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The Telecom Digest for May 8, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 127 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Silicon Valley public transit losing all public AT&T pay phones (Sam Spade)
Re: Telekom Austria converts phone booths to EV chargers (David Clayton)
Re: India government bans all Chinese telecom gear (David Clayton)
Re: IEEE article on GSM interference affecting GPS landing systems (Mike Blake-Knox)
Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England (Sam Spade)
Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England (Steven)
Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England (Sam Spade)
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Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:35:57 -0700
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Silicon Valley public transit losing all public AT&T pay phones
Message-ID: <ktadnbsNFazDz37WnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@giganews.com>
Thad Floryan wrote:
The San Jose (CA) Mercury News' "Road Show" column:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mr-roadshow/ci_15025086
had this item today (5-May-2010):
[snip]
> As a rider since 1989, I'd like to thank those responsible for
> making my life much more difficult, but I don't have their cell
> phone numbers.
>
> John Phoenix
His attitude doesn't serve him well.
I can understand AT&T reclassifying those seldom used pay stations as
semi-public, thus relieving the rate base of their burden.
I doubt John would grasp the concept, though.
***** Moderator's Note *****
John was the person who wrote to the Mercury News column that Thad
Floryan mentioned.
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:08:29 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Telekom Austria converts phone booths to EV chargers
Message-ID: <pan.2010.05.07.07.08.26.24671@myrealbox.com>
On Thu, 06 May 2010 01:14:11 -0700, Thad Floryan wrote:
> This makes me wonder what's going to happen in the UK to Dr. Who's tardis?
> :-)
>
> What's also interesting is the last paragraph: payment via mobile phone,
> so the telco stays in the loop! :-)
>
> http://www.physorg.com/news192197933.html
>
> " If you've run out of juice for your environmentally friendly " electric
> car, a recharge may be only a phone call away, " literally, under a new
> scheme unveiled by Telekom Austria here " Tuesday.
> "
> " The telecommunications company has decided to turn its public "
> telephone boxes -- which are in danger of becoming obsolete " anyway
> thanks to mobile phones -- into battery recharging " stations for electric
> cars.
........
> " In a bid to find new uses for its 13,500 phone boxes around " the
> country, Telekom Austria has therefore come up with the " idea of turning
> them into recharging stations for electric " vehicles: cars, scooters and
> bicycles. "
> " Telekom Austria chief Hannes Ametsreiter unveiled the first " such phone
> box in front of the company's headquarters in " Vienna on Tuesday.
> "
> " And the aim is to convert 29 more phone boxes by the end of " this year,
> Ametsreiter told journalists. "
> " "In the longer run, we'll have to sound out the market to " see exactly
> how many phone boxes will be converted," the " telecom chief said.
.........
Smart move by any organisation to retain the real estate they already
occupy on public land for some future use.
It will always be a lot harder to obtain the rights to use public space
for anything like the proposed use than reuse existing things that
already use the space.
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:11:40 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: India government bans all Chinese telecom gear
Message-ID: <pan.2010.05.07.07.11.37.614262@myrealbox.com>
On Thu, 06 May 2010 15:18:07 -0700, Thad Floryan wrote:
> On 5/1/2010 10:07 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>> In article <pan.2010.05.01.01.08.24.151123@myrealbox.com>, David Clayton
>> <dcstar@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Unless you have access to the source code any - and that means *any*,
>>> like Windows as another example - closed source system could have all
>>> sorts of surreptitious stuff built into it just waiting for the day
>>> someone wants to activate it.
>>
>> Even if you do have access to the source code, and audit it carefully,
>> that's still the case.
>>
>> I believe the canonical reference here is Ken Thompson's Turing Award
>> lecture, "Reflections on Trusting Trust".
>
> Curious, I wanted to read that and I found these two sites with Ken's
> speech; HTML version here:
>
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
>
> and PDF for those who want a copy:
>
> http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
>
> In case it's not obvious, Ken is the co-creator of UNIX:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
Did he mention the issue that an altered compiler can also inset code into
otherwise "clean" and vetted source code?
(Yes, I used to be one of those people who reverse-compiled binary code to
look for things, usually interface points for other code to access.......)
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 06:43:42 -0400
From: Mike Blake-Knox <mikebkdontspam@knology.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: IEEE article on GSM interference affecting GPS landing systems
Message-ID: <VA.00000259.09fe0293@knology.net>
In article <4BDA2F2F.4070608@thadlabs.com>, Thad Floryan wrote:
> L-o-n-g article here (with pictures, graphs, etc.):
>
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-airspeed/0
The date on the Spectrum article is March 2006!
Has anything happened since?
Mike
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:39:48 -0700
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England
Message-ID: <wrqdnZfPX4HYzn7WnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@giganews.com>
Joseph Singer wrote:
> PORTLAND, Maine - Regulatory hearings have kicked off in Maine on
> FairPoint Communications' reorganization plan as the company winds its
> way through the complex bankruptcy process.
It must be unpleasant to be a captive subscriber to a nearly defunct
LEC. This is what the Hawaiians are coming ever close to experiencing
since Verizon sold off the former GTE unit to the Carlyle Group.
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 15:46:11 -0700
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England
Message-ID: <hs257j$7j9$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Sam Spade wrote:
> Joseph Singer wrote:
>
>> PORTLAND, Maine - Regulatory hearings have kicked off in Maine on
>> FairPoint Communications' reorganization plan as the company winds
>> its way through the complex bankruptcy process.
>
> It must be unpleasant to be a captive subscriber to a nearly defunct
> LEC. This is what the Hawaiians are coming ever close to
> experiencing since Verizon sold off the former GTE unit to the
> Carlyle Group.
I would guess that the state will step in to prevent any
interruptions. I have a friend; retired from GTE like myself, has
been doing contract work for the Hawaiian company, he said that the
states utilities commission is watching the situation very closely.
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 16:45:52 -0700
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: FairPoint hearings begin in northern New England
Message-ID: <sbOdnVZqJ_yvO3nWnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Steven wrote:
>
> I would guess that the state will step in to prevent any
> interruptions. I have a friend; retired from GTE like myself, has
> been doing contract work for the Hawaiian company, he said that the
> states utilities commission is watching the situation very closely.
>
State regulation over there wax and wanes.
In any case, residential and even small business subscribers are going
to wireless faster than most places because of the issues.
GTE really had things in pretty good shape when Verizon came in.
Verizon seemed to carry on quite well but they apparently disliked the
lack of intra-island toll more than GTE.
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