30 Years of the Digest ... founded August 21, 1981

Add this Digest to your personal   or  

The Telecom Digest for March 11, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 66 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
1990's Florida/Bell South Saga (David Lesher)
CWA: Stop Corporate Greed at Verizon (Bill Horne)
CWA: No Secret Deal for Verizon Wireless and Cable Companies (Bill Horne)
Re: Is the Philadelphia Cell Phone Jammer a Hero or Pest? (John David Galt)

====== 30 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ======

Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Bill Horne and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using any name or email address included herein for any reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to that person, or email address owner.
Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without the explicit written consent of the owner of that address. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome.

We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime.  - Geoffrey Welsh

See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer, and other stuff of interest. 




Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:28:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 1990's Florida/Bell South Saga 
Message-ID: <jjean7$t1v$1@reader1.panix.com>

In the 1990's there was a big kerfluffle in Florida when it came to
light that Bell South had a scheme to close most service tickets at
just under 24 hours, fixed or not, just to make their numbers look
better on their PSC reporting.

I believe the newspapers called it "ticket-kicking"..

I'm seeking someone with a memory of details of same.  Specifically
was there a docketed outcome, and if so the docket number?  I called
the FL PSC, but FL phone service was totally deregulated last year,
and they basically do not have a Telecom division any longer. I
thought FL had "Peoples Counsel" or similar; the people who
represented resident customers before the Commission, but do not find
that either.

-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433




Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:08:50 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CWA: Stop Corporate Greed at Verizon 
Message-ID: <jje2i6$hg$1@dont-email.me>

The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union that represents
the majority of Verizon's unionized workforce, has launched an
offensive against the firm, claiming its executives are overpaid and
that they are attempting to eliminate jobs.

The union is teaming up with others to launch a "Verizon National Day
of Action" on March 22.

Details are at 

http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/mark_your_calendar_for_the_verizon_national_day_of_action

-or-

http://goo.gl/0xcvf

Bill

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)

"You live in a church where you sleep with Voodoo dolls
  and you won't give up the search for the ghosts in the halls"
            - Sarah McLachlan




Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:22:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CWA: No Secret Deal for Verizon Wireless and Cable Companies  
Message-ID: <20120310152209.GA3916@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has asked the FCC to
demand details of the deals Verizon has made with Cable Companies.

   CWA called on the Federal Communications Commission to "stop the
   clock" on its consideration of the Verizon Wireless/cable company
   spectrum deal until the parties involved provide complete
   information about their commercial agreements.

Rest is at:

http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_no_secret_deals_for_verizon_wireless_cable_companies

-or-

http://goo.gl/n10jg

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)

"What can we do with our days but work and pray
 Let your dreams bind your work to your play
 What can we do with each moment of our lives
 But love till we've loved it away?"
         - Bob Franke




Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:37:40 -0800
From: John David Galt <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Is the Philadelphia Cell Phone Jammer a Hero or Pest? 
Message-ID: <jjge2o$cso$1@blue-new.rahul.net>

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> The smart way to jam cellphones is to pretend to be a cell tower.
> You advertise a connection, then you refuse to complete a call.  This
> can be done with very low power levels (probably levels legal under
> Part 15 even) and very effectively.  Unfortunately nobody makes a
> cheap device to do this, although it's only a matter of time.

Some of the cellular providers themselves sell a gadget that allows you to
create your own "microcell" using your landline.  Then all you would need
is to "forget" to plug the gadget into the landline.  [If you're a business
and feel the need to allow 911 calls, just plug it in through one of those
Radio Shack restrictor gadgets and program it to allow no number but 911.]

Of course, since the "microcell" is meant to be used in places normal cell
service doesn't reach, it's probably very low-power and won't prevent the
cell phone from finding other towers -- unless you also use a Faraday cage.

Then there's the more general problem that most cell networks no longer let
users of other networks "roam" on them, because doing so would defeat their
competing claims to have the best coverage.  (Not to mention that there are
incompatible technologies in use, CDMA vs TDMA vs GSM and whatever else.)
Both of which mean that some phones won't even see your "cell tower", so if
you care about that, you'd need more than one.






TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecom-
munications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in
addition to Usenet, where it appears as the moderated newsgroup
'comp.dcom.telecom'.

TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational
service offered to the Internet by Bill Horne. All the contents
of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. You may reprint articles in
some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work
and that of the original author.

The Telecom Digest is moderated by Bill Horne.
Contact information: Bill Horne
Telecom Digest
43 Deerfield Road
Sharon MA 02067-2301
339-364-8487
bill at horne dot net
Subscribe: telecom-request@telecom-digest.org?body=subscribe telecom
Unsubscribe: telecom-request@telecom-digest.org?body=unsubscribe telecom 
This Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecomm-
unications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and
published continuously since then.  Our archives are available for
your review/research. We believe we are the oldest e-zine/mailing list
on the internet in any category!

URL information: http://telecom-digest.org


Copyright (C) 2012 TELECOM Digest. All rights reserved.
Our attorney is Bill Levant, of Blue Bell, PA.



Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as
yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help
is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of fifty dollars
per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above.
Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing
your name to the mailing list. 

All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the
author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only
and messages should not be considered any official expression by the
organization.
End of The Telecom Digest (4 messages)

Return to Archives ** Older Issues