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The Telecom Digest for October 4, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 206 : "text" Format
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Date: 3 Oct 2013 02:52:31 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Caller ID numbers that start with '1'
Message-ID: <20131003025231.80907.qmail@joyce.lan>
>Lately, I've been having numbers show up on my cell phone's caller ID
>where the local exchange begins with 1. I thought 1, when it is used
>as the first digit in a phone number in the NANP denotes that the
>digits that follow are to be routed long distance. Has this changed?
A dialing plan is different from a numbering plan.
The world numbering plan assigns prefix 1 for NANP numbers, so a number
that shows up with a leading 1 is just a full phone number.
The dialing plan in North America is (oversimplifying a bit) 1+10
means a ten digit NANP number, while 7D is an NANP number where the
first three are the same as yours.
I've noticed the same thing, that CLID often has the leading 1, which
makes sense since on calls from other countries, it starts with
whatever the country code is, like 44 for calls from the UK. My telco
also sometimes sends CLID that starts 1011-1NXX and is truncated,
which I think is just a bug in the switch programming.
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:51:28 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Oi, Portugal Telecom to Merge, Creating 7 Billion Giant
Message-ID: <20131004005128.GA28416@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
By Anabela Reis - Oct 2, 2013 4:37 PM ET
Oi SA, Brazil's biggest phone company, agreed to merge with Portugal
Telecom SGPS SA to create a trans-Atlantic carrier whose 100 million
customers make it more competitive against Telefonica SA and America
Movil SAB.
Shareholders of Oi will own the majority of the combined company after
the transaction, which requires the Rio de Janeiro-based carrier to
sell new stock for as much as 2.7 billion euros ($3.7 billion). Its
shares soared as much as 12 percent in Sao Paulo. Portugal Telecom,
whose investors will get 38 percent of the new Brazil-based entity,
jumped as much as 23 percent in Lisbon.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/portugal-telecom-to-combine-with-oi-into-carrier-led-by-bava.html
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:18:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Astros draw 0.0 Nielsen TV rating in Houston market during loss to Indians
Message-ID: <607bafb9-26ce-461e-b442-47a456479517@googlegroups.com>
| Comcast cites 'total gridlock' at CSN Houston in bankruptcy filing
| By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, September 30, 2013
| Comcast's NBCUniversal subsidiary filed an involuntary bankruptcy
| petition on Friday aimed at letting it take full ownership of
| Comcast SportsNet Houston, the regional sports network controlled by
| the Houston Astros.
| AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV, and Dish Network have refused to carry CSN
| Houston since it launched in October 2012. That has made it
| difficult to pay its bills, including rights fees owed to the Astros
| and the Houston Rockets NBA franchise. The Astros criticized Comcast
| for the filing. It accused the MSO of preventing the team from
| terminating its contract with CSN Houston--a move which would allow
| it to sell rights to its baseball games to another network. The team
| also confirmed that it hasn't received payments from CSN Houston for
| three months.
Part of CSN's problem is that AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV and Dish Network
don't carry it. Comcast has filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition
aimed at letting it take full ownership of CSN.
Continued:
http://tinyurl.com/n7jf2h5
Neal McLain
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:08:38 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon glitch let unlimited data customers upgrade phones
Message-ID: <20131004010837.GA31576@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Carrier says it has fixed software issue that allowed some customers
to upgrade to a subsidized device and retain their grandfathered data
plans.
by Steven Musil September 30, 2013 5:16 PM PDT
Verizon Wireless on Monday blamed a software glitch for allowing
customers to upgrade to a subsidized handset while keeping their
grandfathered unlimited data plans, despite a year-old policy change
prohibiting that arrangement.
Verizon last year killed off its unlimited data offering, instead
opting for a tiered pricing model and family data plans that offer
customers a bucket of data. Customers already on the plan could keep
it unless they upgraded to a new phone and chose the subsidized price,
at which time they would be forced to give up their unlimited data for
a capped plan.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57605386-94/verizon-glitch-let-unlimited-data-customers-upgrade-phones/
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