From editor@telecom-digest.org Fri Apr 23 20:32:04 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i3O0W3g06316; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:32:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200404240032.i3O0W3g06316@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 #203 TELECOM Digest Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:31:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 203 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Re: Paying For Incoming Mobile Phone Calls (Monty Solomon) In a Fast-Moving Web World, Some Prefer the Dial-Up Lane (Monty Solomon) Cheaper Than TiVo: Souping Up Your Computer (Monty Solomon) Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat/Brits at It Tooth and Nail (M Solomon) The GMail Saga (Monty Solomon) Re: Honesty from Earthlink (Barry Margolin) Re: Lots of Virii Out Being Sent by 'me' (Barry Margolin) Re: Factory Flaws Yield Headaches For Chip Makers (Justin Time) Re: FCC Rejects AT&T VOIP Petition (Justin Time) Every Business In The World Will Soon Be Webcasting (Press Release) Re: VoIP Problem With Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 (Scott) Model 820 Control Unit (JaBrIoL) Re: Toll Free (1-800) Line ANI Delivery Question (Keith) Motorola Introduces New Cable Modems Designed for Wireless (VOIP News) China VOIP Operator Could Face Years in Jail (VOIP News) Jeff Pulver's Blog: IP-MoU: Getting Started (VOIP News) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:02:31 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Re: Paying For Incoming Mobile Phone Calls > My question is: Do all mobile phone rate plans in the U.S.A. charge > talk-time for the incoming calls? If Yes, then why isn't anybody > demanding that incoming calls be free for the mobile phones there? Nextel offers various plans that include unlimited incoming calls. Thy also offer a rate plan which has everything unlimited ... Nextel National Unlimited NDC Plus Plan -- New -- Everything is unlimited including Nationwide Direct Connect! Includes unlimited incoming, outgoing, Domestic Long Distance, Direct Connect and Nationwide Direct Connect calls. Also includes unlimited AOL Instant Messenger, unlimited Two-Way Messaging and Mobile Email with the Nextel Full Service Package. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:05:41 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: In a Fast-Moving Web World, Some Prefer the Dial-Up Lane By MATT RICHTEL SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 - High-speed Internet access is being adopted by millions of Americans each year, growing as quickly as any modern technology. So what makes Dana Jenkins think she can resist? In fact, she is part of another big group, the tens of millions of Americans seemingly immune to the lure of more speed and satisfied with dial-up services. A majority of Americans who surf the Internet still do so by dialing in on regular telephone lines, despite the rapidly narrowing price gap between high-speed and dial-up connections. People like Ms. Jenkins are neither Luddites nor laggards, but consumers content to pay for a service that is less than optimal, and at times even frustratingly slow, because they say greater speed is not worth the trouble of starting over with a new telecommunications provider and getting a new e-mail address, even if the added cost is small. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/technology/19DIAL.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:14:03 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Cheaper Than TiVo: Souping Up Your Computer By WALTER S. MOSSBERG The coolest, trendiest way to watch television today is by using a digital video recorder, or DVR. With a DVR system, you can pause or rewind live TV. And, more important, you can record any program for viewing later without enduring the twin hassles of videotape recording: complicated programming and the need to keep blank tapes handy. That's because DVRs record TV shows to a large hard disk, and you pick the shows to record by just clicking their names in an onscreen program guide. But buying a DVR can be costly. The most popular options are high-end set-top boxes containing technology from TiVo, or its rival, Replay TV, which require a fee-based service; or, high-end Media Center PCs, that use a PC's internal hard disk as a DVR. If your budget is limited, and you have a plain old Windows PC, however, you can turn it into a DVR by using a new product from SnapStream Media, a small company from Houston. SnapStream's Beyond TV 3 includes DVR software for Windows, and is bundled with the necessary hardware -- an external TV tuner from Hauppauge Computer Works that plugs into the computer with a simple USB cable. This bundle is sold on the SnapStream.com Web site for $229.99. No service fee is charged. My assistant Katie Boehret and I tested Beyond TV this week. It worked, but in two separate tests, we were tempted to rename it Beyond Patience. We found setting up the product to be frustrating and difficult, and concluded that it is more suitable for techies than for mainstream users. http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20040414.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:18:41 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat / Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail Dogging Craze Has Brits in Heat http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62718,00.html Brits Going at It Tooth and Nail http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62687,00.html "Toothing" latest hi-tech sex craze http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=495183§ion=news ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:46:08 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: The GMail Saga by Brad Templeton Much has been written about the new Google GMail trial, which is an e-mail service that offers a gigabyte of archiving, Google search of your mail archives and a nice interface. It's free, because while you read your mail, Google ads will be displayed based on keywords found in the mail you are reading (just as the Google Adsense program shows ads like the ones you see on the right based on words found in this document.) GMail created a surprising storm for a product that hasn't yet been released. A coalition of privacy groups asked Google to hold back on releasing it. A California state senator proposed a law to ban the advertising function. Editorials and blog entries left and right have condemned it and praised it. I come to this problem from two sides. One, I'm a fan of Google, and have been friends with Google's management since they started the company. I've also consulted for Google on other matters and make surprising revenue from their Adsense program on my web site. I'm also a privacy advocate and Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, well regarded as one of the top civil rights advocates in cyberspace. The EFF has issued some statements of privacy concern over GMail, though we declined joining the coalition against it. (I'm writing this as my own essay, though with some advice from the EFF team.) I've also had a chance to talk at length with Google President Larry Page about some of the issues. Here's a summary of some of my conclusions http://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html ------------------------------ From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: Honesty from Earthlink Organization: Looking for work Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:55:09 -0400 In article , Edson C. Hendricks wrote: > Ed.H: All right, I can see you have no more answers. Thank you very > much for your attention, although I must tell in closing that your > explanation doesn't satisfy me, and I doubt it would satisfy > practically any objective reader. Let's say you're right, and they're deliberately not fixing the opt-out mechanism. Did you really expect a customer support rep to admit that they're blatantly lying to customers? More likely, they're keeping it a secret from the CSRs as well. Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** ------------------------------ From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: Lots of Virii Out Being Sent by 'me'. Organization: Looking for work Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:57:47 -0400 In article , ptownson@telecom-digest.org wrote: > A large number of virii are being sent to Digest readers from "me" > via Denmark. Pat, many types of worms and viruses pick a random address from the sender's address book and use this to forge the From address when propagating themselves. Your address is in lots of address books, so naturally it gets used alot. Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I know that. We discussed it before. All I am trying to do now is warn *everyone* not to open any attachments sent by me. (a) I do not send attachments, and (b) people tend to open and read what I do send out and (c) I do not want to see any guys get hurt or their computers garbaged out and *think* it was on account of me. Most readers here are 'far too sophisticated' and knowledgeable to fall for the 'read this atttachment' gag any longer. I was NOT saying what I did because it was some surprise to me; the difficulty is I see many, many guys using computers who do not have the brains that God gave a goose. No offense intended, really none, but picture, if you will some young guy who saved up his money, or got some money for his birthday or Christmas and went out and bought his very first computer in the last few months. Now he or she is learning how to use email and the internet. Forget about the more esoteric aspects of networking; just learning how to send/receive email from friends and family. First day the new email account is turned on, a hundred pieces of spam with a virus or two thrown in. Or consider my mother for example: she has had her Walmart-style Mail Station for about a year now and *still* almost has a heart attack each day when she goes to read her email. 'mailstation.com' is an alias which points at Earthlink. At one point she was actually trying to write back to all the spammers asking them 'how did my email address get on your list?' and trying to be cordial and polite in getting removed. People like her and the newer, inexper- ienced guys just getting started are the ones I am concerned about. Its a rotten time to be getting into computers for the first time. PAT] ------------------------------ From: a_user2000@yahoo.com (Justin Time) Subject: Re: Factory Flaws Yield Headaches For Chip Makers Date: 23 Apr 2004 05:38:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote in message news:: > Monty Solomon wrote >> SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - For chip makers, problems on the >> factory floor are increasingly turning into big headaches in the >> executive suite. Some of the world's biggest chip makers have lost >> both money and time straightening out the extraordinarily complex >> process of turning microchip designs and discs of silicon into >> working electronics. > This is nothing new and goes back 55 years. > When IBM began building electronic computers using radio tubes, > they found that minute imperfections -- that weren't noticed in > radio usage -- resulted in errors in computing. IBM worked hard > to define requirements for computer tubes and get tube makers > to mfr them per those specs. > It took at least ten years after the invention of the transistor to > get them into computers for the reasons above. Until that point, > transistors cost _more_ than tubes despite being simpler and smaller. > Making quality transistors in volume was a very difficult challenge. > For every new solid state technology, manufacturing in volume was > tough. IBM and others spent millions building new plants, and > sometimes stuff still failed. IBM's S/360, introduced 40 years ago > and used early integrated circuitry, was delayed on account of > component problems. Ahhh -- I thought they had problems with the units so their field engineers could subsist on a diet of Coca-Cola and Toastee-Cheese crackers while the drove from site to site in the new Cadillacs they bought with their overtime! My wife still marvels at how I could take a phone call at 3:00 in the morning and start asking the person what lights were on, what switches were in what position and other basic (at that time) troubleshooting questions when I had just gotten to bed an hour before. But Cadillacs fail -- almost as fast as the body subsisting on the "Field Engineer's Lunch." Believe me -- dial tone is easier on the body. Rodgers Platt ------------------------------ From: a_user2000@yahoo.com (Justin Time) Subject: Re: FCC Rejects AT&T VOIP Petition Date: 23 Apr 2004 05:40:58 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com VOIP News wrote in message news:: > http://www.itworld.com/Man/2697/040422fccatt/ > IDG News Service 4/22/04 > Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Washington Bureau > The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected a > petition from AT&T Corp. that would have allowed the company to avoid > paying its telecommunications competitors access charges on telephone > calls partly carried on IP (Internet Protocol) networks. > Late Wednesday, the FCC announced its decision that traditional > telephone calls that start and end on the public switched telephone > network (PSTN), but are carried part of the time on AT&T's Internet > backbone, are classified as telecommunications service. Those calls > are subject to the access charges that are exchanged when a telephone > call made through one carrier ends on another carrier's network. > AT&T had asked the FCC for clarification on whether these phone calls > should be classified as information services, like most other > Internet-based traffic, and free from most FCC regulation. In > February, the FCC decided that another voice over IP (VOIP) service, > Free World Dialup, was exempt from most telecommunications > regulations. Free World Dialup, a free service, allows members to talk > to each other through software installed on their computers. The > service does not allow members to place voice calls to nonmembers. > But the FCC said AT&T's service fit squarely into the definitions of a > telecommunications service because the phone calls start and end on > the PSTN. "Today's decision is correctly decided on very narrow > grounds," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement "A > straightforward application of existing law places the long distance > telephone service, as it is factually described by AT&T, squarely in > the category of a telecommunications service." > Full story at: > http://www.itworld.com/Man/2697/040422fccatt/ Hmmm -- If I have a DSL circuit connected to Vonage or one of the others, would they then be in the telecommunications business as the beginning and end of the call travel over the PSTN? Rodgers Platt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:54:37 +0400 From: Editor Subject: Every Business In The World Will Soon Be Webcasting Says http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com Every Business In The World Will Soon Be Webcasting Says Edmonton-Based Webcast Leader Worldprofit, Inc. Alberta, Canada - April 23, 2004 (PRN): Consider this. Your business has multiple locations. You want to keep in touch with your employees but the travel is expensive, time-consuming and exhausting. Solution? Webcast. Sit down at your computer and deliver your remarks live and in living color to everyone you need to speak to. Cost for them to attend? Nothing! How about this? You're a consultant, trainer, author and deliver programs and services. Since 9/11 you've watched your markets dry up because people don't want to fly and aren't attending so many conferences. How do you reach your prospects? Easy! You webcast -- without ever leaving your home or office! Got a product or service? Growing a network marketing organization? Need to speak regularly with prospects, customers, decision makers? Then sit down at your computer and WEBCAST. Webcasting, programs delivered online, is the next huge wave from the Internet. And Worldprofit, Inc. at www.worldprofit.com is the hands down industry leader. Worldprofit, Inc. is the first to offer a completely web based online conference system that requires no specialized equipment, downloads, or sophisticated technical knowledge to set-up, use and operate. Worldprofit's LIVE Seminar and Conference Center allows for the delivery of full video presentations accessible by simply accessing a web site address. Now speakers on any subject, in any business, can talk live with incredibly clear audio and video to hundreds of participants anywhere in the world! Got customers in China, Bolivia, Germany or anywhere else? You can talk to them LIVE 24 hours a day, and it never costs them a penny! The only equipment required by the speaker is a web camera (about $50) and an Internet connection. The audience requires only an Internet connection. Speakers see and hear the LIVE or recorded presentations from the comfort of their home or office. This cutting-edge technology allows for the delivery of formal or informal presentations complete with audience interaction, guest speakers, and Slide Shows. The technology also allows the business or organization to offer seminars free to participants or as paid events. Businesses worldwide are applauding this astonishing, years-ahead-of- the-pack technology developed in Alberta - based Worldprofit, Inc. by Director of Technology George Kosch, as the way all business will be conducted online in the future! It's easy to see why. Earlier versions of webcast conferencing required long downloads, special equipment installations, and then delivered only mediocre and choppy reception. Worldprofit's system is being heralded as incredibly easy to use even by non-techies and astounding in the quality of the presentations. Bandwidth issues were also a problem in previous attempts at webcasting, but Worldprofit's LIVE Seminar and Conference Studio uses technology that virtually eliminates the bandwidth issues of the past. Even VOICE OVER IP technology cannot compete with the simplicity and superior results of Worldprofit's LIVE Seminar and Conference system. Selling ANY product, service, business opportunity? Got distributors or employees in multiple locations? Anxious to connect with prospects and customers worldwide? Running a nonprofit organization with donors and supporters you'd like to communicate with? These are all common applications for Worldprofit's superior LIVE Seminar and Conference system. For an interview with George Kosch, the software developer, call (780) 444-7477 ext 222, or email customerservice@worldprofit.com To register for the next live event and see a LIVE demonstration go to: http://worldprofit.com/webcast/register For more information, contact: George Kosch Director of Technology Worldprofit Inc. 17505 107 Ave, #205 Edmonton, AB. T5S 1E5 Tel: 780-444-7477 Fax: 780-483-8672 Email: customerservice@worldprofit.com http://www.worldprofit.com Information from Press Release Network may be freely distributed to any publication. Wherever applicable, please cite Press Release Network as the news source. DISCLAIMER: The content of each press release is the responsibility of the publishing organization and is not vetted or approved by Press Release Network prior to publication. Press Release Network is not liable directly or indirectly for any direct or consequential loss, damage or expense resulting from the material disseminated and published on the site. Subscribers are advised to check the accuracy of all press releases and to obtain their own professional advice in relation to such information. editor@pressreleasenetwork.com http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com ------------------------------ From: sdgreymont@yahoo.com (Scott) Subject: Re: VoIP Problem With Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 Date: 23 Apr 2004 05:56:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com We are experiencing a similar issue where the end party using a VOIP phone cannot hear the second party. Have you had any success on this problem? ------------------------------ From: Jabriol@excite.com (JaBrIoL) Subject: Model 820 Control Unit Date: 23 Apr 2004 06:33:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com All, Good morning, I have a Model 820 control Unit. I've notice that I can not use a power module 338E for the Unit that I have. It only works with the power module 338A. I need a Control Unit that works with the 338E. Does anyone know the comcode number for the Control Unit that function with the 338E. Does anyone have it? ------------------------------ From: Keith Subject: Re: Toll Free (1-800) Line ANI Delivery Question Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:39:42 -0400 news.sbcglobal.net wrote in message news:telecom23.199.4@telecom-digest.org: > Is it true that ANI is a guarantee service for the PRI 800 service > line and ANI cannot be blocked? I can't help you on the bulk of your question, but I can answer this part. In most cases, ANI should be guaranteed, and should work, but there are some exceptions. There are(were?) ways to force an ANI failure. One method is to have an operator place the 800 call for you. Dial your local operator, or long distance operator, and ask her to place the call for you. It seems that since the call apparently originates from her position, ANI simply isn't forwarded at all, or in some cases only the area code is transmitted. This can be tested with an 800 ANI verification service. Keith [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But the operator always sees *your* number, and just as with calls to '911' which go through the operator (who does not dial '911' usually but the seven-digit number 911 translates into [i.e. in Chicago for example, '911' = 312-787-0000]) the operator *theoretically* announces calls (to 911 or 800-whatever) by passing the calling number to the called party. I say 'theoreticlly* because many operators are lazy; others are too busy to hold up the calling party's line for a ring-back as needed. Keith, your system will work as long as the operator is not an eager-beaver perfectionist, which most of them are not. Most do not even know how to put a 'shoe' on the line to keep it 'up' until they decide to release it. PAT] ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:38:03 -0400 Subject: Motorola Introduces New Cable Modems Designed for Wireless Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,4117_3474_23,00.html Motorola Introduces New Cable Modems Designed for Wireless Home Networking and Internet Telephony Motorola extends its market leadership in the broadband-powered connected home with two new products for customers worldwide. HORSHAM, Pa., 22 April 2004 Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today unveiled two powerful new cable modems for the connected home, the Motorola SBV5120 and the Motorola SBG940. Both products are compliant with the latest industry standards and extend the feature set of the company's proven platform for IP services, integrating capabilities such as voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony or wireless home networking. The Motorola SBV5120 'Integrated Solution for Telephony and Data': The Motorola SBV5120 is the newest member of Motorola's family of telephony cable modems, providing an integrated solution for voice telephony services and high-speed Internet access. The product combines a multimedia telephony adapter with a PacketCableTM-compliant cable modem which was recently certified for DOCSISŪ 2.0 and 1.1 (CW28), and Euro-DOCSIS 2.0. The Motorola SBV5120 allows consumers to use their existing home telephone wiring to power two lines of voice service, and supports all class features including: Basic call functionality Three-way calling Caller ID Call forwarding Voicemail messaging Optional battery back-up The Motorola SBG940 'Simplifying Wireless Home Networks' The Motorola SBG940 simplifies the process of building a wireless home network. By bringing together two of Motorola's inherent strengths its worldwide leadership in wireless communications and its technology expertise in building broadband networks, the Motorola SBG940 saves consumers from the headache of integrating multiple devices when building a robust home network. The SBG940 also offers enhanced features, including: Integrated 802.11g Wireless Access Point Integrated DOCSIS 2.0-certified / Euro-DOCSIS 2.0-certified Cable Modem Recently CableHome 1.0 certified (CW28) Integrated four port 10/100 Ethernet Switch Integrated Advanced firewall protection USB port for a PC connection Motorola will demonstrate DOCSIS 2.0-certified versions of these products at the NCTA 2004 trade show (2-5 May, New Orleans, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center) at the company's booth #3323. In addition, Motorola's wireless gateway technology is being used at NCTA to enable wireless Internet access in the shows designated Wi-Fi area. The company will also demonstrate Euro-DOCSIS 2.0-certified versions of these products, the SBV5120E and SBG940E at ANGA Cable 2004, (11-13 May 2004, Kln, Germany) at Motorola stand B4, Hall 13.1. How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:41:12 -0400 Subject: China VOIP Operator Could Face Years in Jail Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20040423002 By Martyn Williams IDG News Service, Tokyo Bureau A man suspected of managing an illegal voice-over-IP (VOIP) telephone service in China faces a prison sentence of at least five years if convicted, according to a China Daily report. The man, identified only by his surname Zou [cq] and home town of Qingdao in eastern China, was arrested in March this year after police and telecommunication officials found a number of facilities including an illegal Internet gateway, said the report. The police investigation apparently began in February when Zou was advertising his cheaper call service to foreign companies, it said. Full story at: http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20040423002 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:04:01 -0400 Subject: Jeff Pulver's Blog: IP-MoU: Getting Started Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/index.html The Jeff Pulver Blog Notes, comments and observations April 23, 2004 IP-MoU: Getting Started The IP-MoU ["Internet Protocol Memorandum of Understanding"] website launched earlier this week and the momentum surrounding this activity is starting to grow. The IP-MoU is an international consortium of IP-based service and application providers intent on quickly realizing the promise of interconnecting ubiquitous IP communications. The IP-MoU will adopt and implement common principles designed to promote three primary objectives: Promote the interoperability, interconnection and ubiquity of IP-based service and applications. Establish processes to ensure that IP-based services and applications comply with local, national and international laws and social objectives such as: Emergency Response; Law enforcement; Access by persons with disabilities. Ensure that consumers worldwide are assured basic rights as users of IP communications: - Freedom to Access Content: Consumers should have access to their choice of legal content; - Freedom to Use Applications: Consumers should be able to run applications of their choice; - Freedom to Attach Personal Devices: Consumers should be permitted to attach any devices they choose to the connection in their homes; - Freedom to Obtain Service Plan Information: Consumers should receive meaningful information regarding their service plans; and Protection of Consumer Privacy: Consumers should know that their personal information is safeguarded, except to the extent necessary to abide by law enforcement obligations. The next meeting will be taking place on April 26th. Posted by jeff at 07:19 AM The Jeff Pulver Blog: http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/index.html ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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