From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu May 20 13:55:09 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i4KHt9T01938; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200405201755.i4KHt9T01938@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 #250 TELECOM Digest Thu, 20 May 2004 13:55:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 250 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson New York Defines Vonage as Telco Provider (VOIP News) New York Classifies Vonage as Phone Company (VOIP News) Dorman Tells of AT&T's Advances in VoIP, and Wireless (VOIP News) Jeff Pulver Statement on New York Public Services Commission (VOIP News) New York Classifies Vonage as Phone Company (Alex) Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area (Justin Time) Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area (Steven J Sobol) Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area (Kenneth P. Stox) Re: Geico Sues Google, Overture Over Trademarks (Clarence Dold) Re: Geico Sues Google, Overture Over Trademarks (jmayson@nyx.net) Re: Unconventional Parsing (Henry) Re: Unconventional Parsing (DevilsPGD) Re: Unconventional Parsing (Clarence Dold) Re: Canada to Criminalize Watching Foreign TV and Radio Programming (Wales) Re: Revving the VOIP Market - Vonage Cuts its Prices (DevilsPGD) 802.16(Wi-Max) (Gangadhar) Re: Question About Verizon Home Voicemail (Temporary FL@L&ER) Re: The Making of an Idol (David Quinton) Re: Ventures Aim to Cut Cost of Overseas Cell Calls (Ray Normandeau) Re: Best Consumer Answering Machine? (Ray Normandeau) Infozech/TransNexus Launch Product for Small Service Providers (D Charles) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Specifically, the commission noted a core public interest in ensuring public safety and network reliability, but it also suggested only minimal regulation would be advised because of the rapid growth of the new field. Full story at: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040519S0012 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: Wed, 19 May 2004 23:49:53 -0400 Subject: New York Classifies Vonage as Phone Company Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5216639.html By Evan Hansen CNET News.com Handing a setback to emerging Internet phone services, the New York State Public Service Commission on Wednesday ruled that Vonage Holdings is a telephone company and thus subject to state regulation. In a statement announcing its decision, the agency sought to soften the blow, saying that it nevertheless hoped to apply "only minimal regulations to ensure that it does not interfere with the rapid, widespread deployment of new technologies." New York is the latest state to weigh in on regulation of so-called voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, a hot-button policy issue that has some local officials worried about potential tax losses as the technology grows in popularity. Full story at: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5216639.html ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:05:02 -0400 Subject: Dorman Tells of AT&T's Advances in VoIP, Wireless and Alternatives Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/displayarticle1173.html AUSTIN, Texas -/May 20, 2004 The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- AT&T Chairman and CEO David W. Dorman, addressing shareowners at the company's 119th Annual Meeting yesterday, said AT&T is enriching its array of services and choices for consumers and businesses to assure the company's position of industry leadership for years to come. Speaking at the Austin Convention Center here, Dorman cited AT&T's continued technological and strategic progress while transforming into the industry's leader in Internet Protocol (IP) services and continuing to innovate for businesses and consumers. "We're confident that we have the right strategy in place to position this company for leadership and success over the long-term," Dorman said. "We're on the right path, and we fully intend to stay the course." The most recent example: AT&T's announcement Tuesday that it has chosen Sprint as a wireless network supplier, enabling AT&T to offer wireless voice and data services to consumers and businesses nationwide. This agreement will help AT&T compete and give customers what they increasingly desire -- mobility -- while AT&T also will gain a unique opportunity to build a wireless business quickly via the power and reach of its brand and an existing customer base of more than 30 million. AT&T has been aggressively expanding its business model beyond long distance, Dorman said. The company is investing to create a single global IP network to better serve enterprise and consumer customers. The delivery of new and advanced application services over AT&T's core IP backbone remains central to the company's customer strategy, Dorman said. Full story at: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/displayarticle1173.html ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:06:13 -0400 Subject: Jeff Pulver Statement on New York Public Services Commission Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com From The Jeff Pulver Blog at http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/index.html May 19, 2004 New York State Rules Vonage is a "Telecom Company" Earlier today the New York Public Services Commission announced their decision that Vonage is a telecom company under NY State rules. Specifically the Commission determined that " ...Vonage owns and manages equipment that is used to provide telephone service to Vonage's customers and to connect Vonage's customers to the customers of other telephone corporations via their public networks and thus, like other owners of telecommunications-provisioning equipment, is subject to the NYS Public Service Law." This is a very troubling development. I am quite disappointed to see that New York State decided to apply legacy telephone regulation to Internet based communications while the FCC is in the process of figuring out the right regulatory treatment for VoIP. Between this decision in New York and a pending decision in California, these new developments may lead to the introduction of new regulatory barriers that in fact could slow the adoption of IP Communication services and delay the extraordinary benefits available from such services. This is not a good day for Telecom Policy in New York. Posted by jeff at 05:10 PM [Comment: I'm guessing that the ILEC's in New York State had something to do with this, and I'm also assuming that Vonage will probably take this to court as they did in Minnesota. I hope the precedent set in Minnesota will be followed by the judges in New York, or that the FCC or Congress will simply strike down state level regulation. As far as I know, no VoIP company is headquartered in New York, so it would seem to me that every VoIP call would be inherently interstate and subject to FCC regulation (if subject to regulation at all), and not to New York PSC regulation.] ------------------------------ From: alex@totallynerd.com (Alex) Subject: New York Classifies Vonage as Phone Company Date: 20 May 2004 08:30:42 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5216639.html I'm still waiting for them to be available in my area in Texas, but I'm now wondering if they'll be changing their rates or services if other states do as New York is doing. FYI, Alex ------------------------------ From: a_user2000@yahoo.com (Justin Time) Subject: Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area Date: 20 May 2004 05:20:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Daryl R Gibson wrote in message news:: > I was surprised a couple of months ago to find a Verizon-branded > payphone at the local 7-Eleven, complete with the Bell logo. I since have > seen other Verizon-branded payphones at 7-11 locations in Nevada. Both > here (Utah) and there (Nevada) are non-Verizon (landline) areas. I look at > the phone and it's a pre-divesture Western Electric phone, with a new > Verizon coinbox cover. > I'm interested if other people in other states have also seen this. I > note Verizon has also started distributing a phone book in this area, > which is served by Qwest (U.S. West/Mountain Bell). Qwest has never > used the Bell logo, which was only briefly used in transition by > U.S. West shortly after the Bell breakup, but you would assume there > would be some restrictions on its use in areas where the RBOC had the > rights to it. > It seems to me that Verizon would not be building up brand visibility > without a purpose. Verizon Wireless operates in this area (former > Airtouch/former U.S. West Cellular), so maybe that's enough. > Daryl Gibson Verizon has a contract with the Southland Corporation to provide pay phones at all their locations. Much as Ameritech has/had a contract with McDonalds to provide payphones in their stores. Rodgers Platt ------------------------------ From: Steven J Sobol Subject: Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:21:55 -0500 Daryl R Gibson wrote: > I was surprised a couple of months ago to find a Verizon-branded > payphone at the local 7-Eleven, complete with the Bell logo. I since have > seen other Verizon-branded payphones at 7-11 locations in Nevada. Both > here (Utah) and there (Nevada) are non-Verizon (landline) areas. I look at > the phone and it's a pre-divesture Western Electric phone, with a new > Verizon coinbox cover. > I'm interested if other people in other states have also seen this. Cuyahoga Falls (Akron), Ohio. Bell Atlantic-branded phones at the Sheetz on Steels Corners Road. HOWEVER, Sheetz is a Pennsylvania company and PA is Bell Atlantic territory, so perhaps this isn't so weird. Cuyahoga Falls/Summit County is SBC, but parts of neighboring Medina and Portage counties are Verizon (former GTE, not former Bell Titanic). Walgreens in Cleveland have Cincinnati Bell phones outside. There are no other sites in Northeast Ohio that have Cincinnati Bell phones, as far as I know. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, Apple Valley, CA PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net Domain Names, $9.95/yr, 24x7 service: http://DomainNames.JustThe.net/ "someone once called me a sofa, but i didn't feel compelled to rush out and buy slip covers." -adam brower * Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86, Windows 98/2000/2003 ------------------------------ From: Kenneth P. Stox Organization: Imaginary Landscape, LLC. Subject: Re: Verizon Payphones in non-Verizon Area Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 04:02:24 GMT Daryl R Gibson wrote: > I'm interested if other people in other states have also seen this. Just saw one at a gas station down the street here in Westmont, Illinois ( a western suburb of Chicago ). ------------------------------ From: dold@GeicoXSues.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: Geico Sues Google, Overture Over Trademarks Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Organization: a2i network Monty Solomon wrote: > The insurer charged the two companies with infringing on its > trademarks when they sold them as keywords to Geico's rivals, so that File suit first, ask if the premise is correct later. I believe that the participants in Google's paid advertising select their own keywords. You don't "buy" keywords from a search engine. And if Google is selling this one, they aren't doing a very good job, since they only seem to have one buyer. A Google search for "I hate Geico" shows up 25 listings, and one "Sponsored Link" on the right side. It goes to geico-comnn.com. I would think that would be the target of Geico's wrath, a misuse of their (presumably) trademarked name as part of someone else's domain name. Since that page is merely a listing of competitive insurance companies, it would seem like a misuse of "geico" to me. The only entry for "geico" at dictionary.com is as an acronym for "Government Employees Insurance Company". Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The weird thing to me is the company name (or acronym) is phonetically pronounced G-eye-co yet the little reptile mascot's name is pronounced 'g-ekk-o'? To the biologists among us: is there such a reptile as a gekko/g-eye-co? The little guy looks more like a baby frog to me. They have got some very clever commercials on TV-land in any event, all based on the "I have good news, I saved money" theme. PAT] ------------------------------ From: jmayson@nyx.net Subject: Re: Geico Sues Google, Overture Over Trademarks Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:33:05 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com > Although Geico marketed largely to government employees, it was not > a government agency. See Sounds like it was a civilian version of USAA. USAA caters to military officers and their dependents. Military folks moved from state to state and often had trouble getting car insurance, so former officers started the company. John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------ From: henry999@eircom.net (Henry) Subject: Re: Unconventional Parsing Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:08:43 +0300 Organization: Elisa Internet customer Barry Margolin wrote: > Carl Moore wrote: >> telephone number... >> 888-3737-888 . >> "Officials are promoting the unconventional parsing of the phone >> number in the hope that people can remember it better that way." > Isn't there a standup comic who does a bit about people who pronounce > phone numbers wrong, with the pauses in unusual places? 'Wrong'? Why 'wrong'?? (Just because it's 'un-American'?) You are obviously unaware that in many, many places in the world, telephone numbers are other than the (w)-(xxx)-yyy-zzzz gringo formula. Cheers, Henry ------------------------------ From: DevilsPGD Subject: Re: Unconventional Parsing Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy! Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 06:11:29 GMT In message <> Barry Margolin did ramble: > Isn't there a standup comic who does a bit about people who pronounce > phone numbers wrong, with the pauses in unusual places? Can someone > remind me who it is? Fat guy, has/had a FOX sitcom I think? I see dumb people, walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they wanna see. They don't know they're dumb. ------------------------------ From: dold@Unconventi.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: Unconventional Parsing Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:15:45 UTC Organization: a2i network Barry Margolin wrote: > Isn't there a standup comic who does a bit about people who pronounce > phone numbers wrong, with the pauses in unusual places? Can someone > remind me who it is? Long, long, ago, I moved into a new apartment. I had ordered phone service, and happened to see a telco guy next door, where people were also moving in. I asked him if my apartment was on his list. He said no, but if I called the dispatcher and told them he was nearby, on job something-or-other, he might be able to get scheduled to turn my service on. I tried repeating the nonsensical number that he gave me back to him, and he looked at me like I was a tad slow. He was reciting a phone number, but I was new to the area, and didn't recognize the area code or prefix. There was a pair of digits in there somewhere, and my cadence was off as I grouped around the pair instead of at the invisble hyphens. Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: richw@richw.org (Rich Wales) Subject: Re: Canada to Criminalize Watching Foreign TV and Radio Programming Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:37:16 UTC Mark Crispin wrote: > I personally witnessed an incident in which US newspapers were > blocked at the [Canadian] border and US TV channels on Canadian > cable censored, because they covered something that the Canadian > government did not want disclosed to its population. Of course, > individuals brought in newspapers and you could tune in the US > channels over the air, and find out what the Canadian government > didn't want you to hear. But then again, in the mid-1930s you could > listen to the BBC in Germany without getting arrested. I assume Mark was alluding to the Robert Pickton murder case in the Vancouver area -- and/or to the Paul Bernardo / Karla Homolka murder case in the early 1990's in Ontario. In both cases, Canadian judges imposed "publication bans" (gag orders) on the media, primarily in an attempt to prevent prospective jurors from being hopelessly tainted by pretrial publicity. Not surprisingly, there was no way that American journalists could possibly restrain themselves in the face of such sordid, salacious filth, and both gag orders were ignored by the US media. In all fairness, Mark, I really feel it's a distortion to refer to situations like these as government censorship, or accuse Canada of acting like a fascist police state, without offering any background. In case anyone is interested, here are references to some of my own USENET postings on this topic (mostly about the Bernardo / Homolka case). http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030519165935.J23660.richw%40jessejames.Stanford.EDU http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=19961230003058.richw%40yank.kitchener.on.ca http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=39egfb%24roe%40panix.com http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=38106d%24cqf%40ia.mks.com http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1994Jan26.133236.2591%40mks.com http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1993Jul10.042222.8977%40mks.com Mark Crispin also wrote: > There is nothing illegal under US law in taking your > legitimate Bell ExpressVu receivers into the US and > using them in the US. There may, in fact, technically be such a prohibition -- hidden in an obscure FCC regulation [47 CFR 25.131(j); 47 CFR 25.137(a)] that appears to say that a satellite receiving station used to receive transmissions from a non-US-licensed service must have a special FCC license, and that the granting of such a license by the FCC will be contingent upon whether the other country involved allows US competition in its own market. I've never been able, though, to get a reliable opinion on whether the above FCC regulations apply to private individuals, or just to commercial entities who might want to rebroadcast foreign programs in the US. I tried asking the FCC about this once, via e-mail, a few years ago, but the reply I received was wildly off point (it was clear that they completely misunderstood my question), and my subsequent attempts to get a proper answer were ignored. Even if these regulations do technically prohibit grey-market dish use in the US, I suspect it's a non-issue, because the FCC probably has neither the desire nor the resources to mount any enforcement measures against private individuals. And even if they did, it's not at all clear to me whether the regs would pass constitutional muster in the eyes of the courts. Rich Wales richw@richw.org http://www.richw.org ------------------------------ From: DevilsPGD Subject: Re: Revving the VOIP Market - Vonage Cuts its Prices Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy! Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 06:10:15 GMT In message <> VOIP News did ramble: > Lou Holder, a vice president at Vonage, says the cost-cutting move was > a result of "economies of scale. To build the customer relationship, > you don't want to nickel-and-dime your customers. You want to be > fair." My one complaint about Vonage is that it feels like I'm being nickeled and dimed to death with service charges whenever I change anything (add a virtual number, add another phone line, etc) I've paid about $150 in setup charges, fees, shipping charges and whatever else they've dreamed up for three lines (I'm using one as a fax, but $12.99CDN/month for a fax line is a ripoff compared to $14.99/month for a 500 minute plan. The extra minutes will pay for themselves, and the call forward after 30 seconds and network availability number features are important to me. I see dumb people, walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they wanna see. They don't know they're dumb. ------------------------------ From: ganga_mg@rediffmail.com (Gangadhar) Subject: 802.16(Wi-Max) Date: 20 May 2004 00:46:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi, I am just doing some literature survey on this WI-Max and I got few doubts since I am new to wireless technology. Can you tell me what is the licensed and unlicensed band in wireless communication? The 802.16 standards say that throughput it provides is about 70 Mbps is it shared by all the users of MAN? And it says the area covered is around 50 km, since the frequency of operation is 11 Ghz is it possible to cover 50 km? Thanks, gangadhar ------------------------------ From: Temporary FL@L&ER Subject: Re: Question About Verizon Home Voicemail Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:39:12 -0500 Reply-To: w9vhe@arrl.net Unless I am mistaken, on 19 May 2004 11:41:56 -0700, dahauss@unlimitedsounds.com (Dave Hauss) wrote: > I have Verizon home voicemail and am trying to find out if there is > any possible way I can have it sent a text message to my cell phone > when a voicemail comes in. Right now, the only thing verizon told me > it can do is ring a number when a voicemail comes in. I don't want it > to do that. Any ideas? If you have the enhanced home voice mail, you can have it dial your cellphone -- don't think there is any way for it to do a speech-to-text conversion. All it will do is call whatever number you program it to, then it will *replay* the message over your cell. That's what you have, not what you want, right? Use the usual techniques if you wish to reply via email. Molon Labe! ------------------------------ From: David Quinton Subject: Re: The Making of an Idol Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:51:24 +0100 On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:19:03 -0400, Charles Cryderman wrote: > With SS7 implemented there is no need to actually complete a > call. What I don't understand is with ANI why are they accepting more > then one call per number. With SS7 and the abilities of computers it > should set up so only one vote per telephone number and that > information be put out. If they truly wanted to know which performed > the best it would be limited this way. The congestion would be reduced > and demon dialers would be useless. I think I read that, with World Idol, 1-800 numbers were used. In the UK, 090 numbers were used - so much money was made from the calls! Multiple voting therefore is encouraged ... > Now my disclaimer, I have watched it only a few times and found it > unworthily of my time. If you want to see quality programming watch > the Fox show "24". Agreed. UK Computer stuff from Morgan Auctions. Bids start at £1. No reserve. Sign up NOW! Track a Mobile phone: . ------------------------------ From: rayta@msn.com (Ray Normandeau) Subject: Re: Ventures Aim to Cut Cost of Overseas Cell Calls to Pennies Date: 20 May 2004 08:07:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com VOIP News wrote in message news:: > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/business/17voip.html?ex=1085457600&en=fec11120b8ab2792&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE > By KEN BELSON and MATT RICHTEL > Now several entrepreneurs want to use Internet technology to reduce > to pennies the cost of using cellphones to call overseas. To call out of the county on my cell phone I use https://www.onesuite.com/ It is basically a prepaid phone card but you can do away with the PIN for calls from a phone you use all the time. Program it as a speed dial, you don't even have to remember their #. No monthly fee or minimum. If you use the promotion code "ray60273" we both get some free miniutes. If you call one country all the time, there may even be phone cards you can buy from a store catering to that countries nationals here in the USA offering even a lower rate. ------------------------------ From: rayta@msn.com (Ray Normandeau) Subject: Re: Best Consumer Answering Machine? Date: 20 May 2004 08:23:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com zmike6 wrote in message news:: > A google search suggested that this group had the most discussion of > answering machines. My 10-year-old dual microcassette unit is acting > flaky, and I fear will have to be replaced soon. I have three TADs and no longer use tape. I sometimes get paid for public speaking and I want my voice on my TAD to sound good. Potential bookers must be impressed by my voice on the TAD. Altho I have 2 TAD that were originally $400 each, Muratec VF1000, I am equally impressed w/the voice quality of my GE TAD which I got for under twenty dollars a few years ago at Best Buy. Underside it looks like it indicates it is a model 1906. ------------------------------ Reply-To: From: Douglas Charles Subject: Infozech/TransNexus Launch Product For Small Service Providers Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:29:40 +0530 'The Joint Solution Provides Pre-Paid and Wholesale Billing to a Carrier Class IP Interconnect Solution for the Lowest Price' Washington DC, May 14, 2004: TransNexus and Infozech Software Inc today announced that they have partnered to provide a standards based, complete end-to-end solution to manage IP Interconnect and offer related wholesale and prepaid billing services to new and emerging carriers. The solution brings together the industry leading open IP interconnection solutions from TransNexus and Carrier Access Billing & Settlement solution from Infozech. The integrated solution allows Carriers and ITSPs to manage their Interconnect in a secure fashion and be able to bill for it in near real time. With this offering the carriers can implement a retail pre-paid solution and a low-cost wholesale IP interconnect solution for approximately $60,000 USD for 5 million minutes monthly. The TransNexus solution provides security, multi-vendor H323 interoperability, routing and collection of accounting information from a central platform while Infozech's iCAS provides for retail and wholesale billing and Settlement with interconnecting partners and performs bill audits for revenue assurance on a Windows platform. The TransNexus platform provides iCAS with the Call Details in near real time for the purpose of rating and balance updates. The solution also manages the wholesale credit control. Infozech's CEO Mr. Ankur Lal comments, "The partnership enables new and emerging next generation carriers an affordable and reliable end-to-end Interconnect solution. They no longer need to plan 100's of thousand dollars (USD) to enable a regional pre-paid and wholesale IP telephony solution. This offer is intended to enable low cost calling on a worldwide basis " Speaking on the occasion, TransNexus Vice President, Mr. Frank Estes remarked, "In the era of deregulation, TransNexus and Infozech have provided an open, efficient, carrier-class and low cost platform for service providers to quickly become international carriers for their customer base. We see this market as an underserved market by traditional proprietary, large equipment and billing system providers". About TransNexus: TransNexus provides VoIP interconnect products for H.323 and SIP networks. The NexSRS(TM) server provides interdomain routing, number translation and secure access control. For more information please contact: TransNexus Inc Tel: +1 (404)-526-6060 info@transnexus.com www.transnexus.com About Infozech: Infozech As a leader in Telecom services and billing solutions, Infozech is focused on providing complete e-commerce automation and integration for any Telecom Service provider. 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