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TELECOM Digest Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:33:00 EST Volume 24 : Issue 523 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Cingular Revamps Wireless Internet Service (Reuters News Wire) Survey Studies Internet Use in China (Patrick Casey) Bloggers Break Sony (Thomas Claborn) Cellular-News for Thursday 17th November 2005 (Cellular-News) Sony Launches Internet Phone Service (USTelecom dailyLead) Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit (Monty Solomon) Internet Society Welcomes WSIS Proposal (Peter Godwin) Nokia 6340i Cell Phone (TELECOM Digest Editor) Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 (John R Levine) Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 (jmeissen@aracnet.com) Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 (John R. Levine) Re: If You Would Like to Get Away From ICANN Oversight (Robert Bonomi) Re: How Do I Detect the Number of a Phone Line? (Ron Kritzman) Last Laugh! Amusing Short Film (Dale Farmer) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Cingular Revamps Wireless Internet Services Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:13:05 -0600 Cingular Wireless said on Thursday it redesigned its wireless Web offerings with a ticker service and options that make it easier to get news and weather on phones. Along with rivals, Cingular, the No. 1 U.S. mobile service, has been working to expand its services beyond traditional phone calls in order to boost revenue as call prices fall and the number of potential new first-time customers dwindles. But consumers have been slow to adopt services such as mobile Internet as Web surfing on phones is slower than on computers and it is more difficult to navigate the Internet on small phone screens. Cingular, a venture of SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., hopes to increase Web usage with a ticker that scrolls headlines across the bottom of phone screens, letting users access an item of interest to them with just one click. It has also revamped its more traditional Web options by making it possible for users decide what kind of Web sites are prominently displayed on the phone's main menu. In the most recent quarter less than 10 percent of Cingular's average monthly revenue per user came from data services including Web browsing and text messaging. "I expect there will be a significant increase in people using browser services," as a result of the revamp Jim Ryan, vice president of consumer data products at Cingular said. Ovum analyst Roger Entner also said the ticker service should succeed in encouraging usage of data services because it does not force the user to wade through menus. "The cool thing about the ticker is that it makes impulse information access a reality," Entner said. "Here the Web comes to you and that's why it will drive usage." Cingular said that the ticker service would be available on more than 30 million of its phones in the next several weeks. Its next biggest rivals are Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon and Vodafone and Sprint Nextel Corp. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Patrick Casey <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Survey Studies Internet Use in China Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:16:16 -0600 By PATRICK CASEY, Associated Press Writer A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes online purchases and favors news, music and games sites, according to a new study. The only major public opinion research tracking Internet use in China, the survey was conducted in five cities by Guo Liang of the prominent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the government's main think tank. According to the study, released Thursday at the Brookings Institution in Washington, about two-thirds of survey participants use the Internet for news -- often entertainment-related -- or for online games. About half download music and movies. They also tend to prefer instant messaging to e-mail, and they are relying on the Internet more frequently than before to contact others who have the same professions, hobbies and political interests. Online purchases still remain unpopular in China. Three-quarters of users surveyed have never bought anything over the Internet, and only 10 percent make purchases even once a month. Among those who do buy online, most pay for entertainment while others buy phone cards, or computer hardware or software. "Many people don't trust the quality of goods bought online," Guo said Wednesday. "If they buy it in a store and don't like it, they can easily bring it back." The survey was conducted in five major cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Changsha. The cities also were surveyed in 2003 as part of the ongoing study that began in 2000 as a way to provide empirical data and analysis on Internet development in China. Results do not necessarily project countrywide because Internet use in rural areas is lower than in cities. Guo, the academy's leading Internet expert, describes the typical netizen in the five cities surveyed as young, male, richer and more highly educated. Males make up two-thirds of the Internet community, and more than 80 percent of users are under 24. Among people ages 25 to 29, 60 percent to 80 percent go online. China has more than 100 million people online, second in the world to the United States, according to government statistics. Its government has aggressively promoted Internet use for education and business, though it has also tried to keep its citizens from material it deems subversive or pornographic. Online dissidents are regularly arrested. According to Guo's survey, more than one-third of the urban users surveyed do not use e-mail. Of those that do, only about one-third check their e-mail at least once a day. "I think Chinese people prefer instant contact. Very few Chinese use answering machines and e-mail is like an answering machine. It's convenient but but not immediate," Guo said. Forty-two percent say they do not engage search engines. Those who do seek leisure or entertainment news, as well as information useful for work or study. Traditional news ranked behind those searches. Online portal Baidu.com was used by half of those surveyed, compared with a quarter for Google, the leading search engine in the United States. The survey, conducted in February and March, was based on random door-to-door household interviews in the five major cities. The sample size was 2,376, including 1,169 Internet users and 1,207 nonusers. On the Net: Markle Foundation: http://www.markle.org China Internet Project: http://www.wipchina.org China Internet Network Information Center: http://www.cnnic.cn Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more Associated Press News headlines, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ From: Thomas Claburn <informationweek@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Bloggers Break Sony Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:29:43 -0600 Bloggers Break Sony Sony made an unpopular product decision and got its reputation incinerated by waves of flaming bloggers. That's a lesson for other companies. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174300636 Sony's decision to withdraw its controversial copy-protected CDs followed weeks of flames by bloggers. Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Wednesday it will stop selling 50 CD titles with its XCP content protection software. Sony also said it will remove the discs from stores, and offer replacements without copy protection to customers. Before Sony acted, the company suffered through weeks of angry posts by bloggers who stirred outrage against the company. It started when security researcher Mark Russinovich first posted to his blog that Sony's music CDs surreptitiously installed digital rights management software based on a "rootkit" -- a hacking tool widely considered to be spyware. Following that, bloggers of all stripes, from seasoned security experts to aggrieved consumers, vented about the record company's unethical and possibly illegal behavior. "It seems crystal clear that but for the citizen journalists, Sony never would have done anything about this," says Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a cyber liberties advocacy group that has been vocal in its condemnation of Sony and may eventually file a a lawsuit against Sony, in addition to three that have already been filed. "It's plain to me that it was Sony's intent to brush the story under the rug and forget about it." Alan Scott, chief marketing office at business information service Factiva, said, "I think that we're in an entirely new world from a marketing perspective. The rules of the game have changed dramatically. The old way of doing things by ignoring issues, or with giving the canned PR spin response within the blogosphere, it just doesn't work." Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business President, attempted to do just that by dismissing the online protests. "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" he said in a November 4 interview on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He added, "The software is designed to protect our CDs from unauthorized copying and ripping." Blog search site Technorati.com shows well over a hundred blog postings ridiculing this particular quote, each of which may have been linked to by other blogs. The day before the NPR interview, Sony attempted to mollify its critics by offering an update that "removes the cloaking technology component" of the XCP DRM software. The update notes claim, "This component is not malicious and does not compromise security." That's simply not true -- the rootkit component allows attackers to take control of target computers. Moreover, another component, the uninstaller Sony provided to remove the XCP software, did compromise security. And once again, it was the blog community that brought this fact to light. In their Freedom-to-Tinker.com blog, computer researchers J. Alex Halderman and Edward Felten confirmed the findings of a Finnish computer expert that the uninstaller utilizes a poorly coded ActiveX control that allows any Web page a user visits to install and run any code its like on the user's machine. In a E-mail message, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security company Sophos, condemned Sony's actions. "Business PC users have a very low opinion of any code that endangers the safety of their networks, and they have sent a loud and clear message to Sony and other companies that this kind of code is unacceptable," he wrote. Indeed, judging by the online outcry, it's fair to say that PC users in general feel that way. However, Cluley said that Sony XCP software isn't really comparable to a virus incident in terms of impact. "In many ways it can be argued that it's more similar to Microsoft security vulnerabilities which have later led to a worm infection," he explained via E-mail. "Sony's code wasn't intentionally malicious, but did open up a security hole on users' computers which could be exploited by malware. Rather than malware, I would term this as 'ineptware.'" Finnish computer security company F-Secure Corporation contends the software is malware because it hides from the user and doesn't offer a way to uninstall itself. But the company's intellectual property concerns have not disappeared. At a music industry conference in San Diego in August 2005, Recording Industry Association of America CEO Mitch Bainwol presented findings by market research firm NPD Group Inc. that suggested ripping songs--copying them to a computer from a CD--and sharing them has come to represent a revenue threat that's at least as significant as illegal peer-to-peer file trading. In his presentation, Bainwol noted that the people in the music industry are seen as bad guys rather than the victims they perceive themselves to be. Yet winning the hearts and minds of the blogosphere, and by extension, consumers in general, will require more than marketing as usual. "There's a whole new set of rules that people have to live by," Scott says. "Whether it's blogs or user groups or NGOs, it's all about honesty and authenticity. This is just the latest painful example of a major company finding that the old tools and the old actions don't work." Scott's advice to companies is to look for text-mining software, which Factiva happens to make, to help follow what's being said online and then to participate in the conversation honestly. In an example of the sort of transparency called for under the "new rules," Scott admits his advice is self-serving. He says, nonetheless, he believes in what he's selling. The same might be said for Sony BMG. The company no doubt believes in content protection technology. The trouble is few of its customers do. Either Sony's customers don't know what they're missing or the company is selling something no one wants. As for participating in the conversation, Sony BMG has a ways to go. Repeated calls to the company's corporate press office for further comment met with the message, "Announcement not recorded. Try again later. Please disconnect." Copyright 2005 CMP Media LLC NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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On Oct. 31, Mark Russinovich broke the story in his blog: Sony BMG Music Entertainment distributed a copy-protection scheme with music CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on computers. This software tool is run without your knowledge or consent -- if it's loaded on your computer with a CD, a hacker can gain and maintain access to your system and you wouldn't know it. The Sony code modifies Windows so you can't tell it's there, a process called "cloaking" in the hacker world. It acts as spyware, surreptitiously sending information about you to Sony. And it can't be removed; trying to get rid of it damages Windows. This story was picked up by other blogs (including mine), followed by the computer press. Finally, the mainstream media took it up. The outcry was so great that on Nov. 11, Sony announced it was temporarily halting production of that copy-protection scheme. That still wasn't enough -- on Nov. 14 the company announced it was pulling copy-protected CDs from store shelves and offered to replace customers' infected CDs for free. But that's not the real story here. ... http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:55:52 EST From: Peter Godwin <godwin@isoc.org> Subject: Internet Society Welcomes WSIS Proposal to Build on Internet Tunis - 17th November 2005 - Delegates meeting at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis have affirmed their commitment to build on the governance mechanisms that have enabled the Internet's incredibly successful growth. ISOC welcomes the recognition by WSIS of how the effectiveness of the existing arrangements for Internet governance has helped make the Internet the highly robust, dynamic and geographically diverse medium that it is today. "We are delighted that there is now much broader recognition of the achievements of the organisations that support the Internet community," said Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society. "These organisations, along with their open, consensus-based processes clearly have a vital role to play in the further development of the Internet. It is also significant that the WSIS debate has moved beyond the details of technical administration and on to broader issues that require increased coordination by stakeholders in order to ensure the continued stability of the Internet." The WSIS recommendation includes a proposal for a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue - the Internet Governance Forum. ISOC, together with partner organisations from the Internet community, has always worked to encourage full engagement in such dialogues by all those with an interest in the Internet's future. ISOC believes that the forum=92s success depends upon the fullest participation by all stakeholders. At the same time, ISOC is pleased to note that the proposed forum would have no oversight function and would have no involvement in the day-to-day operations of the Internet. "ISOC will facilitate increased cooperation and information sharing amongst all parties interested in Internet governance and we look forward to playing an active role in the new forum as is expected of us by the global community," said Lynn St. Amour. "We very much hope that the Tunis summit will lead to some real and positive outcomes that will help bring the benefits of the Internet to people everywhere -- especially to those who are yet to be connected." The Internet Society, along with some of its partner organisations =96 the Number Resource Organisation (NRO), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), London Internet Exchange (LINX), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Council of European National Top level domain Registries (CENTR) - are present at the ICT 4 all exhibition held in conjunction with WSIS. The Internet Pavilion is at stand 1323 in the Kram Palexpo. ABOUT ISOC The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. ISOC is the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other Internet-related bodies who together play a critical role in ensuring that the Internet develops in a stable and open manner. For over 13 years ISOC has run international network training programs for developing countries and these have played a vital role in setting up the Internet connections and networks in virtually every country connecting to the Internet during this time. FOR FURTHER DETAILS: Peter Godwin Communications Manager, Internet Society E-mail: godwin@isoc.org 4, rue des Falaises 1205 Geneva Switzerland ------------------------------ Subject: Cellular-News for Thursday 17th November 2005 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:45:17 -0600 From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news-mail.com> Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com [[3G News]] Irish Regulator Awards Final 3G License http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14860.php Ireland's communications regulator Wednesday awarded Smart Telecom PLC Ireland's fourth and final third-generation mobile phone license. ... CDMA 1xEV-DO Coverage Expanded in Canada http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14868.php Bell Canada says that it has extended its CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network to Western Canada. Bell Mobility users in Vancouver, British Columbia and both Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta will now immediately enjoy the benefits of a 3G... [[Financial News]] Vodafone's Japan Head Says Operations Continuing To Improve http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14853.php A day after Vodafone Group PLC warned that further investments to turn around its Japanese unit would dent profits ahead, the head of Japan operations said Wednesday it won't be long before the unit returns to a growth path. ... Telekom Austria Upgrades 05 Outlook, 3Q Net +90% http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14858.php Telekom Austria AG Wednesday raised its full-year net profit forecast after reporting a 90% jump in third-quarter net profit, partly due to the first-time consolidation of Bulgarian company Mobiltel. ... Russia's MegaFon capex up, at $500 million in Jan-Jun http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14863.php The capital expenditures of Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon rose 63% on the year to U.S. $500 million in January-June, the company said Wednesday. ... 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[[Statistics News]] Camera Phone Shipments to Reach 850 Million in 2009 - report http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14869.php InfoTrends/CAP Ventures' latest camera phone and photo messaging forecast shows worldwide camera phone shipments continuing on a strong growth trajectory, climbing from 370 million units in 2005 to 847 million units in 2009.... Cell Phone Roaming Spending Climbs During Summer Vacation Season http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14872.php Roaming spending for American mobile phone subscribers rose during the peak summer travel season, according to Telephia. The latest data from Telephia's Customer Value Metrics report shows cell phone subscribers paid 15% more in roaming charges to ne... 8 out of 10 Cell Phone Customers Choose GSM Service http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14877.php Wireless industry trade association 3G Americas reports that the GSM family of wireless technologies -- GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA -- added more than 112 million new customers in three months (Q3 2005), increasing its global market share to 77.6%... [[Technology News]] Intel Sees Mobile Chip Market Share Over 10% http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14856.php Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett said Wednesday he expects the company to reach a double-digit share in the global chip market for mobile phones in the next few years. ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:07:10 EST From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: Sony Launches Internet Phone Service USTelecom dailyLead November 17, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/yhvMatagCxxgyVuEcp TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Sony launches Internet phone service BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * BellSouth's DSL feels need for speed * Cingular updates Media Net * Nokia buys Intellisync * Mobile content market becomes a battlefield * AT&T chief Dorman reflects on tenure at Ma Bell * Vodafone KK shifts course to better serve Japanese customers * Japanese handset makers see opportunity in growing 3G markets USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Broadband Certainty: Forward Looking Legislation for the Broadband Era TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * KT debuts WiBro at economic summit * BellSouth data backup service links to Cingular's wireless network REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Aussie government to forge ahead with Telstra privatization Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/yhvMatagCxxgyVuEcp ------------------------------ Subject: Nokia 6340i Cell Phone Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:35:53 EST From: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu (TELECOM Digest Editor) John Levine sent a message to the Digest regards my new cell phone, which got trashed by accident mid all the spam here tonight. I now have a Nokia 6010 and complained here yesterday about being unable to use any of my accessories as a result. John said the Nokia 6340i was almost identical in shape, size, etc to the Nokia 5165 for which I have all my atachments. What I want to know is if the 'pinout' on the bottom of the 6340i phone is identical to the 5165 (so therefore things like my 'cell socket' will work (use cell phone connected to another regular style phone) and my headset (which relies on an adapter I got at Radio Shack to connect with the pinout on the bottom). If that is true (pinout works identical) then how would I go about swapping out the SIM which was installed in this phone and putting it into the 6340i which I will buy from EBay? Also some of the sellers on EBay say their (Nokia type) phones are 'unlocked' but I see no mention of Cingular Wireless on many of them. The 6340i phones however seem very inexpensive around $15-20 usually. Any comments? PAT ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 2005 01:48:57 -0500 From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 > I do not know how to exchange the SIM to a different phone. It's a little chip about the size of your thumbnail, usually in a socket under the battery. Cingular SIMs are orange and white. Takes about 10 seconds to pop out and pop into another phone. Look in the manual that came with the phone. > And I do not know why some of the sellers on Ebay say their phones are > 'unlocked'. Locked == Cingular only, unlocked == any GSM carrier. In this case, you don't care. If you want to unlock a locked phone yourself, you can buy an unlock code online for about $8. I've done it. > I do see the phone you told me about on E-Bay but I cannot > see the 'pin out' on the bottom of the phone all that well, and I wish > to know if the pin out on the bottom works _exactly_ the same way or > not. It's just the same. The car kit matched up to every single pin, power, and even the antenna plug on the back, and it all worked. > (instead of plugging in with a eighth inch plug uses an adapter > I got at Radio Shack to plug in on the pin out. It's just the same. > I also have a 'Cell Socket' which allows the phone to charge while > in the holder and be used at the same time. Yes, I know. > If the pin out on the bottom matches exactly with the pin out on the > old phone (including the little rubber stopper on the back side > which you can remove to plug it into the Cell Socket then I will get > it. The pinout is just the same. It fit my car kit which has the same pins and antenna plug, remember? I suppose it's possible that the Cellsocket has some dependency on the phone firmware, but it looks to me like the one you have supports all sorts of Nokia 5100 and 6000 models. > This new phone also has a very long life battery (Lithium?) which goes > for a couple days without charging. Does the new phone you are talking > about also have a long life battery? All the 6340i phones you'll find are used, so it depends how old they are. I got a new battery for mine which seems to be good for a week. R's, John ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 Date: 16 Nov 2005 20:50:41 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com In article <telecom24.522.7@telecom-digest.org>, TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > It still is not clear to me _why_ they feel it is a better > system than the phone I was using but they insist it is. "Better" doesn't necessarily mean "better for you". I expect there are a lot of advantages for them to move customers to GSM phones. When my phone needed replacing I let them sell me a GSM phone/plan, and in my opinion the sound quality sucks, the ATT GSM network (at the time) wasn't as widespread, and I have constant problems with dropped calls and wildly varying reception, even when standing still in a spot that initially shows "5 bars". If I had any reason to believe that any of the other providers was any better I'd switch from Cingular. John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com ------------------------------ From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: My New Cell Phone, Nokia 6010 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST >> It still is not clear to me _why_ they feel it is a beter system >> than the phone I was using but they insist it is. Because your old phone was TDMA and your new phone is GSM. Cingular is moving their entire network from TDMA to GSM and as time goes on there will be less and less TDMA capacity and more and more GSM. > As with all these things, there is absolutely no standardization > between peripherals on old and new phones. My old cell socket, power > chargers, headsets, other handsfree devices do not fit and cannot be > used. Wasn't your old phone a Nokia 5165? If so, poke around on ebay and get yourself a Nokia 6340i. It's GSM (actually a GSM/TDMA combo) and it fits all the same stuff as a 5165. I got my 6340i because I had a 5165 car kit in my truck. You need only move the SIM chip from your current GSM phone to the 6340i and it'll work. They're quite cheap, about $20 plus shipping. When my wife lost her fancy flip phone, I bought a new SIM from Cingular, then a rugged 6340i on ebay. I also blew $3 on some new covers so her phone would look different from mine. R's, John ------------------------------ From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) Subject: Re: If You Would Like to Get Away From ICANN Oversight and Registrars Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:36:40 -0000 Organization: Widgets, Inc. In article <telecom24.518.14@telecom-digest.org>, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > In article <telecom24.517.16@telecom-digest.org>, Dave Garland > <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote: >> It was a dark and stormy night when Patrick Townson >> <ptownson@telecom-digest.org> wrote: >>> or DHS International http://www.dhs.org where you can register domains in >>> the name of your choice in the 'n3.net' top level and a few other top >>> levels. >> ".net" is the "top" level. >>> or SMARTDOTS http://smartdots.com where you can register domains >>> in the name of your choice in the top level '.tc' >> I think that they actually own about 25 domains such as "at.tc" and >> "net.tc", and offer subdomains. I have a few sub-subdomains there >> myself, though I'm converting them to .com since Google doesn't seem to >> index them. ".tc" is the national top-level domain for the Turks & >> Calicos Islands. >> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You are correct; it is '.net' and >> not 'n3.net' which is the top level. 'n3' is one underneath it. I >> thank you for telling me the geographic location of '.tc' and I >> believe that '.tf' is somewhere in the southern part of the Indian >> Ocean. I do not know where '.tt' is located, nor '.tv' although the >> latter is used by many > .tf is the "French Southern Territories" -- a group of 4 *UNINHABITED* > islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about equidistant between > Africa, Antarctica, and Australia. NO permanent residents, only > visiting researchers studying native fauna. (according to CIA world > fact book.) > .tv is "Tuvalu". an island group in the South Pacific about halfway > between Hawaii and Australia. They are most noted for leasing > their Internet domain (.tv) for _US$50_million_ in royalties, > paid over a dozen years. > .tt is 'Trinidad and Tobago. an island group between the Caribbean Sea, > and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela. > part of the Atlantic Ocean. > See ISO 3166-1 (on-line at www.iso.org) for what all those two-letter > codes mean, and the CIA world factbook (can be found online at: > http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ ) for where the place > is, and "more than you really want to know" about what they do there. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I don't suppose you know about '.ms' do you? Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. And there *is* an interesting story there. It seems that, a number of years ago, the titular ruler of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick[1] (the Duchess Gloriana) fell head-over-heels in love with a dashing Italian nobleman -- the Count Giovaninni Bruno Enzo Ippi. The Duchess, exercising the powers of her throne, purchased a tropical island (located a distance south-east of Puerto Rico), and caused a mansion to be constructed there -- this was to be a private 'getaway' for her, and her soon-to-be-husband. After the construction was completed, Gloriana abdicated the throne, married the Count, and they retired to the island hideaway, to live for the rest of their days. Gloriana also renounced all of her titles of nobility, saying that now, to her, the only title that mattered, and the one that gave her happiness, was that of "Mrs. Ippi". With that background, the rationale for the assignment of that particular ISO code to her domicile should be obvious. [1] for more on the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, consult the histories written by Leonard Wibberly -- "The Mouse that Roared", "Beware of the Mouse", "The Mouse on the Moon", "The Mouse on Wall Street", and "The Mouse that Saved the West". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:41:28 -0600 From: Ron Kritzman <ron@dbOnayAmspaYmasters.com> Subject: Re: How Do I Detect the Number of a Phone Line? jason.sandlin@wymtnews.com wrote: > Hey. I am going to be running a few new phone lines into my building. I > have the TS21 Harris test set, but I want to be able to see what the > number is on the line that I am testing. I quit bothering with verification numbers years ago. I just dial my own cell phone and look at the caller-id. Emoveray ethay Igpay Atinlay otay eplyray ------------------------------ From: Dale Farmer <dale@cybercom.net> Organization: The fuzz in the back of the fridge. Subject: Last Laugh! 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