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Date: 27 Aug 2011 04:19:50 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Femtocells, Touch Tone (was Why Shutting Down Cell Service)
Message-ID: <20110827041950.21756.qmail@joyce.lan>
>> Touch-tone also does not require a trademark notice any more.
>
>When did Touch Tone lose its trademark status?
>
>Did any other old Bell System trademarks lose their status, too?
Yellow Pages is not a trademark in the US, but it is in the UK
and other countries
R's,
John
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:34:13 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Telecom challenge: Hurricane Irene
Message-ID: <pan.2011.08.27.06.34.12.413726@yahoo.com.au>
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:01:36 -0700, Hancock4 wrote:
.........
> (FWIW, I dug out an old transistor radio and got batteries for it, just in
> case. My power isn't that reliable. I wish I could have a backup
> generator for power but I live in an apt.)
Get one of those little radios with the generator and crank built in, they
should only cost a few dollars now and you will never run out of
batteries!
--
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: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:49:19 +0000 (UTC)
From: richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Why Shutting Down Cell Service Is Not Just Against The Law,
Message-ID: <j3b3lv$t5g$1@reader1.panix.com>
In article <20110826161534.078583471D@mailout.easydns.com>,
Fred Goldstein <fgoldstein.SeeSigSpambait@wn2.wn.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:35:15 +0000 (UTC) richgr@panix.com (Rich
>Greenberg) wrote,
>>BTW, the term "femtocell" is a registered trademark of (I think) AT&T.
>>I have one from Sprint and its called an "AirAve".
>
>No, it's not, Femtocell is the generic term. You can even look for
>it in the USPTO.gov trademark database; it's not there.
I sit corrected. I had thought the term was a trademark, but some
research after seeing the above has convinced me that Fred is correct.
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