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TELECOM Digest     Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:59:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 560

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Yahoo Offers Moveable Type For Bloggers (Eric Auchard)
    Court Refuses to Hear National Geographic CD-ROM Case (Reuters News Wire)
    MCI Tests Ultra Long-Haul Technology (USTelecom dailyLead )
    Cellular-News for Monday 12th December 2005 (Cellular-News)
    Wage Laws, was Holiday Observances (was Re: Kennedy) (Danny Burstein)
    Re: FTC Do Not Call List (Lena)
    Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell (Lisa Hancock)
    Parental Electronic Supervision of Teens - Good or Bad? (Lisa Hancock)

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From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Yahoo Offers Moveable Type For Bloggers
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:26:10 -0600


By Eric Auchard

Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type -- the most
popular software used to create professional blogs -- said on Sunday
Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small
businesses.

The partnership is the latest in a string of deals by the world's
largest Internet media company as it seeks to embrace so-called
"social media," the new generation of Web sites that encourage
Internet users to share written text, photos and videos.

On Friday, Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us, a site for users to share their
favorite Web links. Earlier this year, it acquired Flickr, which
offers a way to annotate and share photos.

Yahoo will effectively act as the preferred provider of Movable Type
for small business users, taking advantage of its scale and
efficiency, Anil Dash, vice president of professional products for San
Francisco-based Six Apart, said in a phone interview.

"This is going to be our recommended (sales) channel for small
business," he said.

Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said it will offer commercial blogs
based on Movable Type as part of its existing small business Web-site
management service.

Yahoo provides customers with a unique Web address, blogging tools and
business-class e-mail services with spam and virus protections for
less than $12 a month.

Movable Type is commonly used by businesses, Web designers and
professional bloggers to create easily updated Web sites. Other blog
software such as Google Inc.'s Blogger, WordPress, Xanga and Six
Apart's own Live Journal, are more often used to create blogs for
individuals.

Yahoo hosts roughly 30 million individual Web sites, including
hundreds of thousands of small business sites, said Rich Riley,
general manager of Yahoo's small business unit. One in eight
U.S. online stores are hosted by Yahoo, he said.

Yahoo is one of the world's largest suppliers of hosted Web sites,
which refers to Web sites set and maintained for customers by Yahoo
for a monthly subscription fee.

Six Apart said it had optimized the underlying software in Movable
Type so that it responds twice as fast as the same software offered by
Six Apart's own Web site.

Six Apart continues to develop versions of Movable Type designed to
run inside big businesses, along with its consumer-oriented Live
Journal software and a quick set-up version of Movable Type known as
TypePad.

Separately, Dash said Six Apart's Japanese unit is developing a
version of Movable Type to run on Oracle database software, in a bid
to encourage wider use of blogs among big businesses. Six Apart was
developed to run on open source database software originally.

Privately-held Six Apart, founded four years ago by husband-and-wife
team Ben and Mena Trott, counts 100 employees worldwide. It has
received nearly $12 million in funding from backers Neoteny
Co. Ltd. and August Capital, Dash said.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Court Won't Hear National Geographic CD-ROM Case
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:17 -0600


The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that copyright law
authorized a publisher to reproduce a collective work in CD-ROM
format, even if some new materials have been added.

The justices declined to review a dispute involving National
Geographic magazine and whether it had to pay freelance writers and
photographers additional compensation for using their work in the
electronic compilation.

In 1997, the National Geographic Society began selling a CD-ROM set
containing digitally scanned copies of all past issues dating back 108
years.

The 30-disc set depicted an exact electronic image of the original
bound magazines, with pages presented two at a time in the very same
sequence as in the original paper format. The user would see the
articles, photographs and advertisements exactly as they had appeared
in the original paper copies.

Numerous freelance writers and photographers sued for copyright
infringement and said they were entitled to additional compensation.

But a federal judge and U.S. appeals court in New York ruled against
the freelance contributors.

The appeals court ruled that the CDs represented an "electronic
replica" of the magazine and were a permissible "revision" under
copyright law, even if some new copyrightable materials, such as an
introductory sequence and a computer software program, had been added.

The freelance contributors appealed to the Supreme Court to hear the
case.  But the justices rejected the appeal without any comment or
recorded dissent.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:41:28 EST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: MCI Tests Ultra Long-Haul Technology


USTelecom dailyLead
December 12, 2005
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		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* MCI tests ultra long-haul technology
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Juniper targets service assurance
* BellSouth offers residential VoIP via deal with 8x8
* Columnist: Don't sweat a BlackBerry shutdown
* AT&T reaches tentative contract deal with unions
* Cable operators open to family tier, but programmers resist
* Internet video is red hot
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* You're getting USTelecom dailyLead, but are you missing part of the story?
HOT TOPICS
* Alltel to spin off landline business
* Verizon to unload directory unit
* Telecoms turn focus to converged services
* Free Wi-Fi becomes the norm
* Mobile WiMAX standards approved
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* Philips brings TV-on-mobile chipset to U.S.
* Sprint Nextel to offer full-length movie, TV downloads

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Subject: Cellular-News for Monday 12th December 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:38:56 -0600
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news-mail.com>


Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com

[[Financial News]]

Australia's Telstra: Hong Kong CSL, New World To Merge 
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15177.php

Australia's Telstra Corp. said Friday that it has agreed to merge its
Hong Kong mobile business CSL with New World Mobile Holdings Ltd.,
creating Hong Kong's largest mobile operator. ...

Singapore MobileOne Confirms Tie-Up With PLDT, SMART
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15179.php

MobileOne Ltd. confirmed Friday it will be entering into an agreement
with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., or PLDT, and its
unit. ...

Alltel To Spin Off Wireline Operations In $9.1 Billion Deal
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15180.php

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)--Alltel Corp., one of the nation's largest
telecom service providers to rural areas, on Friday said it plans to
become a pure wireless company by spinning off its wireline business
and merging those operations with Valor Commun...

NTL: Virgin Mobile Offer Better Value For Shareholders
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15184.php

NTL Inc. said Friday that it continues to believe that its potential
offer at 323 pence per Virgin Mobile share represents better value,
for all Virgin Mobile shareholders, than Virgin Mobile's stand-alone
alternatives. ...

Potential Buyers Seen Unlikely To Step Up For Alltel
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15185.php

While Alltel Corp. may appear to be an attractive acquisition target,
few buyers are likely to step up in the near term. ...

Analyst says Russian mobile operators’ Jan-Sep revenue up 38% 
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15187.php

The total revenue of Russia’s mobile operators rose 38% on
the year to U.S. $7.57 billion in January-September, iKS-Consulting
analytical agency said in a report Friday. ...

EA Games buys Jamdat Mobile
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15199.php

The console games firm, Electronic Arts and the mobile phone games
developer, JAMDAT have entered into a merger agreement under which EA
will acquire JAMDAT for a total of approximately US$680 million. EA
and JAMDAT together plan to publish over 50 g...

[[Handsets News]]

Samsung To Start Making Handsets In India By March
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15182.php

PREMIUM - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Friday said it will
start producing cellular handsets in India by March. ...

Panasonic Withdraws from GSM Handset Market
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15197.php

Panasonic Mobile says that it will phase out development of GSM mobile
phones due to severe global competition. By concentrating resources
into next-generation mobile terminal technologies, as well as unifying
platforms and core technologies for the ...

[[Legal News]]

Russian antitrust still undecided on Alfa, Telenor stakes in VimpelCom
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15183.php

Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is yet to decide on
applications from both Russia's Alfa Group and
Norway's Telenor to increase their respective stakes in
Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom,
FAS Director Igor Artye...

Brazil's Wireless Co Claro Resumes Operations In Minas
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15186.php

Brazilian wireless operator Claro, the local unit of Mexico's America
Movil SA, will resume operations in the southeast state of Minas
Gerais on Saturday, after a local court overturned an injunction that
forced the firm to halt operations a week ago...

Verizon Wireless Wins Lawsuit Against Telemarketers
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15188.php

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)--Verizon Wireless has won two legal skirmishes
against telemarketers who made unwanted sales calls to its customers,
and said it has launched a new offensive against unsolicited text
messages. ...

[[Messaging News]]

MMS Interconnection for Pakistan
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15196.php

Pakistan's three GSM network operators, Telenor, Ufone and Warid
Telecom have launched a MMS interconnection service. This would enable
the subscribers of all three operators to exchange MMS or multimedia
messages with zero interconnect charges. This...

[[Mobile Content News]]

Students Ready to Accept Cell Phone Ads - For a Price
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15190.php

Advertisers are increasingly using cell phones to reach college
students, and they are finding a receptive audience, says a new study
by Ball State University. A survey of 669 students at Ball State in
November found a third of students are receiving...

[[Network Contracts News]]

Ericsson Gets 3 Contracts In West Africa From Investcom
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15181.php

Telefon AB LM Ericsson said Friday it has received three contracts in
West Africa from the international operator Investcom LLc. ...

Israeli Operator Orders Fixed/Mobile Platform
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15193.php

Israel's iDEN operator, MiRS has ordered a core convergence switching
solution from Tekelec. The solution enables MiRS' transition to the
Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture and enables
next-generation capabilities, including fi...

[[Network Operators News]]

GSM Expansion for Kosovo
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15195.php

Kosovo's GSM network operator, Vala 900 says that it has engaged in
its 4th expansion phase and is planning to expand coverage to 99% of
the population by adding 284 new base stations. The company will also
increase network capacity to 700,000 custom...

[[Offbeat News]]

Vodacom Sponsors Mobile Health Initiative
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15200.php

Vodacom Tanzania has launched a mobile health clinic in partnership
with Marie Stopes, an international NGO, and medical service provider
Managed Mobile Health Clinic (MMHC). Vodacom has supplied the bus for
the Mobile Health Clinic with all the nece...

[[Regulatory News]]

China Could Loose 60 Million Phone Users in 6 Months
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15192.php

China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced plans to
require all PrePay phone users to register their handsets, or face
having them disconnected. China currently has approximately 200
million PrePay users out of a total of some 380 m...

[[Statistics News]]

AC&M says Ukraine's total mobile subscriber base up 5.8% in Nov 
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15189.php

The total subscriber base of Ukraine's mobile operators rose 5.8% in
November to 26.36 million people as of November 30, Advanced
Communications & Media (AC&M) said in a statement Friday. ...

Australian PrePay Usage Jumps This Year
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15191.php

Australia's Communications and Media Authority has issued a report
that gives an overview of the Australian telecoms market. The report
notes that during 2004-05 mobile services increased by 12% to 18.42
million, with the penetration rate of mobile p...

[[Technology News]]

S Korea KT Corp, Alcatel Enter Mobile Broadband Devt Pact
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15178.php

South Korea's KT Corp. said Friday it has entered into an alliance
with France's Alcatel to cooperate in developing mobile broadband
applications. ...

SIM Cards That Talk to Each Other
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15194.php

Italy's TIM has announced the Italian launch of the first SIM Card
that allows mobile phones to "communicate" with TV set-top boxes,
computers, household appliances and a host of home electronics
devices. The new Z-SIM" SIM Card is a Telecom Italia G...

CDMA/EV-DO 450 Scanner Solution
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/15198.php

PCTEL has announced the commercial availability of a new
SeeGull DMA/EV-DO scanner solution for the 450MHz frequency
band. PCTEL's CDMA/EV-DO 450 scanner solution addresses the drive
testing and RF measurement needs of wireless carriers who are dep...

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From: Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: Wage Laws, was Holiday Observances Phone Rates (was Re: Kennedy)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:32:47 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC


In <telecom24.559.7@telecom-digest.org> sethb@panix.com (Seth
Breidbart) writes: [ snip ]

> According to the "Your Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act"
> poster (as posted in every workplace), you get time and a half after
> 40 hours worked in a week.  It doesn't say anything about holidays.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not only for more than 40 hours in
> one week, but also more than 8 hours in one day. PAT]

While many people believe that, I'm not aware of any such daily
requirement.

And that 40 hr/week overtime line is fuzzy, with _plenty_
of exceptions.

_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
		     dannyb@panix.com 
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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From: Lena <lenagainster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FTC Do Not Call List
Date: 12 Dec 2005 04:12:19 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Lena wrote:

>>> I think an amendment to the Telemarketing Laws is in order, to
>>> prohibit any telemarketer, calling on behalf of any charity or
>>> political organization, from calling any number more than once a year.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But Lena, when you limit those people
> to 'one call per year', wouldn't that be like saying spammers and
> scammers and phishermen should be limited to one spam, scam or phish
> per year? Are you trying to dictate what people can talk about on
> their phone?     PAT]

I'm trying to dictate what people can call me on MY phone.  I don't
want telemarketers calling me at all, but the ones who have exceptions
to the rule, those calling on behalf of charities and political
organizations are rude.  They won't leave a message on the answeing
machine, but will hang up, and then call over and over again.  That is
why I suggest limiting them to one call per year; perhaps they will
leave their message and go away.

As far as spammers and scammers and phishermen go, they should all be
taken out and drawn and quartered.

Lena


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I quite agree with your assessment, but
my point was what makes _your_ telephone any more sancrosanct than _my_
computer. If _you_ have the right to dictate who can call you on
_your_ phone, then _I_ should have the right to dictate what kind of
messages come through on _my_ computer. And let's face it, spam-scam
and phishing is far worse than telemarketers ever have been. Imagine,
if you will, several hundred telemarketers ringing your phone without
ceasing all day and all night, and your only recourse, according to
the so-called 'experts' was to rely on screening attempts, and many of
the spammer-scammers managed to trick their way around that. Sounds
like a lot of fun, doesn't it?   PAT]

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Hanging up on the New Ma Bell
Date: 12 Dec 2005 09:57:29 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Arthur Kamlet wrote:

> Except that AT&T fought for and succeeded in keeping the name:
> Bell Laboratories.

At the time of divesture everyone thought the "Bell" name had major
value, thus the fight to keep it.

A lot of things turned out differently that what was expected in 1984
thanks to technology and regulatory changes.  Former strengths
evaporated, former weaknesses grew strong.

However, as it turned out, the Bell name became of little value,
indeed, almost a negative.  I thought Bell Atlantic was foolish when
it changed its name to Verizon, but it turned out to be a smart
decision.  The future -- high profits -- were in new technologies not
associated with the stodgy old Bell System basic black 500 set.  Even
though Bell developed a great many technical things, using the trade
name Verizon on new and modern ads just seems to fit better.  I just
can't see an ad by the Bell System featuring Gwen Stefani rockin'
along as Verizon uses for its cell phones, or Motorola's ad showing a
woman squeezing into skintight slacks that still has room for her
slimphone*.  Indeed, I'm not even sure they're using James Earl Jones
as their spokesman anymore.

The big profit money (unregulated new services) is with the young
people who get cell phones galore, use them a lot (note T-Mobile's ads
with the talking cheerleader), text message, download everything,
heavy duty Internet service, etc.  These people never heard of and
could care less of the old Bell System, the guys struggling in snow
shoes up the mountain in the blizzard to maintain the microwave tower,
operators on duty as flood waters creep up to their floor, etc.

In the unregulated world, I think Verizon is doing quite well with that
stuff, especially without the regulatory burdens of serving the poor,
rate filings, etc.  I suspect the kids (and adults) lose their phones
regularly and spend big bucks to get out of the contracts, which is
pure profit for them.  They would never let a regulated company do
that.

Verizon sticks the old Bell logo on the _side_ of payphone mounts,
probably just to reassure old geezers like myself.  Admittedly I still
prefer to use a "real" payphone rather than an "imitation", although
any call beyond the local area will be terribly costly, and some
imitation phones are actually cheaper for such calls.  (Many
traditional real payphones still have the "Bell System Property Not
For Sale" on the cover of the coin return slot.)

*In the old days, a slimphone was the Trimline set, offered at a
premium price.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Parental Electronic Supervision of Teens - Good or Bad?
Date: 12 Dec 2005 10:12:58 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


There are more and more devices coming onto the affordable marketplace
that allow parents to monitor their teenagers' whereabout and
activities.  Is this a good or bad thing?

One is a video camera in the car which monitors their driving.  It can
see whether they use their seatbelts (kids often forget) and whether
they drive carefully or not (samples show kids, even knowing of the
device, get distracted easily).

Another is a GPS device for car or cell phone so they know where the
kid is at all times.

I have very mixed feelings about these devices and this kind of
supervision.

Sometimes I think the stricter the parents with this stuff and various
house rules, the more wild the kid will end up as they figure out ways
to circumvent them or just lie to cover up.  In other words, sometimes
I think a more flexible structure and some trust works out better.  If
I were a kid I'd be furious if my parents used such devices on me, and
I wouldn't be keen if a friend's parents did so.  Admittedly, myself
and my friends were a pretty tame (lame?) crowd.

But on the flip side, some kids out there are pretty wild and do need
more structure.  I knew a girl whose parents were terribly strict with
her, but this girl was in the fast lane and I could see the parents
not wanting to be grandparents too early.  Some kids hit puberty and
become totally different people, with tons of energy and restlessness,
and a desire to be as adventerous as possible.  Plenty of 14 y/o girls
lie to their parents and seek out college boys to date (and lie to
them as well).  Plenty of new drivers (either gender) make the
Indianapolis 500 look tame and get killed in the process.

So I don't know what the ethical answer is.  I am very grateful they
didn't have this kind of monitoring when I was kid, as well as no
metal detectors to go into high school.  Indeed, in my high school
they abolished the hall pass system and the halls became _quieter_
than before.

I will note one big change from my teen days is that (1) parents today
seem to be more involved in their own lives than in my day, that is,
they don't have the time to really know their kids' day-to-day
activities and friends since both parents work long hours or aren't
even there.  (2) more kids have their very own cars at age 16 and the
freedom that goes with them.  I didn't get my own car until I was 21,
in my younger years a parent would drive kids out on their dates (not
a lot of fun, but it did act as a damper).  Borrowing the parents' car
first means the car must be available and it not always is in a
one-car household, and secondly requires a explanation of need,
destination, etc.  When a kid has their very own car it's a lot easier
to just take off.

[public replies please]


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: When I was in high school (1956-60)
there were no metal detectors to walk through either, nor any of the
other 'security' devices so prevalent these days. Somehow, we managed
to survive. My friends, and the people who administer my household
(Margaret [the meals on wheels lady]; the nurse and the SRS housekeeper
who come around now and then, etc) always seem so amazed to hear me
humming [or listening to a recording of] my favorite musical composition,
the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 'Come Sweet Death, Come Blest Repose'.
Don't you want to live forever, they ask. Hell no, is my reply. When
my time comes for a _natural_ death, I will be so happy to be gone. PAT]

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