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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:11:13 -0500
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon Announces End of 900 Number Billing
Message-ID: <1boke5xvuvi75$.bs6hbi5pehx0.dlg@40tude.net>
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:50:36 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> ... Can the billed charge be as low as 0.30 euro?
> What do you believe was the US minimum: 2 dollars?
As I recall (Thad Floryan can confirm or refute, I suspect), the 900 number
set up for accessing the modem pool to GET SouRCeS for at&t's Unix PC
typically charged a quarter a minute: 1-900-GET-SRCS. Not that I ever used
it, but I kinda' knew it was there if I needed it.
Cheers, -- tlvp
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Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:47:41 -0800
From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon Announces End of 900 Number Billing
Message-ID: <50E634BD.1010401@thadlabs.com>
On 1/3/2013 12:11 AM, tlvp wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:50:36 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
>
>> ... Can the billed charge be as low as 0.30 euro?
>> What do you believe was the US minimum: 2 dollars?
>
> As I recall (Thad Floryan can confirm or refute, I suspect), the 900 number
> set up for accessing the modem pool to GET SouRCeS for at&t's Unix PC
> typically charged a quarter a minute: 1-900-GET-SRCS. Not that I ever used
> it, but I kinda' knew it was there if I needed it.
Hmmm, I was unaware of that number for that purpose. I just
checked the latest 3B1 FAQ (both parts) and it doesn't appear.
A Google search found this page:
http://unixpc.taronga.com/comp.sources.3b1/volume01/info1
where we see this:
" Site: uunet.uu.net
" Contact: Dave Brierley (dhb@uunet.uu.net)
" Location: Fairfax, VA
" Modems: Telebit
" UUCP: uunet uucp customers only
" FTP: anonymous ftp
" Mail server: netlib@uunet
" Additional: UUNET is keeping archives in ~ftp/comp.sources.3b1,
" and I will be maintaining them. You can also use
" 1-900-GOT-SRCS to access this archive.
but no mention of the cost of the 900 line. I doubt it was very
expensive since people would have been howling if it was. I did
occasionally call direct into UUnet as a long-distance call from
California but that barely made a dent in my phone bills way back
then with 4 lines: one for the home, one for FAX, and two modem
lines; I abandoned all four in 2002 and have been cellphone-only
since then.
FWIW, I usually would ftp into UUnet, and until UUnet's demise I
would use it as a ping 'target' to test latency to the East Coast
from Northern California (SF Bay Area).
Thad
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 23:01:00 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Massachusetts SJC says Police can search cellphone call lists
Message-ID: <p0624081fcd0ab25e2c3f@[10.0.1.4]>
Mass. high court: Police don't need warrant to view cellphone call
list after arrest
12/05/2012
By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
The state's highest court ruled today that police in Massachusetts do
not necessarily need a search warrant to look at the call list of a
person's cellphone when searching personal property following an
arrest.
But in two rulings involving the arrest of suspected drug dealers by
Boston police, a unanimous Supreme Judicial Court said it would
decide at another time whether people had constitutional rights to
privacy for other cellphone contents, such as texts and e-mails.
...
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/12/05/sjc-police-can-make-limited-search-cellphone-call-lists-following-arrest/0wJwF8dQtIJWkeYOetyyVM/story.html
-or-
http://goo.gl/o5hYC
Searching Cell Phones Incident to Arrest
http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/mptc/cell-phone.pdf
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:01:47 -0800 (PST)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon Announces End of 900 Number Billing
Message-ID: <82d7b14e-b2ff-4142-af93-43328c17c3ed@u13g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 30 2012, 2:57 pm, danny burstein
> Verizon, which still handles a hefty chunk of landline calls,
> will no longer accept any bills from "900" service providers.
> That's pretty much the final nail in that coffin.
Would anyone know about the '976' exchange, which served mostly the
same purpose? In some places 976 was used for low-cost services (ie
25c/call) for the weather or time; but it was also used for high rate
calls, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number
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