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The Telecom Digest for March 26, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 79 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
total calls/year? (David Lesher)
Re: total calls/year? (Andrew Carey)
The spirit of invention continues at Bell Labs (Joseph Singer)
Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs (Monty Solomon)
Mobile payment app aims to create loyalty (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:49:17 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: total calls/year? 
Message-ID: <jkmilt$9jf$2@reader1.panix.com>

In the 1976 Bell publication introducing the #4ESS toll switch,
the prediction of 40 billion interstate calls in the year 2000
was offered.

Do we have any idea what it really amounted to?
-- 
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: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:17:23 -0700
From: Andrew Carey <carey@ar-ballbat.VALID-IF-THIS-IS-ELIDED.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: total calls/year? 
Message-ID: <FDEEF8BD-09A5-45C5-BA59-2E49C2853346@ar-ballbat.VALID-IF-THIS-IS-ELIDED.org>

On Mar 25, 2012, at 0049, David Lesher wrote:

> In the 1976 Bell publication introducing the #4ESS toll switch,
> the prediction of 40 billion interstate calls in the year 2000
> was offered.
> 
> Do we have any idea what it really amounted to?

The FCC issued a bi-annual report, "Trends in Telephone Service", in
May 2002 which lists total interstate toll calls at between 539 & 616
billion minutes and 10 minutes average per call for residential
usage. I didn't see call volumes or total average minutes per call in
there.

I noticed the last BOC electromechanical switch was cut over in either
'96 or '97 in there. Anyone familiar with the location & type?

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/trend502.pdf




Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The spirit of invention continues at Bell Labs 
Message-ID: <1332728521.7412.YahooMailClassic@web161504.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

The world-famous mother of invention, Bell Labs, was itself a child of
that mother of all monopolies, Ma Bell. And though Ma Bell in its old
form is long gone, the laboratory soldiers on. Martha Teichner
reports:

It looks like some tiny, weird work of art. But it won three
physicists from Bell Labs a Nobel Prize. It's the first transistor.

"This was an invention from 1947," said Edward Eckert, the archivist
for Alcatel Lucent - the AT&T spinoff that operates the labs
today. "Without this, a cell phone would be the size of a
building. This is the beginning of the microelectronics revolution,
everything getting smaller."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57404089/the-spirit-of-invention-continues-at-bell-labs/

-or- 

http://goo.gl/7XLjA




Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:38:05 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That  Access UDIDs
Message-ID: <p062408e6cb94e91d5a85@[10.0.1.4]>

Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs

KIM-MAI CUTLER

Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple has 
started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers 
that are unique to every iPhone and iPad, this week.

Apple had already given developers a heads-up about the change more 
than six months ago when it said in some iOS documentation that it 
was going to deprecate UDIDs. But it looks like Apple is moving ahead 
of schedule with pressure from lawmakers and the media. It can take 
more than a year to deprecate features because developers need time 
to adjust and change their apps. A few weeks ago, some of the bigger 
mobile-social developers told me that Apple had reached out and 
warned them to move away from UDIDs.

But this is the first time Apple has issued outright rejections for 
using UDIDs.

...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/apple-udids/




Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:00:55 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Mobile payment app aims to create loyalty
Message-ID: <p062408eecb953788232f@[10.0.1.4]>

NNOVATION ECONOMY

Mobile payment app aims to create loyalty

March 25, 2012|By Scott Kirsner

Seth Priebatsch, 23, has a big vision for his Cambridge company, 
SCVNGR. He wants to dominate the market for mobile payments, allowing 
cellphones to be used in place of cash or plastic to buy things.

Already, 250 businesses around Boston allow consumers to use SCVNGR's 
LevelUp mobile app to pay, and Priebatsch says another 100 will come 
online soon. The system, deployed in eight other cities, is handling 
more than $1 million in transactions each month. One analyst believes 
the only app used by more consumers today for mobile payments is the 
Starbucks app.

SCVNGR has had several incarnations.

It started in 2008, enabling sites like museums or colleges to create 
text-based games that could be played on any mobile phone as players 
navigated a real-world environment.

...

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-25/business/31233218_1_mobile-payments-app-credit-card






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