From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Oct 14 16:03:08 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id i9EK38A10177; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:03:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:03:08 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200410142003.i9EK38A10177@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 #488 TELECOM Digest Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:03:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 488 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Wired: Click Fraud Threatens Web (Lisa Minter) Re: LNP For a Move (Tony P.) Re: Verizon May Hang up on Plan to Sell Phone Number (Tony P.) Re: Why SCO's McBride Declared War (noname) EFFector 17.38: Indymedia Servers Mysteriously Reappear (Monty Solomon) AT&T Introduces New Residential VoIP Plan (Monty Solomon) Nokia Reports Third-Quarter 2004 Net Sales of EUR 6 939 Mln (M. Solomon) Sony Ericsson Reports Continued Growth in Sales and Profit (M. Solomon) Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent (Monty Solomon) Intel Reveals First Entertainment PCs Signaling New Era (Monty Solomon) Motorola Home Monitoring and Control System (Monty Solomon) XSi - Xtreme Security Intelligence - Licenses and Deploys (M Solomon) Digital TV Finds It Hard to be Free (Monty Solomon) Making Peace with the Phone Bill (Monty Solomon) Pioneers Ready For Your Comments, Thoughts (TELECOM Digest Editor) Help Needed With 3-COM PCMCIA Ethernet Card (TELECOM Digest Editor) New York City [Verizon] Phone Users (NYC) Re: Monthly Bill Fatigue (Marcus Didius Falco) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:33:38 PDT Subject: Click Fraud Threatens Web From: Lisa Minter Someone could make the argument that watchdogs have better things to do. But click fraud -- endlessly clicking on ads to generate cash or hurt a competitor -- is a serious threat to the web business, and no one's doing much about it. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65324,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: LNP For a Move Organization: ATCC Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:55:02 GMT In article , vjkahler@bellsouth.net says: > It can be done. BellSouth will do it, for businesses at least. I don't > know about Verizon. Good luck finding a service rep who will know what > you're talking about, and how to do it. > What you're actually talking about is Foreign Central Office, where > the original CO and the new CO are in the same rate center. In Foreign > Exchange, the new CO is in a different rate center. LNP does make FCO > obsolete, but not FX. > Valerie in FL The concept of LNP has shown FX service to be intentionally erroneous. Same rate center means just that, the only technical difference is the switch it lives on. LNP does database dips. What else do you think the LNP fee on your phone bill pays for? FX is still used when you cross rate centers. But then unlimited packages have pretty much killed that too. ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: Verizon May Hang up on Plan to Sell Phone Number Organization: ATCC Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:56:03 GMT In article , stanncno1spam@noispam.yahoo.com says: > Bidders Hot for Jenny's NYC Number > Verizon may hang up on plan to sell 867-5309 > By Monty Phan > STAFF WRITER > Newsday (Long Island) > February 14, 2004 > To all Manhattan women named Jenny: He's got your number. > Combining the forces of '80s pop culture and offbeat Internet > auctions, a Manhattan man is using eBay to try to sell 212-867-5309, > the number -- sans area code -- that appears in the 1981 song > "867-5309/Jenny," by one-hit wonder Tommy Tutone. Interestingly enough -- Gem Pluming in Rhode Island is 401-867-5309. ------------------------------ From: noname Subject: Re: Why SCO's McBride Declared War Organization: ATCC Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:57:04 GMT In article , clj@panix.com says: > Monty Solomon writes: >> Online Extra: Why SCO's McBride Declared War >> Says the CEO about Linux: "It wasn't like we said, 'Oh, let's go find >> people and sue them.' It was a gradual enforcement of our rights" >> You have to give SCO Group ( SCOX ) CEO Darl McBride credit for one >> thing: He's got moxie. > First, in what way was it NOT like they said "Oh, let's sue"? Saying > that that isn't what they did doesn't change the fact that what they > did looks EXACTLY like that. > And no, I don't have to give Darl McBride credit for ANYTHING if I > don't want to. He can't make me, and siccing lawyers indiscriminately > won't change that fact. How did he end up in this universe without a > clue, anyway? I have a very low opinion of those who use the courts and our legislators to fatten their own pockets. McBride falls beneath my contempt because of this. SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on - this is a calculated risk to try and inflate the value of the company. I highly doubt it will work because SCO's credibility has been severely inhibited by it's unwillingness to state exactly which lines of code are in violation, if at all. And in the 01/26/04 issue of eWeek I see that they've even testified before our congress critters that open source software is a national security issue. Their argument is that a scientist in North Korea could download Linux, install it on a bunch of machines and cluster them into a supercomputer for nuclear research. The congress critters to their credit, explained that if proper export controls were exercised this wouldn't be an issue. But let's face it, North Korea will get what it wants from Japan, not the U.S. I hope SCO goes down in flames for this one. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:38:38 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: EFFector 17.38: Indymedia Servers Mysteriously Reappear, But EFFector Vol. 17, No. 38 October 13, 2004 donna@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 309th Issue of EFFector: * Indymedia Servers Mysteriously Reappear, But Questions Remain * In File-Sharing Witchhunts, RIAA Is Foiled Again * Entertainment Giants Push Supreme Court to Rewrite Copyright Law * MiniLinks (12): DoJ Report Endorses PDEA, Induce Act * Administrivia http://www.eff.org/effector/17/38.php ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:55:45 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: AT&T Introduces New Residential VoIP Plan AT&T Introduces New Residential VoIP Plan Feature-rich Unlimited Local Service for $19.99 per month BEDMINSTER, N.J., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing customers a choice in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling plans, AT&T today introduced an unlimited local version of its popular residential broadband phone service called AT&T CallVantageSM Local Plan. For $19.99 per month, customers receive unlimited local calling and access to the entire AT&T CallVantage Service advanced feature set. All local toll and long distance calling in the U.S. and to Canada will be billed at $0.04 a minute. International calling will be billed by the minute at rates on average 50 percent less than the company's leading offers. The new calling plan will become available October 17. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44262884 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:00:38 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Nokia Reports Third-Quarter 2004 Net Sales of EUR 6 939 Million, Highlights Third Quarter 2004 (All Comparisons in Parentheses are to Third Quarter 2003 Results Regrouped According to 2004 Organization) ESPOO, Finland, October 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Net sales increased 1% to EUR 6 939 million (EUR 6 874 million in Q3 2003), up 8% at constant currency - Operating profit decreased 20% to EUR 928 million (EUR 1 154 million), with operating margin of 13.4% (16.8%) EPS (diluted) was EUR 0.14 (EUR 0.17) on net profits of EUR 660 million - Mobile Phones net sales of EUR 4 429 million (EUR 5 118 million) were 13% lower than in 2003, with EUR 822 million operating profit (EUR 1 473 million) and operating margin of 18.6% (28.8%) - Multimedia net sales increased 94% to EUR 914 million (EUR 471 million) - Networks net sales grew 21% to EUR 1 470 million (EUR 1 217 million), with EUR 181 million operating profit (EUR 4 million) and an operating margin of 12.3% (0.3%) - Enterprise Solutions net sales increased 52% to EUR 172 million (EUR 113 million) - Operating cash flow for the quarter was EUR 1.2 billion (EUR 1.2 billion) and overall cash position was EUR 11.8 billion (EUR 10.8 billion) at the end of the quarter - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44259933 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:01:46 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Sony Ericsson Reports Continued Growth in Sales and Profit TOKYO & STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2004--Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) today announced the consolidated financial summary for the third quarter ended September 30, 2004 of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson), the 50:50 joint venture of Sony and Ericsson. Units shipped in the quarter reached 10.7 million, a 51% increase compared to the same period last year. Sales for the quarter were Euro 1,678 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 29%. Income before taxes was Euro 136 million and net income was Euro 90 million, which represent year-on-year improvements of Euro 97 million (249%) and Euro 28 million (45%) respectively. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44257858 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:52:53 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 05, @07:30PM from the or-at-least-think-about-doing-so dept. Cryofan writes "Mark Pesce, lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) writes here and here about using p2p networks, specifically bittorrent, to create a grassroots television network. He cites as an example the BBC's "Flexible TV" internet broadcasting model using that as the core of a "new sort of television network, one which could harness the power of P2P distribution to create a global television network." Producers of video entertainment and news would provide a single copy of a program into the network of P2P clients, and the p2p network peers distribute the content themselves. Thus, a virtual 'newswiki' where the content is distributed bittorrent using some sort of 'trusted peer' or moderator mechanisms as a filtering/evaluation mechanism. So what is stopping anyone from doing this now? Awareness of the concept, perhaps? Lack of broadband connections? Lack of business models for content producers?" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/05/2232203 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:56:47 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Intel Reveals First Entertainment PCs Signaling New Era NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2004--In a keynote speech here today, Intel Corporation executive Robert Crooke outlined products and technology trends that will revolutionize the way people experience entertainment in their homes. The company also unveiled several of the first available Entertainment PCs. Soaring sales of digital cameras, MP3 players, CD/DVD players, digital TVs, personal video recorders and a slew of other digital devices highlight the pervasiveness of digital entertainment. Consumers who want to enjoy this vast selection of digital content on their home TVs and stereos now have an easier way to do so due to a new category of PCs: the Entertainment PC. The media "command center" of the digital home, Entertainment PCs are designed to sit on an entertainment rack and work with a television set with a remote control. The Entertainment PC combines the functionality of home audio and video devices with the power of a high-performance multimedia computer. Easy to use, Entertainment PCs keep digital content in one convenient, central location, accessible via remote control or wireless keyboard. Entertainment PCs act as a combined CD/DVD player and recorder, FM stereo and music server, and personal video recorder. By adding a broadband connection, an Entertainment PC becomes an on-demand entertainment store, allowing users to download the latest movies, music, news and more. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44262142 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:59:17 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Motorola Home Monitoring and Control System Stay Connected to Your Home: Introducing the Motorola Home Monitoring and Control System NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced the immediate availability of the Motorola Home Monitoring and Control System from http://www.motorola.com/shop , and beginning November 1st from select retail outlets nationwide. Keep Informed While You Are Away The Motorola Home Monitoring and Control solution is a coordinated system of wired and wireless cameras, wireless door/window sensors and environmental devices that work together to provide real-time information about what's happening in your home. The included Home Monitoring and Control software provides an easy way to configure and control the System. Right from the desktop, the software lets you monitor real-time activity from cameras and sensors placed around your home. You can program the software to automatically record activity from these sensors whenever a certain event occurs (such as a door opening), and/or have a notification sent to a mobile phone or email account. Further, you can program one device to trigger another, extending your security options. For example, if a door or window sensor is triggered, that event can enable a wireless camera to record the event. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44260486 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:14:26 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: XSi - Xtreme Security Intelligence - Licenses and Deploys XSi - Xtreme Security Intelligence - Licenses and Deploys Advanced Homeland Security Solutions of the Next Generation of Technologies IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2004-- XSi(TM) Envisions Thousands of Robotic Cameras Enhancing Security Efforts Traditionally Limited by Cost and the Resources of Human Beings XSi, an IP-based security surveillance provider, announced today it will deploy the largest security surveillance network in the Americas. The company is also pleased to announce the recent licensing of its technologies in the states of Texas and New Mexico as part of its rollout. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=44264453 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:33:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Digital TV Finds It Hard to be Free Broadcasters have spent billions on the technology -- but is free over-the-air digital TV a viable alternative to cable and satellite? By Deborah Asbrand FCC chairman Michael Powell's once-in-a-blue-moon halftime appearance on ABC's Monday Night Football was a bid to publicize the commission's new website promoting digital television. But Powell's cameo was also notable for capturing the dilemma of broadcast DTV. The push for digital TV originated with broadcasters as a quest for a marketing edge-a way to endow over-the-air offerings with features like multicasting and on-demand programming and thus better compete with cable and satellite. But with the decreasing importance of the networks and their local affiliates, broadcast digital TV remains a multibillion-dollar venture in search of an audience. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_asbrand101404.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:33:29 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Making Peace with the Phone Bill Making Peace with the Phone Bill Sure, long distance costs are way down, but the typical household now spends vastly more on communications than before. MIT management professor Thomas Malone explains why that's actually a good thing. By Eric S. Brown In his recent book, The Future of Work, Thomas Malone argues that continuing reductions in the unit cost of communication are changing the face of business, leading to decentralization, innovative use of markets, and eventually, workplace democracy. (Yes, if you're lucky, you'll soon be able to fire your boss.) Malone's book is an intriguing vision of the future, and the extensive footnotes show he has done his homework. Still, from the point of view of one of the "e-lancers" (he co-invented the term in the late 1990s) who are driving the new "new" economy, I had to ask: what lowered communications costs? Sure, if you're a CFO, you may be thrilled that the cost of corporate voice and data services continues to plummet, but if you're sitting at home, all you see is one communications bill after another. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_brown101304.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:48:38 EDT From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Pioneers Ready For Your Comments, Thoughts I mentioned the other day and want to remind you again that Internet Pioneers is now open for your review and your postings. Originally intended as a place for *long term* netizens to review the entries in the Internet Historical Society, it is also a place for general discussion of interest to netters; such things as changes we have seen in the net over the past several years, etc. You can read through the messages there presently at http://internet-pioneers.org and if you want to post thoughts of your own, send them in email to us at pioneers@internet-pioneeers.org PAT ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:59:32 EDT From: TELECOM Digest Editor Most of you know I have a mish-mash of a network here, with a combination of various *old* computers running Win 98 and Win-2000, and a NetGear router. Here is today's dilemma: My very old, original computer is a Toshiba 220 CDS laptop. It was running with Win 95 until a few days ago. Dreadfully slow and small, with only 123 megs processing speed, and 32,512 KB memory (circa 1995-96) when it booted up. Under Win 95, it was hooked into my overall network with a 3-COM card, PCMCIA type, model 574-TX. (I think that is a 16 bit card. ) It was working fine, the Toshiba could see the internet, and the rest of the LAN as well. I formatted the hard drive, and started over, to upgrade this computer to a Win 98. All went pretty well, although it is still a very sluggish, older computer. But, the 3-COM ethernet connection is not working. I've tried installing it a few times, I have the driver for it from 3-COM and the little green light on it tells me it is working (the '100' is lighted. The computer toots when I remove or install the hardware. Properties tells me the driver is correctly installed. The icon for the slots tells me the 3-Com card is there.) But, it just won't work! ipconfig and winipcfg both claim there is no card in the slot. When I attempt to configure things to use the LAN instead of the dialup modem (also a PCMCIA card in the slot right above the Ethernet card) it won't be allowed. By the way, the modem PCMCIA card works fine. Anyone know why the ethernet card can see the network okay, but the computer cannot see the ethernet card? (Well, it apparently can see the card, it toots when the card goes in or out, etc.) I will appreciate any answers. PAT ------------------------------ From: NOTvalid@surplus4actors.INFO (NYC) Subject: New York City [Verizon] Phone Users Date: 13 Oct 2004 21:46:42 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Desperate New York Telephone's death rattles are being heard. Oh wait ... didn't they change their name to ... NYnex ... Verizon, there's one missing, [maybe hiding under a rock], it's hard to keep track. If you are a Verizon customer look at your phone bill. Pay attention now, or you will miss this. Look at the page that has "ITEMIZED CALLS" "Verizon Local calls" It used to itemize day, evening and night calls and list a 40% discount for evening calls and a 65% discount for night calls. The current bills still itemize day, evening and night calls but no longer tell you what the discount rate is. Pause and think. Why? To save paper? To save you from heady accounting verification calculations? To save the elderly poor from confusion? To make the bill easier to read? Nope! The real reason is, they DID AWAY with evening and night discounts! Now all calls are the same price! Add up the "number of calls" column and multiply by the "charge per call column". You will see that all calls are charged at the FULL "charge per call" rate. Sneaky, huh? WHY do the current bills still itemize day, evening and night calls if there is no longer any discount rate and all calls cost the same? The phone company is having a good laugh, Those of average intelligence will never notice anything amiss. For those of above average intelligence, Telco [the telephone company] simply throws in a special diversion. Have you noticed that the phone company now stuffs the envelopes upside down? An intelligent person's wheels start whirring, Why is Telco doing this? By the time the brain trust has figured out which way is up, they have been too distracted to notice the wool being pulled over their brains. The local hardwired telcos are getting desperate to slow down the revenue drain. They are loosing customers to wireless and VOIP. Some of those deals are not as good as they seem. You have to examine all the fine print. Free nights and weekends are not really "FREE", they are part of the plan that you are paying for! Some VOIP plans have limited minutes included. You need broadband [DSL, CATV etc.] for VOIP. You can't use a $4.95 a month ISP like we do. You can still save a lot on some local calls by using a pre-paid card with an 800#. You can get a rate of under 3 cents a minute to dial anywhere in the USA. Since anywhere in the USA includes anywhere within NYC itself, you can make local calls for 3 cents if it is a quickie to ask store hours for example. After a while you don't save anymore, for long calls you don't use this method. You can save a lot of money on telcom by choosing alternate means. If you decide to try a pre-paid card for local calling read all the fine print. They all charge extra to use from a payphone. Some charge a connection fee for every call. Some charge a minimum call length. We use http://www.www.OneSuite.com for long distance and some local calls. If you want to try them out Promotion Code 034720367 will give you some extra minutes at no charge. Altho you can call across the street or Georgia or California and even Hong Kong for under three cents a minute, watch out! It costs twenty-five cents a minute to Hawaii . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:25:22 -0400 From: Marcus Didius Falco Subject: Re: Monthly Bill Fatigue At 09:00 PM 10/13/04, editor@telecom-digest.org wrote: > From: DevilsPGD > Subject: Re: Monthly Bill Fatigue > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:25:27 -0600 > Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com > Marcus Didius Falco wrote: >> Businesses can only allow the general public to use their telephones >> for free in places where there is no charge for local usage. This >> might be the case in some countries, though I am not aware of any. In >> most countries the telephone company charges businesses for usage >> (even local usage), and businesses would have to pass on that charge. > Canada and/or the US? If I recall correctly, most big cities in US have measured usage for business customers. I believe the same is true for Canada. In western Europe nearly all users, residential or business, are charged for usage. Thus, businesses might be expected to pass on any costs to members of the general public who they allow to use their phones. I realize I was not clear when I said that small businesses in Egypt allow the public to use their phones. I meant that they do so, but charge a small fee. ------------------------------ 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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