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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)

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From: Jennifer C. 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.

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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.

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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. 

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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

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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 ...

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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.
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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

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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.

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