From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Jan 29 12:54:59 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i0THsxX16297; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:54:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:54:59 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200401291754.i0THsxX16297@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 #46 TELECOM Digest Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:55:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 46 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson ATI Delivers Personal Video Recording To PC For Every Budget (M Solomon) Super Bowl Retains Status as Must-Buy Television (Monty Solomon) Verizon Reports Solid Overall Fourth-Quarter and Year-End (M Solomon) Verizon Adds DIRECTV Programming, Creating the Most (Monty Solomon) VOIP Over Private IP (Nyuk Fah) Re: CLEC Question (Dana) Tip-Toeing Quietly With Nikeno.com (freshjada) Re: Spoofing a "Bounced" E-Mail Error Message? (DaveC) Re: 'You've Got Problems!' (Phil Earnhardt) Here is the Norvergence Matrix Gear Solution (David Lepak) Re: FCC vs. fax.com, Again (RumsfeldRules@hotmail.com) Share Day for January (TELECOM Digest Editor) 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. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:07:51 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: ATI Delivers Personal Video Recording To The PC For Every Budget MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004-- Three new ALL-IN-WONDER(R) solutions also offer easy video editing and amazing video graphics for great game play Watching TV on your PC has never been more affordable thanks to new additions to the ALL-IN-WONDER(R) family of video graphics cards. ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY) (NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced ALL-IN-WONDER(R) 9600XT, ALL-IN-WONDER(R) 9600, and ALL-IN-WONDER(R) 9200. These new graphics cards offer exciting personal video recording of favorite television programs, easy-to-use video editing, and amazing graphics for great gaming experiences at prices for any consumer's budget. The family of best-in-class multimedia video cards, featuring ALL-IN-WONDER(R) 9800 PRO, now includes several new additions. ALL-IN-WONDER 9600XT delivers more multimedia features for customers by offering the fastest RADEON(TM) 9600 series performance with a graphics engine clocked at 525 MHz and 128 MB of memory running at 650 MHz. At USD$299, this new multimedia solution includes FM-ON-DEMAND(TM) to receive and record favorite FM radio stations, dual VGA monitor support, the second generation and completely redesigned REMOTE WONDER(TM) II, integrated DVD authoring and burning, and MULTIMEDIA CENTER(TM) 8.8. http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=200401261101_BWR__BW5411 http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=200401261001_CCN_0126004n http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4728.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:58:19 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Super Bowl Retains Status as Must-Buy Television By STUART ELLIOTT Twenty years after the Super Bowl first became as big a day for advertising as it is for professional football, Madison Avenue is gearing up for what looks to be a cheerier, somewhat sillier and certainly more expensive version of the annual midwinter festival of commercialism. The Ad Bowl within Super Bowl XXXVIII, to be broadcast on Sunday by CBS, will be infused with oversize servings of ingredients like humor, schmaltz, special effects and anthropomorphic animals. Instead of the Budweiser horses bowing in the direction of ground zero as in 2002, a donkey will be shown dreaming of becoming a Clydesdale. And rather than Pepsi-Cola's sweet nostalgia of two years ago when Britney Spears danced and sang her way through the decades, the brand's newest commercial will serenade 16 teenagers sued by the recording industry for illegal file sharing with "I Fought the Law (and the Law Won).'' http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/business/29adcol.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:05:05 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Reports Solid Overall Fourth-Quarter and Year-End Market-Share Gains in Wireless, Long-Distance and Broadband Bolster Revenues and Cash Flow 2003 HIGHLIGHTS Earnings Per Share: -- Fourth quarter: 53 cent fully diluted per share loss, or 58 cent fully diluted earnings per share (EPS) before special items (non-GA AP measure) -- Year-end: $1.11 in EPS, or $2.62 EPS before special items (non-GAAP) Revenues: -- Fourth quarter: up 0.7 percent, or 2.6 percent with consistent directory accounting treatment (non-GAAP) -- Year-end: up 0.7 percent, or 1.7 percent in comparable growth as well as consistent directory accounting treatment (non-GAAP) Wireless: -- Fourth quarter: a record 1.5 million total net customer additions (1.4 million retail net additions), up 54.2 percent from last year's quarter; revenue growth of 14.6 percent; record-low retail and total churn; strong operating income margins -- Year-end: a record 5.0 million total net customer additions, (4.6 million retail net additions); 37.5 million total customers; total revenues of $22.5 billion, up 15.5 percent over 2002 Domestic Telecom: -- More than $2 billion in annual long-distance revenues, with in-region retail market penetration of 41 percent; 16.6 million total long-distance lines -- 2.3 million total DSL (digital subscriber lines); 203,000 fourth- quarter net additions -- Nearly 1,200 contracts with large businesses for Enterprise Advance services Cash Management: -- Capital expenditures of $11.9 billion, compared with $13.1 billion in 2002 -- Free cash flow (non-GAAP, cash from operating activities less capital expenditures and dividends) of $6.4 billion, up 31.4 percent compared with $4.8 billion in 2002 -- Total debt of $45.4 billion, compared with $53.3 billion at year-end 2002; Net debt (non-GAAP, gross debt less cash and cash equivalents) of $44.7 billion, compared with $51.8 billion at year-end 2002. Note: See the schedules accompanying this news release and www.verizon.com/investor for reconciliations to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the non-GAAP financial measures mentioned in this announcement. NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) today announced fourth-quarter and year-end 2003 results highlighted by customer gains in wireless, long-distance and broadband, continued solid cash flow, and overall revenue growth. For the fourth quarter 2003, Verizon reported a loss of $1.5 billion (53 cents in fully diluted EPS) that includes $3.1 billion in special items, primarily $2.9 billion in previously announced costs associated with a voluntary separation plan under which more than 21,000 employees left the payroll in the quarter. Excluding special items, Verizon earned $1.6 billion in the quarter, or 58 cents per share. For the year, Verizon reported earnings of $3.1 billion ($1.11 per share), or $7.3 billion ($2.62 per share) before special items. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40343367 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:38:27 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Adds DIRECTV Programming, Creating the Most Verizon Adds DIRECTV Programming, Creating the Most Comprehensive, Top-Quality Service Bundle in the Market - Jan 29, 2004 09:19 AM (PR Newswire) First Verizon/DIRECTV Packages Will Roll Out Tuesday in Rhode Island; Headed for Additional Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Markets Soon NEW YORK and EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Already the market leader in sales of innovative, discounted bundles of calling, Internet access and wireless services, Verizon is introducing new offers that include DIRECTV, the nation's leading digital television entertainment service. The new packages will be rolled out in Rhode Island on Tuesday and then in New England and the mid-Atlantic states in the coming months, with additional markets to follow. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40345564 ------------------------------ From: nyukfah@pd.jaring.my (nyuk fah) Subject: VOIP Over Private IP Date: 28 Jan 2004 19:01:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi all, My current internet connection is private ip and behind a firewall. Thus I wonder any solution VOIP over HTTP? Which I can solve the private IP and firewall limitation? ------------------------------ From: Dana <***@&^&.com> Subject: Re: CLEC Question Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:12:39 -0900 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Fred R. Goldstein wrote in message news:telecom23.44.7@telecom-digest.org: > Dedicated transport -- CLEC gets fixed bandwidth (DS-1, DS-3) between > ILEC locations, which it can use for almost anything. Shared > transport -- CLEC leases local switching from ILEC (UNE Platform) and > its calls go on the same trunks as calls made by ILEC subscribers; > this is where that trunk usage is paid for. Good reply. My question is do we really need to have legislation mandating that the local sell to it's competitor, just so the competitor can resell the same service. The local company before wireless was actually a natural monopoly, who today would put up with all the wires/fiber needed if there was more than one company serving any giving area. But now with the advent of wireless, and the huge expansion of the cellular companies, you now have technologies that can compete with the wired local company, and these wireless carriers, being that they have switches of their own, they can even offer long distance on there excess capacity. ------------------------------ From: freshjada@hotmail.com (freshjada) Subject: Tip-Toeing Quietly With Nikeno.com Date: 29 Jan 2004 06:12:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com By Mike Townsend Staff Writer, CNET News.com Serial Netrepreneur Micheal Beevor Today announced at a lavish press conference the launching of Nikeno.com. By moving slowing a new market which will combine a new concept of Online Communities with Free Online betting, Beevor's notion of creating a new field looks like a good bet. With some 2 million pounds in funding and low costs overheads it looks as though one company at least has learned the lessons of the Internet bubble. ------------------------------ From: DaveC Subject: Re: Spoofing a "Bounced" E-Mail Error Message? Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:53:46 -0800 Reply-To: me@privacy.net On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:51:31 -0800, Paul Vader wrote (in article ): > It's actually pretty trivial -- send a message to a whacko address > on your ISP's mailserver, and mimic the resulting bounce message > that gets sent to you. If you're doing this for specific people that > you actually know and don't like, it's harmless enough. The content of the "bounce" message is easy to generate, as you point out. But how do I change the "from" address to reflect something other than my real address? Doesn't the mail server tag it as coming from me? Using Eudora 5. Thanks, DaveC me@privacy.net This is an invalid return address. Please reply in the news group [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Most computers have a user account known as 'Mail Daemon' (often times running with root privileges) which send out those notices. Set up a user called Mail Daemon to get that 'from' address. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Phil Earnhardt Subject: Re: 'You've Got Problems!' Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:34:52 -0700 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:39:34 -0500, Monty Solomon wrote: > And during the game, we'll see the father-and-son cast of the cable TV > show "American Chopper" promoting a new AOL feature that will speed up > Web surfing, even for customers who use slow telephone modem > connections. It's a colorful and costly effort to convince Internet > users that one of the old titans of the Internet hasn't sunk into > irrelevance. NetZero has been offering such caching/data-compression features in their NetZero HiSpeed service for quite a while. Earthlink also offers a service, EarthLink Plus. An article comparing the services and prices is at: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Aug/gee20030820021395.htm The article, published 8/20/03, prices NetZero's service is $14.95/month; AOL's service is $23.95/month, and Earthlink's service at $28.95/month. The article describes a benchmark AOL comissioned with VeriTest. The benchmark shows AOL with the fastest service. A copy of the report is available at: http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/aol/aol9.pdf Interestingly, AOL does not publish the benchmark results on their own website. I googled for "netzero hispeed" on the aol.com website, but got no hits. --phil ------------------------------ Subject: Here is the Norvergence Matrix Gear Solution Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:29:58 -0500 From: David Lepak Here it is ... see bottom for total cost: MATRIX BOX http://www.adtran.com/adtranpx/Rooms/DisplayPages/LayoutInitial?Product=3Dcom.webridge.entity http://www.adtran.com/adtranpx/Rooms/DisplayPages/LayoutInitial?product=3DADTRAN CORPORATION MODULES All modules: http://www.adtran.com/static/ENTERPRISEPRODUCTS/INTEGRATEDACCESS/TOTALACCESS850MODULES/ Echo cancellation: http://www.adtran.com/static/ENTERPRISEPRODUCTS/INTEGRATEDACCESS/TOTALACCESS850MODULES/1203384L2.htm MATRIX BOX http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=3D330749 ADTRAN POWER ADAPTER AND CHARGER http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/RESULTS.ASPX?key=3Dadtran+1175043L3&platform=3Dall TOTAL COST 1884.97 ------------------------------ From: Donny Rumsfeld Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:09:45 -0500 Subject: Re: FCC vrs. fax.com I found out they have renamed themselves and split up. Here's some email addresses: danello@chooseimpact.com lburnett@chooseimpact.com rmattern@chooseimpact.com wsharkey@chooseimpact.com bstrauch@chooseimpact.com Here are phone numbers to do business with them: 949-265-5782 949-265-5748 949 265-5723 949-265-5738 949-265-5715 800-516-8762 800-544-8094 They appear to own probably the whole 5700 block. Here are two fax numbers: 949-265-5782 949-265-5781 ------------------------------ From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Share Day For January, 2004 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:45:00 EST Instead of changing the Digest over to an advrtising supported forum, I have always elected to keep it as a user supported forum, and for the most part keep it spam and virus free. I am *only* able to do this because of financial support from readers here, and if you would rather not see these messages every month, then please pitch in and help now and then! 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