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Volume 28 : Issue 302 : "text" Format
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Re: Shrinking directories
Re: Shrinking directories
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services
Re: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR
Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:11 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Shrinking directories
Message-ID: <pan.2009.11.02.08.09.08.774531@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:39:14 -0800, Steven wrote:
> Joseph Singer wrote:
........
>> When I arrived in Seattle back in 1993 the size of the white pages was
>> about the same size as the yellow pages ([as I said], ~2.5") I'm
>> guessing this is due to people forgoing their wire line phones and going
>> wireless. I haven't had wire line service for 7.5 years.
>
> There are more listings per page then in the past.
Isn't this whole issue just another step in the evolution of telecoms and
the services associated with it?
Paper directories were a solution to the problem that the growth of
local phone services reached a point where the manual operators could
not cope, so it became cost-effective to distribute to all customers their
own "self-service" copy of the data.
Now as access to on-line directories becomes ubiquitous, it is becoming
more cost-effective to not have them delivered to everybody, only to those
that actually need (and request) them.
All the ancillary purposes that evolved from printed directories also have
to evolve with the time, along with many other traditional things in this
area that has always been using the newest technologies as they have
arisen.
20 years ago not everybody had a computer, but they had a terminal at home
that connected to a powerful computer network using state of the art
technologies to provide a telephone service. Now some of the computing
power is migrating to the end terminals people themselves have and the
networks are also getting more powerful in coverage and capacity - who
knows what things may be like in a few years time, perhaps these paper
directories will be carried around in each terminal?
--
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: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:56:49 -0800
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Shrinking directories
Message-ID: <hcnkj4$m59$1@news.eternal-september.org>
David Clayton wrote:
> 20 years ago not everybody had a computer, but they had a terminal
> at home that connected to a powerful computer network using state of
> the art technologies to provide a telephone service. Now some of the
> computing power is migrating to the end terminals people themselves
> have and the networks are also getting more powerful in coverage and
> capacity - who knows what things may be like in a few years time,
> perhaps these paper directories will be carried around in each
> terminal?
In 1984 GTE started to publish a directory for its cellular customers,
it went over with a thud.
--
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(c) 2009 I Kill Spammers, Inc., A Rot in Hell. Co.
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:15:35 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <hcm4f7$5jk$1@news.albasani.net>
tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
>Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com> wrote:
>>...
>>AT&T has digital versions of their printed ones and [they] are showen
>>like the printed ones.
>>http://www.realpageslive.com/guide
>That seems to be a Yellow Pages counterpart.
>For the White Pages, a substitute might be AT&T's
>http://www.anywho.com,
>which also has Reverse Lookup and Yellow Pages functionality.
This had been AT&T's residential listings, but isn't any longer. The
Web site was sold, or perhaps licensed, to Intelius, an information
consolidator and one of those companies that tries to steer directory
users into paid searches, under a lot of names. Information
consolidators do not strive for accuracy, always blaming inaccuracies
on the sources they've purchased, which they will not name if one is
trying to eliminate out of date or erroneous information about one's
self from these directories.
fwiw, Intelius does honor opt out requests submitted through Anywho,
but those merely prevent searches through the Anywho interface and
wouldn't apply to the numerous front ends to Intelius database.
Its business listings are from yellowpages.com, an AT&T
subsidiary. Now, Yellow Pages listings aren't as accurate nor
up-to-date as a business white pages of telephone subscribers, but
it's better than nothing. Searching isn't readily controlled by the
user, which is deliberate.
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:56:24 -0800
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <cyBHm.11970$Ka2.4420@newsfe08.iad>
tlvp wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:19:46 -0400, Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> AT&T has digital versions of their printed ones and [they] are showen
>> like the printed ones.
>>
>> http://www.realpageslive.com/guide
>
>
> That seems to be a Yellow Pages counterpart.
> For the White Pages, a substitute might be AT&T's
>
>
This brings up all the AT&T directories for the 48 states. Once you
select the directory you want, then along the top there are tabs for
business, residence, and government white pages, as well as guides:
http://www.realpageslive.com/
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:39:32 -0800
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <hcn207$mnu$1@news.eternal-september.org>
tlvp wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:19:46 -0400, Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> AT&T has digital versions of their printed ones and [they] are showen
>> like the printed ones.
>>
>> http://www.realpageslive.com/guide
>
> That seems to be a Yellow Pages counterpart.
> For the White Pages, a substitute might be AT&T's
>
> http://www.anywho.com,
>
> which also has Reverse Lookup and Yellow Pages functionality.
>
> Cheers, -- tlvp
> --
> Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
>
The realpageslive site is a digital version of White Pages and Yellow Pages.
--
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today?
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:13:05 -0800 (PST)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <8cd1b8db-88e4-422b-bf0e-14098a659363@15g2000yqy.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 1, 10:50 am, Wesr...@aol.com wrote:
> It was sometimes interesting the browse some phone books. The ones
> (5 volumes, I believe) from London, England, had a YP classificaiton
> for "motor enginers". After reading some of the ads, it seems that
> was the cusage for what we call auto repair shops.
I visited a large library that had a big collection, including books
from small towns. Many of those places did not yet get DDD and the
dialing instructions were quite austere. That is, to call other towns
required various odd access codes, sometimes a wait for a second dial
tone.
The listings for the fire department had a list of the main firemen by
name and their phone numbers.
BTW, when the Bell System introduced discounts for dialed direct calls
circa 1971, subscribers who didn't yet have it were charged the lower
dialed direct rate. Or if anyone had trouble making a toll call and
requested operator help, the lower rate applied. Not true today.
Today, consumers have to fight like heck to get banks, credit card
companies, phone companies, etc. to remove service charges that were
the result of the company's error.
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:08:33 GMT
From: sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David Kaye)
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services
Message-ID: <hcmb2s$vhd$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Wesrock@aol.com wrote:
> I can't imagine anyone would call a cell-only number to call a local
> plumber, handyman, or any other outfit publishing such a number in
> their advertisements.
I make my living this way. I have yellow pages ads and only one
phone, a cell phone. Nobody complains.
--
"You're in probably the wickedest, most corrupt city, most
Godless city in America." -- Fr Mullen, "San Francisco"
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:49:09 -0600
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services
Message-ID: <6645152a0911020949n6cb583e5nbdc0db9150e0e08c@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:08 AM, David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wesrock@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I can't imagine anyone would call a cell-only number to call a local
>> plumber, handyman, or any other outfit publishing such a number in
>> their advertisements.
>
> I make my living this way. I have yellow pages ads and only one
> phone, a cell phone. Nobody complains.
How many would know? Various consumer protection agencies warn people
against relying on businesses with only a cell phone number. The idea
is you could be from out-of-town or fly-by-night. You didn't say
which business you were in. On a professional level I've worked with
sales professionals who have only a cell phone number, and that's
fine.
Back in March we had a huge hail storm here and roofing companies from
all over flooded the area trying to drum up business. I had a guy
with Missouri tags and a Georgia (770) phone number ask what the bids
were I had received and he'd knock a little off. Various government
officials via the media were warning people about these sort of
operations.
I knew a guy who had a glass and roofing business (he sold it years
ago). He got a landline number and just forwarded it to a cell phone.
John
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:44:43 EST
From: Wesrock@aol.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <d36.57f702d5.3820586b@aol.com>
In a message dated 10/31/2009 9:46:14 AM Central Standard Time,
sam@coldmail.com writes:
>
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>
>> Really? Legislators can outlaw printed matter by declaring it
>> garbage? Shudder
>>
>> I have complained about the indexing of on line directories before,
>> which is designed to throw the maximum amount of advertising in my
>> face and NOT to fulfill my search request exactly as I typed in the
>> parameters.
>>
>> There is no current on line directory service as useful as a printed
>> phone directory. The useful ones aren't on line any more.
>
> Legislating the the LEC cannot distribute the directory except to
> those subscribers who request it is hardly outlawing printed matter.
>
> Let's face it, in this case it's the LECs who are the culprits, not
> the nanny legislator. The LEC knows putting a viable, searchable
> directory on-line will cut into their overpriced 411 directory
> service.
>
> Those white page directories are a horrible waste of paper and
> resources for the vast majority of subscribers.
>
> The LECs don't want to admit the existence of the Internet. ;-)
AT&T in Oklahoma City and several other cities have made white
(residential) pages available only on request, and in fact they make
it difficult to make such a request (the request must be made by
telephone only, not by e-mail or U.S. mail, and presumably you have to
wait in queue to make such a request. And they will not accept such a
reuqest until the delivery of the Yellow Pages in that exchange is
complete).
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:44:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "harold@hallikainen.com" <harold@hallikainen.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR
Message-ID: <e8e4f759-fe3a-4c24-8898-fc2ed981d031@h14g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114341718
***** Moderator's Note *****
This is a good introduction to the ways that the reciprocal
compensation rules can be used to benefit certain classes of
traffic. CLECs are incentivized to serve "receive only" lines, i.e.,
lines which seldom make outgoing calls, so as to tip the compensation
rules in their favor. Since the terminating company gets paid by the
IEC, CLECs with a lot of conference-call or "chat room" or other
customers who answer lots of calls, but make very few, can turn a
profit.
Google, which is in the awkward position of having almost all
"originating" traffic, must pay the higher rates which some rural
ILEC/CLECs are allowed to charge for terminating calls.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: 2 Nov 2009 19:41:15 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR
Message-ID: <20091102194115.59443.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
>This is a good introduction to the ways that the reciprocal
>compensation rules can be used to benefit certain classes of
>traffic. CLECs are incentivized to serve "receive only" lines, i.e.,
>lines which seldom make outgoing calls, so as to tip the compensation
>rules in their favor. ...
CLECs made a lot of money from recip comp on calls to modem banks, but
that's not what's going on in this case.
This is "traffic pumping" in which midwestern rural LECs with very
high termination rates host conference bridges and numbers that
forward over VoIP to other countries. In the case of recip comp, the
big telcos had only themselves to blame, because they demanded it from
CLECs, but in this case it's the greedy little RLECs who are acting
abusively. Their rates are set to provide a certain amount of subsidy
based on their low historic traffic, which suddenly goes up by orders
of magnitude. In one case I read that an RLEC that used to get
something like $20K/yr from AT&T pumped up the traffic to $1M/month.
Adding to the fun, there are two CLECs in Iowa that set themselves up
just to join in the pumping fun, by opting into the existing high
termination rates in the areas they purport to serve. In a recent
case the Iowa state regulators found that one of the CLECs had no real
customers in their alleged service area at all and turned them off.
R's,
John
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