Date: 21 Oct 2000 06:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20001021101510.14122.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #95 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: fc89c460699c8abdb4fae9252698e52d Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Saturday, October 21 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 095 In this issue: Re: PCS service below the ground Re: Al Gore And The Internet tone-only page Re: tone-only page Re: California's area code mess from an outsider looking in Re: California's area code mess from an outsider looking in Question on SS7 bearer routing Re: Question on SS7 bearer routing Re: Wireless local, then cellular 10/20/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES service theft problem Re: service theft problem DMA Announces Ad Blitz to Confront Privacy Problems Argentina Adopts Tough Data Protection Law Survey: Net Users Don't Care About Opt-In, Opt-Out Re: service theft problem No Filtering Recs in COPA Report Relaxed encryption exports get green light ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 Oct 2000 10:53:49 -0400 From: Stanley Cline Subject: Re: PCS service below the ground On 19 Oct 2000 19:15:08 -0400, Ted Koppel wrote: >Background: I have Sprint PCS service in Atlanta (dual band phone). I >sometimes take the local transit system (MARTA) to get to work. Most of >train *do* have service. Are they using analog phones? Could their >service (Verizon? BellSouth? Powertel?) have put local antennas in the >underground stations? How is it that my phone announces "Looking for BellSouth has microcells in the underground stations and has for some time. (Last I checked, which was sometime in late 1998, they were analog-only microcells; they *may* be digital by now.) With a dual-band SPCS phone you can roam on BellSouth for 39c/min. (Powertel customers with dual-mode phones can also roam; Verizon customers can't. :( ) - -SC - -- Stanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/ ... "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 11:32:02 -0400 From: INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com (J.D. Baldwin) Subject: Re: Al Gore And The Internet In the previous article, Peter F. Dubuque wrote: > > Where do you see any CREDIBLE evidence that this has happened? > > http://www.wcom.com/about_the_company/cerfs_up/internet_history/q_and_a.phtml In that URL, Cerf credits Gore's involvement with Internet funding to 1986 and later. The Internet, by that time, wa nearly 20 years old and was quite large, robust and growing. There were already commercial ISP's in existence. Gore helped DARPA get funding for something for which funding was not in serious jeopardy. I'm sure Cerf is grateful for the efforts Gore and his staff (probably almost entirely the latter, actually) made on behalf of DARPA funding, hence his nice (but largely content-free) words on his behalf. But if Gore had stayed on that tobacco farm and never gone to Washington, the Internet would be more or less exactly what it is right now. Most of its participants in the late 1980's already saw it coming, and a few dollars this way or that out of Congress wasn't going to affect it much. - -- _+_ From the catapult of |If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I _|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also \ /$LASTNAME@panix.com|to deny under oath that I ever made it. -T. Lehrer ***~~~~----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 12:00:05 -0400 From: Carl Moore Subject: tone-only page Recently, my pager went off (vibrator mode only, for the usual reasons of activities not to be disrupted by such) and when I went to look for a number on the display, I found "TONE ONLY". What's the meaning of that? - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 12:17:51 -0400 From: Andrew Subject: Re: tone-only page Carl Moore wrote: > Recently, my pager went off (vibrator mode only, for the usual reasons > of activities not to be disrupted by such) and when I went to look for > a number on the display, I found "TONE ONLY". What's the meaning of > that? I think that this means the mesage was garbled. I see this message when I was test my pager near a known dead spot. Andrew - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 13:38:18 -0400 From: varney@ihgp2.ih.lucent.com (Al Varney) Subject: Re: California's area code mess from an outsider looking in In article <3.0.5.32.20001018213925.007e8da0@oz.net>, Joseph Singer wrote: >Now here's my question in this why is it necessary in California, New York, >Chicago (among the places that I know) is it necessary to dial 11 digits >(1+area code+number) to make a "local" call. Why is it not just area code >plus 7 digits? Does it have something to do with the local "toll" >thing/message unit thing or combination of both? Historically, it has to do with the lack of "1+ means Toll" in those 3 areas. The "old" rules there were: 1) Never use 1+ for 7-digit dialing and 2) Always use 1+ for 10-digit dialing. These areas did not have a problem when inter-changeable Office Codes (NXXs that look like the original N0X/N1X area codes) were introduced. [In Chicago, the question would be "why is it necessary to dial 11 digits for an intra-NPA Toll call? Why is it not just 7 digits?"] More significantly, it is because the NEW area codes assigned in the Chicago LATA already existed as Office Codes in the OLD areas. With the exception of 708, they all look like old-style Office Codes. Thus 312-630-444x and 630-444-xxxx are both valid numbers. The 1+ prefix is used to distinguish them. It might have been POSSIBLE to arrange for the NEW area codes to be assigned to a territory that was never a LOCAL call in an area where the conflicting Office Code was also a local call, but that would have required folks in the OLD NPA changing to 1+ dialing for intra-area calls. There was no demand (cause even in the OLD area local calls were dialed to adjacent OLD areas with 1+). And eventually (with 312 being a very compact area) there would not be any intra-area Toll calls at all. In other words, there are areas where the 2 numbers above could BOTH be local. Finally, I'd note that you CAN do 10-digit local dialing in Chicago WITHIN the NPA, because the NPA's code is never a valid Office Code within that NPA. And you can also do 1+10-digit dialing WITHIN the NPA. In other words, 1+10-digit works for every call, and 7-digit works for every intra-NPA call. (There may be individual COs where this does not work, but it should be widespread.) Al Varney - just my opinion - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 15:45:45 -0400 From: Fred Goldstein Subject: Re: California's area code mess from an outsider looking in In V2000 I094, John Grossi wrote: >>The thing about a one area code overlay for a whole region is that you >>don't waste codes as they are doing in eastern Massachusetts. > >By the end of 2001 MA will have 10 area codes. Once they figure out what >to do w/413. I'm betting for an area code split myself. The Pioneer Valley >keeping, and the Berkshires getting a new one... but your right, it's a >waste... 79 million phone numbers locked up by a state of slightly greater >than 6 million folks. BUT this has all been good for competition, since we >now have a competitive local phone market or so the PUC voted when the >gave Verizon LD approval earlier this week. You have to read the Mass. DTE decisions to understand what "lame" can mean! Eastern Mass. split a couple of years ago and is now doing an overlay. BEFORE the last split, they were warned, and they could have gotten permission to use 1000s-block pooling, the way NH did. But no, the DTE didn't, and the numbers were gone immediately (pent-up demand). Then they looked at some bizarre forecasts and decided that they'd not run out of numbers until after the EMass. overlay could be installed, and they'd rather do that then impose 1000s-block pooling. Then they immediately ran out of numbers in 508 and 617, so CLECs (or cellcos or even the ILEC) can get NO new 508 prefix codes until the overlay is effective next summer! And for years they've resisted consolidating rate centers, there being over 200 of them in Eastern Mass. alone. Their excuse? Not needed, because the {split, overlay} will be needed before they can do so. And of course 413, which ten years ago had the second-fewest number of prefix codes in use in the country, doesn't need a new code either. 1000's block pooling would fix it, and the FCC authorized that for nationwide use. So would unassigned-number pooling, though that hasn't yet gotten the FCC's green light. Western MA 413 needs a new area code the way Bosnia needs more land mines. I sense a pattern here. The Celluci/Connolly DTE seems to take its orders from Arlington, VA, home of a certain Bell that can't hide behind a new name. This is not "good news for competition"! The DTE has been assiduously anti-CLEC. Their decisions don't seem to be pro-competitive -- they do overturn Bell positions but almost always the Bell position is so flagrantly in violation in federal law that the DTE knows it would be thrown out. So they're really just proofreading Bell's positions for legality. And not even doing that role well. The Mass. AG opposes the 271 application. >Maybe now Verizon can hurry up and buy Genuity back... What do you mean "buy back"? Bell Atlantic Corp. d/b/a VZ already owns 82% of Genuity, and has moved its people into positions of control. GTE is deader than East Germany or the Roman Empire. The "buy back" routine is just a stock scam: VZ has figured out a trick to take GENU's massive-and-growing losses and take them off of their own SEC books, giving themselves up to five years to reduce the losses or turn to a profit, at which time they'll wave their magic wand (zero-strike-price options) and re-attribute the GENU P&L to their bottom line the way the late GTE did. GENU's plummeting stock price may indicate that the Street is getting wary of being VZ's pawn in this scam. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 16:20:00 -0400 From: Tony Jones Subject: Question on SS7 bearer routing I have a question on how bearer/cic routing occurs within and between SS7 networks. Mostly interested in the US. All the text books I have read discuss quasi-associative for the signalling path but don't discuss how the voice path is setup. I'm sure it varies greatly within each US network but I was wondering if there was a standard for routing between networks. LEC to long distance and LEC to "10" access providers are two specific examples I'm curious about. Someone told me that there were some number of core tandems, which if you wanted to be a 10* access player, you needed to co-locate with. Similar in concept I guess to the IP NAP system. If anyone know of any resources discussing this please LMK. As much detail as possible about actual US methods would be great. Bellcore specs, web pages, books, article pointers etc would be greatly welcomed. Thanks Tony - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 18:45:52 -0400 From: varney@ihgp2.ih.lucent.com (Al Varney) Subject: Re: Question on SS7 bearer routing In article <200010202011.NAA06710@seagull.rtd.com>, Tony Jones wrote: >I have a question on how bearer/cic routing occurs within and between >SS7 networks. Mostly interested in the US. All the text books I have read >discuss quasi-associative for the signalling path but don't discuss how the >voice path is setup. >I'm sure it varies greatly within each US network but I was wondering if there >was a standard for routing between networks. LEC to long distance and LEC to >"10" access providers are two specific examples I'm curious about. Summary: There's a "voice network" and an SS7 "signaling network". They know nothing about each other. Switches use the SS7 signaling network to communicate, but switches (and their interconnecting trunks) ARE the voice network. There are books on SS7 that discuss voice path setup. At a high level, everything works just like MF TRUNKING between switches (COs and tandems). With MF, a switch looks at the destination number and other call information, selects an outgoing trunk to the next switch and outpulses the desired destination information to that switch. The receiving switch either has a line/PBX for the desired destination or uses the same process to find another outgoing trunk. After answer, the circuit that was the signaling path is now the voice path. (It helps to think of a switch as a switchboard operator -- basically, they do the same thing. The switchboard operator selects an outgoing circuit, talks to the next operator over that circuit ["Mable, call for XXX-XXXX"] and plugs the incoming call into that circuit. Now Mable does the same thing, until the desired telephone is reached.) With SS7, nothing fundamental changes, except that at the point the switch would normally outpulse digits to the next switch, it packages those digits and other information into an SS7 ISUP message and sends it to the Point Code associated with the outgoing trunk that was already selected. The Point Code is an SS7 label identifying the switch at the other end of the trunk. (This would be the equivalent of the switchboard operator calling up the next switchboard with a cell phone and saying "Hey, Mable, I plugged in a call on circuit 52-12, and they want to talk to XXX-XXXX." The call SIGNALING went over a different network that the call CIRCUIT.) To reach a specific long distance network (identified by a carrier code, which you called a "cic"), an MF switch will signal "0ZZ-XXXX" in front of the called-party digits and the billing information digits. The XXXX identifies the desired long distance network. An SS7 switch does the same thing, except the XXXX is put into another part of the ISUP message sent to the next switch. The word "routing" used here has several meanings. The SS7 network "routes" messages between switches using their Point Codes. Those same switches "route" calls by selecting outgoing trunks -- which are dedicated point-to-point circuits between switches. The SS7 "message network" never sees a voice path and doesn't know anything about trunks or circuits. And switches could care less how the SS7 "message network" routes the ISUP messages -- for all they know, there could be a dedicated SS7 link to every switch to which they send signaling messages. Al Varney - just my opinion - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 19:02:23 -0400 From: "Ed Ellers" Subject: Re: Wireless local, then cellular David Clayton wrote: "In Australia we have a company offering a GSM handset which is charged as a "local" service in your own area, but becomes a normal GSM service when you leave that area. "They are marketing it as a cheaper home phone, (well, cheaper than a second land line), while you use your land line for the Internet etc." I haven't heard of this yet, but normal rates here are cheap enough (and include enough pre-paid airtime) to allow many people to do exactly what you mention. I happen to have "call forwarding on busy" that throws calls to my PCS phone when my land line is tied up (or if I take the phone off hook when I go out); this is available very cheaply in the U.S., and (IMHO) deserves to become very popular. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. 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All rights reserved. ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 22:41:24 -0400 From: Fred Schimmel Subject: service theft problem My son is having a problem where it appears that someone is bridging his line and making toll calls and 900 line calls. He calls the phone company, they say it's an outside line wiring problem, they say they fix it and then next month more strange numbers are on the bill. It is an apartment complex, but I don't know if there is a phone cross-connect panel in a service room or if it is one in a public area. Someone is committing service theft and has picked my son's line(and probably several others too). The bills keep mounting, and the phone company hasn't been good about credit for the bogus calls. Has anyone who has been in this kind of situation been able to get the problem solved? and get restitution from the phone company? Any suggestions on how he should procede? (and if anyone from Verizon - NJ is reading along, please help fix this) - -- Fred Schimmel fws@prodigy.net - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:10:44 -0400 From: heywood@gloucester.com (Heywood Jaiblomi) Subject: Re: service theft problem fws@IEEE.org (Fred Schimmel) wrote >My son is having a problem where it appears that someone is bridging his >line and making toll calls and 900 line calls. He calls the phone >company, they say it's an outside line wiring problem, they say they fix >it and then next month more strange numbers are on the bill. It is an >apartment complex, but I don't know if there is a phone cross-connect >panel in a service room or if it is one in a public area. Doresn't even have to be at the cross connect panel. Most high rises have a 25 pair or two of them running up the vertical between floors, all the culprit has to do is pick a pair going through the box on his wall, tap on, and make the calls. That box is where they pick up the quad that is going to the other jacks in the apartment. I'd suggest checking the wall phone outlets one by one until you find the one with all the pairs in it. Then call in the local TV station, show them the bills, show them the wiring and how easy it is for someone to tap in to all of the lines in the building. Be sure to mention the word "porn" and even if Verizon can't track them down you've figured out how it is done. Verizon will hate you but they will take you VERY seriously because you will become their number one PR problem. Your account will be marked in some special way and they will fix your problems first the next time because they'll fear you. When dealing with phone companies, fear is a very valuable tool. - -- "While we're gone, if any talking animals tell you to buy some tacos or beer, for God's sake do what they say." - -- Casey McCall, "Sports Night" - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:36:16 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: DMA Announces Ad Blitz to Confront Privacy Problems ***DMA Announces Ad Blitz to Confront Privacy Problems NEW ORLEANS -- The Direct Marketing Association is initiating a major privacy consumer education campaign, President/CEO H. Robert Wientzen told a packed crowd yesterday at the DMA's 83rd Annual Conference and Exhibition here. The campaign, which will stretch out over a three-year period, will consist of advertisements, opinion pieces, Web ads, and articles in newspapers and magazines. The effort will enable the DMA to set the record straight on privacy, change consumers' mind-sets about privacy, and let them know how marketers use information and how consumers will benefit, Wientzen said. http://www.dmnews.com/articles/2000-10-16/11089.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:38:31 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Argentina Adopts Tough Data Protection Law Argentina Adopts Tough Data Protection Law NEW ORLEANS -- The Argentine Congress has adopted the stiffest data protection law in Latin America. It is modeled on the German version of the European Union's data protection directive. Alejandro di Paola, a former president of the Argentine Direct Marketing Association, said that it could have been worse -- the Congress was also considering the Italian version of the law, which is based on strict consumer consent before any direct marketing activities are allowed. http://www.dmnews.com/articles/2000-10-16/11083.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:40:14 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Survey: Net Users Don't Care About Opt-In, Opt-Out Survey: Net Users Don't Care About Opt-In, Opt-Out Most Internet users don't care whether e-mail arrives on an opt-in or opt-out basis, according to a new survey. Seventy-two percent of the 1,760 participants in the study, dubbed iCustomer Observer, said they have no preference as to how they receive e-mails and Internet newsletters, said Chuck Curtis, CEO of Valentine Radford Advertising, Kansas City, MO, the ad agency that conducted the survey. http://www.dmnews.com/articles/2000-10-16/11052.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:51:26 -0400 From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: service theft problem >>From 'Fred Schimmel': >Has anyone who has been in this kind of situation been able to get the >problem solved? and get restitution from the phone company? Any >suggestions on how he should procede? Has he complained to the state public utilities commission and/or the attorney general? - -- A beautiful Chow puppy was rescued a couple months ago from the Geauga County, Ohio animal shelter and has been fostered in a home in Montville, OH. After receiving medical care and much love, he's ready for a permanent home. http://www.WrinkleDogs.com/rescue/fall2000/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 21 Oct 2000 00:13:05 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: No Filtering Recs in COPA Report No Filtering Recs in COPA Report by Declan McCullagh and Nicholas Morehead 10:20 a.m. Oct. 20, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- A federal porn commission has refused to take a stand on whether filtering software is a good idea or not. In a 49-page report sent to Congress on Friday, the panel made 12 specific recommendations, but neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of the controversial smut-blocking programs was included. http://www.copacommission.org/report/ http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39582,00.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 21 Oct 2000 00:16:15 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Relaxed encryption exports get green light Relaxed encryption exports get green light WASHINGTON (October 19, 2000 4:37 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - - After years of pressure from the computer industry, the Clinton administration is letting companies export powerful encryption programs to almost two dozen foreign governments. Starting Thursday, the security products can be sold to members of the European Union, as well as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/body/0,1634,500270563-500421503-502621147-0,00.html - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #95 *******************************