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Message Digest Volume 28 : Issue 38 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Verizon wins Phila FIOS contract ====== 27 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. 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, and other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:29:40 -0800 (PST) From: David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Message-ID: <24518c7f-c747-48b1-b4b8-7a7179095dff@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com> On Feb 4, 8:39 am, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote: > This was just one of the 185 calls Ellis made to 911 call centers > around the US, according to Yahoo Tech, and the Bates family was > picked at random. After being caught, the teen pleaded to five felony > felony counts that include computer access and fraud, [....] But he was CAUGHT, and investigators were able to determine that he'd made 185 such calls. It sounds like the problem isn't as big as it's portrayed in the story. So, what's the problem now? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:52:47 -0800 (PST) From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Message-ID: <925882be-8465-4e24-b07f-5ffa39056d8d@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> On Feb 6, 9:13 am, David Kaye <sfdavidka...@yahoo.com> wrote: > But he was CAUGHT, and investigators were able to determine that he'd > made 185 such calls.  It sounds like the problem isn't as big as it's > portrayed in the story.  So, what's the problem now? A widespread problem, as reported by Newsweek, is that VOIP subscribers aren't in the 911 database. So when they need help and can't provide their address, help is delayed. Further, the call may be routed to the wrong 911 center. There have been many instances where someone living on a suburban street with a common name (e.g. "Bluebird Lane") called for help and fire trucks were sent to a Bluebird Lane in a different community. Part of the problem is that today's 911 centers serve large geographic areas where it's impossible for the operators to know every street and street names are duplicated in different towns. I will note that (at least in my area) 911 centers can transfer a call to a different center. For example, when I'm using a cellphone near a state border and my call goes to the wrong center, they transfer me to the desired one. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:30:49 -0800 From: Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Message-ID: <et_il.3794$PE4.711@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com> David Kaye wrote: > On Feb 4, 8:39 am, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote: > >> This was just one of the 185 calls Ellis made to 911 call centers >> around the US, according to Yahoo Tech, and the Bates family was >> picked at random. After being caught, the teen pleaded to five felony >> felony counts that include computer access and fraud, [....] > > But he was CAUGHT, and investigators were able to determine that he'd > made 185 such calls. It sounds like the problem isn't as big as it's > portrayed in the story. So, what's the problem now? > The problem is that it could have been done in the first place. It took time to locate the person who did the fraud, put emergency services and the public in danger; remember people were forced out of their house and treated as if they had just killed 5,000 people. -- The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2009 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:44:35 +0000 (UTC) From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: 911 service not prepared for new generation of pranksters Message-ID: <gmi0ej$rfh$1@reader1.panix.com> David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> writes: >> This was just one of the 185 calls Ellis made to 911 call centers >> around the US, according to Yahoo Tech, and the Bates family was >> picked at random. After being caught, the teen pleaded to five felony >> felony counts that include computer access and fraud, [....] >But he was CAUGHT, and investigators were able to determine that he'd >made 185 such calls. It sounds like the problem isn't as big as it's >portrayed in the story. So, what's the problem now? The problem is, that arrest was likely long after the SWAT teams kicked in the doors, shooting. The more often they do, the more dead people.... and pets. Look at case in Berwyn Heights where they murdered the *mayor's* dogs. Or the one I just saw where the homeowner is on trial for murder after he shot an armed intruder... who turned out to be a cop. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:52:54 -0800 (PST) From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Verizon wins Phila FIOS contract Message-ID: <61304e7c-0dd6-4fb1-a5e9-4f5032c08254@a39g2000prl.googlegroups.com> City Council breathed competition into Philadelphia's cable market yesterday, approving a 15-year franchise agreement with Verizon Communications Inc. that will bring the FiOS network into the city and break Comcast Corp.'s monopoly. Verizon overcame resistance in Council by offering assurances on minority hiring and committing to rolling out its fiber-optic network evenly across the city over seven years, and the deal passed by a 17-0 vote. For full article please see: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20090206_Verizon_wins_Phila__franchise.html ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecom- munications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition 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. You may reprint articles in some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work and that of the original author. The Telecom Digest is currently being moderated by Bill Horne while Pat Townson recovers from a stroke. 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