From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Nov 8 18:17:42 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id iA8NHgA07505; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:17:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:17:42 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200411082317.iA8NHgA07505@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 #536 TELECOM Digest Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:17:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 536 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Keeping Internet Phone Service Simple (dog4dogg) Long Distance Service in California (becky) Need Help From Nortel Design Engineer (Joe Elichaa) Goeltzer Quits Web Directory Service (TELECOM Digest Editor) Re: HELP: Vonage Problem After Installation (Luv post) BT Acquires Infonet (Lisa Minter) Boeing Executive to Address ECC Event (Cliff Ward) Who Sends This Stuff: EVIL FBI SADISTS should be KIDNAPPED (Keith) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dog4dogg Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:08:30 -0000 Subject: Keeping Internet Phone Service Simple washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33031-2004Nov7.html By Andrea Caumont Washington Post Staff Writer Two former MCI executives, Joyce Dorris and Paul Erickson, want to bring Internet phone service to mainstream America. "We're in the beginning of a wholesale transformation to have communications run over Internet technology," said Erickson, chief executive of SunRocket, a start-up in Vienna. "If you have broadband, you'd be silly not to put your phone service on the Internet." SunRocket Inc. began providing Voice over Internet Protocol service in the Washington and Baltimore areas in September, and in Boston last month. Dorris and Erickson said company plans to expand nationwide by year-end. "We're passionate about starting with a blank sheet of paper and saying: 'What's the way [a phone company] should work? How can we make it as simple as possible?'," Erickson said. SunRocket charges $24.95 a month for almost all of its phone services, with no added fees. The package includes unlimited domestic calls, features such as voice mail and caller ID, an allowance for international calls, two directory assistance calls and an extra phone number with a distinctive ring and voice mail. A customer needs a phone and a broadband connection that connects to a device SunRocket calls "the gizmo." The company has hundreds of customers already and Dorris and Erickson hope to see that number in the hundreds of thousands by this time next year. At MCI, the two executives were behind some of the marketing tactics that revitalized its long-distance telephone business in the 1990s. Erickson said he invented 1-800-COLLECT, which became more expensive. "You come up with something successful, and then the big- company attitude takes over," he said. "Right now, there's a $4.99 surcharge and calls cost $1.15 per minute. Initially, it was $1.25 per call and 25 cents per minute ... I feel bad because I started it." Dorris said she helped create the Neighborhood Built by MCI, which provided unlimited local and long-distance calls to customers for a fixed rate. "We've built our careers on looking at the market and taking a different approach," Dorris said. But Internet phone service is looking less different as time goes on. Independent operators such as Vonage of New Jersey are already established, and giant phone and cable companies are moving into the field, too. But Dorris and Erickson do not regard the large communications companies as stiff competition. "In new categories, it's independent brands who have the vision of the way it should be that get embraced by consumers because they stand for one thing. Customers want specialists," Dorris said. "As new categories are born, it's typically not the big, old companies that pave the way." Technophobia, however, is probably their biggest challenge in weaning potential customers from copper-wire phones. "Sometimes it takes a friend, neighbor or colleague to say this works, it's great," Erickson said. "It's those people that are going to carry the message." ------------------------------ From: becky210@hotmail.com (becky) Subject: Long Distance Service in California Date: 8 Nov 2004 11:42:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com I just disconnected from SBC long distance. What other long distance service is available? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So much is available, we could not begin to list it all. Have you considered VOIP service which is about as inexpensive as you can get these days, depending on your volume of usage, etc. There are *much better* deals out there than SBC for sure. Maybe someone will write you with some suggestions. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Joe Elichaa Subject: Need Help from Nortel Design Engineer Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:04:00 -0500 I am looking for a engineer that can help me with some Nortel telephone design questions. If you are familiar with how or know someone who is familiar the Norstar & Meridian phones as far as the code that is sent back and forth between the phones and the KSU/PBX, please contact me. Joe Elichaa Refurb Supplies 866-789-5656 joee@refurbsupplies.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:50:50 EST From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: Goeltzer Quits Web Directory Service I recently got a note from Lucio Goeltzer in Geneva, Switzerland saying that he was no longer going to operate his web directory of telecom publishers and telecom sites, etc. Mr. Goeltzer was a good friend for several years to TELECOM Digest and other telecom-related web sites. He was employed for many years by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, which as I understand it, is a technical agency of the United Nations. Mr. Goeltzer retired from ITU in 1998. He continued to run a web site of his own for several years, one feature of which was his directory (with clickable links) to a huge number of resources on the net dealing with telecom stuff. Now he has decided he cannot maintain it any longer, and it is a loss to the rest of the net. Thank you for the work you did for the net, and for TELECOM Digest for many years, Lucio. PAT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:43:45 PST From: Luv post Subject: Re: HELP: Vonage Problem After Installation [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here is some new email from the man I told you about in the last issue, trying to wire up his house to use his Vonage system everywhere. PAT] Thanks for coupon info. Right now I am only using Vonage box to one phone like you mentioned to do. I will have to check with the box outside house to see where the phone lines run. > TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: Anytime > YOU make a referral to someone inviting them to try Vonage, you give > their email address to Vonage, who will in turn send out an e-coupon > to that person inviting them to try Vonage. You do not get a stack > of paper coupons to hand out. Just tell Vonage the email address of > some friend of yours and Vonage will get the e-coupon to them. The > person has to click on the link in the email Vonage sends them to > take advantage of the system. If you had signed up through me and > gotten an e-coupon from me, then you would have gotten a couple > months of free service, but it is too late now. Sign up your > friends, using the spot on the Vonage home page to get the coupon > sent out to the person. > When the phone 'rings once then goes silent' the voltage from the > ringing caused a temporary short on the line which usually is not > there but gets there when the ringing voltage is traveling on the > line. > A lot of people do what you are suggesting, wire their entire house up > to have several appearances of the Vonage phone in various rooms, etc. > But, it gets tricky if you do not understand phone wiring. > PAT [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I will refer you once again to Jack Decker, who is the VOIP expert around here. His Michigan Telephone web site has pages devoted just to this topic: How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html Good luck to you! PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:37:01 EST From: Lisa Minter Subject: BT Acquires Infonet Telecom dailyLead from USTA November 8, 2004 http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=17389&l=2017006 TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * BT acquires Infonet BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Phone companies enter TV business * Cable consortium eyes joint venture for cellular services * SBC may pare work force USTA SPOTLIGHT * Order the Essential Guide to Telecommunications Today! EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * Cell-phone screen a growing ad target * Yahoo! knocks on Hollywood's door REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * FCC to rule on VoIP tomorrow Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=17389&l=2017006 ------------------------------ From: Cliff Ward Subject: Boeing Executive to Address ECC Event Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:58:58 Reply-To: cward@iec.org The Enterprise Communications Consortium's next conference 'Wireless Technologies in Enterprise Networks' takes place Thursday, Nov. 18 at the University Club in Chicago. Registration is free, including a lunch that will feature an address from Dr. Vaho Rebassoo, chief technology officer for IT services at The Boeing Company. Dr. Rebassoo will be talking about the latest advances in wireless technology and what they mean for the enterprise manager. There will also be morning and afternoon panels on 3G wireless solutions and wireless LANs in Enterprise Networks. For complete details, including free registration for the media, visit http://www.ec-consortium.org/events/november_2004.asp Or contact: Cliff Ward Director of Corporate Communications International Engineering Consortium 312-559-3325 mailto:cward@iec.org ------------------------------ From: keith1377@hotmail.com (keith) Subject: Who Sends This Around? EVIL FBI SADISTS should be KIDNAPPED Date: 7 Nov 2004 01:54:59 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Keith says: > Someone emailed and requested me to post it on Usenet newsgroups. Now I note: There then followed about a hundred K of text from someone just rambling along with various complaints about FBI. I have recieved several copies of this diatribe in recent weeks. Supposedly it is working its way all over the net, mostly in unmoderated news groups. The author noted (a *tiny iota* of the total transmission; most truncated): > Sadistic FBI agents should be tortured the way how FBI sadists and > perverts tortured this poor guy (non-muslim) for three years and > continue to torture him even after he left america tracking him with > implanted transponder chips and other methods. > FBI is an evil organization and those FBI sadists and perverts deserve > to be kidnapped and their eyes gouged, noses and ears chopped off, > forced to eat their own feces and drink their own piss and extra hot > red chilli powder poured into their eyes, make them cry and scream in > pain and continue the torture mercilessly for three yearss to do > justice to this poor guy. FBI sadists and perverts deserve every bit > of torture these animals meted out to this poor chap. > Evil FBI organization deserves 10000 Tim McVeighs and 10000 Osamas who > should have gone after the vertical edgar hoover building instead of > the horizontal pentagon or the fed building in oklahoma city. Half the > worlds evil resides in edgar hoover building in Washington DC. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And every sentence went on like that, most were more outrageous than previous lines. It went on for another 95 K of text or so. I was reluctant to print this much of it, but this is now the third time I have received it. It never is signed, but I get the impression (from reading most of it) that the guy lives up in Michigan, in one of the suburbs of Detroit. And this last time, he gave it to 'Keith' and asked him to mail it around. Anyone else know anything about this guy? 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