From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Feb 2 14:31:15 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i12JVF418636; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:31:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:31:15 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200402021931.i12JVF418636@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 #51 TELECOM Digest Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:30:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 51 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Telecom Update (Canada) #418, February 2, 2004 (Angus TeleManagement) Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones (jbl) Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones (Joseph) EME was Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones (noname) Faked CallerID Info? (Chironex) Re: Help With Call-Attendant System? (Carl Navarro) 802.11g Wireless Router/Signal Booster/wireless Antenna to Home (O K) Free Legal Downloads For S6/Month. 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It ordered the company to offer the Telecommunications Workers Union the option of binding arbitration. On Friday, the TWU Executive voted unanimously to accept binding arbitration. Also last week: ** Telus submitted a final offer to the union, then withdrew it after the CIRB Order. ** Over 86% of Telus employees represented by the TWU voted to authorize strike action. If the union had not accepted binding arbitration, it could have called a strike on 72 hours notice this week. ** The B.C. Supreme Court granted an injunction blocking the TWU from showing commercials that parody Telus's animal- based advertising. Telus said the commercials violate its copyright. NORTEL POSTS FIRST PROFIT IN SEVEN YEARS: Nortel Networks earned US$732 million in 2003, its first profit since 1997. World revenues for the year were $9.81 billion, down from $10.57 billion in 2002, but fourth quarter revenues were up 12% over the previous year. CRTC EXTENDS WINBACK PROHIBITION: CRTC Decision 2004-4 responds to Call-Net's "jump start to local competition" application filed last June (see Telecom Update #385). The decision: ** rejects Call-Net's request for a 50% reduction in local loop rates; ** extends the "winback" period, during which incumbent telcos are prohibited from trying to win back customers who have taken service from a CLEC, to 12 months; ** orders incumbents to provide CLEC customers served on unbundled loops the same level of installation and repair service that the ILEC provides to its own customers; ** orders ILECs to provide "prominent" reference, on bills and their Web sites, to a new section on the CRTC website that will inform consumers about local competition. www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/dt2004-4.htm ALLSTREAM AND CALL-NET WANT BACKLOG CSAs DENIED: Allstream and Call-Net have asked the CRTC to reject all pending telco proposals for Customer Specific Arrangement tariffs, and to order Bell Canada to cease providing service under these contracts. They want the Commission to impose a moratorium on new CSAs until the Federal Court rules on Bell's appeal of a CRTC ruling requiring disclosure of the details of the tariffs. (See Telecom Update #405) WORM HITS SCO WITH DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK: On the weekend, computers infected by the MyDoom.A worm launched a Denial of Service attack on SCO, the Utah-based software company that claims to own part of the code used in Linux, putting its website out of service. MyDoom.B is expected to launch a similar attack on Microsoft on Tuesday. ** Microsoft and SCO Group have each offered US$250,000 rewards for information leading to conviction of the authors of the worms that have infected hundreds of thousands of computers and accounted for over 30% of Internet traffic at peak. MTS TO VOTE ON INCOME TRUST PROPOSAL: The Board of Directors of Manitoba Telecom Services says it will put a proposal to convert the company into an income trust to a vote at its next annual meeting. The Board took no position on the proposal. BELL REORGANIZES WESTERN OPERATIONS: Bell Canada has placed both its Bell Mobility and Bell West operations in Alberta and B.C. under a single executive. Paul Healey, head of Bell Mobility in the two provinces, will become President of Bell's Western Canadian Region. ** Randy Reynolds, formerly head of Bell West, is retiring. TELCOS TO PROVIDE ETHERNET LINKS TO COMPETITORS: CRTC Telecom Decision 2004-5 gives interim approval to Ethernet access tariffs filed by Bell Canada and Telus (see Telecom Update #370, 397), including Ethernet connecting arrangements for competitor use, and orders the other major incumbents to file similar tariffs. www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/dt2004-5.htm ALLSTREAM OFFERS ETHERNET PRIVATE LINE: Allstream has launched Ethernet Private Line service at 1 Gbps within and between Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. More sites are to be added later this year. COGECO BOOSTS INTERNET ACCESS SPEED: Cogeco Cable has increased the download speed of its Standard High-Speed Internet service from 3 Mbps to 5 Mbps, and of its High Speed Pro service from 5 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps. Upload speeds have been raised to 640 Kbps and 1 Mbps, respectively. INVESTMENT GROUP BUYS PERSONA: A group of investors including TD Capital Canadian Private Equity Partners and CIBC Capital Partners has agreed to buy Persona Inc, Canada's sixth- largest cable operator, for $406 million. The deal requires approval by two-thirds of the company's shareholders. FINANCIAL RESULTS: ** Aliant's 2003 profit was $185.3 million, up from $142.2 million in 2002. Total revenue grew 1.1% to $2.07 billion. ** Avaya reports September-December world revenues of US$971 million, 3% more than the same period the previous year. Net income of $10 million compares to a loss of $121 million in 2002. ** Sierra Wireless had a profit of $1.5 million in 2003, compared to a loss of $38.4 million the previous year. Revenues for the year were $34.6 million, an increase of 54%. ISSUES FOR WIRELESS DATA PLANNERS: The February issue of Telemanagement features four reports on wireless LANs, including: lessons learned from McGill's campus-wide WLAN; a user evaluation of public Wi-Fi hotspots; rethinking enterprise WLAN configurations; and key issues in evaluating wireless ROI. ** Telemanagement Online subscribers can access this issue, and an extensive library of past issues, columns, editorials and feature reports, at http://online.angustel.ca/. ** To subscribe, or to add online access to your existing subscription, go to www.angustel.ca/teleman/tm-sub-online.html. 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If expert advice on the subject matter is required, the services of a competent professional should be obtained. ------------------------------ From: jbl Subject: Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:28:58 -0700 Organization: On the desert Reply-To: jbl@spamblocked.com In , Gail M. Hall wrote: > What struck me was that when they used their cell phones, the tones > were sounded as the buttons were pressed instead of the way my current > cell phone works. Mine makes a beep with each phone press, but I > don't hear the normal phone tones until I press "Talk" on my phone. My cell phone (an Audiovox on VZW) plays the touchtone if you dial a digit (or * or #), or a beep if you press any other button. I don't hear any tones after I press "send". On the other hand, my cordless phone at home does act the way you describe, if you dial before pressing "talk". > Another thing in the story was that they would immediately enter the > numbers over and over again and *then* get some kind of beep that > indicated they didn't have a signal. My phone has a little graphic on > it that indicates signal strength from the time I turn on the phone. > It also has a graphic that indicates battery power. I would know > without entering any numbers if I had a signal or not. I would not > have to dial any number first. A lot of people might not look first; Columbo, with all his technical "expertise", for instance, was very new to his mobile phone and possibly had no idea what all the little doodads in the display meant. > [TELECOM Digest Editor' Note: Television and Hollywood tend to take > some liberties with the realities of cell phones in their productions. > I do not think any cellphones ever worked differently than the way > they do now. PAT] Yes, but in the case of the phones, the liberties were not all that huge (this time). /JBL ------------------------------ From: Joseph Subject: Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:52:42 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.NOcom On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:05:10 -0500, Gail M. Hall wrote: > What struck me was that when they used their cell phones, the tones > were sounded as the buttons were pressed instead of the way my current > cell phone works. Mine makes a beep with each phone press, but I > don't hear the normal phone tones until I press "Talk" on my phone. I'm guessing that it may may be a case of different manufacturers implementing "dialing" differently. On all Nokias I've ever used as well as an Ericsson model that I have when you press the keys to "dial" you get regular DTMF "touch tones." > Another thing in the story was that they would immediately enter the > numbers over and over again and *then* get some kind of beep that > indicated they didn't have a signal. Again, this probably has more to do with the way a manufacturer designs their phones. Some phones will beep when they go out of range. Some phones will have blinking light that shows constantly while the phone is in use while others do not. Others will change colours as they go out of range or have something else happen such as running low on battery. You can't really make an absolute statement. Along with that is film/TV producers don't always picture phones in a realistic manner. I don't think I can count the number of times I've seen someone go to use a "fortress" type pay phone and when they insert their coins you hear a "ding-ding" like you used to get with the old three slot pay phones or having a Trimline phone ring and the ring you hear is the dual gong "500" type ringer rather than the muted gong you should hear from a Trimline. > My parents had a satellite dish for their TV back around 1980. It was > a big thing. At first it could get lots of channels, but eventually > the companies started jumbling their signals so people would have to > buy a service to descramble the signals to see the channels. By the > '90's, that satellite dish was essentially useless. The service is still very much alive though the popular satellite service is now the mini-dish rather than the BUD (big ugly dish.) True there's not as much free programming as there was, but if you have the money there's just as much programming available now as there was then. remove NO from .NOcom to reply ------------------------------ From: noname Subject: EME was Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones Organization: ATCC Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 05:20:59 GMT In article , gmhall@apk.net says: > On 12 Jan 2004 07:01:25 -0800, in comp.dcom.telecom message > , hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa > Hancock) wrote: >> I saw an old episode of the TV "Superman" (mid 50s) and >> noticed how today's phones would've made a difference. > On another issue, I noticed that the bad guy had a big TV, which he > said was hooked to a satellite with 200 channels. I didn't see a box. > Also, there was no remote, so he had to use the TV's on/off button to > turn it on and off. > My parents had a satellite dish for their TV back around 1980. It was > a big thing. At first it could get lots of channels, but eventually > the companies started jumbling their signals so people would have to > buy a service to descramble the signals to see the channels. By the > '90's, that satellite dish was essentially useless. My brother-in-law > took down the dish last summer and has plans to make something else > out of it -- maybe something to let plants climb on or something. They make great EME antennae for us hams out there. EME being Earth- Moon-Earth as in bouncing signals off of it. ------------------------------ From: Chironex Subject: Faked CallerID Info? Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:36:09 -0500 I recently hosted a very priveliged conference call using an online calling service. Once the call was complete, I received a list of the people connected to the call, and noticed that there was an additional caller who was not authorized. It was not the conference call service, nor was it any of my employees as I can account for all of their caller ID info. Strangely the number in question is 794-902-XXXX, which appears to be an unused area code! Is this possible and how the heck did someone do this???? ------------------------------ From: Carl Navarro Subject: Re: Help With Call-Attendant System? Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:49:19 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America On 30 Jan 2004 12:32:13 -0800, jcoronat@paulbunyan.net (James) wrote: > Can anyone help in constructing an automated telephone answering > system for me? > The idea is to allow a caller to sample one or more long books over > the phone. Each of the one or more books will be playing continuously, > and a caller will simply tap in to a particular recording at whatever > point it happens to be when the caller calls in. So does this mean I can listen to an entire book on your dime two minutes at a time? > It should work as follows: the caller dials our toll-free number and > connects to our system ("System" - the one you supply me). The System > should then: > 1. automatically answer the call and play an outgoing message of 1-2 > mins ("Hello and thank you for calling! To hear Book One, press"); > 2.then automatically connect to a live feed-through for 2-4 minutes > minutes (this is one of the continuously playing CD players or tape > players); > 3. then automatically disconnect or fade out the live feed-through and > play a short termination message ("Thank you for listening. For > additional information write"); > 4. then automatically disconnect the call. Without spending more than 30 seconds on the answer, it is possible to do this in two ways. One is the standard voice mail system. The other is the equipment used for time and temperature. A vox file is fairly easy to construct in software with the right equipment. If it were my system, I'd select a random or specific passage from each book and make vox files of those passages. Now you can transfer them to the VM or T&T system and give them locations. > To start the System, I'd insert my book CD or audiocassette into a CD > or tape player, set the player on "continuous play" mode, and jack it > into the live feed-through port on the machine you supply. If the > system had more than one port, I'd jack additional CD players, each > playing different books, into the other ports. Then I want to walk > away and have it service callers unattended. > To summarize: when callers dial in, they'll hear an introductory > message, then 2 to 4 minutes of the book's text at whatever point the > recording happens to be at that moment; then, a short message telling > what to do if more information is desired. At the end, the system > disconnects the caller automatically. > Does anyone know how I could assemble a system of telephone equipment > that will do this? My guess is that you can have 4-16 ports and a whole boatload of sample books on a VM system for less than $4K. It requires a computer and software(or maybe the same computer) to sample the Audiobook, and just a very small learning curve to slot the books in the right "mailbox". Carl Navarro > Sincerely, > James. ------------------------------ Reply-To: O K From: O K Subject: 802.11g Wireless Router/Signal Booster/Wireless Antenna to Network Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:57:03 -0800 Organization: Cox Communications I have a question about adding a wireless antenna or signal booster to my home network. My current setup is I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router which supports B and G infrastructure. I have a 802.11b Wireless PCI card in my PC. In my condo, I can verify that the wireless portion of the network between the wireless router and my PC are functioning. I then take my PC to another floor in my building, and I get little to no signal. I would like to add either a signal booster and/or an antenna to make my network functional. From the reading that I have done, I can't determine where the antenna needs to be installed if I go this route. Is it installed on the PCI portion of the network, or the router portion of the network. As the router TX's and RX's, is the problem with the low transmission power from the router and therefore I need a wireless antenna on the PC, or is the problem the low transmission power from the PCI card to the router upstairs? I can't figure out which hardware I need to make this functional. Please contact me directly at okorkie3@cox.net (remove the *) Thanks, Owen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:09:55 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Free Legal Downloads For $6/Month. DRM Free Free legal downloads for $6 a month. DRM free. The artists get paid. We explain how ... By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Imagine a world where music and movies could be freely exchanged online, where artists are recompensed and the labels don't lose a cent, and where 12-year old girls need not fear harboring an MP3 of their favorite TV show theme tune on their PC. All that could be yours for less than the price of a subscription to Napster: for less than $6 a month. Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher has completed the first comprehensive examination of various alternative models and the one we outline here offers such tantalizing social benefits, that even the most jaded sceptic ought to pay attention. Professor Fisher belongs to the school of forensic sceptics rather than the school of wide-eyed techno-utopians, and he's spent three years trying to make the sums add up. We think it's worth a look, and we think you ought to take a look too. (To make his task even more difficult, Fisher's license model also takes on the additional onerous task of compensating Hollywood, too). How does it work? Let's look at the sums: what level of compensation do the labels, studios and artists need to make it worthwhile? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35260.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:01:10 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: TiVo Here, There - TiVo Everywhere Stephen Williams In "Ghostbusters," one of the running gags that was assimilated into the lexicon of pop culture occurs when Bill Murray is attacked by the ghost. "I've been slimed!" he shrieks. Well, I've been TiVoed. I came face to face with this recent electronic dependency at the Consumer Electronics Show just past in Las Vegas. In fact, the spectre of TiVo was ubiquitous at CES. With more than a dozen products set to launch this year, TiVo continues to solidify its expanding niche in home video and beyond. While the DVD recorder still seems to me the logical successor to the VCR, the DVD recorder-with-TiVo now seems more logical. The digital recording technology - or near-perfect copies of it - showed up as well in home networking products, in satellite broadcast systems, in cable TV boxes; and plans are in place to invade the space of satellite radio networks Sirius and XM. http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-plgear3643969jan27,0,1537321.column ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:09:16 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: TiVo Kicks Off the Year with Lower Pricing Company Announces All-Time Low $199 MSRP for TiVo(R) Series2(TM) Digital Video Recorders SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) today announced a price change that will for the first time, push the entry price point on the TiVo(R) Series2(TM) DVR to under $200 at leading retailers across the country. TiVo Series2 DVRs will be available starting at a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $199 for the 40-hour, and $299 for the 80-hour model. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40373092 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:11:02 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: T-Mobile and Comcast Announce Strategic Marketing Alliance T-Mobile and Comcast Announce Strategic Marketing Alliance Companies Team Up for Customers to Experience Wireless Broadband Internet Service On the Go BELLEVUE, Wash. and PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Cable and T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced a strategic marketing alliance to offer the T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi Internet service to Comcast's nearly five million high- speed Internet customers. With today's announcement, Comcast customers can experience the convenience, reliability and value of a T-Mobile wireless broadband connection when they're away from home, via Wi-Fi, at the more than 4,000 T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide. As part of this strategic marketing alliance, Comcast high-speed Internet customers will receive a special offer when they sign up for T-Mobile HotSpot through their Comcast portal homepage. Comcast customers who subscribe to the T-Mobile HotSpot service can surf the Web, check email or view streaming media at wireless broadband speeds with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA at T-Mobile HotSpot locations. 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