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TELECOM Digest Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:55:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 332
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Columnist Dumps SBC for VOIP (Mike Wendland)
Virginia Town Approves Verizon Cable Deal (US Telecom DailyLead)
Super Speed Broadband Over Cable Television (Reuters News Wire)
Microsoft Sues Executive Leaving For Google China (Reuters News Wire)
Prepaid + Pay Phones (Duh_OZ)
Governors Balk at New US License Rules/Warn of Higher Costs (M Solomon)
Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today? (Arthur Kamlet)
Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today? (Kenneth P. Stox)
Re: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster (Tim Keating)
Re: Mossberg: Tracking Cookies are Spyware (Tim Keating)
The Difference a Century Can Make (Patrick Townson)
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From: Mike Wendland <wendland@dfp.com>
Subject: Columnist Dumps SBC For VOIP
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:51:18 -0500
Mike Wendland, in his column for the Detroit Free Press, discusses how
he switched from traditional landline telephone service to Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP), and how he is overall satisfied with the
system, but keeps his cell phone around in case power goes out.
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland5e_20050705.htm
I pulled the plug on my SBC landline and -- gulp -- now rely totally
on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for my home telephone service.
Aside from the geeky and cumbersome VoIP moniker, I've seen very
little difference between using the Internet to call and the way it's
always been with SBC, or Ameritech or Michigan Bell.
I started experimenting with VoIP a couple of months ago when I signed
up for SunRocket, a Virginia-based VoIP provider
http://www.sunrocket.com that offers a pay-a-year-in-advance rate of
$199.
For that I get unlimited local and long-distance calls within the
United States and Canada, caller ID, two free wireless phones and a
host of cool new features.
The verdict is out on how it affects the rest of my Internet
operations, but overall, I see no serious issues.
Besides unlimited local calls and long distance, SunRocket has a great
Web interface that e-mails me my voicemail when I'm on the road.
There's also a "follow me" feature that rings my cell phone if the
main phone isn't answered after a few rings.
My experience has been that reaching SunRocket's technical support is
extremely difficult.
With enhanced 911 service, the emergency operator automatically
receives the name, address and origination phone number of the caller,
so time isn't lost in an emergency giving a location.
Does the VoIP phone work with a fax machine or burglar alarm?
As far as fax services go, SunRocket says it supports it, but you need
a machine that uses what is known as the T.38 standard for real-time
fax over Internet Protocol networks.
Precisely because of the fact that VoIP is dependent on AC power and
Internet service, I would recommend that most people call SBC and keep
the cheapest service they can on a landline.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Some of us dumped SBC a couple years
ago to get better and less expensive service from Vonage. And I agree
with Wendland on keeping a cellular phone for emergencies as needed.
PAT]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:08:45 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Virginia Town Approves Verizon Cable Deal
USTelecom dailyLead
July 20, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23198&l=2017006
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Virginia town approves Verizon cable deal
* Mobile phone sales to reach 1B in 2009
* SBC running fiber, IPTV to 18M homes
* BellSouth cuts DSL cost
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Earnings Reports
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Marketing Strategies for Carriers: Introducing New Products and Services
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* VoWLAN market growing
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Judge denies motion to block Sprint-Nextel merger
* FCC phone rule to help hearing aid users
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23198&l=2017006
Legal and Privacy information at
http://www.dailylead.com/about/privacy_legal.jsp
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Washington, DC 20005
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From: News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Super Speed Broadband Seen over Cable TV in Within a Year
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:38:42 -0500
Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per
second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average
broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said on
Wednesday.
Similar data transmission speeds are possible over fibre networks, but
these cost much more for the operators to build.
"This is a cost-efficient technology as we use the cable TV networks
which are already in place," Jukka Rinnevaara, Chief Executive of
small-cap Finnish broadband equipment maker Teleste (TLT1V.HE), told
Reuters.
Teleste, whose rivals include big U.S. firms Scientific Atlanta and
Cisco Systems Inc., said it would early next year bring to the market
its Ethernet to the Home product which will give consumers access to
100Mb/s speed.
The sector is closely followed by big technology firms. Last month
Sweden's Ericsson offered $51 million to buy Norwegian firm AXXESSIT
which makes broadband ethernet access equipment for telecom
operators. To accelerate the transmission speed Teleste fits ethernet
-- a cheap and standard transport method for Internet data over
broadband networks -- into cable television networks.
It said it expects first rival technology to be on the market at the
earliest in the second-quarter of 2007.
Teleste is running a field-trial with cable TV service provider Essent
in Netherlands, but not yet at the top speeds it expects most homes
will need in a few years time.
"Based on our research 30 Megabits per second is the absolute minimum
in future homes. Just one TV program would take 10-20 Megabits per
second of this alone. So, very fast we would reach a need for 30
Megabits, and also for 50 Megabits per second," Pekka Rissanen, a
Teleste executive told a news conference.
Rissanen said the cost of connecting a home with the new
ethernet-to-the-home technology can vary between 50 euros ($60.28) and
200 euros ($241).
CEO Rinnevaara declined to say how much the new technology could boost
Teleste's sales or profits in the next 12 months.
($1=.8294 Euro) ($1=.8294 Euro)
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.
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From: Reuters NewsWire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Microsoft Sues Executive Leaving For Google-China
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:04:27 -0500
Microsoft Corp. is suing former vice president Kai-Fu Lee for
violating his confidentiality and non-compete agreement by agreeing to
head up Google Inc.'s new research center in China, the world's
largest software maker said on Tuesday.
Search engine leader Google, which is going head-to-head with
Microsoft in online search and services, said it would open its new
facility in China later this year to attract computer science
researchers and develop new technologies.
Microsoft tapped Lee in 1998 to establish a research and development
center in Beijing. Google said it has not decided on a final location
in China for its new research center.
Lee, a former Carnegie Mellon University researcher, who previously
worked for Apple Computer Inc. later moved to Microsoft's headquarters
in Redmond, Washington to become the company's vice president
responsible for developing speech recognition and other interactive
technologies for computers.
"In his work at Microsoft, Dr. Lee has direct knowledge of key trade
secrets about our search technology, our search strategies and our
business plans in China," said Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president of
litigation.
The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court in Washington state
on Tuesday against Lee and Google, seeks to have the confidentiality
and non-compete agreement enforced.
Google, based in Mountain View, California, said it reviewed
Microsoft's claims and considers them baseless.
"We will defend vigorously against these meritless claims and will
fully support Dr. Lee," Google spokesman David Krane said in an
e-mailed statement.
Microsoft, seeing Google as an increasing threat to its MSN Internet
division, began building its own search engine in 2003 to compete
against Google.
Google, on the other hand, has been expanding its technology into
areas that could threaten Microsoft's online business and potentially
its core Windows operating system.
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.
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From: Duh_OZ <ozzy.kopec@gmail.com>
Subject: Prepaid + Pay phones
Date: 20 Jul 2005 08:30:26 -0700
I have a pre-paid (MCI) card that used to charge 2 units for a call
made from a pay phone. At 6 cents/minute I didn't mind the 12 cent
surcharge on the connection. Sometime this year? they jacked it up to
18 units so it is now a whopping $1.08 surcharge for a pay phone call.
Is there a site that compares how much surcharge there is from
different calling cards? I do not travel much and use the pay phones
when in roaming territory for my cell phone.
TIA,
OZ
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:36:45 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Governors Balk at New US License Rules / Warn of Higher Costs
Governors balk at new US license rules
Warn of higher costs, privacy concerns in push for standard IDs
By Robert Tanner, Associated Press
DES MOINES -- Fees for a new driver's license could triple. Lines at
motor vehicles offices could stretch out the door. Governors warned
yesterday that states and consumers would bear much of the burden for
a terrorism-driven push to turn licenses into a national ID card.
"It's a huge problem," said Ed Rendell, Democrat of Pennsylvania.
"Trying to make this work, there will be hell to pay." He said it
would cost his state '$100 million plus' to restructure motor vehicle
offices to respond to the new federal law called the REAL ID Act.
The law, passed in June as part of an $82 billion military spending
bill, goes beyond an earlier measure that sought to standardize state
driver's licenses. By 2008, states must begin to verify whether
license applicants are legal residents of the United States.
That deadline brought the first question in a closed-door session
between governors and federal officials on homeland security yesterday
at the National Governors Association meeting.
The two groups also talked about pressures on National Guard troops
and steps to better integrate state and local law enforcement with
federal efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, governors said as they
wrapped up their summer meeting.
Governors also met with a Veterans Affairs official and the Army
general in charge of the National Guard to talk about efforts to help
soldiers transition to civilian life and work after returning from
Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the REAL ID Act prompted the strongest reaction.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/19/governors_balk_at_new_us_license_rules/
------------------------------
From: kamlet@panix.com (Arthur Kamlet)
Subject: Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:50:27 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
Reply-To: ArtKamlet@aol.REMOVE.com
In article <telecom24.330.5@telecom-digest.org>,
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> The Western Electric Co, manfuacturing arm of the Bell System, had
> three large factory complexes ("works") in Chicago (Hawthorne), Kearny
> NJ, and Baltimore (Breezy Pt). I get the impression all three are
> long closed up, if the buildings even exist?
> W/E also built some newer facilities to make computer components for
> modern gear, such as in Allentown PA. I take it today Lucent
> (successor to W/E) uses those places, though I presume Lucent is far,
> far smaller than W/E. I also recall W/E having a modern office
> building in Newark NJ (near the train station) in the mid 1980s, and I
> wonder if that is in use by Lucent today.
> FWIW, in W/E's early days, they made relays for Hollerith's tabulating
> machines. Hollerith's outfit became IBM.
Hawthorne, site of the Hawthorne Study of providing feedback to relay
winders, closed quite a few years ago.
Kearney was sinking into the bay, and at least one major Kearny
building had been closed while others were still sinking. It was sold
quite a while ago -- before Lucent was spun off from AT&T I believe.
I live in Columbus, where the building has been sold and split into
three parts -- a hospital, a home builder, and a commercial site. But
about 1000 Lucent employees still occupy rental space there.
Many other large Works and other plants have been sold.
Art Kamlet ArtKamlet @ AOL.com Columbus OH K2PZH
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From: Kenneth P. Stox <ken@stox.org>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Subject: Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:19:43 GMT
Eric Tappert wrote:
> Teletype's plants in Skokie and Little Rock went to
> Avaya, but I'm not familiar with the current status of those plants,
The Teletype plant in Skokie was sold around 1990, and converted to a
shopping mall. Most of the facility was torn down, but some was kept
and converted into a parking garage.
------------------------------
From: Tim Keating <NotForJunkEmail@directinternet11.com1>
Subject: Re: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:38:18 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:57:17 -0600, Phil Earnhardt <pae@dim.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:49:13 -0400, Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
> wrote:
>> By MATT RICHTEL and JOHN MARKOFF
>> Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in
>> computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the
>> offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.
>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And how long do they have those _new_
>> machines until they also get polluted and have to be replaced? [...]
> If he spends that $400 (actually, $499 or so) on a Mac Mini, he can
> probably go for a good long time. There are no known viruses on OS/X.
> I don't know if anything bad can happen from using IE on the Mac; I
> don't believe so. Safari is not perfect, but it works just fine for
> almost all of my browsing. One thing I like in Safari: there is a
> pull-down option in Safari for resetting *everything*: cache, cookies,
> etc. I do this periodically -- I like to flush all my cookies
> periodically just as a regular practice.
> The only real software people will need in general is Office 2004. For
> most, the student edition should work just fine for their home needs.
> If there is not a lot of need for compatibility, the $80 iWork package
> (Presentation software + Apple word processor) should work just fine.
> The main thing lacking in iWork is a spreadsheet; Apple should address
> that in the next release.
"Open Office" runs just fine on MAC's. (variant of BSD). No need to
spend any monies purchasing M$ Office 2004.
------------------------------
From: Tim Keating <NotForJunkEmail@directinternet11.com1>
Subject: Re: Mossberg: Tracking Cookies are Spyware
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:19:08 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:20:14 -0400, Julian Thomas
<blackhome@jt-mj.net> wrote:
> In <20050717195214.5FBD114D2C@massis.lcs.mit.edu>, on 07/17/05 at
> 03:52 PM, editor@telecom-digest.org typed:
>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And have you noticed how many sites
>> refuse to admit you at all if you refuse to accept their cookies? On
>> our web site http://telecom-digest.org until last year when the site
>> was greatly overhauled, I used cookies only for the purpose of
>> referring to the user by name and telling him how often he had been
>> there. _No other reason_. I finally quit it, when various users were
>> offended by it; not apparently because I called them by name, or
>> referenced how often they had been around, but because of all the
>> potential for misuse otherwise. And I did get 'legitimate' business
>> inquiries about the cookies. Companies wanted to by them, etc and
>> get more details, etc. But that just made me feel very uneasy and
>> unethical. That's the main reason I distribute NY Times and other
>> newspapers on this site (see td-extra) with no login nor
>> registration requirements. I just don't think it is anyone's
>> business who reads what around here. PAT]
> Actually, there are several good strategies for dealing with these
> sites, at least in the Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox browser family.
> The easiest is to make the cookie file (usually cookies.txt)
> read-only. This presents the illusion that the cookie was accepted,
> but it actually evaporates on your machine.
> If there is a site whose cookie you want to accept, turn off the
> readonly attribute on the file, accept the cookie, close the browser,
> and make the file readonly again.
> Another approach is to have a backup of the file, and restore from the
> backup on every bootup (this can be automated).
A step by step approach ... for "Firefox" is to ...
1. Goto "Tools"/ "Options"/ "Privacy" / "Cookies" and Clear
your existing cookies.
2. Set Firefox "Cookies" options to
(check) Allow sites to set cookies.
(check) For the originate web site only.
select Keep Cookies dialog to "until they expire"
3. Visit websites that you want to store cookies. (login to
slashdot.org, dslreports.com, etc.)
4. Close all Firefox sessions.
5. Restart Firefox. (blank page)
6. Select "Tools"/ "Options"/ "Privacy" /"Cookies" / "View
Cookie":and clear out any extraneous cookies. (just in case)
7 Select Keep Cookies dialog to "until I close firefox".
(done)
This eliminates virtually all cookies (except the ones you want) each
time you shut down Firefox.
----------
Another helpful hint. While you're in the "Privacy" dialog.
If you have a high speed connection.
1. Goto "Tools"/ "Options"/ "Privacy" / "Cookies" and Clear
firefox's Caches.
2. Set the "Cache" dialog to "0" KB of disk space.
Notes: Firefox will still default to using16MB of memory space as
a run time cache. Note: Size of default caches can be changed in the
local "about:config" web page.
The above procedures will eliminate 98% of the need to
defragment your disk. (I.E. No (www) temp files == little or no file
system fragmentation. :- )
------------------------------
From: Patrick Townson <ptownson@telecom-digest.org
Subject: What a Difference a Century Can Make
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:23:40 -0500
THE YEAR 1905:
One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1905 from the United
States Bureau of the Census:
The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. Several states were
giving favorable consideration to requiring license plates and
driver's licenses for anyone who wished to own/operate one of these
machines. Plates and licenses for machines were still mostly optional
things, but the fact that there had been some 'hit and run' accidents
unsolved was leading the various states (all 45 of them) to think
strongly about regulation. Many citizens protested that such
requirements would be an 'invasion of their privacy'.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily
populated than California.
With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most
populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour. The average U.S.
worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant
could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a
veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical
engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.
Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had no college education. Instead,
they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned
in the press and by the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month using Borax soap or
egg yolks.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into
their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza;
2. Tuberculosis;
3. Diarrhea or other problems with the bowels;
4. Heart disease;
5. Stroke.
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii,
and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. Indian Territory
(which is to say, Oklahoma) would come along later that year; Arizona
and New Mexico would not become states until 1912.
While Chicago had the reputation of rail capital and hog butcher of
the USA, and Salt Lake City, Utah had the monicker of 'crossroads of
the west' for about a decade (since the 1890's) when Utah had become a
state rather than the Mormon territory of Deseret, and the oil capitol
of the world was Tulsa, Indian Territory, but not many folks lived in
the desert, so the population of Las Vegas, Nevada was only 30 people!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Illiteracy was
more common in southern states and rural areas. Only 6 percent of all
Americans had graduated from high school, which was considered an
institution of higher education. About 1 percent had graduated from a
college or university.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter
at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists were permitted
to prescribe these things and said, "Heroin clears the complexion,
gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach, aides in moving
the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
(Shocking!) Marijuana was perfectly legal and was also considered to
be of great medicinal help.
Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time
servant or domestic help. Dinner usually was an 'elegant' hour-long
affair at which the entire family would gather to eat.
There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S. that year,
and five deaths which were of questionable circumstances (that is, if
they were or were not murders). Most Americans possessed a weapon and
were trained in its use.
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years, in 2105. It
staggers the mind.
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