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TELECOM Digest Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:23:00 EST Volume 24 : Issue 539 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson FCC May Block Vonage From Accepting New Customers (Jennifer C. Kerr) Municipal WiFi For New Orleans (Reuters News Wire) SEC Proposes Internet E-Proxy Posts (Reuters News Wire) IEC and IEEE Team up For EntNet at Broadband World Forum 2006 (Lisa Reyes) Cellular-News For Tuesday 29th November 2005 (Cellular-News) Report: TDC Close to Deal (USTelecom dailyLead) Re: Leaving Vonage, Want to Keep Number (John Levine) Re: JFK Assassination (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Kerr <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC May Block Vonage From Accepting New Customers Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:51:30 -0600 By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer Vonage Holdings Corp., the nation's largest provider of Internet phone service, could be barred from signing up new customers in many markets because it failed to meet the deadline to provide reliable emergency 911 service to all subscribers. The Federal Communications Commission gave Vonage and other companies that sell Internet-based phone service 120 days to comply with its order requiring enhanced 911, or E911, in all their service areas. The deadline to show the government where E911 is available was Monday. House and Senate lawmakers had urged FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to give companies more time and more tools to speed deployment, but no extension was granted. In its compliance report to the FCC, Vonage said only 26 percent of its customer base had full E911 services. The company _ which has more than 1 million subscribers _ said it was capable of transmitting a call back number and location for 100 percent of its subscribers, but that it still was waiting for cooperation from competitors that control the 911 network. AT&T declined to comment on its compliance levels before filing its report with the FCC. Calls to the company on Tuesday were not immediately returned. AT&T offers Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, to about 57,000 customers through its CallVantage service. SunRocket, which has more than 50,000 subscribers nationwide, said it had equipped 96 percent of its customers with full 911 services. The VON Coalition, an industry group, had estimated that overall about two-thirds of Internet phone users would have enhanced 911 by the deadline. Citing public safety concerns, the FCC in May ordered companies selling Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, to ensure that callers can reach an emergency dispatcher when they dial 911. The dispatchers also must be able to tell where callers are located and the numbers from which they are calling. VoIP providers were told that if they failed to meet the deadline they could no longer market their service or accept new customers in areas that didn't have enhanced 911. They will not have to disconnect current customers who don't have full 911 service, as some providers had feared. FCC spokesman David Fiske declined to discuss possible enforcement actions against offending companies. 'At this stage,' he said, 'the agency is focused on the compliance filings by VoIP providers.' David Kaut, a telecom analyst at Legg Mason, said VoIP companies will take a hit if the FCC follows through on its threat. 'If you can't add customers in, say, a third of your territories, that's a significant part of the market where you are all of a sudden capped,' said Kaut. 'These are supposed to be growth companies.' Voice over Internet Protocol shifts calls from wires and switches, using computers and broadband connections to convert sounds into data and transmit them via the Internet. In many cases, subscribers use conventional phones hooked up to high-speed Internet lines. But the service can be mobile, making it difficult to ensure that the call goes to the correct local emergency center. There are about 3.6 million VoIP users in the United States. Of those, about half get their service from cable TV companies that already provide enhanced 911 capabilities. Other providers offer a 911 service that directs emergency calls to a general administrative number, but those lines haven't always been staffed around the clock. The order applies to companies selling VoIP service that uses the public phone network to place and terminate calls. On the Net: Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov VON Coalition: http://www.von.org 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 news from Associated Press please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Hurricane Ravaged New Orleans Getting Municipal WiFi Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:56:25 -0600 Hurricane-stricken New Orleans is largely destroyed and abandoned, but city officials said on Tuesday it will soon have universal wireless Internet service. A free, municipally-run Wi-Fi system has begun operation in the French Quarter and central business district and should cover the entire city within a year, Mayor Ray Nagin said in a statement. "We are among the first cities to feature a city-wide wireless network and that's especially important to the recovery of our community," he said. Much of the equipment for the system has been donated by private companies, including Intel Corp, Tropos Networks and Pronto Networks, the city said. Only about 10 percent of New Orleans' pre-storm population of half a million people has returned since Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29 and flooded 80 percent of the city. 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: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: SEC Proposes Internet 'E-Proxy' Posts Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:38:59 -0600 U.S.-listed corporations would be allowed to post proxy statements on Web sites instead of sending the bulky annual documents through the mail, under a plan proposed on Tuesday by federal regulators. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 to put the plan out for a 60-day public comment period, with a final vote by the commission expected to follow later. Aimed at saving postage and printing costs, the so-called "e-proxy" measure is also seen as a way to possibly cut the costs to shareholders of mounting proxy contests and giving them more power to challenge corporate managers. "Studies show that today 75 percent of Americans now have access to the Internet and this percentage is rising steadily ... The percentage of investors with Internet access is even higher," said SEC Chairman Christopher Cox at a meeting. Under the proposed rule, investors would still have to get written notice in the mail that a proxy statement was available online. In addition, investors wishing to continue receiving printed proxy statements could ask for them. The SEC requires corporations to issue a range of disclosures and documents to the agency and investors, including annual and quarterly reports and proxies. Proxy statements contain information about matters to be decided by shareholder votes, such as director nominations and resolutions, as well as disclosures of senior executive pay. They are distributed before annual shareholder meetings. The present system of mailing out proxies is costly, but past efforts to reform it have been stymied by concerns that on-line distribution could exclude off-line investors. 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: Lisa Reyes <lreyes@iec.org> Subject: IEC and IEEE Team up For EntNet at Broadband World Forum Americas 2006 Date: TUE, 29 NOV 2005 12:12:52 -0600 Reply-To: lreyes@iec.org Contact: Lisa Reyes<br> Phone: 1+312+559+3325<br> E-Mail: <a href="mailto:lreyes@iec.org">lreyes@iec.org</a> CHICAGO November 29, 2005 The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced their continued partnership to bring EntNet to the first-ever Broadband World Forum Americas 2006, last night in a signing ceremony during the 2005 IEEE Globecom conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Providing enterprise practitioners, business owners, researchers, designers, developers, integrators, and technical leaders with solutions to the latest in communications technology, the IEC and IEEE's EntNet will focus on enterprise network requirements and technology evolutions. IEC Senior Director John Janowiak commented on the continued relationship: The International Engineering Consortium has enjoyed a long and productive relationship with the IEEE. Both organizations strive to serve the industry's continuing education needs through quality programs such as EntNet. The educational program will reveal details on cutting-edge technology important to enterprise, such as implementing IMS, wireless communication, real-time enterprise challenges, enterprise Web services, advanced VoIP technologies, quadruple play, interoperability and integration of enterprise networks and services, and more. The IEEE;s Dr. Shri Goyal, director of meetings and conferences, added, "The unique IEEE ComSoc and IEC partnership facilitates serving both the technical and practitioner community, utilizing the technological innovations for business applications and pitching it to business leaders. Our successful collaboration on the Enterprise Networking and Services Conference, EntNet, is a testimonial to this win-win strategy. We look forward to continued success!" Through each of its sessions, EntNet will show businesses how to cut operations costs, increase profit margin, gain in employee productivity, and increase efficiency in information and communications efforts. For EntNet's sixth year in existence, previously at SUPERCOMM, the IEC and the IEEE have once again teamed up to bring visionaries, vendors, practitioners, and technology experts to one symposium. The continued relationship allows EntNet to return for industry professionals at the first-ever 2006 Broadband World Forum Americas, which will provide networking opportunities and present services issues and solutions. The business- and technology-oriented panels, workshops, and tutorials fulfill the IEC and IEEE's commitment to education and progress in technology and business. For more information, please visit http://www.iec.org or contact Lisa Reyes at +1-312-559-3325 or lreyes@iec.org About Broadband World Forum Americas The first-ever Broadband World Forum Americas debuts September 11-14, 2006 at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. With TELUS as the official sponsor, the event completes the Broadband Series, which includes Broadband World Forum Europe (the 2005 Madrid event drew nearly 6,000 industry professionals to register) and Broadband World Forum Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.iec.org/events/2006/bbwf_americas/ About the IEC The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students. In conjunction with industry-leading companies, the IEC has developed an extensive, free on-line educational program. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the information age. More than 70 leading high-technology universities are IEC affiliates, and the IEC handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for electrical and computer engineers. The IEC also manages the activities of the Enterprise Communications Consortium. For more information, http://www.iec.org About the IEEE: The IEEE (I-triple-E) is a nonprofit, technical professional association of more than 365,000 individual members in approximately 150 countries. The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., although the organization is most popularly known and referred to by the letters I-E-E-E. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology, and telecommunications to electric power, aerospace engineering, and consumer electronics, among others. The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession. For more information, please visit http://www.ieee.org ------------------------------ Subject: Cellular-News for Tuesday 29th November 2005 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:37:53 -0600 From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news-mail.com> Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com [[ 3G ]] Nokia Trialling 3G Push-to-Talk http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15010.php Nokia and 3 Scandinavia are trialling Nokia Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) service in the Swedish market. The trial is initially targeted to business users. Nokia will provide selected push to talk handsets, including Nokia 6280, for potential use ... [[ Financial ]] India Government Official: Taiwan Company Plans $1 Billion Investment http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14999.php A Taiwan-based telecommunications equipment maker is planning to set up a manufacturing facility in India, possibly involving an investment of over $1 billion, a senior government official said Monday. ... Russia's MTS to invest at least $500 mln in UMC in 2006 http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15003.php Investments of Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) in the development of its wholly owned subsidiary Ukraine's Mobile Communications, or UMC, are expected to amount to at least U.S. $500 million in 2006, MTS President Vas... Russia's Alfa Group gets 13.22% in Turkey's Turkcell http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15004.php Russia's Alfa Group has completed the purchase of a 49% stake in Turkey's Cukurova Group, getting indirect control of 13.2% in Turkey's leading mobile operator Turkcell Iletsim Hizmetleri, Alfa Telecom said in a statement Monday. ... WSJ: TDC Close To Deal To Be Bought By Private Equity Group http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15005.php Danish telecommunications operator TDC is close to an agreement to be bought by a group of five private equity funds for roughly $12 billion, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal, in what would be the largest takeover of its k... Telecom Egypt Shares To Sell At EGP14.80 In IPO -Ministry http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15006.php The Egyptian Telecommunications Ministry said Monday that shares of state-owned telecommunications company, Telecom Egypt, would be sold for the price of 14.80 Egyptian pounds ($1=5.77EGP) a share in an initial public offering. ... [[ Handsets ]] Pantech Launches 5-Megapixel Camera Phone http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15011.php South Korea's Pantech has announced two new handsets, the IM-8600 5 mega-pixel camera phone and the IM-8700 F2F ('face-to-face') telephony handset. The IM-8600 is a rotating clamshell 5 mega-pixel camera phone with Meca Shutter camera technology from... [[ Interviews ]] African operators need to know their subscribers to keep churn down http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15007.php African operators that want to keep churn rates within their subscriber bases at a low level need to focus their energies on building closer relationships with their subscribers, customer segmentation strategies and the development of premium service... [[ Legal ]] TeliaSonera decides to take legal actions against Russia's Alfa http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15001.php Swedish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB is initiating legal actions against Russia's Alfa Group as well as in Turkey claiming Cukurova Holding has made an unauthorized transfer of around U.S. $135 million from bank accounts of Turkcell Ile... [[ Messaging ]] Telecom Argentina, Research In Motion Open BlackBerry Service http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15002.php Research In Motion and Telecom Personal, the mobile subsidiary of Telecom Argentina, are launching the wireless BlackBerry platform in Argentina, the two companies announced in a joint statement Friday. ... E-mail and SMS simplify contacts with nursing homes http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15008.php Family members want to use SMS and e-mail messages to reach and maintain contact with personnel working with home-help services and the care of the elderly. These are some of the findings of a survey that TeliaSonera has conducted to poll 6,000 priva... [[ Network Contracts ]] Nokia: ICD Launched In India With IDEA Cellular http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15000.php Finland's Nokia said Monday it and IDEA Cellular, a leading mobile operator in India, have launched Nokia's Intelligent Content Delivery System solution on all IDEA's mobile networks across India. ... MTS Signs 3 African Contracts http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15009.php MTS - Mer Telemanagement Solutions has signed an agreement with an unnamed provider of converged networking solutions to provide turn-key solutions for 3G Mobile, fixed and interconnect billing to carriers in three African countries. The networking s... Syniverse to Provide Wireless Clearinghouse Services for Vodafone http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15013.php Syniverse Technologies says that it has secured a worldwide contract to provide GSM data clearinghouse services to Vodafone Group. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Vodafone has designated Syniverse as its data clearinghouse and the author... [[ Regulatory ]] Switzerland Offering 3 BWA Licenses http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15012.php Switzerland's telecoms regulator, Ofcom has announced plans for an auction of three BWA licences. The Federal Office of Communications (Ofcom) will be holding the auction on behalf of ComCom. In principle, any company can apply for the licences which... [[ Reports ]] Mobile CRM to Account for 20% of Total CRM Revenues by 2010 http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15014.php According to a new report from visiongain, the market for mobile CRM finally started to gain traction in 2004 and this has continued through 2005. Although still a nascent market, mobile CRM should be reasonably robust on a global scale by 2007. The ... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:50:13 EST From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: Report: TDC Close to Deal USTelecom dailyLead November 29, 2005 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/zckIatagCysufBjhkm TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Report: TDC close to deal BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Report: VoIP system sales growing fast * Court halts merger between DT, T-Online * FCC expected to back "a la carte" cable pricing USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Learn about IMS, Fixed Mobile Convergence, IPTV Solutions and Save $300 HOT TOPICS * Cisco teams with ZTE * How IPTV will benefit telcos * Cablevision vs. Verizon: Battle intensifies over NYC suburbs * Verizon sees great promise in FTTH * Verizon to launch IPTV in second Virginia town TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * FLO Forum approves Qualcomm mobile video technology * TI unveils W-CDMA chip REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * New Orleans plans free Wi-Fi service * Loans for rural broadband services hard to obtain * Most VoIP providers thought to have missed E911 deadline EDITOR'S NOTE * Publication notice Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/zckIatagCysufBjhkm ------------------------------ Date: 29 Nov 2005 06:08:59 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: Leaving Vonage, Want to Keep Number Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > physical exchange programming. Is there any other way I can keep my > Vonage number using something like a call forwarding service without > having to pay $50/month (business) for Vonage? Find another cheaper, better VoIP carrier that offers service in the same rate center and port your number there. I had no trouble porting my Vonage number to Lingo, for example. It is my understanding that you don't have to port a biz number as a biz number unless you want to list it in the phone book with a business name. R's, John ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: Re: JFK Assassination Date: 29 Nov 2005 07:21:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Anthony Bellanga wrote: > Vacuum tube technology was still in use to a great extent (even > though the three Bell Labs physicists who won the Nobel Prize has > invented the transistor back in 1948)... Inventing the transistor was one thing. Being able manufacture it as a reliable and inexpensive product was a difficult long task. According to the IBM history, at first transistors were made by hand -- someone jiggled the cat whiskers and watched a scope until the proper effect was created. Obviously very expensive and error prone way to go. Even after automation yields of working transistors were low. IBM research not only was developing new computers to use transistors, but also new technology to manufacture transistors and circuit cards. IBM failed to patent or license the manufacturing technology not realizing how valuable it was and let its subcontractors take it and re-use it. (Kind of like PC-DOS). The end result was that until the late 1950s, transistors cost more than tubes. Another issue was the learning curve. Electronic engineers by that point had long experience with vacuum tubes--they knew what they could and could not do and their operating characteristics. After the war, both the television and computing engineers extensively studied and developed circuits using tubes and were hesitent to go off on something new and different. Not all circuits were convertable to transistors, especially back then. I understand to this day electronic guitar amplifier still use tubes. The president of IBM went around with the new transistor portable radios and had to give an order that all new computers would be built with transistors instead of tubes. One of IBM's early efforts was a transistorized punched card calculator (IBM 608/609) which was more of a prototype and test bed rather than a commercial product. One popular IBM product, the 650 computer, was made with tubes and remained in production until 1962. Obviously tubes still played a large part in the electronics world at that time. It is not surprising that TV equipment still contained many tubes. It would do so for a number of years. My impression is that these days the life cycle of broadcast equipment is relatively short and TV stations and networks replace their gear every few years. However, I suspect back in the 1960s the gear was relatively much more expensive and had a longer life cycle. I don't know how anyone on TV could stand the lights. I know it was dangerous to look directly into them, but even ignoring them they were awfully powerful and hard on the eyes. ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. 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