TELECOM Digest     Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:25:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 65

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    AT&T, Verizon Launch DVR Programming by Cell Phone (Reuters News Wire)
    Walmart Worker Taped Reporter's Phone Calls (Julie Creswell, NY Times)
    Phone Call Routing (John Schmerold)
    CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
    FCC's Video-Franchising Order Eases Market Entry (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: Unlisted Phone Number (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Unlisted Phone Number (Wesrock@aol.com)
    Re: Area Codes and Prefixes, esp. 200 (Neal McLain)
    Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case (John Mayson)

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:18:19 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T, Verizon Launch DVR Programming by Cell Phone


The top two U.S. wireless providers are starting to let customers use
their mobile phones to remotely record television shows, hoping the
new service will help them better compete against rivals.

AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday subscribers can now use their cell phones to
record TV shows on home TVs via Homezone, a video-on-demand service
that AT&T offers with satellite TV provider EchoStar Communications.

Starting next week, No. 2 mobile provider Verizon Wireless, owned by
Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, also plans to let its
customers use their phones to program TiVo Inc. digital video
recorders remotely.

The idea, which wireless operators have been promising for months, is
to better integrate wired and wireless services to encourage customer
loyalty amid increased competition from cable providers, which have
added telephony to their Web and television services.

Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 wireless service, is also planning a
similar offer later in the year through its venture with cable
providers such as Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc..

Analysts said such services may help attract or retain customers, but
several said that only a small number of wireless subscribers are
looking to remotely program DVRs.

Less than 10 percent of respondents to a recent survey said they
wanted such a feature, according to Jupiter Research analyst Ina
Sebastian whose firm organized the survey.

Consumers can already remotely program digital video recorders from
companies such as TiVo by using a desktop computer with an Internet
connection, at no extra charge.

They can also set their recorders to capture favorite shows months in
advance, said analyst Roger Entner from Ovum, who questioned the
addressable market for AT&T.

"It makes scatterbrain Homezone customers a little bit more happy," he
said.

Verizon Wireless will charge $1.99 a month for its service, which will
work on more than 12 phone models, covering the vast majority of its
customers, spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said.

AT&T said its service would be available free to cell phone users who
subscribe to its Homezone service, which costs $9.99 a month along
with a subscription to EchoStar's satellite TV service and AT&T's
broadband Internet service.

AT&T did not say how many customers have signed up for Homezone. It
has yet to offer Homezone in the market regions of BellSouth, which it
recently bought.

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:21:01 -0600
From: Julie Creswell, NY Times <nytimes@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Walmart Worker Taped Reporter's Phone Calls


Wal-Mart Says Worker Taped Reporter's Calls
By JULIE CRESWELL

Federal investigators are looking into the actions of a computer
systems technician at Wal-Mart Stores who, over a period of several
months, intercepted pager and text messages and also secretly taped
telephone conversations between Wal-Mart employees and a reporter for
The New York Times, the company said yesterday.

The United States attorney's office for the Western District of Arkansas 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are assessing the actions of the 
employee and others inside Wal-Mart to determine whether federal and 
state laws were broken and whether they have jurisdiction in the matter, 
according to spokesmen for the investigators' offices.

Wal-Mart said the technician was not authorized to monitor and tape
the conversations between members of its media relations staff and
Michael Barbaro, a retail reporter for The Times.

The company did not say what led the technician to make the recordings
or why Mr. Barbaro's conversations were the target.

Over the last year, Mr. Barbaro has written dozens of articles about
Wal-Mart, including some that were based on internal company documents
that were given to him by union-financed groups that were critical of
Wal-Mart's business practices.

Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, which is based in
Bentonville, Ark., said the company fired the technician and a
supervisor yesterday. A third manager in Wal-Mart's information
technology group was disciplined. Ms. Williams declined to identify
the technician or his supervisors.

H. Lee Scott Jr., Wal-Mart's chief executive, called the chief executive 
of The New York Times, Janet L. Robinson, early yesterday to explain the 
situation and apologize, Ms. Williams said.

Ms. Williams added that she contacted Mr. Barbaro and personally
apologized to him, as well.

Wal-Mart said it began an internal investigation into the matter on
Jan.  11 after executives were notified by an employee about the
recordings.  It then notified the United States attorney's office two
days later.

Over the course of a two-month internal investigation, Wal-Mart 
discovered that the technician had used a program that identified calls 
coming in from, or made to, Mr. Barbaro at The Times' New York 
headquarters from last September to mid-January, Ms. Williams said. The 
inquiry involved an outside technology firm that scoured more than 100 
computer drives and other devices, she said.

Members of the media relations group, including Ms. Williams, were
unaware they were being taped, Ms. Williams said.

"No one knew he was recording these conversations,"  Ms. Williams said in 
a conference call with reporters yesterday afternoon. "As a matter of 
fact, I'm not even sure he knew whose conversations he was recording. He 
simply programmed in the reporter's phone number and captured those calls."

It is unclear whether the technician was able to sort Mr. Barbaro's 
calls from those other Times reporters might have made to Wal-Mart since 
all calls from the newspaper's New York office register on caller ID 
screens as a series of numeral 1s.

The technician told investigators of some motives for his actions, Ms.
Williams said, but she declined to say what they were because of the
continuing investigations.

In a statement, a spokeswoman for The Times, Diane C. McNulty, said: "We 
are troubled by what appears to be inappropriate taping of our 
reporter's conversations. At this point, we don't know many of the key 
facts, such as what the purpose of this taping was and the extent, if 
any, to which the action was authorized."

Mr. Barbaro declined to comment.

At first blush, it does not appear that the taping of the conversations 
was illegal.

Under federal and Arkansas state law, a telephone conversation can be
recorded if one party has given consent. Wal-Mart said that under its
policy, all employees give their consent to the monitoring and
recording of their calls made through Wal-Mart systems and equipment.

Wal-Mart said, however, that calls were monitored only in cases of
suspected criminal activity or fraud and only with written consent
from the company's legal department. No approval for the recordings
was sought or given, the company said.

Ms. Williams added that in the course of the investigation only one
person -- a 'senior-level lawyer' at Wal-Mart -- listened to parts of
the tapes between Mr. Barbaro and the media group.

The focus of any criminal investigation might be on the text messages
and the pages transmitted near company headquarters by people who were
not Wal-Mart employees; the technician made those interceptions using
his own personal radio-frequency equipment.

"He captured all of the text messages that were within a range of his 
equipment," Ms. Williams said. "Some of those messages had key words in 
them that he was watching for. Those were captured and put into a 
separate file or bucket from the others." She declined to provide 
details of the messages or motives for those actions by the technician.

Federal and most state laws forbid the unauthorized interception of
messages, said Rodney Smolla, dean of the University of Richmond Law
School.

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:09:03 -0600
From: John Schmerold <john@katy.com>
Subject: Phone Call Routing


How are phone calls routed and who is responsible for what?

I understand what happens when I plug http://www.google.com into my web 
browser, my computer connects to a name server, it contacts its name 
server until the IP address is determined. Then my router contacts its 
router until I'm connected to Google.

When it comes to phone calls I'm baffled. When I pick up the handset
at the house to call my brother's house across the street, they may or
may not both be in the same switch, handled by the same carrier,
delivered via the same physical connections.

Who is responsible for this routing and how does one go about protecting 
the route to your phone number.

The point of this exercise is performance and security.

1. Performance
When we get VOIP service from a supplier, how can we determine 
their ability to perform. On a simple level, we can ping their SIP 
server. Fast, consistent ping may mean good service. However we don't 
know if we just connecting to a sip server that connects to another sip 
server that may or may not have a good connection.

2. Security

What if our supplier goes out of business? How do we get our number?
How long does it take? etc etc.

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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - March 06, 2007
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communications@communicationsdirectnews.com>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2007 11:56:22 EST


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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:36:07 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: FCC's Video-Franchising Order Eases Market Entry


USTelecom dailyLead
March 6, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gpmkfDtusXncfUCibuddhZOl

TODAY'S HEADLINES


NEWS OF THE DAY
* FCC's video-franchising order eases market entry
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* ION lands AT&T U-Verse deal
* Baltimore County approves Verizon video launch
* Motorola board readies for possible Icahn fight
* Nokia enters mobile advertising
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* USTelecom applauds FCC move to bring video competition to consumers
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Opinion: Video the key to digital media
* Cisco extends Unified Communications software
* Hovr sees advertising as a path to free mobile games
* Visine pops up in AMC flicks
IP DOWNLOAD
* Alarm systems still have issues with VoIP
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Supreme Court rejects Ebbers request for appeal

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

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:14:43 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom26.64.10@telecom-digest.org>,
Steve Crow  <steve.crow@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the better question is why, for about 100 years, the phone
> companies have been charging subscribers for the privilege of NOT
> listing the number ... is there some sort of additional effort required
> to accomplish this task?

_Anything_ that that is 'other than the normal practice' has an
additional cost/effort associated with it.  This applies regardless of
the industry, market,or service provider.  Telcos, and other regulated
entities, are just more agressive than the 'averge company'about
recouping those additional costs.. *OR* the profits therefrom, if they
can sell it at 'above cost'.

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From: Wesrock@aol.com
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:24:56 EST
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number


In a message dated 3 Mar 2007 22:52:39 -0800, Steve Crow
<steve.crow@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the better question is why, for about 100 years, the phone
> companies have been charging subscribers for the privilege of NOT
> listing the number ... is there some sort of additional effort required
> to accomplish this task?

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: According to telco there is an 
> additional effort involved. Telco estimates a certain time frame
> required for each directory inquiry call. This time frame is 
> completely lost when telco has to argue with callers about numbers
> being unlisted and/or unpublished, i.e. time spent listening to
> callers telling the operator how dumb she is, demanding to speak
> with a supervisor, insisting 'party would want to speak with me',
> impersonating a police officer with a 'right to know number', etc.
> All those needless conversations between caller and operator take
> additional time. That, telco says, is where the extra money is 
> spent; in dealing with persistent callers.  PAT]

Not only that, but the number must be marked as non-published, etc.,
and that mark carried forward continuously.  Otherwise it would get
printed in the next directory.


Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:07:26 -0600
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: Area Codes and Prefixes, esp. 200


Mike Z <mike2007xyz@notchur.biz> wrote:

> Neal McLain wrote:

>> 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 Illinois Commerce Commission doesn't assign central
> office codes Neustar's NANPA does.

Agreed.  But state commissions can request specific CO codes, and I 
doubt that Neustar would have assigned 847-847 if the ICC hadn't 
requested it.

> ... So the lowest theoretical number in the NANP, counting
> dialpulses, would still be 212-212-1111...

Which is tied with 212-221-1111 (a working number, BTW).

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

> Actually, the highest theoretical dialpulse-counted NANP
> number would be 900-900-0000...

Agreed, if you include "easily recognizable codes" as area codes,
which I didn't.

Neal McLain

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:06:30 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom26.64.11@telecom-digest.org>,

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have always wondered by it is safe
> for police officers to talk on the radio while their car is moving
> but it is not safe for civilians to do the same thing. The answer, we
> are told, is that 'police officers have better training for same.'
> PAT]

Its not so much 'talking on the radio' per se, but the _kind_ of
conversations that go on.  In that respect, cell-phone 'conversations'
_are_ radically different from the query-response and/or instructions
of a typical 'dispatch' system.  Cell-phones _are_ a problem in this
respect because the users get emotionally involved in the 'story being
told' (either as the teller or the listener) to the point of
"forgetting about" the reqiremets of the 'primary task' (driving) in
which they are engeged.

It is a 'natural' failing for a person -- given things that are
'competing' for their attention -- to focus primrily on the
'interestinng' thing, while giving minimal, 'rote', mental expeditures
to the 'routine'things. And, it works OK _most_ of the time (providing
self-reinforcig feedback) -- *until* the 'unexpected' occurs.

It is also true that police officers _do_ have more training on the
subject than "Joe Sixpack' does.  I don't know of a civiian 'drivers
ed' course that touches on the matter, nor a state license exam that
addresses it.

Law enforcement training courses, on the other hand, *DO* expressly
cover things like 'radio operational procedure', 'use of radio during
a pursuit', etc.. Driving _itself_ is also explicitly covered -- not
just 'pursuit', but also 'defensive' driving, and observing
_everthing_ going on 'outside' (see 'situational awreness', below0.
The matter of when _not_ to use the radio is also eplicitly covered.

L.E. _field_ trainig stresses the necessity of maitaining 'situational
awreness' at *ALL*TIMES*, -- that concentrating on one thing, and
ignoring the 'rest of the world' is a good way to get yourself killed.
Talking on the radio _without_ letting it affect ones situational
awareness -is- a natural outcome of such training.

Compare this to the 'situational awareness' shown by the archtypical
"blonde" touchig up her makeup, _and_ exchanging juicy gossip on her
cell-phone as she merges into rush-hour traffic on the freeway.

Yeah, law-enforcement types _are_ better trained.   <grin>


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Did you notice the scandalous story
in the papers a couple days ago which stated that in about twenty
states, there is no _mandatory_ training required of police officers
who are freshly hired?  In all but two or three of those states, new
officers are _supposed_ to be closely supervised by an experienced
officer for the first sixty or ninety days, or until the new officer
completes an _optional_ training course?  PAT] 

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From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Subject: Re: Innocent Teacher Convicted in Computer Porn Case
Date: 5 Mar 2007 13:51:44 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


PAT - I don't care if you publish my email address or not.

> As the law now stands, the way most people have the preview pane in
> their email program enabled, if they are sent unsolicited illegal
> images, they're at risk even if they immediately delete them.  Most
> people don't know the data from deleted emails delivered to their PC
> is still on the hard drive for quite some time.  All I can say is if
> you ever receive illegal content in email, call your attorney at once
> for guidance!

I have searched for sources for the two stories I'm about to convey,
but I cannot find them.  They both sound urban legend-ish, but I
remember reading them in mainstream news publications.

One was a man in England who was arrested and spent nine days in jail
(gaol?) until police sorted out what had happened.  They found a
mountain of child porn on his computer.  Turns out he had his wireless
router wide open and was sharing his entire hard drive, so his
neighbor was storing child porn on his computer.  He was released and
the real culprit arrested.  But still, nine days in jail and his name
was raked through the mud.

Another case involved the "look ahead" function in many browsers.
After you pull up a web page, your browser will then look at the links
and start downloading those in anticipation of you clicking on one of
them.  The speeds the browser up (from the user's perspective).  I
believe this happened to a US government employee.  He was visiting a
legal site, but it was linked to one with child porn.  So his browser
started downloading the images which he never saw.  However his IT
department saw them and they found the images on his computer, so he
was arrested.

I know you can turn off the look ahead function on most browsers, but
I'm not sure about IE.

Happy surfing!

John


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think almost any police officer will
tell you it is imperative in the case of (pre-detirmined by police) 
'criminals' that their name be 'dragged through the mud'. After all,
if you cannot be assured that someone has lost his credibility, there
is always a chance that a judge/jury may agree with _him_ instead of
with _you_.  Or am I just watching and reacting to too much CSI/SVU
on television?  PAT]

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