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TELECOM Digest     Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:27:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 318

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Packet8 Firmware Causes Outage? (Tom Keating)
    EU Split Over Anti-Terror Phone Logging Rules (News Wire)
    Wired Collection Agency Gives Reader a Jolt (David Lazarus)
    Retail VOIP Use Doubles in Nine Months (Iain Thomson)
    Bell South Plans Number Changes in Florida (Jessie-Lynn Kerr)
    Re: Blogs Powerful Tools in Supreme Court Fight (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Non-Bell ESS? (Lisa Hancock)
    Well, Duh .. Re: Mixing Blogging With Work Can Lead to Unemployment (mc)
    Re: Verizon VOIP Questions (Isaiah Beard)
    Re: Amid Crisis, Phones Jammed, But Text Messages Worked (Isaiah Beard)
    Last Laugh! Terrible Virus Threatens Us All (Patrick Townson)

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From: Tom Keating <keating@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Packet8 Firmware Causes Outage? 
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:15:23 -0500


by Tom Keating

I just received an email newsletter from Packet8 regarding firmware
upgrades. Let me paste an excerpt:

8x8 is constantly working to improve the Packet8 service, and
frequently pushes out new firmware to upgrade Packet8 communication
devices (adapters, VideoPhones, and the Uniden UIP1868P). Sometimes
these upgrades will take a few moments to upload the latest
firmware. While this process occurs, your phone service will be
unavailable. To avoid having the upgrade occur during an emergency,
you can dial 012-0002 on your phone to reach the Packet8 upgrade
server which will determine whether your device has the latest
upgrade. If you need an upgrade, the voice prompt will advise you on
what to do next.

So let me get this straight. Packet8 upgrades their firmware
"frequently" and during these "frequent" firmware upgrades, your
Packet8 phone service will the unavailable/down? I'm not sure this is
something a broadband VoIP provider wants to advertise in their email
newsletter. Simply changing the word "frequently" to "occasionally"
would at least "soften" the blow of knowing your Packet8 phone service
will experience an outage during the firmware upgrade. But I keep
tripping over this word "frequently". Or maybe I'm just "tripping"?
You tell me. Am I just being nit-picky?

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From: News Wire <newswire@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: EU Split Over Anti-Terror Phone Data Logging Rules
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:13:44 -0500


The European Union is split over how to introduce a law requiring
phone and Internet usage records to be stored to help fight terrorism
in the wake of the London bombings, an EU official said on Monday.

The executive European Commission is drafting a proposal to harmonize
the rules for storing telephone, mobile and e-mail records across the
25-nation bloc, but EU president Britain is promoting a separate
initiative on the same issue.

The Commission's proposal could take up to three years because it
would require the assent of the European Parliament, which is
particularly sensitive to civil rights concerns and more open to
lobbying by telecommunications companies.

A quick deal among member governments would be open to less public
scrutiny and compliance would only be policed nationally.

The Commission says it is seeking to balance the imperatives of
security and crime-fighting against privacy concerns over handing data
to the police and the cost to telecoms companies of storing customer
records.

Britain, supported by Ireland, France and Sweden, has led calls for EU
governments to agree new rules among themselves, excluding the
Parliament and the Commission, as London fears the two EU institutions
could slow down decision-making.

"In the Commission's opinion they are not complementary initiatives,"
European Commission justice spokesman Friso Roscam-Abbing told a daily
briefing, adding that the EU executive would launch its proposal in a
few months.

"We have to make a choice. The European Union has to choose the
instrument it goes for."

The four EU states proposed after the March 2004 Madrid bombings which
killed 191 people that telecommunications data should be stored
compulsorily for a minimum of one year.

The Commission has recommended a period of six months to a year to
reduce the storage cost for companies.

EU interior ministers will discuss data retention at a special meeting
on Wednesday called to speed up anti-terrorism cooperation after last
Thursday's four bomb attacks on London's transport system, which
killed at least 49 people.

Neither proposal calls for the content of electronic communications to
be recorded but investigators want to be able to trace numbers dialed,
including unsuccessful calls, and Internet addresses accessed.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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From: David Lazarus <lazarus@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Wired Subscriber Gets a Jolt
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:40:08 -0500


Wired magazine, the bible of the tech set, may have its finger on the
pulse of all that's cool. But the San Francisco publication has been
using decidedly uncool tactics when it comes to getting some people to
renew their subscriptions.

San Francisco resident Bob McMillan discovered this after choosing to
allow his longtime subscription to lapse late last year. "I like the
magazine, " he told me. "I just didn't have time to read it anymore."

First came the usual letters warning McMillan, 36, that his
subscription was up and that he wouldn't get any more copies of Wired
unless he ponied up some cash.

Then Wired's correspondence took a different turn.

In May, McMillan received a letter from North Shore Agency, a leading
debt-collection firm. The letter, headed "Please Respond," said he
owed $12 for his Wired subscription.

"Our objective is to clear your bill quickly and fairly," it said.
"Your payment will reinstate your subscription."

A more assertive letter from North Shore, headed "Request for
Payment," arrived last month. "You must realize that we want you to
resolve your account in the amount of $12," it said.

Then, the other day, a third North Shore letter arrived, headed
"Account Status: Delinquent."

"Your account appears as delinquent on our client's files," it warned.
This professional collection agency continues collection activity on
your debtor account."

The letter added, ominously: "Respond to this letter or continued
collection efforts may follow."

McMillan had ignored the first two letters. Now, however, he's worried
that Wired/North Shore will take some legal action that will decimate
his credit rating.

"I'm very angry," he said. "This isn't a real debt. It seems like
they're just trying to trick me into renewing my subscription."

Other subscribers

Turns out McMillan isn't alone in feeling strong-armed by Wired. A
Google search turns up others who say that they, too, allowed their
subscriptions to expire and then received scary letters from North
Shore.

In each case, the erstwhile Wired readers were told that they had an
"open balance" of $12 and that "this is an attempt to collect a debt."

In each case as well, the recipients were told that paying the $12
would result in a renewed subscription.

"Since when is letting a magazine subscription expire a debt?" one
person asked online. "This guerrilla marketing technique is unethical
in my book."

Said another: "Talk about a low way to get subscribers. This is
bottom- feeding. Magazines used to offer you incentives. Now they
threaten to louse up your credit rating if you don't re-up, and NOW."

So what does have Wired have to say?

When I first contacted Joe Timko, the magazine's consumer marketing
director, he acknowledged having received complaints from readers
about being hassled by North Shore. "It's something we're
investigating," he said.

Timko insisted that it isn't Wired's policy to use a collection agency
to muscle people into renewing their subscriptions.

"We don't do that," he said. "Or at least that's not our intention."

I asked a North Shore spokeswoman to comment on the matter. She never
called back.

Longstanding relationship

In any case, Wired has been using North Shore for a number of years. I
found some online gripes about the North Shore letters dating back to
2002 (and you can see one of the firm's letters for yourself at
http://urbanideas.com/images/nsa.jpg ).

I spoke with Timko again on Thursday. This time, he offered an
explanation for what was happening: From time to time, Wired sends
direct-mail solicitations to people offering discounted subscriptions.

But if you read the fine print of these offers, they say Wired will
assume you want to remain as a subscriber until you tell the magazine
otherwise, and that you'll automatically be sent an invoice each year
for another $12.

This is common enough among newspapers. The Chronicle, for example,
will keep sending out papers (and bills) until a subscription is
canceled.

But most magazines require readers to renew their subscriptions every
one or two years.

Timko said he checked his files and found that McMillan's subscription
had an automatic-renewal clause. He suspects that most of the people
who lodged online complaints were in a similar position.

For his part, McMillan said, he couldn't recall being told about an
automatic yearly renewal of his subscription. "I had no idea that was
the case, " he said.

Collection procedure

Wired's Timko said the magazine typically sends out a half-dozen or so
letters reminding people to send in their $12. Then North Shore is
brought in for an additional three letters.

The collection agency was intended solely to spook people into
responding. Timko said North Shore wasn't authorized to take legal
action against Wired readers.

"We're not going to do that to people," he said. "This was just
another effort to collect an unpaid subscription."

Now, Timko said, Wired will rethink the whole thing. He said the
magazine will reconsider the practice of automatic renewals and will
no longer pass along readers' names to North Shore.

In fact, he said Wired will likely end its relationship with North
Shore.

It's probably something we shouldn't have done," Timko said of using
the collection agency to pressure readers. "It's not something we want
to continue. "

I arranged for McMillan and Timko to speak with one another. McMillan
told me afterward that Timko apologized for the North Shore letters.
McMillan said he was also offered a free subscription to Wired.

"I turned it down," he said. "I still don't have time to read it. But
in the back of my mind, I have to wonder what might happen the next
time it runs out."

David Lazarus' column appears Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. He also
can be seen regularly on KTVU's "Mornings on 2." Send tips or feedback
to dlazarus@sfchronicle.com.

Copyright 2005 San Francisco Chronicle

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You know, that sounds like a hot idea!
In real tiny print somewhere I should add a note saying "your continued 
sending of spam to this address means you agree to pay me a hundred 
dollars" then place it all with North Shore Agency. Maybe I could now
and then collect a little extra cash on the way.  PAT]

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From: Iain Thomson <newswire@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Retail VOIP Use Doubles in Nine Months
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:41:47 -0500


by Iain Thomson VNUNet.com

Use of retail VoIP services has more than doubled in the past nine
months to nearly 11 million users worldwide, according to
communications analysts Point Topic.?

The company said that there are now 7.2 million users in Japan, and
2.1 million users in the US. The growth is based on figures from last
summer which showed five million users worldwide.

Software-based VoIP systems, such as Skype and VoiceGlo, add another
5.9 million users to the pool, according to Point Topic, although it
admits that these are estimates.?

Skype claims that 100 million people had downloaded its software by
mid-April 2005, and that 35 million users have registered.

But the Point Topic report claimed that "many people download the
client and do not register, and many people who register never or
rarely use Skype".

"These users are contributing either zero or relatively little revenue
to network providers, although interconnect payments are made when a
call from a PC is terminated on the PSTN," said the analyst firm.

France is the biggest customer in Europe, but since UK services only
launched last month the numbers here are negligible.

In most cases VoIP is used as a second phone line, but the report
noted that Norwegian company Telio is having great success getting
customers to abandon traditional phones altogether.

To see more of VNUNet go to http://www.vnunet.com

Copyright 2005 VNU Business Online Limited (UK)
Copyright 2005 Forbes.com Inc.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If you recall a few years ago when the
'dot com' thing was going on, and all sorts of claims were being made
about how 'internet usage was doubling every nine months or so' it led
up to a _masssive collapse_ not only for 'dot com' but for telecom and
other industries as well. I wonder if that will happen with VOIP in
the near future also?  PAT]

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From:Jessie-Lynne Kerr <newswire@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Bell South Plans Number Changes in Florida
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:43:05 -0500


Fast-growing northern St. Johns County will be moved from five phone
exchanges into one.

By JESSIE-LYNNE KERR, The Times-Union


About 4,000 BellSouth telephone customers in northern St. Johns County
west of the Intracoastal Waterway would have to change their numbers
under a proposed realignment of boundaries in the fast-growing area.

The boundary changes being sought would affect BellSouth customers in
the St. Johns County, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach, Jacksonville,
Green Cove Springs and Julington exchanges.

The Florida Public Service Commission must approve the change and has
three public hearings planned to listen to comments.

According to Marta Casas-Celaya, a BellSouth spokeswoman for BellSouth
at corporate headquarters in Miami, the proposed change involves two
moves.

First, the telephone company plans to consolidate the Julington
exchange, which has about 15,000 customers, with the St. Johns County
exchange to create a larger one that would encompass most of northern
St. Johns County. ThatThe change would not require the Julington
exchange customers to change numbers.

The second move would shift customers from the Ponte Vedra Beach
exchange who are west of the Intracoastal Waterway into the St. Johns
County exchange. Also, Jacksonville exchange customers located around
the Bartram Plantation development, Green Cove Springs exchange
customers east of the St. Johns River and north St. Augustine exchange
customers also would be shifted into the exchange. They would have to
change numbers but would be allowed to retain their old calling scope
and rates for a period of two years, Casas-Celaya said.

She did not know how many of the 4,000 customers who could face number
changes were businesses that would have to have new stationery and
business cards printed with new numbers.

"What we are doing is consolidating five different exchanges into
one," she said. "The growth in that area is such that people who are
literally across the street from each other have different
exchanges. We want to streamline that process and while we are at it,
improve service."

Todd Brown, a regulatory supervisor and consultant for the Public
Service Commission, said BellSouth has not requested any change to the
area code.

At the public hearings, a BellSouth representative will make a
presentation on the changes being sought and then people will have an
opportunity to speak, Brown said.

"Any change would be months away," he added.

jessie-lynne.kerrjacksonville.com, (904) 359-4374

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Blogs Powerful Tools in Supreme Court Fight
Date: 11 Jul 2005 09:35:54 -0700


Donna Smith wrote:

> Political groups preparing to battle over the first U.S. Supreme Court
> nomination in 11 years have a powerful new tool -- Internet blogs --
> to spread information quickly and influence decision makers without
> relying on traditional media.

I question if blogs are really indeed such 'powerful tools'.

> Web logs likely numbering in the dozens provide a way for the
> thoughtful and the passionate to publish their views.

Anyone can publish anything.  But that isn't the point.  What counts
is who _reads_ those blogs.  I really wonder if any _significant_
numbers of people actually read blogs.

I suspect blog readership is more "preaching to the choir", that is,
those reading them have already made up their minds one way or another
and already passionate about the issue.



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well Lisa, I dunno. There are a large
number of netters who read blogs these days, via services like RSS
which we use here http://telecom-digest.org/rss.html . Blogs are sort
of like newspaper columnists, IMO. People read the ones they want and
skip the ones they do not want. Some are more trustworthy than others.
PAT]

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Non-Bell ESS?
Date: 11 Jul 2005 09:38:10 -0700


Tim@Backhome.org wrote:

> Once the digital 5ESS came along, the regional Bells had already
> aquired a preference for Nortel's DMS-100, mostly because it was
> cheaper and would do an adequate job in all but the most intensive
> urban environments (the 5ESS was definately better, but perhaps a
> Lexius when a Ford would do. ;-)

Wasn't that the one that failed in numerous exchanges all across the
country as a result of a software bug?

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From: mc <mc_no_spam@uga.edu>
Subject: Well, Duh... Re: Mixing Blogging With Work Can Lead to Unemployment
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:46:19 -0400
Organization: Speed Factory http://www.speedfactory.net


Reading a little farther in the news story:

> "The whole blogging thing was so new back then, I never expected
> anyone to find it and read it," said Burch, who was fired in May
> 2004. "I wrote in the blog to let off steam, not stir things up, but
> they viewed my e-mail signature as some kind of open invitation to
> read those comments."

Huh?  She put a link in her e-mail signature but didn't want people to
view it as an "open invitation to read" things that were published on
the Web?

This is *exactly* like the "Don't tell my boss about my cocaine habit"
type of postings we would occasionally see in the early days of
newsgroups.

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From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com>
Subject: Re: Verizon VOIP Questions
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:49:19 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


snow wrote:

> I subscribe to both Verizon local telephone and its DSL service. I was
> on their website and read about VOIP broadband phone service. I am now
> considering dropping the regular landline phone and trying out VOIP
> service.  

Despite Verizon's announcements to the contrary, it appears that you 
still need to have your voice landline connected in order to continue 
having DSL.  I discovered this after getting fed up with Comcast's lack 
of reliability in my area, and am in the middle of (very reluctantly) 
getting DSL put back in.

You could, however, drop your voice service down to the absolute bare
minimum.  In my state (NJ), Verizon has a "low use message rate" tier
that costs around $6.00 a month, and basically provides dial tone and
nothing else.  No calling features, no regional or national long
distance, and only about 20 "message units" are included for outgoing
local calls (a messuage unit is a local call lasting 5 minutes or
less).

It's about as low as you can get if you don't actually intend to make
calls on taht line, and at the very least, you'll at least know you
can use it to dial 911 if the power and/or broadband internet service
fails.

E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

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From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com>
Subject: Re: Amid Crisis, Phones Jammed, But Text Messages Worked
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:17:47 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


Monty Solomon wrote:

> After the World Trade Center attacks, landline phones
> generally held up in New York, though there were some congestion
> problems, while cellphone networks were clogged.

Oh *really*?  That's interesting.  I remember on September 11, it was
impossible to get a call through to my folks down south to make sure
they weren't panicking, either on my cell phone or the landline.  And
I was a fair distance from ground zero, in New Jersey at the time.
The landline network most certainly didn't hold up.  It was only after
an hour of constantly hitting redial that the folks were able to get
through to my cell phone (and yes, they were panicking).

And last summer during the big Northeast blackout, the local central
office was providing dialtone, but any outgoing calls placed would get
a busy signal, and incoming calls would be met with dead air.  Turns
out someone at Verizon did not properly hook up a portion of the
wirecenter to backup power.


E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

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From: Patrick Townson (via Nora Burch) <ptownson@cableone.net>
Subject: Last Laugh! Dangerous Virus 
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:09:27 -0500



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Another of the items from the
'annoy your friends' web site run by Nora Burch which was
discussed here over the weekend.   PAT]

         ====================================

ONCE YOU HAVE READ THIS PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOU KNOW.

This is from World Corporate headquarters - so it's no joke.

Very scary.

Be careful -- Just when you thought you were safe, now we have the
following to deal with ... please read, it definitely is a

serious threat to our lives and health.

This is an alert about a virus in the original sense of the word
 ... one that affects your mind, not your hard drive.

There have been 666 confirmed cases of people attacked by the
Klingerman Virus, a virus that arrives in your real mail box, not your
e-mail in box.

Someone has been mailing large purple and green paisley envelopes,
seemingly at random, to people inside the US. On the front of the
envelope in bold black letters is printed, "You May Already be a
Winner!" from the "Publisher 's Clearinghouse Foundation." When the
envelopes are opened, there is a piece of paper that starts "Dear
(your name)".

This paper carries what has come to be known as the Klingerman Virus,
as public health officials state, this is a strain of virus they have
not previously encountered.

When asked for comment, Florida police Sergeant Stetson said, "We are
working with the NAACP, ASPCA and the UPS, but have so far

been unable to track down the origins of these letters. Ed McMahon's
return addresses have all been different, and we are certain a
remailing service is being used, making our jobs that much more
difficult."

Those who have come in contact with the Klingerman Virus have been
hospitalized with severe dishpan hands. So far 100 of the victims have
died.  There is no legitimate Publisher's Clearinghouse Foundation
mailing unsolicited gifts.

If you receive an oversized envelope in the mail marked "You May
Already Be Winner!." DO NOT open it. Place it in a radiation-proof
container in a sealed vault in an underground bunker or Tupperware
container and call the National Guard immediately.

You are definitely not a winner.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE PLANET.

Mrs. Sandra Dee, Social Work Secretary

General Hospital Department of Social Work 203-688-2xxx<?xmlnamespace
prefix = o ns = "urnschemas-microsoft-comofficeoffice" />


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A very close equivilent on the net 
these days are the multitudes of emails telling us we have already
won X dollars since our home mortgage was approved at lower than
ever interest rates.   PAT]

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