From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Jun 28 13:13:18 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i5SHDIW21360; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:13:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:13:18 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406281713.i5SHDIW21360@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 #308 TELECOM Digest Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:12:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 308 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson The Next Big Thing is Actually Ultrawide (Monty Solomon) Will Apple be Illegal? (Monty Solomon) Popular Camera Cellphones Raise Privacy Concerns in Vt. 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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: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:04:32 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: The Next Big Thing is Actually Ultrawide The next big thing is actually ultrawide But technology hampered by regulatory hurdles, a clash over standards By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | June 25, 2004 The space shuttle videos looked almost better than the real thing. They were high-definition videos, on display earlier this month at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. And though there's nothing unusual these days about high-definition television, these two videos came from an unusual source -- a laptop computer in one corner of a medium-sized conference room. The laptop was plugged into a black box bearing two small antennas; similar boxes were plugged into the HDTV monitors. The result was a wireless network powerful enough to broadcast two different high-definition videos simultaneously, with enough leftover capacity to handle a third channel. Those black boxes were built by Freescale Semiconductor, a division of Motorola Corp. The microchips inside them can pump out 110 million bits of data per second -- twice as much as the fastest WiFi wireless networking equipment now on the market. And that's just the beginning. Before the year's out, Freescale will be making chips that run twice as fast; by next year, it plans to offer a slice of silicon that will broadcast wireless data at one billion bits per second. Freescale is one of the leaders in a new kind of digital technology called "ultrawideband" that's being described as the next big consumer wireless technology, thanks to its ability to pump out massive amounts of data. But even though some ultrawideband devices will come to market this year, the technology is still hobbled by regulatory challenges and a long-running clash between two incompatible ultrawideband systems. According to Bob Heile, the Attleboro physicist who leads a wireless standards-setting committee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "Right now, it's 10 percent technology and 90 percent politics." Most radio devices send out a signal over a narrow band of frequencies. For example, WiFi data networks use a small set of frequencies in the 2.4 gigahertz range. But ultrawideband works by broadcasting over a much larger chunk of the radio spectrum -- from 3.1 to 10.5 gigahertz -- all at the same time. As a result, even a low-powered ultrawideband radio signal can carry huge amounts of data. Ultrawideband technology has other powerful attributes. Because the signal can penetrate solid objects, police forces and armies use the technology in radar systems that can see through walls. The precise digital pulses of an ultrawideband radio make it possible to locate a transmitter with an accuracy of a few inches, so automakers are working on ultrawideband detectors that can spot oncoming cars and prevent collisions. http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2004/06/25/the_next_big_thing_is_actually_ultrawide/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:58:26 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Will Apple be Illegal? EFF has mocked-up a complaint against Apple under the pending INDUCE Act. http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001994.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:32:01 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Popular Camera Cellphones Raise Privacy Concerns in Vt. Schools Burlington's officials expected to OK new policy By Associated Press | June 27, 2004 BURLINGTON, Vt. -- School officials in Vermont's largest city are trying to put a lid on potential problems caused by the latest craze in new technology: tiny digital cameras built into cellphones. This past year, at least two students were disciplined for using the devices to take pictures of fellow students without permission. The school board is expected to approve tomorrow a policy clarifying that such behavior is forbidden. http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2004/06/27/popular_camera_cellphones_raise_privacy_concerns_in_vt_schools/ ------------------------------ From: vincent.mertens@tiscali.be (Kevin) Subject: Is This a Legal System to Make Free Phone Calls Date: 28 Jun 2004 05:42:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com System explain on http://www.webwizzard.nl/linkspel/?r=1814 ------------------------------ From: eljainc@ameritech.net (Mike McWhinney) Subject: Re: Office Telephone System Recommendations Date: 27 Jun 2004 20:37:01 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Carl Navarro wrote in message news:: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:35:44 GMT, Jack Murphy > wrote: >> Mike McWhinney wrote: >>> Hello, >>> We are currently shopping around for a office telephone system. We do >>> not need anything fancy (we have 4 lines, 8-10 phones). We're looking >>> for something similar to the following: >>> Is there any phone system better than this for within the same budget >>> area (<$2000) We want a good phone system that is upgradeable/expand- >>> able while remaining cost effective. >>> Regards, >>> Mike McWhinney [snip] We are not familiar with BizFone or the TMC/TMS name and are going with the Panasonic system that I had mentioned before. It is better I think to go with an established product with reliable support. I thought I saw one poster say that they had problems with Panasonic support, but it can't be too bad eh? We need a basic phone system, but good one. I think the KX-TA624 with 7 or 8 extensions and 4 lines (expansion card from 3 lines) should do. Anyone have any last minute horror stories with this particular phone system from Panasonic? Regards, Mike McWhinney ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: Domain Registration Recommendations Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:52:45 GMT SELLCOM Tech support posted on that vast internet thingie: > Does anyone have any recommendations for dependable domain registrars > that have stability, economy pricing etc, basic services, but do not > knowingly support spammers? I have quite a few domains registered. Thank you to all who emailed your suggestions. I truly appreciate your time and suggestions. It looks like we have decided to become a reseller ourselves. Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. ------------------------------ From: triple_des1544@yahoo.com (Black Ninja) Subject: Re: Norvergence Questions Date: 27 Jun 2004 23:01:09 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Steven J Sobol wrote in message news:: > Black Ninja wrote: >> Steven, let me help you out. Folks, if you are lucky enough to live >> in the oasis that we call "Apple Valley" (best damn tap water on earth >> and the meth aint half bad either), then please contact Mr. Steven >> "Never Heard of Norv Doing Cell Phones" Sobol for all of your web >> hosting needs. He's the man in the know. > This is exactly what happened last time ... all I got was insults. No > facts. Suprised to see you still at it, Steve ... Mr. Sobol had no facts to offer in the first place, just regurgitated B.S. Please use his services for your webhosting needs ASAP so that he will not need to advertise as much on this board. ------------------------------ From: balanco01@yahoo.com (Proprclr) Subject: What Happened to the "2 Way" Craze? Date: 28 Jun 2004 02:31:27 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Last year, it seemed like everybody was using the 2 way "walkie talkie" feature on Nextel phones (probaly others as well), and I would see a lot of "2 waying" going on on busses, in supermarkets, etc. For the past few months, there seems to have been a sharp decrease in people "2 waying", and I rarely see it anymore. I live in LA, so I see plenty of people using cellphones, but nobody seems to use the walkie talkie feature anymore. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Am I correct that the 'walkie-talkie two way feature' was not a Walkie-Talkie in the 'traditional' sense of using a two-way radio as such (RF or radio frequency) signals but was actually a speed dial type thing for one number on the cell phone which in addition to being speed dialed was put on a handsfree type 'loudspeaker' type thing? How did that Nextel feature actually work? PAT] ------------------------------ From: Steven J Sobol Subject: Re: Domain Registration Recommendations Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:24:37 -0500 SELLCOM Tech support wrote: > I have received so much spam from buydomains.com / domaindiscover.com > (delivered by their email server) after repeated notice to them that I > am now looking for another registrar. It is our policy never to > support spammers or spam enablers. > After DAYS of reporting spam to them I get this garbage from them > wanting me to FAX them copies of any spam so they can build a case. > No one is *that* incompetent! > Does anyone have any recommendations for dependable domain registrars > that have stability, economy pricing etc, basic services, but do not > knowingly support spammers? I have quite a few domains registered. I resell GoDaddy/WildWestDomains. http://DomainNames.justthe.net/ or if you're looking to resell domain names to others, http://wildwestdomains.com. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/ Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED) Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Peer to Peer/Point to Point VOIP From: wolfgang+gnus20040627T160145@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com Organization: W S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Fremont CA Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:10:44 GMT Chip G writes: > Jeroen wrote in message > news:telecom23.306.8@telecom-digest.org: >> Would anybody know how it is possible to connect a couple of branch >> offices with ip phones that will use ip for voice transfer and that >> are not connected to the PSTN with a gateway, like an intercom to get >> two sites connected. > You could easily do this with the Asterisk PBX and a couple of IP > Telephones. Or if you wanted to do a quick proof-of-concent test you could just pick up a pair of Grandstream Budgetone-100's for $65 each and use Pulver's Free-World-Dial server as the PBX. Thats what I did before I got my Asterisk up and running. (Asterisk was a bit of an uphill battle since I needed to get it running on Openbsd-current and then needed to figure out the config files.) Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ New toy: Voice over ip phone. Sounds much better than an analog phone. http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/voip.html ------------------------------ From: Ken Abrams Subject: Re: No Ringtone When I am Called Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:57:53 GMT Desk wrote: > Situation: > We have a PABX connected to the public network. This PABX is sending > the information to the DECT's in the office. > Problem: > When we are called by our customers we do not hear a ringtone. It is the PABX that makes the phones ring (and also sends back the fake audible ring to the calling party). Your problem is "in-house". > What can I do? We changed already the complete installation, but the > problem is not solved. Exactly what do you mean by "complete installation" ? In any case, you should be beating on the supplier of your PABX and phones (assuming they both came from the same vendor). ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:16:56 -0400 Subject: Broadvoice Takes The "Limits" Off "Unlimited" Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.voxilla.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=71&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0 By DAMEON D. WELCH-ABERNATHY for VOXILLA.COM BroadVoice, a Lowell, MA-based residential/SoHo Voice over IP service provider, has become the first major broadband telephone company to share its configuration options for unlimited nationwide calling plans with its customers. The bold step allows customers to use Broadvoice's $19.95/mo. unlimited service with virtually any SIP-capable telephone device, including analog adaptors, IP phones and telephone exchange systems such as the popular open-source Asterisk PBX. Broadvoice CEO David Epstein says simple business factors prompted the company to allow open use of its unlimited services. "There are more than 2 million Cisco phones out there," said Epstein. "Why would I not want to serve that market, or the asterisk market, or the soft-phone market?" Epstein adds that allowing end users to provide their own device significantly reduces the company's customer acquisition costs. Full story at: http://www.voxilla.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=71&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0 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: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:15:37 -0400 Subject: Internet Phones Lighten Traffic and Wallets Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com [Comment: This story wins the award for the dumbest headline I've seen on a VoIP story!] http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/9030743.htm By John M. Moran Knight Ridder Newspapers HARTFORD, Conn. - Internet phone calling started out as a cheap way for computer nerds to avoid traditional long-distance rates. The calls were free, but sound quality was scratchy and both parties needed computers, speakers and microphones to complete the online voice connection. Now, roughly a decade later, phone calling using Internet technology has significantly improved and is quickly going mainstream -- threatening to rattle the multibillion-dollar telephone industry and to dramatically reshape personal and business communications. Just ask Tom Barberino Jr. of Meriden, Conn., who already has two Internet phones at home and even more at the office. Barberino began playing with Internet-based telephony -- sometimes called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VOIP for short -- a couple of years ago. Not only did VOIP slash his phone bill, Barberino said, but also it also gave him a raft of new features, such as detailed call logs and multiple phone numbers. Large telecommunications companies also are getting into the VOIP market, using their own sprawling private networks to carry voice calls in efficient, Internet-like fashion. Comcast Corp. is preparing to offer phone service to millions of households by the end of 2006, largely using VOIP. SBC Communications is offering VOIP services aimed at business customers. AT&T has been steadily expanding its VOIP service. And Cox Communications has issued a statement saying VOIP is "ready for prime time." Full story at: http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/9030743.htm ------------------------------ 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. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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