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The Telecom Digest for October 7, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 234 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Bogus Caller-ID (HAncock4)
Re: Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service (HAncock4)
Wiresurfer launches online telecom price comparison market (Monty Solomon)
Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril (Monty Solomon)
Re: TD/CDT moderator's blog? (Joseph Singer)

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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Bogus Caller-ID 
Message-ID: <d4b1f0b4-aedf-49bb-a1e4-e757777c1bfe@w3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>

On Sep 28, 6:32 am, Andrew Kaser <a...@europa.com> wrote:
> > . . .Understanding that the ANI data was not designed
> >for this purpose, and it would contain some flaws, it would never the less
> >likely be more accurate.- -

The above makes good sense.

Some folks criticize the use of ANI since it would conflict with
PBXs.  But back when ANI was developed, provisions were made to use
the main directory number instead of the actual trunk for PBX
subscribers.  If they could do this in 1958, they certainly could
accomodate it today.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol37-1958/articles/bstj37-5-1295.pdf

(PBX feature found on page 1305)




Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service 
Message-ID: <8a4b50da-651c-4628-b567-69d7dd804212@o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>

On Aug 31, 9:35 pm, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
> Verizon to credit Merrimack Valley customers who lost service

Historical note:

The old Bell System once had a major presence in the Merrimack
Valley.  Western Electric's Merrimack Valley Works at their height
employed around 12,000 people, and were the major employer in the
region.

The AT&T archives has an interesting video describing it.  (Note that
these archives have both historical and contemporary technology videos
available for view).

http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/6/22/AT
&T-Archives-In-the-Merrimack-Valley




Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 09:53:42 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Wiresurfer launches online telecom price comparison market
Message-ID: <p06240804cc95e3775575@[10.0.1.7]>

Wiresurfer launches online telecom price comparison market

By Sinead Carew
Reuters
Oct 2, 2012

(Reuters) - Inspired by travel sites like Expedia, start-up
Wiresurfer.com is promising to condense three days work into fifteen
minutes for small companies shopping for telecommunications services.

The Coral Springs, Florida based company, is launching its website on
Tuesday where small and medium sized businesses can compare prices
for telephone and Internet services and see what promotions are on
offer in their region.

...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-telecomstartup-wiresurfer-idUSBRE89103Z20121002

Wiresurfer wants to make picking telecom as easy as booking a flight
GigaOM

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/02/wiresurfer-wants-to-make-picking-telecom-as-easy-as-booking-a-flight/




Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:49:13 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
Message-ID: <p06240806cc961eb93914@[10.0.1.7]>

Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril

It could become illegal to resell your iPhone 4, car or family antiques

By Jennifer Waters, MarketWatch
Oct. 4, 2012

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court's busy 
agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability 
to resell everything from your grandmother's antique furniture to 
your iPhone 4.

At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine 
in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like 
electronics, books, artwork and furniture as well as CDs and DVDs, 
without getting permission from the copyright holder of those 
products.

Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 
1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright 
holder only had control over the first sale.

Put simply, though Apple has the copyright on the iPhone and Mark 
Owen does on the book "No Easy Day," you can still sell your copies 
to whomever you please whenever you want without retribution.

That's being challenged now for products that are made abroad and if 
the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling it would mean 
that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in 
China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you 
permission to sell it.

...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04




Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: TD/CDT moderator's blog? 
Message-ID: <1349534582.65941.YahooMailClassic@web121406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Mr Horne wrote:

> I'll post something on my blog rsn. There was one thing related to
> telecom: I got into a disagreement with century link and wound up
> talking to a clerk in the "Escalation Department" when I asked for a
> Supervisor. That's going in the blog, too.

Could you post the address of your blog?

Oh, and as for CL, when I moved ten years ago I decided that I could
do without (at the time) Qwest's services and haven't had service with
them(or their successor) since then. Even though I came to loathe the
service from Qwest I still would have left if I had any other LEC.

A good Mac Head (tm) friend of mine just got rid of his CL line and
now only uses mobile and VoIP as well.

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

My blog is at billhorne dot com. 

Bill Horne
Moderator






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