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TELECOM Digest Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:59:00 EST Volume 26 : Issue 67
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
Clearwire IPO Brings in $600 Million (USTelecom dailyLead)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (Fred Atkinson)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (Lisa Hancock)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (Rick Merrill)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (T)
Re: Phone Call Routing (Lisa Hancock)
Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk (Robert Bonomi)
Re: Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift) (Lisa Hancock)
Re: Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift) (Carl Navarro)
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:06:24 EST
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For March 08, 2007
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The FCC, Cable Franchising and Commissioner Adelstein
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/23138?11228
It was no surprise that the FCC in December adopted rules
beneficial to telephone companies that pre-empt much of the
jurisdiction of Local cable TV Franchising Authorities
(LFAs). And it was no surprise that the FCC did nothing to help
existing cable MSOs except promise to look at whether the same
pre-emption might apply when existing ...
Greek Government Extends Deadline for Emergence of OTE Strategic Partner
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/23133?11228
The Greek government has given its advisers until the end of
March 2007 to find a strategic investor in the incumbent telco,
OTE, according to a Dow Jones report, which cites a senior Greek
finance ministry official. Greece, which plans to sell as much as
20% of its stake in OTE, had given its financial advisers-UBS,
Credit Suisse and ...
Privatisation of Ukrtelecom to Begin with Sale of Five 1% Stakes
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23131?11228
Ukraine's State Property Fund (SPF) is planning to sell small
stakes in fixed-line incumbent Ukrtelecom through the separate
sale of five 1% stakes, according to press reports. The news was
disclosed to reporters at an SPF press conference. Official
details of the sale of the first 1% stake are likely to be
published on 28 March, ...
Ericsson Gets The Nod For Tandberg Takeover
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23129?11228
Tandberg Television has embraced its new lover, accepting
Ericsson's unexpected rival acquisition bid and spurning would-be
suitor Arris. Investor hope for a continued bidding war for IPTV
leader Tandberg, meanwhile, appears to fade following a statement
by Tandberg endorsing the Ericsson bid. Tandberg share prices
slid this ...
Nortel Preaches ATCA
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/23127?11228
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Light Reading Live -- The transition to
AdvancedTCA (ATCA) might not be pretty, but it pays off,
according to Nortel Networks Ltd. Mitch Simcoe, a senior manager
of product marketing, explained his company's history with ATCA
in his keynote speech at ATCA, AMC, & MicroTCA 2007: Moving to
...
Palm: To Buy, or Not to Buy?
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23125?11228
Speculation that Palm is shopping for potential takeover suitors
has heated up in the last two weeks thanks to reports in the
media. Analysts, however, are skeptical about the rumors and
even toss some cold water on the idea. Depending on which source
of information you read, Dell, HP, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola,
Nokia, RIM and ...
Clearwire's Cash Craving
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23123?11228
Will $500 million in new capital be enough for Clearwire LLC ?
Maybe not. The wireless broadband operator has priced its initial
public offering and is hoping to raise up to $500 million in a
float expected this Thursday. The company says that it will
offer 20 million shares on the Nasdaq at between $23 and $25 a
share. The ...
Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to:
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:01:58 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Clearwire IPO Brings in $600 Million
USTelecom dailyLead
March 8, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gqiYfDtusXnkpaCibuddVxOb
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Clearwire IPO brings in $600 million
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* AT&T adds hot spots worldwide:
* "Amazon Unbox in TiVo" launches
* Nokia retools its North American business
* Alcatel-branded handsets head to the U.S.
* France plans auction for UMTS license
* MySpace in negotiations with media companies for content
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Register for NXTcomm today!
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Businesses rely on high-speed connections
* Report: Net revenue reached record $16.8 billion in 2006
* Migrant workers turn to mobile banking
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* New wave of cable boxes on the horizon
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gqiYfDtusXnkpaCibuddVxOb
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From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:24:43 -0500
Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:02:45 -0600, Charles Gray
<charles.gray@okstate.edu> wrote:
> Unless something has changed recently, you can have a phone number
> "unlisted unpublished", which means that it won't be printed in the
> phone directory and directory assistance will not give it out. You
> can have an "unpublished" number, which means that DA will give it
> out, but it won't be printed in the directory. I don't know if the
> charges are/were different or not. I've always had mine "unlisted
> unpublished".
I had a friend years ago who had the solution. He had his number
listed as 'Jack Daniels' and only told people he wanted to call him
about that. When he'd get telemarketing calls asking for Mr.
Daniels, he knew to immediately hang up.
That was a way around paying extra for an unlisted number.
Regards,
Fred
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That's not a bad idea; I have had my
telephone listed in the name of one of my cats (under 'K' as in
Katz, yet) for a long time. Occassionally, however, if the name is
'too ridiculous sounding' telco sometimes requires you to send them
some proof of your name, such as a copy of driver's license, etc. I
also knew someone, years ago, who would always ask for a 'default
listed number' but do so a day or two after the directory publisher
had closed the entries for another year. So, he would never manage
to actually get himself listed in the phone directory, which was his
intent. PAT]
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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Date: 8 Mar 2007 09:15:53 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: According to telco there is an
> additional effort involved.
In the 1970s the telcos were under pressure between increased costs
from inflation and regulators who didn't allow rate hikes. They found
that Directory Assistance was a big cost and that customers were
abusing it -- using it for numbers not found in the phone book. Also,
as described, calls for unlisted numbers took up much operator's time.
So instead of a general rate hike, they started more a la carte
charging which the commissions would accept. Some businesses used
Directory Assistance as a free address verification service.
Likewise, long distance directory assistance (NPA+555+1212) used to be
free became charged and now is about a $1/pop with questionable
reliability.
Note that Bell System rates and policies were not at all uniform
nation wide. Some areas charged for unlisted numbers long before
others did. The various service plans and local calling area sizes
varied from town to town as much as 25%. Philadelphia seemed to have
the lowest rates and most generous terms yet excellent service
quality, how this was managed I don't know. Conversely, NYC seemed to
have high rates yet poor service quality. I think Chicago was in the
middle. [Pat--could a Chicago residence get flat rate service? Did
it cover the whole city or only a portion?]
Almost exactly one hundred years ago (3/23/07, NYT) a citizen asked
that the phone company put in a thumb index in the telephone directory
to speed up searching. (A thumb index is often found in large
dictionaires and consists of an edge cutout to speed finding the pages
of a certain letter.) AFAIK the request was denied. Interesting how
issues haven't changed even over 100 years!
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Chicago had one unit per call, no
matter what the distance was (within Chicago) for many years, as did
all the suburbs. Then someone noticed that none of the suburbs were
anywhere as large or geographically wide spread as the city itself.
For example, from a corner of the city's northwest side, near the
airport but within the city, to 134th Street and Avenue J is a total
distance of 35 miles; all within the same city. On the other hand,
many suburbs were two blocks long and three blocks wide for the entire
town. So, about ten years ago, telco divided up all of 312/773/708/630/847
into 'zones' where the local central office was up to seven or eight
miles away. _That_ then became your 'unlimited calling area' for
one untimed unit; area codes did not matter any longer regards rates.
So many of the suburbs now got three or four little towns surrounding
them as part of their local calling area; living in Chicago, I got
Chicago-Rogers Park, Chicago-Irving, and Chicago-Edgewater as my
'local untimed calling area'. The only people who beefed about that
new arrangement were Chicago-ites of course who suddenly found they
had to pay 'long distance toll rates' to call the other side of the
same town.
What got Illinois Bell greviously annoyed was back in the days when
all LD directory assistance was totally free; remember those days?
People with outbound WATS lines (who were charged per minute of
connect time for all calls, including AC-555-1212) and the users of
Sprint/MCI in the early days also had to pay for 555-1212 were told
by their respective supervisors, "if you need to find the correct
number to dial, use your 'regular' phone; learn the number then hang
up and call back using WATS/Sprint/MCI etc. I know at Amoco we were
_forbidden_ to do any 555-1212 calls from our WATS lines. "Use Bell
for 555-1212 because the call is 'free'" is what we were told; "then
use MCI or the WATS line to place the actual call itself. Obviously,
in the early days of DDD, Bell gave directory assistance for free as
a drawing card, fully expecting to get the 'real call' afterward. PAT]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:18:14 -0500
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Charles Gray wrote:
> Unless something has changed recently, you can have a phone number
> "unlisted unpublished", which means that it won't be printed in the
> phone directory and directory assistance will not give it out. You
> can have an "unpublished" number, which means that DA will give it
> out, but it won't be printed in the directory. I don't know if the
> charges are/were different or not. I've always had mine "unlisted
> unpublished".
> Regards,
> Charles G. Gray
> Senior Lecturer, Telecommunications
> Oklahoma State University - Tulsa
> (918) 594-8433
But that doesn't mean Google can't find it! For example, see above!-)
The addresses that Switchboard.com and others have do not come from
the telephone directory and therefore they often list "unlisted
numbers."
My hobby is finding lost classmates;-)
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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:17:36 -0500
In article <telecom26.66.8@telecom-digest.org>,
charles.gray@okstate.edu says:
> Unless something has changed recently, you can have a phone number
> "unlisted unpublished", which means that it won't be printed in the
> phone directory and directory assistance will not give it out. You
> can have an "unpublished" number, which means that DA will give it
> out, but it won't be printed in the directory. I don't know if the
> charges are/were different or not. I've always had mine "unlisted
> unpublished".
The Surprise Fairy must have had a hand in my situation. When my
number on (401)-621 was with Verizon they never published it at
all. No listing, no DA, nothing.
Talk about a happy accident. And that carried forward since it appears
that Vonage doesn't publish directory information.
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Phone Call Routing
Date: 8 Mar 2007 11:47:39 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
On Mar 7, 8:51 am, Sam Spade <s...@coldmail.com> wrote:
> The switched public network has been around in its present form
> since the 1950s. There has been huge amounts of material published
> on the technical workings of the telephone system
Actually, the question is very reasonable. Since the 1980s the nature
of the public switched network has drastically changed and much of
that material is obsolete. Here's why:
1) Expense: The "trunk" (physical connection) between two central
offices was extremely expensive. It consisted of (a) switchgear on
the front end, (b) the physical wire, and (c) switchgear on the rear
end. Accordingly, trunks between offices rationed and carefully
planned -- just enough to meet demand but not more so. The phone
company worked hard to maximize capacity of the physical wire (carrier
circuits) and switchgear.
But after the 1980s the costs dropped dramatically. The head and
rear terminal equipment became cheap. Fiber optic with very high
capacity replaced copper and coax. Suddenly capacity was not a big an
issue anymore. Everything was so cheap there could be waste.
2) Politics: The old model had the Bell System handling everything.
The 1983 model had the local Bell companies handing off toll calls to
dedicated toll carriers (AT&T, MCI, Sprint, etc.)
But further deregulation allowed local companies access, too. Bell
(that is, successors to Bell) might own the physical line between your
house and the C.O., but once inside it was immediately handed off to a
new company that did the switching instead. (Bell had to spend a
fortune building extensions to C.O.s to house lockable rooms for new
switchers).
Non-Bell companies might lease lines and switching from Bell or own
their own. Bell might lease stuff from non-Bell companies, indeed,
they often now sub-contract out repair and installation work. (If you
see a plain truck with a small stick-on Bell company sign instead of
fully painted, that's probably a sub contractor.)
3) Many people use their cell phone or cableTV phone as their line.
The routing is completely different for those systems.
4) New services: We have new stuff like DSL and FIOS.
So, the question of routing methods today is quite reasonable and
realistic. With so much deregulation, it is also relevant to know if
a given carrier, even a "main" one, is good to use.
> You would learn a lot more my doing a bit of research
Where would you suggest to research to get _current_ information
appropriate for a lay person?
------------------------------
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:04:31 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.
In article <telecom26.66.6@telecom-digest.org>, <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 4:06 pm, bon...@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) wrote:
>> Its not so much 'talking on the radio' per se, but the _kind_ of
>> conversations that go on. ...
> This is very true and very significant. Some claim it is the hand-
> held unit that is the problem and a headset solves it.
Hand-held units pose their own problems, in that you only have one
hand 'free' for the controls. Especially problematic in a vehicle
with a manual transmission.
Note, however, that the same is true in using a hand-held microphone
for a two-way radio. This, BTW, _is_ one of the reasons
law-enforcement vehicles are almost invariably equipped with automatic
transmissions. :)
There is also an interesting 'human factors' aspect that comes into
play -- the 'minimal-seeming' act of having to "push the button" to
talk on a two-way radio has a _major_ effect on the thought-process,
and serves (indirectly) to greatly reduce the 'distraction' effect of
a 'juicy' conversation. "Push the button" requires an overt and
conscious decision (and effort), which triggers an awareness of the
diversion from the 'primary mission' of operating the vehicle. The
logic seems a little silly on the face of it -- the fact that you have
to work harder at it makes it _less_ distracting -- but it _does_ work
that way.
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift)
Date: 8 Mar 2007 08:26:50 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Another excellent interurban line for
> many years was the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad
See:
http://www.nictd.com/index.htm
> Now I understand they only run the train as far east as Gary,
> Indiana and possibly one or two trains daily to Michigan City, or
> possibly further east to South Bend.
About seven trains a day run to South Bend. The terminal is now the
South Bend Airport. More trains run to intermediate points, see the
above website for details.
Phone connection: Interurbans always built their own telephone
network. Depending on Bell to call in from distant points was
extremely expensive, especially back in the 1920s. Some lines had a
phone on the train that the motorman plugged into a pole when he
stopped to call in for instructions; other lines required the motorman
to get out and go to a pole box.
The Phila & Western used crank phones (local battery network) well
into the SEPTA era. I think their communication and traffic signal
system was upgraded only a few years ago. For many years the
starter's booth at the terminal had a desk phone with a handle where
the dial would be; those were a modern version of local battery sets.
I believe local battery phones -- where each telephone set has its own
battery supply -- worked better in such applications because of the
long distances. If they needed extra voltage they simply added
another battery in series to the phone. That is a reason it remained
common on long rural loops into the 1950s and even 1960s. I believe
the switchboard circuits were simpler too. I think foreign makers
still built local battery telephone sets well into the 1960s.
Pictures of some old central office switchboards in small towns shows
a bank of common battery jacks presumably for subscribers who lived
close by in the village, and a bank of local battery jacks (which used
a flip shutter) presumably for the more rural subscribers.
I wonder when the last Bell System C.O. of significant size of local
battery service was shut down. (Not counting very unusual or isolated
locations).
As an aside, some TV shows erred when using such sets as props. If
you had to crank the phone to get the operator, you always had to do
so, you couldn't merely flash the hookswitch. You also needed to ring
off.
------------------------------
From: Carl Navarro <cnavarro@wcnet.org>
Subject: Re: Old Interurbans (was Skokie Swift)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:56:58 -0500
On 7 Mar 2007 07:42:32 -0800, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Mar 1, 7:13 pm, Neal McLain <nmcl...@annsgarden.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, most of the history of the old interurbans has been
>> lost.
> There are a great many books on the history of interurbans. Some deal
> with interurbans in general, others are detailed stories on a specific
> line. Some are out of print, but new ones are being published.
> Do an author search on William Middleton who has been a prolific
> writer on the subject. Also, www.morningsunbooks.com has new books
> out.
> A brand new interurban is running between Trenton NJ and Camden NJ,
> operated by NJ Transit.
> [dupe of prior lost post]
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Another excellent interurban line for
> many years was the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad
> (the electric orange train which ran between Randolph Street in
> downtown Chicago and South Bend, Indiana. In its hey-day, it ran every
> thirty minutes round the clock between those two points, with six or
> eight car trains. It ran on its own tracks all the way from South Bend
> to 115th Street/Kensington Station in Chicago, at which point it leased
> the Illinois Central tracks for the remainder of its trip. (ICRR was
> also an electric train with overhead catenary-style wires. Quite a few
> years back, they cut down service to South Bend to once per hour, then
> eventually just a few trains daily. Now I understand they only run the
> train as far east as Gary, Indiana and possibly one or two trains
> daily to Michigan City, or possibly further east to South Bend. All of
> their 'own' stations -- that is, east of the split-away from Illinois
> Central at 115th Street are in terrible decay, just like CTA's
> stations. PAT]
Wow, the demise of the South Shore Line is greatly exaggerated :-)
http://www.nictd.com/index.htm
We vacationed to Rolla MO last summer down Route 66, but we started
our vacation in Michigan City. The station in Beverly Shores was a
typical RR depot; unattended with an average rest room and a closed
gift shop. The next station up the line was the HQ for the NICTD so
it was in better shape.
In most cases, alcohol is allowed on the train and I hear the Bears
and Notre Dame games get a lot of passengers. We're planning our next
vacation to be a CTA tour and we'll take the train from South Bend to
Chicago. It's not a bad deal for less than $15 round trip.
Carl Navarro
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