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The Telecom Digest for May 30, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 117 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Apple's Testimony Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Monty Solomon)
Re: Looking for GSM prepaid provider (Mark Smith)
Online Currency Exchange Accused of Laundering $6 Billion (Monty Solomon)
History--ad for Teletype (HAncock4)

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:38:17 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Apple's Testimony Before the Permanent Subcommittee on  Investigations
Message-ID: <p0624083acdcb522acc4d@[10.0.1.4]>

05/21/2013

Tim Cook's Opening Statement Before the Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/timcookopeningstatement.pdf

Peter Oppenheimer's Opening Statement Before the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/oppenheimeropeningstatement.pdf

05/20/2013

Apple's Testimony Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/Apple_Testimony_to_PSI.pdf

***** Moderator's Note *****

If they were really interested in doing anything, it wouldn't
need to be a permanent subcommittee.

Bill Horne
Moderator




Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Smith <marklsmith@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Looking for GSM prepaid provider 
Message-ID: <1369801740.70483.YahooMailNeo@web122302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:09 John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

> I have a cheap Tracfone.  It works pretty well, but before I reload it
> with another $100 (which will last for most of a year), I'm wondering
> what my options are.
> 
> I'm willing to buy an unlocked GSM Android phone like a Nexus 4 if I
> can find a carrier that will do prepaid or month to month on it.
> T-Mobile claims they have coverage here, but they are wrong (I know
> where the towers are) so that means the carrier has to be AT&T or an
> AT&T MVNO.
> 
> I don't expect to have a whole lot of usage since I'm mostly at home
> where the wifi is cheap and plentiful, but it's nice to have something
> that will work when I'm out shopping or on trips.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I suppose if there is some sort of hybrid phone that
> will work on Verizon CDMA and foreign GSM, or there's unlocked Verizon
> LTE phones with a SIM, that might be possible, but I haven't seen the
> former at a plausible price or the latter at all.

I just got an IPhone 3 from Consumer Cellular for $175.  It's a
refurb, probably from AT&T. The only thing it won't do is act as a
hotspot for a computer. I have a Verizon 4 LTE modem for this
purpose. Consumer Cellular has monthly billing, but no contract and
you can change plans month to month.  I do data mostly on WiFi.
 
Mark L. Smith 
marklsmith@yahoo.com

http://smith.freehosting.net

Http://marksfolkmusicphotos.shutterfly.com




Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 01:36:30 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Online Currency Exchange Accused of Laundering $6 Billion
Message-ID: <p06240832cdcb443b8839@[10.0.1.4]>

Online Currency Exchange Accused of Laundering $6 Billion

By MARC SANTORA, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and NICOLE PERLROTH
May 28, 2013

The operators of a global currency exchange ran a $6 billion 
money-laundering operation online, a central hub for criminals 
trafficking in everything from stolen identities to child 
pornography, federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday.

The currency exchange, Liberty Reserve, operated beyond the 
traditional confines of United States and international banking 
regulations in what prosecutors called a shadowy netherworld of 
cyberfinance. It traded in virtual currency and provided the kind of 
anonymous and easily accessible banking infrastructure increasingly 
sought by criminal networks, law enforcement officials said.

The charges announced at a news conference by Preet Bharara, the 
United States attorney in Manhattan, and other law enforcement 
officials, mark what officials said was believed to be the largest 
online money-laundering case in history. Over seven years, Liberty 
Reserve was responsible for laundering billions of dollars, 
conducting 55 million transactions that involved millions of 
customers around the world, including about 200,000 in the United 
States, according to prosecutors.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/liberty-reserve-operators-accused-of-money-laundering.html




Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:19:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: History--ad for Teletype  
Message-ID: <8c1724cf-b662-4edf-8639-46cec6afcc7a@k3g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>

The following is a copy of text from an advertisement for Teletype
machines in 1966.  It is accompanied by a line drawing of a model 35
being installed.

FIRST STEP TOWARD EFFECTIVE ON-LINE, REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING

Speeding up the collection and distribution of information
is the first step toward effective on-line data
processing. And Teletype machines are still the most
versatile, reliable, and least costly terminal equipment
available today.

Teletype Model 33 and 35 page printers and automatic
send-receive sets operate on the same permutation code
approved by the American Standards Association for
information interchange. This means they "talk" the
same language as most business machines and computers.

The Voice of Data Processing: In many data processing
systems, this Teletype equipment is used as input/
output devices for computers as well as for on-line
communications. In addition, they can be used to
punch messages and data off-line for later transmission
on-line at full speed to distant points or directly to
computers.

These sets have new 4-row keyboards that are familiar
to any typist, and eliminate shifting between letters
and numbers to further reduce errors. Also, fixed information
can be stored on punched paper tape and combined
with variable data to save retyping.

Data Processing Uses of Teletype Sets: An eastern
food processor uses Teletype page printers to receive
transmissions from its midwestern branches reporting
their daily sales and inventories. These statistics are
processed in a computer which provides management
with up-to-date information on inventory and sales
conditions.

A Texas gas company uses Teletype page printers
not only to communicate messages and accounting
data, but also to transmit information about field measurement
equipment to the home office.

Other Teletype page printer applications include:
airlines for real-time reservations, railroads to maintain
optimum freight car inventory, insurance companies for
real-time processing of policy payments and claims,
hospitals to forward patient-treatment information to
centralized billing and accounting, and in many other
communications systems to speed the flow of information.

Applications Brochure Available: The many applications
of Teletype page printers in real-time data processing
are another reason why they are made for the Bell
System and others who need reliable communications
at the lowest possible cost. To obtain a copy of our
"HERE'S HOW" brochure write: Teletype Corporation

Computers & Automation, January 1966.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/computersAndAutomation/196601.pdf






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