From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Jun 1 23:06:44 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i5236iF20293; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:06:44 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406020306.i5236iF20293@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 #272 TELECOM Digest Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:07:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 272 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Internet Phone Calls Reach Dead Air When Dialing 9-1-1 Service (VOIP News) Report: Broadband VOIP Growing (VOIP News) Carrier ENUM Gains Ground (VOIP News) Will Providers Provide Equally? (VOIP News) Collector of Western Union/Edison Stock Tickers Wants Help (SECS) Word Documents Without MS Word (Julian Thomas) Employment Opportunity: Telecom Trainer (recruiter_it_20) Re: AT| Commands (Clarence Dold) Re: AT| Commands (Al Gillis) Re: 'Pirate Act' Raises Civil Rights Concerns (J Kelly) Re: Phishing: Latest Spam/Scam; Very Dangerous (Ray Normandeau) Special Offer From MIT For Father's Day (Technology Review Editor) 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 are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:54:26 -0400 Subject: Internet Phone Calls Reach Dead Air When Dialing 9-1-1 Service Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1086090932246592.xml MIKE FRANCIS Consumers hear a lot from Internet phone services about low rates, call-waiting, virtual phone numbers and other features. But there is one thing they aren't likely to hear: Your phone may not connect to a 9-1-1 center, and if it does, the emergency dispatcher won't know where you are. "It's a huge public safety issue," said Jeff Johnson, chief of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, which serves much of Washington County. Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VoIP as Internet telephone service is known, is a still-developing, much-hyped technology that essentially e-mails your spoken words via the Internet rather than through public phone lines. Full story at: http://oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1086090932246592.xml 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: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:56:10 -0400 Subject: Report: Broadband VOIP Growing Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.boardwatch.com/document.asp?doc_id=53662 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- With Vonage adding nearly 20k new lines a month and AT&T's CallVantage promising to have 1 million subscribers by end of 2005, the U.S. Broadband IP Telephony market will have strong growth over the next several years, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm reports that, while there were only 144k subscribers at the end of 2003, lower service cost and compelling new communications features are driving service adoption. Full story at: http://www.boardwatch.com/document.asp?doc_id=53662 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:18:09 -0400 Subject: Carrier ENUM Gains Ground Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=53617 An industry is quietly forming around carriers' use of ENUM, a standard protocol for resolving phone numbers into IP addresses. Originally developed to link consumers' phone numbers to various IP services, the protocol is instead proving useful for interconnecting carriers' voice-over-IP (VOIP) networks. The so-called carrier ENUM business is poised to take off in parallel with VOIP services. That's because ENUM lets carriers interconnect VOIP networks directly and avoid access fees for transmitting calls over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (see Cable Cadre Talks VOIP ). Consider the following hypothetical scenario. A user of Vonage Holdings Corp VOIP service calls a user of 8x8 Inc. VOIP service, and the call must travel over AT&T Corp. PSTN network to get from one VOIP network to the other. As a result, Vonage incurs a fee. But if 8x8 puts its customer's phone numbers in an ENUM registry, the call from Vonage can trigger a query to the registry, find the target phone number, and connect directly to 8x8's network without crossing the PSTN. Full story at: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=53617 ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:23:42 -0400 Subject: Will Providers Provide Equally? Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58685-2004May26.html By Jonathan Krim Among the many things the Internet does with incredible efficiency is breed conspiracy theories. So as the great network has evolved, concerns about whether the companies that control the Internet's pipes might one day discriminate among what Web sites you could see, or whose movies you could download, have often been dismissed as silly, impossible or both. The response from network owners, particularly the cable-television companies that provide increasing percentages of high-speed Internet connections, has always been: "Is there evidence that we've ever done this?" For the most part, no. But the concept of "network neutrality" has not just been a worry of the usual lineup of consumer groups and liberal Internet think tanks. In a controversial report issued early this month, Yankee analysts looked at one of today's hottest technologies, voice service over the Internet, also known as VoIP. Specifically, the analysts were pessimistic that the biggest VoIP player today, New Jersey-based Vonage Corp., could survive once the cable and telephone companies that provide most broadband Internet connections jump into the VoIP game, as they are beginning to do. Primarily, the analysts said, the Internet operators would effectively bundle VoIP with other offerings, making it hard for independents such as Vonage to compete. But the analysts also said this: "It may seem like a dodgy competitive tactic, but broadband network providers could slow down Vonage's service. As subscribers increase their use of latency sensitive and graphic rich ... traffic, broadband providers could give network precedence to their own revenue-generating services. Unless Vonage pays fees to the network provider, there is no reason the operator should not make the service a lower priority on the network." This is a bit chilling to Vonage chief executive Jeffrey Citron. "If that happens in this world, the value of the Internet would instantaneously be massively devalued," he said, because it could happen with any kind of content or application. Although Vonage has seen no actions to degrade its service in the United States, its engineers are suspicious about some complaints it has received from customers in Canada. Full story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58685-2004May26.html (Free registration required) ------------------------------ From: SECS Subject: Collector of Western Union/Edison Stock Tickers Wants Help Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:53:21 -0400 Hello, I am a collector of Western Union's and Edison's stock tickers. Would you happen to know where I might find more information on them in the Western Union archives. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Pierre Blanc ------------------------------ From: Julian Thomas Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:05:09 -0400 Subject: Word Documents Without MS Word Jack said: > I realize that, but Wordpad won't always read a Word document (or won't > display certain types of embedded images), and also not everyone uses a > Windows-based system. I was thinking that maybe the Linux and Macintosh > users might need some way to access these documents, but then again, > perhaps they already have some way of dealing with .doc files? There are several alternatives. Open office is one, and Lotus Wordpro will also read Word documents. I think recent versions of WordPerfect may do this also. Julian Thomas: jt@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State! Boardmember of POSSI.org - Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc http://www.possi.org With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -Request for Comments: 1925 IOOF ------------------------------ From: recruiter_it_20 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:02:39 -0000 Subject: Employment Opportunity: Telecom Trainer! Reply-To: telecom-news@yahoogroups.com Hi, We have openings for Corporate Trainer "Telecom Training" professionals with 5-8 years of experience, for one of our client "Software & Training Company" Based in Mumbai (www.tatainfotech.com). JOB SPECIFICATION: Experience: 5-8 years Edn. Qualification: BE or Btech in Electronics and Telecommunications Skills Required: THIS POSITION REQUIRES SOUND CONCEPTUAL AND THEOROTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF GSM and CDMA TECHNOLOGIES. Experience on OMC-R, BSC and XCDR software upgrades, OMC administration, reparenting of sites, database backups, BSS trouble shooting, site layouts, drawings. 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Best Regards, Rely-On Staffing Ph:-+91-11-51621060, 51621787 E-Mail: info@rely-ongroup.com ------------------------------ From: dold@ATXXComman.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: AT| Commands Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:11:40 UTC Organization: a2i network jdj wrote: > Where can I find a list of "AT|" commands? AT commands vary widely from one vendor to another once you get beyond the very old Hayes-AT command set. Did you literally mean AT| ? If so, that would be vendor specific. http://www.modemhelp.net/basicatcommand.shtml Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: Al Gillis Subject: Re: AT Commands Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:26:20 -0700 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Try this: http://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm jdj wrote in message news:telecom23.271.15@telecom-digest.org: > Where can I find a list of "AT|" commands? ------------------------------ From: J Kelly Subject: Re: 'Pirate Act' Raises Civil Rights Concerns Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:22:42 -0500 Organization: http://newsguy.com Reply-To: jkelly@newsguy.com On Fri, 28 May 2004 01:42:52 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote: > One influential proponent of the Pirate Act is urging precisely that. > "Tens of thousands of continuing civil enforcement actions might be > needed to generate the necessary deterrence," Sen. Orrin Hatch, > R-Utah, said when announcing his support for the bill. "I doubt that > any nongovernmental organization has the resources or moral authority > to pursue such a campaign." Orrin Hatch is a recording artist so in my opinion has a little conflict of interest in all of this. This is the same guy that wanted to destroy music downloaders machines last year. ------------------------------ From: rayta@msn.com (Ray Normandeau) Subject: Re: Phishing: Latest Spam/Scam; Very Dangerous Date: 1 Jun 2004 19:18:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com jdj wrote in message news:: > And don't think you're safe just because the info you discovered was > stolen from you has not been used in the past few years. "It hasn't > been used yet" means just that and not "therefore it will never be > used". Someone tried to use a credit card number that I had gotten years before but never activated. 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