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The Telecom Digest for February 05, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 32 : "text" Format

Messages in this Issue:


For iPhone, Almost Heaven(Monty Solomon)


Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones(Monty Solomon)


Re: Video conferencing phone booth(John Levine)


Re: Celcom Axiata & DiGi agreed to share network infrastructure   |  Malaysian Wireless 
(Koos van den Hout)


Re: New numbering rules for phones in Australia(Lisa or Jeff)





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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:26:04 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: For iPhone, Almost Heaven 
Message-ID: <p06240845c97163f413d7@[10.0.1.2]>

For iPhone, Almost Heaven

By DAVID POGUE
February 2, 2011

It's here. After almost four years of speculation, the iPhone will 
finally come to Verizon's network on Feb. 10.

And to answer everyone's question, the Verizon iPhone is nearly the 
same as AT&T's iPhone 4 - but it doesn't drop calls. For several 
million Americans, that makes it the holy grail.

I took the Verizon iPhone to five cities, including the two Bermuda 
Triangles of AT&T reception: San Francisco and New York. Holding AT&T 
and Verizon iPhones side by side in the passenger seat of a car, I 
dialed 777-FILM simultaneously, and then rode around until a call 
dropped. (Why that number? Because I wanted to call a landline, 
eliminating the other person's cell reception from the equation. 
Also, Mr. Moviefone can carry the entire conversation by himself, so 
I could concentrate on the testing.)

In San Francisco, the AT&T phone dropped the call four times in 30 
minutes of driving; the Verizon phone never did. The Verizon iPhone 
also held its line in several Manhattan intersections where the AT&T 
call died. At a Kennedy airport gate, the AT&T phone couldn't even 
find a signal; the Verizon dialed with a smug yawn.

Most impressively, the Verizon iPhone effortlessly made calls in the 
Cellphone Signal Torture Chamber of Doom: my house.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html




Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:26:04 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones 
Message-ID: <p06240846c97165d183be@[10.0.1.2]>

Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

February 2, 2011
by Walter S. Mossberg
AllThingsD

For millions of iPhone owners, or would-be iPhone owners, who dislike 
AT&T's wireless service or prefer Verizon Wireless service, 
liberation is at hand. Starting Feb. 10, Apple's iconic smart phone 
finally will be available in the U.S. on a second carrier, Verizon, 
instead of just on AT&T, which has been the exclusive iPhone network 
since the device launched in 2007. Current Verizon customers can 
pre-order the iPhone Thursday.

Complaints about dropped voice calls, or calls that can't be 
initiated, on AT&T's service, especially on iPhones, have been 
legion. Meanwhile, Verizon has enjoyed a general reputation for 
reliable voice service. So, many frustrated AT&T iPhone users and 
those scared off by reports of dropped calls, or simply loyal to 
Verizon, have been eagerly anticipating this move. To these people, 
I'm here to say: Yes, there are some major benefits to having your 
iPhone on Verizon, but, as with all good things, there are also 
trade-offs.

I've been testing a Verizon iPhone 4 and comparing it to an AT&T 
iPhone 4, which has been out since last summer. The phones themselves 
are essentially identical, except for the fact that they have 
different radios inside to accommodate the two carriers' differing 
network technologies. They aren't interchangeable.

...

http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20110202/verizon-apple-iphone4-review/




Date: 4 Feb 2011 04:36:18 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Video conferencing phone booth
Message-ID: <20110204043618.4386.qmail@joyce.lan>

> I just want to sit down and begin seeing and talking to some people
>on the opposite coast, for about an hour, right now, without having
>to fly there, and without having to install and learn still another
>Mac app (especially when networking is involved).

I'd suggest finding a high school kid and pay him or her $20 to set
up Skype on your laptop.  Really.

Having done the video studio thing, I can tell you there is no video
phone booth business because Skype et all have killed it.  Unless you
lived next door to the studio, you'd probably spend more time driving
there than it'd take to download and set up Skype, particularly on a
Macbook which has the audio and video hardware already installed and
configured.

R's,
John




Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 19:14:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Koos van den Hout <koos+newsposting@kzdoos.xs4all.nl>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Celcom Axiata & DiGi agreed to share network infrastructure   |  Malaysian Wireless 
Message-ID: <iihj6j$evb$18@kzdoos.xs4all.nl>

John Mayson <john@mayson.us> wrote in <AANLkTikVphc21yQ44ftSzeRQXzzmR2d_sDw+EZEqntNW@mail.gmail.com>:
> DiGi & Celcom Axiata have agreed to share an initial of 218 sites or
> base stations from each provider to save about 2.2 billion ringgit
> ($719 million) over 10 years.

> How much sharing goes on in other countries?

Lots (at least here in the Netherlands) because guidelines in cities on
allowing new constructions for cellular base antennas state that new
constructions should be avoided when site-sharing is available or when
existing constructions can be used.

Site-sharing for commercial reasons started a bit a few years ago but
zoning regulations have taken over now ;)

                                          Koos van den Hout

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:23:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: New numbering rules for phones in Australia 
Message-ID: <bb1fd4f6-b3c3-4e3b-9e2d-d1cfc6ca1df5@s3g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>

On Feb 3, 2:57 am, David Clayton <dcs...@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> As part of the rollout of the NBN (fibre to the premises) the incumbent
> telco is going to gradually decommission all the "copper".
> They continually complain about the upkeep costs of such old plant anyway,
> so it will save people money as the fibre infrastructure maintenance
> should be a lot less over its intended life.

Obviously fibre has advantages in capacity over copper, but does that
mean existing copper plant should be abandoned?

Why is fibre cable cheaper to maintain than existing copper cable?
I would guess that the big maintenance expense of outdoor physical
plant would physical protection against weather and injury and access
for maintenance.  Wouldn't physical protection costs, such as durable
outer shells, be the same for copper as fibre?  If say a car knocks
down a pole carrying lines, isn't the biggest cost labor of the crew
to replace the pole and remount the lines?





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