TELECOM Digest     Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:23:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 253

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    United Airlines Cleared for Wi-Fi Onboard (Monty Solomon)
    The Front Lines - June 6, 2005 (Jonathan Marashlian)
    I-Mate PDA2k  For Sale (Joseph Adams)
    United to Announce Approval of Wi-Fi Service (Telecom dailyLead USTA)
    Re: Why There Are Questions About GoDaddy  (Steve Sobol)
    Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites (Thomas A. Horsley)
    Re: Can You Disable Text Messaging? (Steve Sobol)
    Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell (Steve Sobol)
    Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Known Spam Sites (Steve Sobol)

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:07:16 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: United Airlines Cleared for Wi-Fi Onboard


NEW YORK (AP) -- United Airlines, the world's second-largest carrier,
received regulatory approval Monday to install wireless Internet
access to its fleet in a partnership with Verizon Communications Inc.

The Federal Aviation Administration gave approval to United-parent UAL
Corp. to install the cabin equipment necessary to provide wireless
Internet connection to passengers and crew members on U.S.  domestic
flights. United becomes the first domestic airline to get FAA approval
that allows passengers to surf the Internet while riding through the
sky.

United Airlines and Verizon, which already provides airfone
capabilities for the carrier, said it must still get approval from the
Federal Communications Commission before the new service can
officially launch. Both companies expect to have a date within the
coming months, following an FCC spectrum auction where service rights
and ranges of frequencies will be awarded to one or more onboard
Internet access providers.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49673074

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From: Jonathan Marashlian <jsm@thlglaw.com>
Subject: The Front Lines - June 6, 2005
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:54:21 -0400
Organization: The Helein Law Group
  

 http://www.thefrontlines-hlg.com/ The FRONT LINES

 http://www.thlglaw.com/ 

Advancing The Cause of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry 

FCC RELEASES ORDER REQUIRING INTERCONNECTED VOIP PROVIDERS TO OFFER E911
SERVICE WITHIN 120 DAYS; PROPOSES FURTHER RULEMAKING TO INVESTIGATE E911
REQUIREMENTS FOR "PORTABLE" VOIP

On June 3, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
released the text of its May 19th decision requiring "interconnected"
Voice over IP providers to offer customers E911/911 emergency calling
services within 120 days of the effective date of its Order.  The
strict deadline will mean that VoIP providers offering services that
satisfy the FCC's definition of an "interconnected VoIP services" must
begin offering E911/911 to customers who utilize interconnected VoIP
services at fixed locations sometime around October of this year.

The E911 rules apply to those VoIP services that can be used to
receive telephone calls that originate on the Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) and can be used to terminate calls to the
PSTN -- such services being labeled by the FCC as "interconnected VoIP
services."  The FCC elaborates on its definition, as follows:

"If a VoIP service subscriber is able to receive calls from other VoIP
service users and from telephones connected to the PSTN, and is able
to place calls to other VoIP service user and to telephones connected
to the PSTN, a customer reasonably could expect to be able to dial 911
using that service to access appropriate emergency services.  Thus,
[the FCC] believes that a service that enables a customer to do
everything (or nearly everything) the customer could do using an
analog telephone, and more, can at least reasonably be expected and
required to route 911 calls to the appropriate destination.

 . [t]hus, an interconnected VoIP service is one we define for
purposes of the present Order as bearing the following characteris-
tics: (1) the service enables real-time, two-way voice communications;
(2) the service requires a broadband connection from the user's
location; (3) the service requires IP-compatible CPE; and (4) the
service offering permits users generally to receive calls that
originate on the PSTN and to terminate calls to the PSTN."

The Rules require that, within 120 days of the Order's effective date,
all entities satisfying the definition of an interconnected VoIP
service provider must transmit all 911 calls, as well as a call back
number and the caller's "Registered Location" for each call, to the
Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), designated statewide default
answering point, or appropriate local emergency authority that serves
the caller's Registered Location and that has been designated for
telecommunications carriers under section 64.3001 of the FCC's Rules.
These calls must be routed through the use of ANI and, if necessary,
pseudo-ANI, via the dedicated Wireline E911 Network, and the
Registered Location must be available from or through the ALI
Database.

The FCC recognizes that its 120 day implementation deadline is
"aggressive."  However, the FCC concluded that the threat to public
safety exceeded any burdens on interconnected VoIP providers.  The FCC
offered the following advice:

"Interconnected VoIP providers may satisfy [FCC Rules] by
interconnecting [with the PSAP or appropriate emergency services
contact point] indirectly through a third party such as a competitive
LEC. or through any other solution that allows a provider to offer
E911 services [as required by the FCC's Rules].

Although the FCC notes that an increasing number of incumbent LECs
have announced their intentions to make E911/911 access available to
VoIP providers on commercial terms, the Rules adopted by the FCC
neither mandate nor direct incumbent LECs to provide access pursuant
any defined regulations.  The FCC does imply, however, that ILECs that
refuse to offer E911/911 services on a reasonable and non-discriminatory
basis could be subject to formal complaints and/or enforcement 
proceedings under Sections 201/202 of the Telecom Act.

The Rules adopted by the FCC will, for the most part, rely on
customers to self-report his or her location to the service provider.
The FCC noted, however, that in the future it intends to adopt an
advanced E911 solution that must include a method for determining a
user's location without assistance from the user.

In part to achieve this goal, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking seeking comments on E911/911 rules for "portable" VoIP
services.  Comments are due 45 days after publication of the FCC's
notice in the Federal Register and Replies are due 75 days after
publication.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding how the FCC Order
affects your business, you should contact your existing regulatory
attorney, if you have one.  You may also contact our firm for a
consultation: (703) 714-1313, e-mail: jsm@thlglaw.com
<mailto:jsm@thlglaw.com> .


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providing clients and interested parties with valuable information, news,
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From: Joseph Adams <josephadams@plasa.com>
Subject: I-Mate PDA2k For Sale
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:45:01 +0700


Hello,

   I am interested in the phone model pasted above and would like to
know if its still available and what the firm price is.  Get back to
me as soon as possbile to know the next possible step to take.

Regards,

Joseph Adams

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:06:19 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: United to announce approval of Wi-Fi service


Telecom dailyLead from USTA
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NEWS OF THE DAY
* United to announce approval of Wi-Fi service
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* AT&T, Microsoft to deliver communications services
* Siemens mulls future of mobile phone unit
* Apple to use Intel chips
* Sprint readies for paradigm shift
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HOT TOPICS
* SBC trims price for DSL service
* Sony offers video calling
* SBC to move ahead with video plans
* CIOs offer tips on VoIP implementation
* Alcatel goes GPON, plans wireless networking rollout
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* Covad, EarthLink to offer Internet phone service
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* Qwest sues Utah's UTOPIA

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Why There Are Questions About GoDaddy 
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:41:23 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


Steven Lichter wrote:

> I have seen both, more from the mailing though.

Thanks for the feedback. I wish GoDaddy didn't sell bulk email
services at all. :-/ Time to go rattle some cages.


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Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the
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"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"   --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

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Subject: Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites
From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
Organization: AT&T Worldnet
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:55:41 GMT


> For younger readers, books are selected appropriate to their reading
> skill as well as their age.  Most 12 year olds would not know what to
> do with ancient literature written in the original Greek or Latin, and
> such books would be inappropriate for them.

Good theory, but my experience doesn't seem to jibe with it:

I was in Grady Elementary school in Tampa many long decades ago.  The
school went through 6th grade, no higher grades around.  I was also in
6th grade, highest grade taught at the school.  I tried to check out a
Sherlock Holmes book from the library, and the librarian wouldn't let
me because it was "too hard" for a 6th grader (not true, by the way).

What was it doing in the library if 6th graders shouldn't be reading
it?  More important, why would a librarian object to a kid attempting
a little brain stretching even if it was too hard?

Thus began my lifelong love affair with bookstores and shunning of
libraries (perhaps the real story behind the librarian's actions
involved some kind of guerilla marketing campaign by bookstores to
turn kids off of libraries while they are young and impressionable
:-). 

 -- >>==>> The *Best* political site
<URL:http://www.vote-smart.org/> >>==+ email:
Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net icbm: Delray Beach, FL |
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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Can You Disable Text Messaging?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:42:37 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


Joseph wrote:

> Maybe it has to do with the way GSM works.  You didn't mention AT&T
> Wireless or Cingular.  

Only because I refuse to use Cingular and have never used AT&T
Wireless -- I only have experience with CDMA carriers. But you may be
correct.

> SMS is part of the GSM spec.  I don't know if
> that's the case with CDMA.  The question of disabling SMS (text
> messaging) has come up before in other T-Mobile related forums and the
> answer has always been no on phone originated SMS but is available to
> turn off email SMS. 

mmm ... maybe someone over in the GSM newsgroup knows.


JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the
temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638)

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"   --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell System
Date: 6 Jun 2005 14:12:42 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


TELECOM Digest Editor wrote:

> Mark Cuccia prepared an interesting history of Standard Oil and some
> In 1882, the New Jersey branch of Standard Oil was started. A trust
> was formed as Standard Oil began to buy out or took control of other
> smaller "independent" oil companies. A reorganization of the trust in
> 1889 made Standard Oil of New Jersey the holding or parent company of
> the entire Standard Oil organization.

Misc observations ...

As I understand it, the massive Rockefeller Standard Oil fortune was
made on mostly kerosene, which was sold for lighting.  I think they
even threw gasoline away since there was so little use for it.
Natural gas, of great value today, was thrown away for years.

I don't think in those days there was much demand for heating oil as
coal was cheaper and used in most applications.

There's a great book, based on a PBS special "The Prize" which is an
excellent history of the oil industry until around 1980.

I understand today, based on the roads newsgroup, that it's very hard
to tell what gasoline you are buying.  Apparently there are many
layers of owners between getting the oil from the ground, transporting
it, refining it, and delivering it to your local gas station.

People say all gasoline is the same.  All I know is my car will knock
from certain gas stations but not on others (on regular gas).  I can't
help but suspect certain stations use cheaper grades of gas than
others.  I don't know if there's any audit of gasoline quality.  Govt
agents check pump volumes very carefully, but do they check octane and
purity?

I don't know understand why one gas station will be boarded up but a
new built a block or two away.

Many service stations had only a pay telephone as their service.  I
believe that was called "semi-public" coin service and the property
owner had to pay up if the coin box failed to meet a minimum amount.
Sometimes those pay phones had non-dial extensions in a back room; if
so the pay phone would have a flip sign over the coin slot warning to
listen first.  I last saw such an installation about 3 years ago, I
don't know if it is offered today.  There are fewer gas stations with
service bays these days, many have either nothing at all or a
convenience store instead.  These places also had those LOUD outdoor
ringers.

Of course today you can buy gas self service sticking your debit card
in the slot without any human intervention.  Obviously there's a data
link a little fancier than a payphone.  Some brands have a keychain
device for even faster purchases.  Some gas stations have a satellite
dish on the roof, again, fancier than the payphone.

In WW II the govt naturally wanted to simplify shipping goods to the
front as much as possible.  But there were two types of gasoline
required: Leaded gas was needed for motor vehicles, but unleaded was
needed for heaters and field cooking stoves (lead would clog the
stove.)

Apparently gasoline was used as a heating fuel way back when but not
anymore.

I know of one gas station that still has phone booths and they have
the Verizon name on them.  Will have to get a picture.  Most gas
station public phones are pedestal mounted and COCOTS.

In some cities, coal was used for school building heater much later
than normal (oil had taken over).  I believe pressure from the coal
miners forced the city to stick with coal.  I wonder if they still use
coal or since converted.

My parents somehow converted their home from coal to oil during WW II
(I would've thought it'd be rationed and not permitted).  My mother
said coal heat was miserable and oil was a huge blessing.  When the
1970s energy crises came and some people thought about coal to save
money, my mother thought they were crazy.

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell System
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:46:49 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


Nathan Strom wrote:

> All the Amoco stations near me in CT have re-branded in the past
> couple years to BP.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I try not to think much about Chicago
> in recent years, but I think my brother told me that Amoco stations 
> around Chicago are no longer 'Standard Oil Division of Amoco' but now
> are a sort of green color with the BP signs on them. I really do not 
> know for sure.   PAT]

I was in the northwest suburbs of Chicago for a few days at the end of
'03 and the few former Amoco stations I saw had been rebranded. I'd
heard that they'd retain the Amoco branding, but considering that they
moved their US operations from Cleveland to Chicago when they bought
Amoco**, I'd have been surprised if they *didn't* rebrand the Amoco
stations.

--SJS

**This would be the second time they moved their US headquarters, having 
moved from Atlanta to Cleveland when they bought Sohio.

JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the
temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638)

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"   --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: From our Archives: History of Standard Oil and Bell System
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:28:05 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.252.12@telecom-digest.org>,
Nathan Strom <nstrom@ananzi.co.za> wrote:

> TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Steve Sobol
> <sjsobol@JustThe.net>:

>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: In much of the midwest area now, Amoco 
>> does business as 'The Standard Oil Division of Amoco Oil Company'.  PAT]

> All the Amoco stations near me in CT have re-branded in the past couple
> years to BP.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I try not to think much about Chicago
> in recent years, but I think my brother told me that Amoco stations 
> around Chicago are no longer 'Standard Oil Division of Amoco' but now
> are a sort of green color with the BP signs on them. I really do not 
> know for sure.   PAT]

The AMOCO label has been gone from the Chicago area for several years.  
They're all BP now.

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Known Spam Sites
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:43:30 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


John Smith wrote:

> Unless the sites were being HOSTED by GoDaddy, what do you expect them
> to do? It's the hosting company on whose servers the spammers are
> operating that has the power to stop them.

Godaddy's policy on domain name regs is to nuke registrations of
domains that spam.


JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the
temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638)

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"   --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

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