From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Jun 3 10:29:50 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i53EToo08604; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:29:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:29:50 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406031429.i53EToo08604@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 #274 TELECOM Digest Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:30:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 274 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson LAPD Suspect Saved by Nextel and a TV Video (Danny Burstein) Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times (Felis Inferis) Re: International Dialing to the UK in 1978/79 (John Levine) Re: International Dialing to the UK in 1978/79 (David Quinton) Re: Red-Flag Case Gets Green Light (Gordon S. Hlavenka) Caller ID For Pocket PC (dspgeek) Re: AT| Commands (Clarence Dold) How to Tell Which Cellular Company "Owns" Specific Prefix? (Tee) Re: WW II Britain-U.S. Telephone Links? (R. T. Wurth) Vonage Slashes Price of Net Telephony Kit (VOIP News) Cable TV Operators' VoIP Threatens Bells (VOIP News) New Global Telecom Deploys Kagoor Network's Session Border (VOIP News) Spam and Virii Continue Unabated, Getting Worse IMO (TELECOM Digest 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. 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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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Danny Burstein Subject: LAPD Suspect Saved by Nextel and a TV Video Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:14:30 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC On the ABC-tv morning semi-news show, Good Morning America just now, Thurs 03-June-2004. Story of a guy on death row [a] in LA. Cops had an eyewitness ... [a] sounds a bit early for that given the event was just a year ago, but that's what they said. On 12-May-2003 a teenage girl was shot to death. She was a witness to an earlier murder. Detectives bust the alleged original murderer's brother, Juan Catalan, figuring he wasted the girl. His girlfriend claims he was with her at a Dodger game the same time, even has the ticket stubs, but that doesn't keep him out of jail. Especially since the LAPD has an eyewitness. His lawyer finds out HBO was shooting video for one of their TV shows ("curb your enthusiasm"). Convinces HBO to let him see the outtakes. And sure enough, his client is there. They play the tape in the courtroom and the judge kicks him loose. Ob telecom: the tape clip was about an hour off the murder, so wasn't an absolute defense. His lawyer also subpoened Nextel's cellular records, which showed Catalan' phone had made a call at the same time the murder took place, and it routed through the tower right outside the stadium. (I don't know if Nextel also had records of the more or less every ten minute location pings or if the lawyer knew about those. No mention on the tv interview). Ahhh ... a story in the LA Times. "The film had time codes showing that it was 9:10 p.m., about an hour before the shooting. And cellphone records showed that Catalan was still in the vicinity of Dodger Stadium at the time of the killing. "When (defense attorney) Melnik introduced that evidence, the judge dismissed the case and freed Catalan last January. "If he'd stayed home and watched the game on television, he'd have been in big trouble," Melnik said. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-curb3jun03,1,452216.story?coll=la-commun-los_angeles_metro _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I imagine police were just sick about it weren't they ... any time a minority person gets out of prison or off death row after police have already declared the person 'guilty' of whatever, it usually is very upsetting to them, when some 'liberal' judge decides to go by the facts in the case rather than popular opinion. I certainly hope Catalan sues police for a few million dollars, although they dont care; the taxpayers will pay it anyway. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Felis Inferis Subject: Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 18:12:54 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com On 2 Jun 2004 10:24:47 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote: > hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote: > But a big exception was the McDonald's fast food chain. Roy Kroc, its > builder, forbid payphones at the McD's. The reason was that he didn't > want kids hanging out at the outlets making/receiving phone calls on > the pay phone. While Kroc wanted the business of the teenagers, he > didn't want them hanging around and making trouble. His initial > design was drive up, buy, drive away, no hanging around. The garish > lighting and red/white tile was designed for that. Later on he added > indoor seating but still no pay phones. Indeed, to this day I think > it's unusual to find a pay phone inside a fast food outlet, though > sometimes there's one not far on the street. Here in Victoria, British Columbia, there are payphones on the premises, usually immediately outside the main entrance, at most McDonald's stores. Fake Caller ID now - ask us how! www.artofhacking.com ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jun 2004 03:10:13 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: International Dialing to the UK in 1978/79 Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > It's quite possible that the song is missing some digits too, so > perhaps it's really "KP1 0 4 4 1 x x x x 8 3 1 ST". > Does anyone know what the correct number of digits for a phone number > in the UK would be at this point? How long would the city codes be, > local phone numbers, etc. (in 1978/79)? 44 was and is the UK, 1 was the city code for London, local number was seven digits. Since then they've renumbered a couple of times, so inner London is now 44 20 7xxx xxxx and outer London is 44 20 8xxx xxxx. The last seven digits are the same as they were. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "I shook hands with Senators Dole and Inouye," said Tom, disarmingly. ------------------------------ From: David Quinton Subject: Re: International Dialing to the UK in 1978/79 Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:37:26 +0100 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:59:27 -0400, Keith wrote: > At the end of Pink Floyd's "Young Lust", there are some in-band > signaling MF tones which I've found to be: If you get nowhere here, suggest you try some of the old-timers in uk.telecom newsgroup. UK Computer stuff from Morgan Auctions. Bids start at 1. No reserve. Sign up NOW! Track a Mobile phone: . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:27:26 -0500 From: Gordon S. Hlavenka Reply-To: nospam@crashelex.com Organization: Crash Electronics Subject: Re: Red-Flag Case Gets Green Light > From Broadcasting & Cable, June 1, 2004 > By Bill McConnell > A Federal Appeals Court in Washington, D.C., won't delay the case > determining the fate of the Federal Communications Commission's > "broadcast flag," despite a request by the agency to slow down. > Opponents, however, say the restriction violates consumers' home > recording rights and that the FCC has no jurisdiction to impose the > rules. My objection to the Broadcast Flag is much more pragmatic: It's futile. What copy protection method for any consumer media has stood without being broken by someone? All they accomplish is to make entertainment devices more expensive and less entertaining. Meanwhile, the folks who want to make illegal copies of things continue to do so, they just have to wait an extra week for the "toolz" to come out. The business model used by the media conglomerates has become obsolete, and rather than adapt to the marketplace they are opting to legislate the status quo. This happens whenever there's rapid innovation. Look at what's happening as the traditional telcos confront VOIP and burgeoning cellphone usage -- tax this, prohibit that, require something else. All intended to make the new products less desirable. In the long run, it won't work. It never does. Remember when rectangular headlights first appeared on US cars? The auto manufacturers who didn't think of it tried to have non-round headlights declared illegal :-) Gordon S. Hlavenka http://www.crashelectronics.com "If we imagined he could _find_ the car, we could pretend it might be fixed." - Calvin ------------------------------ From: dspgeek@hotmail.com (dspgeek) Subject: Caller ID For Pocket PC Date: 2 Jun 2004 23:05:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi, I have seen some s/w utilities which gives the caller information like photo, etc on pocket pc. Can anyone tell me how the photos from the pocket pc (stored in some folder ) are associated with the contacts from the pocket Outlook? I am trying to write some code for it. Need your help. dspgeek dspgeek@hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: dold@ATXXComman.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: AT| Commands Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:09:30 UTC Organization: a2i network jdj wrote: >> Did you literally mean AT| ? > Yes. What brand of modem is it? What is the FCCID of the modem? Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: tee_earls@hotmail.com (Tee) Subject: How to Tell Which Cellular Company "Owns" Specific Prefix? Date: 2 Jun 2004 23:14:19 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Does anyone know how to determine from a area code / prefix which cellular company owns it? I realize with number portability now, this isn't 100% accurate, but I'm willing to take a chance. I'm specifically looking for 850-637-xxxx. The best I can find is that it's probably a cellular company in the Pensacola, FL area. Any ideas? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: rwurth@att.net (R. T. Wurth) Subject: Re: WW II Britain-U.S. Telephone Links? Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:35:52 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet In article , hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote: > Prior to WW II, the U.S. and Britain had overseas telephone service by > radio carrier. I'm not sure how reliable the circuits were at the > time, according to the Bell System history they used both short-wave > and long wave depending on time of day, sunspots, and other issues. > Further, the circuits needed constant adjustment while in use. None > the less, they were available to telephone users to make overseas > calls. > After the war broke out, how were the radio circuits utilized? Could > private parties (such as businessmen) continue to make calls on them? > Given the criticiality of shipping war goods to England, that was a > vital link for business people. > Were the circuits of value to the military and politicians due to > being radio lines open to evesdropping? (IIRC, they developed some > crude frequency shifters -- were they in use?) One radio circuit was regularly used between Roosevelt and Churchill, and Bell Labs developed an encryption system called "Green Hornet." The name came about because the signals sounded like the theme song of the like-named radio show. It was rather innovative. They broke the voice into several frequency bands (ranges of tones), sampled the level in each band, and encoded the levels as digits (decimal, I think). These numbers were added (modulo 10, probably) to samples taken from phonograph recordings of random emissions of mercury arc tubes. Two copies were struck of each such recording, then the master was destroyed. One recording was shipped to England, the other to Washington. When the call was to be placed, technicians carefully synchronized the recordings, kept them in sync, and arranged to swap records every few minutes. Each record was destroyed after one use. The scrambled signals (voice + random noise, modulo X) were encoded into tones and transmitted. At the far end, the same random noise could be subtracted, yielding the original numbers, which then were converted back to voice. This is all from memory of old descriptions I've read, but I'm sure a look in some IEEE (or some pre-merger IRE/AIEE) literature or an old BSTJ comprehensive index for "Green Hornet" would have all the details. Rich Wurth / rwurth@att.net / Rumson, NJ USA ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:29:03 -0400 Subject: Vonage Slashes Price of Net Telephony Kit Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5224951.html By Ben Charny CNET News.com Feeling pressure as competition stiffens, Net phone service provider Vonage has lowered the price by $70 of a starter kit available at retail stores. The kit, which includes a Motorola phone adapter, is now $30 at Circuit City, Fry's and RadioShack after a $50 mail-in rebate, Vonage said Wednesday. The starter kit, which consists of an adapter and two months of free Vonage service, used to cost $100 at the same stores. As Vonage's subscriber numbers grow, it has a greater ability to pass on savings to its customers, according to company Vice President Matthew Deatrick. Vonage made a similar argument in mid-May, when it signed up its 150,000th subscriber, saying it had reached an "inflection point" that allowed it to lower the cost of monthly unlimited North American dialing from $35 to $30 a month. In-Stat/MDR senior analyst Daryl Schoolar believes that Vonage, the nation's largest provider of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), is feeling pressure as major telephone companies including AT&T begin offering their own VoIP services. Full story at: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-5224951.html 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: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:49:04 -0400 Subject: Cable TV Operators' VoIP Threatens Bells Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=6/3 BY REINHARDT KRAUSE INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Emerging Internet phone services could cost local phone companies $5 billion to $7.4 billion in annual revenue by 2008, say recent, separate reports from two credit rating agencies and brokerage firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, gives users a new option for getting phone service. Instead of the normal circuit-switch method, calls come via broadband phone or cable lines, using the Internet method of sending data, or voice, in packets. Startups such as privately held Vonage sell VoIP services that work over either speedy Internet-ready phone lines or cable lines. The VoIP leader, Vonage has signed up more than 155,000 customers. AT&T and other carriers also are offering VoIP. But the biggest long-term threat to local Bell revenue will come from cable TV system operators that offer VoIP as well as circuit-switched phone services, many analysts say. Full story at: http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=6/3 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You can still get a Vonage e-coupon if desired, allowing a free month of service on Vonage if you click on the link in the coupon to sign up. Ask me at ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:53:19 -0400 Subject: New Global Telecom Deploys Kagoor Network's Session Border Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-02-2004/0002185476&EDATE= New Global Telecom Deploys Kagoor Network's Session Border Controller for Hosted NAT Traversal and Network Protection VoiceFlow1000 Expedites Delivery of VoIP Services to Residential Customers SAN MATEO, Calif. and GOLDEN, Colo., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Kagoor Networks, a leading provider of session border control solutions, announced today that New Global Telecom (NGT), the leading U.S. provider of outsourced switching and network operations services, has deployed Kagoor's VoiceFlow 1000 Session Border Controller. NGT is deploying the VoiceFlow 1000 with the NAT (Network Address Translator) application to provide Hosted NAT Traversal, which is helping to expedite the delivery of VoIP to residential end-users through NGT's service provider customers. Without Hosted NAT Traversal, NGT was unable to economically and easily provide VoIP services to remotely located users. Hosted NAT traversal permits VoIP calls to securely travel across the Internet and through the NAT device on the customer site. The VoiceFlow 1000 solves the NAT Traversal problem and greatly simplifies the configuration of Internet Telephones behind NAT devices like cable and DSL modems. Kagoor also provides NGT with security by hiding details of its network behind the VoiceFlow 1000. "Kagoor helps New Global Telecom deliver the benefits of VoIP to our clients and, in turn, to their residential customers," said Perry Nelson, VP-VoIP Operations & Technology for New Global Telecom. "By enabling NAT traversal and optimizing handling of the signaling, Kagoor provides us with a simple and flexible solution that ensures efficiency of network transport." NGT's outsourced wholesale IP services suite -- 6DegreesIP -- offers a turnkey solution for service providers seeking entry into the VoIP marketplace. 6DegreesIP includes Hosted IP PBX and Class 5 feature services, end-customer support, network and facilities management, back office support as well as local and long-distance origination/termination in hundreds of U.S. cities. Using Kagoor's VoiceFlow solution, NGT's services can be delivered with minimal configuration to the customer VoIP endpoints (e.g., IP phones, analog devices, etc.) and without any changes to existing data firewall/NAT equipment at the customer site. "Our VoiceFlow NAT traversal solution is designed to meet the needs of providers of hosted VoIP services such as New Global Telecom," stated Opher Kahane, CEO and co-Founder of Kagoor Networks. "Kagoor is excited to be a key ingredient in NGT's innovative VoIP service delivery to the residential marketplace." The VoiceFlow 1000 series and the VoiceFlow 3000 series make up Kagoor's carrier family of session border controllers. VoiceFlow 1000 is a 1U, fast Ethernet packet processing device capable of handling up to 2,000 concurrent VoIP calls. It provides for simultaneous operation of multiple session border control applications. VoiceFlow is network transparent and handles all of the popular VoIP protocols including SIP, H.323, MGCP and others. VoiceFlow 1000 is ideal for VoIP service provider deployments and distributed carrier locations. SOURCE Kagoor Networks Web Site: http://www.kagoor.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:26:51 EDT From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Spam and Virii Continue Unabated, Getting Worse, IMO Have any of you noticed how, since around mid-May, the spam traffic has gotten worse than usual? I have to wonder if they are aiming for a nearly total-spam network? It will never, mathematically reach exactly 100 percent as long as at least a few (very few) pieces of legitimate email go out, but it can get in theory up to 99 plus percent spam and virii. Since about May 20, the ratio of spam and virii versus legitimate news items arriving in the Digest mailbox has been in excess of 90 percent. Unfortunatly I have to give at least a cursory examination to everything coming through. 'Cursory'= one or two seconds prior to accepting it. The Spam Assassin point score is presently set for three. It had been set for five; moving it down to three sent a lot more to the spam box (where I only check to see if I recognize the name before bashing it). Stuff in the 'legitimate' mail box I give my cursory exams to first. I guess I will set Spam Assassin down another notch of two, but then I feel sort of guilty when a *good, legitimate message* gets wasted because I do not recognize the sender name. The legitimate mailbox is empty at this point; but I feel certain at least one or two good items got killed accidentally. If you are not in this issue, yet have something that did not appear, please send it again with my apologies. PAT ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. 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