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The Telecom Digest for April 28, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 117 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Please do not change your password (Steven)
Re: Please do not change your password (Wesrock)
Re: All-digital cellphone - is this good? Or OK? (Scott Dorsey)
Re: More teens are texting, 75% have cell phones (John David Galt)
Re: A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Companies (T)
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:49:13 -0700
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Please do not change your password
Message-ID: <hr5fqr$jvo$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Sam Spade wrote:
> Steven wrote:
>
>> Frontier got into trouble years ago, but has been pretty stable in the
>> last few years. An old friend works for Rochester Telephone and I
>> remember that being a test site for Stromberg Carlson.
>>
>
> My recollection, which may be faulty, is that Rochester went 100% 5ESS.
>
They might have converted, one reason was Stromberg Carlson sold out to
General Dynamics I believe and then to a European group. The only
dealing I had with that type of equipment was while working in the Hemet
GTE area, we had an office; Valle Vista which was West of Hemet, the
office had a XY system, I had never seen one before, but after a few
months I was able to work on it as I did with any step gear. I miss
those days, it was a much easier world and job. Right now I pull my
hair out, what little I have because I have to deal with morons who lay
these offices out and the time frame they give to get them up and
running. I retired once and after my 2 year contract is up I plan on
doing it again.
--
The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2010 I Kill Spammers, Inc., A Rot in Hell. Co.
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:15:25 EDT
From: Wesrock@aol.com
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Please do not change your password
Message-ID: <59786.4dd6747f.39084b7d@aol.com>
In a message dated 4/27/2010 7:40:20 AM Central Daylight Time,
diespammers@killspammers.com writes:
>Sam Spade wrote:
>> Steven wrote:
>>
>>> Frontier got into trouble years ago, but has been pretty stable in the
>>> last few years. An old friend works for Rochester Telephone and I
>>> remember that being a test site for Stromberg Carlson.
>>>
>>
>> My recollection, which may be faulty, is that Rochester went 100% 5ESS.
>>
> They might have converted, one reason was Stromberg Carlson sold out
> to General Dynamics I believe and then to a European group. The
> only dealing I had with that type of equipment was while working in
> the Hemet GTE area, we had an office; Valle Vista which was West of
> Hemet, the office had a XY system, I had never seen one before, but
> after a few months I was able to work on it as I did with any step
> gear. I miss those days, it was a much easier world and job. Right
> now I pull my hair out, what little I have because I have to deal
> with morons who lay these offices out and the time frame they give
> to get them up and running. I retired once and after my 2 year
> contract is up I plan on doing it again.
When I was with Southwewstern Bell we traded with GTE and one of the
ones we got in exchange was Moore, OK, a growing suburb of Oklahoma
City which had an XY office.
When it needed expansion (which was soon) the engineers wanted to just
add XY equipment to it, and wrote an estimate using W.E. prices for
SxS as a guide.
When Western priced it with Stromberg, the prices were out of sight
and the engineers found you could repalce all the equipment with a new
W.E. SxS office for less than what it would cost to add XY equipment.
Which they did, and sent the XY offices to two small towns in Western
Oklahoma which were awaiting dial conversion. They were in the same
wire chief's area, and so they only had to train one bunch on XY.
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Apr 2010 07:29:26 -0400
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: All-digital cellphone - is this good? Or OK?
Message-ID: <hr6hqm$oo6$1@panix3.panix.com>
David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>SVU <brad.houser@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>First, he is right. There is no analog service in most if not all
>>places in the US and Canada, so dual mode (analog/digital) phones will
>>no longer be able to switch to analog when there is no digital
>>service.
>
>I'm curious as to why my 7-year old Samsung SCH-a650 still occasionally
>flashes the "A" for analog and begins to get warm (typical of analog
>transmitting) when I have spotty reception. I'm in the Bay Area, usually
>around West Oakland when this happens. It doesn't flip over often, but it did
>so no more than 3 weeks ago for a brief time.
It's looking for an AMPS cell. And.... it isn't finding one...
--scott
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:11:45 -0800
From: John David Galt <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: More teens are texting, 75% have cell phones
Message-ID: <hr7djv$2i5$1@blue.rahul.net>
> Direct brain connections are no longer fiction:
>
> http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/silk-silicon-mesh-measures-brain-activity-cats
>
> A Google search on "silk circuit brain" finds many related articles.
Just what we all need. A direct-to-brain line that any telemarketer
can ring at will.
If these get popular I predict mass insanity. And lots of traffic
accidents.
I want the phone that tells me every caller's exact location, so if
he's a spammer I can drop a missile on him from orbit. :)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:07:39 -0400
From: T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Companies
Message-ID: <MPG.2640c7caa47b5f5d989cd8@news.eternal-september.org>
In article <p06240808c7fb4c967288@[10.0.1.4]>, monty@roscom.com says...
> A year ago, I wrote about how Cablevision, my cable company, had
> quietly begun installing Wi-Fi hot spots all over its market area:
> New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. These hot spots began popping
> up in all the public areas: shopping centers, main streets, train
> stations, parks, marinas and sports complexes. The best part: these
> hot spots are free to anyone who subscribes to Internet service from
> Cablevision at home.
Thus far I've seen no evidence of Cox doing anythng like this in my
area. They may just get beat to the punch by Clear Wireless though I
don't like the fact that Clear makes you use THEIR device and not
WiFI.
It would be nice though if Cox stepped up.
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