TELECOM Digest     Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:21:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 114

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Technology & Development: The Real Digital Divide (Marcus Didius Falco)
    Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds (Monty Solomon)
    Payroll Website Still Not Secured (Monty Solomon)
    European Telecom Market Heats Up (Telecom dailyLead from USTA)
    Industry Officials Debate Policies For Internet Telephony (Jack Decker)
    Notes From The Ebbers Trial (Eric Friedebach)
    Offering USA (ASR-80%) (Phil Lall)
    Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing? (sean)
    Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing? (DevilsPGD)
    Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing? (John Levine)
    Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing? (Tim@Backhome.org)
    Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing? (ukcats4218016@yahoo.com)
    Re: Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Cell Phone Reception (LB@notmine.com)
    Re: Cell Phone Reception (Gene S. Berkowitz)
    Re: Cell Phone Reception (Justin Time)
    Re: Draytek Router Problem - Class C Address Only on LAN? (paulfoel)

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:55:57 -0500
From: Marcus Didius Falco <falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Technology and Development: The Real Digital Divide 


Cute picture of an African boy holding a "phone" made of clay at:
http://economist.com/images/20050312/1105LD1.jpg

http://economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3D3742817

Technology and development

The real digital divide
Mar 10th 2005
 From The Economist print edition

Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective
response to the digital divide.

IT WAS an idea born in those far-off days of the internet bubble: the worry
that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications
technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong
side of a digital divide . Five years after the technology bubble burst,
many ideas from the time that eyeballs matter more than profits or that
internet traffic was doubling every 100 days have been sensibly shelved.
But the idea of the digital divide persists. On March 14th, after years of
debate, the United Nations will launch a Digital Solidarity Fund to finance
projects that address the uneven distribution and use of new information
and communication technologies and enable excluded people and countries to
enter the new era of the information society . Yet the debate over the
digital divide is founded on a myth that plugging poor countries into the
internet will help them to become rich rapidly.

The lure of magic

This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem
in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income,
development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich
ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they
are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more pressing concerns,
such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to
wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on
earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you
have no food or electricity and cannot read.

Yet such wand-waving through the construction of specific local
infrastructure projects such as rural telecentres is just the sort of
thing for which the UN's new fund is intended. How the fund will be
financed and managed will be discussed at a meeting in September. One
popular proposal is that technology firms operating in poor countries
be encouraged to donate 1% of their profits to the fund, in return for
which they will be able to display a Digital Solidarity logo. (Anyone
worried about corrupt officials creaming off money will be heartened
to hear that a system of inspections has been proposed.)

This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the
inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the
symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building
rural computing centres, for example, are unclear (see the article in
our Technology Quarterly in this issue). Rather than trying to close
the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine
how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the
answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting
the spread not of PCs and the internet, but of mobile phones.

Plenty of evidence suggests that the mobile phone is the technology
with the greatest impact on development. A new paper finds that mobile
phones raise long-term growth rates, that their impact is twice as big
in developing nations as in developed ones, and that an extra ten
phones per 100 people in a typical developing country increases GDP
growth by 0.6 percentage points (see article).

And when it comes to mobile phones, there is no need for intervention
or funding from the UN: even the world's poorest people are already
rushing to embrace mobile phones, because their economic benefits are
so apparent.  Mobile phones do not rely on a permanent electricity
supply and can be used by people who cannot read or write.

Phones are widely shared and rented out by the call, for example by
the telephone ladies found in Bangladeshi villages. Farmers and
fishermen use mobile phones to call several markets and work out where
they can get the best price for their produce. Small businesses use
them to shop around for supplies. Mobile phones are used to make
cashless payments in Zambia and several other African countries. Even
though the number of phones per 100 people in poor countries is much
lower than in the developed world, they can have a dramatic impact:
reducing transaction costs, broadening trade networks and reducing the
need to travel, which is of particular value for people looking for
work. Little wonder that people in poor countries spend a larger
proportion of their income on telecommunications than those in rich
ones.

The digital divide that really matters, then, is between those with
access to a mobile network and those without. The good news is that
the gap is closing fast. The UN has set a goal of 50% access by 2015,
but a new repor from the World Bank notes that 77% of the world's
population already lives within range of a mobile network.

And yet more can be done to promote the diffusion of mobile
phones. Instead of messing around with telecentres and infrastructure
projects of dubious merit, the best thing governments in the
developing world can do is to liberalise their telecoms markets, doing
away with lumbering state monopolies and encouraging
competition. History shows that the earlier competition is introduced,
the faster mobile phones start to spread.  Consider the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Ethiopia, for example. Both have average annual
incomes of a mere $100 per person, but the number of phones per 100
people is two in the former (where there are six mobile networks), and
0.13 in the latter (where there is only one).

Let a thousand networks bloom

According to the World Bank, the private sector invested $230 billion
in telecommunications infrastructure in the developing world between
1993 and 2003 and countries with well-regulated competitive markets
have seen the greatest investment. Several firms, such as Orascom
Telecom (see article) and Vodacom, specialise in providing mobile
access in developing countries.

Handset-makers, meanwhile, are racing to develop cheap handsets for
new markets in the developing world. Rather than trying to close the
digital divide through top-down IT infrastructure projects,
governments in the developing world should open their telecoms
markets. Then firms and customers, on their own and even in the
poorest countries, will close the divide themselves.

Copyright 2005 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. 

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:55:31 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds


A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens
are spending an increasing amount of time using "new media" like
computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the
time they spend with "old" media like TV, print and music. Instead,
because of the amount of time they spend using more than one medium at
a time (for example, going online while watching TV), they're managing
to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of
time each day.

The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds,
examined media use among a nationally representative sample of more
than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed
questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants who
also maintained seven-day media diaries.

http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia030905pkg.cfm

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:44:27 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Payroll Website Still Not Secured


By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff  |  March 1, 2005

Boston software entrepreneur Aaron Greenspan, who revealed serious
security flaws in the website of Tennessee payroll company PayMaxx
Inc. last week, said yesterday that the site remains insecure.
Greenspan said that a computer hacker still could use the site to
obtain the Social Security numbers of hundreds of Americans.

Greenspan called the management of PayMaxx incompetent, and urged 
Congress to investigate the company. "They have no idea what they're 
doing," he said.

Greenspan's company, Think Computer Corp., had its payrolls prepared
by PayMaxx, of Franklin, Tenn., until late last year. After ending
their relationship, Greenspan found that his name, address, Social
Security number, and other personal data were still available on the
PayMaxx website, which could be accessed by entering zeroes in the
site's login windows. Greenspan also found that he could obtain the
same information about other PayMaxx customers by typing random
numbers into the browser's address window. He estimated that up to
100,000 files could be accessed this way.

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/03/01/payroll_website_still_not_secured/



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There are so many real idiots out there
working on websites, etc. I am _hardly_ a brilliant web designer, but
don't any of these fools know simple security measures they can take
to thwart all but the most detirmined hackers?  PAT]

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:39:45 EST
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: European Telecom Market Heats Up


Telecom dailyLead from USTA
March 14, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20043&l=2017006


TODAY'S HEADLINES

NEWS OF THE DAY
* European telecom market heats up
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Qwest ups ante in battle for MCI
* Malone gets cozy with Cablevision
* AT&T tests WiMAX service
* Leap agrees to sell licenses to Verizon Wireless
* China Telecom gets license to operate Internet cafe chain
USTA SPOTLIGHT 
* Calling ALL Carriers Ready to Explore!
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* RIM adds IM to BlackBerry
* New breed of mobiles do more than just voice
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* SEC filing details severance package for AT&T's Dorman

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=20043&l=2017006

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From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld on request>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:46:55 -0500
Subject: Industry Officials Debate Policies For Internet Telephony


http://www.vonage-forum.com/article1727.html

Industry Officials Debate Policies For Internet Telephony
March 9, 2005
By Drew Clark

A regional Bell telephone company, a rural carrier, a cable company
and an Internet phone company disagreed Wednesday about the
obligations and prices that communications companies must pay when
they offer Internet telephony to rural America.

Speaking at a telecommunications forum hosted by a task force of the
Congressional Rural Caucus, Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron said subsidies
between long-distance and local telephone service must be eliminated.

Kevin Hess, vice president of federal affairs for the rural firm TDS
Telecom, disagreed and said the current inter-carrier subsidization
systems "remain the appropriate mechanism of compensation." Hess also
said voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) providers like Vonage must
contribute equally to the universal service fund (USF), which is
designed to finance phone service to all Americans.

Reps. Charles (Chip) Pickering, R-Miss., and Rick Boucher, D-Va., also
addressed the task force, and each outlined their bills to pre-empt
state regulation of Internet-based services. Pickering's bill is
focused on VoIP; Boucher's deals with all Internet services.

[.....]

Both Citron and Boucher said USF should be revised to permit monies
for broadband networks. Currently, the $6 billion fund subsidizes only
traditional phone networks.

"I personally think that broadband should be part of that equation,"
Boucher said, adding that "the time may come in the not-too-distant
future in which USF can be greatly restricted in scope, and perhaps
eliminated altogether."

Full story at:
http://www.vonage-forum.com/article1727.html

How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/

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From: Eric Friedebach <friedebach@yahoo.com>
Subject: Notes From The Ebbers Trial
Date: 14 Mar 2005 11:22:00 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Dan Ackman, 03.11.05, Forbes.com

NEW YORK - Reading consequence into notes from a jury room is always
an inexact science, if only because it's impossible to know whether a
particular note came from one juror or 12. Despite the uncertainty,
the future for Bernard Ebbers looks a lot brighter today than it did
two days ago, as the jury in his fraud and conspiracy trial ended its
sixth day of deliberations without a verdict.

Indeed, the jury may not even be close to finishing its work, as just
this morning it asked for a "flip chart," or poster board and markers,
apparently so it could diagram the charges.

More favorable for Ebbers, the former billionaire CEO of WorldCom, was
the fact that the jury also asked for the direct testimony and
cross-examination of Cynthia Cooper. While Cooper was an internal
auditor for WorldCom -- and the whistle-blower who first exposed the
accounting fraud -- at the trial she was a witness for the defense.
Sources close to the defense say their calling her was meant as a
powerful signal that Ebbers was on the side of those who didn't know
about the fraud as it occurred.

http://www.forbes.com/business/2005/03/11/cx_da_0311ebbers.html

Eric Friedebach
/An Apollo Sandwich from Corky & Lenny's/

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Reply-To: Phil Lall <phillall@lycos.com>
From: Phil Lall <phillall@lycos.com>
Subject: Offering USA (ASR-80%)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:01:39 -0800


We have developed a domestic USA network that offers superb quality
and reliability with aggressive pricing that is especially attractive
for the carrier that does not want to deal with a sophisticated USA
routing scheme and wants to send all of it's USA traffic to only one
carrier.  INCLUDING Alaska and Hawaii.  Pricing for USA is:

                    Onnet        $.0075
                    Offnet        $.0129
                    Flat-        1c

Regards,

Phil
phillall@lycos.com

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From: sean <sean@snerts-r-us.org>
Subject: Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:59:59 -0500
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:

> Do any of these services allow the capability for me to use my fax
> machine to fax out and receive faxes from others? Thanks.

Vonage does. Dunno 'bout lingo.

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From: DevilsPGD <ihatespam@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing?
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:35:24 -0700
Organization: Disorganized


In message <telecom24.113.2@telecom-digest.org> zcarenow@yahoo.com
wrote:

> Do any of these services allow the capability for me to use my fax
> machine to fax out and receive faxes from others? Thanks.

Vonage sells fax lines.  My experience has been very reliable using
the fax line, but faxes using the primary line aren't anywhere near as
reliable.

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Date: 14 Mar 2005 06:36:14 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing?
Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA


> Do any of these services allow the capability for me to use my fax
> machine to fax out and receive faxes from others? Thanks.

In theory, faxes work over Vonage.  In practice, even when the voice
quality was good, faxes were pretty iffy.  I had the old Cisco ATA.
If the newer TAs recognize fax tones and just send the fax data,
they'd probably work a lot better.

Lingo also claims they support faxing, but I haven't tried it.

Regards,

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

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From: Tim@Backhome.org
Subject: Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:12:30 -0800
Organization: Cox Communications


zcarenow@yahoo.com wrote:

> Do any of these services allow the capability for me to use my fax
> machine to fax out and receive faxes from others? Thanks.

Fax works fine with Vonage (at least on a good broadband pipe such as
cable).  In fact, if you want to pay the fee, you can have the second
port on the adapter dedicated as a fax line.  Unlike the primary line,
the fax line has a limited number of free minutes per month.  If you
do a whole lot of faxing, you get around that by switching to the
primary line to send faxes then back to the fax line to receive faxes.

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From: ukcats4218016@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Vonage or Lingo Allow For Faxing?
Date: 14 Mar 2005 05:18:25 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


I'm pretty sure most of the large VoIP companies have fax capabilities.
I have SunRocket, and my fax works great, both outoging and incoming.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid
Date: 14 Mar 2005 10:01:01 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Power grids existed long before networked-computers came out.  Why
would the grid be so vulnerable now?  Shouldn't those critical networks
be isolated from outside access altogether?

Secondly, they should be more worried about grid overloads from all the
power source shifting done today.  The grids were not designed to
handle that kind of loads and problems like the recent NYC-NE blackout
will occur again.

------------------------------

From: LB@notmine.com
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Reception
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:34:53 -0500
Organization: Optimum Online


bumblebee4451@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have been having problems with my cell phone (LG) dropping calls in
> my home.  Seems like you talk for a few minutes and the call is
> dropped.  Getting tired of this and thinking it was my phone, I went
> to Verizon since I was near the end of my contract and got 2 new LG
> 6100 camera phones (one for me and one for my son).  I paid over $200
>  -- there is a rebate.

> Well don't you know it the same thing happens with this phone.  I did
> some testing and find that the signal bars are very weak in my area
> (suburban), its not just my house ( a regular wood house) but
> seemingly a few miles area the signal is weak.  I drove about a mile
> east and the signal bars got stronger and then they got the strongest
> a few miles a way.  The phone worked fine there.

> So does this mean my area is in a dead zone?

> What can be done?  How can Verizon put someone in a contract if it
> knows that cell reception will be poor in there area?  Why doesn't
> Verizon fix this so we all could get uniform service.  It seems a rip
> off if I can't use my cell phone in my home.

If you are still in the trial period try a Motorola V265.

LB

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From: Gene S. Berkowitz <first.last@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Reception
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:25:20 -0500


In article <telecom24.113.3@telecom-digest.org>, bumblebee4451@yahoo.com 
says:

> I have been having problems with my cell phone (LG) dropping calls in
> my home.  Seems like you talk for a few minutes and the call is
> dropped.  Getting tired of this and thinking it was my phone, I went
> to Verizon since I was near the end of my contract and got 2 new LG
> 6100 camera phones (one for me and one for my son).  I paid over $200
>  -- there is a rebate.

> Well don't you know it the same thing happens with this phone.  I did
> some testing and find that the signal bars are very weak in my area
> (suburban), its not just my house ( a regular wood house) but
> seemingly a few miles area the signal is weak.  I drove about a mile
> east and the signal bars got stronger and then they got the strongest
> a few miles a way.  The phone worked fine there.

> So does this mean my area is in a dead zone?

> What can be done?  How can Verizon put someone in a contract if it
> knows that cell reception will be poor in there area?  Why doesn't
> Verizon fix this so we all could get uniform service.  It seems a rip
> off if I can't use my cell phone in my home.

If you want uniform service, you'll have to allow cell towers in your 
neighborhood.  Everyone wants cell service, but NIMBY ...

--Gene


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: On my personal cell phone, which is on
Cingular Wireless, my latest contract is about to run out, and when
I was downtown Friday, I went in the Cingular Wireless store and
talked to the lady about getting a new phone in exchange for renewing
my contract. There were several hangups, IMO: the newer phones are
a bit smaller and (a) they would not work with my existing Cell Socket
device; I use a Nokia 5165, which is an older phone, but it works
quite well (and, it also works quite well when tied into my PBXtra
through the Cell Socket) ... (b) the picture quality on the newer
phones, while it has gotten better, _still_ has a way to go before the
picture quality is as good as an inexpensive digital PC camera, and
(c) the lady told me unlike Cingular Wireless text messages, to send
a picture costs more money, around 40 cents per transmission. If there
was a way to avoid that transmission charge (for example by somehow
transferring the picture directly to my computer, then using my own
email to move the picture around, I might be inclined to get a new
phone and try it. PAT]

------------------------------

From: Justin Time <a_user2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Reception
Date: 14 Mar 2005 06:31:38 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


The best thing for you to do right now is take the phones back to
Verizon and cancel the contract.  They have to give you 30 days for
"buyer's remorse."  In your instance, it's not the phones, but the
service.  OBTW, the contract usually has a clause about "not all areas
being served."

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From: paulfoel <BertieBigBollox@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Draytek Router Problem - Class C Address Only on LAN Interface?
Date: 14 Mar 2005 03:18:23 -0800


Hmmm. Seems a bit strange that it allows you create whatever netmask
you like on the LAN port but, in affect, only looks at the last octet.

Also, we've found that it does actually allow different subnets just
only allows 255 entries in the ARP table. So, if theres a machine with
10.0.1.1 and one with 10.0.2.1 they are constantly switching around in
the ARP table (which is not cool and does'nt work too well).

Also, how can they define their router as 'residential' use? Doesn't it
support something like 16 LAN to LAN VPNs or something? Not exactly
home use ???

Any idea if 3COM, Linksys etc are the same ?

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http://www.mstm.okstate.edu

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