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| Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: PBX 556 looking for a good home
Message-ID: <a7142288-9e81-48b1-bdcc-02896e316df3@googlegroups.com>
The following message came to me via the Telephone Collectors Inter-
national listserv. If interested, contact Walter directly at the
address below.
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This is an inquiry email via
http://www.telephonecollectors.info/
from: Walter Farley <walterofarley@remove-this.gmail.com>
I have a PBX 556 available. I live in Seattle Washington and no
longer have space for it. It is free to a good home. Do you know
anyone who would like it? I can deliver within 50-75 miles of Seattle
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Crossposted by Neal McLain
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| Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:08:55 -0400
From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: FCC hopes to shut down robocallers by publishing numbers weekly
Message-ID: <8th13bdc78smnjecu7ho70vsufvb88op7n@4ax.com>
Per Telecom Digest Moderator -
>The most frequent trick I've seen is to use the same NPA-NNX as mine,
>but not my line-number. I get the feeling there's som
>lord-of-telemarketing doing a maniacal laugh in his fortress of doom
>every time I answer one of those - until I've wasted five or ten
>minutes of the human's time and then said "I'm not interested. My
>number is on the do-not-call list, so don't call me again."
>
>I don't know why, but they always say they can't do that.
When I answer the phone I do so in a soft, rapid voice.
If nobody responds within about a second or so - and/or the line has
that distinctive "Dead" sound - I just hang up.
My theory is that there's a computer dialing thousands or hundreds of
thousands phone numbers. When somebody picks up, the computer knows
it and then starts listening for a human voice. Once it recognizes a
human voice, it flips the call to a telemarketer who is not currently
busy. The soft, rapid voice is not readily recognized by the
computer.
Occasionally I wind up hanging up on somebody calling from a cell
phone - for reasons I do not understand - but they usually call back
and, if the phone rings again within a few seconds I'll go the whole
route with "Hello, hello, is anybody there ?".
Like I said... that's strictly a theory and I know nothing about what
is really going on... but it fits and mostly works.
--
Pete Cresswell
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| Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Bill would allow debt collectors to robocall your cellphone
Message-ID: <6a876a41-ee44-492d-9961-2e4948dd3465@googlegroups.com>
The Washington Post reported that tucked into the congressional budget deal is
a provision that would let companies robocall Americans' cellphones to collect
any money owed to or guaranteed by the government, including federal student
loans, mortgages and taxes. The proposal would amend a law that consumer
advocates say protects Americans from being harassed or inundated with text
messages and calls that could run up their cellphone bills.
for full article please see:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/10/27/the-government-wants-student-debt-collectors-to-robocall-your-cellphone/
[In my humble opinion, consumers need more protection from robocalls, not
less. A few years ago some in Congress tried to allow sales calls to cell
phones, which fortunately did not pass.]
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| Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:02:41 -0500
From: gordonb.75uoe@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt)
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: New federal rate caps on telephone calls by prison inmates
Message-ID: <SfydneZEiMhMp63LnZ2dnUU7-IOdnZ2d@posted.internetamerica>
>>> It seems to me that... with telephone sets costing, perhaps, five
>>> dollars apiece for basic units, it would be better to treat them as
>>> disposable throways and simply budget for a replacement each month. Or
>>> even each week.
Or perhaps even each CALL.
> A prison phone is shared and queued, so it is very busy. Let's say it's
> used 5 hours (300 minutes) per day. At five cents/minute, those fifteen
> bucks/day pay for the phone in a few months. But prison phone calls
> sometimes cost multiple dollars per minute. They could buy a new phone
> every day for what they have been charging. It's a web of kickbacks to
> the turnkeys that fuels the bill.
I suggest going in the opposite direction. At the rates prisoners
are currently paying, they can probably get off cheaper buying a
really, really cheap one-use phone for each and every phone calling
session (I'm presuming they are allowed to make several calls in a
row in case of wrong numbers or talking to several dispersed family
members or trying to get witnesses and their lawyer to get together.
So maybe they can get up to half an hour to make as many calls as
they want?) Do you think someone can make an edible (landline)
phone expected to last for an hour of use for $2? They don't have
to accept incoming calls or ring. At the end of the session, the
prisoner is required to eat the phone. If he doesn't, he won't be
allowed to buy any more. Edible phones with decent nutritional
value also save on other parts of the food budget.
I seem to recall something about cheap prepaid cell phones being
"printed" on cardboard, including the electronics and the battery,
and perhaps they could use pizza instead. I think they were already
under the $2 cost. You can power a clock with a potato in a science
fair project, why not a phone that has to last less than the duration
of the science fair?
It would make some sense if each prisoner could take responsibility
for taking care of his/her own phone, however, the risk of things
like beating someone over the head with it or strangling someone
with the cord probably makes this impractical.
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| Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:33:15 -0500
From: gordonb.xwqep@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt)
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Apple sued over iOS 9's eagerness to chew up cellular data
Message-ID: <dNOdnZqGcsFm3K3LnZ2dnUU7-RmdnZ2d@posted.internetamerica>
> Not happy that iOS 9's WiFi Assist feature is quietly gobbling your
> iPhone's cellular data for the sake of boosting your WiFi performance?
> You're not alone -- and you might get compensation for your
> troubles. A California-based couple has filed a class action lawsuit
> accusing Apple of doing too little to warn iPhone owners about WiFi
> Assist's data use.
Samsung has a similar feature called "Download booster" in the
Galaxy S6. It can speed up downloads of files greater than about
30MB by downloading via LTE and Wi-Fi simultaneously. It is,
however, defaulted OFF, and they do warn, right at the point you
go to turn it on, "Downloading via mobile networks may result in
additional charges depending on your payment plan". I haven't
used it. Most of the updates I've downloaded are under 30MB and
I have no easy way of knowing how large they will be in advance.
> Allegedly, the guide it posted in response to
> concerns about the feature doesn't cut the mustard. It "downplays" the
> kind of overage charges you could rack up after upgrading to the newer
> iOS revision, according to the complaint.
>
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/25/apple-sued-over-ios-9-wifi-assist/
>
The S6 I recently got has racked up about 4GB of Wi-Fi data in
the last month, largely from updating just about all the software
that came with the phone, sometimes more than once, and new apps,
but something like 0.3GB of LTE data. Perhaps I've been a little
over cautious about that.
Wi-Fi Calling on the S6 also lets you shift LTE traffic to Wi-Fi
from home if you've got your own home Wi-Fi. It did take a little
work to figure out what holes I had to punch in the firewall to
make it work correctly, though.
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