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TELECOM Digest Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:17:00 EDT Volume 26 : Issue 70
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Name of Calling Feature (Fred Atkinson)
Not so Fast, Broadband Providers Tell Big Users (Monty Solomon)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
FTTP Aims to Speed Entertainment Delivery (USTelecom dailyLead)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (T)
Re: Unlisted Phone Number (T)
Re: How to Change the Time on a Mitel SX-2000 Phone Switch (J Williams)
Re: Reverse 911 (Rick Merrill)
Re: Phone Call Routing (John Schmerold)
Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk (Robert Bonomi)
Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk (Lisa Hancock)
Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk (Scott Dorsey)
Re: Vonage Loses Suit; Says Will Stay in Business (T)
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:47:17 -0800
From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Reply-To: <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Subject: Name of Calling Feature
I have been aware of a custom calling feature that allows you to call
a number and be intercepted with a prompt to enter a PIN number before
the call is allowed to ring through.
What is the name of this customer calling service?
Regards,
Fred
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:45:04 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Not So Fast, Broadband Providers Tell Big Users
Firms impose limits even as demand rises
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | March 12, 2007
Amanda Lee of Cambridge received a call from Comcast Corp. in December
ordering her to curtail her Web use or lose her high-speed Internet
connection for a year.
Lee, who said she had been using the same broadband connection for
years without a problem, was taken aback. But when she asked what the
download limit was, she was told there was no limit, that she was just
downloading too much.
Then in mid-February, her Internet service was cut off without further
warning.
For Lee and an increasing number of people, a high-speed Internet
connection is a lifeline to everyday entertainment and communication.
Television networks are posting shows online; retailers are lining up
to offer music and movie downloads; thousands of Internet radio
stations stream music; more people are using WiFi phones; and "over
the top TV," in which channels stream over the Internet, is predicted
to grow.
That means that more customers may become familiar with Comcast's
little-known acceptable-use policy, which allows the company to cut
off service to customers who use the Internet too much. Comcast says
that only .01 percent of its 11.5 million residential high-speed
Internet customers fall into this category.
http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articles/2007/03/12/not_so_fast_broadband_providers_tell_big_users/
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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - March 12, 2007
From: communicationsdirect_daily <communications@communicationsdirect.com>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:29:44 EDT
********************************
PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For March 12, 2007
********************************
Our new poll: Do you plan on buying Apple's new iPhone? Visit our web site
to vote.Swisscom Launches US$4.86 bil. "Friendly" Bid for FastWeb
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/23191?11228
Switzerland's leading telecoms group, Swisscom, has launched a
3.7 billion euro (US$4.86 billion) 'friendly' bid for the Italian
alternative broadband provider, FastWeb. The move, an all-cash
bid for 100% of FastWeb's shares, follows a due diligence
exercise Swisscom conducted on FastWeb. It also marks a
radical ...
Alltel Merger Speculation Grows
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23188?11228
Speculation that a deal is in the offing for Alltel, which has
recently made moves that position it for merger, has mounted to
higher levels after Alltel cancelled meetings with investors at
CTIA Orlando later this month. Significance: Alltel has continued
to raise its stock price on the back of the ongoing merger ...
Conflicting Radio Signals Hamper Rescue Robots
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/23183?11228
When conflicting radio signals reach a cellular phone or other
communications device, the resulting interference is usually
nothing more than an annoyance. But when overlapping signals
interfere with mobile robot communications, the outcome may be
deadly. Sensor-embedded robots, designed for vital search and
rescue missions at ...
Vonage 'Workarounds' May Ease Patent Pain
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/23181?11228
A source close to Vonage Holdings Corp. says the VOIP provider
has technologies at the ready that will keep it from 'borrowing'
anymore technology from Verizon. A District Court in Virginia
Thursday found Vonage guilty of infringing three Verizon
Communications Inc. patents.; The court ordered Vonage to pay ...
AT&T, Yahoo Relationship on the Rocks?
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23176?11228
According to a Wall Street Journal report, AT&T is considering
scaling back the expansive marketing partnership it has shared
with Yahoo for six years. If it does, Yahoo stands to lose $200
to $250 million in annual revenue. The current agreement
stipulates that AT&T pay Yahoo a percentage of revenue from its
broadband ...
Funding Roundup: 3/9/2007
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23173?11228
Cheap WiFi, enterprise VOIP, and thousands of Japanese phone
users help bring in the bacon in this week's funding
roundup. FON: The upstart public WiFi provider has raised $13
million in VC money as it attempts to promote wireless
connectivity sharing between users that buy into its low-cost
access point scheme. The Madrid, ...
Global Consumer Electronics Sales Defying Economic Cycles
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/23171?11228
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A succession of attractive new products,
along with falling prices and increased capabilities, has helped
make the consumer electronics (CE) market seemingly impervious to
economic ups and downs around the world, reports In-Stat. Strong
CE sales are expected to continue for several years, with total
shipments ...
Iron Mountain Makes Email Move
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23168?11228
Iron Mountain will unveil a managed service for email at the
Cebit show Monday, part of a major overhaul of its strategy for
handling digital data. Digital archiving has been something of a
sore spot for Iron Mountain. Last week, the vendor admitted that
this part of its business is losing money, and it described some
of the ...
Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to:
CommunicationsDirect Editor <telecom_direct_editor@us.pwc.com>
Copyright (C) 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:30:13 CDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: FTTP Aims to Speed Entertainment Delivery
USTelecom dailyLead
March 12, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gresfDtusXnqzoCibudddJEK
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* FTTP aims to speed entertainment delivery
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* AT&T opens wireless megastore
* Verizon rolls out E-VPLS service nationwide
* Apple aims to bridge the gap between the Internet and TV
* Swisscom makes a play for FastWeb
* Yahoo!, AT&T continue to chat up their partnership
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Register for NXTcomm today!
HOT TOPICS
* Clearwire IPO brings in $600 million
* AT&T, Verizon customers to use cell phones to program DVRs
* Verizon gets favorable ruling in Vonage case
* FCC's video-franchising order eases market entry
* Telecoms, cable compete in on demand
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* SK Telecom, KTF tout video-telephony capabilities
* Technology "shreds" personal data in record-sharing
* Carriers look to limit types of operating systems
* Sports fans flock to Internet for more information
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Is the ownership debate still relevant?
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gresfDtusXnqzoCibudddJEK
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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:08:02 -0500
In article <telecom26.68.10@telecom-digest.org>,
nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net says:
> In article <telecom26.67.3@telecom-digest.org>, fatkinson@mishmash.com
> says:
>> 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]
> I kid you not but there was once a listing in New England Telephone's
> white pages for a Bippin P. Dikshit.
> That could not be a real name. But then, I've run across several odd
> ones in my day so maybe it was.
> And friends had the license plates I-812 and OU-812 (I ate one too,
> and Oh you ate one too). That lasted for about a year until the DMV
> got wind of what they were talking about.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And you have probably heard of business
> places which want to be listed _first_ in the directory, so they call
> their business 'A' in order to be first. The difficult with being 'A'
> is there are so many who wish that designation, so telco's rules seem
> to be that when two or more last names amd surnames are identical, all
> the way down to the middle initial, then further sorting is done by
> the _street_ name, so that 'John J. Smith' of 1234 Any Street is
> listed prior to 'John J. Smith' of 1234 Somewhere Street, because A's
> come ahead of S's. Now if there are two or more John J. Smith's both
> living on Any Street, then the sort continues by _street number_ on
> 'Any' street, so that the party at 1234 Any Street is listed ahead of
> the party at 2345 Any Street. If a business listing has initials with
> mean anything the sort is done by what the intial 'means' in real
> life. So for example 'FBI' would be listed mid the 'Federal' (as the
> first word) listings, where a radio station (KIND or KOSU for example)
> would be listed at the first of the listings since 'K' by itself has
> no generally understood meaning. Companies with numerals as part of
> their name, i.e. '800 Service Corporation' generally go wherever the
> number spelled out would go. i.e.'Eight Hundred Service Corporation'
It even extends to the political. There is a well known case of a Ralph
Russo, becoming Ralph aRusso so his name would appear first on the
ballot.
------------------------------
From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Unlisted Phone Number
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:05:12 -0500
In article <telecom26.68.9@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
says:
> Bell always used to encourage "In an emergency dial 0" and operators
> were trained to take down the details if necessary and pass them on to
> the police. Not anymore, they push 911, they don't want their
> operators involved in that anymore. I wonder if the current phone
> books even say to dial an operator for an emergency. They really
> discourage it.
That assumes that anything even happens when you dial zero. With VoIP
there've been no operator services whatsoever.
> On Mar 8, 1:18 pm, Rick Merrill <rick0.merr...@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The addresses that Switchboard.com and others have do not come from
>> the telephone directory and therefore they often list "unlisted
>> numbers."
> Those web services are inaccurate. What troubles me is that lay
> people take them for gospel. (Recently the Inquirer published college
> profs saying Wikpedia is NOT an allowable/authorative reference source
> for papers; though many people think it is.)
> On those sites I am listed with a phone I disconnected in 2001. I am
> not listed with my present phone. Actually I am, but my name is
> spelled wrong so a name look up won't find me.
You could find me on the web directories but it's very easy to delete
your information from them.
> I got upset when a distant relative called me and complained "I had a
> tough time finding you, your phone is not listed." I replied that my
> phone is and always has been listed in the phone book. She said
> "well, it wasn't on the web."
> There's a heck of a lot of crap on the web and ordinary consumers
> don't know it.
That's ok for the next week or so I'll be doing battle with both AT&T
and Verizon for having the wrong listings on their web sites for my
office.
> Another example is these automatic routing programs from map services.
> I know several people who ended up on dead-end streets in high crime
> neighborhoods because the mapgen thought it was an on-ramp and it
> wasn't. There are many streets on official maps that don't exist in
> reality -- they were planned but never physically put in or deleted.
> The mapgens don't know it. They also can't tell the difference
> between a through street and an alleyway and route people wrong.
> But it amazes me that otherwise intelligent people use these functions
> and thing because they came from the computer/web they're perfectly
> reliable. (Why they can't look themselves on a road map I don't
> know.)
Actually the mapgens work well for my city if only because there
really haven't been many new streets added in the past few years.
------------------------------
From: Jonathan Williams <jonathanwilliams306@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to Change the Time on a Mitel SX-2000 Phone Switch
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:48:29 -0400
Organization: UseNetServer.com
At your terminal, log into the switch using name (usually maint1 or
installer) and password.
Go to the maintenance screen (press esc then 6; the 6 at the top of the
keyboard not the numpad) from the desktop screen
type in time 00:00:00 (24hr format) press Enter
when done press Esc then 1 to log out
<billy.eichler@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:telecom26.68.7@telecom-digest.org:
> Hey, with this daylight savings time coming up early, I'm left to
> change the time myself. I can't figure how to do this, does anyone
> know?
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I hope you all did rememebr to set
your clocks _forward one hour_ sometime over the weekend. You may
recall on Friday or Saturday I told you 'those of us with all the
time internet connections and clock software should have no trouble;
it would be done automatically'. Well not quite. I have two different
clock software things here, I do not know which of them screwed up,
or maybe both of them. I have 'T Clock Ex ' by Dale Nurden, which
is mostly a fancy display thing, and I also use 'NetTime-2b7' which
is Open Source software. I suspect the latter was the problem, since
the author stated in his documents that 2003 was the last time he
intended to work on it. It refused to allow any any manual setting of
the clock one hour ahead, and it certainly would not volunteer to set
it on its own. Using the Windows 'set time and date' function
consistently brought up a message saying 'gross error found in clock;
reset it or turn off time server?' and whenever I would manually
change the '2' (o'clock A.M.) to '3' it would immediatly set it back
to '2'. As soon as I tried manually changing the _date_ up to
somewhere in May, the clock would go up to '3' automatically. Back the
date back down to the right date, the '3' would be replaced by a '2'
once again. Furthemore, I use a secure form of telnet called 'puTTY'
to login to massis.lcs.mit.edu to work on this Digest, and puTTY
refused to work during the time I was tampering with the clock. So I
wound up changing the timezone to Eastern STANDARD time which is
really what Central DAYLIGHT SAVING time is anyway. Both NetTime-2b7
and puTTY now worked okay, and as I found out later, T Clock Ex did
not care either way.
It would seem to me that NetTime relies on the 'proper date' (the
proper Sunday in April) to do its thing, paying no attention to the
hours, just the minutes. Give it the 'proper' date (i.e. later than
the old changeover date in April) and it will do its thing. I wish
someone who knows about those things would do a software patch to
NetTime to adjust it to the proper date for time changes, etc. The
NetTime program is a good piece of software otherwise. PAT]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:52:25 -0400
From: Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reverse 911
Claude J Ortega wrote:
> In article <telecom26.68.6@telecom-digest.org>,
> rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com says:
>> Just received a call as follows:
>> (999) 999-9999 NAME NOT FOUND
>> and it was an "amber alert" about a missing boy in our town.
>> Has anyone else heard of this?
> Yep, my town is trying it out.
> I have an answering machine on my line, to filter out the
> telemarketers, and the reverse 911 system just hangs up without giving
> out the 'important' message. :-(
> Claude
They would leave a message except that they want to be sure the message
was "heard".
My wife's reaction was, "what?! I want to hear it again!"
There should be a number that one can call back so that other
members of the household can hear the information from the source.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:37:44 -0600
From: John Schmerold <john@katy.com>
Subject: Re: Phone Call Routing
To date, no one has been able to explain this to me. I'm not afraid of
Google, I have a hunch no one really knows how this works, in fact for
all the reasons Lisa identified (thanks Lisa), it has become a
remarkable feat to get a call connected.
Part of the answer seems to be: Neustar, it seems they serve the same
role as a ICANN plays regarding IP addresses and domains. I've sent a
note to Neustar to see what service they offer to end users wanting to
protect one of their important assets - their phone number.
Ultimately all I'm really after is the knowledge that is required to
help our clients get their number back if they sign with a
Norvergence, then find 1/2 their inbound calls aren't making it
through to order entry.
> 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: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:48:48 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.
In article <telecom26.69.9@telecom-digest.org>, Jim Stewart
<jstewart@jkmicro.com> wrote:
[[.. munch ..]]
> I've also heard that the only bird that can both talk and fly is the
> parrot, and it can't do either very well ...
Don't believe everything you hear. :)
Besides true parrots, there are a number of closely related species,
like the cockatoo (remember the 'Baretta' TV series ?), and the macaw.
And the mynah bird.
Also the mockingbird and the catbird, although these two are nowhere as
'trainable' as the others.
One thing however, that parrots, and their immediate kin, *are* truely
bad at, is counting. On more than one occasion, the macaw on
Blackbeard's shoulder was heard to proclaim "Pieces of seven! Pieces
of seven! Awwkkkkk!"
Everybody recognized it for what it was -- just a one bit parroty error.
(I had to have _something_ in this USENET posting that was nominally
telecom related. :)
------------------------------
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk
Date: 11 Mar 2007 20:19:54 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Dave Close wrote:
> All of that, true or not, does not address the question of actual
> safety. Some civilians are former police officers, for example, and
> could have experienced the same training you say makes it ok to talk
> while driving.
Except the number of former police officers out there is a very tiny
percentage. Further, police officers normally go through refresher
courses throughout their careers; a former officer would not.
> The fact remains that, before these new laws, it was already illegal
> to fail to pay attention while driving.
Which is irrlevent. It's "against the law" to "drive badly", yet we
have numerous very specific laws on what driving badly constitutes and
penalties.
Someone could claim they were still paying attention while on their
cell phone. The law makes it clear it is illegal to use cell phones,
as it should be.
> The purpose of the cell phone ban is not to create a crime where
> there wasn't one but to make it easier to prove the crime. Unfort-
> unately, the laws also /do/ create a new crime, using a cell phone
> while still paying attention to driving. Why should that be a crime?
Because driving while cell phoning is dangerous. Mr. RB documented it
quite well here. Cell phone conversations are very distracting. I
see it every day.
> Do you think that someone stuck in traffic which is not moving /at
> all/ should not be able to use his cell phone to call 511?
It's dangerous! I've seen it. Someone's yakking away and traffic
opens up in front of him which he doesn't notice. So people behind
him try to pass or he suddenly speeds up to make up the space.
> Do you think that someone driving on a rural Interstate and
> observing a drunk driver should /not/ call 911 to report that
> observation?
That occurs so infrequently compared to all other cell phone
conversations that it isn't an issue.
Using a cell phone while driving ought to be 100% illegal in all
states.
Why are people so damn addicted to their cell phones they can't put
them down while driving?
------------------------------
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: 511 Traffic Phone Lines May Raise Crash Risk
Date: 12 Mar 2007 08:06:59 -0400
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:
>> [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]
> I raised that question of driving while talking on the phone with an
> airplane pilot and he said pilots "multitask" All the time!
Yes, and a whole lot of human factors engineering goes into reducing
pilot workload.
For the most part, drivers have to pay attention to the road
constantly, while pilots only need constant attention during takeoff,
landing, or when something goes wrong.
When something goes wrong, being able to fly the plane, diagnose a problem,
and talk on the radio at the same time can be extremely difficult.
--scott
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And I presume if you absolutely needed
to make a call immediatly (such as observing a drunk driver on an
interstate) you could always pull over to the side of the road, stop
your car, make the call, then return to normal driving. PAT]
------------------------------
From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Vonage Loses Suit; Says Will Stay in Business
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:16:52 -0500
In article <telecom26.68.1@telecom-digest.org>, reuters@telecom-
digest.org says:
> Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Friday it was not
> going out of business despite a jury's verdict a day earlier that it
> infringed on three patents owned by Verizon Communications Inc.
> "In the unlikely event the monetary award ($58 million) and royalties
> are ultimately upheld/paid, they will not jeopardize Vonage's
> financial position as we focus on achieving profitability," the
> company said in a statement.
> It also said there would be no change in its phone service and that it
> was confident it could stay any injunction. The company's shares were
> down around 15 percent in afternoon trade.
> Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.
> NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the
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I find it awfully funny that Verizon holds patents on the mechanisms of
VoIP. It's almost as though Vonage once had an agreement with Company X
which held the patents and then Company X was bought by Verizon for the
express purpose of trying to kill VoIP.
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