Date: 25 Sep 2000 22:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20000926022825.28127.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #66 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: 1a49d6507f06632099adbb07a55ae679 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Monday, September 25 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 066 In this issue: Code for displaying ESN for CDMA Danger of cell phones on train platforms NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones Help posting to your newsgroup. Welcome to ReaderBoards.com Re: NEAX Manual Re: Oops! NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones Automated paging/ringing system for warehouse? Re: Automated paging/ringing system for warehouse? Morris, IL ESS experiment Report: U.S. Leads Worldwide Snooping Drive EPIC Alert 7.17 Re: Morris, IL ESS experiment Pac*Bell micro-slamming 9/25/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Sep 2000 06:50:33 -0400 From: Richard Lai Subject: Code for displaying ESN for CDMA Does anyone know the code for displaying ESN for a CDMA phone especially for LG phones ? Regards, Richard Lai - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 09:21:19 -0400 From: John De Hoog Subject: Danger of cell phones on train platforms According to the Asahi Shimbun, the Japan Railway company is troubled by a rash of accidents caused by cell phone users not paying attention on train platforms, and getting brushed by incoming trains as a result. In a recent accident, a young man bowed his head as he talked (you see this all the time in Tokyo, as people use the same gestures on the phone as they do in person), just as a train was coming in at 40 km/h, and suffered a severe cut on his head. There have even been fatal accidents in the past. One more cell phone danger to add to the list. - -- John De Hoog, Tokyo http://dehoog.org - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:20:11 -0400 From: itsamike@yahoo.com Subject: NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by Mike Pollock itsamike@yahoo.com. Telecom Digest Don't archive this or the NYTimes will have to kill you. Mike Pollock itsamike@yahoo.com /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Celebrate Summer with a NYTimes.com Photo Screensaver NYTimes.com's latest screensaver captures the unforgettable moments from Coney Island amusement park. Enjoy these images every day on your computer, absolutely free. http://www.nytimes.com/partners/screensaver/index.html?eta2 \----------------------------------------------------------/ A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/25/technology/25CELL.html September 25, 2000 By MARK LANDLER SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 24 Yakking on a cellular phone is not yet an Olympic sport, even at an Olympics that has featured the debut of trampoline jumping. But after a week of record-breaking mobile chatter, Sydney can lay reasonable claim to being the first wireless Olympics. Mobile telephones can be found are everywhere at these Games in the hands of spectators, officials, athletes, even visitors, who are taking advantage of agreements on roaming use to bring their phones from overseas. With 8.5 million subscribing to cellular service more than 40 percent of the population Australia is already one of the world's concentrated wireless markets. The high penetration has been magnified by Samsung Electronics, an Olympics sponsor, which has flooded Sydney with 15,000 free phones. "Aussies love their mobiles," said Michelle Mazzarella, a city transit employee, who took her phone to a soccer match to receive minute-by- minute updates on Australia's swimming champion, Ian Thorpe. Claude Comley, a software designer, stood in Sydney's teeming railroad station the other day, with a frazzled look and a phone cradled in his shoulder. He was trying to meet a friend to head for the Olympic stadium. "She's coming in on a train, and she's probably in a tunnel," Mr. Comley said as he punched up her number for the umpteenth time. Many of these calls are flowing over the newly upgraded digital network of Telstra, Australia's publicly traded but still state-controlled phone company, which has prompted company executives to strain for superlatives. "For telecommunications, these Games have produced the largest concentration of demand for services at any singular event ever," said Brian Pilbeam, general manager of Olympics services for Telstra. Verifying such claims is tricky, but Telstra's numbers are impressive by any measure. The company connected 500,000 mobile calls in Olympic Park on the first day of the Games. About 125,000 of those were made inside Stadium Australia, which was packed with 110,000 people for the opening ceremony. Telstra experienced huge spikes in use at dramatic moments, like when the Olympic torch was lighted and when the athletes entered the stadium. Plenty of those calls were made by the athletes themselves, some of whom were too busy racking up long-distance charges to wave to the crowd. Telstra said it was fairly simple to equip smaller arenas, like the Aquatic Center, with an adequate cellular network. The engineering challenge was how to equip the enormous Olympic stadium. The company installed a galaxy of microcells many hidden in lampposts that shower a signal over the audience in much smaller segments than a typical macrocell. This allows slices of the radio spectrum to be reused more efficiently, expanding its capacity beyond that of a normal network. "We believe it's the densest cellular network in any structure in the world," said Anthony Goonan, regional manager of Telstra's mobile division. He said the network's only potential rival had been at the Stade de France in suburban Paris, where the World Cup soccer final was played in 1998. Mr. Goonan carried three phones around the stadium throughout the opening ceremony, testing Telstra's service against those of its rivals, Optus and Vodafone. They are allowed to lease capacity on Telstra's network inside the stadium, but must complete calls on their own networks. "Our objective was for people to get through the first time, most of the time," Mr. Goonan said. "The congestion levels were quite low, and we didn't have any complaints from customers about poor service." Not surprisingly, Mr. Goonan said he had more trouble making calls on the two other services. Although Telstra has the biggest market share here, at 50 percent, it is waging a fierce battle against Optus and Vodafone. With its revenue under attack, Telstra announced steep rate increases earlier in the month on land-line local and long-distance calls. The company, which has been part-privately owned since 1997, also said it would lay off 10,000 workers. For Telstra, the Olympics are a chance to redirect attention from its business fortunes to its technical prowess. The company has invested $50 million to upgrade its mobile network throughout Sydney for the Olympics. And the bells and whistles go beyond Stadium Australia. Throughout the park, Telstra has engineered the network so that it can increase the capacity in segments to follow a crowd of people and their cellular calls. If that does not meet demand, it has stashed mobile cells behind buildings that can be rolled out to increase capacity. For all these precautions, Telstra cannot guarantee that calls will not connect at peak moments. "Mobile service is one of the most visible contributions we're making to the Games, but also the most vulnerable," Mr. Pilbeam said. "There will be massive spikes in usage that no network in the world can handle." It is not just the number of people talking on cellular phones that makes these Games seem to some like a wireless convention with athletic events thrown in. It is also the pervasive presence of Samsung, the Korean conglomerate, which hopes to use Sydney to vault itself into the major leagues of mobile phones. Samsung began making cellular telephones in 1989, but only began exporting them to the United States in 1997. It is fourth in the industry, after Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, with 6.2 percent of the global market. "We need the powerful marketing tool of the Olympics to catch up, because we're a latecomer," said Jay Kim, a Samsung spokesman. Perhaps hoping to make up in hype what it lacks in history, Samsung donated about 15,000 phones to the Sydney Olympic committee, which in turn lent or leased them to athletes, volunteers and the news media. The company also erected a cavernous tent pavilion in Olympic Park to promote the Samsung name. A slick showroom features its latest gadgets, including a phone so tiny that one wears it Dick Tracy-like on the wrist. Just in case anyone misses the message, Samsung has hired performers, dressed in zoot suits and wraparound sunglasses, to march through public places around Sydney in tight formation, chattering on their phones. No word yet on whether team cellular will become an Olympic event.   The New York Times on the Web http://www.nytimes.com /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ Visit NYTimes.com for complete access to the most authoritative news coverage on the Web, updated throughout the day. Become a member today! It's free! http://www.nytimes.com?eta \-----------------------------------------------------------------/ HOW TO ADVERTISE - --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact Alyson Racer at alyson@nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@nytimes.com. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:26:48 -0400 From: itsamike@yahoo.com Subject: NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by Mike Pollock itsamike@yahoo.com. Telecom Digest Don't archive this or the NYTimes will have to kill you. Mike Pollock itsamike@yahoo.com /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Celebrate Summer with a NYTimes.com Photo Screensaver NYTimes.com's latest screensaver captures the unforgettable moments from Coney Island amusement park. Enjoy these images every day on your computer, absolutely free. http://www.nytimes.com/partners/screensaver/index.html?eta2 \----------------------------------------------------------/ A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/25/technology/25CELL.html September 25, 2000 By MARK LANDLER SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 24 Yakking on a cellular phone is not yet an Olympic sport, even at an Olympics that has featured the debut of trampoline jumping. But after a week of record-breaking mobile chatter, Sydney can lay reasonable claim to being the first wireless Olympics. Mobile telephones can be found are everywhere at these Games in the hands of spectators, officials, athletes, even visitors, who are taking advantage of agreements on roaming use to bring their phones from overseas. With 8.5 million subscribing to cellular service more than 40 percent of the population Australia is already one of the world's concentrated wireless markets. The high penetration has been magnified by Samsung Electronics, an Olympics sponsor, which has flooded Sydney with 15,000 free phones. "Aussies love their mobiles," said Michelle Mazzarella, a city transit employee, who took her phone to a soccer match to receive minute-by- minute updates on Australia's swimming champion, Ian Thorpe. Claude Comley, a software designer, stood in Sydney's teeming railroad station the other day, with a frazzled look and a phone cradled in his shoulder. He was trying to meet a friend to head for the Olympic stadium. "She's coming in on a train, and she's probably in a tunnel," Mr. Comley said as he punched up her number for the umpteenth time. Many of these calls are flowing over the newly upgraded digital network of Telstra, Australia's publicly traded but still state-controlled phone company, which has prompted company executives to strain for superlatives. "For telecommunications, these Games have produced the largest concentration of demand for services at any singular event ever," said Brian Pilbeam, general manager of Olympics services for Telstra. Verifying such claims is tricky, but Telstra's numbers are impressive by any measure. The company connected 500,000 mobile calls in Olympic Park on the first day of the Games. About 125,000 of those were made inside Stadium Australia, which was packed with 110,000 people for the opening ceremony. Telstra experienced huge spikes in use at dramatic moments, like when the Olympic torch was lighted and when the athletes entered the stadium. Plenty of those calls were made by the athletes themselves, some of whom were too busy racking up long-distance charges to wave to the crowd. Telstra said it was fairly simple to equip smaller arenas, like the Aquatic Center, with an adequate cellular network. The engineering challenge was how to equip the enormous Olympic stadium. The company installed a galaxy of microcells many hidden in lampposts that shower a signal over the audience in much smaller segments than a typical macrocell. This allows slices of the radio spectrum to be reused more efficiently, expanding its capacity beyond that of a normal network. "We believe it's the densest cellular network in any structure in the world," said Anthony Goonan, regional manager of Telstra's mobile division. He said the network's only potential rival had been at the Stade de France in suburban Paris, where the World Cup soccer final was played in 1998. Mr. Goonan carried three phones around the stadium throughout the opening ceremony, testing Telstra's service against those of its rivals, Optus and Vodafone. They are allowed to lease capacity on Telstra's network inside the stadium, but must complete calls on their own networks. "Our objective was for people to get through the first time, most of the time," Mr. Goonan said. "The congestion levels were quite low, and we didn't have any complaints from customers about poor service." Not surprisingly, Mr. Goonan said he had more trouble making calls on the two other services. Although Telstra has the biggest market share here, at 50 percent, it is waging a fierce battle against Optus and Vodafone. With its revenue under attack, Telstra announced steep rate increases earlier in the month on land-line local and long-distance calls. The company, which has been part-privately owned since 1997, also said it would lay off 10,000 workers. For Telstra, the Olympics are a chance to redirect attention from its business fortunes to its technical prowess. The company has invested $50 million to upgrade its mobile network throughout Sydney for the Olympics. And the bells and whistles go beyond Stadium Australia. Throughout the park, Telstra has engineered the network so that it can increase the capacity in segments to follow a crowd of people and their cellular calls. If that does not meet demand, it has stashed mobile cells behind buildings that can be rolled out to increase capacity. For all these precautions, Telstra cannot guarantee that calls will not connect at peak moments. "Mobile service is one of the most visible contributions we're making to the Games, but also the most vulnerable," Mr. Pilbeam said. "There will be massive spikes in usage that no network in the world can handle." It is not just the number of people talking on cellular phones that makes these Games seem to some like a wireless convention with athletic events thrown in. It is also the pervasive presence of Samsung, the Korean conglomerate, which hopes to use Sydney to vault itself into the major leagues of mobile phones. Samsung began making cellular telephones in 1989, but only began exporting them to the United States in 1997. It is fourth in the industry, after Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, with 6.2 percent of the global market. "We need the powerful marketing tool of the Olympics to catch up, because we're a latecomer," said Jay Kim, a Samsung spokesman. Perhaps hoping to make up in hype what it lacks in history, Samsung donated about 15,000 phones to the Sydney Olympic committee, which in turn lent or leased them to athletes, volunteers and the news media. The company also erected a cavernous tent pavilion in Olympic Park to promote the Samsung name. A slick showroom features its latest gadgets, including a phone so tiny that one wears it Dick Tracy-like on the wrist. Just in case anyone misses the message, Samsung has hired performers, dressed in zoot suits and wraparound sunglasses, to march through public places around Sydney in tight formation, chattering on their phones. No word yet on whether team cellular will become an Olympic event.   The New York Times on the Web http://www.nytimes.com /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ Visit NYTimes.com for complete access to the most authoritative news coverage on the Web, updated throughout the day. Become a member today! It's free! http://www.nytimes.com?eta \-----------------------------------------------------------------/ HOW TO ADVERTISE - --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact Alyson Racer at alyson@nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@nytimes.com. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:41:21 -0400 From: "John Repici" Subject: Help posting to your newsgroup. Patrick Townson, My name is John Repici. I've tried to respond to your usenet group (comp.dcom.telecom) and have not been able to. I'm relatively new to usenet surfing and so assume the problem's on my side. I've asked in other newsgroups for help (newsgroups established for that specific reason) and have still not been able to work through these issues. o Sent reply to "NEAX Manual" thread which did not go through. o Sent a new post to the group entitled "Come and See ReaderBoards.com" which also didn't show up. I'm wondering if there is a subscription process required to respond. People on "help" newsgroups have helped me to confirm: o There is no HTML or other encoding in my messages o Messages are manually line-wrapped to less than 70 cols. They have also told me that this is a mediated board and that I should try and find you (the mediator) for help with this. :-) Any help you can give me in connecting to the group would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. -John P.S. I've just put up a new web-page aims mainly to be a community site for people in the call center industry. It includes local forums, quick votes, member ratings and reviews of books, sites, movies, (and perhaps products soon). That was what one of the messages was about. The site is ReaderBoards.com ("http://www.readerboards.com"). Would you consider placing this in your "links" list? Thanks again. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:41:22 -0400 From: "John Repici" Subject: Welcome to ReaderBoards.com Hello, My name is John Repici. I've developed a new web site as part of a software development project. Some of the site's features are: + Committed to building a community of kindred call center industry workers. + The site is completely free, and will remain that way! + Discussion boards and chat areas available 24/7 + Members can produce their own web pages. + Chances to win door prizes tied to participation. First month's door prize drawing (Nov 1): 1st: Agfa digital camera, 2nd: $20 gift certificate at an online bookseller. + Members add, rate, and review web sites, books, products, etc. + Members can set up their own opinion polls and get results immediately. + A special area is provided just for consultants, and members who need them! + Consultants and members can set up their own private discussion boards and chat areas to support clients and private groups. + Members control their own information! It is never sold or traded without explicit permission. Members are always welcome to delete their personal information completely, without hassle. + Easy registration, normally in less than 24 hours. ========================================== The site is brand new (First member joined on 11-September). Please come and help start it up! You will be asked to provide a login name, password, and email address. More information is required to participate in door prize drawings. For press related information and this list of features: http://www.readerboards.org/O/FP/M/PL/DPL.htm For visitor splash page and links to join: http://www.ReaderBoards.com/ Hope to see you there! - -John Repici Site Administrator ReaderBoards.com - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:56:08 -0400 From: "John Repici" Subject: Re: NEAX Manual Have you tried the NEAX Users group? They're at: www.NEAXug.org I think. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 12:11:45 -0400 From: Mike Pollock Subject: Re: Oops! NYTimes.com Article: A Medal for Aussie Cell Phones Sorry about the double posting, everyone. The dreaded NYTimes "E-mail this story" page malfunctioned and didn't indicate that the story was sent, so I reattempted. Apparently, they both went through. Couldn't be sorrier... - --Mike - --- approve@telecom-digest.org wrote: > Your message to comp.dcom.telecom has been received > and has been posted to the newsgroup. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 13:39:07 -0400 From: brian.doll@prefix.com Subject: Automated paging/ringing system for warehouse? I work at a company with about 25 employees. They each have a telephone extension of their own, however they are often not near their desk phone. When a call comes in for them it is necessary for someone else to receive the call, and to then manually page them on the overhead speaker and tell them they have a call waiting. Are there any telephone systems out there which have capability of playing a unique ring or sound on the overhead speaker for each employee? I would consider upgrading the voice mail system, and possibly the entire phone system if we could add this capability, but I would much rather opt for a clean add-on to our existing system. We currently have a Toshiba Stratagy (Stratagy6) voice mail system, and a Strata DK280 system. I have been thinking of adding conventional phone ports that I could transfer an employee's calls to, and then have a cheap PC watch for the ring signal coming from each of these, and to then broadcast a distinctive ring for that employee over our P.A. system. But this would be messy, and I suspect there is a better way. I welcome any insight & opinions... - -Brian Doll Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 17:47:42 -0400 From: Peter R Cook Subject: Re: Automated paging/ringing system for warehouse? In article <8qntts$qb0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, brian.doll@prefix.com writes >I work at a company with about 25 employees. They each have a >telephone extension of their own, however they are often not near their >desk phone. When a call comes in for them it is necessary for someone >else to receive the call, and to then manually page them on the >overhead speaker and tell them they have a call waiting. Are there any >telephone systems out there which have capability of playing a unique >ring or sound on the overhead speaker for each employee? I would >consider upgrading the voice mail system, and possibly the entire phone >system if we could add this capability, but I would much rather opt for >a clean add-on to our existing system. We currently have a Toshiba >Stratagy (Stratagy6) voice mail system, and a Strata DK280 system. > >I have been thinking of adding conventional phone ports that I could >transfer an employee's calls to, and then have a cheap PC watch for the >ring signal coming from each of these, and to then broadcast a >distinctive ring for that employee over our P.A. system. But this >would be messy, and I suspect there is a better way. > >I welcome any insight & opinions... >-Brian Doll > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy. >-- >The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail >messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. Have you considered whatever is the US equivalent of DECT cordless handsets for each employee who roams. 1880-1900Mhz digital handsets and base stations. Range about 50-100M indoors 300+outdoors. I was shown some Multi extension base stations as part of a recent sales pitch. they were UKP 150 per handset probably about $100-150 in the US. The other alternative is mobile VoIP handsets. I saw some demonstrated at a recent show - can't remember the maker, but they also did rugged Palm pilots, rugged Windows CE units and a wearable unit for warehouse pick and pack. The were based in New York somewhere. The individual units are a bit expensive, but for 25 or less employees might be a better bet than something more sophisticated Regards - -- Peter R Cook - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 18:16:17 -0400 From: "David Perrussel" Subject: Morris, IL ESS experiment Does anyone have any information on the Morris, IL (I could be wrong on the city name) experimental ESS system that was used for a short time in 1960? I know it was based on "cold cathode" vacuum tube technology and the tones were also special purpose (not used before or since). Thanks! Dave Perussel Webmaster - Telephone World http://phworld.tal-on.com - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 20:03:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Report: U.S. Leads Worldwide Snooping Drive > REPORT: U.S. LEADS WORLDWIDE SNOOPING DRIVE The United States has led a worldwide drive to build the groundwork for expanded snooping in the digital era, two civil rights groups alleged in a new survey. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International highlighted what they called a push led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation toward wiretap-friendly international communications standards. .... http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/22/snoop.reut/index.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 21:34:19 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: EPIC Alert 7.17 ============================================================== @@@@ @@@@ @@@ @@@@ @ @ @@@@ @@@@ @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @@@ @ @ @@@@@ @ @@@ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @ @@@ @@@@ @ @ @@@@ @@@@ @ @ @ ============================================================== Volume 7.17 September 25, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------- Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_7.17.html ======================================================================= Table of Contents ======================================================================= [1] EPIC and PI Release Third Annual Privacy and Human Rights Survey [2] It's Baaack ... Mandatory Filtering Returns to Congress [3] Banned Books Week Celebrates Freedom of Expression [4] Privacy Foundation Investigates :CueCat Scanning Device [5] Int'l Data Protection Conference Brings Together NGOs [6] Upcoming Forum Presents ICANN Candidates [7] EPIC Bookstore - Privacy & Human Rights 2000 [8] Upcoming Conferences and Events - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 21:46:21 -0400 From: Terry Kennedy Subject: Re: Morris, IL ESS experiment David Perrussel writes: > Does anyone have any information on the Morris, IL (I could be wrong on > the city name) experimental ESS system that was used for a short time > in 1960? I know it was based on "cold cathode" vacuum tube technology > and the tones were also special purpose (not used before or since). Yes. There's a 350+-page book, "The Electronic Switching System - Trial Installation, Morris, Illinois - General Description" printed in April, 1960. The Bell catalog number is X-63490. While it says "This book is for the use of Bell System employees only, and no portion thereof shall be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated" I suspect any "secrets" in it are long out- of-date. Perhaps you could get a copy on loan from a technical library. I've never seen a copy on the general used market. The ringers were electronic as the switching equipment couldn't deal with the voltages involved in regular ringers. That was an opportunity to put other "smarts" in the instruments, but as it was generally under- stood that a general-deployment system would have to work with existing phones, advanced phone designs were not the major focus of the trial. Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com terry@tmk.com Jersey City, NJ USA - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 2000 21:50:14 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Pac*Bell micro-slamming I just got a final bill for a phone number (626) 795-XXXX of mine that I closed earlier this month. The line was cut off on 9/8/2000 in accordance with the instructions. HOWEVER, "somehow" Pac*Hell had declared themselves my local toll carrier starting 9/6/2000, and the only local toll call I made in that time was billed to Pac*Hell... at 29% higher rate than my usual local toll carrier. Since it's only is a matter of pennies, I am not going to waste my breath on this one... but it definitely makes me wonder if this is now standard practice after the SBC takeover? -hpa - -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:22:36 -0400 From: "Judith Oppenheimer" Subject: 9/25/00 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 - - I'LL TAKE COUPONS WITH THOSE DIRECTIONS, PLEASE - - CENTR'S JENNINGS REJECTS ICANN'S FEE DEMANDS - - INT'L. TM ASSOC. 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Find all ICB headlines, current and archived, at http://www.icbtollfree.com/icbheadlns.cfm. ************************************************************************ ARTICLE ACCESS CODE LEGEND ICB Toll Free News offers two valuable service options: F = Free - News and Features articles P = Premium - Unlimited Site Access including all Articles and Documents. ************************************************************************ HEADLINES for September 25, 2000 F - I'LL TAKE COUPONS WITH THOSE DIRECTIONS, PLEASE When 4-Ru-LOST Members call 1-800-4-Ru-LOST to obtain driving directions from "point A" to "point B," directions are provided featuring Zing Wireless advertisers, typically traditional brick-and-mortar retail establishments, as key landmarks along the route. Additionally, Zing Wireless will offer 4-Ru-LOST members -- via their cell phones and pagers - -- wireless coupons, redeemable at the retail advertiser. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4547 F - CENTR'S JENNINGS REJECTS ICANN'S FEE DEMANDS There are no laws establishing ICANN as the regulator of ccTLDs or generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com and .org. Jennings doesn't believe the model ICANN is pushing of a centralized governing body will work as laws will have to exist in each territory. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4546 F - INT'L. TM ASSOC. HITS CAPITOL HILL If the bill passes, the trademark association would be able to focus more attention on counterfeiting and domain-name disputes, issues important to some of its largest members. Both affect brands that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to their owners. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4545 P - ICANN FILES AMICUS BRIEF ... in the matter of Register.com v. Verio Inc. "ICANN urges the Court to promote the integrity of the ICANN process by allowing the contractually specified, exclusive remedies for alleged breaches to operate as they were intended." [It was noted elsewhere that the Intellectual Property Constituency's demand for "unfettered public access to WHOIS data" hits a brick wall with this brief's description of such access as "a threat to the stable operation of the registration system", as noted under Section A of the discussion.] CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4540 F - CONTROVERSY ARISES OVER UPCOMING ICANN ELECTIONS "ICANN is a nonprofit California corporation," said Brett Fausett, a partner at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft, a Los Angeles law firm. "It should definitely not be a broad Internet governing body, because it's not possible to put a private organization in charge of public rights." "ICANN has a lot of power and has started using it to protect trademarks," Klein said. "That looks like Internet governance to me. Today it's trademark, tomorrow it's other rules like taxation or privacy. We would all be better off if they hadn't opened the door to policy at all." 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CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4550 P - THE MYSTERY OF THE TYPOSQUATTER Such advertisers as AT&T, BizRate.com and the New York Times have paid a mysterious group of companies for ads that no one sees on sites that steal hits from such big-name Web presences as AOL, Yahoo and MSN. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4549 F - ICANN PUBLISHES DETAILS FOR NOVEMBER PUBLIC MEETING ICANN's next round of meetings are will be held (13-16 November, 2000), in Marina del Rey, California. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4548 F - WIPO II, A WIPE-OUT Some of the most significant problems appear to have derived at least in part from the differences among national trademark laws. National laws on protection of personal names, names of organizations, geographical terms, and tradenames diverge far more than national trademark laws. If the UDRP has not yet been able to respond appropriately to differences in trademark law, its expansion to areas where national laws reflect more fundamental differences seems likely to fail. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4544 P - GUARANTEE THE FUTURE REGISTRATION OF YOUR NEW GTLD DOMAIN A law professor has a plan to secure your company's desired name in one of the yet-to-be-announced generic top-level domains: Try registering the name as a trademark now. CONTINUED HERE: http://www.icbtollfree.com/article.cfm?articleId=4541 F - CALLNOW AWARDED INTERNET-TELEPHONY SOFTWARE PATENT This software enables customers to sign up for, activate and manage their voice communications online from anywhere in the world, in real-time. Also, customers can survey global telephone rates, and monitor their bills online immediately after calls have been made. 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