From editor@telecom-digest.org Wed Jun 9 15:24:16 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i59JOGf27993; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406091924.i59JOGf27993@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 #283 TELECOM Digest Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:21:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 283 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Skype Plans Some Ins & Outs (VOIP News) UK: BT Announces Network Transformation Timetable (VOIP News) Vonage Exec Demos VoIP Over EV-DO Technology (VOIP News) Re: New VoIP Player: Lingo (Ash) Re: Primus Offering Residential and Business VOIP Service (John Bartley) Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam (Scott Dorsey) Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? (John Levine) Re: Public Copy Cost Unchanged (Wesrock@aol.com) Re: Broadvoice IP Phone Service (Me) Call Any USA REAL Telephone Number From Pulver Freeworld $10 (ucallvoip) Re: More Memories of Illinois Bell (Adam H. Kerman) Cell Phone With Timer? (John Qyindi) PluggedIn: Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo (Monty Solomon) SalemOpen.net Free Wifi Network Now Live (Monty Solomon) WiMax Better Fit For Rural U.S., Overseas - Study (Monty Solomon) TiVo Delivers New Service Enhancements for Series2 Subscribers (M Solomon) Best Buy and TiVo to Provide Subscribers 'New Music Tuesdays' (M 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. 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That will allow Skype users to call PSTN users "at very competitive rates," says Zennstrom. It will be an additional service and generate revenues, but it won't be the core of our commercial plan. The move comes as at least one potential direct rival is due to launch an alternative service (see Will Popular Telephony Scare Skype? ). But what about allowing non-Skype users to call in? That's another cash generator, but SkypeIn will involve a great deal more work from many parties, he adds. Skype will charge its users to have a number that users of PSTN and other VOIP services can call, but a lot of interconnectivity issues between the different VOIP service providers will need to be cleared up before such a service would work seamlessly. Full story at: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=54113 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, 09 Jun 2004 12:06:19 -0400 Subject: UK: BT Announces Network Transformation Timetable Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.btplc.com/News/Pressreleasesandarticles/Corporatenewsreleases/2004/nr0444.htm Mass migration of customers from PSTN to IP based network to begin in 2006 Majority of customers' PSTN services on IP network by 2008 Trials of voice services on IP network and fibre to the premises announced Increase in customer choice, control and service flexibility BT today set out the timetable for the transformation of its UK networks. It announced a five year programme to underpin the next generation of converged, multimedia communications services. Mass migration of customers onto the new network will begin in 2006 with the majority due to be completed in 2008. BT's 21st century network (21CN) programme will create the enabling infrastructure for the growth of BT and the UK telecommunications industry. It is set to completely transform BT's networks, delivering increased customer choice and control. BT Wholesale chief executive Paul Reynolds said: "The 21CN programme will deliver our vision of a converged, multimedia world where our customers can access any communications service from any device, anywhere - and at broadband speed. "21CN will drive a radical simplification of BT's operations including significantly lower costs and the capability to launch new services to market faster than we can today. It will empower all our customers, giving them control, choice and flexibility like never before." The major elements of BT Group's overall strategy including ICT, mobility, broadband, netcentricity and portfolio transformation are underpinned by the 21CN initiative. Over the next five years 21CN will transform BT's business and its cost base, removing duplication across the current multiple service specific networks and creating a single multi-service network. Total capital spend on the 21CN transformation will be within the previously announced BT capital expenditure envelope of 3 billion per annum. From this year about two thirds of the annual spend is directed to 21CN and other new and intermediate technologies and this proportion is expected to increase. That investment in future infrastructure will enable BT to deliver growing cash savings which are expected to amount to 1 billion per annum by 2008/9. An early deliverable of this transformation is the first phase of the migration of services from the existing UK public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a multi-service internet protocol (IP) based network which will carry both voice and data services.* As a precursor to large scale migration of voice and other PSTN based services from 2006, the first stage will involve the bypass of the core PSTN network link between two major network nodes at Cambridge and Woolwich. An extension is planned later to Faraday exchange in London. An initial 1,000 customers served by local exchanges connected to Cambridge and Woolwich will trial end to end voice and data services over the core IP network link. Paul Reynolds said: "Today the 21CN vision starts to become reality. This is among the most important and ambitious infrastructure transformation programmes in communications anywhere in the world and will put Britain at the forefront of communications innovation. "But 21CN is more than a next generation network. It's about providing and supporting the next generation of services for all our customers; it's about supporting and generating revenues and profits for shareholders, and it's about supporting and delivering for the communications industry and the economy as a whole." In addition to making broadband available from exchanges serving 99.6 per cent of people by summer 2005, BT is aiming to have broadband dialtone available to most of its customers in the UK in five years time. Customers will be in control of their own services and will immediately be able to switch the line to broadband use themselves without requiring physical work at the exchange, whatever device they use to access the broadband network. BT also today announced trials to test the technical and commercial issues associated with the possible deployment of fibre optic cable in the UK local access network. These limited trials are looking particularly at the economics associated with providing services to new build and greenfield site developments.* BT is today formally launching the procurement process to select long term suppliers, which may not necessarily be those involved in the trials and early implementation stages. Contracts for the main rollout phases will be awarded following a formal competitive tendering process which will be concluded by the end of 2004. Note to editors: * For details of the trial migration of voice services onto an IP based network and the fibre to the premises trial see BT news release NR0445 issued today June 9, 2004. Full press release at: http://www.btplc.com/News/Pressreleasesandarticles/Corporatenewsreleases/2004/nr0444.htm ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:57:08 -0400 Subject: Vonage Exec Demos VoIP Over EV-DO Technology Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=18404 by Heather Forsgren Weaver WASHINGTON Wireless Voice over Internet Protocol is here with the advent of Qualcomm Inc.s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service as deployed by Verizon Wireless, said Brooke Schulz, vice president of corporate communications for Vonage Corp. Schulz demonstrated a Vonage VoIP call via EV-DO technology, brand-named Broadband Access, Tuesday morning as part of a breakfast panel sponsored by the New Millennium Research Council. "There are a lot of misconceptions out there that wireless is too slow and that there is too much latency, but as you can see, it works just fine," said Schulz. In addition to VoIP services being used by advanced wireless networks and Wi-Fi, the Schulz example also showed that Vonage over EV-DO can be used to call mobile phones without a loss of call quality. Full story at: http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=18404 ------------------------------ From: adr1n@yahoo.com (Ash) Subject: Re: New VoIP Player: Lingo Date: 9 Jun 2004 09:15:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com This service is not quite $19.95, there is an additional $4.95 fee for what they call the LINGO line. There are two phone numbers; one could have a Universal Line and a LINGO line. The Universal is optional. The LINGO, which under most cases would be in the area code one lives although not necessary, is required. And then of course, there is taxes. They do have a promotion for three months free without a contract. However, one has to pay $30ish for activation and equipment. I would love to hear from anyone who signed up comment on their service. It would be good to hear from people who used other VOIP services such as Vonage to compare the two. Thanks! ------------------------------ From: John Bartley Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:40:34 -0800 Subject: Re: Primus Offering Residential and Business VOIP Service Corrections regarding 'overseas' locations for this service follow. "Western Europe" (for the purposes of their $15/mo and $20/mo plans) is: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK & Vatican City. For the nations included in their $80/mp. plan, add the above to Argentina, Australia, the Czech Republic, Chile, China, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico City, Moscow, St. Petersburg, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. ------------------------------ From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam Date: 8 Jun 2004 15:11:04 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Scott Dorsey wrote: > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember how, back in the > 1980's and even as late as 1995 the very idea of cutting off certain > sites -- no questions asked, no votes taken, etc -- just unilateraly > refuse to deal with them was considered completely 'unthinkable'? Unthinkable? No, it was common. For God's sake, I had my uucp feed pulled completely for posting to usenet with my .signature too long. And of course there are example like AGIS ... much of AGIS's address space is _still_ unusable because it's still listed in router blocks around the world. Until huge amounts of money started pouring in, it was very common for misbehaving sites to have connectivity refused to them. It is only a very recent thing for MSPs to continue offering access to massively abusive customers. --scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So what you are saying is that the thing which VP Gore promoted, getting money into the net through various companies instead of just the universities as it had been wound up also bringing us most of the abuses we are now seeing these days. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jun 2004 23:19:52 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > If you are operating an 800 line, you will be charged a different rate for > payphone calls and non-payphone calls. Surely the SS7 stuff warns you > that this is going to be happening? If you get ANI, it includes a code that tells you what kind of line it is, with payphones having their own codes. Cell phones show CLID, so you can't tell. ------------------------------ From: Wesrock@aol.com Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:12:23 EDT Subject: Re: Public Copy Cost Unchanged In a message dated Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:56:13 -0400, Barry Margolin < barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes: > Pat suggested that the towns may be subsidizing this, but lots of > convenience stores, as well as chains like Staples and UPS Store, > offer self-serve copying. I don't think they're still a dime, but > they're not much more expensive either. > Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu > Arlington, MA Oklahoma County Public Libraries have been charging 15 cents as long as I can remember. UPS Stores still charge a dime, unless they've gone up in the last few weeks. So does the self-service copying machine in Albertson's. Kinko's, I believe, has gone up to 7 or 8 cents. Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com ------------------------------ From: googlenews@myway.com (Me) Subject: Re: Broadvoice IP Phone Service Date: 8 Jun 2004 18:07:35 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I have to agree with all of Killer's comments. I've only tried Broadvoice for one evening but fully expect I'll be cancelling my Verizon (POTS) line after I update my telephone number with everyone. If you have a fairly stable broadband connection and don't require 24/7 telephone access (even POTS companies can't guarantee 24/7 service), it can't hurt to try a VOIP service. I've tried Broadvoice and Vonage, and Broadvoice is the winner by a long shot (no noticeable delays and no crackling sounds). Either way, with VOIP you can easily cut your phone bill in half or more and get phone services you might not normally pay for, such as 3-way calling, call forwarding, voice mail, etc. Verizon can take my overpriced phone bill and shove it where the sun never shines. :-D Killer Madness" wrote in message news:: > I have been using Broadvoice for telephone service. I've had it three weeks > and it's been pretty damn good. Although caller ID name is not coming > through yet (the number is) I am told it's in the works and will be ready > this summer. For $10/month for all the state calls I can make is worth it. > Having a single line from Verizon and not making ANY calls on it would cost > me $19. And if I were to make any calls on it, my god, they would charge me > a small fortune. I will be gladly dumping Verizon very soon. It's easy for > me to do since I do always have a cell phone for any backup situations. If > my home electric goes out (which it barely does) I do have a cell > phone. > I am 33 years old and all my life I think the electric in any of the > homes I've lived in the longest it has gone out was about 2 hours and > that was storm related. So I don't need anyone telling me I won't have > phone service for 2 hours of 33 years and this is why they wouldn't go > for an IP phone service. Maybe where you live electricity is bad, but > here in NJ it's too valuable to go out and the electric company loses > millions every minute it's out. So they really try to keep it on ALL > the time. My Internet service is very stable. I've had that for about > 8 years and that's been out about a day in all the time since I've had > it. Broadvoice does not have 911 service as of yet, but will during > this summer also. Just my 2 cents for a new company I've tried and > seems ok for now. ------------------------------ From: ucallvoip@yahoo.com (ucallvoip@yahoo.com) Subject: Call Any USA REAL Telephone Number From Pulver Freeworld for $10 Date: 8 Jun 2004 18:42:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com You dreamed of it - now you can have it .06 per minute - call any telephone in the USA! $10 a month to RECEIVE calls with YOUR OWN REAL PHONE NUMBER! All via your Pulver freeworld account No gimmicks No hidden fees No extra monthly charges You are billed ONLY for the minutes you use and they roll to the next month if you don't use them. First month buy 650 minutes and they roll forever until you use them up. Pay by paypal, only. For $50, get a REAL telephone number ANYONE can call and 650 minutes! You must continue to pay $10 a month for the phone number. Recharge your minutes whenever you like! Email now! why wait! ucallvoip@yahoo.com This offer not endorsed by Pulver Freeworld. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am certain Jeff Pulver, who by his own admission does NOT run a telco and therefore is NOT subject to the rules of the game is pleased to see that someone else, whose offer he does NOT endorse, that someone else is willing to take the heat about the telco he does NOT operate. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Adam H. Kerman Subject: Re: More Memories of Illinois Bell Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:50:31 -0000 Organization: Chinet - Public access since 1982 TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: > ... The two hospitals in the area, Saint Anne's and Bethany Brethren > both filed bankruptcy when their collections got to be so awful. But a > group of religious leaders in Chicago decided they did not want to see > still more vacant businesses around the area, so they decided to buy > both hospitals out of bankruptcy with several million dollars to the > creditors, and commit several million more dollars per year to keep > them operating. The new organization was called 'Evangelical Health Care > Corporation' with the 'Bethany Pavillion' and the 'St. Anne's Pavillion' > parts to it. St. Anne's was turned into a specialized outpatient clinic; > the surgery and in-patient stuff was to be handled at Bethany. Patrick, the religious organization that bought the St. Anne's facility was Bethel New Life. Its founder, Mary Nelson, is retiring. The Trib wrote her up: http://www.chicagotribune.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=bethel+new+life&target=article ------------------------------ From: qjohnny2000@yahoo.com (John Qyindi) Subject: Cell Phone With Timer? Date: 9 Jun 2004 06:03:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Is there any cell phone that you can program to turn on at a certain time or at least not be in silent mode at a certain time ... I'm only suppose to get calls from work between certain hours but people ignore this so I want to program it in ... Problem is I only get calls halfway through the night when I'm sleeping so obviously can't turn on the ringer or turn on the phone then. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I guess I am a sound sleeper because I do not hear (or cannot get awake enough to answer) call phone calls during the night, and the call gets rolled over to voicemail on its own before I wake up/get cognizant enough to answer or deal with it. What I do however, on nights or other times when it really matters is to reach over to the phone and manually flip it into silent mode. Eventually, sooner or later, I remember and manually flip it back into ringing mode. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:15:24 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: PluggedIn: Step Aside TiVo, Here Comes Freevo By Daniel Sorid SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (Reuters) - Tired of TiVo's monthly fees and eager for even more control over their television programs, computer enthusiasts are building TV recording devices out of personal computers and new software packages. The trend is perhaps a touch of bitter irony for TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO), whose personal video recorders started out as a disruptive technology for cable and satellite companies, by allowing users to digitally store their favorite shows and skip commercials. Getting the power of TiVo and updated TV listings without having to pay the monthly fee has apparently made such software quite attractive. At SnapStream Media, a maker of PC-based video recording software, business is growing 20 percent a month, the company said, while declining to disclose its number of users. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41854730 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:04:44 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: SalemOpen.net Free Wifi Network Now Live http://www.salemopen.net/projects.html http://www.salemopen.net/projects_salembackg.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:17:29 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: WiMax Better Fit For Rural U.S., Overseas - Study NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Businesses hoping to cash in on an emerging wireless technology known as WiMax should look to rural and overseas markets for high-speed Internet customers, according to a study released on Wednesday. In a joint study, Bear Stearns and telecommunications consultant The Management Network Group forecast that high costs and the availability of broadband Internet in metropolitan U.S. markets could diminish the success of WiMax. The nascent technology, which promises high-speed links over distances of 30 miles, is being hyped as the next big thing after its popular but shorter range cousin Wi-Fi. WiMax will provide wireless Internet on laptop computers at speeds similar to DSL or cable modem. It will be commercially available in 2005 but it is unclear if it will make money. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41866432 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:23:35 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: TiVo Delivers New Service Enhancements for Series2 Subscribers, Introduces New Pricing for Multiple TiVo Households Home Media Capabilities and Other Features Now Available as part of Standard $12.95 A Month Subscription For First TiVo DVR, And $6.95 A Month For Additional Boxes NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) today announced it has added new enhancements and capabilities to its service, including online scheduling and home media features. These features allow subscribers to enjoy their favorite TV programs and easily connect to all of their favorite content -- including music and photos -- simply by connecting their TiVo(R) Series2(TM) DVR to their home network. By continuously adding value through the TiVo service, the company is offering an unmatched set of features and capabilities that maintain both its prominent position in the marketplace and high level of customer satisfaction. In response to requests from subscribers, TiVo also announced today a new multi-service pricing plan that will allow subscribers to fully benefit from these new service features at a lower cost than ever. Under this new multi-service plan, service for the first TiVo service subscription in the home is the standard $12.95 per month, while each additional TiVo service subscription is just $6.95 per month.* This cuts almost in half the subscription fee for additional TiVo boxes. And, for a limited time, TiVo and participating retailers are offering a 10 percent discount on TiVo DVRs by lowering the purchase price to as little as $129, with mail-in rebate. As of today, TiVo Series2 subscribers can do more things the TiVo way -- easily and effortlessly. They can automatically use these new service features to schedule recordings from the Internet, move content between two or more TiVo boxes in the home, and enjoy digital music and photos in their full glory on the big screen or home stereo in the living room. Previously, these features were only available with purchase of the TiVo Home Media Option(TM). Beginning today, these features are included in the standard $12.95 subscription rate. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41869976 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:17:10 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Best Buy and TiVo to Provide Subscribers 'New Music Tuesdays' Each Week TiVo(R) Series2(TM) Subscribers Can Sample New Music From Best Buy's 'New Releases' NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO) and Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), the nation's leading specialty retailer of digital technology and entertainment products and services, have teamed up to deliver to TiVo Series2 subscribers new music from today's most popular artists. The first in a series of new music releases available to TiVo subscribers will be music from Universal Music Group. TiVo Series2 subscribers with a broadband connection can now take advantage of the home media features included in the service to stream select new music releases beginning today. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41874497 ------------------------------ 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. 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