---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191216195107.0C0A5116ACD4@ary.qy> Date: 16 Dec 2019 14:51:06 -0500 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: FCC advances plans for 988, a national suicide- prevention hotline In article <20191215201652.009241163B37@ary.qy>, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: >https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-360939A1.pdf > >... but the changes could, I suppose, be as simple as resetting the >timeout rules for 988-xxxx calls that fail for lack of digits. I suppose so. I was surprised to discover that the dial plan for my shiny new RLEC voice-over-fiber service involves timeouts. To unblock caller ID for one call to a 7D number *82 NXX XXXX to a 10D number *82 NXX NXX XXXX Surprisingly, this doesn't work: *82 1 NXX NXX XXXX R's, John ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191217190031.E07FF1173546@ary.qy> Date: 17 Dec 2019 14:00:31 -0500 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: FCC advances plans for 988, a national suicide- prevention hotline In article <005301d5b498$67211e30$35635a90$@nc.rr.com> you write: >> The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with plans >> to make 988 the nation's suicide prevention hotline... >"If the 211 code is not expanded, then alternatively, the '988' >non-N11 code should be deployed for a national suicide prevention and >mental health crisis hotline system, as long as it is understood that >988 likely cannot be deployed ubiquitously across all networks, and >mandatory 10-digit dialing may need to be implemented in area codes >where 988 is assigned as a central office code in area codes where >7-digit local dialing is the norm." >https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-359095A1.pdf > >It's disappointing that the report does not seem to include a list of >the NPAs which would need to convert to mandatory 10D in order to >bring this plan to fruition. A quick visit to nanpa.com finds 158 area codes in the US with 7D local dialing and another 25 elsewhere in the NANPA. https://nationalnanpa.com/enas/npaDialingPlansReport.do Half-baked, indeed. R's, John ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191216123443.12425.qmail@submit.iecc.com> Date: 16 Dec 2019 12:34:43 -0500 From: "bernieS" <bernies@panix.com> Subject: Will FCC require mobile telcos to handle free calls to 988 national suicide-prevention hotline from unregistered phones? On 14 Dec 2019 12:15:41 -0500, "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> wrote: > FCC advances plans for 988, a national suicide-prevention hotline > U.S. suicide rates are at their highest levels since World War II. > The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with plans > to make 988 the nation's suicide prevention hotline in the face of a > mental health pandemic that claims more than 130 Americans each day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/13/fcc-approves-plans-national-digit-suicide-prevention-hotline/ Will the FCC require mobile telephone service providers to allow people to use unregistered mobile phones to call the new 988 national suicide-prevention hotline? The FCC requires mobile telephone service providers to allow people to use unregistered mobile phones to call 911 for free. The new 988 hotline will be exclusively for life-saving emergencies, whereas many 911 calls aren't about life-saving emergencies. It will be hard for mobile telephone service providers to argue against this, but I suspect they will try. -bernieS ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191218154736.GA7363@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:47:36 +0000 From: Bill Horne <hornew113QRM@QRMtelecomdigest.net> Subject: Please help me with a Bluetooth question Thanks for reading this: I appreciate your time. I'm trying to solve a problem I have finding a Bluetooth device. I have seen the device I'm looking for on a Chinese website, but I couldn't figure out how to get their system to send it to me, so I'm hoping that someone knows of another place where I can get the functions I want. I have a DVD player at one end of my living room, next to a projector that shines on a screen at the other end. The DVD player has an HDMI output that feeds the projector. The projector and the screen came with the house, and can't be moved. My sound system is at the other end of the room, under the screen. The DVD player has a "coaxial digital" audio output, which is currently connected to the autdio system by a couple of cords connected back-to-back. We're going to trip on the cords sooner or later, so I want to send the sound across via Bluetooth. However, I *also* want to be able to listen to the audio system via Bluetooth headsets, not only if a DVD is playing, but for *any* output from the audio system. Ergo, I'm looking for a Bluetooth device at the "sound system" end which has the following features: 1. Can work with *any* version of Bluetooth. 2. Can both receive and transmit at the same time, e.g. - A. Receive Bluetooth audio from the DVD and transmit audio via Bluetooth to two separate Bluetooth headsets, as well as to the RCA jacks on the sound system.. B. Receive analog audio from the sound system and transmit it to the headsets via Bluetooth. 3. Offers analog RCA outputs and inputs. It would be nice to have a digital coaxial output too, but that's not essential at the "sound system" end. 4. Does not need batteries. I understand that I'll need a compatible Bluetooth transmitter at the DVD, with a coaxial digital input: those are actually easy to find. However, I'd like devices from the same manufacturer at both ends, and I'll buy two of the transmitter/receiver devices if I have to. All suggestions are welcome, but please indicate if your advice is just for me, by including the "[nfp]" (Not For Publication) marker in the subject line, or one of the "," "[obfuscate]," or "[anonymous]" markers (see the FAQ) if I can publish it. Thanks again. Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 19 Dec 2019