************************************************** Telcomine (http://www.infozech.com/telcomine.html), a monthly newsletter from Infozech. Telcomine brings you the latest trends and developments in frontline IT Technologies. To subscribe mail to nl@infozech.com To advertise mail to telcomine@infozech.com *************************************************** *****TELCOMINE************************************* Wealth of Information about Telecommunications Volume 2, No 7, July 1999 IN THIS ISSUE 1. SETI GRABS 15000 YEARS OF FREE COMPUTER TIME IN ONE MONTH Enthusiasts contribute 15,000 years of free computer time in search for extra terrestrial life through a month old SETI program and have detected some interesting signals in their search for aliens. 2. BIRTH OF A 'NEURON' COMPUTER THAT CAN THINK FOR ITSELF In a remarkable invention US scientists have developed a biological computer made of leech neurons that can think for itself and works in a way similar to the human brain. 3. CORDLESS PHONES: MORE DANGEROUS FOR BRAIN THAN MOBILE PHONES Latest research believes that the radiation emitted by cordless phones poses an even greater risk to the brain than mobile phones because of their style and frequency of use. 4. SAFETY CHIP GUARDS MOBILE PHONE USERS AGAINST RADIATION A bioprotection chip that claims to protect mobile phone users from harmful electromagnetic radiation will be available in the British market in August and other European countries will follow thereafter. 5. U.S. PANEL URGES WARINESS ON HEALTH SITES Health information on the Internet can be biased, misleading and downright wrong and consumers need to learn how to distinguish between a reliable site and a fake one, warns a U.S. government panel. 6. SPYING ON INTERNET IN INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR IN KASHMIR Internet is proving to be a challenge to the Intelligence wing of the Indian army, as details of Indian troop movements are being posted at 'suspicious websites' on the net. 7. INTERNET MAY FACE ADDRESS CRUNCH IN ASIA "Asia has used up 50 percent of the 100 million addresses it had in just five years and is facing surging demand. If not used properly, the remaining addresses on hand could run out in a matter of months." Says Brisbane based APNIC, which has the authority to allocate Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous space (AS) numbers regionally under the supervision of the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. 8. CABLE COMPANIES LEAD BATTLE FOR HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS Broadband Intelligence, a consultancy based in Bethesda, Maryland foresees the cable industry's share of Internet traffic to rise to 37% over the next five years and that of the telephone companies to fall from 94% to 63% over the period. 9. BROADBAND PUSH MAY TRAMPLE DIAL-UP ISPs Cable industry creates a dent in the business of ISPs who do not have access to cable technology. Already the share of America Online - America's biggest dial-up ISP - has fallen from 57% to 47% over the past year, while the penetration of @Home,an ISP created by the cable TV industry has risen to 27% of Internet users. 10. WIRELESS PHONES TO HAVE 'CALLER-PAYS' OPTION Owners of mobile phones may no longer have to pay for the calls they receive but only for the calls they make. 11. WIRELESS AND WEB COMPANIES JOIN HANDS TO CREATE A PROFITABLE BUSINESS MODEL In a new and exciting business relationship major web portal companies -gateways to various web based services- are entering into strategic business relationship with the paging, digital cellular and PCS companies to integrate their services with wireless devices, this will enable customers to get Internet content on their wireless devices. 12. ILLICT UNDERWORLD BEATS THE COP IN ONLINE TECHNOLOGY WAR By staying a step ahead of search engines and its users, the denizens of 'Dark Net' - back alleys of the Internet where all sorts of illicit activity from software piracy to pornography thrives- have built up a parallel internet universe, each time beating the Cop in an online technology war. 13. REMOTE PRINTERS: AS ACCESSIBLE AS A WEB PAGE If a consortium of printer makers - The Printer Working Group-has its way people may soon send files and messages directly to distant printers over Internet by 2000 AD.The consortium is pushing for an the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) designed to let Internet users send files and messages directly to the remote printer. 14. MEDIACOM'S "PHONEGENIE" ENABLES CALLERS TO PICK LOWEST RATE AND REDUCE PHONRE BILLS Tired of having to decide the cheapest source of telephone calls. Entrust it to MediaCom's PhoneGenie, which will scan a directory of 20 discounts carriers, including Sprint and MCI and find the lowest rates available for the current month. 15.SONIC NETWORK'S USE OF INFOZECH'S EBILL WITH ONLINE CREDIT VERIFICATION A SUCCESS Sonic Networks, a Canadian Long Distance company expresses satisfaction with an integrated eBill package offering online credit card interface to its long distance customers. "Great!" exclaimed Mr. David Davidian, President, Sonic Networks, on looking at the smoothness and advantages of this integrated system. 16. MAILBOX More Requests For Telcomine ********************************************** If you have found Telcomine useful, please consider telling somebody else about it. Executive Editor: Seema Dhawan E-mail: Telcomine@infozech.com Internet: http://www.infozech.com/telcomine.html Fax: 408-490-2840; Voice Mail: 408-490-2842 Please visit us at http://www.infozech.com *********************************************** ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BEC9EC.4DB190E0 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Telcomine 'July'99.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Telcomine 'July'99.txt" ************************************************** Telcomine (http://www.infozech.com/telcomine.html), a monthly newsletter from Infozech. Telcomine brings you the latest trends and developments in frontline IT Technologies. To subscribe mail to nl@infozech.com To advertise mail to telcomine@infozech.com *************************************************** *****TELCOMINE************************************* Wealth of Information about Telecommunications Volume 2, No 7, July 1999 IN THIS ISSUE 1. SETI GRABS 15000 YEARS OF FREE COMPUTER TIME IN ONE MONTH Enthusiasts contribute 15,000 years of free computer time in search for extra terrestrial life through a month old SETI program and have detected some interesting signals in their search for aliens. 2. BIRTH OF A 'NEURON' COMPUTER THAT CAN THINK FOR ITSELF In a remarkable invention US scientists have developed a biological computer made of leech neurons that can think for itself and works in a way similar to the human brain. 3. CORDLESS PHONES: MORE DANGEROUS FOR BRAIN THAN MOBILE PHONES Latest research believes that the radiation emitted by cordless phones poses an even greater risk to the brain than mobile phones because of their style and frequency of use. 4. SAFETY CHIP GUARDS MOBILE PHONE USERS AGAINST RADIATION A bioprotection chip that claims to protect mobile phone users from harmful electromagnetic radiation will be available in the British market in August and other European countries will follow thereafter. 5. U.S. PANEL URGES WARINESS ON HEALTH SITES Health information on the Internet can be biased, misleading and downright wrong and consumers need to learn how to distinguish between a reliable site and a fake one, warns a U.S. government panel. 6. SPYING ON INTERNET IN INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR IN KASHMIR Internet is proving to be a challenge to the Intelligence wing of the Indian army, as details of Indian troop movements are being posted at 'suspicious websites' on the net. 7. INTERNET MAY FACE ADDRESS CRUNCH IN ASIA "Asia has used up 50 percent of the 100 million addresses it had in just five years and is facing surging demand. If not used properly, the remaining addresses on hand could run out in a matter of months." Says Brisbane based APNIC, which has the authority to allocate Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous space (AS) numbers regionally under the supervision of the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. 8. CABLE COMPANIES LEAD BATTLE FOR HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS Broadband Intelligence, a consultancy based in Bethesda, Maryland foresees the cable industry's share of Internet traffic to rise to 37% over the next five years and that of the telephone companies to fall from 94% to 63% over the period. 9. BROADBAND PUSH MAY TRAMPLE DIAL-UP ISPs Cable industry creates a dent in the business of ISPs who do not have access to cable technology. Already the share of America Online - America's biggest dial-up ISP - has fallen from 57% to 47% over the past year, while the penetration of @Home,an ISP created by the cable TV industry has risen to 27% of Internet users. 10. WIRELESS PHONES TO HAVE 'CALLER-PAYS' OPTION Owners of mobile phones may no longer have to pay for the calls they receive but only for the calls they make. 11. WIRELESS AND WEB COMPANIES JOIN HANDS TO CREATE A PROFITABLE BUSINESS MODEL In a new and exciting business relationship major web portal companies -gateways to various web based services- are entering into strategic business relationship with the paging, digital cellular and PCS companies to integrate their services with wireless devices, this will enable customers to get Internet content on their wireless devices. 12. ILLICT UNDERWORLD BEATS THE COP IN ONLINE TECHNOLOGY WAR By staying a step ahead of search engines and its users, the denizens of 'Dark Net' - back alleys of the Internet where all sorts of illicit activity from software piracy to pornography thrives- have built up a parallel internet universe, each time beating the Cop in an online technology war. 13. REMOTE PRINTERS: AS ACCESSIBLE AS A WEB PAGE If a consortium of printer makers - The Printer Working Group-has its way people may soon send files and messages directly to distant printers over Internet by 2000 AD.The consortium is pushing for an the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) designed to let Internet users send files and messages directly to the remote printer. 14. MEDIACOM'S "PHONEGENIE" ENABLES CALLERS TO PICK LOWEST RATE AND REDUCE PHONRE BILLS Tired of having to decide the cheapest source of telephone calls. Entrust it to MediaCom's PhoneGenie, which will scan a directory of 20 discounts carriers, including Sprint and MCI and find the lowest rates available for the current month. 15.SONIC NETWORK'S USE OF INFOZECH'S EBILL WITH ONLINE CREDIT VERIFICATION A SUCCESS Sonic Networks, a Canadian Long Distance company expresses satisfaction with an integrated eBill package offering online credit card interface to its long distance customers. "Great!" exclaimed Mr. David Davidian, President, Sonic Networks, on looking at the smoothness and advantages of this integrated system. 16. MAILBOX More Requests For Telcomine ********************************************** If you have found Telcomine useful, please consider telling somebody else about it. Executive Editor: Seema Dhawan E-mail: Telcomine@infozech.com Internet: http://www.infozech.com/telcomine.html Fax: 408-490-2840; Voice Mail: 408-490-2842 Please visit us at http://www.infozech.com *********************************************** **************************************** SETI Grabs 15000 Years of Free Computer Time in One Month **************************************** Though the month old SETI program that allows your PC to participate in the search for Extra Terrestrial life through radio signals has detected only a few interesting signals through a PC in Virginia, its fans have contributed free 15000 years of computer time within one month. Although apart from a few unusual signals, nothing very exciting has hit the screens so far, but the number of enthusiasts joining the search for 'aliens' has swelled to 660,000 and may soon hit a million. The SETI program started by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, has been designed as a distributed program in order to harness the millions of hours that personal computers spend idle. Rather than spending hours running useless screen saver programs, computers hooked up to SETI are now spending their time looking for unusual blips in radio signals from space. The strangest among the signals received so far has been one from Ross Schaack, a mechanical Engineer in Virginia. While he was away at work, his PC dialed a connection to the SETI web and reported "unusual data" to a main computer in Berkeley. Dan Werthimer, the chief scientist of the program says that while strong signals usually emanate from a satellite or other earthly origins, long signals with a curved shape indicate something more interesting and exciting as in Schaack's discovery. The SETI screen saver program identifies these long, curved signals under a counter-labeled "top gaussians." The software can be downloaded from SETI's site at www.seti.com. Participants can also view maps which show where the project is searching and who all is taking part in it. The program will run for two years. After that,Werthimer hopes to update it enabling volunteers to search a broader range of frequencies. !!!!! FLAG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAREER MOVES a free monthly newsletter features articles, information and tips on career issues and successful career transition. With a focus toward the telecommunications, IT, and Engineering industries. It can be subscribed to by visiting http://www.rezamaze.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *************************************** Birth of a 'Neuron' Computer That Can Think For Itself *************************************** In a remarkable invention, US scientists have developed a biological computer made of leech neurons that can think for itself. The neuron computer works in a way similar to the human brain. According to BBC, "Leechulator" as the device is known as, is the brainchild of Professor Bill Ditto, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. According to him the silicon computer is a dumb machine whereas these biological computers powered with neurons will come to the correct answer by themselves based on the partial information provided to them. At present, the computer is able to perform only simple mathematical functions, but the aim is to devise a new generation of fast and flexible computers that can work out for themselves on how to solve a problem. This approach to computing is particularly suited to pattern recognition tasks like reading handwriting, which would take enormous amounts of power on a conventional computer. In this invention Leech neurons are used as leeches have been extensively studied and understood and are known to form their own connections from one to another. Each neuron has its own electrical activity and responds in its own way to an electrical stimuli. These features can be used to make each neuron represent a number. The neurons then inter-link to perform calculations. ****************************************** Cordless Phones: More Dangerous for Brain Than Mobile Phones ****************************************** Latest research shows that radiation emitted by cordless phones is an even greater risk to the brain than mobile phones. In a scenario where the debate on mobile phones is not yet over, this new belief could add fuel to the fire. Though phone manufacturers are disclaiming the belief, campaign groups monitoring the possible health impact of electromagnetic radiation have received complaints from users of cordless phones that excessive use of the phone has caused bouts of confusion, headaches and short term memory loss. Dr Gerard Hyland, a biophysicist, at the University of Warwick, suspects that cordless phones may pose an even greater risk than mobiles because of their frequency and style of use. "You could say these are worse than mobiles because you have the phones and the base station both emitting microwave radiation sitting in the same room with you." His suspicions are borne out by the experience of Alisdair Philiphs, Director of Powerwatch, a UK based electromagnetic radiation monitoring organization. Philiphs has reportedly received hundreds of complaints about the ill - effects of cordless telephones. ************************************** Safety Chip Guards Mobile Phone Users Against Radiation ************************************** Mobile phone users can now rest easy. A bioprotection chip claiming to protect mobile phone users from electromagnetic radiation will be out in the British markets by August. Invented by US based Alexander Technologies,the EMF (Electromagnetic Field) chip, based on the EMX Technology, is available in the form of a microchip. According to Prof. Theodore Litovitz, chip inventor," the EMF chip works by superimposing its own "noise field" on mobile phone's radiation to neutralize the electromagnetic field. The technology is designed to eliminate the bioeffects of pulsed electromagnetic fields and therefore eliminates the potential health hazards associated with these bioeffects.The efficacy of the method has been tested at four different independent research institutions. The gadget is priced at $40. It will initially serve Britain and the other European countries will follow thereafter. ****************************************** U.S. Panel Urges Wariness on Health Sites ****************************************** Health information on the Internet can be biased, misleading, and downright wrong, and consumers need to learn how to distinguish a reliable site from a bad one warned a U.S. government panel recently. Last year, in the first "International Health Claim Surf Day, "80 agencies and organizations explored sites that miraculously treat the pain of arthritis, herbal remedies that ward off AIDS, mysterious elixirs that cure cancer, and other potentially false or deceptive advertising health claims. All received warnings from the Federal Trade Commission that advertisers must have reliable scientific evidence to back up their health claims, and that Web site designers may be liable for making or disseminating deceptive or false claims. The panel has a website, advising people what to look for at Interactive Communication and Health site (http://www.scipich.org). People wanting examples of harmful sites can look at Quackwatch (http://www.quackwatch.com), The group recommends that novices should start searching the Internet start at the U.S. government's own site, www.healthfinder.gov *************************************** Spying on Internet in India-Pakistan War in Kashmir **************************************** The unfathomable Internet is proving to be a challenge to the intelligence wing of the Indian army, as details of Indian troop movements are being posted at 'suspicious websites'on the net. The banned insurgent group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) of India is suspected to be using Internet to feed information to ISI- Pakistan's Intelligence agency- through websites, in the ongoing Indo - Pak war being fought in Kashmir. Hacking is considered a bad word, especially in the Army circles, but the acquisition of 'electronic experts' endowed with special skills to track these 'suspicious websites' is not being considered a crime by the 4th Corp of the Indian Army, at Tezpur (a district in Assam). In fact, Lt-Gen D.B. Shekatkar,Commander of the 4th Corp calls this activity as the need of the hour. He claims to have "numerous inputs about the ULFA passing messages on troop movements to the ISI agents in Narowar, Karachi, Lahore, Gujrawala and Sialkot". ***************************************** Asia Uses Up Half Its 100 Million Internet Subscribers Limit ***************************************** "Asia has used up 50 percent of the 100 million addresses it had in just five years and is facing surging demand. If not used properly, the remaining addresses on hand could run out in a matter of months," says Brisbane based APNIC, which has the authority to allocate Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and autonomous space (AS) numbers regionally under the supervision of the Global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), is a non-profit Internet Registry for the Asia- Pacific region. The Internet addresses - signposts in cyberspace - are governed by a number system which poses a limit on the number of addresses supported by the Internet - and these numbers are fast becoming an out of stock commodity. Though Internet can potentially have as many as four billion addresses globally under the 32-bit architecture that supports Internet, in practical there is much less space. The street gets narrower in the Asia-Pacific region because the United States and other nations, which have had a headstart, have used up a great deal of space available. Things could change for the Internet in future with the emergence of a new Internet protocol called IPV6, which is expected to multiply the current numbering capacity. Transition to IPV 6 can take anything between five to seven years. That's a long time in Internet. Till then,Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will have to learn to manage their systems efficiently. *************************************** Cable Companies Lead Battle for High Speed Internet Access *************************************** Broadband Intelligence, a consultancy based in Bethesda, Maryland, foresees the cable industry's share of Internet traffic to rise to 37% over the next five years and that of the telephone companies to fall from 94% to 63% over the period. According to a broadband intelligence service survey, cable companies with wires running in 95% of America's homes, are offering a cheaper access service ($40 per month for a speed of 3 megabits per second) than either the telephone ($50 - $200 per month for a speed of 64 kilobits to 7.1 megabits per second),satellite ($30 to $130 per month for a speed of 400 kilobits per second) or wireless service ($50 per month for a speed of 750 kilobits per second). ***************************************** Broadband Push May Trample Dial-Up ISPs ***************************************** As the war for consumer's Broadband business intensifies, regional and local dial-up Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who as yet, cannot access cable networks might find it difficult to compete with the high speed offerings of Cable and Telephone companies and might be pushed out of the Internet access game. Already, @Home and Roadrunner, two ISPs created by the cable industry have created a dent in the business of those ISPs that have no access to cable technology. According to Intermedia Partners, a cable company in Nashville, Tennessee, AOL's - America's biggest dial-up ISP - share of the local market has fallen from 57% to 47% over the past year, while @Home's penetration has risen to 27% of Internet users. ******************************************** Wireless Phones to Have 'Caller-Pays' Option ******************************************** Owners of mobile phones may no longer have to pay forthe calls they receive but only for calls they make. If a recent proposal proposed by the Federal Communication Commission is approved, billable minutes for wireless phones that would have normally appeared on the cell phone user's bill for incoming calls could instead soon appear on the caller's bill. The proposal, supported by the wireless industry, points to a trend to increase competition and make wireless service available to a whole new category of customers, including families who are on tight budgets and can't afford mobile phones, and people who turn off their phones to avoid paying for incoming calls. The proposal though, would give wireless phone owners the option of having the calling party pay or not to pay. According to Tom Wheeler, President of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the plan could open the door to new schemes of pricing that allow wireless customers to select a service that would require callers to pay, others to specify which callers would pay, and still others to continue paying for their wireless calls. The system, instrumental in increasing cellular phone use in Europe, will benefit manufacturers of the large switches such as Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks, that connect phone calls and also the makers of billing software for phone companies. The issue of how much the callers would have to pay would probably be set by individual wireless companies, whose rates can't be limited by the States and haven't been regulated by the FCC, said Mr. Wheeler. The final decision on this will be taken by the FCC later this year or by early 2000. *************************************** Wireless And Web Companies Join Hands to Create a Profitable Business Model *************************************** Marking the advent of a new business relationship in the wireless industry, major web portals - gateways to various web based services- such as Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, and America Online are entering into strategic relationships with wireless carriers and equipment vendors, such as paging companies, digital cellular and PCS companies. This strategic relationship will enable consumer to receive Internet content - email, calendars, phonebooks, customized weather reports, news and highly personalized content - on their wireless devices ranging from pagers, palm tops to televisions,in addition to the personal computer. Wireless carriers have millions of subscribers who have devices capable of receiving portal-based information. In this mutual benefit partnership, portal companies would increase hits and enhance customer loyalty, whereas the wireless companies would increase their subscribers. Industry analysts believe that 1999 is the beginning of the Wireless Portal initiatives. Initiatives already are underway in Europe and USA. Netscape is working with Nextel and Lucent to develop a portal for wireless applications. Yahoo is working with Pagenet, the largest paging carrier in US to provide emails, calendars, and personalized information to Pagenet customers. Excite, not to be left behind, is working with Japan's largest cellular operator NTT DoCoMo to provide information to NTT's wireless subscribers. ************************************* Illicit Underworld Beats the Cop in Online Technology War ************************************* By staying a step ahead of search engines and its users, the denizens of 'Dark Net' - back alleys of the Internet where all sorts of illicit activity from software piracy to pornography thrives - have built up a parallel internet universe, each time beating the Cop in an online technology war. Corporations and law enforcement agencies are cracking down on purveyors of illegal goods on the web but this has apparently not rung an alarm bell for the pirates. They can move to less obvious locations or change their ISPs at random intervals thereby making it difficult for the cops to trace them. After introducing themselves using chat systems like Internet Relay chat or ICQ, pirates either exchange pirated software - known as 'warez' - individually, or direct one another to an underground Internet site, sometimes accessible only through a password. The use of FTP on this dark net also serves as a barrier to detection of the site. The barrier is strengthened by the use of Dynamic Internet Protocol addresses, which allow sites to change their electronic addresses day by day. Although, it is a relatively recent phenomenon, the software industry regards it as a multibillion dollar problem. Companies have started focussing on this issue and have also sought help from state police departments and the FBI apart from monitoring through their own efforts. ****************************************** Remote Printers: As Accessible as a Web Page ****************************************** If a consortium of printer makers - The Printer Working Group -has its way then people may soon send files and messages directly to distant printers over Internet by 2000 AD. The consortium is pushing for an Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) designed to let Internet users send files and messages directly to the remote printer. IPP is a client/server standard that lets a server be either a distinct print server or a printer with embedded networking and server capabilities. The protocol is designed to integrate the capabilities and state of a printing system and let an Internet user submit a print job after this IPP software monitors the state of the job. Users will also be able to glean information about a remote printer's functionality-such as paper sizes and color capabilities-through the IPP software. Among several promising applications for the protocol,the Printer Working Group sees printers being used very much the way receive-oriented fax machines are used today: as devices that wait for and collect paper-based communications. Just as fax numbers appear on business cards today, your printer's URL might appear on your business card early next year. However, its success depends on approval by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which is expected to give its decision by the end of this year. ************************************************ Mediacom's"PhoneGenie" Enables Callers To Pick Lowest Rate and Reduce Phone Bills ************************************************ A penny saved is a penny earned. People tired of having to decide the cheapest source of calls for local,long-distance telephone and international calls can now entrust the work to MediaCom's revolutionary product, the 'PhoneGenie'.Every time a customer dials long distance,PhoneGenie will scan a directory of 20 discount carriers, including Sprint and MCI, and will find the lowest available rates of that month. PhoneGenie, (www.phonemiser.com) is based on MediaCom's award winning PhoneMiser technology. It is about the size of a deck of cards that plugs into any phone jack and works on all the phones in the house. The product uses a technology called "Least Cost Call Routing" which sifts through multiple phone networks and chooses the lowest rate on every call. When the computer detects a dial tone, it checks to see if you're dialing long distance. The software then scans for the cheapest long distance rates. Once it finds the carrier, it punches the codes for that carrier and places the call. Users are billed to credit card, receive monthly statements or may review their accounts on the Internet. The use of this device allows users to save 30% - 66% on phone bills, with no access codes to dial and no confusing calling plans. Once it is plugged in, the benefits are received on every extension in the home or office, including cordless phones, fax machines and modems. The product performs self-updates every month. ******************************************* Sonic Network's Use of Infozech's eBill With Online Credit Verification a Success ******************************************* Sonic Networks, a Canadian Long Distance company, has expressed satisfaction with an integrated eBill package offering online credit card interface to its long distance customers. "Great!" exclaimed Mr. David Davidian, President of Sonic, on looking at the smoothness and various advantages of this integrated system. According to Mr. Sanjeev Goel, Director of Software Development at Infozech who was present with Mr. Davidian at that time, "integrating billing solutions with packages providing instant processing of credit cards is the need of the hour today. This is what we have tried to do with eBill, Infozech's Tlecom billing and Customer care solution by integrating it with IC Verify - a credit card verification package". "We are very happy to see the results, and the satisfaction on the part of our client. It is our continuous endeavor to provide more of such features to make working with eBill a memorable experience," said Mr. Ankur Lal, CEO of Infozech. Most credit card merchant accounts support IC -Verify dial up. Ebill's add on module allows one to dial into the credit-card server, verify accounts or post charges to it and have the payment transferred to the required account. Since this is an online credit verification process, the danger of bad debts is virtually eliminated. 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