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The Telecom Digest for November 06, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 299 : "text" Format

Messages in this Issue:

Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books(Thad Floryan)
whatever happened... cellphone tracking..?(danny burstein)
Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books(tlvp)
Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books(Thad Floryan)
Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books(Eric Tappert)
Re: Camouflaged cellphone towers(Neal McLain)
Re: Verizon Wireless settles with FCC, to pay $25 million plus refunds (www.Queensbridge.us)
Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books(Richard)


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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:31:04 -0700 From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books Message-ID: <4CD38888.30708@thadlabs.com> On 11/4/2010 12:23 PM, Lisa or Jeff wrote: > The Phila Inqr reported: > > Soon your fingers will do the walking on your keyboard alone. It's the > end of the line for the phone book as we know it. > > Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular > publishing of the white pages. > [...] That must be a Verizon-ism. Here (Silicon Valley) we still receive AT&T white and yellow pages every year. I cancelled my landlines in 2002 and still receive the phone book each year in a nice bag hanging from my home's front doorknob. Here's a (small) scan of the "top" 1/3 of the AT&T phonebook cover for my area which I received mid-October: http://thadlabs.com/FILES/AT+T_cover_NOV-2010.pdf Here's a similar JPG scan of the November 2009 phone book last year: http://thadlabs.com/PIX/at+t_phone_book.jpg What's interesting is this year's cover claims "yp.com" is the new "yellowpages.com". Interesting. Looks like "yp.com" finds businesses by name or number (reverse lookup?) and is also a people-finder. I didn't bother to enable javascript to test it, but that capability could be useful.
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 01:35:51 -0400 From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: whatever happened... cellphone tracking..? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1011050134530.14829@panix5.panix.com> Back after 9/11 and periodically since then there's been dicussion about portable cell phone "bases" that could be used for: a: in a helicopter over remote areas to find lost folk in cellular dead zones such as when Steve Fosset's plane went down b: building collapses or other localized situations to help triangulate buried folk. They'd also be able to grab signals that weren't making it to the regular towers. Haven't seen anything in the past few years. Has there been any movement? Thanks _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:18:12 -0400 From: tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books Message-ID: <op.vlogsmwxitl47o@acer250.gateway.2wire.net> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:23:40 -0400, Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > The Phila Inqr reported: > > Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular > publishing of the white pages. And gone will be the days of thumbing through the Restaurant pages of the current motel's local phone book, so as to figure out where to have dinner before turning in for the night when temporarily in a strange town ... :-{ . All good things must pass, I guess. Cheers, -- tlvp -- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:05:53 -0700 From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books Message-ID: <4CD463A1.4000206@thadlabs.com> On 11/4/2010 8:18 PM, tlvp wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:23:40 -0400, Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> > wrote: > >> The Phila Inqr reported: >> >> Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular >> publishing of the white pages. > > And gone will be the days of thumbing through the Restaurant pages of the > current motel's local phone book, so as to figure out where to have dinner > before turning in for the night when temporarily in a strange town ... > :-{ . > > All good things must pass, I guess. Cheers, -- tlvp This is actually sad -- the passing of another piece of history. Back when I was making numerous business trips, it was fun to see what pages were the most-frequented in the local phone books based on observing the book from the side while it was "flat" on a table. In Philadelphia, I noticed restaurant pages were the ones; in San Diego CA it was the massage parlors. One quickly gets a "feel" for an area from such observations. :-) Speaking of Philadelphia PA (and off-topic), I was amazed it seemed everyone in that state (even at the car rental office) thought Gettysburg was in Virginia except for the folks in Gettysburg once I drove to and arrived there to tour the battlegrounds during a weekend layover; isn't geography taught in schools anymore? Just curious. ***** Moderator's Note ***** The only thing taught in the public schools now is political correctness, sensitivity, and blind acceptance of the latest educational fad^h^h^h techniques. Bill Horne Moderator
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:01:43 -0400 From: Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spamnot@worldnet.att.net> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books Message-ID: <2f38d6tmg81k0h9svstrn3lf2mld1j6fn4@4ax.com> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:18:12 -0400, tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:23:40 -0400, Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> >wrote: > >> The Phila Inqr reported: >> >> Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular >> publishing of the white pages. > >And gone will be the days of thumbing through the Restaurant pages of the >current motel's local phone book, so as to figure out where to have dinner >before turning in for the night when temporarily in a strange town ... :-{ . > >All good things must pass, I guess. Cheers, -- tlvp Relax, the Allentown Morning Call story (http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-verizon-phone-book-20101104,0,6962970.story) stated clearly that the business yellow pages will continue to be printed and distributed, so you'll be able to find that 5 star cheesesteak place without any trouble. ET --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:25:25 -0500 From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Camouflaged cellphone towers Message-ID: <4CD3F7B5.9090402@annsgarden.com> Thad Floryan wrote: > It appears other tree styles are also > used depending on the terrain. Entering > "camouflaged cellphone towers" to Google > Images reveals numerous styles, even > cactii, which really surprised me. Monopines have what's known as fooliage. Here's a link my compilation of structures, including a few fakes: http://antennastructures.blogspot.com/ Neal McLain
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:45:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "www.Queensbridge.us" <NOTvalid@Queensbridge.us> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon Wireless settles with FCC, to pay $25 million plus refunds Message-ID: <bb7a6bc2-6ff8-4b44-ac80-857182c30a1b@x42g2000yqx.googlegroups.com> On Oct 28, 4:14 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote: > [FCC press release] > > FCC INVESTIGATION INTO VERIZON WIRELESS "MYSTERY FEES" > RESULTSIN RECORD SETTLEMENT > > Verizon Wireless to pay largest-ever settlement and consumer refund > > Today, the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau announced an > historic consent decree with Verizon Wireless - including a record $25 million > payment to the U.S. Treasury - regarding "mystery fees" the company charged its > customers over the last several years. The payment is the largest in FCC > history and the settlement concludes the agency's ten-month investigation into > these overcharges. In addition to Verizon Wireless's payment to the Treasury, > the company will immediately refund a minimum of $52.8 million to approximately > 15 million customers and ensure that consumers are no longer charged the > mystery fees. >  -------- > rest of press release (which has links to the settlement, etc.) > in, respectively, "Word Doc" format, PDF, and text: > > http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-302489A1.doc http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-302489A1.pdf http://www.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/DOC-302489A1.html > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > dan...@panix.com > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] They will get it all back when the $3.50 surcharges [or the portion they will get] for credit card billing. -- http://www.Queensbridge.us
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:29:08 -0700 From: Richard <rng@richbonnie.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books Message-ID: <t5j8d65egme7b3oasjh9ln8q2t0n5qrd1r@4ax.com> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT), Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. today got the go-ahead to stop regular >publishing of the white pages. >http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/In_green_move_Verizon_pulls_plug_on_white_pages.html It is not clear from the link above whether they will not distribute the white pages but will distribute yellow-pages-only paper directories, or whether they will not distribute any paper directories. In my town of Pahrump, NV, besides the usual AT&T white and yellow page directory, two other companies distribute phone directories with both types of pages: One from a local newspaper, the other from a company based in Utah. One advantage of the independents is that they will publish any yellow page ad from anyone, whereas AT&T will only list those with business phone accounts. This is useful for finding businesses which do not have a business phone account, but use only the owner's cell phone for business calls. Another advantage: Pahrump is on the NV-CA state line. The independent directories cover both sides of the line, whereas the AT&T directory covers only the NV side. One disadvantage is that the independents only publish yellow page numbers for businesses which pay for the listings. So we need the two independent directories plus the AT&T directory to find every business in a particular field. Dick
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