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Telecom Digest       Saturday, August 19 2000       Volume 2000 : Number 027



In this issue:

    Re: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake
    Re: Reverse 800 Directories
    Sounds of Telecom
    Re: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake
    1-866 glitches
    Wired News : New Toys for Cheating Students
    Wintel (was Re: Legal AT&T Wireless LD slam)
    Videotron forced to resell cable modem services at 22.46$ CDN to ISP's
    8/18/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES

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Date: 18 Aug 2000 07:11:30 -0400
From: HALinNY77@aol.com
Subject: Re: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake

In a message dated 08/18/00 06:18:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 
owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org writes:

> Date: 18 Aug 2000 00:51:16 -0400
>  From: Robert Casey <wa2ise@ix.netcom.com>
>  Subject: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake
>  
>  Heard on the news that in Verhsions(sp) service area, and related to
>  that strike, some
>  vandals by mistake cut some power cables and got seriously zapped.
>  Appears they
>  intended to cut phone lines.
>

The correct spelling is Verizon and the "i" is pronounced as the "i" in 
"strike."
  
Here is a link to the article in today's NYTimes ...
<A 
HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-strike.html">
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-strike.html</A>
This link will probably not work after Friday, 8/18/00.

Notwithstanding the gravity of this event, I find it amusing that two telco 
employees could not tell the difference between a power cable and a telephone 
cable.  It's possible that they may not be craftspeople, but it really 
doesn't matter.

Hal Kaplan
Orion Telecommunications Corp.
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Date: 18 Aug 2000 13:00:37 -0400
From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@epidemix.ai>
Subject: Re: Reverse 800 Directories

Louis Jahn <LouJahn@compuserve.com> writes:

> Is there an easy way to locate who is the owner of an 800 number?

You can always try a seach on 555-1212.com or similar web sites.

I have had some luck in the past with doing so.

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Date: 18 Aug 2000 14:19:37 -0400
From: "Paul Cook" <pcook@proctorinc.com>
Subject: Sounds of Telecom

Can anyone point me toward web sites that have sound files
of various call progress tones, both current and historical?


Paul Cook - Applications Engineer
pcook@proctorinc.com
425-881-7000, ext 566

Proctor & Associates
15305 NE 95 St
Redmond WA  98052-2517
www.proctorinc.com
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Date: 18 Aug 2000 17:08:52 -0400
From: mrosen@ex-pressnet.com
Subject: Re: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake

I'm prompted for a username and password when I try to access the
link.  I believe I have an account already, but of course their
password retrieval is down.

Mike

In article <27.9d64c85.26ce73bd@aol.com>,
  HALinNY77@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 08/18/00 06:18:22 Eastern Daylight Time,
> owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org writes:
>
> > Date: 18 Aug 2000 00:51:16 -0400
> >  From: Robert Casey <wa2ise@ix.netcom.com>
> >  Subject: On the news radio: vandals cut power lines by mistake
> >
> >  Heard on the news that in Verhsions(sp) service area, and related
to
> >  that strike, some
> >  vandals by mistake cut some power cables and got seriously zapped.
> >  Appears they
> >  intended to cut phone lines.
> >
>
> The correct spelling is Verizon and the "i" is pronounced as the "i"
in
> "strike."
>
> Here is a link to the article in today's NYTimes ...
> <A
> HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-
strike.html">
> http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-
strike.html</A>
> This link will probably not work after Friday, 8/18/00.
>
> Notwithstanding the gravity of this event, I find it amusing that two
telco
> employees could not tell the difference between a power cable and a
telephone
> cable.  It's possible that they may not be craftspeople, but it
really
> doesn't matter.
>
> Hal Kaplan
> Orion Telecommunications Corp.
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Date: 18 Aug 2000 17:57:39 -0400
From: jared gottlieb <jared@netspace.net.au>
Subject: 1-866 glitches

Thanks for the 'test' number. Telstra (primary Australian carrier) seems to have slipped up. Recorded message is 'this number is not in service' rather than 'this call will be at normal international rates'.

>
>Alltel, which couldn't route wireless calls to my company's new 866 number
>(<shameless plug>866-DSL-EXPRESS, for those who care</shameless plug> :),
>still can't route wireless calls to that number. Ameritech seems to have no
>problem routing landline calls, though.
>
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Date: 18 Aug 2000 22:05:58 -0400
From: itsamike@yahoo.com (Mike Pollock)
Subject: Wired News : New Toys for Cheating Students

A note from Mike Pollock:

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 From Wired News, available online at:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,38066,00.html

New Toys for Cheating Students  
by Elisa Batista  

3:00 a.m. Aug. 18, 2000 PDT 

In the old days, cheating meant writing the answers to test questions
on your palm in blue ink. 

These days it's about passing along information on electronic devices
that fit in your palm. 

With the advent of a data transmission standard called "short
messaging service," students can silently beam test answers to each
other on their personal digital assistants. More ambitious students
can create their own database of notes, then access them during the
test. The possibilities are endless.  

But students beware. Teachers know what's going on, and are developing
strategies to thwart them.  

Teachers in secondary education are banning handheld devices in
classrooms, including pagers. College professors, too, are becoming
ever more educated and vigilant.  

Most wireless industry experts, however, predict that someday teachers
in secondary and higher education will administer tests on PDAs,
formatting them so that every student has a different set of
questions. Imagine how upset you'd be if the answer you received from
your friend corresponded to a completely different question.  

"The teacher can send a short reminder or information note by using
SMS-messages simultaneously to one or multiple students," said Mika
Konnola, president and CEO of Capslock, a wireless service and
applications developer based in San Jose, California. "The latest
phone models offer easy-to-use group messaging features and a single
message can have multiple receivers."  

In countries including the Philippines and Finland, SMS use is most
ubiquitous among youth who use the service to chat and flirt with each
other.  

Students can now send text messages up to 160 characters to each
other's two-way pagers and cellphones through infrared capability via
SMS. Other handheld devices allow students to create databases of
information and retrieve them from their PDAs.  

"Basically, the (the self-created database) would offer quick notes
based on keywords, or just plain results for pre-entered questions,"
Konnola said. "The student could access the service by using SMS
messages –- one message including the question, the answer comes as
another SMS message."  

Schools with wireless networks, such as Smithtown High School in New
York, are already taking attendance and checking students' schedules
and grades on sleek PDA-like devices.  

However, schools that don't have wireless infrastructures are
eliminating the possibility of cheating by banning cell phones,
pagers, and PDAs altogether.   
Greg O'Meara, vice principal at Branham High School in San Jose,
California, still has a drawer stashed with pagers that were never
retrieved by students last year. The school follows a stringent
statewide education code banning "signal-emitting" devices by students
in public schools.  

"We have no idea who they (students with devices) are trying to
contact, so it's safer for everybody not to have them on campus,"
O'Meara said. "Our feeling is they are here for instruction and not
(for) arranging their personal lives all day long."  

Even college students, who more likely can afford to own PDAs and are
allowed to carry them in school, say the probability of cheating on
these devices is unlikely.  

"It would be easy to cheat with a Palm if it were allowed because it's
like a notebook with notes on it," said Adam Sanders, a computer
science major at the University of Mississippi. "But professors are
aware of that, so in a test they're not going to want them out."  

This past year the University of Mississippi in Oxford lent almost
every computer science major a Palm accompanied by a personal
information management session. Students beamed information to each
other and organized their schedules, and graduate students used them
for database projects, like creating a museum assistant that explained
what the user was looking at.  

But before retrieving their new handheld devices, students received a
manual about the PDA's appropriate use -- how to protect them from
physical damage and how they shouldn't be used for purposes like
cheating.  

Sanders couldn't think of anyone who used the PDA to cheat, but
recalled that many students downloaded and played video games on their
Palms, though not in class.  

"It's hard to hide a Palm in class for a game," Sanders said. "It's
distracting."   

Related Wired Links:  

Handspring Gets CDMA License  
Aug. 9, 2000 

Latest Palm Fingers Newbies  
Aug. 7, 2000 

PC Expo: It's All About the Hand  
Jun. 27, 2000 

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Date: 18 Aug 2000 22:15:46 -0400
From: "Joey Lindstrom" <Joey@GaryNumanFan.NU>
Subject: Wintel (was Re: Legal AT&T Wireless LD slam)

On 18 Aug 2000 06:15:12 -0400, Peter Corlett wrote:

>> You then dial the ten-digit number you want (overseas calls are also
>> permitted but you precede them with "999", then country code, then the
>> rest), and voila!, your call goes through.
>
>That 999 stuff looks a bit of a nasty kludge - why not use the NANP or ITU
>defined number space instead?

It's a very low-tech operation.  Basically, once you dial into your
local access number, it presents you with a second dial tone.  It was
originally designed only for North American calling, so it expects you
to dial your number as ten-digits - 3 for area code, 3 for CO code, and
4 for subscriber line.  When they introduced overseas calling, I guess
they musta figured it was cheaper and easier to kludge it this way, by
forcing you to use an "area code" of 999, then followed by the
(variable-length) full international number, rather than using the
potentially-confusing plan of having you dial
011-countrycode-citycode-number.  Potentially confusing because you may
have already dialed long distance to get to this access number - it
would break many people's minds if they had to dial ANOTHER long
distance escape sequence to complete their call.  :-)

They used to be really bad at loading new area codes in - oftentimes,
new area codes that had gone to mandatory dialing were still not
useable with Wintel.  Nowadays (for the past year and a half at any
rate), they have the new codes loaded almost as soon as they're
announced and LONG before permissive dialing goes into effect.

Anyways, their service works well (once you get past the low-techiness
of it), it's dirt cheap, and I place almost all of my long distance
calls with them.  I can call you, in the UK, for 14 Canadian cents per
minute - cheapest rate in the land (and a far cry from the $1.75/minute
I paid 15 years ago).  The only exception is that my primary carrier,
Sprint Canada, offers me a no-cost (for the number itself) toll-free
number which bills at their regular long distance rates, so every three
months I get a bill for about 3 bucks.  :-)


/ From the messy desktop of Joey Lindstrom
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Date: 18 Aug 2000 23:29:09 -0400
From: "Francois D. Menard" <fmenard@fmmo.ca>
Subject: Videotron forced to resell cable modem services at 22.46$ CDN to ISP's

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/Orders/2000/O2000-788.htm

2000-788 This order directs Vidéotron to offer its high-speed retail
Internet services for resale at $22.46 per month.  Reference:
8646-C51-01/99 and 8646-C51-01/00.

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