From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Aug 16 22:35:58 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i7H2Zwe27641; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:35:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:35:58 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200408170235.i7H2Zwe27641@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #384 TELECOM Digest Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:35:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 384 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Comcast to Launch NFL Network For Video on Demand (Monty Solomon) Re: Interconnect Fees Get Ugly (John Levine) Re: Interconnect Fees Get Ugly (Paul Vader) Re: Number Not in Use (Paul Vader) Re: Computer Programmers in Telecom (Ray) Re: Wardriving Guilty Plea in Lowe's Wi-Fi Case (Paul Vader) Re: Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby (Paul Vader) Re: Vonage Will Drive You Crazy - Beware Vonage (Charlie) Guidance Wanted in Starting Telecom Service Business (Marcel Riley) Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, Sept 29-30, 2004 (Jason Pontin) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:52:47 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Comcast to Launch NFL Network For Video on Demand NEW YORK, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) on Monday said it plans to launch the National Football League Network this month as part of a plan to bolster the operator's video-on-demand offerings. The NFL network will be added to the Philadelphia-based cable operator's digital cable service, featuring 54 preseason games, a deep trove of historic games, and other programs. Although analysts do not view the current deal as a major boon to Comcast's business, they said it could be a precursor to a more extensive agreement to gain access to lucrative Sunday games, as it seeks to lure more television watchers back to cable. DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE:DTV) currently owns on an exclusive basis the NFL's most prized asset -- the cable broadcast rights to Sunday games, through 2005. Cable operators have vowed to lure back video subscribers, which they lost to rival satellite television services at a higher than expected rate in the second quarter. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=43147307 ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 2004 20:59:23 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Interconnect Fees Get Ugly Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: John, I am curious about something. In > an area where there is a predominant LEC (everywhere, I suppose) and > it negotiates things regards its customers (such as 'bill and keep' > as one example) what about the independent telcos in the same area? > Are they obligated to go along with what the LEC 'negotiates'? PAT] The interconnection agreements among ILECs all date from the regulated era, so they were all overseen by state utility commissions. Since they were supposed to be cost-based, they often depended on how many miles of the interconnecting trunks were owned by each telco. Now that we have wireless, paging, and CLECs, and transmission costs have gotten so low that it's common to switch calls 50 or 100 miles from the subscriber's location, it's all gotten a lot more complicated. John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl@iecc.com, Mayor, http://johnlevine.com, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Interconnect Fees Get Ugly Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:32:35 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations Tony P. writes: > Seems this little co-op phone company is about to bring the cell > carriers to their knees. More likely, to get sued into a smoking crater. * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Number Not in Use Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:43:31 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations Ned Protter writes: > Do they diddle with their caller ID because it's illegal for them to > block it? Is it illegal to fake their caller ID? Could the phone > company trace them anyway? It's been illegal for the last 6 months to block or alter caller ID on a telemarketing call -- the number must show, and must be the 'get me off your dang list' number. If you know the company that's calling, file a complaint with the FTC -- it's an $11,000 per occurrence fine. > Can they fake the area code and exchange as well as the OCN? Anything at all in a caller-id record can be faked. > A couple of weeks ago, my machine recorded a message saying I'd won a > trip. There was a thirteen-second delay before it started, and it was > very distorted. It had come from a cell phone, as if somebody had > dialed me and held the cell phone over an answering machine that played > back a telemarketing message. The real boiler-room operators (and you can definitely count the free-trip ones in that category) are often running old crappy equipment. Think of it as the telemarketing equivalent of the massively misspelled spam email. It might attract your attention, but not in a GOOD way. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Its not illegal for them to block their > number; that is what *67 is used for. But many recipients of telephone Not for telemarketers. They can't block the number, period. * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. ------------------------------ From: rayj00@yahoo.com (Ray) Subject: Re: Computer Programmers in Telecom Date: 16 Aug 2004 16:14:42 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I tend to agree with previous posters ... I should have went to law school! :) As a side note, when Lucent first started working on the 5E, they hired a bunch of college Comp Sci folks. Well, I don't care how good you are at software development, if you don't have the telephony background, it will be a struggle to say the least. Most of them did not even know the basics of call routing! Good luck ... Ray sumitkchawla@rediffmail.com (sumit chawla) wrote in message news:: > Thanks for your response. Actually I am doing training in Lucent Switch. > I just wanted to know how I could apply my software development skills > in the respective industry. > Sumit Chawla > E-mail (sumitkchawla@rediffmail.com) > Bit Twister wrote in message > news:: >> On 3 Aug 2004 07:35:52 -0700, Sumit Chawla wrote: >>> I'm a computer engineer. I want to pursue a career in the telecom >>> sector. >> Move to China, Vietnam, India where the outsourcing is going. >> I wish you luck; ALCATEL France, came over, bought a telecom company, >> took the good projects back to Europe, outsourced other jobs, layed >> everyone else off except enough to keep the sales/service office up and >> running. >> Suggest moving your expertise into the medical field. ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Wardriving Guilty Plea in Lowe's Wi-Fi Case Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:28:27 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations SPAMhukolautTRAP@SPAMattTRAP.net writes: > Whoever installed their WiFi network was, to overstate the case, > "clueless" with regards to security. You don't know that. Given that the unauthorized people, whoever they were, were caught red-handed, you can't rule out someone watching the server logs. It might just APPEAR to be an open network. On the other hand, running things that way might put you into 'attractive nuisance' territory. * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby. Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:36:57 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Monty Solomon : > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is the reason why I at least give > a cursory glance at everything in the spam bucket before dumping it > out. There is that occassional item in the spam bucket which should Feh. The fault is solely the other people for not USING A PHONE to back up an email contact, especially if the two parties have never communicated before. It sounds like a made-up story anyway, or at least a garbled one. * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: However, Paul, I am not in a position to use the telephone either to call submitters and let them know their message was received, nor to receive telephone calls from people who want to know did I receive their message and when if ever it will be used in the Digest. What kind of email volume do the people involved in this story get in a day's time. I've had people write here who do not know an auto-ack is sent out who have been quite indignant with me for allegedly 'ignoring' them. PAT] ------------------------------ From: charlie@cdsdetroit.com (charlie3) Subject: Re: Vonage Will Drive You Crazy - Beware Vonage Date: 16 Aug 2004 19:22:07 -0700 I read all the Vonage posts I could find before signing up and decided the people who are disappointed had bad luck or unrealistic expectations. I made sure the new Vonage line number was local to my POTS line then, when the Vonage box was working I call forwarded the POTS line to Vonage and set Vonage to ring my cell phone simultaneously. After a month of experience I put in the order to port my home phone to Vonage and have never looked back. I've had a few glitchy calls; I experienced the several hour outage same as everyone else. My cell phone is always at the ready to receive calls or allow me to make calls if necessary. The overwhelming majority of the time the Vonage phone has behaved exactly like the old POTS line. Nobody seems to notice they are talking to me on a VOIP line (at 50kbs) unless I tell them -- I usually don't. I happen to have a remote rural location where I like to spend as much time as possible. The cost of land based wireless broad band service there is the same as the house phone plus the dialup internet service I needed there. So the vonage box travels with me. I can sit in a shady spot in the yard with a cordless phone and wireless notebook and take care of business. The only thing that gives away my location is the song birds. If I want to take a walk in the woods I pick up the cell phone and go. VOIP service is not a substitute for every POTS phone. It's fool hardy to drop the house phone without testing VOIP for several months in your location and completely understanding and accepting the tradeoffs. I recommend Vonage because I believe it's the right product at the right price and it's the one I know. If there's a better one go buy it. Charlie ------------------------------ From: marcel_riley@yahoo.com (Marcel Riley) Subject: Guidance Wanted in Starting Telecom Service Business Date: 16 Aug 2004 18:57:40 -0700 I am exploring starting a business to offer services to companies to install/repair/etc. their business telephone systems. 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