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TELECOM Digest Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:12:00 EDT Volume 26 : Issue 87
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Roaming From Cellular to VOIP/Wifi? (R. T. Wurth)
CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
AT&T, Verizon, Qwest Share in Networx Contract (USTelecom dailyLead)
Re: Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com (Steve Crow)
Re: Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com (Mark Roberts)
Re: History of Wireless Networking (T)
Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using Verizon Tech (T)
Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using Verizon Tech (John Levine)
Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using (Fred Goldstein)
Re: Claiming Your Telephone Tax Refund (Bill Hendley)
Re: NANP Number Lengths (Stan Schwartz)
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Subject: Roaming From Cellular to VOIP/Wifi?
From: R. T. Wurth <rwurth@att.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:01:16 GMT
Organization: AT&T Worldnet
(Did I guess the Telecom Digest secret word for express handling?)
I've been thinking about cell phones, and I've seen a few that offer
Wifi access, and one that has VOIP over Wifi. Do any of these offer
seamless roaming? Consider the following hypothetical scenarios:
1.) I arrive at home and walk into my house, where I have a Wifi
access point connected to my cable or DSL modem. Can I have a
phone/service that will place and receive new calls using VOIP over
Wifi (through a SIP and media gateway operated by my cell carrier)
until I leave? Can I have existing calls roam between cellular and
VOIP over Wifi when I enter/leave my wifi zone?
2.) I walk into a fast food restaurant with Wifi provided by my cell
provider. I have subscribed to my carrier's wifi access option. Can
I have my current call seamlessly roam onto VOIP over Wifi? Can I
have a call roam back to cellular when I leave? Can I at least have
new calls be made over VOIP over Wifi?
Do any phones work anything like this? Do any carriers (anywhre, not
just US) offer a service that works like this? Is it publicly
available or just a controlled introduction trial?
-- Rich Wurth /
rwurth@att.net / Rumson, NJ USA
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: YES, you did correctly guess the secret
word. And when it is discovered in a subject line it is automatically
removed (so no need to send me a line saying 'please erase' etc.) And
it is not so much 'express handling' as it is showing mercy upon me,
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Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
From: communications <communicationsdirect_daily@communicationsdirectnews.com>
Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:57:06 EDT
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Review: Broadcast TV Makes Cell Debut
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Watching TV on a cell phone usually involves either downloading
short video clips or tuning into a live feed of cable channels
that approximates radio more than television, the moving picture;
stuttering along in fits and starts. Now, two rival services are
taking a different approach: broadcasting video to your ...
FCC Proposes $100,000 Fines Against Amp'd Mobile and Other Firms Over
Phone Records
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The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $100,000
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at the youth market, and two other companies for failing to
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Visa CEO Pushes Cell Phone as Payment Tool Via Investments and Alliances
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Visa USA will make investments and partner with technology
companies to push the concept of turning the cell phone into a
credit or debit card, a move that President and Chief Executive
John Philip Coghlan said is 'inevitable'. During a keynote
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Microsoft-backed ZenZui Offers New Mobile Browsing Experience
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/23503?11228
Microsoft spin-off ZenZui has a new way of looking at mobile
browsing. Its Zooming User Interface technology consists of 36
individual tiles that users select and customize according to
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content will be easier for customers to browse. ZenZui's
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Ma Bell kept the iPhone hope alive, once again piquing consumer
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ain't seen nothing yet." Keynoting the opening day of Wireless
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:21:33 CDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: AT&T, Verizon, Qwest Share in Networx Contract
USTelecom dailyLead
March 29, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gzfYfDtusXoObkCibuddFSjM
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* AT&T, Verizon, Qwest share in Networx contract
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Nortel, Microsoft extend partnership
* AT&T has faith in prepaid wireless
* Verizon Business ups ULH all-optical network speeds
* Cisco buys SpansLogic
* Ericsson may seek out more multimedia buys
* WSJ: Sprint searches for an identity
* IBM secures Hutchison Essar IT deal
* Insight dials up phone service in Kentucky
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* U.S. Hispanics pick up the pace on digital media
* Pepsi, Intel will be first sponsors for Viacom's mobile network
* Vodafone bolsters systems integration
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Ofcom adopts new VoIP code of practice
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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From: Steve Crow <steve.crow@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com
Date: 29 Mar 2007 07:15:46 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
I've used GrandCentral pretty much since the beginning and it's come a
long way. Reliability has improved considerably, though it's still
common for calls to mysteriously drop or go silent after about 10
minutes into a call. The call recording, seamless in-call transfer,
and unlimited storage space for voicemail and call recordings is very
nice.
A recent enhancement to the service allows you to forward incoming
calls to a Gizmo Project/SIPphone SIP number in addition to PSTN
numbers. This is quite valuable for someone who would otherwise be
paying $12 or $36 every 3 months for a PSTN number from Gizmo.
Hopefully this capability will expand to other SIP providers in the
near future.
If there's one drawback, it's that product support is very hit-or-miss
right now. Of course, it's in beta, so some problems are to be
expected. However, it seems to be a matter of flipping a coin as to
whether or not you'll get a reply to trouble tickets and support
requests. I've got several in that have gone ignored for weeks, while
a previous trouble ticket about persistent downtime in Richmond, VA
got a personal phone call from Craig Walker, CEO of GrandCentral.
Seems it's either all or nothing. I'm sure that will improve with time
and the official release of the product, which appears to be right
around the corner.
Even with its occasional glitches, it's been reliable enough lately to
be my primary phone number. I've gone strictly VoIP (more incredibly,
almost entirely Wi-Fi VoIP). The Gizmo integration is fantastic, since
that's what I use for my SIP service (you can now customize your Gizmo
Caller ID, so I have mine set to transmit my GrandCentral phone
number). I think GrandCentral's feature set-- particularly call
recording, blocking, custom call handling, telemarketing filters,
etc-- are particularly valuable paired with something like Gizmo.
All that said, I'm certainly satisfied with it.
On Mar 27, 8:42 pm, John Mayson <j...@mayson.us> wrote:
> 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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From: markrobt+usenet@gmail.com (Mark Roberts)
Subject: Re: Information Wanted on GrandCentral.com
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:55:18 -0000
Organization: 1.94 meters
John Mayson <john@mayson.us> had written:
> 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.
I've been using it for a few months. I use it to provide an alias
to my cell phone number. Occasionally I've had difficulty with the
feature that rings you up, announces the caller's name, and gives you
the option to take the call. I'm not sure whether this is because
of delays on the cell phone, or because I'm just not listening
closely.
The other complaint I have is that the web site requires Flash. It
really does require Flash; that's what it's using to play the voice
mails. I suppose that's better than requiring something even more
proprietary such as Windows Media Player. But the login interface
should not also require Flash. That's just bad user interface design.
It also makes it unusable on my Linux boxes where I have refused to
install Flash.
Aside from those points, it seems to work well. You can give you your
number to whomever you want, so I'm not sure why that would be an
issue.
Mark Roberts - Oakland, CA - NO HTML MAIL
Permission to archive this article in any form is hereby explicitly denied.
That includes quoting the article in its entirety.
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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: History of Wireless Networking
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:54:35 -0400
In article <telecom26.86.2@telecom-digest.org>, assoc@telecom-digest.org
says:
> By Abdul Rahman Malik
> As we peep in the history of Networking we will find that in 1971, the
> researchers at the University of Hawaii developed the world's first
> WLAN , or in full form the wireless local area network which was named
> as ALOHAnet .The ALOHAnet was supposed to be the bi-directional or two
> way directional star topology of the system which included seven
> computers deployed over four islands in order to communicate with the
> central computer on the Oahu Island without using phone lines for
> connection or data transfer.
ALOHAnet used amateur radio packet if I remember correctly.
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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: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:52:55 -0400
In article <telecom26.86.9@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
says:
> T wrote:
>> 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.
> I don't think you can properly draw a conclusion from such a
> simplistic analysis.
> We still don't know exactly what the three infringed patents were.
> (If we had the patent numbers, we could look them up at the patent
> office.)
> In any event, whatever switchgear Vonage uses cannot be built with any
> patented technologies owned by Verizon. But they did, in three
> separate areas. Simple as that. To say the "jury didn't understand"
> without much more detailed information is premature.
In essence, Vonage is nothing but an extender. Oh, they authenticate
you via SIP, but otherwise you're hooking up to a real big iron switch
at the front end.
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Date: 28 Mar 2007 22:56:45 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using Verizon Technology
>> 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.
> Have *you* read the patents in question?
Yes. These patents are garbage.
pppp
The claim in patent 6,282,574 is basically for ENUM, look up a name
and get an IP address, but it was filed in 2000, when ENUM was already
well known.
The claim in patent 6,104,711 covers a lookup that returns a primary
or a backup server if the primary isn't available, filed in 1997,
utterly obvious if you ever saw MX records.
Patent 6,359,880 is actually about tracking roaming cell phones, using
the Internet to send the registration data. I cannot figure out how
anything that Vonage does could possibly infringe, since the claims
are specific to a "wireless telephone terminal".
R's,
John
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:49:14 -0400
From: Fred Goldstein <fgoldstein.SeeSigSpambait@wn2.wn.net>
Subject: Re: Judge Hits Vonage With Injuction; Stop Using
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:35:50 -0400, Barry Margolin
<barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote,
In article <telecom26.85.9@telecom-digest.org>,
nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net wrote:
>> 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.
> Have *you* read the patents in question? If not, how can you
> criticize their decision? You can't possibly know what the patents
> are really covering from the brief paragraph above.
Alright. Well, I did read the patent claims in question. What claims
were found to have been infringed?
"Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Claude M. Hilton: Jury
Trial cont'd on 3/8/2007. Appearances as previous. Jury question rec'd
3/7/07 addressed w/counsel. Jury reinstructed re: name translation and
given the definition of 'method comprising'. The jury returned to the
jury room to continue deliberations. The jury returned to the
courtroom at 2:50 w/a verdict finding infringement of claim 27 of the
'574 patent, claim 20 of the '711 patent and Claims 1, 6, 7, and 8 of
the '880 patent and finding that the infringement was not willful. The
jury did not find infringement of claims 1 & 2 of the '869 patent and
Claims 1 & 2 of the '275 patent. The jury found none of the claims at
issue in patents '574, '711, '869, '275, or '880 to be invalid. The
jury awarded pltfs damages in the amount of $58,000,000.00 and found
the reasonable royalty percentage to be 5.5%. Judgment to be entered
in accordance with the verdict. Pltfs motion for Permanent Injunction
to heard on 3/23/07 @ 10:00. (Court Reporter Linnell.) (tarm, )
(Entered: 03/08/2007)"
These were garbage claims in a set of garbage patents. Nothing IMHO
came even close to meeting the test of originality and
non-obviousness. But juries are not generally competent to make that
judgment; usually it's left to courts. The jury did rule in this
case, but then that's like asking the cook at your local Taco Bell to
peer-review a physics paper on quantum chromodynamics. It is
meaningless and really an exercise in stupidity.
On to specifics. Only a few claims actually were upheld. One was
claim 27 of the '527 patent (26 included for completeness):
26. A method comprising:
receiving a name translation request at a server coupled to a public
packet data network;
translating a name included in the request into a destination
telephone number associated with a name included in the request; and
transmitting a reply containing both the destination telephone number
and a packet data network address of a telephone gateway coupled
between the public packet data network and a telephone network
through the public packet data network to a calling device.
27. A method as in claim 26, wherein the address is an Internet
Protocol address.
Gee, that's not obvious, or prior art, is it? Boy that American
inventiveness sure worked hard for that one! How about the '711
patent, wherein only Claim 20 was found violated:
15. A method comprising:
receiving a name translation request at a server coupled to a public
packet data network;
executing a conditional analysis in response to the name translation
request;
if the conditional analysis produces a first result, translating a
name included in the name translation request into a first destination
address;
if the conditional analysis produces a second result, translating the
name included in the name translation request into a second
destination address; and
transmitting a response message containing the first or the second
destination address to a calling device for use in establishing
communication at least partially through the public packet data
network.
20. A method as in claim 15; wherein:
the first and second destination address includes a numeric Internet
Protocol address; and
the second destination address further includes information relating
to call routing via a public switched telephone network.
No, sirree, that doesn't look at all like DNS or MX records or
anything else invented before 1997!
Finally, the third upheld patent, the "not willful" violations of the
'880 patent, where only claims 1, 6, 7 and 8 were found violated:
1. A method comprising:
registering a wireless telephone terminal in a localized wireless
gateway system;
transmitting registration data identifying the gateway system from the
localized wireless gateway system to a home location register database
through a public packet data communication network;
receiving a request from a calling computer coupled to the public
packet data communication network for a call to the wireless telephone
terminal;
in response to the request, accessing the home location register
database and obtaining a packet data address for the localized
wireless gateway system;
using the address to set up a voice communication through the public
packet data communication network and the localized wireless gateway
system between the calling computer and the wireless telephone
terminal.
6. A method as in claim 1, wherein the public packet data
communication network is a packet switched network.
7. A method as in claim 6, wherein the packet switched network
comprises a system of interlinked data networks using TCP/IP protocol.
8. A method as in claim 7, wherein the system of interlinked data
networks comprises the Internet.
The '880 patent is about wireless phones, not central to Vonage at
all, so it's not clear how it is even relevant. But it basically
combines existing technologies, just waving "TCP/IP" over them as if
that made them new again, like your basic dotcom "business method"
patent rush of the 1990s.
In other words, Verizon is abusing the patent system in order to stamp
out competition. What else is new? Liars are liars.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It seems to me that a lot of these
'patent pirates' like Verizon, etc are going to pick over the entire
internet -- the hard work of _many_ netters over the years -- and
where they find some little unobtrusive thing which the earlier
builders had not bothered to patent way-back-when -- because the
internet was intended to be open architecture -- open to all -- now,
Verizon and who else is going to rush in trying to grab it up and
claim 'they were first'. Didn't I say, in 1987 or somewhere back in
those days that the men we recognize as our true 'founders' would have
been very well advised to clamp this thing down totally? Didn't I
say, sometime around 1993-95 that Tim Berners-Lee should be damned for
not tighting all the nuts and bolts on this web before the telcos were
able to beat him to it? Oh no, I was told, they are much too
anarchist-driven for anything like that. A bunch of college guys
trying to be (albiet benevolent) anarchists; and telco says you wanna
play that game, let's play it; but keep the benevolency to yourself.
And with their infinite supply of money and resources they (telco)
will indeed win and we will indeed lose. Not today, not this week; the
'death of the net' has not yet been scheduled. But you know where
things are going, I am sure. PAT]
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From: Bill Hendley" <wh3786@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: Claiming Your Federal Telephone Tax Refund
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:06:52 -0500
Patrick,
When Martin Sheen gives all of his resources to his various causes I
will listen to his blabbering. Until that time, I do not wish to hear
from him, BaaBaa Streisand or Al Gore about their various social
interests.
Bill Hendley
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So don't bother listening to BaaBaa or
Al (the bore) Gore or Martin Sheen. They thought of a good scheme to
relieve you of your telephone excise tax is all. The intent of the
message was remind you once again to claim your bottom-line refund
attributatable to your telephone tax; a refund which won't come around
again anytime soon. I wish I had thought of that scheme first, in fact
maybe I will get a patent on 'software intended to divert government
guilt feelings into moderator greed payments' and use it in the future
whenever a telephone-related message comes along inviting you to dip
into Uncle Sugar's largesse or deep pockets. I'll run the message
through my 'computer program' (a) announcing the new gift from Uncle
and offering to collect it as your agent for you and pocket it in my
own vast treasury of wealth instead and (b) sending you a slip of
paper signed by Uncle Sugar thanking you for your continued
patronage. If/when someone else develops the idea further and I start
getting slim pickings (like now) I will sue BaaBaa and Martin Sheen
and the others claiming they ripped off my idea. PAT]
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:30:48 PDT
From: Stan Schwartz <stannc@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: NANP Number Lengths
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On 9/23/1962, the New York Times had a very detailed article on the
> conversion to All Number Calling (ANC), consumer opposition and
> frustration to ANC, and future prospects of telephone systems. This
> may answer some of your questions of how the system evolved. The NYT
> is available on microfilm or CDROM in many large libraries.
It's also available to Times Select subscribers on the internet.
Interesting how the article discusses:
Data transmission at an "amazing" 2000 bits per second. AT&T had
predicted that 2L+5N dialing would have reached capacity by 1970. ANC
would resolve capacity issues until 2000 (only 5 years off). The
reason behind not going to a 3L+5N dialing plan. The magic Electronic
Central Office of the future, with its 23,000 neon-filled tubes, that
would allow (what we know now as) 3-way calling, speed dialing, call
forwarding, and home intercom.
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