Date: 23 Sep 2000 06:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20000923101512.7026.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #63 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 7209530de19cfd0866687520307eb073 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Saturday, September 23 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 063 In this issue: Good Book on Telecommunication 9/22/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES Re: a news report warning of pager scam Re: Dial An Outgoing Trunk, Get 911?? RFI: Tear Down Tone Will privacy kill the CueCat? 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Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:28:10 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" Subject: 9/22/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************* ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ************************************************************************* from ICB Toll Free News - Daily News and Intelligence covering the Political, Legal and Marketing Arenas of 800 and Dot Com. ************************************************************************* CONTENTS - - 1 800 FLOWERS RE-UPS WITH AOL - - EASYGROUP FINDS IT ISN'T SO EASY - - LAWSUIT CALLS NETWORK SOLUTIONS A MONOPOLY - - PRICE REVIEW OF SMALL & MID CAP DOMAINS - - KOREA.COM DOMAIN WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN WON - - AS (ICANN-PRES) ROBERTS' WORLD TURNS ************************************************************************* !!! 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All rights reserved. ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 2000 00:13:17 -0400 From: Joseph Singer Subject: Re: a news report warning of pager scam 20 Sep 2000 10:45:41 -0400 black@csulb.edu (Matthew Black) wrote: >An important aspect of country codes is that they are prefix unique. >No country code is every the same as the beggining of another country >code. Since "1" is assigned to North America (Canada + US, etc), >no other code can begin with 1. Likewise, 40 is the code for UK. >No other country code begins with 40. The purpose of the unique >prefix allows switching equipment to always know where calls should >be routed. This is true. However, one should also realize that just because something is in world zone 1 it could be anywhere from the artic circle down to most of the Carribean islands. If something is going to zone 1 it will always have 10 digits after it. That's about the only common thing about it. In other words you cannot route to country code 1 and consider it all one common zone as there are at least several different rates associated with calling the different countries in zone 1 with Canada, the USA and the Caribbean islands. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Singer Seattle, Washington USA [ICQ pgr] +1 206 405 2052 [voice mail] +1 206 493 0706 [FAX] - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 2000 00:18:24 -0400 From: Joseph Singer Subject: Re: Dial An Outgoing Trunk, Get 911?? 20 Sep 2000 19:58:10 -0400 "Andy Berry" wrote: >Just for grins, I decided to see if AT&T Wireless was passing the correct >ANI through today, so I got my trusty list of ANI numbers, picked one (AT&T? >That monotone female that adds all the zeroes at the end) and dialed. Well, >no surprise, I got a number that wasn't my cell #. So, as usual, I called >that number to see who would intercept and what they said. Static, drops in >and out (perfectly good signal on phone): > >Her:"9 you gency?" >Me: "This is 911?" >Her: "Yes, 911, can I help you" >Me: No, I'm sorry wrong number".......... > >So, what's the deal? The number I dialed is a SWB number, so they must be >passing the false ANI along. Any ideas? Can't say why you get 911, but when I dial an ANAC number from my VoiceStream mobile the ANAC says "425-424-0078" which is not the number of my mobile in the 206 area. My thoughts are that the number that ANI gets is the number that the landline dials when you dial into Voicestream's system. Matter of fact I ran into this same issue when trying to make my mobile be able to be recognized by my 800 access for long distance. They said that it couldn't be done from my mobile as the mobile actually dials out on the LD network with another number the one that I just mentioned in Bothell, Washington. Caller ID is another matter. When I call another number from my handset the receiving party with CID display will get my 206-354-XXXX number which is correct. Don't know how VoiceStream determines the actual number to bill, but they must have some way to do it. (BTW, VoiceStream's main tech hqtrs is on the "east side" in the Bellevue area. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Singer Seattle, Washington USA [ICQ pgr] +1 206 405 2052 [voice mail] +1 206 493 0706 [FAX] - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 2000 00:22:31 -0400 From: "Victor Yue" Subject: RFI: Tear Down Tone hi! Could anyone tell me what is "Tear Down Tone" and how this is used? Appreciate any advice on where I could get more information on this. Thanks Victor Yue Singapore email: yuess@singnet.com.sg - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 2000 03:30:16 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Will privacy kill the CueCat? Will privacy kill the CueCat? Robert Lemos Fri Sep 22 05:13:48 2000 EDT The Privacy Foundation plans to deliver the latest blow to Internet data collector Digital:Convergence Corp. on Friday when the organization releases a report criticizing the company's collection of potentially identifying information over the Internet. The company -- whose free CueCat bar-code scanners were shipped to half a million consumers last week -- hopes to snag customer data by linking product bar codes to Internet pages. http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=252898&fs=docid&cat=zdnet&mtemp=zdnet - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. 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