TELECOM Digest     Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:37:00 EDT    Volume 26 : Issue 85

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    FCC Agrees to Adjusted Merger Conditions AT&T & BellSouth (Reuters News
    AT&T Says Recieved One Million Inquiries on I-Phone (Reuters News Wire)
    Cingular Launches US  Mobile Banking (Sinead Carew)
    Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com (John Mayson)
    An ISP Gets a "National Security Letter" With a Gag Order (Danny Burstein)
    CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
    AT&T Uses Banking Software to Entice Internet Use (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: Life Magazine Going Out of Business, But Staying Online (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using Verizon Technology (T)
    Re: Numeric Pager Notification of E-mail (Steve Crow)

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:36:46 -0500
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FCC Agrees to Adjusted Merger Conditions AT&T & BellSouth


US FCC agrees to changed AT&T/BellSouth condition 

Releasing its approval of AT&T Inc.'s BellSouth acquisition, the
U.S. Federal Communications Commission made a merger condition
revision that benefits rivals Verizon Communications west
Communications International Inc. 

AT&T is required to offer a reduced rate to other phone companies that
use its networks to connect calls. That means former Bell phone
companies Verizon and Qwest, which use AT&T networks in some U.S.
regions, would also pay the lower rate.

AT&T had previously agreed to cut the rate on the condition that
Verizon and Qwest do the same, incurring the wrath of Verizon and
Qwest and raising questions among some lawmakers.

Since then, AT&T offered to modify the condition, even though it
believes the original is "lawful and fully justified by market
conditions."

As part of the order, the FCC said AT&T will only have to offer the
reduced rate for 39 months instead of 48 months.

"In order to resolve any lingering controversy over this issue, AT&T
is willing to modify that commitment ... as requested by the
Commission," the company said in comments to the FCC, which agreed to
accept the change.

Stifel Nicolaus analysts noted the order "is modest good news for
Verizon and Qwest, as they will no longer be subjected to the
reciprocity requirement in order to benefit from the AT&T commitment
to cut certain special-access rates.

"AT&T says it will lose a bit more revenue, though it will save some
money as the FCC agreed to shorten the duration of the rate cuts by
nine months," it said in note to clients.

Verizon said the FCC "acted wisely."

"The original formulation discriminated against some carriers and was
on extremely shaky legal ground," the company stated. "In addition,
merger conditions cannot be used as a backdoor way to impose
requirements on a non-party to the merger. The courts have been clear
on this point."

The FCC approved AT&T's purchase of BellSouth in December.

In 1984, the original AT&T, or "Ma Bell," was split into regional
"Baby Bell" companies, including Qwest and BellSouth.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:28:11 -0500
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T Says Recieved One Million Inquiries on I-Phone


Cingular Wireless, the mobile unit of AT&T Inc., has received about 1
million inquiries about Apple Inc.'s upcoming iPhone, AT&T Chief
Operating Officer Randall Stephenson said on Tuesday.

Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless service being rebranded as AT&T,
will be the first to sell the music-playing iPhone when Apple, the
maker of the popular iPod music player, begins shipments in June.

While Cingular is not taking advance orders for the iPhone, it set up
a section on its Web site inviting visitors to leave their e-mail
addresses to receive information about the phone when it is released.

"One million people have asked us to call when this phone is
available," Stephenson said in his keynote speech at the CTIA wireless
technology conference.

Apple has said it could eventually sell 10 million iPhones, which play
music and video and have a touch screen. The version with 4 gigabytes
of flash memory will cost $499, while the 8-gigabyte version will cost
$599.

AT&T shares rose 1 percent to $39.68 on the New York Stock Exchange, 
while Apple share were flat at $95.85 on Nasdaq.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:31:06 -0500
From: Sinead Carew <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Cingular Launches US  Mobile Banking


By Sinead Carew

AT&T Inc. said on Tuesday it has taken a step toward the long-promised
notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing
agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

The agreements will allow customers of its Cingular Wireless arm,
which is being rebranded as AT&T, and participating banks to manage
their accounts and pay bills electronically by using an application on
their cell phones.

While the use of mobile phones for transactions is in its nascent
stages in the United States, such services are already available in
parts of Europe and Asia.

In Japan, people commonly shop with their mobile phones by just waving
their handset instead of swiping credit cards.

Along with Wachovia, U.S. banks such as BancorpSouth Inc.  Regions
Financial Corp. and SunTrust Banks, Inc. are offering mobile banking
to AT&T customers.

With three of the top U.S. banks in tow, Cingular is now in talks with
the rest with an aim to signing them up in the next 12 to 24 months,
said Jim Ryan, the company's data services vice president. He said the
service needs more banks to participate in order to be successful.

"We believe that a significant number of people are interested in
being able to do this with their phones," Ryan told Reuters at the
sidelines of the CTIA wireless show. "To make it work all the banks
need to really agree to the logic."

AT&T, having tested mobile banking last year, has said it will not
charge extra for the service but expects it to attract more users to
its wireless Internet service and potentially help it add new users
and keep existing ones.

And as enough consumers begin to use their phones to check their
balance before a transaction, the next step for Cingular would be
using phones to replace credit cards.

"In the next 12 months it's reasonable to expect we'll have a platform
of devices that offer real-time transactions," Ryan said. Cingular has
tested Nokia phones with short range radio links that enable wireless
payments as the user waves the phone by a device like a credit card
reader.

Mobile banking is part of an effort by wireless companies around to
world to boost their revenue and customer loyalty by convincing
subscribers to use phones for everything from Web browsing and text
messaging to playing music and video.

AT&T said customers can download software from privately held
Firethorn Holdings LLC onto their phones. AT&T plans to include the
software in new handsets in the second half of this year and is
planning a multimillion-dollar ad campaign.

Firethorn is also acting as an intermediary between AT&T and the
banks.

Wachovia operates in 21 U.S. states, while Regions operates in 16
states in the Midwest and South, including Texas. SunTrust provides
banking in Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states and BancorpSouth operates
in eight U.S. states.

AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson also said at CTIA that
wireless and fixed-line services would eventually combine. "I'm
confident that in the not too distant future the concepts of having
different handsets for different networks ... will be seen as quaint,"
he said.

For example, cell phone video conference services that AT&T plans to
launch in 50 markets this summer could eventually work in conjunction
with video conferencing on television screens and desktop computers.

He saw mobile video representing as dramatic a change as the
replacement of black-and-white televisions with color.

To illustrate the growing ubiquity of mobile phones around the world,
Stephenson said that while four babies are born every second in China,
about 25 people are signing up for wireless services in the country.


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From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Subject: Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com
Date: 27 Mar 2007 17:42:41 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Has anyone tried the service offered by Grand Central?

http://www.grandcentral.com/

They offer a free telephone number that'll try all of your phone
numbers until it reaches you.  I personally have no use for this
service, but am curious nonetheless if anyone has heard anything good
or bad.  I'd be hesitant to give out my phone numbers.

John

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:22:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: An ISP Gets a "National Security Letter" With a Gag Order


" ... Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in
my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting
business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information about
one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had reviewed
or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had.

" ... Living under the gag order has been stressful and surreal. Under the 
threat of criminal prosecution, I must hide all aspects of my involvement 
in the case -- including the mere fact that I received an NSL -- from my 
colleagues, my family and my friends. When I meet with my attorneys I 
cannot tell my girlfriend where I am going or where I have been ...

rest (watch for line wrap) :

Linkname: My National Security Letter Gag Order - washingtonpost.com

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201882.html
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
 		     dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
From: communicationsdirect <communicationsdirect@communicationsdirectnews.com>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:43:55 EDT


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PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For March 27, 2007
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Defies EU in New Mobile Termination Fees
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/23467?11228

     The United Kingdom's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has announced new
     mobile wholesale termination charges for the country's five
     mobile operators that could lead to annual savings of up to 500
     million pounds (US$981.88 million) for consumers. The new charges
     are geared towards enabling the companies to recoup some of the
     licence fee ...

BT Signs MVNO Deal With Vodafone Espana
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23464?11228

     The United Kingdom's leading fixed-line group, British Telecom
     (BT), has signed an MVNO contract with Spain's number-two mobile
     network operator, Vodafone Espana. The company plans to launch
     commercial operations in mid-2007.  Significance: The move will
     enable BT to enter the Spanish mobile market as a virtual
     network ...

Survey: Voice Call Revenue Slipping Away
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23458?11228

     A survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. revealed more
     than 80 percent of industry executives believe voice calls will
     not be the primary revenue source for communications carriers
     within six years and more than half think it will happen within
     the next four years.  The survey, which was conducted on behalf
     of Oracle and ...

Yahoo Seeks Content for Mobile Service
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23456?11228

     SUNNYVALE, California -- Yahoo Inc. is recruiting other Web sites
     to help make its mobile search services more useful for consumers and
     advertisers, marking another step in the Internet portal&#39;s push
     to build a lucrative sales channel beyond the personal computer.
     Web sites that want their content listed in Yahoo's ...

AlcaLu Lands $6B Deal
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23454?11228

     Alcatel-Lucent has scored a mega contract with Verizon Wireless
     worth $6 billion over three years. The contract is good news for
     Alcatel-Lucent because Verizon Wireless has effectively given the
     new company a vote of confidence by choosing to extend its
     standing relationship with Lucent to the newly merged entity ...

CTIA: WiMax in the Air
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/23452?11228

     ORLANDO, Fla. -- CTIA Wireless -- There's a definite whiff of
     WiMax in the air down here in the Magic Kingdom. Major vendors
     such as Motorola Inc. and Siemens AG are firming up their mobile
     strategies for the wireless broadband technology. Operator Sprint
     Nextel Corp.&nbsp;is expected to add more color to its WiMax ...

Vonage Pouts: We're Still Alive 'n Kicking
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/23450?11228

     Vonage, sent reeling by its patent suit loss to Verizon, the
     injunction arising out of that ruling and a massive sell-off of
     its shares on Friday, this morning made a major attempt at damage
     control, with CEO Mike Snyder issuing a statement that to
     paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of Vonage's death have been
     greatly ...

Qualcomm Opens the Door to Mobile User-Generated Content
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/23446?11228

     Qualcomm announced today a new chip that it says will drive down
     the cost of mobile broadband while increasing speeds. The QSC6085
     for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A promises to deliver more than 10 times
     the speed of EV-DO Rel. O-up to 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link and
     3.1 Mbps on the forward link-to better support advanced mobile
     capabilities, ...

Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to:
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:15:32 CDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: AT&T Uses Banking Software to Entice Internet Use


USTelecom dailyLead
March 27, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gyfYfDtusXoFlsCibuddAYvD

TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY

* AT&T uses banking software to entice Internet use
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* FiOS to launch a "new breed" of local TV channel
* Sprint reveals more WiMAX markets
* Whitacre steers AT&T ship
* New Yahoo! service makes adding mobile ads easier
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* NXTcomm Announces Conference Affiliates
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Ethernet needs to evolve
* IBM, 3Com team up for VoIP-messaging interoperability
* Technology lets voice customers bypass costly services
* U.S. government backs IPv6, but security issues linger
* Symbian: New OS will expand beyond smartphones
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* AT&T, FCC agree to revised BellSouth merger terms

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

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Life Magazine Going Out of Business, But Staying Online
Date: 26 Mar 2007 13:57:55 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On Mar 26, 2:58 pm, Reuters News Wire <reut...@telecom-digest.org>
wrote:

> Time Inc. said on Monday it would stop publishing Life, the iconic
> photography magazine that has been a weekly newspaper insert since
> 2004.

This is a bit misleading.  The current "Life magazine" is a freebie
newspaper extra and it is just a few pages.  It is a far, far, cry
from the classic Life magazine of the past.  Has a cute picture
puzzle.

> Time will make Life's collection of 10 million images available online,
> with "the most important collection of imagery covering the events and
> people of the 20th century" available for free for personal use, it said.
> The public has never seen more than 97 percent of the collection,
> which includes pictures by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White
> and Gordon Parks, Time said.

The quality of their picture library is not exaggerated, it is
absolutely superb.  Their photographers were the best of the craft.
However, because of limits of cameras and film in that day, most
pictures were carefully posed.  What the photographer chose to pose
and what the editors chose to print could seriously affect the reality
of the original subject matter.  And of course not all pictures could
be a dramatic image against a rich sky; some were almost plain "ID
card" pictures.

The head of Time-Life publishing was Henry Luce.  I give him much
credit for bringing Time, Life, and Fortune magazines out.  However,
Luce held rather strong opinions and some may have filtered through
his publications.  Plus, I think he was a bit of an arrogant tyrant.

As I understand it, Luce was a member of the "China Lobby", a group of
prominent US citizens who urged very strong ties and support for China
in the 1930s and 1940s.  The problem was that the Chinese govt under
Chiang Kai Shek was not very good nor popular in China.  The US put a
lot of resources into proping up his govt during WW II and afterwards
and didn't get much back for it.  Because of poor internal support, it
was relatively easy for Mao and the Communists to overthrow Chiang and
take over.  The China Lobby was furious that this happened and blamed
the Democrats in power (the Truman Adm and Democrats in congress).
But there was nothing the US could've done to stop the takeover, China
was a real mess.

Sadly, IMHO, this set a bad precedent.  The call "who lost China?"
made subsequent politicians fearful of another such debacle and helped
pave the way for the US disaster in Vietnam.

There is always reminising about Life magazine and how "great" it was.
It was a good and interesting magazine.  But it was not totally
highbrow either.  While it of course included serious news features
each week, it also always included photos of undignifed circus or
oddball people and places, fashion, considerable entertainment news,
and attractive young women*.  Much of what is in today's People
magazine would've been in Life years ago.

(Into the 1970s serious in-house corporate newsletters often had a
pretty young secretary on the cover.)

At times like this there is often handwringing how no one reads
anymore.  But that's only half true.  Sure, back then (1940s, 1950s)
people did read a lot more.  But if you look closely at photos of
newstands of that era, you'll see that serious publications are in a
corner, while the bulk of the newstand has low-class tabloid "pulp"
publications.  Comic books, cheap Westerns, detective stories with
plenty of gore, Hollywood gossip, etc., filled the bulk of yesterday's
newstand.  Publishing companies mass produced this stuff.  The
equivalent today is the numerous tabloid and gossip TV shows, both
broadcast and cable.  Indeed, even serious broadside newspapers back
then often covered crime and scandal in grisly detail.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember the competitor to
> Life Magazine called 'Look Magazine'; also a popular weekly print
> journal with many pictures, etc. It has been out of business since
> sometime in the 1970s also.  PAT]

Yes.  I forgot who published LOOK, it was basically a copy of Life.
It had top notch photographers, too.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There is a sort of corny joke I will 
share with you: A rather noted Chinese spokesperson/diplomat by the 
name of Singmon Ree was employed for a long time -- many years -- by
the Time, Inc. conglomerate as a writer/columnist, specifically for
Life Magazine. This goes back to when Time, Inc. had its twin towers
in New York City. Singmon was out walking around one day, when his
presence was needed by Mr. Luce, who sent several people from his
staff out to look for him. Luce became angrier and angrier not being
able to find him, but eventually they did and the first words from the
mouth of the staff person who found him was "Ahh ... Mister Ree of
Life at last I found you!"   PAT]

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using Verizon Technology
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:08:12 -0400


In article <telecom26.84.4@telecom-digest.org>, first.last@comcast.net 
says:

> In article <telecom26.83.8@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com 
> says:

>> Peter wrote:

>>> A federal judge dealt a blow to Vonage Holdings Corp. that sent its
>>> stock reeling on Friday, when he agreed to bar the company from
>>> using Internet phone call technology patented by Verizon
>>> Communications Inc. ...  A jury on March 8 found Vonage had
>>> infringed three patents owned by Verizon. ...

>> When Vonage hit the scene, a number of participants here were quite
>> enthused about it.  I am curious as to what they think of the current
>> situation.

>> Also, could anyone explain -- in layman's terms -- what the three
>> patents covered?

> From Cnet:

> "The patents Vonage was found to have infringed deal with technologies 
> involving connection of VoIP calls to the regular phone network, some 
> features for implementing call-waiting and voice-mail services, and VoIP 
> calls using Wi-Fi handsets."

So it's the connection method is it? Far as I can recall, switches of
all sizes have been IP aware for quite some time now. My Vonage line
is in essence a VoIP phone connected to a real switch. Verizon and
that damned jury doesn't seem to understand that part.

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From: Steve Crow <steve.crow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Numeric Pager Notification of E-mail
Date: 26 Mar 2007 17:36:35 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


I was able to create my own homebrew solution using Mail.app filters,
AppleScript, and Skype's API. For the benefit of anyone who may be
looking for this type of setup in the future, here's a link to the
details and a copy of the script on my web site:

http://www.stevecrow.net/welcome/2007/3/26/using-old-technology-to-support-new-technology.html

That post also gives some background information on the "why" behind
this project.

Thanks to all who responded here and via e-mail.

Steve

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