Date: 25 Oct 2000 01:09:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20001025050914.11263.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #99 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: 4f9d88ded8bd74e7c63be1d0a6bcef8c Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Wednesday, October 25 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 099 In this issue: Re: More on pay phones (pre-pay and post-pay) Re: service theft problem Re: tone-only page Re: What happened to US West Free Email? looking for someone in the bronx,ny area to verify if this is a c ell # Re: France blasts Britain over Echelon Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: PacBell/SBC DSL Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: Wireless local, then cellular Re: looking for someone in the bronx,ny area to verify if th Re: More on pay phones (pre-pay and post-pay) Re: Survey: Net Users Don't Care About Opt-In, Opt-Out "509.533.1504" EPIC report: Censorware blocks pro-Hillary site, campaign finance, Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? 10/24/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES Re: "509.533.1504" Re: Wireless local, then cellular Re: service theft problem Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 Oct 2000 09:01:26 -0400 From: jay@west.net (Jay Hennigan) Subject: Re: More on pay phones (pre-pay and post-pay) On 23 Oct 2000 18:26:37 -0400, Justin wrote: :Diamond Dave went on and on about: :> :>Speaking of post-pay, does anyone remember PRE-pay? These were common :>on many #5 crossbar systems and some step by step offices where you :>had to insert money to even get a dial tone! Even to call the operator :>or 911 you had to insert a dime (later a quarter). Not all #5 crossbar :>offices had pre-pay, (as some were more modernized with "dial tone :>first") but there were many that did. :> :>Ah, the good ole days... BEFORE COCOTs! : :Yes, in my area (suburban Chicago) all the pay phones were pre-pay. No :coin, no dial tone. I thought they were all like that in those days. In GTE Santa Barbara, there was a period of several years where the pay phones were dial-tone-first, and mostly or all rotary dial. The offices were step, with touchtone converters. You couldn't make a local call without a coin using the dial on the phone, but a pocket touchtone dialer would trigger the converter and the call would connect. - -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay@west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 09:01:45 -0400 From: jay@west.net (Jay Hennigan) Subject: Re: service theft problem On 20 Oct 2000 22:41:24 -0400, 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. 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. More likely a multi-pair cable running down a common wall. Probably someone directly above or below you on another floor or adjacent. :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? Go to Radio Shack and get one of those $20 recorder couplers that triggers a cassette recorder when a phone is picked up. Leave it connected for a few days. You want the kind that start whenever any phone on the line is picked up. You may be able to identify the perpetrator based on the conversations. Depending on the wiretap laws in your state, you may or may not be able to legally tap your own phone, but if they're 900 sex line calls, a cassette anonymously left for the culprit's spouse's listening enjoyment should put a quick end to it. If they're drug deals, the same tape could be even more useful. I'm sure you'd agree to a warrant to have your own phone tapped in the interest of justice. "Officer, there are narcotics deals being conducted over my telephone. Could you please tap it?" If that fails, see if the telco can put you on digital subscriber carrier with the remote unit inside your apartment. This is an ISDN-like box normally used to put two lines on a single pair. It'll stop the clown as he won't get a dial tone. "Let them eat static" - Khan. - -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay@west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 09:05:13 -0400 From: jay@west.net (Jay Hennigan) Subject: Re: tone-only page On 20 Oct 2000 12:00:05 -0400, 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? Someone dialed your pager number and hung up without entering any DTMF digits. The early "beepers" had no display. You would just dial the number and the pager would beep. As the vast majority of mesages in that day and age were simply "Call your office" or "Call your answering service", there was no need for more data. This is a legacy feature likely built into your paging company's software. If you call your pager number and hang up without entering any digits, it will probably give you the same message. - -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay@west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 09:12:38 -0400 From: Joseph Singer Subject: Re: What happened to US West Free Email? 24 Oct 2000 01:07:49 -0400 "Tad Cook" wrote: >Before (and after) the Qwest takeover, US West had a free web-based >email service (similar to Hotmail) at http://www.uswestmail.net/index.html . >Now suddenly I cannot find it, and can't find it on the Qwest website. > >Anyone know what happened, or what the new URL is? uswestmail.net appears to be down and has been down for several days now. Evidently Qwest doesn't seem to be in any hurry to bring the site back up. That being said I've been receiving my forwarded mail that goes through uswestmail.net just fine though you cannot seem to access the site http://www.uswestmail.net and my suspicion is that USWest/Qwest is in no hurry to fix it. Just a guess. As far as web-based mail they've really been pretty good so far, but I guess this is another indication that you pretty much get what you pay for with "free." - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Singer Seattle, Washington USA [ICQ pgr] +1 206 405 2052 [voice mail] +1 206 493 0706 [FAX] - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 10:51:37 -0400 From: "Wineburgh, Joseph - WNJ \(Exchange\)" Subject: looking for someone in the bronx,ny area to verify if this is a c ell # No probably about it - NANPA has 347-432 to Sprint Spectrum (Sprint PCS). Do you have CLID name & number? My name (as well as number) actually came up when I called out from my SPCS phone whilst I was still using it. Maybe this was a more recent innovation... Anyways - I'm not sure how much luck you will have with VZ. Unless you're prepared to go to court, they won't do much. If you do plan to file & see them in court, do a few *57's after the calls to make it official. - --------------------------------- Date: 23 Oct 2000 21:48:24 -0400 From: Subject: looking for someone in the bronx,ny area to verify if this is a cell # 347-432-3451 is the number. from what i've found out it's probably a sprint pcs phone. the background is that this number keeps calling a friend on mine business and home numbers all the time of the day & night. it is probably a former employess of her's. i just want to be sure before i call verizonnuisance line for her (she doesn't speak english very well). thanks - - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *********************************************************************** - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 11:02:49 -0400 From: "Ed Ellers" Subject: Re: France blasts Britain over Echelon Monty Solomon quoted from a ZDNet UK story: "Echelon is the codename for a surveillance network built by the UK and U.S. at the onset of the Cold War in order to eavesdrop on international satellite communications." An interesting idea, considering that the onset of the Cold War was shortly after World War II (Winston Churchill's "iron curtain" speech is often credited with signaling it), while satellite communications didn't exist until the 1960s. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 13:50:44 -0400 From: Don Wallace Subject: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Hi, I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven (1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. I am assuming that, if the area code and the exchange are known for both A and B, that there is some way to determine the method of dialing factually, without a trial call. The phone company switches "know", so why can't the phone user w/o looking it up in a book? Is there a company that compiles data like this or a web site that provides a lookup of this sort? Thanks, Don - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 14:09:44 -0400 From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: PacBell/SBC DSL >>From 'Steven Lichter': >Anyone have any comments about their service? My order seems to have fallen >into a black hole. Ameritech has serious, serious problems with lack of repair/install techs all over their territory and I know some SBC/PB techs have been pulled to replace them. In fact, Southwestern Beast Communications is having DSL problems all over the country, from what I cdan tell. - -- 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: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:09:44 -0400 From: pete-weiss@psu.edu (Pete Weiss) Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? On 24 Oct 2000 13:50:44 -0400, Don Wallace wrote: |I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to |determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. |IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven |(1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. This database would have to be available on-line since A/Cs and exchanges are under flux. FURTHERMORE, with line number portability as well as cellular service, it is very possible that a/c+3d+nnnn might have different dialing instructions as compared to a/c+3d+nnnx. Similarly, an LEC like Verizon might offer Centrex(SM) service and that would totally change dialing plans. Here at Penn state, one we used to dial 9+7d for local calls; not 8+7d. Toll call used to require a '1' infix, now tolls are not necessarily indicated by that. /Pete ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 15:24:39 -0400 From: John_Bartley@orb.uscourts.gov Subject: Re: Wireless local, then cellular Yes, it has been. One of the LECs (Local Exchange Carriers) in the Portland Oregon Metro market did. Believe it was Verizon (then GTE) but not certain. On 19 Oct 2000 05:05:51 -0400, 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. > >Is anything similar being offered in North America? >- - >Regards, David. > >David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@acslink.aone.net.au >Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. - -- John Bartley, PC syadmin, USBC/DO, Portland OR Views expressed herein are mine own. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of sXXXch.... or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances." from the First Amendment to the US ConsXXXution. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 15:24:40 -0400 From: John_Bartley@orb.uscourts.gov Subject: Re: looking for someone in the bronx,ny area to verify if th A download from across the continent from shows 347-443 is used by SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P. (NWYRCYZN06/NYCMNY83CM1) which confirms your suspicions. On 23 Oct 2000 21:48:24 -0400, wrote: >347-432-3451 is the number. from what i've found out it's probably a >sprint pcs phone. > >the background is that this number keeps calling a friend of mine's >business and home numbers all the time of the day & night. it is >probably a former employee of hers. I just want to be sure before I >call verizon's nuisance line for her (she doesn't speak english very >well). thanks - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 16:13:47 -0400 From: "Steve Hayes" Subject: Re: More on pay phones (pre-pay and post-pay) In Telecom Digest V2000, #98, John David Galt commented on pre-pay pay phones. He observed that many of them require the coins for a local coin to be deposited before dialling and he asked why these phones block the call rather than asking for coins after dialling if this is not done. This is the normal operation for all US style "dumb" payphones which are controlled from the central office and is inherent in the way that they handle local calls. The phone just dials out whatever number you put in. When the central office sees that the number is complete, it checks if it is local. If it is, the central office uses a fairly primitive method to query the phone to see if the correct coins have been deposited (the phone counts the coins - switches inside it are set to establish the local call charge). If the correct amount was deposited the call is allowed to go ahead (just as if you dialled it from home), otherwise it is blocked by the central office. There is no provision for any voice prompts in this system - it dates back to long before voice synthesis or microprocessors were commonplace. When you make a long-distance call, you dial it in the way specified on the phone. In the old days, this involved the operator. Nowadays, it usually causes the central office to connect you through to a centralised automatic system which calculates the cost of the call and instructs you to deposit coins. This (or the operator) uses coin tones sent out from the phone to tell when you have deposited the correct amount and it then allows the call to go ahead. The system is quite complicated (and usually run by a Long Distance company such as AT&T) and the phone companies wouldn't want to use it for local calls as well. COCOT "smart" phones are completely different. The phone itself must calculate the cost of the call and uses its own voice synthesiser or display to ask for the coins. Since this system has to be there anyway to handle long distance calls, it is simpler for everyone if it is also used for local calls - the phone will prompt for coins after dialling on those calls as well. These days, some of the big local phone companies are using "smart" phones in place of the "dumb" ones but there are still a lot of the old ones around too. Steve Hayes South Wales, UK - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 16:27:44 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Survey: Net Users Don't Care About Opt-In, Opt-Out Followup to: By author: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) In newsgroup: comp.dcom.telecom > > uhhhh. > > I hope no one with any intelligence trusts the DMA. > > >In other words, 72% of the participants did not understand the question. > Not to mention the fact that an awful lot of so-called "opt-in" services aren't. -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 mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 16:44:06 -0400 From: Linda Subject: "509.533.1504" Hello, I too have been receiving early morning calls from the number 509.533.1504. When I try to call the number back it just rings and rings....no one answers. It wouldn't be so bad if we weren't day sleepers. Who is this person or people that persist in calling us? I am starting to feel threatened. I answered the phone twice to get no response, and when I checked who had called it was: 509.533.1504. What's going on??? Thanks for this website and the opportunity it affords to possibly get an answer. L.M. southwest washington - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 17:56:52 -0400 From: Bennett Haselton Subject: EPIC report: Censorware blocks pro-Hillary site, campaign finance, etc. Sender: owner-peacefire-press@iain.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Bennett Haselton [sent to journalists on Peacefire's press contacts list] EPIC and Peacefire have released a joint report on censorware blocking educational sites about campaign finance form, American government, the history of Memorial Day, a Jewish high school in Israel, and several dozen others. Ironically, "How A Bill Becomes A Law" is one of the censored pages -- blocked by one of the most popular brands of blocking software that Congress may soon require schools and libraries to use, if the current educational spending bill (H.R. 4577). The joint press release on the report is at: http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/BESS/MM/press-release.txt and the full report is available at: http://www.epic.org/censorware/mandated_mediocrity.html or http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/BESS/MM/ -Bennett bennett@peacefire.org http://www.peacefire.org (425) 649 9024 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 19:34:35 -0400 From: mnc@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz) Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Don Wallace wrote: > I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to > determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. > IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven > (1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. In most places these days, you can dial 1 + ten digits no matter where in the NANPA you're dialing. This is a wonderful development as it frees people - - particularly those on the move or carrying portable devices like laptop computers - from having to worry about what the current phone number is before placing a call. Try it in your area; it probably works. You do not get charged for a long-distance call if you call the number down the street with 1 + area code. I just tried it from a phone (here in area code 202) that has no default L/D carrier and it worked fine. I first noticed this working when I lived in 415 back in 1994. Back then it was not universal but it's been a while since I've seen it not work. miguel - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 20:40:07 -0400 From: Linc Madison Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? In article , Miguel Cruz wrote: > Don Wallace wrote: > > I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to > > determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. > > IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven > > (1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. > > In most places these days, you can dial 1 + ten digits no matter > where in the NANPA you're dialing. This is a wonderful development as > it frees people - particularly those on the move or carrying portable > devices like laptop computers - from having to worry about what the > current phone number is before placing a call. Try it in your area; > it probably works. You do not get charged for a long-distance call if > you call the number down the street with 1 + area code. I just tried > it from a phone (here in area code 202) that has no default L/D > carrier and it worked fine. I first noticed this working when I lived > in 415 back in 1994. Back then it was not universal but it's been a > while since I've seen it not work. Alas, no. There are still huge areas of the NANP that want to protect you from accidentally making a local call that you thought was going to cost money. Texas and Georgia are very bad about that, and I'm sure there are at least a few other states. If you dial 1+10d on a local call, you will get an intercept recording telling you, "It is not necessary to dial a 0 or a 1 when placing this call. Please hang up and try your call again," or something to that effect. It's senseless and serves no valid purpose (now that the switches are intelligent enough to zero-bill a local call dialed with 1+). It's been many years now since any switches generated a billing ticket just because the caller dialed 1+ on a local number. In New York City and its New York suburbs, until very recently, dialing 1+HNPA+7d didn't work, either, even if the call was toll. For example, to call from one end of Long Island to the other, you had to dial just 7d, even though it was a toll call. (There has since been an area code split, and at least NYC proper now allows 1+10d on HNPA calls, but I'm not sure about calling from one end of Suffolk County to the other, or from one end of 845 to the other in the northern suburbs.) It is recommended by NANPA, the FCC, the INC, and various other acronyms, that all telcos in the U.S. permit 1+10d on all calls within the NANP, but some states are intransigent. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 21:17:20 -0400 From: Linc Madison Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? In article <39f5cf29.23564123@news.psu.edu>, Pete Weiss wrote: > On 24 Oct 2000 13:50:44 -0400, Don Wallace wrote: > > > |I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to > |determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. > |IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven > |(1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. > > This database would have to be available on-line since A/Cs and > exchanges are under flux. FURTHERMORE, with line number portability > as well as cellular service, it is very possible that a/c+3d+nnnn > might have different dialing instructions as compared to a/c+3d+nnnx. Yes, but not for the reasons you mention. You can't port a number outside its rate center, and cellular has very little to do with anything. However, in some areas you can sign up for an optional service plan that expands your local calling area. In some cases, that will allow you to dial calls as 7d or 10d instead of 1+10d. However, the database you describe would be enormously complicated, because the tariffs are so convoluted. Many areas have different classes of service within the same rate center, so that, for instance, a call from a regular Dallas number to a regular Fort Worth number is toll, but if either or both numbers are in "Metro" prefixes, the call is local (and must NOT be dialed with 1+ ... GRR!) If you just want to be able to dial your call without trial and error, the obvious and sensible solution is to pressure all the state PUCs to permit optional 1+10d on local calls. The leading 1+ in a toll alerting area should mean only, "I will pay the toll IF IT APPLIES." > Similarly, an LEC like Verizon might offer Centrex(SM) service and > that would totally change dialing plans. Centrex service might change the dialing string, but it doesn't change the local calling area. > Here at Penn state, one we used to dial 9+7d for local calls; not > 8+7d. Toll call used to require a '1' infix, now tolls are not > necessarily indicated by that. I know that the rules for eastern Pennsylvania were changed when the first overlays went in. (All calls within the combined 215/610/267/445 area can be dialed as straight 10d, whether local or toll.) However, if Verizon is providing Centrex -- not PBX -- service that doesn't require a toll marker, in an area that normally requires it, that's news. In other words, if an ordinary POTS line in State College has to dial 1+10d for a toll call, but a Centrex line can dial 8+7d or 9+7d, I'd be very, very surprised. A PBX can do that, inserting whatever prefix might be required, but Centrex shouldn't. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. 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It wouldn't be so bad if we weren't day > sleepers. Sounds like the calls are coming from a modem or fax which is supposed to be calling a number slightly different from yours, but its owner mistyped when he programmed it. I suggest taking this up with Qwest's Annoyance Call Bureau. They should be able to find out fairly quickly who owns that phone number. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 2000 23:49:17 -0400 From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: Wireless local, then cellular >>From 'John_Bartley@orb.uscourts.gov': >Yes, it has been. One of the LECs (Local Exchange Carriers) in the >Portland Oregon Metro market did. Believe it was Verizon (then GTE) but >not certain. GTE did here too, and it was called Tele-Go. No roaming allowed... You got a base station that plugged into your landline. When in range of the base station, your phone calls went through the landline. Otherwise they were cellular and you got charged airtime. It was a great idea! I had an Oki 1325. At various times they also used Nokia 100's and a couple other models. This was back in 1993. I haven't seen anything similar recently. - -- 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: 25 Oct 2000 00:11:22 -0400 From: "Michael D. Sullivan" Subject: Re: service theft problem One other fix (not a true solution) would be for the son to keep his phone off-hook when not in use. This would disable incoming calls, but would likewise busy out the line for outgoing calls. If this really is a freeloader, the malefactor will quickly tire and move to someone else's line. Also, as someone else pointed out, check whether he is using a cordless phone. Many older cordless phones (and perhaps cheap new ones) have little or no security and can have the base station accessed by a technically compatible phone, providing quick 'n' easy service theft. - -- Michael D. Sullivan avogadro@bellatlantic.net Bethesda, MD, USA - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2000 00:40:35 -0400 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Don, On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Don Wallace wrote: > > Is there a company that compiles data like this or a web site that > provides a lookup of this sort? > As far as I know, the North American Numbering Plan adminstration is responsible for maintaining all records. - -- Brian F. G. Bidulock http://www.openss7.org/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2000 00:45:48 -0400 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Linc, It's not like that at all. Before LAMA and SS7 we used to have to send calls dialed with a 1 to the CAMA (Toll) switch and this switch was not supposed to use End-Office toll trunks to hairpin calls back to the local network. Also, mechanical switches did not have good databases so you had to dial them correctly. In areas where CAMA billing is still being performed, allow these calls back the the local network provides all kinds of potential for fraud. Consider why you shouldn't be able to dial 0+ a local number and just have it connect... On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Linc Madison wrote: > > Alas, no. There are still huge areas of the NANP that want to protect > you from accidentally making a local call that you thought was going to > cost money. - -- Brian F. G. Bidulock http://www.openss7.org/ - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2000 01:09:02 -0400 From: djb0x77372343@scream.org (Dan Birchall) Subject: Re: Database of Toll Call/Local Calling by Area Code + Exchange? Don Wallace wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a single database that would allow a user to > determine how a person at phone number 'A' may call phone number 'B'. > IE, whether 'A' must dial seven, ten (AAA-NNN-NNNN) or eleven > (1-AAA-NNN-NNNN) digits. > > I am assuming that, if the area code and the exchange are known for > both A and B, that there is some way to determine the method of > dialing factually, without a trial call. The phone company switches > "know", so why can't the phone user w/o looking it up in a book? > > Is there a company that compiles data like this or a web site that > provides a lookup of this sort? I once compiled something similar (a map with exchange names) for New Jersey, but that was several years and a few area code splits ago. In the event that no one has one of these, and someone decides to build one, I'd recommend just putting in the NPA-NXX chunks that are local to each other; i.e. 609-267:856-235. There's no need to additionally keep track of which area codes are adjacent or whatever, since numbers within an area code will not be local to numbers in most other area codes anyway. Nonetheless, a very substantial amount of data is involved, to say nothing of the maintenance. Plus there are issues of cellular numbers which are local to an entire LATA or NPA, et cetera. And then there are free NPA's, premium NPA's and NXX's, and so on. Doable? Sure. Time-consuming, though. If I had it, I'd charge a bit for access. :) - -Dan - -- Dan Birchall - Palolo Valley, Honolulu HI - http://dan.scream.org Post your reviews; get paid: http://epinions.scream.org/join.html Free web-based e-mail: http://www.themail.com/ref.htm?ref=1163079 My address expires - take out the hex stamp if your reply bounces - -- The Telecom Digest is currently mostly robomoderated. 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