLain)
    Re: _Unconcealed_ Weapons (David B. Horvath, CCP)
    Re: Morton Grove, Illinois (was Party Line Dialing) (T)

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:02:31 -0600
From: Yinka Adegoke, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org)
Subject: Students Pressured to Stop Illegal Downloads


By Yinka Adegoke

The U.S. recording industry on Wednesday stepped up efforts to stop
college students from downloading pirated music online and offered
students a way to settle the disputes out of court.

The Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, said it sent
400 letters to 13 U.S. universities advising of potential copyright
infringement lawsuits against students who use their computer networks
to swap songs they haven't paid for.

The industry group is asking the universities to notify students they
will be sued, but can settle the cases before any lawsuits are filed.
RIAA said it will send out hundreds of the letters each month in an
effort to stamp out music theft by students.

Previously, the group filed lawsuits against individuals who illegally
swapped songs on Internet-based networks like KaZaa and Limewire. The
music industry argues the practice has cost them millions of dollars.

More than 1 billion songs are swapped on such services each month,
according to Web tracking company Big Champagne.

The record industry, which has seen sales plunge by more than 23
percent between 2000 to 2006, wants music lovers to purchase digital
music over legal Web sites like Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store or
RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody.

A University of Richmond study found that more than half of college
students downloaded music and movies illegally, the RIAA said.

"We need to address this demographic," RIAA President Cary Sherman
said.  "Remember that the habits that they form in college will stay
with them for a lifetime."

Under the settlement deal offered by RIAA, students would have to pay
a fine and sign a statement promising they would no longer download
music illegally.

Sean Foley, a student at Arizona State University, one of the schools
expecting RIAA's settlement letters, said, "I know students are active
users. But the record companies should be letting people use these
services rather than ban them."

Recipients of the letters can settle the cases online at a Web site
set up by the RIAA http://www.p2plawsuits.com .

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:04:35 -0600
From: Grant Gross, IDG News <idg@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: RIAA Opposes 'Fair Use' Bill


by Grant Gross, IDG News Service

A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting the fair use
rights for consumers of copyright material would "legalize hacking,"
the Recording Industry Association of America said.

The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship (FAIR
USE) Act, introduced Tuesday by U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher
(news, bio, voting record), a Virginia Democrat, and John Doolittle
(news, bio, voting record), a California Republican, would allow
customers to circumvent digital copy restrictions in six limited areas
when copyright owners' business models are not threatened, Boucher
said in a press release. So-called fair use doctrine allows customers
of copyright works to make limited numbers of copies, particularly for
reviews, news reporting, teaching and research.

The bill would allow exemptions to the anticircumvention restrictions
in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by Congress in
1998.  The bill is revamped from similar bills introduced in the last
two sessions of Congress, Boucher said.

"The fair use doctrine is threatened today as never before," Boucher
said in a statement. "Historically, the nation's copyright laws have
reflected a carefully calibrated balanced between the rights of
copyright owners and the rights of the users of copyrighted material.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright
balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the
public's right to fair use."

But the RIAA said the bill would effectively repeal the DMCA. The bill
would "allow electronics companies to induce others to break the law
for their own profit," it said in a statement. Advances such digital
music sales, online games, on-demand movies and e-books can be traced
to DMCA protects, the RIAA said.

"The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and
hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce," the
RIAA said in its statement.

The Boucher bill would limit the availability of statutory damages
against individuals and firms who may be found to have engaged in
contributory infringement, inducement of infringement, or other
indirect infringement. The bill would allow libraries to circumvent
digital locks or secure copies of works that have been damaged, lost
or stolen.

The Consumer Electronics Association applauded the bill, saying it
would give protections to consumers, educators and libraries. Without
fair use protections, consumers couldn't use devices such as VCRs and
digital TV recorders, the trade group said.

Copyright 2007 PC World Communications, Inc.

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From: sanjay.gaikwad@gmail.com
Subject: Cordless Phone Does Not Ring
Date: 28 Feb 2007 17:33:14 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


I am facing a baffling problem. I have a corded and a cordless phone
hooked in my apartment along with AT&T DSL internet on the same phone
line.

Few days back my 900Mhz Uniden cordless phone stopped ringing whenever
there used to be incoming call. My corded phone continue to ring and I
could even use either phones to answer the calls. There was no problem
for outging calls also from either phones. Some times for incoming
calls the corded phone use to ring only once and gets directly
connected. I picked any of the phones I could answer the call.

I thought it could be a problem with the Uniden phone and purchased a
2.4Ghz GE phone. It also behaved exactly the same way. Both the
cordless phones have answering system, which is also not working. I
checked GE and Uniden cordless phones at my friends place along with
all the DSL filters. Surprisingly the phones and answering system
worked just fine.

Now I felt the problem is with my telephone service / Line. I got it
checked from At&T and they informed me the line is ok. He mentioned it
could be due to "Interference" with wireless network. I tried using
the phones without DSL and without wireless routers. Things did not
change. Now I am wondering if wireless networks in my apartment
vicinity (there are several of them) are interfering with my cordless
system? Can any body explain the phenomenon and the way to solve it?


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The first thing which came to mind was
not that there was 'interference'. If there was 'interference', you
would occassionally hear 'static' or something similar on the line
when you were using it. Also, you would probably receive spurious
ringing (no rhyme nor reason to it; just occassional tingles from the
ring-making device on the cordless phone) when the 'interference'
bothered the cordless unit. Before you go around polling your
neighbors to see about their cordless phones and wireless apparatus,
I would first go by the clues you gave in your first paragraph:
(1) You recently got AT&T DSL service. and (2) the cordless phone
only rang _once_ and was directly connected. That 'one ring and then
connected' sort of sounds ot me like a short on the line. Not enough
of a short to make your line totally busy but enough of a short that
with sufficient ringing voltage (as oppposed to voltage to talk with)
something is happening.

I'd try unplugging all the phones and the DSL incoming line. Then do
a controlled test where you place a call to yourself (maybe from a
cell phone?) with _only_ the wireless phone plugged in where you
normally have the wired phone plugged in.  See if your wireless phone
and its answering machine now start working, or see if you can make
the cordless phone 'ring once' and then be connected.  If it does work
okay at that point, then the hassle is in the wiring of one or more of
your phone outlets. I suggest that in most cases with wireless phones
and answering machines, only two wires are used; for simplicity, the
red and the green. But sometimes, on cordless phones and answering
machines the outside pair (yellow and black wires number 1 and 4) are
also used. Is your answering machine set up to cut off whenever a
phone is picked up?  If that is the case, then sometimes the
yelllow/black wires 1 & 4 are 'jumpered' to green and red (wires 2 &
3) inside the phone somehow or _maybe_ in the wall box. After you do
these litle experiments I suggested, get back to us here and
_carefully_ document what happened. PAT]

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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communications@communicationsdirectnews.com>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:48:31 EST


********************************
PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For February 28, 2007
********************************

Czech Regulator Wins Against Telefo3nica O2's Appeal
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/22979?11228

     The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the Czech
     telecoms market regulator (CTU) had the right to force Telefonica
     O2 Czech Republic (then known as Cesky Telecom) to open its ADSL
     network to its smaller rival, Czech OnLine, in early May 2004. In
     its appeal, the incumbent alleged that the CTU had violated two
     European ...

Rogers Offers Free On-Net Fixed-Mobile Calling
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22976?11228

     Rogers has announced that it is to become the first operator in
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Siemens Boosts Passive Optical Bandwidth, Reach
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     Passive optical networks (PONs) promise to replace copper cable
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     Thursday will be a big day for Rene Obermann, 43, the
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     he will outline a new strategy for the under-pressure
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     The bidding for handheld computer pioneer Palm Inc. is heating
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     bankers familiar with the deal say the bidding process is
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T-Mobile Focusing on US, Europe For Now
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/22960?11228

     The wireless unit of Deutsche Telekom recently said that its
     primary focus will be to grow its U.S. and European businesses,
     though it didn&'t rule out the possibility of expanding into
     emerging markets.  The European cellular market is mature in
     terms of overall penetration, and the U.S. market isn't far
     behind. Many European ...

Frontline Wireless Enters The 700 MHz Fray
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     Frontline Wireless LLC, a new group headed by well-known industry
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     filing sent to the Federal Communications Commission earlier this
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High Consumer Interest for Enabling IMS/NGN Technologies
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/22954?11228

     SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- US consumer buying decisions are based on
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:12:50 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: AT&T Calls For VDSL Interoperability Standards


USTelecom dailyLead
February 28, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gnsUfDtusXmNmhCibuddiofq


TODAY'S HEADLINES


NEWS OF THE DAY
* AT&T calls for VDSL interoperability standards
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Verizon widens 50 Mbps footprint
* Sprint expects subscriber gains in the second quarter
* BFTV expands reach
* Judge puts Qualcomm-Nokia patent trial on hold
* AT&T rolling out video services
* EA, iVillage team up on games for women
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Register for NXTcomm today!
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Yahoo ad-ranking tool a hit with users
* ISkoot attracts news funds
* Smartphone shipments reach 80 million in 2006
* Argentina's telecoms market set to grow 15%, study says
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Comcast takes issue with subscriber limits

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gnsUfDtusXmNmhCibuddiofq

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From: Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com>
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc.
Subject: Re: BBS: The Documentary
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:23:59 GMT


T wrote:

> In article <telecom0.0.5@telecom-digest.org>, christopherz.lee@gmail.com 
> says:

>> Yeah! A retro of old skool 80s geek out there at
>> http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/02/bbs-documentary.html

> Awesome -- lots of younger people remember the BBS which is amazing. 

> Here's how I got into it. Back in 1982 I'd just graduated high school
> and bought myself a Radio Shack DC-1 modem. This was the one where you
> had to dial then flip the switch when you detected carrier, etc.

> I did so on the advice of a friend who told me about this cool new thing 
> called the BBS. Providence, RI had but one BBS at the time called 
> NYBBLINK. About a month after I'd gotten the modem NYBBLINK went belly 
> up. 

> So I pressured my friend and together we built a BBS package for the 
> TRS-80 Model III called Syslink. Well, Syslink begat PowerCor and 
> PowerNet. The guy who built the Power* systems was Andy Green, who then 
> formed Intelicom Data Systems or IDS. IDS is now Conversent 
> Communications. 

> So all because I bought a modem and had nothing to connect to. Imagine 
> that. 

> For a few years in the late 80's I was the sysop for Syslink, but by 
> then it was running on a PC under TBBS. 

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I started my BBS'ing in 1979 under the
> tutalage of Randy Seuss in Chicago, but instead of the software and
> computer he operated, I chose to use an Apple ][+ and a variation on
> the People's Message System of Bill Blue. I got the Apple in 1981 and
> thought that was better to use than the older OSI C-l-P machine I had.
> I kept *Lakeshore Modem Magazine* alive through the end of 1985 at 
> which point I was pretty much involved in Usenet all the time. During
> that same time period I was also sysop of the Chicago Public Library
> BBS for about three years, but that (CPL) was on a volunteer basis
> (which is not to say my own BBS made any money, either!) PAT]

The article and video were very interesting to me having ran an Apple
II BBS from 1984 until 2003.  The system is still right next to my new
Macs, but is no longer on line, the BBS is up and still runs, just no
modem.  Some year I might even put a modem back on it and see what
happens.

The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? 
(c) 2007  I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Have you considered running that BBS 
(the one without a modem) on a high speed broadband line, or given
the number of hackers and spammers these days, is that too risky?  PAT]

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:26:24 -0600
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes


I wrote:

> So how would they pronounce 201-200-0000?

Bob Goudreau wrote:

> The other cool thing about that number is that it is of
> course the lowest (generally-dialable) phone number in
> the entire world!

Ron Kritzman wrote:

> In the telephony world 0 is a ten not a null, so
> wouldn't that be a pretty high number?

PAT wrote:

> I think that all depends; if you are dial pulsing the number it is a
> 'ten'.

Robert Bonomi wrote:

> True for North American phone systems.

> There are other, incompatible, phone systems that use different
> encodings.  One uses two through eleven pulses for the digits, with
> 'n+1' pulses for 1-9, and eleven pulses for '0'.  This greatly
> reduced false-digit detection from the equivalent of a 'switch-hook
> flash'.

You may be thinking of Sweden.  http://tinyurl.com/2h7jde

But note that on the Swedish dial, zero is encoded as one pulse, not 
eleven.  Of course, that would still prevent wrong numbers due to 
false-digit detection: the caller would get the operator.

Assuming, of course, that "false-digit detection" is actually a
problem.  I always thought it was, but our friend Wes Leatherock
thinks otherwise.  Wes?

PAT continued:

> Exactly how it [digit zero] is translated if being 'tone dialed' is
> not known to me. Is it still considered a 'ten'.  In that case, are
> the '*' and '#' keys considered eleven and twelve when dialed?  PAT]

Tone dialing is accomplished by transmission of two audio tones within
the 300-3000 Hz voice bandwidth; hence the terminology "dual-tone
multi-frequency" (DTMF) signaling.  Each digit (including *, #, A, B,
C, and D) is encoded by a different combination of a set of eight
audio tones. Digit zero is encoded as 941 Hz + 1336 Hz.
http://tinyurl.com/22gu3j

No matter how we encode numeric digits, we have to assign *something*
to represent zero.  We can't represent zero by nothing at all
(although I've been told that Roman numerals don't have a zero).  Over
the centuries, we humans have evolved numerous conventions: 0, 000,
0000, 0x00, "zero", "oh", "null", "nought", "goose egg", "zilch",...

In the telephony world, zero can be encoded as one pulse, ten pulses,
eleven pulses, 941+1336 Hz, or whatever.  But for the purposes of
assigning human-readable telephone numbers, a zero is a zero is a
zero.

Therefore, I agree with Goudreau: 201-200-0000 is the lowest
(numerically) in the NANP.

And I suppose that:

- If you're counting dial pulses, the lowest would be 212-221-1111
(except that it might be tied with 212-212-1111 if the Illinois
Commerce Commission were assigning NNXs in New York).

- The highest (numerically) would be 989-999-9999, in an unassigned
NPA-NNX in Michigan.

- The highest (counting dial pulses) would be 909-900-0000, an
unassigned number in the Fantana, California rate center.

Neal McLain

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:04:21 -0500
From: David B. Horvath, CCP <dhorvath@notchur.biz>
Subject: _Unconcealed_ Weapons


PAT: PLEASE HIDE MY EMAIL ADDRESS, NAME IS OK!

At 09:30 PM 2/27/2007, TELECOM Digest Editor wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What if it is an _unconcealed_ weapon?
> Suppose you simply walked down the street with a gun strapped on your
> belt, like an oldtime cowboy?  You are not attempting to hide
> anything.  PAT]

http://www.packing.org is a good source of answers to questions like
this.

I live in Pennsylvania which is a "shall-issue" conceal carry permit
state -- if you can pass the background check, you can get one.  Some
states, like RI apparently are "may-issue" which is at the discretion
of some politician or law enforcement official. Some states (like
Vermont and Alaska) are conceal carry free -- you don't need a permit
at all. Alaska also has a "shall-issue" permit process allowing state
residents to carry in other states that allow it.

Many states allow "open carry" -- that it is legal to carry an
unconcealed firearm without a permit. Pennsylvania is one of those
(except in "cities of the first class", Philadelphia). However, except
way out in the boonies, if you did walk around suburbia with a firearm
unconcealed, you'd get hassled constantly because of the calls the
cops would be getting "man with a gun".

- David

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Morton Grove, Illinois (was Party Line Dialing)
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:18:19 -0500


In article <telecom26.59.6@telecom-digest.org>,
nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net says:

> In article <telecom0.0.10@telecom-digest.org>, reading this group, 

>> I think you worked at the Skokie Swift station. 

> TELECOM Digest Editor responded, saying:

>> About the _MORON_ Grove police department. In 1985 or thereabouts,
>> they managed to get a city ordinance passed -- purely city, mind you
>>  -- banning the private ownership of any handguns within their
>> village. Forget about the Second Amendment and all that rot; that did
>> not matter at all to them. They put up a sign on Dempster Street where
>> Dempster goes into Moron Grove warning everyone that all were subject
>> to search and seizure for handguns; now I do not own any form of gun;
>> truth be told, weapons of any sort frighten me a lot; but what scares
>> me a lot more is the blaise way the village fathers were doing away 
>> with guns, just on the say-so of their police department, and their
>> neighbors to the east, Evanston and Skokie who also supported the
>> anti-gun initiative. Moron Grove police were very corrupted anyway,
>> (as are Skokie and Evanston police) and I just did not get along very
>> well at all in that part of the world. PAT] 

> Here in RI your right to have a concealed weapon is strictly
> controlled by the Attorney General's office. And our current AG
> Patrick Lynch while in support of gay marriage, is a stickler when it
> comes to not issuing carry permits.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What if it is an _unconcealed_ weapon?
> Suppose you simply walked down the street with a gun strapped on your
> belt, like an oldtime cowboy?  You are not attempting to hide
> anything.  PAT]

You'd be stopped and searched without any waste of time whatsoever. 


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And in the final line above, the man
speaks total, unvarnished truth. Not only would you be stopped and
searched, you would most likely be arrested, if for no other reason
than some cockamamie excuse the police made up there on the spot. The
police officer's best friend, and a helpful tool, the catch-all
'Disorderly Conduct' comes to mind. If you brought up Second Amendment
objections, chances are police would just laugh at you or humor you;
that kind of thing (constitutional law) means nothing to them
anyway. All they know is what they know, which isn't a lot. Police do
not have a lot of use for private citizens, and tend to think bad
about any of us. If they see a gun on any of us, we must be criminals;
if they see a computer belonging to any of us, it must be the place
where we keep our pornography. And if we have a scanner radio and pick
up their transmissions, we are up to no good also. And you _will_ obey
one, no matter how arrogant or sassy or beligerant he/she happens to
be. And if your normal human reaction to his behavior leads you to 
slap him hard or knock him down, then, by God, you have 'assaulted an
officer' which is a crime also. You cannot win with those guys. PAT]

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