From editor@telecom-digest.org Wed Mar 10 23:47:22 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i2B4lLW25696; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:47:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:47:22 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200403110447.i2B4lLW25696@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #115 TELECOM Digest Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:47:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 115 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Celebrity's Son Convicted in Phone Scam Case (Anonymous-No Spam) Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS (Tony P. Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS (J Kelly) Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS (Barry Margolin) Re: Snapshots in Time (Wesrock@aol.com) PRI voice T1 and CallerID Blocking (desafinadonospam@hotmail.com) What Are My Options? (Bruce) Re: Cell Number Portability: An Update (Sammy@nospam.biz) Navicore to Close Its First Round Funding (PressReleaseNetwork.com) Re: Spam and the Law was Re: The Price of Email (jmeissen@aracnet.com) EFFector 17.8: FCC Faces Suit on Regulation of Digital (Monty Solomon) 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. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk is definitely unwelcome. 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Daniel David, 38, of Berkeley was found guilty of seven counts of mail fraud, seven counts of using a fictitious name for a fraudulent scheme and five counts of money laundering by a federal jury in San Francisco. The panel, which deliberated for less than two days after a weeklong trial, acquitted David of one count of conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston will sentence David on June 25. His attorney, Thomas Carlucci, did not return calls for comment Wednesday, nor did David's father, the celebrity gourmet. A co-defendant in the case, Scott Nisbet, 40, of Berkeley, pleaded guilty to unspecified charges earlier this year as part of a plea agreement, court records show. After the two were arrested in 2002, their fathers -- Nisbet's is retired AC Transit general manager Robert Nisbet -- posted bond for them. According to federal prosecutors, David and Nisbet leased 24 pay phone lines from Pacific Bell from 1998 to 2000, routed 23 of the lines to an empty office in South San Francisco and hooked them up to an auto-dialer. Then, they made more than 2 million telephone calls to 800-numbers. ........Article continues ........ *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance San Francisco Chronicle.. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS Organization: ATCC Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:54:01 GMT In article , Sammy@nospam.biz says: >> You readers who subscribe to satellite: tell us more about it. What >> is on all of those dark channels today? Anything, or old re-runs of >> shows the satellite operators had in stock or what? PAT] > I guess it makes a good case for staying with cable. Hardly. Look at the latest debacle between Cox and ESPN. It's going to get worse as providers start trying to squeeze more out of cable and satellite companies who then pass it on to their customers. EchoStar giving a $1 credit is ridiculous. They're just skimming as much as they can. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I turned on the television today more > out of curiosity than anything else. Of course I am on cable, not > satellite, and it appears to me they didn't miss a single beat. All > the usual crummy day time stuff. Jerry Springer (is that Fox? I dunno > for sure) had one of his 'confessions' programs on today. That's where > some poor sap comes out on the stage, tells his life story, Jerry > tells him his wife heard it all backstage, then she marches out and > clobbers the guy (who either had secret mistresses, was secretly gay, > or had some picadillo or another of which she did not approve). While > the wife is 'counseling' her husband there on the stage, another guest > whose claim to fame is his lust for indecent exposure is busily > running amok through the audience and back to the stage, with all his > clothes off. That show is such a riot! And imagine how the > authorities were complaining about Janet Jackson. Sort of hypocritcal > IMO ... PAT] So true, Springer is definitely THE lowest common denominator in television. I suppose notoriety in any form is a good thing. Wasn't he a former politician? They always end up on either television or radio pandering to the lowest of the low. It's in their blood, they can't help it. As far as the nudity, I found the whole Janet Jackson incident to be a non-issue. A few million men got a free peek, as is evident from the number of TiVo recorders that re-played the event over and over. This country has a very strange culture in that on the surface we attempt (unsuccessful depending on region, etc.) to repress sexuality. But the undercurrent is odd, puritanism and sexuality. I'd bet there are a few sociologists out there who have a field day with this stuff. ------------------------------ From: J Kelly Subject: Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:46:45 -0600 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Reply-To: jkelly@newsguy.com On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:24:17 -0800, TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Sammy@nospam.biz: >> You readers who subscribe to satellite: tell us more about it. What >> is on all of those dark channels today? Anything, or old re-runs of >> shows the satellite operators had in stock or what? PAT] > I guess it makes a good case for staying with cable. You do that. Cable raises their rates every six months or so. My Dish rate has gone up $1.01 in the past two years. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:30:52 -0500 (EST), James Bellaire wrote: > In TD 23-112 Pat said: >> You readers who subscribe to satellite: tell us more about it. > I've tried not to let it consume my life. :) > It is fair to note that Viacom is a huge conglomorate with media > outlets across the nation, not only in the 16 cities that were pulled. > So watch the news for bias -- in case one has ever watched the news and > thought there would be no bias. > Echostar had no choice. Without a contract it would have been illegal > to continue airing the TV and "cable" feeds that are now slates or > gone. They managed to keep them on for a few more weeks thanks to a > court order. Viacom offered and accepted no "extension while > negotiating" as Time Warner (Turner Network channels such as CNN, TNT, > TCM, etc) and Echostar are operating under. They demanded the final > contract be signed. That contract asked for 5-7% increases each year > for the next several years AND forced carriage of many Viacom > channels. And they are using their CBS channels as leverage. > Echostar doesn't want the whole package and do not want what will > amount to a 40% price increase over the next few years. And now we > have a stalemate. > Viacom started playing inaccurate banners on their main feeds to ALL > cable and satellite providers on Friday evening in an attempt to flood > Echostar's phone centers. Plus, as you note, they have been playing > this channe "only on DirecTV and cable" ads on TVLand and SpikeTV > ... two Viacom channels that remain under contract and will remain on > Echostar until at least 2005. > But Viacom has the media. They can blast Echostar 24x7 on their feeds > that are still airing on DirecTV and cable and put up emotion targeted > websites. And in the end, Echostar can do nothing until Viacom > *allows* their channels to be aired on Dish Network. > It is a mess -- but I as a DishNetwork subscriber still have over 100 > video channels in my "120 channel package". This dispute has removed > 8 of "my" channels -- and Echostar has moved some channels down from > higher packages. Plenty to watch while we wait it out. PLUS they are > giving $1 or $2 credits to compensate their customers. ($2 if you > lost your Viacom O&O CBS.) > It's not the end of the world. > James Bellaire > http://telecomindiana.com/ > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What are you getting now on the empty > channels? Were they reassigned to some stuff that had previously been > in a more expensive package? PAT] They have a slide up saying that the channel is currently unavailable and asking you to tune to channel 101 for the latest information. On channel 101 Dish CEO Charlie Ergen has a loop running with information on what has happened (which is pretty much what the previous poster said) and that they hope to reach an agreement soon so the channels can return. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Channel 101? Isn't that a premium extra pay (outside the basic range) channel? They want you to pay extra to listen to Mr. Ergen? It is a premium channel here on Cable One. Our basic channels are 2 through 62 (sixty channels total, no one or four). One hundred up here are things like MTV-2 and Showtime Movies. I do not get any of that. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: EchoStar May Lose More After Removing Viacom's CBS Organization: Looking for work Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:30:59 -0500 In article , Sammy@nospam.biz wrote: > I guess it makes a good case for staying with cable. Cable isn't immune from this type of problem. The cable companies have similar contracts with content providers, and it's possible for their renegotiations to fail just as easily. In fact, I think a few years ago subscribers to a cable company lost access to ABC and Disney Channel for about a week because of a problem similar to the one between Viacom and Dish Networks. Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We used to have Time-Warner until last year but I don't think they ever had any disputes. But then last year a company called 'Cable One' took over here. Same local people in charge; the lady who worked in the office here for T-W now works here for Cable One. Her husband is the technician and also drives around the streets all day checking the wires and making hookups, etc. When I was downtown one day they were painting over the Time Warner sign on the front door with a new Cable One sign. I know they now offer cable internet also, something Time Warner said 'would come soon' but it never did until Cable One took over. I do not think the city of Independence would tolerate a lot of trouble out of them with loss of channels, it took them three or four months to get approved for the license from the city. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Wesrock@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:46:41 EST Subject: Re: Snapshots in Time On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 05:31:33 -0800 Sammy@nospam.biz wrote: >> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I remember very well three such 'cuts' >> in my life. > In 1986, I knew the cut time for my local Pacific Telephone Crossbar > to DMS-100. I had two lines at the time, with one connected to the > other, and one on speaker phone at the designated time (2:00 AM > Saturday). They were about 20 minutes late but there was no doubt > when the connection dropped. > Interesting bit of trivia: Why are cuts at 2:00 AM on Saturday rather > than Sunday? Answer: it gives them 24 additional weekend hours to > repair a cut gone bad. > TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Also, (at least many years ago when the > theory was first developed) [1] Saturday was the slowest day, traffic > wise and [2] 2:00 AM was the least amount of traffic on Saturday. I do > not know if those satistics are still true or not, but old habits are > hard to get rid of. PAT] A uniform time is needed nationwide because toll machines have to be reprogrammed. Every caller in the country needs to be able to call anywhere else in the country, and so every toll machine in the country has to be given the new data at a uniform time. Maybe only some tandems fairly close to the office being cut over will need to have the new information for a particular office, so as to know how to signal and outpulse and send and receive supervision to it, but some have surprising direct trunks to/from distant offices, too. The Distance Dialing Notes carried the dates for a year or two ahead, usually twice a month, either the first and third or the second and fourth weekends of the month, I forget which. There were variations around holidays and the like when traffic might be high and the date would be displaced to the week before or the week after, but everyone throughout the NANP needed to know what days cuts could be done. In a message dated Tue, 09 Mar 2004 05:30:37 GMT was written: > I have heard of (but never witnessed) cutovers happening in the same > building, like going from a Cross-Bar to an electronic switch. All > the wires from the main distributing frame (MDF) were bridged to both > switches and the "new" switch was programmed to do everything EXCEPT > complete the outgoing call. Similarly for trunks, do everyting except > make the final connection. > Once the "magic moment" hit, the new switch would go live with a > console command, and at the same time, a technician with a BIG set of > wire cutters would cut the cables to the old switch. This would > usuallly create a spark, hence the term "flash cut." > Trying to pull off this trick on the other side of the MDF is walking > where angels fear to tread. My hat is off to the folks with the brass > to even try it, much less make it work! It was more or less a routine procedure when offices were cut over, whether from manual magneto or manual common battery or step-by-step or crossbar or whatever to a new office. Whether it was in the same building or not the procedure was about the same, but not exactly as you describe it. First, the new office is not fully connected; at the frame every line is held open by "cutover tools," sort of like toothpicks, at each protector. The cutover devices have strings attached, and good sized groups of them are carried to various locations where a whole bunch of craftsmen will have hold of the strings. To make the cutover, first the main fuse from the battery to the old office is pulled out. Then guys with big wire cutters, or often axes, sever the cable carrying the pairs to the old office. Another crew of guys are there to fan out the pairs so no conductor will touch another one. When all are reported cleared, the signal is given to the guys with the strings to the cutover devices to pull them out. The new office is already turned up, but the cutover devices until then have prevented it from being connected to anything beyond the frame. As the cutover devices are pulled out, the lines are getting battery from the now-operational new office and if a customer goes off-hook he or she will get dial tone from the new office. Or an incoming or outgoing toll call will now be handled by the new office. Of course, the guys who pulled out the strings now go up and down the frame to make sure all the cutover devices came out properly and the contacts made properly. In the days before radios, an important consideration if the two offices were in different buildings, or even a considerable distance apart in the same building, was to make sure a couple of pairs, at least, would not be cut by the axemen and provided with local battery so the new office could be notified to cut it in. Usually the mayor or some other dignitary would be on hand to make the first call on the new office to some other dignitary. But of course if a customer went off hook before that phone or an incoming trunk connected to a local number, that call would actually be the first call. But that wouldn't change the ceremonial nature of the "frist call". Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com wleathus@yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: desafinadonospam@hotmail.com Subject: PRI Voice T1 and CallerID Blocking Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:09:05 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Is it true that a PRI ISDN voice T1 with incoming calls can always identify the callerID of the calling party? Call blocking can't prevent CallerID being passed along by the PRI ISDN voice T1 circuit? ------------------------------ From: Bruce Subject: What Are My Options? Organization: Comcast Online Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:01:23 GMT I currently run two small home based businesses. I have a 800 number that is routed to my line at home. I would like to use line 2 for both businesses, but I am not comfortable with this becuase I would not know which business they are calling about. What are some differant options I could do? How can I still look professional, but when a person returns my call, how can I tell which business they are wanting? I was told about "priority ring", but this sounds like distictive ring to me, where I have two different numbers tied to the same line, and then if they dial line A it whould have one pitch, and line B would have another. Would this be the right way to do it and have two different 800 numbers, one going to lineA and the other to lineB I need to keep cost down, but I want a professional image as well. Thanks, Bruce [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have one phone line here with distinctive ringing. I have my toll free line routed into the distinctive (or 'ring-ring') line, so if you call my regular number I get one ring; if you call my 800 line (or accidentally misdial on the ring-ring side) I get the other ringing cadence. This enables me to know *whose nickle* is paying for the call, and allows me to use the proper answer phrase. You can also get a *second* distinctive ring line (short-long-short) [three numbers total on the one line] if you need to have two 800 numbers as well as a 'regular' line. Of course you can still only get *one phone call* at a time, if your businesses are not that large yet. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Sammy@nospam.biz Subject: Re: Cell Number Portability: An Update Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:10:07 -0800 Organization: Cox Communications I started my attempt to port my eligible land-line number to Cingular Wireless last December 12th. Two FCC complaints later they finally got it right on March 8. My land-line number of long-standing is XXX-0000, and apparently their system gagged on it. They got porting completed for outgoing calls only on Feb 27. It took over two weeks later from them to get it to work both ways. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:05:21 +0400 From: Editor Subject: Navicore to Close Its First Round Funding PRESS RELEASE NETWORK http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com Navicore to Close Its First Round Funding Eqvitec Partners and Holtron Ventures to Finance Advanced Mobile Phone Navigation Software Developer Finland, Helsinki - Mar 10, 2004 (PRN): Navicore Ltd., a provider of advanced navigation and coordination applications for mobile phones, today announced that it has secured its first round of funding from two leading Finnish Technology Venture Capital firms Eqvitec Partners and Holtron Ventures. "This first funding is a powerful endorsement to our mission of bringing user-friendly map and navigation applications to mobile phone users", said Panu Vuorela, CEO of Navicore Ltd. "This funding allows us to ramp up our sales and marketing activity in order to hit the markets in Spring 2004", Vuorela added. Eqvitec was attracted to Navicore's easily deployable navigation and workforce management solution for mobile phones. Their application is extremely easy-to-use and can be utilized in any mobile phone based on Nokia Series 60 platform, commented Jussi Hattula, Investment Director of Eqvitec Partners. "We believe Navicore's mobile map and navigation solutions will create a whole new market segment for business applications. Navicore enables enterprises to leverage the installed base of mobile phones without the need to invest in dedicated GPS navigators", said Sami Ahvenniemi, Investment Director of Holtron Ventures. Navicore's software turns a mobile phone into a GPS navigator with advanced workforce management tools. Featuring a rich set of coordination and collaboration tools, Navicore's mobile client software and enterprise servers offer easy-to-use and accurate positioning and fast routing to mobile sales force, maintenance and surveillance personnel and logistics operators. Navicore's navigation solution is fast, user-friendly and able to adapt dynamically to user preferences. It computes routes effortlessly in a mobile handset. The Telematics information is received from a GPS device that may be integrated or connected wirelessly with Bluetooth. About Navicore Navicore Ltd. is a provider of navigation and coordination applications for personal and business use. Navicore's software turns a mobile phone into a GPS navigator with advanced workforce management tools. Focusing on mobile handsets and smart phones, Navicore's mobile client software and enterprise servers offer easy-to-use and accurate positioning and fast routing to mobile sales force, maintenance and surveillance personnel and logistics operators. http://www.navicore.fi About Eqvitec Partners Eqvitec Partners is the leading private and independent venture-capital firm in the Nordic countries specializing in technology companies. It currently has three funds with a total capital of 260 million euros under management. Eqvitec Partners has invested in approximately 50 Nordic technology companies with growth potential. http://www.eqvitec.com About Holtron Ventures Holtron Ventures Ltd. is a venture capital management company concentrating on early stage investments within the ICT sector in Scandinavia and in Finland. The company mission is to act as a value added investor and to coach entrepreneurs through the various development stages. Holtron Ventures manages three funds: Holtron Capital Partners I Ky, Holtron Capital Fund I Ky and Holtron Capital Fund II Ky. http://www.holtronventures.com For more information, contact: Navicore Ltd. CEO Panu Vuorela Cellular + 358 40 510 0952 Email: panu.vuorela@navicore.fi Eqvitec Partners Investment Director Jussi Hattula Cellular + 358 400 669 955 Email: jussi.hattula@eqvitec.com Holtron Ventures Investment Director Sami Ahvenniemi Cellular + 358 40 560 2734 Email: sami@holtronventures.com Editor & CEO Press Release Network editor@pressreleasenetwork.com http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: Spam and the Law was Re: The Price of Email is Constant Date: 10 Mar 2004 21:05:26 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Barry Margolin wrote: In article , Danny Burstein wrote: > If the East Cupcake Bakery and Internet Service allows its customers > to spam, then we cut it off. Pure and Simple. It and its spammers can > cheerfully wallow in the smelly pit of their own putrid intranet. Yes, > some non spamming customers will get hurt. But that is NOT my problem. An extremely simple and easy to implement approach is for major ISP's to block ALL outbound traffic to port 25 (SMTP). Force all customers on their networks to relay outbound mail through the ISP's mail server. This would place no undo burden on the customer... the ISP is, after all, usually configured to handle outbound mail. And it would stop viruses with built-in SMTP engines dead in their tracks. Earthlink/Mindspring already does that. It was a little bit of a pain to temporarily reconfigure my laptop's mail client when I was out of town and using their network, but I didn't mind. 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