TELECOM Digest     Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:35:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 289

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Telecom Update #486, June 24, 2005 (Angus TeleManagement Group)
    Microsoft Plans to Include RSS in Versions of Windows (Lisa Minter)
    3G-324M Protocol Implementation (Daniel Rhee)
    Re: DSL Speed (Tony P.)
    Re: DSL Speed (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Cardholders Kept in Dark After Breach (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: More Trouble From 877-467-3277 (Keri Fletcher)
    Re: Hayes Smartmodems (Fred Atkinson)

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IN THIS ISSUE: 

** Telecom Update Takes a Holiday
** Aliant Launches IP TV
** EastLink Boosts Internet Speed
** Bell to End $5 Long Distance
** Bell and Telus to Offer VoIP 9-1-1 Routing
** Mixed Response to Price Cap Extension
** Bell Plans Business IP Voice
** Outages Hit Blackberry Users
** Good News for RIM from U.S. Patent Office
** CRTC Wants Input on "Reverse 9-1-1"
** ITU Aims to "Connect the World" by 2015
** Telus Union Announces "Super Service"
** Cogeco Renews Union Contracts
** CRTC Streamlines International Licensing
** Local Forbearance Comments Submitted
** BT Forced to Spin Off Access Services Unit

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TELECOM UPDATE TAKES A HOLIDAY: Telecom Update is taking a week
off. The next issue will be published Friday, July 8.

ALIANT LAUNCHES IP TV: Aliant has launched an IP-based digital
television service delivering 150 TV and 70 music channels. Aliant TV,
initially available to Aliant High-Speed Internet customers in
"select areas of Clayton Park West, Wedgewood and Rockingham in
Halifax," will eventually expand to "other select areas of Halifax"
and some other cities in Atlantic Canada. Introductory pricing begin
at $29.95/month.

EASTLINK BOOSTS INTERNET SPEED: EastLink has introduced 10 Mbps
Internet access across all its serving areas in the Maritimes.
Ethernet Bundled service customers will receive the upgrade for free;
the service can be rented on a standalone basis for $54.95/month.

BELL TO END $5 LONG DISTANCE: Speaking to an analyst briefing this
week, Kevin Crull, President of Bell Canada's Consumer Solutions
organization, said the telco will eliminate its $5 long distance
offering soon. The year-old plan provides 1,000 minutes a month of
Canada/U.S. calling to customers who subscribe to two of Bell's
wireless, high-speed Internet, or TV services. (See Telecom Update
#438)

BELL AND TELUS TO OFFER VoIP 9-1-1 ROUTING: Bell Canada and Telus have
filed tariffs allowing them to route VoIP 9-1-1 calls to the correct
emergency centres on behalf of other VoIP providers and alternate
operator service providers. They have asked for effective dates in
early July (see Telecom Update #476).

www.crtc.gc.ca/8740/eng/2005/b2/tn6879.zip
www.crtc.gc.ca/8740/eng/2005/T42.htm#200506983

MIXED RESPONSE TO PRICE CAP EXTENSION: Comments from incumbents and
other parties show that some support the CRTC's proposal to extend the
current price cap regime for two years to 2008, some argue for just a
one-year extension, while others say the regime needs modifying, in
particular by scrapping the deferral account mechanism. (See Telecom
Update #481)

www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8678/c12_200505729.htm#2b 
www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8678/c12_200505729.htm#4b 

BELL PLANS BUSINESS IP VOICE: There's been no official announcement,
but Bell Canada's website says that "Bell Business IP Voice" will be
available this summer. The service, which has not yet received tariff
approval, appears to be an access-independent VoIP service aimed at
small and medium-sized business customers.

www.bell.ca/shop/en_CA_ON/Sme.Sol.Telephony.VOIP.page

OUTAGES HIT BLACKBERRY USERS: BlackBerry users across Canada and the
U.S. reported widespread service outages on June 17 and June 22,
ranging from a few minutes to several hours. We have seen no official
statement from Research In Motion about the failures.

GOOD NEWS FOR RIM FROM U.S. PATENT OFFICE: The U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office has struck down two more of the NTP Inc.  patents at
issue in its suit against Research In Motion.  Seven of the eight
contested NTP patents have now been overruled. NTP says these rulings
are preliminary, subject to appeal, and "won't have any bearing" on
the case.

CRTC WANTS INPUT ON "REVERSE 9-1-1": The CRTC has asked for more input
on whether to allow municipalities to access 9-1-1 databases to call
residents in case of emergencies, "and if so, under what circumstances
and with what safeguards." To participate, notify the Commission by
July 8. (See Telecom Update #439)

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2005/pt2005-7.htm

ITU AIMS TO "CONNECT THE WORLD" BY 2015: The International
Telecommunication Union has launched Connect the World, a
multi-stakeholder effort to bring telecom access to the 800,000
villages, inhabited by one billion people, that still lack a
telephone. The ITU aims to connect all communities by 2015.

TELUS UNION ANNOUNCES "SUPER SERVICE": The Telecommunications Workers
Union has begun a work-to-rule campaign aimed at convincing Telus to
"engage in serious bargaining." Union members are urged to provide
"super service to customers," obey all safety regulations, and catch
up on assigned training courses.

** The TWU says Telus's supplementary offer last week was 
   "another attack on female employees," and is preparing a 
   counteroffer. (See Telecom Update #486)

COGECO RENEWS UNION CONTRACTS: Cogeco employees in Quebec, affiliated
to the Canadian Union of Public Employees, have voted to extend their
contracts with the cablecos to 2008.  The contracts include 2% annual
pay increases.

CRTC STREAMLINES INTERNATIONAL LICENSING: The CRTC has reduced the
amount of reporting required by new or already licensed international
long distance carriers. New licences will be for 10-year periods, and
existing licences are extended by four years from the current expiry
dates.

www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Circulars/2005/ct2005-8.htm

LOCAL FORBEARANCE COMMENTS SUBMITTED: The CRTC has received
first-round comments from participants in the proceeding on whether
and how the incumbent telcos' local telephone service should be
deregulated (see Telecom Update #479). Predictably, the incumbents'
proposals would lead to earlier and more complete forbearance, while
competitors want a more cautious approach.

www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8640/c12_200505076.htm#2b 
www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2005/8640/c12_200505076.htm#4b 

BT FORCED TO SPIN OFF ACCESS SERVICES UNIT: BT Group has agreed to
implement the British regulator's order to convert its wholesale
division into an operationally separate unit, with separate physical
locations, separate bonus schemes, and separate branding. The Access
Services group will rent local loops to BT and competitors.

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From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Microsoft to Tie RSS Instant-Updates into Windows
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:22:11 -0500


By Spencer Swartz

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software company, on Friday said
it plans to add Really Simple Syndication, a popular technology for
reading news and information on the Web, in its next version of
Windows.

Known as RSS, the technology invented by one-time arch-rival Netscape
Communications Corp. allows Internet users to track freshly updated
information -- without having to surf through a long list of Web
pages.

Microsoft said it wants to reach beyond the current limited audience
of hard-core Internet users by making RSS convenient for mainstream
computer users in its upcoming version of Windows, code-named
Longhorn.

The Redmond, Washington-based company is planning to offer a set of
underlying extensions to RSS code that will make it easier for Web
sites to publish lists such as photo albums, music playlists and other
sorts of Top 10 lists as RSS feeds.

Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's manager in charge of RSS, is set to
tell an audience of technology enthusiasts attending the annual
Gnomedex conference in Seattle on Friday of how Microsoft will tie RSS
capabilities into Windows.

Hachamovitch is set to embrace the Creative Commons license backed by
many leading RSS supporters. The license provides looser copyright
restrictions on creative work but stops short of entirely giving up
all claims of ownership.

"That's groundbreaking for Microsoft," Joe Wilcox, an analyst at
Jupiter Research, said of the software giant's embrace of Creative
Commons, which has served as a rallying point for computer users
opposed to Microsoft's industry dominance.

KEEPING UP ON WHAT'S NEW

The RSS capabilities will be embedded into Microsoft's Longhorn
operating system, expected to be released in trial form this summer
and made available to consumers as the next new release of Windows in
2006.

"Microsoft wants to make this more than just about getting more people
to use RSS. They want to turn this (capability) into a developer
platform, kind of like what they did with the Web browser," he said.

With the new Windows, users will be able to receive updated headlines
through an illuminated RSS icon with a click of a button.

This in turn will automatically make the selected RSS feeds able to run in
any Windows-based application designed to accept RSS. Microsoft is looking
to encourage outside software developers to build a variety RSS features
into new software.

The move has won the support of Dave Winer, RSS's most tireless
advocate over the years, and Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at
Stanford Law School, the founder of Creative Commons and a sometime
Microsoft adversary.

"The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only
peripherally -- that there were applications of RSS that aren't about
news," Winer wrote on Wednesday at his Web site
(http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/22#a634/).

"I think what they're doing is cool," Winer said.

RSS has aided the proliferation of Web logs. Blogs, the
easy-to-publish Web sites that allow users to offer quick commentaries
on issues that matter to them, use RSS feeds to stay up-to-date with
other blogs. (with additional reporting by Eric Auchard)

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From: daniel.rhee@gmail.com
Subject: 3G-324M Protocol Implementation
Date: 24 Jun 2005 11:25:51 -0700


Hi,

I am trying to implement the 3G-324M protocol stack from the scratch.
It doesn't look like a simple job after reading a brief summary. Has
anyone implemented 3G-324M? Could you share your experience? What's
the scale of the job? 

Thank you,

Dan

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From: Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net>
Subject: Re: DSL Speed
Organization: ATCC
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:34:12 -0400


In article <telecom24.287.9@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com 
says:

> Choreboy wrote:

>> Couldn't technology analogous to a megaphone be applied to dialup as
>> well as DSL?

> Yes.

>> Ah, crosstalk!  It seems to me that if DSL uses the same wire dialup
>> used, the same crosstalk will be present.

> Not necessarily.  Remember AM and FM radio waves go through the same
> air, but AM is much more sensitive to lightning and other static than
> is FM.

> DSL service may be arrangeed to minimize crosstalk.

You've hit it on the head. Both AM and FM use radio bandwidth, but
each uses a different form of modulation. AM stands for Amplitude
Modulation -- the amplitude is how high a particular sine wave rises or
falls. FM is frequency modulation, the carrier frequency varies
depending on what signal is being fed to it.

It's sort of the same setup on DSL with the data signals occupying a 
higher frequency. 

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: DSL Speed
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:33:15 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.288.13@telecom-digest.org>, Choreboy
<choreboyREMOVE@localnet.com> wrote:

> At the farm, it seems to be the wire that limited my dialups to 46k
> when I got 52k in town.

Yes, and no.  The particular _type_of_signaling_used_ over that wire
was limited by that wire to 46k.

> If the wire wouldn't carry more than 46k, it wouldn't matter what
> the telco did at their end.

*NOT* exclusively a 'wire' limitation.  Also a limitation of the
signalling technology employed. the distributed capacitance of the
wire was such that it 'blurred' the signal such that reconstruction of
the original waveform =after= the *VOICE*GRADE* analog-to-digital
conversion in the CO switch lost the 'fidelity' required for the
higher data rate.

> I wonder how a DSL signal can carry 1.5M through those mile of wire.

DSL uses a different 'signalling technology' for sending the data down
the wire.

The DSL signal does _not_ go through those 'voice-grade'
analog-to-digital converters that PSTN calls do.  the signal is
isolated before that point, and dumped into a totally _different_ kind
of receiver.

DSL _does_ suffer 'performance losses', as the wire length gets
greater.  The degree of degradation is considerably worse than with
POTS modems.  E.g., at 1,000' from the C.O. you may be able to get
several megabits/sec.  at 15000 ft, you'll be lucky to get 256k.  At
18,000 ft, even 144kbit/sec is iffy.  Beyond 25,000 ft, "forget it"
applies -- an analog POTS modem is higher performance.

>>> I have trouble understanding on the phone, and I often resort to
>>> the phonetic alphabet to be understood.  I think the problem may be
>>> more in the typical quality of phones than in bandwidth.  You could
>>> have broadcast quality microphones and loudspeakers and it will
>>> still sound like a telephone because of the limited bandwidth.
>>> Since bandwidth is limited, telephone components aren't high
>>> fidelity as it would be a waste to make them so.  (I believe the
>>> modern "K" handset is clearer than the older "G" handset.)

> Military AM and SSB are limited to 300-3000 Hz. Shortwave radios can
> be filtered that way for tuning and difficult conditions.  Speach
> comes across pretty clearly.  If telephone voices are harder to
> understand, I think the problem must be something besides the nominal
> bandwidth of a telephone.

The official specification for a voice-grade POTS call is that same
300-3000Hz passband.  Modern digital systems deliver a 'high end' of
4000hz. and often have a lower 'low end' as well.

>>> Does a POTS line from the CO to a house carry multiple voices?

>> Depending on the location, often times yes.  Between central offices
>> or within the CO almost always yes.  I mean if you live across the
>> street from the CO you probably have dedicated copper pair, but you
>> live some distance you probably are multiplexed over a carrier line.
>> The degree of multiplex determines your bandwidth.

> Would you be able to connect with V90 on a multiplexed line?

Only in *very* rare situations.

> As far as capacity goes, I don't know how fast is the digital stream
> for a voice call, 

After digitalization, a standard POTS voice-grade call uses 64000 bits/sec.

> but I'm sure DSL at 2.5Mb/s requires much more of the telco's
> capacity.

"Not Exactly" applies here.  The DSL signal rides the wires from the
customer premises _to_ the telco switching facility.  *BUT* before it
would get to the telco switching gear, it is separated out,
segeregated, and sent to some *entirely*different* equipment -- called
a DSLAM, if you care.  Frequently that DSLAM equipment does *NOT*
belong to the telephone company, but to the company providing DSL
services.  the 'upstream' connection out of the DSLAM is a dedicated
data circuit -- possibly rented from the telco, but often _also_
supplied by the company that runs the DSLAM.  Regardless, it is not
using up any capacity on the Telco's VOICE network.

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Cardholders Kept in Dark After Breach -- Washington Post
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:58:57 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.288.15@telecom-digest.org>, Steve Sobol
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

[[..  munch  ..]]

> Yeah. What a load of self-serving crap. It's not just about the credit 
> cards. It's about SSNs and other personal information. To withhold 
> information about such breaches is criminal.

Steve, _that_ is a bunch of crap.  A credit-card clearinghouse does
*NOT* have any of that kind of information.  All they have is
transaction data.  No "personal" data, no SSN's, none of that.  They
have the card number,.  the transaction amount, maybe the 'security
code', or the mag-stripe code, or the digits (only) of the street
address and/or zip-code.

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:13:28 PDT
From: Keri Fletcher <kerivoice@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kerivoice@yahoo.com
Subject: More Trouble from 877-467-3277


I was trying to find out who the phone# 877-467-3277 belonged to as
they keep calling me.
 
In my search I came across two posts at your Telecom Digest Online
bulletin board regarding this same number from people wondering who
the phone number belonged to.
 
I just called them and the recording said:
 
"Thank you for calling Sears Home Improvement Products. For quality
service.." blah blah blah
 
Anyway, just thought the posters might like to know and when I tried
to post I was sent a link to your email so if you or anyone else wants
to know ... that's who the number 877-467-3277 belongs to.

 
Smile:)

Keri
www.kerifletcher.com


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks for the tipoff, Keri. 877-467-3277 
is an old offender; they have been calling people and hanging up for a
long time. No one seems to be able to stop them. I guess no one has
yet slapped them hard enough with lawsuits to get the point across to
them. We'll just add your complaint to the total received on Sears
Home Improvements.  PAT]

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From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Subject: Re: Hayes Smartmodems (was Re: Bell Divestiture)
Reply-To: fatkinson@mishmash.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:48:08 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On 23 Jun 2005 13:29:19 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> I'm confused.  IIRC, the command was four characters, either
> ATDT or ATDP.  Are you saying it would work with three?

Yes.  With ATD, it would default to rotor dialing.  

> Also, for dialing out of a PBX, wasn't a 'pause' character needed to
> allow time for the second dial tone?

That's what the comma did.  But actually in most electronic PBXs, the
pause wasn't really necessary.

> Way back then a lot of people still had rotary service and most
> systems supported both.  I don't think early on defaulting to pulse
> was such a bad idea for those days.

I don't agree.  When the Smartmodem came out, touch tone was greatly
in the majority and really was a better choice for lines that did
both.

> IIRC, Hayes was the leader in modems, but didn't they end up going
> bankrupt?  I didn't understand that.

I *do* understand it.  They were a bit pigheaded about their pricing.
I believe that that is what did them in.  They thought people would
pay four hundred for a Hayes modem (versus seventy-five for a
Hayes-compatible (non-Hayes) modem).  In other words, they thought
people would continue to pay the big money to drive a Cadillac.  I
believe it did them in.

It made me very sad, too.  I believed in Hayes quality.  When I was at
SkyTel, we used a bunch of them for our field equipment and on our PCs
at the office to call up that equipment.

>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think we used 'ATT' for tone dialing
>> and 'ATP' for pulse dialing. Fred, (in a help desk capacity) did you
>> ever run across customers who _lied_, told you they had tried to do
>> something but in fact had not done it at all.

I'm sure it did.  But all you can do in most cases is to take their
word.  After all, they are the customer.

> That certainly does happen.  But more commonly is people who _think_
> they did something when they actually didn't, or for some reason what
> they entered didn't take (ie keyboard locked up and they didn't
> realize it -- that's very common.)

I know it's common.  But it's something you have to live with.


Fred 

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